Remember - [Notes]

How's your memory? Are you forgetting more now than in the past? This Sunday, we'll look at some important things God wants us to remember and not forget. Through an exploration of God's identity, works, and promises, we'll rediscover these foundational truths, reminding ourselves not to forget our relationship with God in the midst of life's distractions and challenges.

“The human brain is very good at forgetting. Clearly we forget things that have no importance, and unused memories deteriorate over time.  The ability to forget unimportant information may be as critical for normal mentation as retaining information that is significant.”
– National Library of Medicine

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.”
– Cesare Pavese, Italian Novelist and Poet

Good morning, yesterday
You wake up and time has slipped away
And suddenly it's hard to find
The memories you left behind
Remember, do you remember?

Gather moments while you may
Collect the dreams you dream today
Remember, will you remember
The times of your life?
– “Times of Your Life” by Paul Anka

Don't forget to remember. 

"Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and no one is like Me. I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: My plan will take place, and I will do all My will."
– Isaiah 46:9-10 (CSB)

Don't forget to remember: 

• Who God is

The Lord—the Lord is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth, maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin.
– Exodus 34:5-7a (CSB)

Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! I say: The Lord is my portion, therefore I will put my hope in Him. The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the person who seeks Him.”
– Lamentations 3:22-25 (CSB)

Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be

Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me
– "Great is Thy Faithfulness" by Thomas O. Chisholm

Don't forget to remember:

• Who God is 
• What God has done 

And he said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’ you should tell your children, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ For the Lord your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over. This is so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord’s hand is strong, and so that you may always fear the Lord your God.”
– Joshua 4:21-24 (CSB)

For I received what I also passed on to you: On the night when He was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me." In the same way also He took the cup, after supper, and said, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
– 1 Corinthians 11:23-25 (CSB)

One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked Him—and he was a Samaritan.
– Luke 17:15-16 (CSB)

Don't forget to remember:

• Who God is 
• What God has done 
• What God will do 

For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
– John 3:16 (CSB)

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
– 1 John 1:9 (CSB) 

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look, God’s dwelling is with humanity, and He will live with them. They will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and will be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things have passed away. Then the one seated on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.”
– Revelation 21:1-5 (CSB)

“For every one of God’s promises is “yes” in Him. Therefore, through Him we also say “amen” to the glory of God.”
– 2 Corinthians 1:20 (CSB)

“The promises of God shall certainly be fulfilled. There shall be no vacillation on the part of God; no fickleness; no abandoning of his gracious intention…they are promises which are confirmed and established, and by which shall by no means fail.”
– Albert Barnes

God’s Promises: 

• He will sustain you (Psalm 55:22)
• He will strengthen you (Psalm 89:21)
• He will rescue you (Psalm 18:17)
• He will be your guide (Psalm 48:14)
• He will love you forever and ever (Psalm 89:28)

Don't forget to remember:

• Who God is 
• What God has done 
• What God will do 
• That God remembers 

“When the Bible says that God “remembered” something, it is not implying forgetfulness. God always remembers—it is part of His nature. The statement that “God remembered” places an emphasis on His faithfulness and everlasting care.”
– GotQuestions.org

But now, this is what the Lord says—He who created you, Jacob, He who formed you, Israel: "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine."
– Isaiah 43:1 (CSB)

“When we forget to remember what God has done - how he has delivered us from sin and death - we become disillusioned and our entire perspective is skewed.”
– Abbey Le Roy

Don't forget to remember:

• Who God is // Meditate
• What God’s done // Journal 
• What God will do // Memorize
• That God remembers // Rest

Battle Belongs // No Body // Holy Forever // Flesh and Bone (We Remember)

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