“BEWARE, LEST YOU FORGET THE

LORD”DEUTERONOMY 6:12

Danger Is Never Far From Complacency• Amos 6:1 “Woe to you who are at ease in

Zion, And trust in Mount Samaria, Notable persons in the chief nation, To whom the house of Israel comes!”

○ :7-8 “Therefore they shall now go captive as the first of the captives, And those who recline at banquets shall be removed. 8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, The LORD God of hosts says: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up the city, And all that is in it.”

2Kings 18:9-12

The Israelites

They relaxed their upholding of God’s law

They gave into peer pressure They were punished for forgetting God

The Church

• The church experienced quick and exciting growth!

Acts 2:44-47, 42; 6:1,7; 8:3-4 Many churches forgot the Lord○ Galatians 1:6 “I marvel that you are turning away

so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel.”

1Timothy 1:6, some “strayed”

Revelationthe church at Ephesus, had left their first love

(2:4)Pergamos had members who believed in false

doctrine and practiced immorality (2:14-15)Thyatira also in believing false doctrine and

practicing immorality (2:20)Sardis was “dead” even though it appeared alive

(3:1-6)Laodiceans became comfortable in this world

with things and were lukewarm (3:16-18)

Nature Abhors a Vacuum

1John 5:21 “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.”

• Philippians 3:18-19 “For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things.”

1Corinthians 10:14 “Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.”

God Knows We Need Reminders He left instructions for us.

Jude 3 “Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.”

Acts 20:32 “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”

James 1:21 “Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.”

God Knows We Need Reminders He left memorials to remember Him by. Assembling with the Brethren-Acts 20:7,

Hebrews 10:24-25 The Lord’s Supper-1Corinthians 11:23-

26 Baptism-Romans 6:4

God always will care and provide for His people, AS LONG AS THEY REMEMBER HIM!• Hebrews 2:1-3 “Therefore we must give the more

earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him.”