Remembrance

Why remember (intro)

Intro - This week we will observe Memorial Day. Memorial day is a time of remembrance. If we do We not only remember but reflect and acknowledge those who have died while fight for the United States. It is important to reflect on thie cost of the freedoms that we enjoy today. Why? Because it should bring an appreciation for what we have. When we remember the sacrifice of our veterans freedom becomes real. we dont take it for granted. when we remember all that God has done for us He becomes real to usWE are ablle to experience Him over again. We learn His character

English Standard Version Chapter 5

11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 12 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

a. start with reconciliation

b. your relationshipm with God has changed -

Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology Reconciliation > R

Reconciliation. Reconciliation comes from the Greek family of words that has its roots in allassō. The meaning common to this word group is “change” or “exchange.” Reconciliation involves a change in the relationship between God and man or man and man. It assumes there has been a breakdown in the relationship, but now there has been a change from a state of enmity and fragmentation to one of harmony and fellowship. In

3. We train

English Standard Version Chapter 16

The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees

5 When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. 6 Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 7 And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.” 8 But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? 9 Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 10 Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 11 How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 12 Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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3. We are going to mess up

English Standard Version Chapter 26

Peter Denies Jesus

69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” 70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.” 71 And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” 72 And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.” 73 After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.” 74 Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed. 75 And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

this is called testimony

4. the new man

5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ro 5:1–11.

The question arises, When believers remember the deeds of God and when God remembers his relation to Israel what kind of remembering is in view? Is it merely recollection of information about the past? Or is it remembering the past in such a way that the facts remembered have some impact on the present? As a minimum, this remembering within the Old Covenant would seem to imply that the God who performed the past mighty deeds, which are remembered, is the God who is present with his people as he or they remember those deeds. And he is present as the same, living God, bound to them in election and covenant as he was to their ancestors in days past, for he is Yahweh, “I am who I am.”

we dont remember just to remember. this isnt christian trivia. Its not a high stakes game of Kahoot.

We remember so we can experience God’s transformative power. Faith and beleif are coernerstones of our lives, but neither faith nor beleif come from a well put together argument or this mountain of emperical evidence. I have faith because Gods reached into my soul and from the filth and junk and the big pile of dirt and pulled out a precious son , a child of God. And Through much hammering and forging and quenching and firing again and more hammering and more hammering and more hammering built a man with a purpose, a man whoi loves God, who loves people. A man who lives for something other than himself. A husband a father. a teacher a pastor. a freind. a brother. a shoulder to lean on. a couselor. I dont care if aliens pour douwn from space and invade or some wild youtube video creatses connection to other religions and exp[oses christiuanity, youre not telling me that my Jesus isnt real or that my Jesus didnt do what say what He did. Why, because I remember. I remember anmd I remember with a purpose. I remember who I was and who I am now. I remember how He changed me. I remember hoiw He’s blessed me. I remember the words He put in my heart in my spirit that then flowed from my mouth. I remember how Hes amazed me overe and over again. I remember the sacrifice He made on that cross that set me free. Close your eyes as we go before the Lord. you can have that same freedom. you can have that same change in your life

Peter Toon, “Remember, Remembrance,” in Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, electronic ed., Baker Reference Library (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1996), 668.