Corporate Pursuit of Deuteronomy: Week 9 – Keeping God’s Commandments by Enjoying Christ
This week in our corporate pursuit we come to messages 25, 26 and 27 of the Life-Study of Deuteronomy. Message 25 is a continuation of the warning given by Moses in Deuteronomy chapters 27 and 28. Message 26 is on the Christ who is revealed in Deuteronomy and Message 27 covers the enactment of a […]
The Altars in Genesis (4) – The First Altar Built by Abraham: An Anti-Testimony
In a previous post we considered the altar that Noah built to Jehovah (link to post). We saw that Noah was a man who cared for God, but his descendants did not. Noah’s great-grandson, Nimrod, established the great city and kingdom of Babylon (Gen. 10:1, 6, 8, 10). Then, instead of exalting God, Nimrod’s descendants […]
The Altars in Genesis (3) – The Altar Built by Noah
The first post in this series showed that we can build a spiritual altar to God through our consecrating ourselves to Him, that is, through our consent to let God work in us and through us. The second post presented the motivating factor for our building an altar to God—His spiritual appearing to us. In […]
The Altars in Genesis (2) — The Prerequisite to Building an Altar: God’s Appearing
In the previous post of this series, we saw that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob built altars in order to consecrate themselves to God; that is, to give themselves and all that they had to Him. Since we too may desire to consecrate ourselves to God as these men did, we must see and experience […]
The Altars in Genesis (1) — The Significance of Building an Altar: Consecration
Genesis, the first book in the Bible, records the histories of four men – Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob –all of whom passed through distinct situations in the course of their lives. Noah built the ark, Abraham left his country for a promised land, Isaac inherited all the riches of his father and married Rebecca, […]