The Sermon Memorial Day - Remember by David McGee
May 26, 2024
Memorial Day - Remember (39:06)
Referenced Scriptures: John 15:12-13; Psalm 34:8; Hebrews 11:1-31; Hebrews 12:1-24
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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
John 15:12-13
12) This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13) Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Psalm 34:8
8) Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
Hebrews 11:1-31
1) Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
2) For by this, the elders obtained testimony.
3) By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.
4) By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
5) By faith, Enoch was translated, so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
6) Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
7) By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
8) By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
9) By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
10) For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11) By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
12) Therefore they were fathered by one, and him as good as dead, as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore.
13) These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14) For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after a country of their own.
15) If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
16) But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
17) By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;
18) even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"
19) accounting that God is able to raise up, even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
20) By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.
21) By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff.
22) By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.
23) By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king‘s commandment.
24) By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh‘s daughter,
25) choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
26) accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
27) By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28) By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
29) By faith, they passed through the Red sea as by dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
30) By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
31) By faith, Rahab, the prostitute, didn‘t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
Hebrews 12:1-24
1) Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2) looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3) For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don‘t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
4) You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
5) and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, don‘t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;
6) For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives."
7) It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn‘t discipline?
8) But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons.
9) Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
10) For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
11) All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
12) Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13) and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14) Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
15) looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
16) lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, as Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
17) For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
18) For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest,
19) the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
20) for they could not stand that which was enjoined, "If even a animal touch the mountain, it will be stoned;"
21) and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."
22) But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
23) to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24) to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
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