Lesson 10

s t u d e n t l e s s o n

References
Abram’s Altars
Genesis 12:7-9; Where does your family worship God? Do you have a special place for family wor-
Patriarchs and ship? Where do you worship on Sabbath? Abram didn’t have a church to go to. He
Prophets, pp. 127- didn’t even have a room in a house, but he worshipped God everywhere he went. And
131 he led others to worship God too.

Memory Verse Abram, Sarai, and Lot traveled for said God, “I am going to give this land to
“Worship the many days. Sometimes they may have your children and your children’s children
Lord with glad- walked. Sometimes Sarai may have and their children.”
ness” (Psalm ridden on top of a big camel. Servants Abram saw that the people who
100:2, NIV). ran back and forth, keeping the herds lived in Canaan worshipped idols. They
of sheep and goats even worshipped
The Message from wandering their idols by the
away. Pack animals very tree where the
Christian carried the tents Lord appeared to
families and their other
belongings.
Abram. But Abram
didn’t worship their
worship God Sometimes peo- idols. Instead, he
together. ple came to watch built an altar to the
the large, strange true God by that
caravan as it passed tree. He put a lamb
by. “Who are you?” on the altar, and he
they may have asked and his family wor-
Abram. “Where are shipped God there.
you going?” When Abram
“I am Abram,” left that place and
Abram would the Canaanites
answer. “I worship came back to
the only true God. worship their idols,
He told me to leave they saw the altar
my home in the city of Ur and travel Abram had built to the one true God.
to a new country. I am obeying His They knew that the living God had
words.” been worshipped there.
The people listening had never Abram, Sarai, Lot, and their ser-
heard of Abram’s God. They may have vants, and all the people who joined
said, “Tell us more about your God.” them traveled farther and farther into
Some of the people who listened de- the land of Canaan. God led them. He
cided to worship Abram’s God, and was showing Abram all the land that
they joined Abram’s big caravan. would belong to his children. And every
Finally, after a long journey, Abram time Abram stopped to camp, he built
and all that were with him crossed into an altar and led his people in worship-
the land of Canaan. They camped be- ing the true God.
side a great oak tree at a place called Like Abram, God’s people today
Shechem. build special places to worship Him. Our
That day the Lord appeared to Abram. church is one of them. We go there to
He pointed in every direction. “Abram,” worship Him every week.

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