The God who Forgets
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Introduction:
Introduction:
Please Read Jeremiah 31.34 b clause along with Heb 8.12
This is the word of God in our hearing. This morning, we will look at something that may be difficult for some of you. This is not a normal way of thinking for myself and many of us. I heard this preacher preach a sermon like this and it grabbed a hold of me in hearing that God could forget anything.
What if God forgets to allow the sun to rise
Sustain the Earth orbit
Regulate Seasons
stop the supply of Food, water air
We would cease to exist.
The scriptures declare that God knows everything…considering something like this is arresting to our theological core of what we believe…Help me Holy Ghost …Were speaking of god using human like characteristics ( anthropomorphic type of language..to our God who is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, and who knows everything Omniscient.
If we know God is Omniscient which is defined (Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion )as The quality of being all-knowing. This is one of the traditional attributes of God.
If God being all knowing, How can we even conceive any idea that God can forget anything?
God Remembered Noah
1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
God Remembers His covenant
15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
God remembers His covenant with Abraham, Issac and Jacob.
24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
God remembers Hannah
19 They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
God remembers Rachel
22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
God remembers Sin
5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
Hold that thought for a moment.
God remembers Babylon and other wicked cities
19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
Even in the book of Zechariah's name means "The Lord (Yahweh) remembers"
I know that at times that we are forgetful, but There is a God in Heaven who will not forget when it comes to sinners who has not received God’s grace of salvation.
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God is both the One who remembers and the One who forgets, embodying a divine tension that reveals His perfect character. He is the God who remembers His promises, His people, and His covenant, never failing to act on behalf of those He loves.
Yet, He is also the God who chooses to forget our sins, casting them away in His mercy and grace. This divine dilemma—between remembering and forgetting—shows us both His justice and His forgiveness, His holiness and His compassion.
Transition to Hebrews 8: .
All agree that the book is written for Christians who are being urged to continue their profession
6 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Hebrews 8 discusses Jesus as the High Priest of a new and better covenant, emphasizing His role at the right hand of God in heaven. Unlike earthly priests who offer sacrifices according to the law, Jesus offers a superior ministry based on better promises. The passage highlights the faults of the first covenant, which was not maintained by the people, leading to the establishment of a new covenant. This new covenant involves internalizing God's laws and a personal relationship with Him, rendering the first covenant obsolete as it fades away.
Hebrews 8:12 showcases God's incredible grace that not only forgives but actively chooses to forget our sins, illustrating the power and depth of His love in the New Covenant.
This sermon offers comfort to believers who struggle with guilt and shame, reassuring them that God's forgiveness is both complete and purposeful. It calls them to live in the freedom of that forgiveness, allowing it to shape their identity and relationships with others.
Big Idea: In Christ, our sins are not only forgiven but obliterated from God's memory, inviting us into a liberated life that reflects His grace and empowers us to forgive others.
Point: Its God Prerogative( He can do what He want to do )
Point: Its God Prerogative( He can do what He want to do )
In 1988, Bobby Brown wrote the hit song, Its my Prerogative.
Everybody's talking all this stuff about me (now now)
Why don't they just let me live?
I don't need permission, make my own decisions
That's, that's my prerogative
Prerogative (noun): A right or privilege that is exclusive to a particular individual or group, often based on position, status, or authority. It can refer to an inherent or official entitlement that allows someone to make decisions, act, or claim something without the need for approval or justification.
God has the authority, the right , and the decision making power to make decisions and judgements according to His own will.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”
17 then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
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25 “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
20 In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.
19 He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Divine forgetfulness is a product of God’s forgiveness is the prerogative that God chooses to exercise as a product of His grace.
The phrase ἵλεως ἔσομαι ‘I will be merciful’ is translated ‘I will forgive’ [NAB, NIV, NJB, NLT, TEV],
I shall pardon’ [REB],
I will treat with kindness’ [CEV].
It means that God will not punish them , he will forgive them . It does not imply that this is a new quality of God [TNTC].
This word properly refers to persons; therefore the following phrase ταῖς ἀδικίαις αὐτῶν ‘to their unrighteousnesses’ stands for the unrighteous persons .
the word adikia means iniquity as translated in your bibles.
The term iniquity in the Bible often carries the idea of something being twisted, crooked, or bent in a moral or spiritual sense. Hebrew word Awon ; Greek word Adikia
a moral distortion that opposes the straight and righteous path laid out by God. This imagery helps illustrate how sin corrupts and perverts what God intended to be pure and upright.
so in the beginning of verse #12, we have the word OTI which means FOR- Its the reason why we as belieivers should worship and Give Him Praise . Its Gods prerogative out of His goodness to respond with His mercy as he responds to the promises of Heb 8.10-11
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
QUESTION—What relationship is indicated by καί ‘and’?( AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE
It coordinates the two aspects of the forgiveness, in the persons and in God’s mind
It means to forgive their sins , to forgive completely , to let their sins go unpunished
HE TOOK MY SIN AND YOUR SIN AND PUT THEM ON JESUS
In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For 'twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.
So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it someday for a crown
When you believe in Jesus, you and I are under a better covenant…sin has been removed Obliterated, cast in the sea of forgetfulness
19 He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
27 “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
he remembers our sin on Calvary, but forgets our sin for those who believe in His Son…the one who bled and died for our sin..
don’t you forget
Jesus, I'll never forget what you've done for me.
Jesus I'll never forget how you've set me free.
Jesus I'll never forget how you've brought me out.
Jesus I'll never forget, no never.
King of the Jews
Eternal God
The righteousness of God
The Resurrection
Redeemer of the Law
Word of Life
Lamb of God
Alpha/Omega/First and the Last/ Beginning and the End
King of Kings and Lord of Lords
Lift up your head O ye Gates be lifted up ye everlasting doors that the King of Glory shall come in!
He bled and died but He got up !!!!!!!
