The Seven Things to Remember

‘Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you’ (Revelation 3:3). 

The nation of Israel provoked and grieved God in the wilderness; ‘again and again they tempted Him and limited Him’ all because ‘they did not remember His power’ (Psalm 78:42). How He redeemed them from their enemies, by working mighty signs in Egypt. 

As a result, ‘God was furious; He rejected Israel completely. He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had set up among humans. He sent the ark of His might into captivity, His splendor into the hands of the enemy. He gave His people over to the sword; He was furious with His inheritance. Fire consumed their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs’ (Psalm 78:59-63) 

This record of God’s response to Israel after they forgot His goodness and mighty deliverance in Egypt, clearly reveals to the Church today, the dangers of forgetting God’s wonders, and mighty acts in the past. Rev 3:3 admonishes us to remember, or else the second coming of the Lord will be a great surprise to the church and the entire world.

Seven things to remember:

1.    That God is your Creator and your God, and that there is no other God (Eccl 12:1, Isaiah 46:9).

2.    God’s wonderful and mighty acts in the past. His unique interventions in your life in the past (1 Chron 16:12, Psalm 77:11).

3.    To obey and hold on to His word (the Bible) and the prophecies He has given to you through His servants in times past (Psalm 103:18, Jude 17).

4.    Where He took you from and how He delivered you and your family. That most of us were once uncircumcised gentiles who have been counted worthy only by His grace (Eph 2:11, Deut 15:15).

5.    His love for you, not forgetting His death and resurrection for you (1 Cor 11:24).

6.    The poor, needy and those in prison physically and spiritually, the unsaved (Gal 2:10, Heb 13:3).

7.    He is coming again and that He is counting on you to prepare the world and His Church for His return (Matthew 24:45-50).

‘All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before Him’ (Psalm 22:27)