All right. Well, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study. As you know, today is the National Day of Prayer, and it's of great encouragement always to know that prayer is remembered on this day.

Actually, tonight's teaching is titled, Remember Jesus.

And I trust you'll understand why here shortly.

I've really been looking forward to what the Lord has for us tonight and especially

partaking together of communion. If you haven't already, you might want to get the elements ready.

We will partate together at the conclusion of our time together. One of the reasons I made the

decision to celebrate communion tonight is because of

something the Lord had ministered to me most recently, actually in the last couple of weeks.

I hope that you will be as encouraged as I've been by this, especially at such a time as this,

with all that's happening in our world today. I want to talk to you about remembering to forget,

which I know is a paradox, a paradox being defined as a seemingly

absurd or contradictory statement which, when investigated, proves well-founded or true, and such as the case with the paradox that's before

us tonight. Actually, there are several paradoxes in the Bible, chiefly from the Savior himself,

like, lose your life to find it in Matthew 1039 and die to live in John's Gospel chapter 12

verses 24 and 25 so the paradox that I want to draw your attention to is that of remembering Jesus and our redemption drawing near in order to forget

that which is behind. The problem with that is that we're prone to remember that which we should forget

and conversely forget that which we should remember.

To me, the Apostle Paul is a great example of someone who strived towards this end by forgetting

that which was behind. In Philippians chapter 3, verse 13, he writes, brothers and sisters,

I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it, but one

thing I do, forgetting what is behind and straining, striving toward what is ahead. If there was ever a man who could speak to this, it was the

apostle Paul who, before coming to Christ, had Christians murdered. Some Bible teachers and scholars believed that he had the blood of over 100 Christians on his hands,

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