Always In Remembrance
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This is the third time I am coming to you
2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
As long as I am in this body … put in remembrance …
2 Peter 1:
12 ¶ Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
Conclusions: Why?
Perhaps we do not always do a good job of communicating
Perhaps many here today were not here yesterday
Perhaps some who heard a message to keep out of trouble, need to hear it again to get out of trouble
Here is an unprecedented message:
FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE
I. What You Say Will Be Said
A. Ecc 10:20 “A bird of the air ... shall tell the matter”
B. Ecc 7:21-22 Don’t listen too close to what is repeated about you
II. What You Do Will Be Found Out
A. Luk 12:1-3
1. Don’t be a hypocrite
2. There is nothing covered that shall not be uncovered
3. What is spoken in secret shall be proclaimed in public
B. 1Tim 5:24-25
1. Some sins are open now, others will be open later
2. Some good works are seen now, others will be seen later
C. Luk 12:2 … (there is nothing) hid, that shall not be known.
III. What You Believe Will Be Tested
A. Mark 4:17 Tests arise for the word’s sake
B. Gen 3 “Hath God said?”
C. Do Not Change Your Theology To Accommodate A Tragedy
D. Do Not Change Wrong To Right … Reprobate
IV. What You Compromise To Keep You Will Lose
A. You Must Lose Your Life In Christ In Order To Save It
1. Mat 16:25
2. Mar 8:35
3. Luk 9:24
4. Luk 17:33
B. 1Sam 15:22-23 “To obey is better than sacrifice”
C. Gen 4 When God asks for a sacrifice, an offering just won’t do
1. Sin will take you farther than you expected to go
2. Sin will keep you longer than you wanted to stay
3. Sin will cost you more than you bargained to pay
V. It Takes Courage To Begin Again
A. Job started over after loosing everything
B. Hosea started over after his wife, who had become a prostitute, returned home again.
C. The Apostle Paul started over after jailing, torturing and killing Christians
D. Peter started over after cursing & denying the Lord three times
E. Ruth started over after loosing a husband, leaving her home, becoming a beggar and marrying a man old enough to be her grandfather.
F. Rahab started over after being a prostitute and committing treason against her country
G. David started over after committing adultery, murder and loosing an infant son.
Note: Where does one get the courage to begin again?
Note: Where did David get his courage to begin again?:
* 1Sam 30:6 David “encouraged himself in the LORD his God”
* Psalms 86:16 Grant Thy strength to Thy servant
* Judges 16:28 Please strengthen me (Samson)
Also to Note: (Numbers 2)
* The error of Balaam (Jude 1:11 - for reward)
* The way of Balaam (2 Peter 2:15 - loved
* The doctrine of Balaam (Revelation 2:14 - taught Balak)
Conclusion:
A. If you are or someone you know gets in trouble for:
1. What they said
2. What they did
3. Failing the test
4. Compromising their life
5. An unwillingness to repent and begin again
B. Then You
1. Love them
2. Pray for them
3. Encourage them
4. But Do Not Side With Them
5. Remember:
A. they did it to themselves
B. and left unrepentant and unchanged with reasons & excuses, full of pride or anger …
C. they will only do it again
D. the error will become a way and then a doctrine
E. and you are not their Lord or Savior
