Making The Name Of The Lord To Be Remembered

-February 24, 2023-

Good morning, happy Friday,

“I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the people shall praise You forever.”

(Psalm 45:17).

Each generation of believers has the privilege and responsibility to teach the new generation about our wonderful Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We pass it on to our children grandchildren, and even grandchildren. It is so needed in the church and world today. This is what the Israelites were to do. This is we must do also. America and whole world has strayed further and further away from the Lord and His Word.

We must be role models, examples, testimonies, and witnesses. Young people want to see reality and consistency in our lives. It is not about religion, it is about a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. If we profess it, we’d better possess it; and if we speak it, we’d better live it! Otherwise, we will be hypocrites like the Pharisees.

The Israelites looked back on their deliverance from their bondage in Egypt; we look back to the cross and our deliverance from our bondage of sin, the devil, the world, and the flesh. We must share with others this great message of the gospel. Before our Savior went to the cross, He instituted the Lord’s Supper by saying, in Luke 22:19, “…This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” He knew we are forgetful people and gave us the bread and wine to symbolize His body and His blood. The two major sacraments that were given to the church are Baptism and the Breaking of Bread.

Let us then remember the Lord Jesus and His holy name; Then we must make sure that these things are remembered by all successive generations. The church will survive us and we pass the torch to young ones. Wise and obedient church leaders will train their successors. Paul wrote, “And He gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ” (Ephesians 4:11-12). Their job is not just to do the work of the Lord themselves but equip others to do it.

Making the name of Jesus known and remembered,

Dean