Lord, Remind Me

LORD, REMIND ME

II Corinthians 5:21

Nothing good have I done,

to deserve God’s own Son,

I’m not worthy of the scars in His hand.

Yet He chose the road to Calvary to die in my stead

Why he loved me, I can’t understand

Roll back the curtain of memory now and then,

show me where you brought me from and where I could have been.

Remember I’m human, and humans forget.

So remind me, remind me dear Lord.

This is a song that many of us have known for decades. But it is more than a song; it is a prayer that Dottie Rambo prayed shortly after signing her first recording contract. She said “Lord, I appreciate you for doing this for me. I know you must have done a million things like this that I did not know or remember, and have not thanked you for. I am human and I forget. But when You do good things, just roll back the curtain and remind me of them and I’ll thank you for them.”

There are times when we fail to recognize what God is doing in our lives. Furthermore, there are times when we fail to remember all that He has done for us in the past. For that reason, we need to humbly bow and ask the Lord to remind us of what He has done. I would like to look at our selected text today and preach a message simply titled “Lord, Remind Me”.

In 2 Corinthians 5:21 Paul points to the amazing work that God has done in the life of a believer. He says “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” If you will look to verse 17, Paul speaks of the great change that is brought about in those who are “in Christ”. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”. There is no one more qualified to describe the transformation that Jesus can bring than the Apostle Paul. Jesus did a great work in His life and He changed him eternally.

What Jesus did for Paul, He has done for all who belong to Him. Titus 2:14 says that Jesus “gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”

There are several different groups of people in this place today: Some of you need to be changed by Jesus Christ, some of you have been transformed by Jesus Christ, and some need to be reminded that they have been transformed by Jesus Christ. As we walk through this power packed verse, I want us see how important it is for us to stop from time to time and say “Lord, Remind Me”. It would be beneficial for each and every born again Christian to get alone with God and pray:

I. LORD, REMIND ME OF YOUR LOVE - v21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Let's just admit... sometimes we can be hard to love. I am thankful for parents, children, and a spouse who possess unconditional love for me! It is amazing that your family knows you better than anyone else and they love you anyway. Even greater than that, is the fact that God knows more about you than anyone.

He knows your actions, He knows your thoughts, He knows what you have done, He knows what you are going to do, and He loves you anyway! I find that to be absolutely amazing. Throughout His Epistles, Paul gives several illustrations of the transformation that Jesus brings into our lives.

One is found in verse 17 of this chapter. He says “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

- He talks about the “old man” and the “new man” in:

Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

- He paints a great picture of what we were before Christ in

Titus 3:3 for we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

This is also a vivid description of those who are without Christ. If you are lost you are: