6 Reasons why it is important to remember - Sunday Sermon 31st Dec 2023

Behalf of our father. They Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams and the shepherd of this

house, Reverend Ron. You are cordially welcome to today's service. It's an

anointing and convenion service. Amen. Okay, So I believe God has done

a lot for us. If you have a testimony, please come forward.

Let's hear your testimony, unless you're saying God hasn't done anything for you.

Today is thirty first December twenty twenty three, is the last day of the

year. Congratulations, you made it. Amen, hallelujah. Anyone with a

testimony, nobody really, nobody. Oh, I'm sure God is disappointed.

Give her a round of applause. Amen. One else coming, seen anyone

else coming? Please please don't be jealous. Clap your hands. Amen.

Amen, hallelujah. Amen. All right, keep them around over to amen.

Okay, So we'll start from my level. My name is William,

William is sure okay, today I'm grateful to go for yet my life.

Good morning. My name is Darling, and my testimony is that a day

during this year, I don't remember which dy I was sleeping, and then

I had sleeperalysis. I couldn't move like when I opened my eyes like it

was just dark. I couldn't see anything. And then I heard somebody talking

to me because all my siblings were asleep, So know what I was talking

to now, as someone talking to me the presents, I get up and

then I got up, and when I got up, I said thank you

Jesus, and then I'll say it to you. Give me a round of

applause. My name is press Lia and I just want to tell God for

adding another yet to my life on Friday. My name is the Lassie,

and I want to thank God for my life and for taking me through our

DCA. Amen. Amen. And my name is in Shira, and I

want to thank God for his grace and mercy for the whole of twenty twenty

three and believe in God for more in twenty twenty four. Amen. Amen.

If you're not jealous, please slap your hands together and give God a

round of applause. Amen. All right, let's pray over the testimonies of

our friends. Stretch your hands, say something to God, thank God for

their testimonies, and tap into the blessing in their lives. Amen. Father,

we thank you for these testimonies you have given us thank you for deliverance,

thank you for healing. Thank you, oh Lord, for your guidance

and your protection. In Jesus' name, we have prayed a man. You

can have your seats now, amen, hallelujah. All right, So I

think the choir can give us a song. Ye okay, So before we

receive our preacher will have a short song from the choir. The choir administering

to us, Amen, please have your seats, Please have your seeds.

Hallujah. Oh amen. Amen, you don't sound like it's the last Sunday

of the hallelujah. Or give the Lord a shouting a mighty praise in this

place. Amen, oh amen, put your hands together one more time and

give Jesus a praise. What chesa as a college you? Hellujah? Alright.

So I'll teach you a song. It's a simple song. So you're

going to sing with us. Amen. Amen. So how you'll be flatten?

You make mounds sing smooth, you make giians fall. You you song

soft praise to shake prises and walls. I will speak to my fees,

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for. Now that's a song. So you make giiens fall wait, you

make mountains and smooth, You make jieginst fall you you song soft praise to

shake priest and walls. I will speak to my fees. I will preach

to my dot you were a fath fa thing. You be fake for now

that's the whole song. Can we try it? Can we try it?

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speak to my fees. I will preach to my dot. You were a

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You make mound and smooth, you make him you you shunk to shake,

to shake breath. I won't speak to my feet. I will preach

to mind out you were fat for, then you be fat. One more

time. You make mouths and smooth, you make bounce too. Hold on

you make you you saw sing it out to shave. I can't hear you,

guys. I will speak to my feet. I will preach you are

fat for then you be fake. Hue makemountains and hue vein. Oh you

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I be my holly you oh are you clapping for Jesus? Thank you?

Card this Your clapping is suffering from diarrhea. Can you do a better

clap for the Lord? Amen, and please stand on your feet. Let's

stand on our feet. Briefly stand on your feet. Move out of your

seat. Say hello to seven people. Tell them congratulations you made it to

the end of the year. Can you move out of your seat. Just

tell someone congratulations you made it to the end of the year. To someone.

Some people are new, so you have to go to them say congratulations,

you made it to the end of the year. Congratulations, you made

it to the end of the year. Congratulations, you made it to the

end of the year. Halle Yeah, did you say congratulations to someone?

You did? Amen. It's a great privilege to be in the presence of

the Lord this morning. Amen, And on behalf of our father and the

Lord, the Archbishop Nicholas and Williams. Oh, can you do a better

club for the Lord and celebrate us of God. Oh, welcome to church

this morning. Please tell your neighbors standing by you it's good to see you

in church. Amen, and please be seated in the presence of the Law.

Insure a play. Gray are you grayly to be pray? Gray?

To be pray? Father? Great? Are you? Thank you Jesus,

let us pray. Father. We give you thanks this morning for your blessing

and keeping us and preserving us from the beginning of the year, even up

until now the last day of twenty twenty three. We are very grateful for

your love. We are grateful for your messies. We are grateful for your

kindness thoughts us. We are grateful that you've shown us great messies and you

have preserved our lives. We thank you that you have preserved our souls from

death. We thank you that you've preserved our eyes from tears, and you

have preserved our feet from falling. This morning we have returned to give you

all the praise. We have returned to give you all the glory in Jesus'

precious name. Let a believe us say an amen? Oh can you say

better? Amen? Hallelujah, Amen. And so we thank God for today,

and we thank God for his word that is coming to us today.

Amen. Last week, by God's grace, we spoke about thanksgiving, Amen.

And we spoke about an aspect of thanksgiving that has to do with remembrance.

Remembrance, and so I spoke to you about those who forget, and

about the fact that forgetting is a tragedy in humanity. Every human being has

the ability to forget, all right, every human being has the ability to

forget. But in as much as everyone can forget, one thing you can't

easily forget is your name. Can you easily forget your name? Have you

forgotten your name before? Adam? Have you forgotten your name before? You

haven't? Even when you ask sleep and they wake you up and say what

is your name? You remember your name? Is that true? Amen?

So then it means that the things that we forget are things that we usually

don't place high priority on. Do you understand, once you put priority on

it, you won't forget it. And God was advising the children of Israel

about the fact that changing life, when you begin to live a good life,

it can affect you and cause you to forget God. All right,

And once you begin to forget God, your thanksgiving ends. You are not

thankful to God anymore because you don't remember him. And if you don't remember

him, you won't remember anything he has done for you. If you don't

remember him, you will remember how He has healed you. If you forget

God, you remember how He has saved you. If you forget God,

you remember how God has been good to you and your family that throughout the

year, from the first day of the year till now, how God has

been good to you all that this year you are not even admitted in a

hospital, that you didn't foresake, They didn't rush you to a hospital,

they didn't call an ambulance to come and carry you to the hospital, because

of God's goodness and his messis. And so God is teaching us that to

forget is something that is simple. You can easily forget, but God wants

us to always remember because our thanksgiving is linked to remembering God and what He

has done for us. Two years ago I spoke to you about the key

of thanksgiving and how you can enter into God's presence is with thanksgiving. But

how do you have thanksgiving? When you forget God, you won't have thanksgiving,

and it means that you deny yourself the access to open the gates into

the presence of God. So in your life, as a child of God,

you will not have the presence of God with you because you lack thanksgiving.

Amen, I spoke to you about a few reasons why people forget.

Why people forget. There are so many reasons why people forget. As well.

As a child of God, because in the new Year, God has

said before you an open door that will lead to your destiny, you can't

forget God. Amen. God forbid that any child of God who is here,

who has come through the youth church. When you grow up you say

that I don't want to go to church anymore. Somebody say God forbid.

If I say God forbid that me later in life I will say that there

is no God God forbid. Amen. And so we need to begin to

remember God and all that He has done for us. Amen. Oh,

I said Amen. And so today, by God's grace, I want to

share with you six reasons why it is important to remember. Six reasons why

it is important to remember. And so let's take a foundation scripture for Some

one oh three, verse one to twelve. Some one oh three, verse

one to twelve. And the psalmist writes a psalm and says, Bless the

Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me. Bless his

holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all

his benefits. Who forgiveth all thine iniquity, who heals all thy diseases,

Who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and messies

five, who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is

renewed Like the eagles. The Lord executes righteousness and judgment for all those who

are oppressed. He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the

children of Israel. The Lord is messyful and gracious. He is slow to

anger and plaintios in mercies. He will not always child, or suffer,

or strive with the seed of man. Neither will he keep his anger forever.

He has not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according

to our iniquities. For us, the heavens are high up above the earth.

So great is God's mercies towards those who fear him. As far as

the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from

us? Can someone say an amen? And so you see, someone or

three gives us many reasons why we can't forget God. The most important reason

you should know always is that it is God who forgives all your sins.

How many of you have sinned here before? You have sinned before, whether

consciously unconsciously, you have sinned. But guess what it is God who forgives.

Amen. He is the one who forgives all our iniquities, all our

sins. He's the one who forgives us. So we can't forget him.

Please tell your neighbor we can't forget God. Please tell your other neighbor,

we can't forget God. Amen. And so through our life, as you

grow up, as you go to school, as you meet people. You

will encounter setting people who don't have their ability to remember. You will encounter

them. You meet them primary school, junior high, senior high, university,

college, whatever you call it, you meet them. They don't have

the ability to remember, and so they don't remember anything good God has done

for them. If he asks them go around randomly and say what are you

grateful to God for from the beginning of the year till now, they don't

have anything to say because they don't have the ability to remember. Amen.

And so the ability to remember is probably one of the most important qualities of

a child of God. So God expects you to be able to remember.

God expects you to be able to remember His goodness. And so when the

children of Israel were coming out of Egypt, wanted them to remember how bad

things were in Egypt. They walked into Egypt as free men and free women,

and a pharaoh came. We forgot about Joseph and enslaved all of them.

So they were slaves in Egypt. They were made to work without pay.

Do you understand. But when God delivered them out of Egypt, he

wanted them to remember how bad things were. And guess what the children of

Israel forgot about God. And so when you forget about God, you are

disloyal to God and the things of God. You also become rebellious towards the

things of God. So remembrance is a very important virtue that every child of

God should have. Can I hear an amen? Amen? And so even

for the children of Israel, God wanted them to remember always that it is

God who brought you out of Egypt into the land, into the Promised Land.

But guess what many of them forgot, and they built an idol,

a cow as the thing that delivered them from Egypt. Can you imagine that

after God had parted the Red Sea, they had walked on dry ground,

after God had delivered them from many plagues, they built a sheep, a

cow, a golden cow as their God. That that is what delivered them.

So remembrance, when you forget, you can easily have something else as

your God, apart from the mosa God. Can I hear an amen?

When you forget God, you can have something else as your God. Amen.

Please write this down. Prayer will bring things into your life. Wisdom

will keep the things God has brought into your life. Remembrance and thanksgiving will

multiply the things God has given to you. Should I say it again,

Prayer will bring things into your life. Wisdom will keep the things God has

brought in your life. Remembrance and thanksgiving will multiply the things God has brought

into your life. And so without remembrance and thanksgiving, there is no multiplication

in your life. Amen. That is why when you are a thankful person

and you are eating, and you even have a little food to eat,

and you say, thank you Father for this I'm about to receive, Surprisingly,

you can eat that little thing and be satisfied. When Jesus was preaching

to over five thousand people on the mountain, the Bible says that they were

hungry and a small boy all fed two fish and five loaves of bread,

and Jesus gave thanks to God for that which he had received, and it

multiplied. So thanksgiving has a multiplied effect on things that God has brought into

your life. Can I hear an Amen? Amen? And so six reasons

why we need to remember God and what he has done. Number One,

Remembrance makes us appreciate our salvation. Remembrance makes us appreciate our salvation. Hebrews

Chapter two, verse one to three. Hebrews, Chapter two, Verse one

to three. Remembrance makes us appreciate our salvation. Let's look at the New

King James version of the NIV. Let's do the NIV. The Bible says

that we must pay more careful attention. Pay what more careful attention? Do

you know why you don't forget your name? Is because you pay careful attention

to your name. The day you decide that you don't pay careful attention to

your name, they will ask you what is your name, and you mention

somebody's name. It says, pay more careful attention therefore, to what you

have heard, so that you don't drift away. Keep the scripture there,

Pay more careful attention to what you have, what what you have? What

you have? What you have, what you have those ye I can't tell

you what you have heard. Pay more careful attention. So everything you hear

here in this place, pay careful attention to it, because the day you

forget what you are being taught here, you begin to drift away. Next

verse. For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation

and disobedience received a just punishment. Next verse, how shall we escape if

we ignore such a great salvation, how can you escape hell? If you

ignore such a great salvation? Do you understand so by remembrance you will not

ignore this great salvation? Do you know that people who forget often don't even

remember that Jesus died for them on the cross. Do you know that?

Yes, how many of you are here? You are there? Just in

December you thought to yourself that, oh, Jesus died for me on the

cross. Give me a wave. How many if you have thought to yourself

that Jesus died for me on the cross. I'm grateful to go just this

moile. You see, many people have not thought about because they don't remember

that Jesus died for them. And so if you don't remember that Jesus died

for you, then you are ignoring this great salvation. Because if you don't

remember that Jesus died for you, and he took your sins on the cross

and paid the price for you, you will live your life anyhow, how

many of you went to the what you call it the deaty rave or something?

They just give the lord awave and shame the devil anybody who went amy?

Did you go to the debiti rave. You didn't go? Who went

to the dirty rave, the dirt the devil rave, or whatever else called

the devil rave the dirty reeve? Did you go? Those who go to

such things they don't remember this great salvation? Amen? Please Amy, look

for the definition of rave and add dirty to it so that we educate ourselves.

Do you know what is dirty? And I hope you know what is

dirty? Let me give you an example. Have we seen that shirt of

yours that you like wearing? Power? I don't like washing when it's dirty.

Do you know how it smells bad? And let's add a rave to

it. Come and say it into the microphone so they can hear. Pay

careful attention so you don't forget to Rave is to move or advance violently,

to move or advance violently, or to speak out irrationally, as if in

delirium, irrationally as though you are a mad person, ditty rave. When

you fail to remember God, you ignore this great salvation you have received.

Amen? Or can we clap our hands? See Bishop Johnny jung Bar at

the back one name mischef Amen. When you fail to remember, you fail

to remember the Great Salvation. The slams Jesus received for you. You're gonna

stand there violently, you are throwing your leg Sometimes you're weak, will fall

off. You fail to recognize this great salvation. Amen. So children of

God who don't remember God, or who don't have the ability to remember,

they always forget their salvation. There's a songwriter says, when I remember what

the Lord has done, I will never go back anymore. How many,

if you know that song, those who keep going back are people who forgets.

It's as simple as that. When God has saved you from sin,

God has saved you from disaster, and you keep going back, it means

you're forgotten. It means you don't remember. Amen. It means you don't

remember. So number one reason for always remembering is that when you remember,

you always remember this great salvation. Can I hear an, amen? How

many of you are going back to the things I used to do? Did

I see a hand up? Amen? You can't go back to the things

you used to do because you always need to remember this great salvation. Amen.

Please tell your neighbor remember this great salvation. Amen. When you are

going to watch that pornography, let this song start up in your heart.

When I remember what the Lord has done, I will never go Please listen

together. When I remember what the Lord has done, I will never go

back anymore. When you think of stealing nothing, When I remember what the

Lord has done, I will never go back anymo. When you are tempted

to dance to a worldly song on TikTok and Instagram, let this song come

out in your heart. When I remember the Lord has done, I will

never go back anymore. Amen. When you are tempted to go and phony

kids, let this song come out in your mind. When I remember the

beatings they gave Jesus on the cross, I will never go back. Let

this song work come to your remembrance. Amen. Let the song come where

to your remembrance. Amen. And so let's look at number two. Remembrance

makes you walk in your calling. Gallicians, Chapter three, verse thirteen to

fourteen. Gallicians, Chapter three, verse thirteen to fourteen. Christ redeemed us

from the case of the Lord by becoming a case for us, For it

is written, kurse is anyone who hangs on the tree. Next verse,

he redeemed us in order that the blessing giving to Abraham might come to the

gentiles to Christ. Jesus so that by faith we may receive the promise of

the Father. So that by faith we may receive the promise of the Father.

So when you remember, you walk in the calling that God has called

you to. Amen. Please let's stand on our feet and let's welcome our

supervising Bishop, Bishop John, and here tea into the house with a hand.

Clap to the Lord. Amen. Oh, is that all the best

you can do today? Bishop is coming to give you comnion. So please

clap, clap your hands better, Amen, hallelujah. I hope some of

you are wondering what this is? No secret center. This is communion.

Amen. We are coming to have communion and Bishop is coming to give it

to us. Amen. So please be seiz and let's run through this quickly

so that I hand over to Bishop. Let's look at Second Corinthians Chapter five

is eighteen to ninety, eighteen to twenty. Second Corinthians five eighteen to twenty.

So the point is remembrance makes you walk in your calling. Second Corinthians

five eighteen and says that all this is from God, who reconciled us onto

himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. Our calling is that God has

reconciled us onto himself and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. Next verse

that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins

against them. So all the sins you have committed, all the sins you

are committing, God is not counting it against you because of the fact that

God is reconciling you to himself, and He has committed to you the message

of reconciliation. That is your calling. Amen. God has called you into

the ministry of reconciliation, and God has given you the message of reconciliation.

We are therefore Christ's ambassadors. He has even added more, He has honored

you. You are an ambassador of Christ. Please tell your neighbor do you

know you're an ambassador of Christ? Yes? So, ambassadors of Christ.

Always remember when that boy does something you want to insult them, then the

song will come. When I remember what the Lord has done, I will

never go back anymore. Me While those days you say my b and you

beat them, well, well, but you you are now a ambassadors of

Christ. Don't fight. Amen, You're an ambassador of Christ. So when

you remember God and what he has done. You walk in your calling that

God has called you to. Amen. And your calling is that God has

called you into the ministry of reconciliation and has given you the message of reconciliation

to reconcile the world to Him. So, as an ambassador of Christ in

twenty twenty four, your friends can't be unbelievers anymore? Can I hear?

An? Amen? All your unbelieverd friends should be following you to church as

an ambassador of Jesus Christ. Do you understand you can't be going to deteriterate

with your friends who are unbelievers, or going to Charlie Waite or which one

single tone or which one is a marathon? And you'll be there with your

friends and you'd be Dancince. I dance, hey, Ambassador of Jesus Christ.

When I remember what the Lord has done, I will never go back

anymore. Amen. And so remembrance who make us walk in the calling that

God has called us to. Amen. Let's look at number three quickly.

Remembrance makes us kind to others? Efficient chapter four thirty four. God told

the Israelites to be kind to strangers just because they were once foreigners in Egypt.

Amen. Efficients Chapter four, verst. Thirty two Ephicients for thirty two.

Be kind and compassionate to one another, and be kind to one another,

tender hearted forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake has

forgiven you. How many of you believe that God has forgiven you all your

sins? Then the Bible says that be kind to one another. Amen.

So remembrance keeps you, makes you kind to others. Amen. Number four.

Remembrance keeps you humble. Philippians, Chapter two, Verse three to eight.

Remembrance keeps you humble. When you remember where you came from, you

always recognize the grace of God that has been at work in your life.

Amen. When you clearly remember where God picked you up from, you will

not attribute your success to any personal strength or wisdom. Amen. But unfortunately

people black that portion out so that all their thanksgiving goes to themselves, and

they'll say, oh, I made it by my own strength. Amen.

Let nothing be done through strife. Let's look at you, King James.

Please, not all of us went to legan. Amen. Let nothing be

done through selfish ambition or conceit. But in loneliness of mind, let each

esteem other better than themselves so in humility, esteem the one seated by you

better than you. Amen. Next verse, Please let each of you look

out not only on his own interests, but also on the interests of others.

How many of you brought your secret senter to someone in church this morning?

Give the Lord awave and shame that de will. Amen, Oh club,

I see many hands. Let's clap our hands. Amen. Let this

mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Let this mind

be in you. Amen. And so remembrance keeps us humble. Amen.

And finally, remembrance makes us engage in spiritual activity. Look chapter twenty two,

verse nineteen to twenty. Look chapter twenty two, nineteen to twenty.

And this is Jesus. On the day that he was arrested. He took

bread and gave thanks, and broke it and gave it to them, saying,

this is my body which is giving to you. Do this in remembrance

of me, verse twenty. Likewise, he took the cup after supper,

saying, this is the cup of the New Covenant, which is shared for

you. And so Jesus said that let's do this in remembrance of him.

Amen. When you remember God and all that he has done, you engage

in spiritual activity. Can I hear an? Amen? And so this morning

we are going to take the communion, and very soon, in the next

ten seconds, Bishop will come and officiate that session. Amen. But let

it be as a remembrance to God, because you remember all that He has

done for us,