Genesis 22:9-14

We have to look at what an altar so that we can understand what the altar .

Types of Altars:

Altars of .

📖  Genesis 8:20 ESV Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Altars of .

📖  Genesis 12:7-8 ESV Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

Altars of .

📖 Exodus 17:15 ESV And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner.

Altars of .

📖 1 Kings 18:30 ESV Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that had been thrown down.

Altars of .

📖 Genesis 35:7 ESV and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

Types of Sacrifices:

Offerings – for sin and consecration
Offerings – to show devotion and thanksgiving
Offerings – for fellowship and reconciliation
Offerings – for atonement and forgiveness

1. Your Altar.

📖 Genesis 22:9 ESV When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

📖 Romans 12:1 ESV I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

2. Might Be .

📖 Genesis 22:10 ESV Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

📖 1 Kings 18:38–39 ESV Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”

3. At the Altar Is .

📖 Genesis 22:11–12 ESV But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

📖 1 Peter 5:6–7 ESV Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

4. God Will at .

📖 Genesis 22:13 ESV And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

📖 Philippians 4:19 ESV And my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

5. The Altar Is for .

📖 Genesis 22:14 ESV So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.

📖 Genesis 8:18-20 ESV So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.  Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Sermon in a Sentence:

The altar is a —but it is still a .

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