Until He Comes! # 1

2-25-18

Message # 1

“Until He Comes”

How’s your memory these days?

If you're anything like me… the things that you once knew well and could recollect easily are now things that “slip your mind” and that you have to THINK HARD to remember.

However, if I look at something regularly and think about it often… then I can easily remember it when I need to know it to share it!

1 Corinthians 11:24-26

24and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” 26For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.…

WE HAVE GOOD NEWS TO PROCLAIM!

THE GOOD NEWS OF SALVATION!!!

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, 

then to the Gentile.”

Romans 1:16

We need to KNOW and Regularly expose ourselves to the Word of God so that we will REMEMBER what He did for us… so that we can relate that to others so that they can GO TO HEAVEN!

John 3:16

The Lord is gracious and compassionate. 

He remembers his covenant forever (Ps. 111:4-5).

Note that remembrance is visible in the bread and cup—'This is my body" and "This is my blood.” 

We have to VISUALIZE that what He did… He did for ME!

    Remembrance strengthens us. Our faith is strengthened and built up through the eating, drinking, and remembering. "Eating is believing and believing is eating.”

while this remembrance is historical, it is also personal. Jesus doesn't ask us to remember the date, place, etc. We are never told to "Do this in remembrance of my death." The command is "Do this in remembrance of me." Our relationship with Christ is a personal one: "Come unto me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

Remember not the sins of my youth 

and my rebellious ways; according to your 

love remember me, for you are 

good, O Lord (Ps. 25:7).

"The time is coming," declares the 

Lord, "when I will make a new

covenant with the house of Israel...

For I will forgive their wickedness and 

will remember their sins no more (Jer. 31:31,34).

Remember the gracious love of our

Father in heaven

who made us children of his own possession.

Remember Jesus Christ, sent by the 

Father to share our human nature, to 

live and to die as one of us, and so to 

move us from the alienation of sin and death,

to reconcile us to God our Father by 

his perfect sacrifice, and through his 

suffering, death, and resurrection to 

save all who put their trust in him.

Remember the Holy Spirit, who teaches us these things

and makes the effects of Christ's salvation real in our lives.

Finally….

Jude 1:17-23

In this CRAZY, EVIL world we live in and where we encounter every WIND AND WAVE of Doctrine (opinion, thought and feeling)… we have to be GROUNDED in the fact that He loved us SO MUCH that He gave us TRUTH to understand, walk in… and Share with others who are lost!

Be aware and on your guard Church for anything that causes you to deviate from the commands of Scripture, the watering down and trivializing of the values and character traits God desires for His children and from anything that draws us from the truth that He is THE WAY, THE TRUTH and THE LIFE!