2025-08-31 Sermon Notes1
| Series | Location | Subjects | Takeaways | Sermon Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allison on the Psalms | Emmaus Orthodox Presbyterian Church | - | - |
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For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
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- What does it mean when our text says God remember His people?
- When we say that we remember something we mean that we had forgotten it, at least for a time, or that it was not at the front of our mind.
- But this cannot be what it means for God.
- God cannot and does not change.
- God cannot forget anyone.
- Luke 12.6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins ? Not one of them is forgotten by God.
- God does not forget anything except our sins.
- When it says He remembered, it means that God showed by His actions that He remembered and did not forget
- When God blesses and fulfills His covenant it shows us that He remembers us
- God showeth that He remembers when He showeth by His effects that He has taken care of man.
- Hebrews 11:8-16 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. 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. For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him [God] faithful who had promised. Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. 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. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. 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.
- Genesis 15:5-6 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So your offspring will be." He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
- This is the promise God made to Abraham, and He kept it.
- Psalm 45
- Psalm 139:17-19 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum! If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you. If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
- God is so thoughtful of us. We are in His mind and in His heart constantly.
- Who is it that the Lord remembers? It is His people.
- What about you and me? Adam and Eve and so many others?
- The Lord remembers His church in every time and place.
- Genesis 8.1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Genesis 19.29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
- Abraham prayed in Genesis 18, asking God to spare Sodom if only there were 10 righteous people. There were not even 10 righteous people. And God could not spare Sodom but nevertheless remembered Abraham and saved Lot in answer to Abraham's prayer.
- Acts 10.4 He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
- God remembers your prayers and He has them in mind.
- Most of all God remembers Christ, His Son.
- What about you and me? Adam and Eve and so many others?
- So often God remembers our prayers later. How often we are surprised when God remembers our prayers long after we have forgotten it.
- This is how it was with Zacharias.
- Luke 1.13 But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
- And Rachel:
- Genesis 30.22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
- What's remarkable is that Rachel had been behaving badly and yet God still remembered her and answered her prayers.
- Genesis 30.1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."
- Genesis 30.3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
- Genesis 30.14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
- A mandrake was a plant that was supposed to help with fertility. But really this was God-dishonoring superstition. She is clutching at anything to get what she wants.
- When God finally answered Rachel's prayer and gave her a son it was Joseph, one of the best sons of all of Jacob's sons!
- When God answers our prayers, He shows His loving kindness toward us.
- And Hannah. God remembered her in her barrenness:
- 1 Samuel 1.6 Her rival [Peninnah] provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
- 1 Samuel 1:19-20 They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her. When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, "Because I have asked him of Yahweh."
- God opened her womb. What led to this change?
- Jeremiah 29.11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you," says Yahweh, "thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
- Do not ever be tempted to say "What is the Lord thinking about my situation?" Oh He has remembered you and is thinking of you.
- 1 Samuel 1.8 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
- Her husband utterly did not understand Hannah's pain. Furthermore, his arrogance blocked him from realizing how he had caused this pain by marrying two wives and driving them to jealousy.
- 1 Samuel 1.10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.
- 1 Samuel 1.18 She said, "Let your servant find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.
- Before she even received the answer to her prayer, God had already raised her coutenance.
- The thief dying on the cross next to Jesus:
- This is the most famous moment of God remembering someone in need.
- Both thieves taunted Jesus at first, but soon realized Jesus' innocence.
- Luke 23:39-43 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!" But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom." Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
- Fallen nature will not and cannot seek the Lord. A sinner can only seek the Lord when the Lord does a work upon his heart. But an unrepentant sinner will stubbornly cling to his sin even when it brings his death.
- This is how it was with Zacharias.
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- When has God remembered you?
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