A Lesson in Prayer

Title: A Lesson in Prayer
Scripture: Exodus 32:1-14
Introduction:

I. What drew Moses into prayer?
A. The setting

B.  The test for the people

C.  Israel failed the test

II. God’s response
A. The judgment if God’s words
1. “Go down, because your (Moses) people have corrupted themselves.”

      2.  “Let Me alone that My wrath may burn against them.”

      3.  “And I will make of you (Moses) a great nation.”

B.  God is putting the nation into Moses’ hands
            1.  So that Moses will remember his office of mediator and type of Christ.

     2.  Moses is before a test. 

III. Moses stood the test. Listen to his prayer
A. Moses’ prayer

B.  His three pleading grounds:
            1.  God’s works

             2.  God’s name

            3.  God’s covenant

IV. God’s answer

Conclusion: