Israel’s worship of the golden calf in Exodus 32 shows how quickly the people abandoned God’s law while Moses was on Mount Sinai. We learn in this lesson that when Moses descended and saw their sin, he shattered the stone tablets—visibly demonstrating that Israel had already broken God’s commandments—and destroyed the idol they had made. The passage ultimately points to Christ, who took the broken law and its condemnation out of the way by nailing it to the Cross, fully paying our sin debt so we might be forgiven and free.