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*MEMORIAL DAY*
*Memorial Day Weekend Sermon *
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THE USS NEW YORK IS AN AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP.
BUT IT'S NOT JUST ANY ASSAULT SHIP,
IT'S BOW IS MADE OUT OF 24 TONS OF SCRAP STEEL THAT HAD BEEN SALVAGED FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.
THE SCRAP STEEL WAS SENT TO AMITE, LOUISIANA TO BE MELTED DOWN, AND THEN POURED INTO MOLDS
TO FORM THE USS NEW YORK.
BEFORE THE STEEL WAS MELTED DOWN,
THOSE GRUFF STEEL WORKERS WOULD GENTLY TOUCH IT AS THEY WALKED BY.
THEY TREATED THAT STEEL WITH THE UTMOST RESPECT.
THE SHIP WAS FINISHED AND CRISTENED */THE NEW YORK/* ON MARCH 1. 2008.
SOMETIME THIS FALL, */THE NEW YORK/* WILL BE COMMISSIONED AS THE */USS NEW YORK/*.
THE PROSPECTIVE COMMANDING OFFICER IS GOING TO BE F. CURTIS JONES,
HE'S A NATIVE OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.
THE /NEW YORK/ IS A NEW CLASS OF WARSHIP
IT'S DESIGNED FOR MISSIONS THAT INCLUDE
SPECIAL OPERATIONS AGAINST TERRORISTS.
IT WILL CARRY A CREW OF 360 SAILORS AND
700 COMBAT READY MARINES TO BE DELIVERED ASHORE BY HELICOPTERS AND ASSAULT CRAFT.
IT WOULD BE SO FITTING IF IT'S FIRST MISSION;
WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT BIN LADEN
AND HIS TERRIORIST ORGANIZATION WERE TAKEN OUT OF THE PICTURE.
THE SHIPS MOTTO IS *NEVER FORGET.*
THE SHIPS MOTTO ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A GRUDGE,
BUT I THINK IT’S DIFFERENT THAN THAT.
I THINK IT FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE REASON THAT WE CELEBRATE A MEMORIAL DAY.
WE MUST NOT FORGET WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST,
BECAUSE IF WE DON'T REMEMBER THE THINGS THAT LED UP TO OUR PAST TRAGEDYS
THEN WE WON'T RECOGNIZE WHEN THEY'RE ABOUT TO HAPPEN AGAIN.
WE OWE IT TO THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES
TO REMEMBER.
WE OWE IT TO OUR CHILDREN TO REMEMBER
SO THAT THEY CAN BE SAFE AND SO THAT THEY CAN BE FREE.
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*TOMORROW IS MEMORIAL DAY, *
MEMORIAL DAY IS A DAY THAT WE'VE SET ASIDE FOR
REMEMBERING THE PEOPLE
WHO WERE IMPORTANT IN OUR LIVES.
*MEMORIAL DAY IN AMERICA*
GOES WAY BACK, TO THE CIVIL WAR.
IN THE BEGINNING, IT WAS CALLED *DECORATION DAY*,
BECAUSE PEOPLE WOULD DECORATE THE GRAVES
OF THE SOLDIERS WITH FLOWERS AND FLAGS.
WATERLOO, NEW YORK IS CONSIDERED BY SOME TO BE
THE BIRTHPLACE OF MEMORIAL DAY.
ON MAY 5, 1866 THE PEOPLE OF WATERLOO PLACED FLOWERS ON THE GRAVES OF NORTHERN SOLDIERS WHO HAD DIED IN THE CIVIL WAR.
TWO YEARS LATER;
ON MAY 30, 1868 *MAJOR GENERAL JOHN LOGAN* DECLARED MAY 30 TO BE A DAY FOR HONORING SOLDIERS WHO HAD DIED FIGHTING FOR THE NORTH.
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AND THEN IN 1971, IT WAS DECLARED THAT MEMORIAL DAY WAS TO BE OBSERVED ON THE LAST MONDAY IN MAY.
*BUT;*
*There’s a Professor Named David Blight *
*of the **Yale University** History Department that claims, *
*the first memorial day was observed in 1865 by liberated slaves at the historic race track in Charleston.
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*That’s a full year earlier than the 1866 Waterloo date.*
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*The site was at a former Confederate prison camp *
*where there was a mass grave for Union soldiers who had died in captivity.
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*The freed slaves took the dead Union soldiers from the mass grave *
*And put them into individual graves, *
*Then they fenced in the graveyard and built an entry arch *
*declaring it to be a Union graveyard.
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*This was a very daring action for them to take, down in the South especially,*
*So soon after the North's victory over the South.*
THE PURPOSE OF MEMORIAL DAY TODAY,
IS TO HONOR OUR NATIONS MILITARY PERSONEL
WHO WERE KILLED IN WARTIME.
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*HOWEVER *
*THERE ARE MANY MEMORIALS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE.*
1.
When Israel crossed the Jordan River to enter the Promised Land for the first time,
God commanded Joshua to pile up a mound of stones at Gilgal.
*(Joshua 4:20)*
These stones were to be a memorial for the sons of Israel to see forever.
They were memorializing God’s grace.
\\ \\ 2. THERE WAS THE ALTAR THAT ABRAHAM BUILT IN CAANAN
*Genesis 12:7 (NIV) \\ **7 **The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.”
So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.*
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THERE WAS THE REPLICA OF THE ALTAR THAT WAS BUILT BY THE 2 ½ TRIBES ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE JORDAN.
*Joshua 22:10 (NIV) \\ **10 **When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.*
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WHEN THE OTHER 9 ½ TRIBES HEARD ABOUT THIS ALTAR THEY WERE READY TO GO TO WAR OVER IT.
*Joshua 22:24-25 (NIV) \\ **24 **“No!
We did it for fear that some day your descendants might say to ours, ‘What do you have to do with the Lord, the God of Israel? 25 The Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you—you Reubenites and Gadites!
You have no share in the Lord.’
So your descendants might cause ours to stop fearing the Lord.
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*THE STONES THAT WERE PUT ON THE PRIESTS EPHOD
WERE THERE AS A MEMORIAL TO THE TWELVE TRIBES.
\\ *Exodus 28:12 (NIV) \\ **12 **and fasten them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel.
Aaron is to bear the names on his shoulders as a memorial before the Lord.*
*Thought*.
Jesus Christ is our priest and He carries
the names of every believer before the LORD OUR GOD.
BECAUSE;
He is our Mediator and Intercessor.
No matter what our burden is,
No matter how heavy or terrifying our burden may be,
WE CAN GIVE IT TO JESUS CHRIST.
HE’LL LIFT THE WEIGHT OFF OF OUR SHOULDER,
he’ll strengthen us,
he’ll give us peace and rest from the burdens we carry.
The heavy burdens of the soul need to be freely
GIVEN OVER TO HIM AND PLACED ON
His strong, never-failing shoulders.
There is no burden that is too heavy for Him.
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