Dr. Bingham’s Lesson for October 2, 2011

Guest speaker: Kevin Dodge

“The Nature of Leadership: Aaron and the Golden Calf” – Exodus 32:1-14

Jim Collins, in his book, Good to Great, revealed that good leaders were humble and put those who were under them first.

Exodus 25 – 31 tells us in detail how God wants to be worshiped.

But the Israelites decide to represent God as a golden calf.

Moses had a similar experience to Jesus when Jesus was led out into the desert for forty days & nights, without food or water and tempted by the devil.
Moses also went without food or water for forty days & nights and was in the desert. Moses, while on a mountain top like Jesus, was tested to see if he would prefer to allow himself to be exalted in place of the Israelites, to become the founder of his own nation. In the case of Jesus, He was tempted to exalt Himself by taking all the kingdoms of the earth for Himself without the humility of the cross. Moses offered his own life to atone for his people, but God rejected his offer because he was not a suitable sacrifice; it required a totally righteous person to make that sacrifice; it remained for Jesus to do that.