I have just watched on TV a Remembrance Day ceremony at the
Australian War memorial in Canberra, Australia. Today is the day the world
pauses to remember the day the guns were silenced in Europe on Armistice Day on
the 11th day on the 11th hour in the 11th month of 1918. Monday, 11-Nov-1918
was the day World War 1 ended.
People stop what they are doing for one minute's silence
each year at the 11th hour of the 11th month; to honour those who have died in
battle fighting for their nation.
Whilst it is time to reflect on those who have made the
ultimate sacrifice for their nation; it also highlights man's inhumanity to
man. War is the result of sin in men's hearts; from the need to conquer and
dominate their fellow men.
There is another sacrifice that Christians all over the
world remember. It is the sacrifice Jesus Christ, the Son of God made on a
Roman cross for all mankind. He laid down His life for all mankind. He laid
down His life to pay the penalty for our sins. That's why God chose to send His
Son who died for my sins and your sins.
Easter is an annual event where Christian countries
celebrate the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. However
the Scriptures exhort us to remember Him on a weekly basis. Acts 20:7
gives us the Scriptural pattern. "Now
on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread,
Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his messages
until midnight." Note it was
the "...first day of the week..."
not the end of the week, the Jewish Sabbath.
1 Corinthians 11:23-26,
"(23) For I
received from the Lord that which I also delivered unto you; that the Lord
Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread;
(24) and when He had
given thanks, He broke it and said, 'Take, eat, this is My body which is broken
for you; do this in remembrance of Me.'
(25) In the same
manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant
in My blood, This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.'
(26) For as often as
you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He
comes."
What about you fellow believer in Christ? Do you remember
the Lord Jesus Christ in His death, burial and resurrection each week by partaking of the bread and
drinking from the cup?
The first day of the
week should be your Remembrance Day every year. Acts 2:42, "And they continued steadfastly in the
apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in
prayers."
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