Call to Remembrance
2 Peter 1:12-15
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established
in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
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A reminder is reality calling out "you have let something slip or are about to let something slip“. A reminder is not about something
new but something past. Reminders are sent in the mail, e-mail, in person, over the phone, a sign, a picture, or an expression on
some ones face and many other ways. They can be as subtle as a little note that says I know this was an oversight or as abrupt as
the highway patrol handing you the ticket as a reminder that you violated the law. Some things we don't need to be reminded of,
other things we do. Such as sin forgiven need not be brought up, where as go and sin no more needs be mentioned. God sends
reminders not for destruction but to save loss and to prepare for gain, such as a light bill over due reminder. We can take heed
and gain by paying on time without penalty which is gain or ignore the reminder and suffer the loss of our electricity. That is what
reminders are all about. Loss or gain in one way or the other.
I believe two of the greatest hindrances of revival today are a pulpit which offers no reminders because they simply do not follow
the guide lines found in the Acts of the church, or the pulpiteer is backslidden and has no anointing and stays in the pulpit
because they are a hireling. The word of God says woe unto that person. Then there is the church which will not receive the
reminder. What should we say here except,
Jude 11-16
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in
the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without
water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for
ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his
saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have
ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's
persons in admiration because of advantage.
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Nuff said . Both parts have need of repentance.
In the text Peter said I know you know these present truths and are established in them. None the less I am going to stir you up by
putting you in remembrance.
A church that is not stirred up about the things of God whether repentance or rejoicing will become complacent from not hearing
from the pulpit messages that will stir, they only hear sugar messages that allows them to go into a gospel-betic coma. Comatose,
having only a form of Godliness and not the power of the gospel of revival.
Peter stirred up and brought revival in Acts 2. The people were pricked in their hearts, repented, got saved and filled with the Holy
Ghost. He stirred in Acts 5. He confronted the sin of two people openly in front of the church. Their sin killed them. Fear came
upon the church and revival was on. In Acts 7 Stephen stirred the people. They stoned him to death. Saul the persecutor was
there as a witness as a result he got saved, filled with the Holy Ghost and called as a messenger of God. World revival was on and
he began the missionary journeys that carried the Gospel form Asia to Rome.
Psalms 77:6 Ps 77:6
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
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What is that song in the night? "I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever.” When he began to remember that song, he spoke to
his heart and said the mercies of the Lord have departed. He then made a diligent search within himself as to why they were
departed. Upon that search he found a problem and made a needed change and focused on the way God had and would deliver
His people and this he had forgotten till he called to remembrance.
Is it not time for the pulpit and the church to call to remembrance their song. I leave you with this reminder.
1 Peter 4:17-19
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that
obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a
faithful Creator.
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2 Peter 3:11
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and
godliness,
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..... What manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness?