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23 June 02

“BUILDING AN ALTAR”

Genesis 12: 1-9

As we each are going to be challenged and charged at the end of this worship.  I want to say to you that this text is significant to us.  The first mentioning of an altar in the narrative.  We all need a place a clear location.  That is our sanctified altar.  Hallowed ground. Sacred.  A place for conversation with God.

V1 Leave the familiar

Abraham had it made. Already wealthy.  Not blessed through wealth.  Wealth and blessings are not the same

I will bless you

V4

Cannot go by yourself

Although prayer can be personal it cannot be solely private in its focus.  Not by yourself.  Not about you

Fellowship, kinship, friendship

V8Guaranteeing a future –offspring

Some of your prayers will not be answered during your lifetime

I Tim 1.16 House of Onesiphorus

So he built an atlar.  Bethel the house of God

What is an altar?

What is the significance of the places mentiuoned here?

“Pitched tent.”

Abraham journeyed by stages

Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid

Perhaps connect this altar to the altar of sacrifice of Isaac

Points

Leave familiar

Expect the extraordinary

Be faithful and diligent