Bible Study with the Cincotti's – Fearfully and Wonderfully Made – 07/25/2021

 

Today’s Bible Study, Authored by Arthur Cincotti. 07/25/2021

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

 

          Our brains and nervous system is so intricately made, it is
amazing how we process information, react to changing circumstances, while at
the same time maintaining every bodily function.

 

But chipmunks do that
too.

 

          The thing that truly sets us apart, as made in God’s image
and likeness, is our capacity for abstract thought. Ecc. 3:11 says, “Also He
has put eternity in their hearts…”

 

Consider
how imagination and memory are similar.

 

In this vast spectrum is
the capacity to remember, which is our subject for today.

 

          The Bible tells us that God remembers, and

          He instructs us to remember some things, and

          He also instructs us to forget some things.

 

“God remembered Noah…”
Gen. 8:1

“God remembered
Abraham…” Gen. 19:29

“God remembered Rachel…”
Gen. 30:32

* Notice the personal
nature of God’s remembrances.

“God remembered His
covenant…” Ex. 2:24

In Rev. 18:5 it says,
speaking of Babylon, “God has remembered her iniquities.”                          

                                                   But

                                        

Heb. 10:17, quoting Jer.
31:34 says, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I       will remember no more.”          

                                                   That’s us!

 

It’s not that God
suddenly goes senile.

He chooses to remember
our sins no more.

That is a choice based
upon the perfect atonement and satisfaction of His wrath. It applies to those who will enter the arch of His rest.

 

 

          In a similar sense, God instructs us to chose to remember
some things and to forget some things.

 

          God called the Children of Israel to “keep” or remember the
Passover, by establishing it as an annual feast, “on the fourteenth day of the
first month” Lev. 23:5. This was to be a, “holy convocation”, passed down from
generation to generation, how He brought them out of Egypt with, “a strong hand
and an outstretched arm…” Jer. 32:21

 

          This is for our instruction, because Egypt is a type of
sin, and God rescued us from the bondage of sin and death with a strong
hand and an outstretched arm at the cross.

 

          Jesus celebrated the last Passover and at the same meal
instituted, what we call, “the Lord’s supper” in the upper room before facing
the cross, and instructed us to, “do this (meal) in remembrance of Me”

 

*Notice how the word “remember”,
in the English, has a connotation of        putting
back together, or re-membering.

          The thief on the cross asked Jesus to, “remember me.”

 

Ps. 119:141 and
elsewhere encourages us, “I do not forget Your precepts”

 

We are also
called to forget some things (also by choice)

 

          Paul says, in Phil. 3:13, “forgetting those things which
are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,”

 

In I Cor. 13:5, Paul
says, “love keeps no record of wrongs,” CSB

 

Gen. 8:21 says, “…the
imagination of man’s heart is evil”

Lk. says, “He has
scattered the proud in the imaginations of their hearts”

 

          II Cor. 10:5, “Casting down imaginations, and every
high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into
captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. KJV

 

                               image/nations                   see Jas. 1:15