1. COMMUNION This do in Remembrance of Me

2. Memory – 3 Steps Encoding – receiving, processing and combining of received information Encoding Storage – creation of a permanent record Storage Retrieval – calling back the stored information in Retrieval

3. Memory – Is GOOD and BAD Double-Edges Sword: Positive and Negative Blessing and Cursing Useful and Harmful

4. Remembrance of Me And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” Luke 22:19

5. God Remembers A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored His name. Malachi 3:16

6. God Forgets For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Hebrews 8:12 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Hebrews 10:17

7. Laban Words to Jacob If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.” Genesis 31:50

8. Grace = 5 1. God remembered Noah... Genesis 8:1; Genesis 9:15; Genesis 9:16 2. I will remember my covenant between me and you … Never again will the waters …destroy all life. 3. Whenever the rainbow appears…I will…remember…” 4. So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham… Genesis 19:29 5. Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. - Genesis 30:22

9. People Forget (Joseph) But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison. Genesis 40:14 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him. Genesis 40:23

10. People Forget the Hard Times The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe. Genesis 41:31

11. God ALWAYS Remembers His Covenant God heard their groaning and He remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. Exodus 2:24

12. WRITE - To Help Man’s Memory Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it. Exodus 17:14

13. Remind God Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘…I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’” Then the L ORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened. Exodus 32:13,14

14. God Begins to Give Reminders You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, Numbers 15:39

15. Remember the Trials Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. Deuteronomy 8:2

16. Remember “Favor” Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the L ORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people. Deuteronomy 9:6

17. Remember THIS !!! “That the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” John 17:23