Don't Forget All His Benefits

Title: Ascension – Do Not Forget All His Benefits By Pastor Kloha
Text: TEXT: Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. Psalm 78:6-7 6 that the next generation might know them,     the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, 7     so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God,     but keep his commandments; Psalm 103:2 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,     and forget not all his benefits--
1 [In 1923 Japan suffered a devastating earthquake that destroyed major cities and killed and left homeless millions of people. The USA responded with tremendous generosity. The Japanese responded with: “We will never forget.” Eighteen years later they bombed pearl Harbor] 2. One of the clearest marks of humanity’s fallen nature is seen in how easily we fall into convenient “forgetting” of persons who have been good to us. 3. Have you forgotten to obey God in all your responses to Him? 4. Remembering the fickleness of [the people of Israel] in the past, Moses now says: “be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe His commands.”
5. As His people through Christ, our obedience to God’s commands should center on two actions:
	a. One is:“witness” about God’s love to others. b. The other is: to “love” people in the same self-sacrificing way that Jesus has loved us.
6. God’s goodness shown through love is the center of His dealing with us. 7. Praise God, you and I know and celebrate the freedom God has worked for us through the sacrifice of Christ on His cross. 8. While we are thinking of God’s goodness toward us, it is only natural that we consider also the way He bountifully provides for us and lovingly cares for us in our physical life. 9. Do you use His gifts in your daily life in such a way as to bring honor and glory to the giver? Or have you “forgotten” God? 10. As Christians and as Americans we share in enormous prosperity both spiritually and materially. 11. Oh Lord, forgive our forgetfulness! 12. Lord, renew our remembrance of You!
The Athanasian Creed proclaims that its teachings concerning the Holy Trinity and our Lord’s incarnation are the catholic* faith (*universal, Christian). In other words, this is what the true church of all times and all places has confessed. More than 15 centuries later, the church continues to confess this truth, confident that the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, has given himself for our salvation. Whoever desires to be saved must, above all, hold the catholic* faith. C: Whoever does not keep it whole and undefiled will without doubt perish eternally. And the catholic faith is this, C: That we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the substance. For the Father is one person, the Son is another, and the Holy Spirit is another. C: But the Godhead of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is one: the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit: C: The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, the Holy Spirit uncreated; The Father infinite, the Son infinite, the Holy Spirit infinite; C: The Father eternal, the Son eternal, the Holy Spirit eternal. And yet there are not three Eternals, but one Eternal, C: Just as there are not three Uncreated or three Infinites, but one Uncreated and one Infinite. In the same way, the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, the Holy Spirit almighty; C: And yet there are not three Almighties, but one Almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God; C: And yet there are not three Gods, but one God. So the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, the Holy Spirit is Lord; C: And yet there are not three Lords, but one Lord. Just as we are compelled by the Christian truth to acknowledge each distinct person as God and Lord, C: So also are we prohibited by the catholic religion to say that there are three Gods or Lords. The Father is not made nor created nor begotten by anyone. C: The Son is neither made nor created, but begotten of the Father alone. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son, neither made nor created nor begotten, but proceeding. Thus, there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits. C: And in this Trinity none is before or after another; none is greater or less than another; But the whole three persons are coeternal with each other and coequal, so that in all things, as has been stated above, the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity is to be worshiped. Therefore, whoever desires to be saved must think thus about the Trinity. But it is also necessary for everlasting salvation that one faithfully believe the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. C: Therefore, it is the right faith that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is at the same time both God and man. He is God, begotten from the substance of the Father before all ages; And He is man, born from the substance of His mother in this age: Perfect God and perfect man, composed of a rational soul and human flesh; …equal to the Father with respect to His divinity, less than the Father with respect to His humanity. C:Although He is God and man, He is not two, but one Christ: One, however, not by the conversion of the divinity into flesh, but by the assumption of the humanity into God; one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person. For as the rational soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ, C: Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead, Ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence He will come to judge the living and the dead. C: At His coming all people will rise again with their bodies and give an account concerning their own deeds.** And those who have done good will enter into eternal life, and those who have done evil into eternal fire. C: This is the catholic faith; whoever does not believe it faithfully and firmly cannot be saved. **Note that these deeds are the deeds that flow from faith. Faith is required before any deed is a deed in God’s eyes.
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