REWIND #1 – PTR. ALVIN GUTIERREZ – 4PM AFTERNOON SERVICE

WHY DOES GOD WANT

US TO REMEMBER

?

Remembering is important

to God.

“Anyone who feels neither

responsibility towards the past

nor desire to shape the future is one

who forgets!”–Dietrich

Bonhoeffer

REMEMBERING GOD’S

FAITHFULNESS FROM THE

PAST:

(1)Allows us to

trust him in the present.

DEUTERONOMY 7:17-19

17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?” 18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

WORRYING displeases God.

Remember the LORD your God. He is the one who gives you power to be successful, in order to fulfill the covenant he confirmed to your ancestors with an oath.

DEUTERONOMY 8:18 (NLT)

(2) Directs our

actions in the future.

1 SAMUEL 17:34-37

34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.

36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”

1 SAMUEL 17:34-37

HOW TO REMEMBE

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(1)Write it down!

JOSHUA 4:5-65 and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’

When you don’t write it down,

we forget!

“A progressive decline of spiritual faculties’ which ’causes severe disadvantages to people,’ making them live in a ‘state of absolute dependence on their, often imagined, views.’ We can see this in those who have ‘lost their memory’ of their encounter with the Lord, in those who depend on their ‘passions, whims and obsessions.’

SPIRITUAL ALZHEIMER’S

REVELATION 2:4

Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.

HEBREWS 8:12

For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

(2) Tell it to others!

JOSHUA 4:6-76 In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.

AYLAN KURDI

Surviving family members of Aylan Kurdi have revealed how the Syrian three-year-old came to be washed up dead on a beach in Turkey.

Aylan's distraught father, Abdullah Kurdi, tried and failed to hold on to his wife and two sons after their boat to the Greek island of Kos capsized. He has reportedly now said his only wish is to return their bodies to their home town of Kobani and then “be buried alongside them”.

“Nobody wants to stay in Hungary, neither in Slovakia, nor Poland, nor Estonia. All want to go to Germany. Our job is just to register them.”

Hungary has faced criticism for erecting a fence on the border with Serbia, as well as for refusing to let migrants board trains to Germany, the main destination for many.

EU president Donald Tusk called on member states Thursday to share the resettlement of at least 100,000 refugees—far above the current agreement on 32,000.

And Merkel said France and Germany had agreed that binding migrant quotas were needed.

Former Polish premier Tusk also took Orban to task for saying in a German daily that the EU’s failing immigration policy meant that “Europe’s Christian culture is barely able to uphold Europe’s own Christian values.”

“Referring to Christianity in a public debate on migration must mean (showing)… humanity to our brothers,” Tusk said.

The EU is riven by frictions between transit nations where the migrants arrive by sea or land—mainly Greece, Italy and Hungary—and those where they hope to seek asylum, mainly in northern and western Europe. In Britain, where Prime Minister David Cameron’s government has accepted just 216 Syrian refugees, tens of thousands of people signed petitions demanding change.

Reports said his family were trying to get to Canada from the Syrian flashpoint of Kobane after fleeing to Turkey last year to escape Islamic State extremists. The bleak image spread like lightning through social media and dominated front pages. “Tiny victim of a human catastrophe,” said Britain’s Daily Mail—which had previously spoken of a “swarm” of migrants trying to get into the country—while Italy’s La Repubblica tweeted the words: “One photo to silence the world.”

It also prompted a furious reaction from Erdogan, whose country’s efforts to join the EU have been stalled for years.

“European countries, which turned the Mediterranean Sea—the cradle of ancient civilizations—into a migrant cemetery are party to the crime that takes place when each refugee loses their life,” he said in a speech.

Future generations will

repeat past mistakes without the learning from

others experience.

Decisions you’re making today will determine your memories for

tomorrow.

What are your stones, maybe you think you

don’t have any; well today is

perhaps the day of your first

stone.

What the mind forgets, the

heart remembers.

ISAIAH 49:15-16

15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.