Tabor Baptist Church

Introduction

• Opening remarks
• Overview:
• Who will He remember?
• When will He remember you?
• How will He remember you?

Who will He remember?

• Answer found in Isaiah 49
• A servant song
• He was coming into a world of much rejection
• He was coming to win victory
• He would be upheld by His Father
• He would set His people free
• v12 - both people near and far (the Jews and the Gentiles)
• "Yet I will not forget you" (v15)
• He will not forget His people
• These are the covenant people of God
• The children of God are those redeemed by God
• Do you belong to the people of God?
• Have you come by faith to God?

When will He remember you?

• (He will always remember His people)
• The context:
• The people of God are facing imminent invasion
• Isaiah is prophesying to a time 200 years in the future
• Many of the Israelites had died
• Many of the Israelites had lost hope
• In this context God says 'I will never forget you'
• Consider Lamentations
• There are times that seek to overwhelm us - but God is not with us any less than in the good times
• Isa 41:8-10 (God promises comfort)
• At these bleak times we need to take hold of the promises of God (the "I will")
• Isa 43:1
• Consider the example of Mary
• Example of hymn
• We have every reason to look to and trust the Lord
• Trials and tribulations are not a sign that God has left us
• Heb 13
• Our High Priest is sympathetic
• Let us call upon God and trust Him
• 1 Pet 1:7
• v14 seems to be a cry of unbelief - yet it is the true cry of a godly heart (Psalm 13:1-2)
• Psalm 42:9,11
• Christ was tempted in all ways (yet was without sin)
• He can render aid to the believer
• God will remember you in the depths

How will He remember you?

• Example of the strong maternal bond
• God remembers us with a love that is deeper than the love of any human
• Words of Solomon and David
• How has Jesus loved us?
• John 15:9
• God's love towards His Son
• Jesus' love towards us
• He loves us with a love deeper than a lovers mother
• If God will not forget us - how come we forget Him?
• If He loves us so much - why do we not love Him?
• v16 - we are inscribed/engraved on the palms of His hands
• God is branding Himself because of the depth of His love for us
• Example of the hymn
• Once His, we are forever His
• Example of Calvin and hymn
• Should we ever doubt His love?
• v16 - we cannot forget the wounds in Jesus' hands
• A Lamb slain from the foundation of the world
• Jesus lifts up His hands and God remembers us
• Christ's hands intercedes for us
• v16 - God sees things that do not exist now as though they do exist
• We are secure in God
• God's walls of salvation surround us
• How we will respond?

Closing Remarks