Remembrance Day 2013

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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