Lest We Forget

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Lest We Forget
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Lest We Forget
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Remembering Days

• (Rom 145 NKJV) One person esteems one day above
  another another esteems every day alike. Let
  each be fully convinced in his own mind.

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Remember This Day

• (Exo 133 NKJV) And Moses said to the people
  "Remember this day in which you went out of
  Egypt, out of the house of bondage for by
  strength of hand the LORD brought you out of this
  place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

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• Is Remembering Important to the Lord?

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God gave you freedom!

• (Exo 133 NKJV), "Remember this day in which you
  went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage

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Remember Gods Power!

• (Exo 133 NKJV), . ..for by strength of hand the
  LORD brought you out of this place

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Remember a day for God

• (Exo 208 NKJV) "Remember the Sabbath day, to
  keep it holy.

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Remember Obey or Pay

• (Lev 2612-18 NKJV) I will walk among you and be
  your God, and you shall be My people. 13 I am
  the LORD your God, who brought you out of the
  land of Egypt, that you should not be their
  slaves I have broken the bands of your yoke and
  made you walk upright. 14 'But if you do not
  obey Me, and do not observe all these
  commandments,

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Remember Obey or Pay

• (Lev 2612-18 NKJV) 15 and if you despise My
  statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so
  that you do not perform all My commandments, but
  break My covenant, 16 I also will do this to
  you I will even appoint terror over you, wasting
  disease and fever which shall consume the eyes
  and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your
  seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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Remember Obey or Pay

• (Lev 2612-18 NKJV) 17 I will set My face
  against you, and you shall be defeated by your
  enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you,
  and you shall flee when no one pursues you. 18
  'And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then
  I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

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Remember our Country

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
  all men are created equal, that they are endowed
  by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
  that among these are Life, Liberty and the
  pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these
  rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
  deriving their just powers from the consent of
  the governed,

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The Declaration Continues

• We, therefore, the Representatives of the united
  States of America, in General Congress,
  Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the
  world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in
  the Name, and by Authority of the good People of
  these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare,
  That these united Colonies are, and of Right
  ought to be Free and Independent States. . . .

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The Declaration Continues

• . . . And for the support of this Declaration,
  with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine
  Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our
  Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

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From Our Beginning --

• Is it clear now why we are called a Christian
  nation?
• Is it also clear why we should remember our roots
  our beginning?
• It is important that we remember and not forget
  what we have been given.

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That you may remember and do

• (Num 1539-40 NKJV) "And you shall have the
  tassel, that you may look upon it and remember
  all the commandments of the LORD and do them, and
  that you may not follow the harlotry to which
  your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,
  40 "and that you may remember and do all My
  commandments, and be holy for your God.

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People remembered the wrong things

• (Num 115-6 NKJV) "We remember the fish which we
  ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons,
  the leeks, the onions, and the garlic 6 "but
  now our whole being is dried up there is nothing
  at all except this manna before our eyes!"

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They forgot their slavery

• (Deu 515 NKJV) And remember that you were a
  slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God
  brought you out from there by a mighty hand and
  by an outstretched arm therefore the LORD your
  God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

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God is over Nations

• (Deu 717-19 NKJV) "If you should say in your
  heart, 'These nations are greater than I how can
  I dispossess them?' 18 "you shall not be
  afraid of them, but you shall remember well what
  the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all
  Egypt . . .

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God is over Nations

• (Deu 717-19 NKJV) 19 "the great trials which
  your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the
  mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which
  the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the
  LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you
  are afraid.

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God has blessed America

• He saw us to victory in two World Wars.
• We saw the destruction the Berlin Wall.
• We saw the collapse of much of Communism.
• The tests are not always easy.

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Remember His Commandments

• (Deu 81-3 NKJV) "Every commandment which I
  command you today you must be careful to observe,
  that you may live and multiply, and go in and
  possess the land of which the LORD swore to your
  fathers. 2 "And you shall remember that the
  LORD your God led you all the way these forty
  years in the wilderness, to humble you and test
  you,

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Remember His Commandments

• (Deu 81-3 NKJV) to know what was in your heart,
  whether you would keep His commandments or not.
  3 "So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger,
  and fed you with manna which you did not know nor
  did your fathers know, that He might make you
  know that man shall not live by bread alone but
  man lives by every word that proceeds from the
  mouth of the LORD.

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Dont be over confident

• (Deu 816-18 NKJV) "who fed you in the
  wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not
  know, that He might humble you and that He might
  test you, to do you good in the end 17 "then
  you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of
  my hand have gained me this wealth.

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Dont be over confident

• (Deu 816-18 NKJV) 18 "And you shall remember
  the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you
  power to get wealth, that He may establish His
  covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is
  this day.

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Remember what Christ has done

• (Luke 2219-20 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." 20 Likewise He also took
  the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the
  new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.

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Remember to be born again

• (John 33 NKJV) Jesus answered and said to him,
  "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born
  again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

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Remember your Creator

• (Eccl 121 NKJV) Remember now your Creator in
  the days of your youth, Before the difficult days
  come, And the years draw near when you say, "I
  have no pleasure in them"

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Remember your Creator

• (Eccl 126-7 NKJV) Remember your Creator before
  the silver cord is loosed, Or the golden bowl is
  broken, Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain,
  Or the wheel broken at the well. 7 Then the
  dust will return to the earth as it was, And the
  spirit will return to God who gave it.