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PULL DOWN THE ALTARS

29^TH ,MARCH 2022

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Nehemiah 5-7

TEXT: Judges 6:25-32

25 Now it came to pass the same night that the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside it; 

26 and build an altar to the Lord your God on top of this rock in the proper arrangement, and take the second bull and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the image which you shall cut down.” 

27 So Gideon took ten men from among his servants and did as the Lord had said to him. But because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city too much to do it by day, he did it by night.

28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, there was the altar of Baal, torn down; and the wooden image that was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was being offered on the altar which had been built. 

29 So they said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” And when they had inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.” 

30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has torn down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the wooden image that was beside it.”

31 But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Would you plead for Baal? Would you save him? Let the one who would plead for him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him plead for himself, because his altar has been torn down!” 

32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, “Let Baal plead against him, because he has torn down his altar.”

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KEY VERSE: Judges 6:25

“And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it.”

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Pull down all altars of sin today.

THE MESSAGE:

According to St. Augustine, “Idolatry is worshiping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that ought to be worshipped”. There is no difference between the idolatry of a tribesman attributing power to a fetish altar and that of the professor attributing the wonders of the modern world to evolutionary forces.

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From the above passage, Gideon was asked to pull down the altar of Baal belonging to his father before he would fulfil his commission of delivering his fellow countrymen from the rampaging Midianites. Gideon obeyed the Lord, mobilised his servants and carried out the assignment in the night. By morning, the whole city gathered against him, demanding that he be executed for his actions. But his father stood up in his defence. This was enough to disperse the angry crowd, allowing Gideon to carry out his task as Israel’s deliverer.

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The altar is the centre of worship and devotion. In the case under review, this altar was dedicated to Baal worship, which is satanic. The Lord wanted Gideon to pull it down because he would not use him while an altar representing Satan’s worship existed in his compound. Of course, his father supported him. Idolatrous altars must be pulled down with the full cooperation of those who erected them after their new birth experience in Christ.

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We must first destroy all existing altars dedicated to the worship of Satan before we can be used of God for His kingdom work. Believers need to build spiritual altars of communion with God.

DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY

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