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Repairing Your Altar

1 Kings 18:16-40. Repairing Your Altar. Your Altar. In the patriarchal period altars were markers of place, commemorating an encounter with God, or physical signs of habitation

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Repairing Your Altar

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  1. 1 Kings 18:16-40 Repairing Your Altar

  2. Your Altar • In the patriarchal period altars were markers of place, commemorating an encounter with God, or physical signs of habitation • “Altar” is distinct from “temple.” Whereas temple implies a building or roofed structure, altar implies an open structure

  3. Your Altar • Altars are places where God and man meet and interact • Altars are places of offering, sacrifice, exchange, communication, and surrender • Place of internal and external worship • God responds actively to altar activity

  4. 1 Kings 16:29-18:15 • Ahab • Jezebel • Deuteronomy 6:13-15 • 13 Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. 14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; 15 for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God…

  5. Baal • The word Baal means “lord” • Baal was a fertility god who was believed to enable the earth to produce crops and people to produce children • The Canaanites worshiped Baal as the sun god and as the storm god, who defeated enemies and produced crops

  6. Baal • Baal worship was rooted in sensuality • The priests of Baal appealed to their god in rites of wild abandon which included loud, ecstatic cries and self-inflicted injury • Different regions worshiped Baal in different ways, and Baal proved to be a highly adaptable god

  7. 1 Kings 16:29-18:15 • Ahab • Jezebel • Elijah • Obadiah

  8. 1 Kings 18:16-40

  9. Verse 21How long will you waver between two opinions?

  10. Verse 30He repaired the altar of the Lord which was in ruins

  11. Turn to Revelation 2:1-5

  12. Verse 38Then the fire of the Lord fell…

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