Where Are the Sheep? Part 1

Speaker: Pastor Brandon Pardekooper

Originally Recorded: Feb 18, 2018

Genesis 8:18-21

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. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

The Purpose of the Altar

To offer up a sacrifice to the Lord in worship for what he has done on behalf of his creation

God was under no obligation to interact with mankind since sin had created a divide, yet God continued to reach across the divide to engage with mankind

Genesis 12:7

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.

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.