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Thanks unto the Lord, for he is 
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forever. 
Psalm 104. 

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Enter into his gates with 
Thanksgiving and into his courts

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with praise. 
Be thankful unto him, and bless 

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his name. 
You go ahead and turn to 1st 

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Thessalonian chapter 5 and verse
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It says in everything. 
Give thanks for this is the will

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of God and Christ Jesus 
concerning you. 

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I want you to notice the first 
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It says in everything. 
Give thanks. 

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And now I know what you're 
thinking tonight. 

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You're saying to yourself, is he
really going to preach a message

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about being thankful this far 
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And yes, I am. 
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Christians need to be thankful 
all year around, not just during

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Thanksgiving time. 
We have so much to be thankful 

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for. 
Let's pray. 

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Dear Jesus, I pray that you 
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few minutes. 
Father. 

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I pray that you would bless me 
as I speak. 

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Father, give me the words to 
say. 

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Father, I just pray that you 
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night and just stay my pray. 
Amen. 

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And as a Christian, one of the 
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head when we're talking about 
being thankful, one of the first

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things that comes to my mind is 
being thankful for our 

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salvation. 
Do you realize tonight that if 

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we're saved, we have a home in 
heaven and that we get to spend 

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eternity with Jesus? 
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thankful, if not anything else? 
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even preach, just being thankful
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for sure that we have a home in 
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One day turning your Bibles to 
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we're going to be looking at 
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And it came to pass, as he went 
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through to the midst of Samaria 
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And as he entered into a certain
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that were levers which stood 
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And they lifted up their voices 
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have mercy on us. 
And when he saw them, he said to

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them, go show yourselves unto 
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And it came to pass as they 
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And one of them, when he saw 
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and with a loud voice glorified 
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at his feet. 
And that here it is giving him 

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thanks, as he was a Samaritan. 
And Jesus answering said, were 

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there not ten cleanse. 
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not found that return to give 
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And he said in him Arise, go thy
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whole What do we see here? 
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this leopard that came to Jesus 
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was left being healed, and he 
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Jesus had done in his life so 
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I think there's too many 
Christians that have forgotten 

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what Jesus has done their life. 
They've forgotten that he's 

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saved them from an eternity of 
hell and that he's given them a 

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home in heaven. 
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my RA would go on team 
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at Temple Baptist Church. 
And I remember him coming back 

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to the dorm after going to soul 
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And they came back and they were
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with this woman at her house and
they were able to actually give 

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her the gospel and leader to 
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And I remember him telling us 
the story. 

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This is what he was emphasizing.
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she was after she accepted Jesus
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She was saying, just thank you, 
thank you, Thank you for coming 

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to my house and giving me this 
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And I think we can. 
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thankfulness for our salvation 
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Be thankful for your salvation. 
Night #2 Be thankful for the 

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word of God. 
Just the freedom we have in this

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country to carry a Bible freely 
and wake up in the morning and 

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read our Bible is something that
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often. 
We didn't have to smuggle our 

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Bibles into church tonight. 
We didn't have to hide our 

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Bibles on the way to church 
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We were able to come in here 
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I remember a few years ago my 
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better than I did. 
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came to our church. 
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showed us this video of all 
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and they were receiving Bibles 
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And as they were getting these 
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this video, it made me almost 
emotional just seeing the tears 

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from these kids faces as they 
received the Bible for the first

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time and just hugging it. 
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They were saying thank you, 
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And they were truly thankful for
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And I think many times today in 
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lost our thankfulness for the 
word of God and we take it for 

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granted. 
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take it for granted the word of 
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its power. 
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Hebrews chapter 4, and verse 12.
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For the word of God is quick and
powerful and sharper than any 

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two edges, sword piercing even 
to the dividing asunder of soul 

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and spirit and of joints, of the
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discerner of the thoughts and 
intents of the heart as we read 

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this first, and if we really 
study this first, we're going to

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find that the word of God is 
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We're going to find that there's
nothing more powerful in this 

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world than the word of God. 
And I'm preaching to myself 

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tonight. 
How many times do I wake up in 

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the morning and instead of 
reading my Bible like I should, 

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I get up because I'm too tired 
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I go do this, I go do that. 
I go play this sport. 

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I go play that sport. 
I go hang out with this friend 

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and that friend instead of 
taking the time that I need to 

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in my Bible. 
We must always be thankful for 

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the word of God and not take it 
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We have to be thankful for your 
salvation #2 Be thankful for the

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Bible #3 Be thankful for your 
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I'm so thankful for churches 
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Baptist Church, and Mount 
Victory where I can come and 

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receive encouragement every 
single night or not every single

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night but Monday or Sunday, 
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Sunday night and Wednesday 
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There we go. 
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I'm so thankful for it. 
Turn your Bibles. 

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The Hebrews chapter 10. 
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chapter 10, Hebrews 10 and verse
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be looking at. 
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another to provoke until love 
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Here it is right here, not 
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ourselves together, as the 
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one another and so much the more
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Now more than ever, we need the 
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We need a place where we can 
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get away from the world. 
Get get away from the filth and 

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the junk that we all day on the 
world and come and sit down and 

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hear the word of God preached 
and hear the and sing praise 

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unto God. 
It's one of the most I'm it's 

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one of the things I'm most 
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college student. 
You go busy all week one test 1 

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class to go to another thing 
another this another that and 

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but I'm so thankful for the 
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church and just be reminded who 
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take care of us. 
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church. 
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people are leaving the church is
because they weren't truly 

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thankful for it when they were 
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We always need to be thankful 
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This is for the young people. 
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pick on y'all for a little 
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for the adults to be be thankful
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The Bible still says to honor 
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checked, young person and I 
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and I don't do it as often as I 
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But many young people nowadays 
are not being thankful for their

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parents. 
Your parents have done so much 

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for you. 
They've given you clothes, 

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They've given you food on your 
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They've given you a house to 
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They have you in a good church 
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They want what's best for you 
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parents have rules for you and 
boundaries for you, man, be 

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thankful for that. 
I'm thankful growing up in my 

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parents set certain rules and 
bound for me that kept me from 

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doing some of the things that I 
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those rules weren't there. 
Don't go home and complain 

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saying I can't go here. 
I can't do this, I can't do 

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that. 
I can't wear this. 

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I can't date him. 
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I can't have this. 
Your parents rules are not there

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to harm you or to hinder you 
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to do. 
They're there to protect you 

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from doing the things that you 
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Be thankful for your parents. 
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thankful for your future and 
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And how can I be thankful for my
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Hasn't happened to me yet. 
I don't know what's in my 

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future, but if you're saved this
morning or this evening, and you

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know you're on your way to 
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thankful enough. 
Be thankful that this world is 

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not our home. 
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This world is not our home. 
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Our treasures are laid up 
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We are going to have eternity 
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We're going to be able to praise
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And we're going to be reading 
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22, one through 5, he says. 
And he showed me a pure river of

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water of life, clear as crystal,
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God and of the Lamb in the midst
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And on either side of the river 
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which bear 12 manner of fruits 
and yielded her fruit of yielded

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her fruit every month. 
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from the healing for the healing
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And there shall be no more curse
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the Lamb shall be in it. 
And his servant shall serve him,

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and they shall see his face. 
And his name shall be in their 

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foreheads. 
And there shall be no night 

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there. 
And they need no candle neither 

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light of the sun. 
For the Lord God giveth them 

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light. 
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Be thankful that one day we're 
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Jesus. 
This world is going to be no 

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more. 
We're going to be perfect. 

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There's going to be no more 
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There's going to be no more 
sickness. 

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There's going to be no more 
pain. 

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There's going to be no more 
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We're going to be able to see 
our loved ones that have gone on

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before us. 
I'm going to be able to see my 

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grandpa and my Paul, Paul again.
I can't wait to see them. 

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It's going to be great. 
I'm going to be able to see 

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Pastor Brothers one day. 
He's there and I can just 

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picture him now. 
Just waiting for us to get up 

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there. 
And it's coming sooner than we 

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think. 
Pretty soon the trumpets going 

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to sound and all of us, they're 
saved, are going to be raptured 

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out of this world. 
We're going to be taking and 

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meet Jesus in the air. 
And that's something that I look

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forward to. 
And that's something that I'm 

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thankful for. 
He's coming. 

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Be thankful for our future. 
So tonight we have Be thankful 

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for your salvation. 
Be thankful for the word of God.

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Be thankful for your church. 
Be thankful for your parents, 

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young people and old people. 
Be thankful for our future and 

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everything it brings you back to
first Thessalonia Chapter 5, 

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verse 18 and everything. 
Give things We have so much to 

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be thankful for it only. 
Let's go out here. 

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Let's go out from here and live 
thankful lives because of what 

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Jesus has done for us. 
Let's pray, Dear Jesus, I pray 

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that you would just bless these 
few words that I say, Father. 

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I pray that you would help us as
we go out from here. 

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Or just help us to be truly 
thankful, Father, and just 

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realize that all the stuff that 
we're going through, Father, 

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that we have so much to look 
forward to and so much to be 

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thankful for. 
And just thank you for all this 

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you do for us. 
And you say, I pray, Amen. 

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Amen. 
Let's stand our seats with heads

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about and our eyes closed. 
Took a plate page out of my 

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playbook when it comes to being 
thankful year round. 

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I say that all the time. 
You know, we we think that only 

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around Thanksgiving is when 
you're allowed to talk about 

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being thankful. 
But we we need to be thankful 

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always. 
And boy, sometimes we forget the

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things that we should be 
thankful for. 

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And you know what an amazing 
thing to remember our salvation 

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and to remember our future and 
to remember what we have and 

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what we have in Christ. 
So the piano is going to play 

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tonight. 
And as she does, the invitation 

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is open. 
God spoke to your heart to now 

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you come. 
Even if you just need to come 

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and tell the Lord thank you 
again. 

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If you're not unthankful, maybe 
you just need to tell them thank

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you again. 
Great opportunity to do that 

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tonight.