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REMEMBER

All through the Bible, God calls His people to remember, to pass on to the next generation what He has done and why. It is a recorded fact that after the generation of Joshua died, the people of God forgot what He had done to deliver them from Egyptian bondage. Someone forgot to pass on what God had done and what it meant to be in covenant with Him. Forgetfulness is a human failing. Not passing on the Truth of Who God is and what He has done to redeem humanity is a fatal flaw. Satan does all he can to distract humanity so that it is so busy that there is little time for reflection and remembering.

God gave festivals to Israel to cause them to remember what He had done AND who they were because of what He had done. The historical and orthodox church established the Liturgical Year which is purposely set up to remind the followers of Jesus Christ what God has done, how He has done what He has done and why.

Christians are who they are in Jesus Christ, God the Son, because of what He has done in the power of the Holy Spirit, obedient to the will and purpose of the Father. Who we are as believers, is singularly, uniquely and solely true because of Who Jesus Christ is, all He has brought to completion by His Life, sacrificial death, Resurrection, Ascencion, and the sending of the Holy Spirit to live out the Life of God in and through us.

Repentance and faith are His gifts that we might turn from the addiction to self, sin, deception, envy, jealousy, greed, pride, and the rebellion that is endemic to those who are spiritually dead. Jesus' Atonement leads us to, offers to all who will believe Him, an entrance into the Kingdom of God which is the rule of God over all we are, all we have, in all of life.

Jesus Christ preached the Kingdom of God before His death and resurrection. He proclaimed that only by God ruling over all of life, mind, will emotion and body would anyone find any degree of wholeness in the here and now. Jesus' Atonement ushers us into the Kingdom of God to rescue us and to bring about in us His ongoing transforming power that we might live as He made us to know Life.

Jesus' proclamation that the Kingdom of God was near, at hand, was to get His hearers ready for what He was getting ready to do. In the rule of God that was at hand and about to break forth, what Jesus was going to do would open the door that, by grace through faith, we might become new creations, born of the Holy Spirit to receive the Kingdom of God and for it to saturate the whole of our being. That New Life, that rule of God is the eternal and living reality in us and through us of Who Jesus is.

The power of Kingdom of God working in us is not a gift of the Holy Spirit, it IS the Holy Spirit. The Kingdom of God is manifest in demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power. Jesus' Resurrection power works in us the full salvation of God defeating sin, death, hell and the grave, bringing forth in us a New Creation that displaces death with new and eternal Life now. 

Remember what God has done! Give thanks that we have been given a new heart, a new spirit, a new spiritual DNA, that the Lord is now, actually Life within us. Being our very life, He is causing us to become all He intends for us to be. His Kingdom within us counteracts the distractions that living in a broken world will throw at us. 

As we begin the celebration and remembering of Holy Week this year, remember that our sins, all of them, have been forgiven by God. Remember HOW He has made that possible. Remember that salvation from start to finish is the work of God. God, who loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son as THE only sacrifice for the sin of the whole world, so that whoever who believe in Him, would not perish eternally, but have Eternal Life. 

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