Pastor Marty Sloan | June 12 & 13, 2021
Abraham’s Altars
Faith is
Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family, and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. - Genesis 12:1-8 (NKJV)
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God was about to do something great in the life of Abraham—if only Abraham would follow Him.
Abraham’s entire life became a journey of
What Abraham’s Life Shows Us About True Faith:
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And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. - Acts 4:12 ESV
An altar is:
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Altars to Take Down Before We Follow His Voice:
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Altars Abraham Built:
- Bethel (Gen 12:8): Altar of
- Hebron (Gen 13:18): Altar of
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord. The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.” So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord. - Genesis 13:12-18 (NIV)
- Moriah (Genesis 22:9-12): Altar of
When they reached the place, God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” - Genesis 22:9-12 (NIV)
The altar is place where
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Next Steps
- Are you hearing the voice of God?
- What is your next step in response to His voice?
- Join the One Month, One Church, One Tithe call for the month of June.
Suggested Resources
- myfaithroots.com, a podcast with Pastor Willie George
- “Faith Mapping” by Daniel Montgomery
- “What is Faith” by R.C. Sproul