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Memorials.
Why do we have them?
Why do we need them?
What is the point of Memorial Day?
We need memorials because we are forgetful.
Okay, who has driven off, forgetting that you put your cup on top of your car?
Who has driven off, forgetting that you did not close the gas-cap?
Who has walked out the door, forgetting the very thing you were supposed to take with you?
We are forgetful.
That is why we need things to help us remember.
Strings on fingers, writing on hands, notepads, phones, etc.
It is also why we have memorials, and days set aside to remember.
Gettysburg Monuments...
Setting up Monuments is something that goes back even to Old Testament days.
Believe it or not, people were forgetful back then as well.
Look at .
God knew they were forgetful, and He told them this is important!
Do not forget!
What were they to not forget?
Verse 14-16
Their past - God rescued you from slavery…, verses 14-17
14 Do not become proud at that time and forget the LORD your God, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.
15 Do not forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, where it was so hot and dry.
He gave you water from the rock!
16 He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors.
He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.
17 He did all this so you would never say to yourself, ‘I have achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy.
Read verses 14-17
Their present - God gives you power to be successful, verse 18
Read verse 18
Their Responsibilities - Remember Him and keep His commands, verse 11
It is so easy to go about life, and forget.
To forget God and all He has done, and is doing for us.
It is easy to forget the new way of life He has for us.
That is why He gave the commands, and even put them on stone for them!
But He also gave them monuments, physical, visual reminders.
Turn to .
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God told them to put up these 12 stones as a memorial.
These stone memorials were their monuments.
They were river stones in this case because they were to remind them of how God brought them across the river on dry ground, just like when He brought them out of Egypt (we see that in ).
When stones were erected as a memorial, a physical and visual reminder, they were called ‘Living Stones’.
This was something that was done on several occasions.
Samuel erected one after a victory over the Philistines in .
He called his stone, ‘Ebenezer’, saying, “Up to this point the LORD has helped us.”
These were Living Stones in that they continued to tell the story.
They reminded Israel of their past, what God had done for them.
They reminded Israel of their present, which is God being with them.
They reminded Israel of their responsibilities to remember God, and serve Him.
Living Stones, reminders of the Past, Present and Responsibilities.
That ties into what we are looking at today in 1 Peter.
Today, we are going to continue our study of 1 Peter, focusing on .
A few weeks ago, we saw in that we are living stones.
We are each living monuments to what God has done!
You are a living monument to what God has done!
No one can represent the work of God in you, except you!
You are a Living Stone.
Peter is writing to believers who face trials of all kinds as they live their lives.
He writes to encourage them.
Though we are centuries later than the original audience, it still is true of us today.
He starts by telling us that we are exiles, foreigners.
We may feel like they don’t belong, because we really don’t belong.
God has done a work in us.
He chose us, and saved us!
He gave us new birth, a new life in Christ.
This new life has a new, living hope!
Our hope is founded in Christ, and the life He gives us.
He has promised us an inheritance kept in heaven for us.
He promised us that our ultimate salvation is coming, even though for now we are suffering.
He is coming back for us!
He wants to praise and reward us when He comes for us!
He wants us to keep our eyes focused on Jesus and the hope that is coming for us.
He will judge us impartially, so live in reverent fear.
He has sacrificed Himself for us.
He wants us to live for Him, and love one another.
He has given us everything we need to live and grow.
He has given us a special position, we are living stones being built into a temple in which He dwells.
We all have a place in this temple of His, and we need one another as we worship Him together.
After talking about us being living stones, being built together to work together in offering sacrifices to God, Peter gets down to , the setting for the passage we are looking at today.
In this verse we see a couple of the tings, that like Israel we need to remember.
We need to remember:
Coffee or soda on top of the car?
We need to remember:
Our Past - Where we came from.
What we have, and why we have it.
Peter reminds us that before we were not ‘a people’.
What does that mean?
We were not important.
We were not the ones anyone would pick.
Before we had not received mercy.
Mercy is when you do not get what you deserve.
What did we deserve?
We deserved wrath.
Jesus said that we were under God’s wrath for our sin.
Before, mercy, we were condemned, and waiting our just rewards for our sin.
Our Responsibilities - How we are supposed to live.
Before we were slaves.
Jesus related that whoever sins is not only under God’s wrath, but whoever sins is a slave to sin.
Before, we were in the dark.
We were without proper understanding.
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