The Challenge to Remember

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The Challenge to Remember

• A. By looking back on Gods actions we can be
  changed. (Isa 468-10)

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The Challenge to Remember

• (Isaiah 468-10 NKJV) Remember this, and show
  yourselves men Recall to mind, O you
  transgressors. 9 Remember the former things of
  old, For I am God, and there is no other I am
  God, and there is none like Me, 10 Declaring
  the end from the beginning, And from ancient
  times things that are not yet done, Saying, My
  counsel shall stand, And I will do all My
  pleasure,

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The Challenge to Remember

• Memory however is a choice. It is not automatic
  or easy.

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The Challenge to Remember

• Memory however is a choice. It is not automatic
  or easy.
• With Gods wisdom we will give attention to those
  things that give us strength.

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The Challenge to Remember

• Memory however is a choice. It is not automatic
  or easy.
• With Gods wisdom we will give attention to those
  things that give us strength.
• On what memories is you life built upon?

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The Power of memory

• When Gods word is recalled by faith there is
  great power! (1 Thess 213)

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The Power of memory

• (1 Thessalonians 213 NKJV) For this reason we
  also thank God without ceasing, because when you
  received the word of God which you heard from us,
  you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it
  is in truth, the word of God, which also
  effectively works in you who believe.

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The Power of memory

• The disciples found a stronger faith in the Lord
  from what they remembered. (Lk 246-8 Jn 222
  1216)

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The Power of memory

• (Luke 246-8 NKJV) He is not here, but is
  risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was
  still in Galilee, 7 saying, The Son of Man
  must be delivered into the hands of sinful men,
  and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
  8 And they remembered His words.

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The Power of memory

• (John 222 NKJV) Therefore, when He had risen
  from the dead, His disciples remembered that He
  had said this to them and they believed the
  Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

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The Power of memory

• (John 1216 NKJV) His disciples did not
  understand these things at first but when Jesus
  was glorified, then they remembered that these
  things were written about Him and that they had
  done these things to Him.

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The Power of memory

• We do not always remember at first. Events may
  stir us to remember. (Parents
  take heart!)

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The Power of memory

• It would have been better to have so strongly
  believed that it was always there.

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The Power of memory

• It would have been better to have so strongly
  believed that it was always there.
• Peter was convicted of sin because he remembered.
  (Lk 2219)

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The Power of memory

• (Luke 2219 NKJV) And He took bread, gave
  thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying,
  This is My body which is given for you do this
  in remembrance of Me.

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The Power of memory

• Again, it would have been better for his faith to
  be strong enough to have remembered
  earlier and stood.

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The Power of memory

• Again, it would have been better for his faith to
  be strong enough to have remembered
  earlier and stood.
• Still he was blessed to have such a guilty
  conscience. This would later make
  him strong.

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The Power of memory

• Again, it would have been better for his faith to
  be strong enough to have remembered
  earlier and stood.
• Still he was blessed to have such a guilty
  conscience. This would later make
  him strong.
• Jesus disciples found great strength in difficult
  times because they remembered. (Jn
  1520-25)

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The Power of memory

• (John 1520-25 NKJV) Remember the word that I
  said to you, A servant is not greater than his
  master. If they persecuted Me, they will also
  persecute you. If they kept My word, they will
  keep yours also. 21 But all these things they
  will do to you for My names sake, because they
  do not know Him who sent Me.

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The Power of memory

• 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they
  would have no sin, but now they have no excuse
  for their sin. 23 He who hates Me hates My
  Father also. 24 If I had not done among them
  the works which no one else did, they would have
  no sin but now they have seen and also hated
  both Me and My Father.

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The Power of memory

• 25 But this happened that the word might be
  fulfilled which is written in their law, They
  hated Me without a cause.

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The Power of memory

• Were Jesus words remembered? Yes! (Jude 117-18
  2 Pt 31-3)

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The Power of memory

• Jude 17-18 (NKJV) - But you, beloved, remember
  the words which were spoken before by the
  apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ 18how they
  told you that there would be mockers in the last
  time who would walk according to their own
  ungodly lusts.

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The Power of memory

• (2 Peter 31-3 NKJV) Beloved, I now write to
  you this second epistle (in both of which I stir
  up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2 that
  you may be mindful of the words which were spoken
  before by the holy prophets, and of the
  commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and
  Savior, 3 knowing this first that scoffers
  will come in the last days, walking according to
  their own lusts,

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The Power of memory

• Because of these words we do not lose faith. God
  told us ahead of time.

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The Power of memory

• Because of these words we do not lose faith. God
  told us ahead of time.
• A memory can renew our love. (1 Jn 419)

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The Power of memory

• (1 John 419 NKJV) We love Him because He first
  loved us.

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The Power of memory

• Why do couples take time to remember
  anniversaries?

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The Power of memory

• Why do couples take time to remember
  anniversaries?
• God knows that His love can transform our lives.
  (2 Cor 514-15)

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The Power of memory

• (2 Corinthians 514-15 NKJV) For the love of
  Christ compels us, because we judge thus that if
  One died for all, then all died 15 and He died
  for all, that those who live should live no
  longer for themselves, but for Him who died for
  them and rose again.

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The Power of memory

• We must however choose to remember! This is a
  major element of our worship.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• The Lords supper is the way we do this together.
  (1 Cor 1123-25)

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (1 Corinthians 1123-25 NKJV) For I received
  from the Lord that which I also delivered to you
  that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He
  was betrayed took bread 24 and when He had
  given thanks, He broke it and said, Take, eat
  this is My body which is broken for you do this
  in remembrance of Me.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• 25 In the same manner He also took the cup
  after supper, saying, This cup is the new
  covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you
  drink it, in remembrance of Me.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• Jesus did not give the numerous holy days of men.
  He did however give this!

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• Jesus did not give the numerous holy days of men.
  He did however give this!
• When these things are remembered there will be
  great changes in your heart.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• We build a greater faith.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• We build a greater faith.
• In that faith we are drawn closer together in
  unity. (1 Cor 1016-17)

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (1 Corinthians 1016-17 NKJV) The cup of
  blessing which we bless, is it not the communion
  of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break,
  is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
  17 For we, though many, are one bread and one
  body for we all partake of that one bread.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• In that faith we separate from the world. (1 Cor
  619-20 1021-22)

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (1 Corinthians 619-20 NKJV) Or do you not know
  that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
  who is in you, whom you have from God, and you
  are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a
  price therefore glorify God in your body and in
  your spirit, which are Gods.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (1 Corinthians 1021-22 NKJV) You cannot drink
  the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons you
  cannot partake of the Lords table and of the
  table of demons. 22 Or do we provoke the Lord
  to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• We are challenged to fight against sin. (Mk
  1418-19)

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (Mark 1418-19 NKJV) Now as they sat and ate,
  Jesus said, Assuredly, I say to you, one of you
  who eats with Me will betray Me. 19 And they
  began to be sorrowful, and to say to Him one by
  one, Is it I? And another said, Is it I?

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• How many of us are challenged over sin in our
  lives. Lord, is it I?

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• You are not unworthy because you have sinned
  and repented. You do become unworthy because
  you do not remember. (1 Cor 1127-29)

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (1 Corinthians 1127-29 NKJV) Therefore whoever
  eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in
  an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and
  blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine
  himself, and so let him eat of the bread and
  drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks
  in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to
  himself, not discerning the Lords body.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• We find comfort in difficult times. (1 Cor 1126)

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (1 Corinthians 1126 NKJV) For as often as you
  eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim
  the Lords death till He comes.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• We look both forward and backwards!

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• We look both forward and backwards!
• We see His love in His death and know of His
  coming because of His resurrection and ascension.
  We know this life is not all there is! (1 Pt
  17-9)

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (1 Peter 17-9 NKJV) that the genuineness of
  your faith, being much more precious than gold
  that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may
  be found to praise, honor, and glory at the
  revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not
  seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet
  believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and
  full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your
  faith the salvation of your souls.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• We renew our love.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• We renew our love.
• Too many people drift away from their first love.
  (Rev 24, Heb 21)

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (Revelation 24 NKJV) Nevertheless I have this
  against you, that you have left your first love.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (Hebrews 21 NKJV) Therefore we must give the
  more earnest heed to the things we have heard,
  lest we drift away.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• When we do not remember, we will in time die. (1
  Cor 1129-30)

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• (1 Corinthians 1129-30 NKJV) For he who eats
  and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks
  judgment to himself, not discerning the Lords
  body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick
  among you, and many sleep.

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Jesus asks us to remember Him

• Are you remembering?

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The Challenge to remember

• We must want to. (1 Pt 113)

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The Challenge to remember

• (1 Peter 113 NKJV) Therefore gird up the loins
  of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully
  upon the grace that is to be brought to you at
  the revelation of Jesus Christ

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The Challenge to remember

• There is a real battle for our minds. Memory is
  neither easy nor automatic.

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The Challenge to remember

• There are many things in my life I could
  remember, but I choose not to.

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The Challenge to remember

• There are many things in my life I could
  remember, but I choose not to.
• "There is no past we can bring back by longing
  for it. There is only an eternal now that builds
  and creates out of the past something new and
  better.

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The Challenge to remember

• There are many things in my life I could
  remember, but I choose not to.
• "There is no past we can bring back by longing
  for it. There is only an eternal now that builds
  and creates out of the past something new and
  better.
• I must find understanding. (Mt 1319)

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The Challenge to remember

• (Matthew 1319 NKJV) When anyone hears the
  word of the kingdom, and does not understand it,
  then the wicked one comes and snatches away what
  was sown in his heart. This is he who received
  seed by the wayside.

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The Challenge to remember

• If I do not understand what Jesus did for me,
  then how can I remember?

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The Challenge to remember

• Do you see why Jesus died for you? The world is
  unmoved because they do not know.

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The Challenge to remember

• Do you see why Jesus died for you? The world is
  unmoved because they do not know.
• I must not allow worship to become commonplace.
  (Heb 1023-25)

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The Challenge to remember

• (Hebrews 1023-25 NKJV) Let us hold fast the
  confession of our hope without wavering, for He
  who promised is faithful. 24 And let us
  consider one another in order to stir up love and
  good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of
  ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but
  exhorting one another, and so much the more as
  you see the Day approaching.

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The Challenge to remember

• Far too many come with the demand that others
  make worship meaningful.

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The Challenge to remember

• Far too many come with the demand that others
  make worship meaningful.
• Others come out of a desire to be seen by men.
  (Mt 65)

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The Challenge to remember

• (Matthew 65 NKJV) And when you pray, you
  shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love
  to pray standing in the synagogues and on the
  corners of the streets, that they may be seen by
  men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their
  reward.

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The Challenge to remember

• If we do not willingly appear before God then we
  are like the world.

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The Challenge to remember

• Some suggestions for the Lords supper.

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The Challenge to remember

• Some suggestions for the Lords supper.
• Come rested.

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The Challenge to remember

• Some suggestions for the Lords supper.
• Come rested.
• Already have your mind in the worship.

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The Challenge to remember

• Some suggestions for the Lords supper.
• Come rested.
• Already have your mind in the worship.
• Use passages to remind you of Jesus death. (Mt
  26 Psa 22 Isa 53..)

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The Challenge to remember

• Some suggestions for the Lords supper.
• Come rested.
• Already have your mind in the worship.
• Use passages to remind you of Jesus death. (Mt
  26 Psa 22 Isa 53..)
• Spend time in prayer to God.

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The Challenge to remember

• Some suggestions for the Lords supper.
• Come rested.
• Already have your mind in the worship.
• Use passages to remind you of Jesus death. (Mt
  26 Psa 22 Isa 53..)
• Spend time in prayer to God.
• Follow all that God has said. (Acts 207)

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The Challenge to remember

• (Acts 207 NKJV) Now on the first day of the
  week, when the disciples came together to break
  bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke
  to them and continued his message until midnight.

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The Challenge to remember

• Some are satisfied with churches that rarely
  partake of the Lords supper.

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The Challenge to remember

• Some are satisfied with churches that rarely
  partake of the Lords supper.
• God has given great emphasis towards the first
  day of the week. (1 Cor 162)

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The Challenge to remember

• On the first day of every week let each one of
  you put aside and save, as he may prosper, that
  no collections be made when I come.

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The Challenge to remember

• Make your memory a daily effort. (1 Pt 112-15)

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The Challenge to remember

• (1 Peter 112-15 NKJV) To them it was revealed
  that, not to themselves, but to us they were
  ministering the things which now have been
  reported to you through those who have preached
  the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from
  heaven things which angels desire to look into.

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The Challenge to remember

• 13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be
  sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace
  that is to be brought to you at the revelation of
  Jesus Christ 14 as obedient children, not
  conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in
  your ignorance 15 but as He who called you is
  holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

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The Challenge to remember

• I must have daily repetition.

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The Challenge to remember

• This is called a "renewed mind." (Rom 121-2)

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The Challenge to remember

• (Romans 121-2 NKJV) I beseech you therefore,
  brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present
  your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
  to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And
  do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God.

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The Challenge to remember

• It is easy to have the things of the world push
  out these vital memories.

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The Challenge to remember

• It is easy to have the things of the world push
  out these vital memories.
• I must concentrate. We need that diligence that
  makes the word a part of our
  hearts. (Acts 2031)

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The Challenge to remember

• (Acts 2031 NKJV) Therefore watch, and
  remember that for three years I did not cease to
  warn everyone night and day with tears.

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The Challenge to remember

• Memory is work! What a blessing when we succeed.

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The Challenge to remember

• Memory is work! What a blessing when we succeed.
• There is great power in the memory of Jesus
  death.

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The Challenge to remember

• Memory is work! What a blessing when we succeed.
• There is great power in the memory of Jesus
  death.
• We find strength in the example and memory of our
  own departed loved ones.

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The Challenge to remember

• Memory is work! What a blessing when we succeed.
• There is great power in the memory of Jesus
  death.
• We find strength in the example and memory of our
  own departed loved ones.
• How many have their parents voices and example
  within their hearts?

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The Challenge to remember

• Here is where men and nations can be moved to
  great accomplishments. (Ex.
  Remember - "the Alamo", "Pearl Harbor.")

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The Challenge to remember

• Here is where men and nations can be moved to
  great accomplishments. (Ex.
  Remember - "the Alamo", "Pearl Harbor.")
• If Jesus is beloved to you, consider what the
  memory of His life can do! (2 Cor 514-15)

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The Challenge to remember

• (2 Corinthians 514-15 NKJV) For the love of
  Christ compels us, because we judge thus that if
  One died for all, then all died 15 and He died
  for all, that those who live should live no
  longer for themselves, but for Him who died for
  them and rose again.

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The Challenge to remember

• Did you remember today?

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The Challenge to remember

• Did you remember today?
• Israel forgot God and paid a terrible price. (Psa
  7833-35)