REMEMBER

LUKE 22: 17 - 20

17 After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among you. 18 For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

LUKE 22: 17 - 20

19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my body, which is poured out for you.”

The prefix “RE” in the English language means “Back or Again”

WHY DOES GOD WANT

US TO REMEMBER?

Remembering is important to God

A desire to remember things comes natural to us

Think about it how tragic it is when a loved one

loses their memory• They no longer have the

ability to recognize loved ones, remember stories from the past.

• They in essence begin to forget who they are!

• They are a fragment of what they once were.

• Equally as tragic a person who forgets who they are spiritually!

• We can sometimes remember the wrong things and forget all the right things!

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE DON’T REMEMBER? 

I. DEVASTATION

• Marriage broken• Lives destroyed

“Anyone who feels neither responsibility towards the past nor desire to shape the future is one who forgets!” –Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Remembering God’s faithfulness from the past:

- Allows us to trust Him in the present!”

DEUTERONOMY 7: 17-19

17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?” 18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

DEUTERONOMY 7: 17-19

II. DIRECTS OUR ACTIONS IN THE FUTURE!

1 SAMUEL 17:34-3734 But David said to Saul,

“Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.

36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”

1 SAMUEL 17:34-37

HOW TO REMEMBER?

STORY OF JOSHUA 4

I. WRITE IT DOWN!

JOSHUA 4:5-6a

5 and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign among you.

“When you don’t write it down, we forget!” 

II. TELL IT TO OTHERS!

JOSHUA 4:6b - 76 In the future, when your

children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.

• Future generations will repeat past mistakes without the learning from others experience!

• Decisions you’re making today will determine your memories for tomorrow!  

CONCLUSION

• Being in church today, time you will spend with kids, purchases you will make, job you will take, person your going to date, 

• What are your stones, maybe you think you don’t have any; well today is perhaps the day of your first stone!