Bible Study with the Cincotti's - Fearfully and Wonderfully Made - 07/25/2021

 

Today's Bible Study, Authored by Arthur Cincotti. 07/25/2021

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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

 

          Our brains and nervous system is so intricately made, it is amazing how we process information, react to changing circumstances, while at the same time maintaining every bodily function.

 

But chipmunks do that too.

 

          The thing that truly sets us apart, as made in God’s image and likeness, is our capacity for abstract thought. Ecc. 3:11 says, “Also He has put eternity in their hearts…”

 

Consider how imagination and memory are similar.

 

In this vast spectrum is the capacity to remember, which is our subject for today.

 

          The Bible tells us that God remembers, and

          He instructs us to remember some things, and

          He also instructs us to forget some things.

 

“God remembered Noah…” Gen. 8:1

“God remembered Abraham…” Gen. 19:29

“God remembered Rachel…” Gen. 30:32

* Notice the personal nature of God’s remembrances.

“God remembered His covenant…” Ex. 2:24

In Rev. 18:5 it says, speaking of Babylon, “God has remembered her iniquities.”                          

                                                   But

                                        

Heb. 10:17, quoting Jer. 31:34 says, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I       will remember no more.”          

                                                   That’s us!

 

It’s not that God suddenly goes senile.

He chooses to remember our sins no more.

That is a choice based upon the perfect atonement and satisfaction of His wrath. It applies to those who will enter the arch of His rest.

 

 

          In a similar sense, God instructs us to chose to remember some things and to forget some things.

 

          God called the Children of Israel to “keep” or remember the Passover, by establishing it as an annual feast, “on the fourteenth day of the first month” Lev. 23:5. This was to be a, “holy convocation”, passed down from generation to generation, how He brought them out of Egypt with, “a strong hand and an outstretched arm…” Jer. 32:21

 

          This is for our instruction, because Egypt is a type of sin, and God rescued us from the bondage of sin and death with a strong hand and an outstretched arm at the cross.

 

          Jesus celebrated the last Passover and at the same meal instituted, what we call, “the Lord’s supper” in the upper room before facing the cross, and instructed us to, “do this (meal) in remembrance of Me”

 

*Notice how the word “remember”, in the English, has a connotation of        putting back together, or re-membering.

          The thief on the cross asked Jesus to, “remember me.”

 

Ps. 119:141 and elsewhere encourages us, “I do not forget Your precepts”

 

We are also called to forget some things (also by choice)

 

          Paul says, in Phil. 3:13, “forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,”

 

In I Cor. 13:5, Paul says, “love keeps no record of wrongs,” CSB

 

Gen. 8:21 says, “...the imagination of man’s heart is evil”

Lk. says, “He has scattered the proud in the imaginations of their hearts”

 

          II Cor. 10:5, “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. KJV

 

                               image/nations                   see Jas. 1:15