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 is 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 10, 39, 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, chief of whom was none other than Stephen, the first martyr,

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