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Faith of a mustard seed kjv1/20/2024 You must always have first place in our life. Anything we put ahead of our love for God becomes an idol and that is a big mistake.ĭear God, let us always remember that You created us and all we have. It may not be an idol made of gold in the shape of a calf, but it may be things like money, friends, or sports. What can we learn from this? We sometimes put other things before God. Moses convinced the Lord and He changed His mind and did not do what He said He might do-He did not destroy them. But Moses begged the Lord to remember the promise that He had made to Abraham, Isaac, and the children of Israel. When God saw what the people were doing, He became very angry and told Moses that He was going to destroy the people because of their unfaithfulness. He said, "Tomorrow will be a festival to the Lord and you are to rise up early and make a sacrifice of burnt offerings before the calf." (Hold it up and kids freeze.) When Aaron saw how happy the people were, he built an altar for the calf. (Hold it up and kids freeze.) The people were very happy with the idol that had been made for them. He took all the gold they had given to him and made it into an idol in the shape of a calf. As for this fellow, Moses, who brought us out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him."Īaron answered them, "Take off the gold earrings you are wearing and bring them to me." So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. (Hold it up and kids freeze.) They went to Aaron and said to him, "We want you to create gods who will go before us so that we will know what way to go. Now Moses stayed up on the mountain longer than the people thought he should. I am sure that you remember that God had told Moses to go up on the mountain so that God could give him the Ten Commandments for the people to follow. That is what our Bible lesson is about this morning. (Hold it up and kids freeze.) When we do that, the statue becomes an idol that replaces our God. Statues are fine unless they become something that we worship other than God. I once went to a park with statues of characters from books by Dr. (Hold it up and kids freeze.) How many of you have statues (Hold it up and kids freeze.) in your home? Have you ever seen any statues in parks around the city? Perhaps you’ve seen a statue of a famous baseball player or an artist or author. Who can tell me what this is? (Give time for answers.) That’s right, it’s a statue. You will do this multiple times as you tell today’s lesson so encourage them to pay close attention. They must hold their frozen statue pose until you are no longer holding the statue up in the air. My Oneness with God is my Source of abundance, and that infinite Source is within me now and always.Children's Sermon: The Golden Calf (Exodus 32:1-14)Įxplain to the kids that each time you hold up the statue that you brought with you, that they have to freeze like a statue. We must be able to say, and truly mean, “Money is not my source of abundance a job or a paycheck is not my source of abundance. grain of true faith, though little as mustard seeds, you The Bible is full. It is when we truly believe in ourselves as the Christ of God-fully empowered creations of an infinite Creator-that we can master the challenges of this dualistic life experience of limitation and separation. No, Jesus urges them-and us-to have faith in ourselves-in our own innate, intimate relationship with the Power of the divine. Telling them to have faith in God would be like telling us to have faith in air! We already believe in air, though we can't see it. They already believed in that God-punishing, judgmental, demanding. I think the key question is: Faith in what? Jesus would scarcely be telling his followers to believe in the distant God they had learned about through their Jewish religion. We know this must have been an important teaching for Jesus and his first followers, because it is included in all three synoptic Gospels (Mark, Matthew, Luke), in wording that is almost identical. I am trying to be strong, while bad news after bad news comes. My faith is being tested like never before. I am going through a serious financial problem right now. "For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you." (Matthew 17:20-21).
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