Andrew Bonar, a great man of God, had three rules that he lived by. Rule 1 – Not to speak to any person before speaking to Jesus Christ. Rule 2 – Not to do anything with his hands until he had been on his knees. Rule 3 – Not to read the papers until he had read his Bible.
George Sweeting

God Remembers

God Remembers

GOD REMEMBERS

Jere. 31:20

INTRODUCTION:

  1. Memory refers to the ability to retain or revive in the mind past thoughts, images, ideas, etc.
  2. The fact that God remembers is awesome
  3. But these memories are “earnest” memories. Webster defines earnest as, “1. serious and intense; not joking or playful; zealous and sincere; deeply convinced. 2. important; not petty or trivial”
  4. GOD REMEMBERS UNREPENTED SIN
  5. Some people think that God either doesn’t see or will forget
  6. Hosea 7:2, “And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.”
  7. Rev. 16:19, “Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath”
  8. But Hebrews 8:12 tells us that when we repent, “[God] will be merciful to [our] unrighteousness, and [our] sins and [our] iniquities will [he] remember no more”
  9. Jere. 31:34, says that if we know the Lord, “[He] will forgive [our] iniquity, and [He] will remember [our] sin no more”

II. GOD REMEMBERS OUR PRAYERS

  1. 2 Chron. 7:17, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
  2. Rev. 8:4, “And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand”
  3. Rev. 5:8 tells how our prayers are kept in golden vials and described as “full of odours, which are the prayers of saints”

III. GOD REMEMBERS OUR VOWS

  1. Obedience & faithfulness to God, labor & love for others
  2. Ec. 5:4, “When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools”

IV. GOD REMEMBERS HIS LOVE FOR US

  1. At least a half dozen scriptures tell us that God will remember His covenant with man
  2. Jere 31:3, “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee”
  3. Ps. 78:38-39, “But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.”
  4. Ps. 98:2-3, “The Lord hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth”
  5. 1 Jn. 3:16, “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren”

    

ALTAR CALL:

  1. God remembers unrepented sin
  2. God remembers prayer
  3. God remembers vows
  4. God remembers love