{"id":731,"date":"2011-09-24T08:34:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T13:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:26","slug":"altars-of-gods-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Altars of God&#8217;s People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gen. 8:20-22, 15:1-20, and Malachi 1:6-14<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Altar means a place where sacrifices are offered.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: God&#8217;s people erected altars wherever they went. Noah erected an altar immediately after the flood. Abraham erected an altar as soon as <\/strong><strong>he reached Canaan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. God&#8217;s people erected altars and sacrificed wherever they were.<br \/>\n2. Elijah erected the broken altar when he called fire from heaven.<br \/>\n3. Solomon made many sacrifices upon the altar of the great temple. Chron. 2 7:1-7<br \/>\n4. The New Testament Christians continued a spiritual altar where prayer and supplication were made.<br \/>\n<strong> America could never have been blessed with the family altars of our forefathers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> II: God&#8217;s blessings have been withdrawn when the altar had been abused.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Saul the 1st king of Israel made light of the altar.<br \/>\n2. Malachia speaks of the degraded way Israel treated the altar of God.<br \/>\n3. Jeremiah tells how the children remembered the poluted altars. Jeremiah 17:2.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: We also have an Altar. Hebrews 13:10-16<\/strong><br \/>\n1. We have an altar that the world has no right to approach.<br \/>\n2. There is reproach to bear at this altar.<br \/>\n3. The sacrifices of this altar are: praise, giving thanks, do good, forget not to share.<br \/>\n4. An altar in the home with these sacrifices offered upon it will make our homes better, our churches stronger, and America more Christian.<\/p>\n<p><strong> William G. Bryans &#8220;America&#8217;s 1st home.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. 8:20-22, 15:1-20, and Malachi 1:6-14 Altar means a place where sacrifices are offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}