F O R T H E S E R M O N , B I B L E R E A D I N G , G O S P E L A D D R E S S
Q Homiletical Helps B y W I L L I A M E V A N S - - ..............
SERMON OUTLINES
It is not usual to print poetry in the midst of the Homiletic outlines. This poem is so apropos, however, that we felt the intrusion would be pardoned. My Lord, dost thou remember me, Just me, the least and last? With all the names of Thy redeemed, And all Thy angels, has it seemed As though my name might perhaps be over passed ;■ Yet here I find Thy word of tenderest grace True for this moment, perfect for my case— “Thus saith Jehovah, I remember thee!” My Lord, dost Thou remember this of me, The kindness of my youth? The tremulous gleams of early days,. The first faint thrills of love and praise, Vibrating fitfully? Not much, in truth, Can I bring back at memory’s wondering call; Yet Thou, my faithful Lord; rememberest all— “Thus saith Jehovah, I remember thee!” My Lord, dost Thou remember this of me, My love, so poor, so cold? Oh, if I had but loved Thee more! Yet Thou hast pardoned. Let me pour My life’s best wine for Thee, my heart’s best gold, (Worthless, yet all I have), for very shame That Thou should’st tell me, calling me by name, “Thus saith Jehovah, I remember thee!”
G od’s R em em brance of Us T ex t : Jeremiah 2:2—“Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love'of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.” I ntroduction . Historical setting. Israel in captivity with feeling that God had forsaken them. “God hath forgotten us.” The Prophet’s reply in words of text. I. God remembers each one of His children. 1. Even amid multiplicity of things and persons He has to care for. 2- Even minute details of our lives remembered by Him. 3. No sense of insignificance, unworthi ness or seeming desertion. Should act as of this consciousness. II. What God remembers concerning His children. 1. Not their sins (Isaiah 43:25 ; 44:21, 22; Hebrews 8:12). 2. “The kindness of thy youth”—that means the tender attachment of early days— first love of the new convert. 3. “Our frames.” He fashioned us. So He does not break the bruised reed nor ■quench the smoking flax. 4. “The love of thine espousals,”—that is, the betrothal of the soul of God. C onclusion : Overlooking the failures, sins, defeats, and remembering only the -things that pleasd—a wonderful God surely.
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