REMEMBERING

REMEMBERING

EPHESIANS 2:11-19

Pastor Rick Jackson

Remembering and forgetting. We forget things every day. Medication, appointments, keys, birthdays, anniversaries, names... Sometimes it is so easy to forget.

I think we all realize there are some things that are just too important to forget. The things of God are important, and God, through His servants, reminds us to remember certain things.

What are some things would God have us to remember?

I. REMEMBER OUR SALVATION [Exodus 13:3]

1. It happened at a certain time [1 Pet. 2:9-10]

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

2. We had been in bondage to the world, the flesh, and the Devil [Eph. 2:1-5]

3. God brought us out completely by His power and Grace! [Psalm 40:2]

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

II. REMEMBER OUR TIME [Ex. 20:8-11]

Now, as Christians, we are NOT commanded to keep the Sabbath [vs. 1-2] but here's a principle showing God is interested in time management.

1. God Wants Us to Know the Time is Short [1 Corinthians 7:29]

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

2. God Wants Us to Know The Time [Romans 13:11]

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

3. God Wants Us to Redeem the Time [Ephesians 5:16]

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

III. REMEMBER

1. Our Responsibility [Num. 15:37-40]

To be what we ought be, not be what we shouldn't be, do what we ought do, not do what we should not do. [Eph. 5:1-11]

2. Remember Our God is Working [DT.]

-          Overcoming our enemies [7:17-21]

-          Leading by His Word [8:2-3]

-          Allowing us to prosper [8:18]

-          Chastening us as needed [9:7, 24:9]

3. Remember Our Enemies [Dt. 25:17-19, 1 Jn. 2:12-17]