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chemdude77 -> Memory (9/11/2005 6:56:23 PM)
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Memory is something that fades too easily with age. It is a fight to maintain memory and keep our minds sharp. [sm=elephant.gif][sm=elephant.gif][sm=elephant.gif]
A math professor says that calculus is good for the mind. Nitric oxide (NO) plays a crucial role in memory. So, just say NO!! [:D] It is easier that saying nitric oxide. [;)]
It is one thing to forget my coffee mug on the roof of my car [8D]. However, God's Word rebukes those who become so complacent, so comfy, so affluent, so inebriated and so well-fed that they forget the Lord. When we forget God, we forget the sufferings and trials of others. I admit, I have not perfectly loved my neighbor as myself. We have all heard the term selective amnesia.
The pastor talked about the continuous theme of remembrance. As we took communion, we were exhorted to remember His perfect sacrifice.
The Jews were commanded to remember the Passover (careful and reflective observation, with rejoicing).
We are also commanded to remember. Remember what?
1Corinthians 11:23-26 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
II Timothy 2:8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel...
Luke 17:32--Remember Lot's wife.
Galatians 2:10 -- Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Hebrews 13:3 -- Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
2 Peter 3:2-4 -- that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation."
Ephesians 2:12-16 -- Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Proverbs 3:1-3 --My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Jud 1:17-19 -- But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions." It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
And God has promised not to remember our sins, while promising that we will not forget the His precepts!! [sm=funny.gif]
Heb 8:10-12 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."
Psa 25:6-7 -- Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to you steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!
The words mnemonics and amnesia come from the Greek.
zâkar -- be mindful, recount, record
'azkârâh -- reminder, memorial, remembrance offering
zêker zeker -- memento, recollection, memory, scent
pâqad -- to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit
anamimnēskō -- to recollect, remind
mimnēskō -- to remind, to be mindful, to recall to mind
mnaomai -- to bear in mind, that is, recollect; by implication to reward or punish
mnēmoneuō -- to exercise memory, recollect, rehearse
mnēmeion -- grave, sepulchre, tomb
mnēmē -- memory, remembrance
suntēreō -- to keep closely together (from ruin), keep, observe, preserve
hupomimnēskō -- to quietly remind
hupotithēmi -- suggest: lay down, put in remembrance
mneia -- recollection, recital
For forget:
eklanthanomai -- to be utterly oblivious of
epilanthanomai -- implies neglect
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