Week 18 – 3rd May 2015

Claiming Your Promise Land

  1. Setting out for the “Promise Land”

  • Genesis 12
  • A Call and Promise – land, family and inheritance
  • Cost of obedience – security, identity and future
  1. Abraham – man of Altars (Gen 12:7 & 8)

  • Altar – where sacrifices are made to honour God
  • Appropriation of sins – repentance and forgiveness
  • Worship – submission to God, ascribing greatness to Him
  • Covenant is cut – relationship defined
  1. What Altar makes available to us…

  • We encounter God personally where the altar is built – personal life, family, marketplace, a specific geographical location
  • Covenantal protection – yet an expression of God’s grace (Gen 12:17)
  1. Before we claim our Promise Land, we must set out for it.