Go Forth! Get Out! .mp3

In Genesis 12:1-8 we read that after 75 years of being raised and living with his family and all that was familiar in Ur, a place of many false gods including the worship of the moon god Nanna, Abraham ( then known as Abram) was called out by The Living GOD, Yahweh to get out of Ur and leave everything he had known behind. Our life is made of several seasons on our pilgrimage and we may be called more than once to leave familiar territory and comfort and move our tent into a new environment. In order to pursue The LORD and finish the course He sets before us, we will be challenged to leave and get out from ("Lech lecha" in Hebrew) that which is familiar and comfortable, be it physically, emotionally, spiritually, mentally, psychologically, culturally or maybe a combination of them all! In Canaan Abram/Abraham was the minority of one in the midst of a majority of many whose patterns of behaviour were of worship of self and the demonic false gods. In fact both The Bible and other historical accounts tell us that the Canaanites were among the most cruel, obsecene, pornographic, people to have ever lived. They indulged in prostitution, homeosexual acts, beastiality and human sacrifice especially that of babies to the god Molech. It sounds tragically familiar to the western world today where the worship of self, of youth, and of sexual indulgence is exalted. Human life has become cheap. Babies are sacrificed to the satanic altars in abortion clinics every day. The elderly are becoming increasingly vulnerable to satanic laws such as the assisted dying bill. That which in Leviticus chapter 18 is listed as so vile that the earth vomits out the people is hailed as both normal and liberating, whilst actually it is the enslavement to sin and eternal death. In the public midst of all, Abram/ Abraham built an altar to The LORD GOD. See Genesis 12:7 He "nailed his colours to the mast" telling all those around him that he would not be moved from his worship of The One True GOD. We each must build our own altar to The LORD. To live for The LORD in this world system demands that we do. Like the sailors who nailed their Sovereign 's flag to the ship' s mast as they sailed into battle so that it could not be pulled down in surrender, we too are challenged to refuse to surrender to the status quo, to popular opinion or political pressure. We face it everywhere now. Each of us, sooner or later will be required to obey the call of GOD and leave what is comfortable and to build an altar to Him in public view. The churches of our nation must rise up from the stupor of compromise and build an altar to The LORD GOD. We cannot assimilate with the practices of the Cananites. Leviticus chapter 18, in particular verses 3 and 27,needs to read to many of the so called "leaders" of the churches of Great Britain today. Selah.... Shalom shalom