Genesis 3:15, 22:13

 

There is a perfect sacrifice placed on an altar by a perfect priest.

Jesus is the perfect sacrifice

Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are–yet was without sin. 

Jesus is the perfect priest

He was more than a priest. he was the great high priest.

Hebrews 4:14  Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 

Jesus willing built the altar

1 John 10:17-18 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life–only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” 

Building a physical altar is not difficult but willing laying your life at the altar is. The main reason is that the sacrifice is a living one. The living one has a choice. So when given a choice, most people choose to come down from the altar. But Jesus’ attitude is ‘not my will but yours be done’.

Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will. 

Fires of Revival

G                          C                           G

I came into the gathering of the people of the Lord

            C                        D                                G   D

And found my way among them to His Throne

      G                  C                          G

I needed to return unto the altar of my God

C                                   D                       G    G7

To renew again my covenant with Him

         C             D                Bm     Em

And there I built an altar to His Name

           C                                  A                  D

And realise that my life would never be the same

                         G                                 C

And then the fires of revival came sweeping

                       G

through my soul

          C                         D                          G

And I touch the Holy Presence of my God

                              C    D             G

Come build an altar unto the Lord

                  Em           A                         D

Return to worship and hear His Word

                         G                                C

And then the fires of revival will come sweeping

                         G

through your soul

 C                                         D                           G

And we’ll touch the Holy Presence of our God

G                             C                      G                   

I wanted to discover the first love we once had shared

C                          D                  G           D

Rekindling the fire deep within

G                                        C                            G

I found the lamp still flickering in the temple of my Lord

C                                 D                 G     G7

And pour a horn of oil unto the flame