Remember When

October 2, 2017

Remember When

The fall season is trying to arrive but summer has resisted it’s coming.

It reminds me of us, broadly speaking mankind in general. We resist change. It is who we are.

Change has unknown elements to it. Just when we get comfortable with the season of life we are in, God moves us forward to a new season. Change begins.

Sometimes we will hold on to what God is through with. Because we are comfortable with it. When we become comfortable with ourselves, usually this is the very time that God will begin to shake things up. It becomes a season of change.

With all of that said, much of the Bible is about the past. Examples of His grace and love. Stories of people and the difficulties they faced. Revealing their faith and how God moved for them. Moved them forward in destiny.

I come to you this morning, in His name, to share some thoughts titled, “Remember When”

Genesis 30 is the story of the sons of Jacob.

Genesis 30:22-24

22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.

23 So she conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

24 She named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord give me another son.”

From the Hebrew Joseph means, “Jehovah has added, from the root word which means, to add, increase, do again.”

Exodus the 2^nd chapter begins with the birth of Moses. His people being persecuted in Egypt. Moses fleeing to Midian. He took a wife, had a son, and became a shepherd of his father in laws sheep. “Then This”

Exodus 2:23-25

23 Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God.

24 So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

25 God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them.

God remembered the cries of a single individual.

He remembered His promise to the fathers, when He heard the cries of a nation with millions of people.

(God remembered when, someone prayed, when someone cried, when He made a promise.)

God will remember you!!!

Let’s talk about us for a while.

Matthew 26:74-75

74 Then he began to curse and swear, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.

75 And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, “Before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

How many remember a sin or failure?

(Let me fix this for you.)

Hebrews 10:14-18

14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,

16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And on their mind I will write them,” He then says,

17 “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.

Mark 8:17-19

17 And Jesus, aware of this, *said to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart?

18 Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember,

19 when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They *said to Him, “Twelve.”

(Do you not remember His goodness? Everything He has brought you through. Every prayer answered, need met.)

Finally, In Romans 11 Paul was writing about the failure of the Jews to accept Christ. Explaining how that opened the door for the Gentiles to be saved.

In detail the Apostle was explaining the mystery of salvation and its quality of restoration.

He then said this.

Romans 11:17-18

17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,

18 do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.

Remember who we are. It is not about us, it is all about Him, the Root.

Just so you know who the root is.

Isaiah 11:10 AMPC

And it shall be in that day that the Root of Jesse shall stand as a signal for the peoples; of Him shall the nations inquire and seek knowledge, and His dwelling shall be glory [His rest glorious]!

Romans 15:12

Again Isaiah says, “There shall come the root of Jesse, And He who arises to rule over the Gentiles, In Him shall the Gentiles hope.”

“Do you remember when?

#inHisname #hopelives