16. WHY DOES
GOD WANT US
TO
REMEMBER?

17. Remembering is
important to
God.

18. “Anyone who feels
neither responsibility
towards the past nor
desire to shape the
future is one who
forgets!”
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer

19. REMEMBERING
GOD’S
FAITHFULNESS
FROM THE PAST:

20. (1)
Allows us to trust
him in the present.

21. DEUTERONOMY 7:17-
19
17 You may say to yourselves,
“These nations are stronger than
we are. How can we drive them
out?” 18 But do not be afraid of
them; remember well what the
LORD your God did to Pharaoh
and to all Egypt.

22. 19 You saw with your own eyes the
great trials, the signs and
wonders, the mighty hand and
outstretched arm, with which the
LORD your God brought you out.
The LORD your God will do the
same to all the peoples you now
fear.

23. WORRYING
displeases God.

24. Remember the LORD your God.
He is the one who gives you
power to be successful, in order
to fulfill the covenant he
confirmed to your ancestors with
an oath.
DEUTERONOMY 8:18
(NLT)

25. (2)
Directs our actions
in the future.

26. 1 SAMUEL 17:34-
37
34 But David said to Saul, “Your
servant has been keeping his
father’s sheep. When a lion or a
bear came and carried off a
sheep from the flock, 35 I went
after it, struck it and rescued the
sheep from its mouth. When it
turned on me, I seized it by its
hair, struck it and killed it.

27. 36 Your servant has killed both the
lion and the bear; this
uncircumcised Philistine will be
like one of them, because he has
defied the armies of the living
God. 37 The LORD who rescued
me from the paw of the lion and
the paw of the bear will rescue
me from the hand of this
Philistine.”
1 SAMUEL 17:34-
37

28. HOW TO
REMEMBER

29. (1)
Write it down!

30. JOSHUA 4:5-6
5 and said to them, “Go over
before the ark of the LORD your
God into the middle of the
Jordan. Each of you is to take up
a stone on his shoulder, according
to the number of the tribes of
the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign
among you. In the future, when
your children ask you, ‘What do
these stones mean?’

31. When you don’t
write it down, we
forget!

32. “A progressive decline of spiritual faculties’
which ’causes severe disadvantages to
people,’ making them live in a ‘state of
absolute dependence on their, often
imagined, views.’ We can see this in those
who have ‘lost their memory’ of their
encounter with the Lord, in those who
depend on their ‘passions, whims and
obsessions.’
SPIRITUAL ALZHEIMER’S

33. REVELATION 2:4
Yet I hold this against you: You
have forsaken the love you had at
first.

34. HEBREWS 8:12
For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no
more."

35. (2)
Tell it to others!

36. JOSHUA 4:6-7
6 In the future, when your
children ask you, ‘What do these
stones mean?’ 7 tell them that
the flow of the Jordan was cut
off before the ark of the
covenant of the LORD. When it
crossed the Jordan, the waters of
the Jordan were cut off. These
stones are to be a memorial to
the people of Israel forever.

37. AYLAN KURDI

39. Surviving family members of
Aylan Kurdi have revealed
how the Syrian three-year-old
came to be washed up dead
on a beach in Turkey.
Aylan's distraught father,
Abdullah Kurdi, tried and
failed to hold on to his wife
and two sons after their boat
to the Greek island of Kos
capsized. He has reportedly
now said his only wish is to
return their bodies to their
home town of Kobani and
then “be buried alongside
them”.

40. “Nobody wants to stay in
Hungary, neither in Slovakia,
nor Poland, nor Estonia. All
want to go to Germany. Our
job is just to register them.”
Hungary has faced criticism
for erecting a fence on the
border with Serbia, as well as
for refusing to let migrants
board trains to Germany, the
main destination for many.

41. EU president Donald Tusk
called on member states
Thursday to share the
resettlement of at least
100,000 refugees—far above
the current agreement on
32,000.
And Merkel said France and
Germany had agreed that
binding migrant quotas were
needed.

42. Former Polish premier Tusk
also took Orban to task for
saying in a German daily that
the EU’s failing immigration
policy meant that “Europe’s
Christian culture is barely
able to uphold Europe’s own
Christian values.”
“Referring to Christianity in a
public debate on migration
must mean (showing)…
humanity to our brothers,”
Tusk said.

43. The EU is riven by frictions
between transit nations
where the migrants arrive by
sea or land—mainly Greece,
Italy and Hungary—and those
where they hope to seek
asylum, mainly in northern
and western Europe. In
Britain, where Prime Minister
David Cameron’s government
has accepted just 216 Syrian
refugees, tens of thousands of
people signed petitions
demanding change.

44. Reports said his family were
trying to get to Canada from
the Syrian flashpoint of
Kobane after fleeing to Turkey
last year to escape Islamic
State extremists. The bleak
image spread like lightning
through social media and
dominated front pages. “Tiny
victim of a human
catastrophe,” said Britain’s
Daily Mail—which had
previously spoken of a
“swarm” of migrants trying to
get into the country—while
Italy’s La Repubblica tweeted
the words: “One photo to
silence the world.”

45. It also prompted a furious
reaction from Erdogan, whose
country’s efforts to join the
EU have been stalled for
years.
“European countries, which
turned the Mediterranean
Sea—the cradle of ancient
civilizations—into a migrant
cemetery are party to the
crime that takes place when
each refugee loses their life,”
he said in a speech.

46. Future generations
will repeat past
mistakes without the
learning from others
experience.

47. Decisions you’re
making today will
determine your
memories for
tomorrow.

48. What are your
stones, maybe you
think you don’t
have any; well
today is perhaps
the day of your first
stone.

49. What the mind
forgets, the heart
remembers.

50. ISAIAH 49:15-16
15 “Can a mother forget the baby
at her breast and have no
compassion on the child she has
borne? Though she may forget, I
will not forget you!
16 See, I have engraved you on
the palms of my hands; your
walls are ever before me.