The Sermon Rememberance by David McGee
Sep 11, 2011
Rememberance (39:26)
Referenced Scriptures: Luke 24:1-8; Hebrews 13:6; Hebrews 13:13; John 14:6; Hebrews 11
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Luke 24:1-8
1) But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
2) They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
3) They entered in, and didn‘t find the Lord Jesus‘ body.
4) It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.
5) Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
6) He isn‘t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,
7) saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"
8) They remembered his words,
Hebrews 13:6
6) So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What will man do to me?"
Hebrews 13:13
13) Let us therefore go forth to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
John 14:6
6) Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, but by me.
Hebrews 11
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.
32) What will I more say? For the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;
33) who, through faith, subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34) quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and turned to flight armies of aliens.
35) Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
36) Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
37) They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
38) (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
39) These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn‘t receive the promise,
40) God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
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Five also moved to chapter twenty four, Luke chapter twenty four, and I'm going to read verses one through eight. Luke twenty four, verses one through eight and a title of the message today is remembrance remembrance. Luke twenty four, verses one through eight on the first day of the week, very early in the morning. The woman soaked spices they had prepared went to the two they found the stone rolled away from the two, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus while they were wondering about this, suddenly two men told two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them in their fright, the woman bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, why do you look for the living among the dead. He is not here. He has risen. Remember how he told you while he was still with you in Galilee, the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified on the third day be raised again. Then they remembered his words. You remember where you work, and years ago today, you remember where you heard the first nose job that the attacks about on on in New York. The towers. I was in the hospital. I was in the accident was in a hospice room and I saw it on TV and we were talking about that and Great Britain. Going over there. Then we heard that there was a plane crash in Shanksville and so there was an emergency. We were put on alert and so everyone was going through the hospitals and getting all the gurneys and taking them to the emergency room. We had all these beds lined up and no one came I were waiting while there were no survivors. And I think I was many rescuers are maiming those who were in Shanksville that day and in New York and in Washington, one of our neighbors, was a neighbor was Mike Gallagher. He was in the Pentagon, and he was there just a few sections away from where the plane hit and was involved in the rescue. So we've all heard many stories that we've all heard a lot about that if you watch the television. Even yesterday was certainly the ceremony from Shanksville is a lot to what we do what we remember and we have this video that we have purchased for today and also its kind in the focus of all of our sermons so remember is to honor to honor is the value what we value shapes who we become whenever we thank off our relationship with Jesus Christ and we think of what we just read all of the individuals come into the two and the tomb being in the end of the declaration wise framework to remember how he told you while he was still with you and Galloway remember what his word says to us. God urges us to remember you will not remember the sacrifices that were made on behalf of others the freedom gain and the promises cat. These all relate to not only what happened 9/11, ten years ago, but they read, they reflect on what is happening in our lines and written in the Scripture two thousand years ago, the faithfulness of God remembering draws purpose to our by flying wisdom and strength and resolve from our pain and our loss on September eleventh this day. It draws national attention international attention to what we privately know and what we value all in our life, and it lets us know that life is vulnerable. We are vulnerable to a man sent to circumstances that are beyond our aware Christians as Christians we are aware of God with us as Christians we are aware that God is for us and we are aware of the strength that God gives to us each day, but in this world. We know that we are not secure in this world. We recognize that we are vulnerable in this world. We do not have some special elite status that keeps us in a bubble away from everything else in the world. We are mortal, where vulnerable we are human, but and that any Mueller, we could be removed from this well this life as we know it. As a result of war are on whether or not a weak heart, but in this world. The Scripture declares, we shall have tribulation, we shall have trials, but there is also in all of this circumstance in all of this trial and all of these things. There is something that comes to us, Jesus declares, and this comes back to what the disciples were told and that the followers were told. Remember how he told you not only are they to remember what Jesus Christ said about his death, burial and resurrection, but they were to remember his words what his words meant to them. Jesus declares me of good cheer, I have overcome the world. I have overcome the world. I have overcome the world, with all of its vulnerabilities. Its insecurities and its and in its place is out and pitfalls, I am overcome these things be of good cheer, I have overcome now were going to say I have overcome. Think about it before you say it because do we really believe that we are overcome, or do we really are who we are we talking this idea of vulnerability and it is a being vulnerable is a hard place to be recognizing vulnerability in our life that we are not protected from by some force field forward something like that, you know, some force that we are not protected from some force fields that that gives to us some elite status, but that we are vulnerable, but in our vulnerability, we can recognize that we are remembering God 's word. They do this requires a lot be of good cheer, I have overcome the world that way. Being in him and him being in us. We are part of that victory. We are part of that conquering on that conqueror. We are part of that whole scenario of overcoming so whenever we say I have overcome. We are saying that in phase and we are saying it in agreement with who Jesus Christ is what he has done so are we ready to say I have overcome it and, yes, okay, ready one to three I have overcome again, I have overcome what is it that you have overcome what is it that we have overcome one is at that place water is that place. What event is there that space. Lots of being vulnerable. What a man wants circumstance one place in our life space to watch the vulnerability have we overcome in Hebrews chapter thirteen verse six says, so we may boldly say the Lord is my helper, I will not fear what can man do to me. So as we declare I have overcome. We are then reading the Scriptures, allowing the word of God to speak truth into our lives in the place of vulnerability in a world where things change. We are saying that we are more than a conqueror through Christ who gives us strength. Hebrews thirteen so we may boldly say baldly say the Lord is my help, remember God 's word, remembering remembering strengthens community remembering strengthens community. We are a community of believers, we are the body of Christ, remembering, strengthening community Karen now collectively. I bring strength to each other here and now we bring strength to each other just by being here and sharing your presence and your place among one another, you are bringing strength to one another. Think of it this life if you were sitting in a chair out in the middle of the desert and no one was there. Would you feel isolated. So you see that you're not in the desert is not out in a some remote area, you are here and even gotten itself as a way of sharing and gaining strength from one another. So last week we spoke of in our communion service. What is it, what is that the Scriptures say to us. This do in remembrance of me remember strengthens community strengthens believers that we are not alone in this world that we are here collectively with one another. We are here collectively as the body of Christ. We are here with Christ, one with him, and he with us. We discover what God does through us. We discovered that our life is greater than just ourselves in our own little island of where we live and is will and is greater than that we could ever imagine. Because God is working through us. We are unified in our relationship with him, and love one another, so that we may boldly say boldly said, what is the boldly say the boldly say, well, I think that this is a good day wife boldly say a bald statement is in fact already sent out her first declaration of strength, a declaration of a short declaration, the league. So when I baldly say I am making a statement descriptor is telling us to baldly statements that it is an affirmation of what is on the inside I am affirming verbally what I believe state why it's so important to speak what we believe why this is so important to speak truth, why this is why visit. It is a different than just thinking while illustration I used many many& done this in church are not, but whatever we think you have thoughts you remember there there, like this class I is a substance to gather something substance. The clouds but if you shoot an arrow into a cloud. It doesn't stick why because it's not the type of substance while our thoughts are like clouds and whenever we take that cloud and we speak it. It is it substance light rain falling from the clock that moisture was in the clouds, but yet you claim collected in a cup, but when it began to rain when it begins to rain, the substance of that cloud collects and forms droplets and it drops that were and what happens is when it's called, it becomes becomes what snow is the head, and snow and then you know it. It's a lifestyle to our lives of life important for us account together to discuss our faith is important for us to come together and end reading the Scriptures and discuss those thoughts because it takes that witches are online and brings it out and verbalizes it. So the Scripture is telling us that we can whenever something is verbal and in and become something of substance were able to move it around Randall to take it, but slots are trying about their and in a kinder, driven by the wind and tossed. But whenever they become verbal when it becomes something that we are saying it becomes concrete, it becomes more adaptable and more applicable to our life and what we say. So when the Scriptures telling us to baldly state is telling us that we are to take the thoughts that we have the thoughts and the understanding that we, the Scripture. And if telling us to speak, and whenever we speak it. It is giving it, it's getting warmer concrete formation to our life is what we intend where we intend to go, so we baldly say vaguely when we've already stated what what we already stated, was that they had needed to. I've overcome you refer to the gallery forgot my dog. I'm over, I don't know what I'm saying is I say that the person next to you guys say that you guys and I heard back yet. It saddens that was what my mama whenever he believes AI was a amazing so I have overcome many I have overcome I were also going to boldly say the Lord is my helper, the Lord is my helper again, the Lord is my helper again, the Lord is my helper is a UK Robert Hammer went out. However, it hasn't alone stranger well in this, that the Lord is my helper, the Lord is my strength. The Lord is my salvation is the Lord who gives me these things so I want you to turn your neighbors and I can hear you say this, the Lord is my helper. Okay, now you can remind them that they said I heard you say that hard to say what if you never say so. You heard them say that the you are you are saying that somewhere in Aldrich Honorable to the most important event in history is not what happened ten years ago. The most important event in history is not what happened ten minutes ago. The most important event in our lives is what happening now. What because now is determining your future. All of us have hindsight that all is hopefully have good hindsight allows some people don't remember things very well. The most important event is what we are doing now. We are boldly proclaiming it all in this place of vulnerability in this life of vulnerability where whether war people, circumstances we are baldly saying I shall live and not die when all that can be active in the body of the present with the Lord, we know that Jesus requires because I live, you shall live also that we live in this understanding that we are safe in the hands of our father. We are saving God, and that nothing shall separate us from God. Neither life nor death, nor principalities nor powers, so in all the circumstances of life. We live in a safe place, not a bubble. Not a bubble where some force field keeps us from all harm and danger. But we live in a place of safety in our Lord Jesus Christ, that nothing can separate us down this is the beginning, this moment of time is the beginning and not the end that I am I like this one, and Deuteronomy. It says, and the Lord will make you the head and not the tail. You shall be above only, and not many that God is going to work through us and he says I will believe God 's word that he will work in my life, so whenever we are all going sneaking something where proclaiming the truth that we believe that God 's word application of God 's word to our life to our circumstances to the place that we live the place that we live, we have the we have lived too long beneath where we need to be aggressive. They were to change locations or change will maybe will change, social, economical, the social economic status them know that but the ideas that our life is going to change the cause of our relationship with Jesus Christ and the shards that he gives us to live our I celebrities remembering remembering the stone remembrance of me. Jesus said, when the disciples when they showed up at the height of the two, remember how we told you while he was still with you. When Gallo remember what Jesus said to you to remember is to honor to honor is to value and what we value shapes who we become what we value shapes who we become. Do we value God 's word by word, and I get in my heart that I might not sin against the then I might not fail the course. Get off course, where God wants me to be John fourteen six. Let these things I have told you that when the time comes, you may remember that I told them to you, Jesus is preparing his disciples for his ascension and reselling them to remember that the disciples were told specifically to remember specifically to remember his word so that when the time came, they would remember what he was telling them that his word would give them. He's beginning them his word, in this moment of time for a future event that is going to happen in the Bible tells us that we live in hope, and hope in the word hope is not wishful thinking, you know, I hope the sun shines of hope this happens. I hope that happens, the whole of Scripture is a certainty event that is not yet happened but will have my blessed hope of Christ's return. Jesus Christ is coming back is coming back. That's a certain we discovered we just haven't reached that point in time, but we have his word here in the Scripture. Jesus is telling his disciples. I'm giving you this word here and now all that when this event when life events happen in the future you will remember what I told you here now in our lives. The most important moment right now in our life is right now and if I now is the most important moment in our life. What word is God giving up what word of assurance of one word of comfort. What word of strength is God given to us, and that word will be therefore lost in this moment, but it will be something we are remembering from before or is placed there so that when the event happens in our future. We will remember, remember, remember, does what shapes who we will become you see the remembrance to honor too onerous to value what we value shapes who we become. We baldly say what the Lord is my helper, the Lord is my helper. We boldly say the Lord is my helper, because he will never leave us nor forsake us. Nothing can ever separate us from him. So when we feel alone when we feel isolated. When we feel things are not working. We are to challenge those feelings with what we remember we remember that the Lord is my helper, and if the Lord is my helper. He says here I will not fear. Fear is a paralyzing fear all things out of proportion here retraced his steps back runs away, but I will not fear I will have faith, I will have the substance of God 's word that speaks truth to my life. I will have the substance of God 's word is a remembrance of what he told me two thousand years ago, told his disciples, and they wrote down in his Holy Spirit in my life speaks a truth to me, and I now and in a place of safety, even in the midst of trial. It gives me peace in the time of trouble. It gives me a short in the time of insecurity. His word speaks truth to me. I am remembering I'm remembering his word. Faith is the substance of God 's word declared promises to our life. It creates emotion that is forward it is forward thinking God 's faith. I God 's face as he bestows upon us is forward thinking got been caught up with your past unit guided can't happen your past. He knows all the failures in on this one. I think that ill sometimes I think these crazy thoughts that God knows all the sins of all the failure is a member to do my life in the future becomes back to this moment. He still loves me, and although my sins and mistakes of value for the past diamond that I have confessed in the gone but because it only could they remember many of these against because he is not looking at are is not looking the reasons the process of five K with his grace and his mercy to bring us and to change our life from the inside out. Faith is the substance it is galling to give the correct perspective. They keep the correct perspective faith advances a step forward. Why so we may boldly say the Lord is my helper, I will not fear what can man do to me. 9/11. What can man do to me what can man do to I may boldly say the Lord is my helper, the Lord is my helper, point to somebody that you said that this is dangerous. I the Lord as I offer. Remember, remember, courage and character of men. I like this little found this this clip. It says cripple him and you have a Sir Walter Scott, lock them in prison, and you have a John Bunyan, author of the Pilgrim 's progress buried him in the snows of Valley Forge, you have George Washington regime in abject poverty and you have Abraham Lincoln strike him down with infantile paralysis, many of Franklin D Roosevelt death and him and you have the genius composer, Beethoven have been born black. In a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have George Washington Carver and Martin Luther King Jr. if that doesn't challenge you goes on to say consider Benjamin Franklin at twenty five he founded America's first library at thirty one, he started its first fire department. At thirty six he designed heating stove that we still use today at forty he became one of the first harnesses harnesses of electricity at forty five. He founded the nation 's first university at seventy nine he invented bifocals. It was an economist. It was a philosopher. It was a diplomat. He was an inventor and educator, a publisher, a linguist. He spoke and wrote five languages and had exactly two years of formal education. Remember Hebrews eleven by faith favorite Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice by faith Enoch walked with God, and it was not for God took him by faith Noah, he built an ark by faith Abraham left his home for land that God would promise in my face Sarah conceived in her old age, and he goes on to say that these individuals by not having received the promise, but having risqué that they help word from God that caused them to remember what God had promised them, and they went off into the future. Remember the promises of God and the word of God, by word and I hid in my heart. Why, then I might not sin that I might not miss the mark of my life. Remember remembrance provides perspective of what God has done on our behalf. Remember, is to honor to honor it is to value and what we value shapes who we become. I remember his word spoken to me remember what God has done for the profits remember what God has done the writers and authors of Scripture. What God has done for the nation of Israel. What God has done for them the apostles and the early church. Remember this moment. Remember this moment because this is the love of change in a challenge for us remember what God is doing through us as we interact with one another as we come together as a body of believers. Remember that you have a purpose, and you have a reason for being here. You have a reason for living, and the reason is in remembering his word 's Word speaks to your life as we identified as we come together as we pray as we worship we all have an effect on each other. Remembrance creates whole remembrance creates hope on honoring God 's word gives us direction for our life of our future, God will bring us through this day. It will bring us through every day. God is faithful, even in our darkest hour, God is always there on flight ninety three, when the passengers realize there were for playing that were hijacked three of them had crash to the twelfth hours in one and the Pentagon. They knew with fellow man to do something one man while speaking with an operator repeated the Lord 's prayer with her and with some of the passengers that were around and declared the last word spoken on that recording let's roll and they went to take over the plane, one of the grieving white windows stated that she was afraid she was proud I want what her husband did, but her grief is still with her and she remembers her grief, and she says her green is like carrying a brick in your pocket. You may get used to it, but it's always there. And when people have solid people have read it is something that just goes away is a trauma. It is an experience that is broken into our lives and robbed us creating a sense of loss, creating a sense of hopelessness. Every carrier. We carry it with us and our people will have willed, while loads of grief and sorrow of things that have been taken from them walked from their life but you know what, for the Christian, we have something very different with Kerry, something that is much greater. We carry an empty cross any of the cross space. The loss of a risen Savior, and no matter how much grief, no matter how much sorrow, no matter how much paying no matter how many bricks. We can accumulate there is an empty cross. We carry with us and it is greater than our greatest sorrow is greater than our greatest challenge is greater than our greatest despair and greater than our greatest sin. It is the resurrected Savior that speaks to our hearts in our lives you remember what his word says Thomas. I will never leave you nor forsake you. That is the most difficult places in life when I cannot fear what man can do you remember that I am with you I am with you always, we don't carry a big cross, just like we don't carry breakfast, but the breadth of our loss are very real. The brakes on 9/11 are carried by an entire nation but there is an entire kingdom. The carries the cross days, individuals are Christian and Christians throughout ages have laid down their lives for their belief Christians throughout the ages have done the impossible, because the one who hung upon the cross still speaks to our lives we remember his words and the disciples as they were told. Why the angel remember how he told you remember what he told you remember his words and his words speak life to office. They speak forgiveness to watch. They speak halt to lots and we can never be the same because the nest along with the time speaks to a hot, I love I forgive I give you hope in the midst of the storm. I don't create a bubble for you to live in a force field. I create peace in the midst of store I create whole where there is no hope I give why, where there is darkness. I opened the way where there is no way I draw and I love you and I forget. And then so is to remember is to honor to honor is to value and what we value shapes who we become. We value his work. We honor Jesus Christ. We honor what he has done for, and we remember 9/11 and we remember those individuals in the plane just before they went to take over the plane and something they would have said that prayer somewhere prior to coming to this point somewhere in this area. Overall, our skies. These individuals prayed, and the and they started with our fatherFive also moved to chapter twenty four, Luke chapter twenty four, and I'm going to read verses one through eight. Luke twenty four, verses one through eight and a title of the message today is remembrance remembrance. Luke twenty four, verses one through eight on the first day of the week, very early in the morning. The woman soaked spices they had prepared went to the two they found the stone rolled away from the two, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus while they were wondering about this, suddenly two men told two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them in their fright, the woman bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, why do you look for the living among the dead. He is not here. He has risen. Remember how he told you while he was still with you in Galilee, the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified on the third day be raised again. Then they remembered his words. You remember where you work, and years ago today, you remember where you heard the first nose job that the attacks about on on in New York. The towers. I was in the hospital. I was in the accident was in a hospice room and I saw it on TV and we were talking about that and Great Britain. Going over there. Then we heard that there was a plane crash in Shanksville and so there was an emergency. We were put on alert and so everyone was going through the hospitals and getting all the gurneys and taking them to the emergency room. We had all these beds lined up and no one came I were waiting while there were no survivors. And I think I was many rescuers are maiming those who were in Shanksville that day and in New York and in Washington, one of our neighbors, was a neighbor was Mike Gallagher. He was in the Pentagon, and he was there just a few sections away from where the plane hit and was involved in the rescue. So we've all heard many stories that we've all heard a lot about that if you watch the television. Even yesterday was certainly the ceremony from Shanksville is a lot to what we do what we remember and we have this video that we have purchased for today and also its kind in the focus of all of our sermons so remember is to honor to honor is the value what we value shapes who we become whenever we thank off our relationship with Jesus Christ and we think of what we just read all of the individuals come into the two and the tomb being in the end of the declaration wise framework to remember how he told you while he was still with you and Galloway remember what his word says to us. God urges us to remember you will not remember the sacrifices that were made on behalf of others the freedom gain and the promises cat. These all relate to not only what happened 9/11, ten years ago, but they read, they reflect on what is happening in our lines and written in the Scripture two thousand years ago, the faithfulness of God remembering draws purpose to our by flying wisdom and strength and resolve from our pain and our loss on September eleventh this day. It draws national attention international attention to what we privately know and what we value all in our life, and it lets us know that life is vulnerable. We are vulnerable to a man sent to circumstances that are beyond our aware Christians as Christians we are aware of God with us as Christians we are aware that God is for us and we are aware of the strength that God gives to us each day, but in this world. We know that we are not secure in this world. We recognize that we are vulnerable in this world. We do not have some special elite status that keeps us in a bubble away from everything else in the world. We are mortal, where vulnerable we are human, but and that any Mueller, we could be removed from this well this life as we know it. As a result of war are on whether or not a weak heart, but in this world. The Scripture declares, we shall have tribulation, we shall have trials, but there is also in all of this circumstance in all of this trial and all of these things. There is something that comes to us, Jesus declares, and this comes back to what the disciples were told and that the followers were told. Remember how he told you not only are they to remember what Jesus Christ said about his death, burial and resurrection, but they were to remember his words what his words meant to them. Jesus declares me of good cheer, I have overcome the world. I have overcome the world. I have overcome the world, with all of its vulnerabilities. Its insecurities and its and in its place is out and pitfalls, I am overcome these things be of good cheer, I have overcome now were going to say I have overcome. Think about it before you say it because do we really believe that we are overcome, or do we really are who we are we talking this idea of vulnerability and it is a being vulnerable is a hard place to be recognizing vulnerability in our life that we are not protected from by some force field forward something like that, you know, some force that we are not protected from some force fields that that gives to us some elite status, but that we are vulnerable, but in our vulnerability, we can recognize that we are remembering God 's word. They do this requires a lot be of good cheer, I have overcome the world that way. Being in him and him being in us. We are part of that victory. We are part of that conquering on that conqueror. We are part of that whole scenario of overcoming so whenever we say I have overcome. We are saying that in phase and we are saying it in agreement with who Jesus Christ is what he has done so are we ready to say I have overcome it and, yes, okay, ready one to three I have overcome again, I have overcome what is it that you have overcome what is it that we have overcome one is at that place water is that place. What event is there that space. Lots of being vulnerable. What a man wants circumstance one place in our life space to watch the vulnerability have we overcome in Hebrews chapter thirteen verse six says, so we may boldly say the Lord is my helper, I will not fear what can man do to me. So as we declare I have overcome. We are then reading the Scriptures, allowing the word of God to speak truth into our lives in the place of vulnerability in a world where things change. We are saying that we are more than a conqueror through Christ who gives us strength. Hebrews thirteen so we may boldly say baldly say the Lord is my help, remember God 's word, remembering remembering strengthens community remembering strengthens community. We are a community of believers, we are the body of Christ, remembering, strengthening community Karen now collectively. I bring strength to each other here and now we bring strength to each other just by being here and sharing your presence and your place among one another, you are bringing strength to one another. Think of it this life if you were sitting in a chair out in the middle of the desert and no one was there. Would you feel isolated. So you see that you're not in the desert is not out in a some remote area, you are here and even gotten itself as a way of sharing and gaining strength from one another. So last week we spoke of in our communion service. What is it, what is that the Scriptures say to us. This do in remembrance of me remember strengthens community strengthens believers that we are not alone in this world that we are here collectively with one another. We are here collectively as the body of Christ. We are here with Christ, one with him, and he with us. We discover what God does through us. We discovered that our life is greater than just ourselves in our own little island of where we live and is will and is greater than that we could ever imagine. Because God is working through us. We are unified in our relationship with him, and love one another, so that we may boldly say boldly said, what is the boldly say the boldly say, well, I think that this is a good day wife boldly say a bald statement is in fact already sent out her first declaration of strength, a declaration of a short declaration, the league. So when I baldly say I am making a statement descriptor is telling us to baldly statements that it is an affirmation of what is on the inside I am affirming verbally what I believe state why it's so important to speak what we believe why this is so important to speak truth, why this is why visit. It is a different than just thinking while illustration I used many many& done this in church are not, but whatever we think you have thoughts you remember there there, like this class I is a substance to gather something substance. The clouds but if you shoot an arrow into a cloud. It doesn't stick why because it's not the type of substance while our thoughts are like clouds and whenever we take that cloud and we speak it. It is it substance light rain falling from the clock that moisture was in the clouds, but yet you claim collected in a cup, but when it began to rain when it begins to rain, the substance of that cloud collects and forms droplets and it drops that were and what happens is when it's called, it becomes becomes what snow is the head, and snow and then you know it. It's a lifestyle to our lives of life important for us account together to discuss our faith is important for us to come together and end reading the Scriptures and discuss those thoughts because it takes that witches are online and brings it out and verbalizes it. So the Scripture is telling us that we can whenever something is verbal and in and become something of substance were able to move it around Randall to take it, but slots are trying about their and in a kinder, driven by the wind and tossed. But whenever they become verbal when it becomes something that we are saying it becomes concrete, it becomes more adaptable and more applicable to our life and what we say. So when the Scriptures telling us to baldly state is telling us that we are to take the thoughts that we have the thoughts and the understanding that we, the Scripture. And if telling us to speak, and whenever we speak it. It is giving it, it's getting warmer concrete formation to our life is what we intend where we intend to go, so we baldly say vaguely when we've already stated what what we already stated, was that they had needed to. I've overcome you refer to the gallery forgot my dog. I'm over, I don't know what I'm saying is I say that the person next to you guys say that you guys and I heard back yet. It saddens that was what my mama whenever he believes AI was a amazing so I have overcome many I have overcome I were also going to boldly say the Lord is my helper, the Lord is my helper again, the Lord is my helper again, the Lord is my helper is a UK Robert Hammer went out. However, it hasn't alone stranger well in this, that the Lord is my helper, the Lord is my strength. The Lord is my salvation is the Lord who gives me these things so I want you to turn your neighbors and I can hear you say this, the Lord is my helper. Okay, now you can remind them that they said I heard you say that hard to say what if you never say so. You heard them say that the you are you are saying that somewhere in Aldrich Honorable to the most important event in history is not what happened ten years ago. The most important event in history is not what happened ten minutes ago. The most important event in our lives is what happening now. What because now is determining your future. All of us have hindsight that all is hopefully have good hindsight allows some people don't remember things very well. The most important event is what we are doing now. We are boldly proclaiming it all in this place of vulnerability in this life of vulnerability where whether war people, circumstances we are baldly saying I shall live and not die when all that can be active in the body of the present with the Lord, we know that Jesus requires because I live, you shall live also that we live in this understanding that we are safe in the hands of our father. We are saving God, and that nothing shall separate us from God. Neither life nor death, nor principalities nor powers, so in all the circumstances of life. We live in a safe place, not a bubble. Not a bubble where some force field keeps us from all harm and danger. But we live in a place of safety in our Lord Jesus Christ, that nothing can separate us down this is the beginning, this moment of time is the beginning and not the end that I am I like this one, and Deuteronomy. It says, and the Lord will make you the head and not the tail. You shall be above only, and not many that God is going to work through us and he says I will believe God 's word that he will work in my life, so whenever we are all going sneaking something where proclaiming the truth that we believe that God 's word application of God 's word to our life to our circumstances to the place that we live the place that we live, we have the we have lived too long beneath where we need to be aggressive. They were to change locations or change will maybe will change, social, economical, the social economic status them know that but the ideas that our life is going to change the cause of our relationship with Jesus Christ and the shards that he gives us to live our I celebrities remembering remembering the stone remembrance of me. Jesus said, when the disciples when they showed up at the height of the two, remember how we told you while he was still with you. When Gallo remember what Jesus said to you to remember is to honor to honor is to value and what we value shapes who we become what we value shapes who we become. Do we value God 's word by word, and I get in my heart that I might not sin against the then I might not fail the course. Get off course, where God wants me to be John fourteen six. Let these things I have told you that when the time comes, you may remember that I told them to you, Jesus is preparing his disciples for his ascension and reselling them to remember that the disciples were told specifically to remember specifically to remember his word so that when the time came, they would remember what he was telling them that his word would give them. He's beginning them his word, in this moment of time for a future event that is going to happen in the Bible tells us that we live in hope, and hope in the word hope is not wishful thinking, you know, I hope the sun shines of hope this happens. I hope that happens, the whole of Scripture is a certainty event that is not yet happened but will have my blessed hope of Christ's return. Jesus Christ is coming back is coming back. That's a certain we discovered we just haven't reached that point in time, but we have his word here in the Scripture. Jesus is telling his disciples. I'm giving you this word here and now all that when this event when life events happen in the future you will remember what I told you here now in our lives. The most important moment right now in our life is right now and if I now is the most important moment in our life. What word is God giving up what word of assurance of one word of comfort. What word of strength is God given to us, and that word will be therefore lost in this moment, but it will be something we are remembering from before or is placed there so that when the event happens in our future. We will remember, remember, remember, does what shapes who we will become you see the remembrance to honor too onerous to value what we value shapes who we become. We baldly say what the Lord is my helper, the Lord is my helper. We boldly say the Lord is my helper, because he will never leave us nor forsake us. Nothing can ever separate us from him. So when we feel alone when we feel isolated. When we feel things are not working. We are to challenge those feelings with what we remember we remember that the Lord is my helper, and if the Lord is my helper. He says here I will not fear. Fear is a paralyzing fear all things out of proportion here retraced his steps back runs away, but I will not fear I will have faith, I will have the substance of God 's word that speaks truth to my life. I will have the substance of God 's word is a remembrance of what he told me two thousand years ago, told his disciples, and they wrote down in his Holy Spirit in my life speaks a truth to me, and I now and in a place of safety, even in the midst of trial. It gives me peace in the time of trouble. It gives me a short in the time of insecurity. His word speaks truth to me. I am remembering I'm remembering his word. Faith is the substance of God 's word declared promises to our life. It creates emotion that is forward it is forward thinking God 's faith. I God 's face as he bestows upon us is forward thinking got been caught up with your past unit guided can't happen your past. He knows all the failures in on this one. I think that ill sometimes I think these crazy thoughts that God knows all the sins of all the failure is a member to do my life in the future becomes back to this moment. He still loves me, and although my sins and mistakes of value for the past diamond that I have confessed in the gone but because it only could they remember many of these against because he is not looking at are is not looking the reasons the process of five K with his grace and his mercy to bring us and to change our life from the inside out. Faith is the substance it is galling to give the correct perspective. They keep the correct perspective faith advances a step forward. Why so we may boldly say the Lord is my helper, I will not fear what can man do to me. 9/11. What can man do to me what can man do to I may boldly say the Lord is my helper, the Lord is my helper, point to somebody that you said that this is dangerous. I the Lord as I offer. Remember, remember, courage and character of men. I like this little found this this clip. It says cripple him and you have a Sir Walter Scott, lock them in prison, and you have a John Bunyan, author of the Pilgrim 's progress buried him in the snows of Valley Forge, you have George Washington regime in abject poverty and you have Abraham Lincoln strike him down with infantile paralysis, many of Franklin D Roosevelt death and him and you have the genius composer, Beethoven have been born black. In a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have George Washington Carver and Martin Luther King Jr. if that doesn't challenge you goes on to say consider Benjamin Franklin at twenty five he founded America's first library at thirty one, he started its first fire department. At thirty six he designed heating stove that we still use today at forty he became one of the first harnesses harnesses of electricity at forty five. He founded the nation 's first university at seventy nine he invented bifocals. It was an economist. It was a philosopher. It was a diplomat. He was an inventor and educator, a publisher, a linguist. He spoke and wrote five languages and had exactly two years of formal education. Remember Hebrews eleven by faith favorite Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice by faith Enoch walked with God, and it was not for God took him by faith Noah, he built an ark by faith Abraham left his home for land that God would promise in my face Sarah conceived in her old age, and he goes on to say that these individuals by not having received the promise, but having risqué that they help word from God that caused them to remember what God had promised them, and they went off into the future. Remember the promises of God and the word of God, by word and I hid in my heart. Why, then I might not sin that I might not miss the mark of my life. Remember remembrance provides perspective of what God has done on our behalf. Remember, is to honor to honor it is to value and what we value shapes who we become. I remember his word spoken to me remember what God has done for the profits remember what God has done the writers and authors of Scripture. What God has done for the nation of Israel. What God has done for them the apostles and the early church. Remember this moment. Remember this moment because this is the love of change in a challenge for us remember what God is doing through us as we interact with one another as we come together as a body of believers. Remember that you have a purpose, and you have a reason for being here. You have a reason for living, and the reason is in remembering his word 's Word speaks to your life as we identified as we come together as we pray as we worship we all have an effect on each other. Remembrance creates whole remembrance creates hope on honoring God 's word gives us direction for our life of our future, God will bring us through this day. It will bring us through every day. God is faithful, even in our darkest hour, God is always there on flight ninety three, when the passengers realize there were for playing that were hijacked three of them had crash to the twelfth hours in one and the Pentagon. They knew with fellow man to do something one man while speaking with an operator repeated the Lord 's prayer with her and with some of the passengers that were around and declared the last word spoken on that recording let's roll and they went to take over the plane, one of the grieving white windows stated that she was afraid she was proud I want what her husband did, but her grief is still with her and she remembers her grief, and she says her green is like carrying a brick in your pocket. You may get used to it, but it's always there. And when people have solid people have read it is something that just goes away is a trauma. It is an experience that is broken into our lives and robbed us creating a sense of loss, creating a sense of hopelessness. Every carrier. We carry it with us and our people will have willed, while loads of grief and sorrow of things that have been taken from them walked from their life but you know what, for the Christian, we have something very different with Kerry, something that is much greater. We carry an empty cross any of the cross space. The loss of a risen Savior, and no matter how much grief, no matter how much sorrow, no matter how much paying no matter how many bricks. We can accumulate there is an empty cross. We carry with us and it is greater than our greatest sorrow is greater than our greatest challenge is greater than our greatest despair and greater than our greatest sin. It is the resurrected Savior that speaks to our hearts in our lives you remember what his word says Thomas. I will never leave you nor forsake you. That is the most difficult places in life when I cannot fear what man can do you remember that I am with you I am with you always, we don't carry a big cross, just like we don't carry breakfast, but the breadth of our loss are very real. The brakes on 9/11 are carried by an entire nation but there is an entire kingdom. The carries the cross days, individuals are Christian and Christians throughout ages have laid down their lives for their belief Christians throughout the ages have done the impossible, because the one who hung upon the cross still speaks to our lives we remember his words and the disciples as they were told. Why the angel remember how he told you remember what he told you remember his words and his words speak life to office. They speak forgiveness to watch. They speak halt to lots and we can never be the same because the nest along with the time speaks to a hot, I love I forgive I give you hope in the midst of the storm. I don't create a bubble for you to live in a force field. I create peace in the midst of store I create whole where there is no hope I give why, where there is darkness. I opened the way where there is no way I draw and I love you and I forget. And then so is to remember is to honor to honor is to value and what we value shapes who we become. We value his work. We honor Jesus Christ. We honor what he has done for, and we remember 9/11 and we remember those individuals in the plane just before they went to take over the plane and something they would have said that prayer somewhere prior to coming to this point somewhere in this area. Overall, our skies. These individuals prayed, and the and they started with our father