spirit, soul and body

[aron]

Originally Posted by Paul Miletus

Perhaps, it will be better if we can find a Scripture from the Bible that tells us to remember our sins or the benefit of remembering our sins.

Unfortunately I am not the one to help you with your quest. My mind is the proverbial seive; I remember John 3:16 and little else. God loves us and sent His Son. Hooray!

But I do attempt to compensate for this shortcoming by remembering "themes", which I trust are connected to verses somewhere. I like in Hebrews it says (somewhere) that "it says somewhere", then the author quotes the OT. I like that; I relate.

So my theme for your consideration, is where the OT prophets say, repeatedly, to the Israelites, "Don't forget that God took you out of Egypt. Don't forget you were slaves, and He led you out with a high outstretched arm, across the wilderness full of scorpions and snakes. When you are there, in the land full of milk and honey, don't let your heart become fat and forget that once you were nothing, until I (Jehovah) rescued you."

I think the prophets repeatedly told the Israelites not to forget, in thier current state of ease, that once they were under the yoke, until God set them free. This is to keep them from falling away from thier dependence on God. They look around, like Nebuchanezzar did, at all thier finery and wealth and begin to admire themselves instead of the God who raised them up from nothing.

We all were sold into sin. We were slaves of the old nature. Fallen, apart from God, alienated, without hope. It would be unwise to forget this. I think the "type" in the OT of the Israelites forgetting the bondage in Egypt, and the consequences of thier hearts becoming fat and complacent, is a good reminder for us. "Don't forget". That's what the marker rocks were set up for, as a witness to an event that took place. That's what the solemn feasts were for. To remember. It is not so much the remembering of sins that is stressed, it is the remembrance of release from sins that is important. But to remember release we have to remember bondage.

Maybe why the Israelites got sent to "Babylon" was because they forgot the experience of "Egypt". They became complacent, and mostly they became self-indulgent. They trusted in themselves, instead of trusting in God.

"Some trust in horses, some trust in chariots, but I will remember the name of the LORD my God." It says that (somewhere) in the Psalms.