Sinclair Ferguson

Now, how did that come about?

Well, listen to how the passage goes on.

This is Isaiah 50, incidentally, verse 4.

Morning by morning the Lord awakens.

He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

And if that was true of the Lord Jesus in his perfect humanity, how much more true it needs to be of us as we battle against our inward temptations, as we battle against our native sin, as we seek to live for God's glory.

We need to hide the word of God in our hearts.

We've been talking about some of the things that we forget and some of the things that are never to be forgotten.

Here's another of them from Deuteronomy chapter 4 and verse 23.

You know, there's a remarkable passage later on in 2 Kings 17 where the author interjects his own voice into the story to remind his readers just how important these words were for God's people.

But then he adds, you can almost imagine with a slight shake of the head, however, they would not listen.

I wonder when you last remembered the covenant of the Lord, or even last thought about it.

I think your answer will probably tell you a good deal about how much or how little the Lord's covenant means to you.

But here's something wonderful.

The Lord not only urges us in Scripture to remember His covenant, He helps us to remember it.

Every time we come to the Lord's table, what's happening?

Through the bread and the wine, the Lord Jesus is whispering to us, remember the covenant in my blood.

And what we see in the bread and in the wine stimulates our memories, and we remember Christ's death until he comes.

The bread is placed in our hands, the cup on our lips, and we are given these remembrances by Jesus of his covenant love for us.

We are so much more privileged than those old covenant saints who were told to remember the Lord's covenant.