1. You can’t have your calf and eat it
Exodus 32
Introduction: 
A covenant making God
& his covenant people

2. You can’t have your calf and eat it
The covenant broken
A golden calf created (v1-6)
God’s anger (v7-10)   
“…I took them by the hand to bring
them out of the land of Egypt, [but] my
covenant they broke, though I was their
husband, declares the LORD.”
—Jeremiah 31.32

3. You can’t have your calf and eat it
The covenant broken
A golden calf created (v1-6)
God’s anger (v7-10)   
“I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”
—Exodus 20.2
“These are your gods, O Israel,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” —v4, v8

4. You can’t have your calf and eat it
The covenant broken
A golden calf created (v1-6)
God’s anger (v7-10)
Moses the mediator (v11-14)
Moses’ anger (v15-19)
A golden calf eaten (v20)
Judgement & surprising mercy
No repentance (v21-26)
Judgement (v27-29)
Moses the mediator (v30-34)
Judgement (v35-33v5)
“Do not be idolaters as some of them were;
as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat
and drink and rose up to play.’ We must not
indulge in sexual immorality as some of
them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in
a single day.” —1 Corinthians

5. You can’t have your calf and eat it
The covenant broken
A golden calf created (v1-6)
God’s anger (v7-10)
Moses the mediator (v11-14)
Moses’ anger (v15-19)
A golden calf eaten (v20)
Judgement & surprising mercy
No repentance (v21-26)
Judgement (v27-29)
Moses the mediator (v30-34)
Judgement (v35-33v5)
Repentance (33v6)

6. You can’t have your calf and eat it
Conclusion:  
God’s people sin
Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did…
Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction.
—1 Corinthians 10.7, 11

7. You can’t have your calf and eat it
Conclusion:  
God’s people sin
We need a mediator
We need to turn to him today