An Outreach Resource Ministry
A Ministry for the Millennium
(Exodus Chapter 32)
Lines are used for many purposes. There are lines on rulers used for measuring things and for drawing. Baseball diamonds have lines. Basketball and football courts have lines. Cars park between lines in parking lots. Single lines and double lines are drawn on city streets as signs to let drivers know what side of the road to stay on. So as we can see lines are very important. Lines are guides for us to use in life. They help us know where we stand in life sometimes. So often we fine ourselves standing on one side of a line or the other.
In the spiritual realm there are spiritual lines. There is a line between good and evil, love and hate, patience and impatience, hope and hopelessness, and the godly and ungodly. In Exodus Chapter 32, the people convinced Aaron that Moses was dead since he left them to be with God up in the mountain. Aaron was also influenced by the people to make them a god that they could worship. Under Aaron's leadership, he allowed the people to help him construct a molten calf for them to worship. Not only did they worship an idol god but, the children of Israel participated in a drunken party and did everything imaginable against the only true and living God. They were drunken idolaters.
But to their surprise, Moses came down from the mountain after spending time with God. Moses knew that God commanded his people to love, obey and worship Him only. He had told them prior to that time that God said, "Thou shall have no other gods before me" and that "Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image, or likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth" (Exodus 20:3-4).
When Moses saw that the people had forsaken the law of the Lord and turned away from the law, Moses took a courageous stand. He stepped in front of the people and drew a line saying, "Whose on the Lord's side? Let him come to me…"(Exodus 32:26). This chosen generation of God had to make a decision concerning what side of the line they were going to stand on. They had to decide if they were going to stand on the side of the line where the molten calf was and worship it, or stand on the side of the line where Moses stood and worship Jehovah. Many answered Moses question, by crossing the line and standing with Moses and the Lord.
Jesus drew a line when he called his disciple to follow Him. Today, Jesus is still drawing a line for us to follow Him. Jesus said in Mathew 6:24, "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." As Christians we are either for Christ or against Christ. Many of God's people stand on both sides of the line. When the people of God who are called by His name, stand on both sides of the line, they are neither cold or hot. They are "lukewarm." Jesus said to those who are lukewarm in Revelations 3:15, "I know thy works, that thou are neither cold or hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." There is no middle ground with God. You and I must decide which side of the line we will stand on today. Will we stand on the world's side (the golden calf side), or will we stand on the Lord's side?
Be Blessed!
Pastor Thelma Gilbert
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God..." (1 John 4:7)
Pastor Thelma Gilbert
For more information write or call us at:
Pastoral Resource Ministries, Inc.
P.O. Box 7232, Bloomfield, CT 06002
Phone (860) 243-2168 - Fax: (860) 242-1838
email: prministrie@snet.net
