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Aside from his faith, Abraham is often known for two things: the tent and the altar. As it pertains to the tent it’s significant to note, prior to “God’s appearing” (before he experienced God’s amazing grace) we were introduced to Abram the urbanite… He was a city-slicker living in Ur of the Chaldeans (an advanced metropolis) who made idols to the moon-god. Abram enjoyed the comforts and security of the city - the hustle and bustle of Gotham.

And yet, all of that ultimately changed when Abram chose to obey God’s call and leave the city of Haran for “a land God would show him.” Understand, Abram left his home in the city and became a nomad not only because he was a shepherd, but because he wanted the freedom to walk with God no matter where that journey might have taken him.

You’d be correct in saying Abram choose an exciting odyssey with God over a stable home on this Earth which is why the tent came to represent his relationship with the world around him. As we noted last Sunday, while called to a land of promise, this land was nowhere to be found on this Earth. In Hebrews 11:10 we’re told Abram “waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”

The interesting point to make concerning Abram’s life is that he never settled down. Abram never found a place to call home in this world for his heart longed for a future destiny in heaven! Abram exchanged all this fallen world had to offer because he knew it could never provide or compare to the life he’d found walking with God.

In much the same way that believers are described by the Apostle in 1 Peter 2:11 Abram became known as a “sojourner” who’s home was not on this earth… He was a “pilgrim” simply passing through! As it pertains to the powerful and personal implications of having such a perspective, Charles Spurgeon wrote, “The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich today and poor tomorrow; he may be sickly today and well tomorrow; he may be in happiness today, tomorrow he may be distressed - but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me today. My unmoving mansion of rest is my blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted; let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost nothing of what I have in God. He is my strong habitation whereunto I can continually resort. I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.”

Which then explains why Abram is also known by the altar… If the tent represented his horizontal relationship with this world, the altar represented his vertical relationship with God. Everywhere Abram goes throughout the land he’s constantly erecting altars and making offerings to God; and yet, as we noted last Sunday, this was not always a good thing.

As we study his life you’re going to discover there were two distinctly different motivations behind the altars Abram builds. On certain occasions Abram will erect an altar as a response to something amazing God did or said. On others we’re simply told he builds an altar in order to “call on the name of the Lord.” Ironically, it’s on these occasions God never seems to answer!

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