1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,700 I encourage you to hold on to your Bibles throughout this 2 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:16,800 service because we have many scriptures to explore and to 3 00:00:16,808 --> 00:00:19,800 begin, let's read one verse from the book of second Timothy in 4 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:36,100 chapter 3, 2nd, Timothy 3. 5 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,200 I would actually like, for us to pray. 6 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,400 One more time, is that okay? Can we just ask God to help us 7 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,900 again? God, we are weak Lord. 8 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:51,900 We are really weak. I am weak. 9 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:55,700 But Lord, we thank you that. You promise that in our 10 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:58,300 weakness, your strength is made perfect. 11 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,800 And we ask that Lord, we would know your strengths as we 12 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:03,700 Endeavor to understand your word. 13 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:07,900 And that Lord the ministry of the word would not just be 14 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:13,400 delivered, in human words, but by the power of the Holy Spirit. 15 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:19,200 We need the Holy Spirit. You told us that he would teach 16 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,400 us and he would remind us of all things though. 17 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,200 We pray that these things would not just be heard that they 18 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,100 would also be retained and not just retained, but obeyed. 19 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:35,000 And so Lord, in this moment, less this meeting be in vain, be 20 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,600 ever-present. As you open the minds of the 21 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,500 disciples to understand the scriptures. 22 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:43,500 Would you do that? And all of our minds as you 23 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,300 allow your word to burn in the hearts of those two on the road 24 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:50,300 to Emmaus, would we experience that same burning passion and 25 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:54,200 our own hearts? Lord protect this message from 26 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,900 confusion, from stammering, from anything that would distract 27 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:02,700 from the delivery of your will of your mind. 28 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:05,700 In Jesus name we pray. Amen. 29 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:14,300 Second Timothy, 3 to 4 people will be lovers of self lovers of 30 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:21,300 money proud. Arrogant, abusive disobedient to 31 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:26,200 their parents ungrateful. Unholy. 32 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:31,500 Today we continue and pause highlight reel of the shameful 33 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:36,000 acts that will characterize Mankind in the last days. 34 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,000 And Paul by the spirit mentioned something. 35 00:02:42,100 --> 00:02:46,300 After our last subject that may not be as gripping. 36 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:50,400 As other things on this list might be, at least on the 37 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:55,600 surface level, because after he speaks about being disobedient 38 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,100 to parents, he highlights a peculiarity. 39 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,700 That is so important. So crucial. 40 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:08,100 So profound that to not spend a whole day to discover it and to 41 00:03:08,108 --> 00:03:09,800 understand it would be a great crime. 42 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:16,000 He tells us after that children will be more rebellious, more 43 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,300 resistant to Authority in the last days that there are also be 44 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:24,200 people who will be ungrateful. That in the days, leading to the 45 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,100 return of Christ. More and more people will be 46 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:32,000 ungrateful. And this is speaking much more 47 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,900 than about a lack of appreciation that one man might 48 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:38,300 show to his fellow man. Though it may include that the 49 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:42,500 concern here, the seriousness is severity of what Paul is saying 50 00:03:42,500 --> 00:03:48,400 is that there will be an absence of heartfelt gratitude toward 51 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:53,000 God himself. When the Bible mentions 52 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:59,600 Thanksgiving, its primary application is how we should 53 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,800 relate to God. Because the Bible tells us that 54 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:07,300 God is the source of every good, not some, not the spiritual 55 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:11,500 stuff, but every good and perfect gift. 56 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,500 He is the fountain from which all things flow. 57 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:22,100 And so, when he speaks about this sin, He's telling us. 58 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:29,100 That this is enough for a person to be judged. 59 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:33,800 And the reason why I bring this up is maybe in your list of 60 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,000 indicators of a decaying Society. 61 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,100 A lack of Thanksgiving may not be on the top of it, or on it at 62 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:43,600 all. But what you? 63 00:04:43,608 --> 00:04:47,500 And I will discover by the word of God today, is that, this lack 64 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:52,600 of, thanks, this ingratitude is actually one of the causes for 65 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,900 the great, moral chaos that you would see even on a nationwide 66 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:01,200 level. It is one of the great dangers 67 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:05,400 that people are experiencing and their own spiritual condition. 68 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:09,500 And I want you to see and believe that through God's word 69 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:14,600 today that something as simple. As giving, thanks. 70 00:05:15,700 --> 00:05:20,400 Can protect the soul from much. Something as simple as giving. 71 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,200 Thanks is actually much more profound in the sight of God 72 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:29,800 than you and I might imagine. And I want to say this, that 73 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,300 this lack of gratitude that will be more common. 74 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:38,700 More shared amongst people in these last days, is not just 75 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:41,800 something that will be found among those who are far from 76 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,300 Christ. I want to tell you today, that 77 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:45,900 it is something that can even be identified in the heart of a 78 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:49,400 believer. And I want you to leave here, 79 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,900 being convinced that out of all the spiritual disciplines that, 80 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:57,200 you know, of we cannot forget the discipline of giving thanks 81 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,800 because it will provide a Grace to your soul that you cannot 82 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,700 imagine. Perhaps you're not convinced and 83 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:11,700 I can imagine why. But I want you to see what God 84 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:15,300 thinks about ingratitude in gratitude. 85 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,100 Here's a place to consider you have your Bibles, right? 86 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:23,200 And Luke chapter 6 verse 35 hear the words of Jesus When he 87 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,200 instructs his people about how to relate to their enemies. 88 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:33,600 Luke 635, but love your enemies, love them. 89 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,400 Love your enemies, and do good and lend expecting. 90 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:42,400 Nothing in return and your reward will be great and you 91 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,600 will be the sons of the most high for. 92 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:50,600 He is kind to The Ungrateful and the evil. 93 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:55,400 Frias kind even to the ungrateful and evil. 94 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:00,500 Here's the thing that I want you to realize Jesus places in 95 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:04,500 gratitude, right beside the category of evil. 96 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,300 If I were to ask you, what would, what would be a neighbor 97 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:14,300 to evil? What would be something that you 98 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:18,700 would say in the same sentence as being evil would would being 99 00:07:18,700 --> 00:07:23,200 unfaithful be there? With lacking. 100 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:28,900 Thanks be there. In Christ mind it is not 101 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:35,100 difficult for him. For his God and he is Holy, it's 102 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:39,600 not difficult for him to say, in the same sentence that God is 103 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,700 kind to the unthankful and the evil. 104 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,200 Paul does something similar in our main text, after he mentions 105 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,400 that people will be ungrateful right after that. 106 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:55,100 He says, they will also be Unholy unthankful and in the 107 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:59,600 next breath Unholy. Put the words of Jesus and Paul 108 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,400 together. And what you have is a 109 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:06,500 revelation of Revelation along the lines of in the mind of 110 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:10,700 Christ, Our King, our Lord, Our God, and in the mind of the 111 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:16,800 greatest Apostle who ever lived, Being unfaithful is very close 112 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,400 to being evil. And Unholy. 113 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,700 Maybe you're not convinced of this assessment, maybe you're 114 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:27,800 thinking, but I thought you said earlier that you wanted to build 115 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:31,400 this up that I'm not really being built up right now. 116 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,100 Don't leave yet turn with me to Jude. 117 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,400 That book right before the Book of Revelation. 118 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:46,400 In Jude, verse 14, no chapters, one chapter, so Jude 14, I want 119 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,600 you to see something else just in case, you may not be 120 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:50,900 convinced of this conclusion that I present to you this 121 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:57,900 afternoon. in Jude 14, we read It was also about these that 122 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:01,000 Enoch. This seventh from Adam 123 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:06,000 prophesied saying behold the Lord comes with ten thousands of 124 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,300 his holy ones to execute judgment on all and to convict 125 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:14,400 all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they 126 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,700 have committed and such an ungodly way. 127 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:20,100 And of all the harsh things that ungodly, Sinners have spoken 128 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:22,800 against them. What do you think he wants to 129 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,800 talk about? Ungodliness. 130 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:32,000 Is that an amazing to think that as early as Genesis would just a 131 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,300 few who are roaming the Earth, God was already revealing to 132 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:37,500 some of his servant about his second coming. 133 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:41,300 There are mind about his first Enoch, seventh from Adam 134 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:46,300 receives a revelation, a vision of the return of Jesus Christ 135 00:09:46,300 --> 00:09:48,600 with his holy ones, and what does he see? 136 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:54,500 He sees a sweeping Majestic judgment upon the Earth and what 137 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:57,500 what is happening here? Well, God is going to Deal with 138 00:09:57,500 --> 00:09:59,900 ungodliness, she repeats it in so many ways. 139 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:01,600 Ungodly ungodly. Sinners. 140 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:08,400 Ungodly Deeds ungodly ways. And I want to ask you today. 141 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,200 What comes to mind when you think of ungodliness the 142 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,500 ungodliness that Jesus himself will judge in the final hour, 143 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,700 what crashes into your thinking, is it is it the sex trafficker? 144 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,300 Is it the merciless murderers who roam the streets at night, 145 00:10:25,300 --> 00:10:29,400 even a known City? Is it the drug dealers who 146 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,400 provide deadly substances for the sake of gain? 147 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:37,400 Are they the rapist? The terrorists, the Isis 148 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,100 figures. I'm sure they are all included. 149 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:44,600 But Jude by the Holy Spirit, has in mind, after he says, ungodly 150 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,600 ungodly ungodly. They were received Justice and 151 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:54,100 judgement for receiving. Rejecting, rather the Gospel of 152 00:10:54,100 --> 00:10:55,700 Jesus Christ. The only thing that can save 153 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:58,800 your soul from this, judgment is what he says in verse 16. 154 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:07,100 These are grumblers. These are grumblers. 155 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:12,800 Malcontents following their own sinful desires. 156 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,900 They are loud mouth. Posters showing favoritism to 157 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:21,500 gain advantage. After saying ungodly will be 158 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:23,400 judged the ungodly will be judged for their deeds. 159 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,800 Dirt their ways you think well, who are you talking about? 160 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,400 Who are these ungodly people? What will they be doing to 161 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,300 receive God's judgment and the first thing on the list 162 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:42,400 according to Jude The grumblers. The ones who murmur about their 163 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,600 lot in life. The ones who find fault with 164 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:51,800 God's providential leading. The ones who compare. 165 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:55,900 And complain, because they believe that they are more 166 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:59,200 deserving of certain things. If not all things. 167 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:06,200 Those who find fault, those who accuse those, who Express their 168 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:11,100 displeasure in life. These are the ones that Jude has 169 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:14,600 in mind who receive God's judgment. 170 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:19,100 And this grumbling is illustrated by those who 171 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:21,600 traveled through the Wilderness Journey after they were 172 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:25,600 delivered from Egypt, right? Oh, they complained about God's 173 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:30,000 leading they murmured about his timing. 174 00:12:31,700 --> 00:12:34,800 They criticized the leadership that God had established and 175 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,800 Moses and Aaron, they huffed and puffed about the food that they 176 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:43,900 received miraculously because it didn't taste like the leeks and 177 00:12:43,900 --> 00:12:48,400 the onions and the watermelon back in Egypt. 178 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:54,100 And over and over again. You see this murmuring bunch and 179 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:57,400 you also recognize God's kindled, anger. 180 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,700 And I want to tell you today, that as murmuring, complaining 181 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:06,500 ungratefulness will, multiply God's Wrath, will will manifest 182 00:13:06,500 --> 00:13:09,700 against such attitudes. It was not just in the Old 183 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:11,100 Testament. If you think that we serve a 184 00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:14,400 different God from the Old Testament, know, he feels the 185 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,800 same way as he did about those Israelites who stuck their nose 186 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:23,500 at God. And expressed how they thought 187 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:29,000 he was unfair, that they deserve more, I could imagine how this 188 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,000 might offend some of you. I can imagine how this might 189 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,300 disturb you. Is Judgment necessary. 190 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:44,500 Is Judgment. So severe required for something 191 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:48,700 as common as expressing annoyance and frustration with 192 00:13:48,700 --> 00:13:54,200 life. It is if you understand how holy 193 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,400 God is, that's the problem. That's the problem with modern 194 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,200 Christianity. We don't understand just how 195 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,500 holy God is. I heard a preacher say something 196 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:10,400 that so ministered to my heart, these are not my words but 197 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,600 they've been ringing in my heart for a few days. 198 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:20,400 He said, Earth's perplexity Earth's complaints is why God 199 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:25,900 would judge. How can God judge man show 200 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:29,700 severely? And yet it is Heavens 201 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,200 perplexity. Why God would even save to begin 202 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,500 with? Well, Earth here is trying to 203 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:41,300 figure out in philosophy. Why God can judge these mere 204 00:14:41,300 --> 00:14:43,400 creatures? Made out of dust who are 205 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:49,000 borrowing his are Heaven is wondering why God would even 206 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:55,900 extend salvation. Why is ingratitude so evil? 207 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:00,400 Why is it so heinous? Why is it so ugly? 208 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,600 Why is it so worthy of judgment? I'll tell you why. 209 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,200 It offends people for me to say such things it's because they 210 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:12,000 think that the Universe revolves around them and they have been 211 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,900 hearing teaching that tells them that God is God, because God 212 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:20,500 wants to help, you know what you want and what you desire. 213 00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:25,200 And that is bread, much confusion and much unholiness, 214 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:28,700 but I wanted to take you to a miraculous story. 215 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:31,400 That is simple and understanding. 216 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,000 But also, when you meditate on, it is profound when it deals 217 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,300 with reflecting human nature. So turn with me to the Gospel of 218 00:15:39,300 --> 00:15:45,200 Luke again, and 17:11, I want you to see something And we're 219 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,200 going to read quite a few verses here, but I want you to, I want 220 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,700 you to Envision what I'm saying from the word of God. 221 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:57,900 In Luke 17 11 a very well-known passage when dealing with 222 00:15:57,900 --> 00:16:01,900 ingratitude. We read here in verse 11 of 223 00:16:01,900 --> 00:16:06,900 chapter 17, on the way to Jerusalem, he was passing along 224 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:11,400 between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he 225 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:16,400 was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance and lifted up 226 00:16:16,408 --> 00:16:22,800 their voices saying. Jesus Master have mercy on us. 227 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:27,700 When he saw them, he said to them go and show yourselves to 228 00:16:27,700 --> 00:16:31,600 the priests and as they went, they were cleansed. 229 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,600 Then one of them when he saw that he was healed, turned back. 230 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:41,900 Praising God with a loud voice, and he fell on his face at Jesus 231 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:45,800 feet giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. 232 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:51,300 Then Jesus answered, we're not ten cleansed. 233 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,800 Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and 234 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:01,900 give praise to God except this Foreigner and he said to him 235 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:05,200 rise and go your way your faith has made you. 236 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:11,400 Well, A wonderful story, very simple application. 237 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,800 But again, when you chew the cud, when you chew on this word, 238 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,599 you'll realize that there's so much more to be said regarding 239 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:25,099 who we are and light of this. It is not uncommon to find men 240 00:17:25,099 --> 00:17:28,099 crying out to God. When they find themselves in 241 00:17:28,099 --> 00:17:34,700 great need or in growing void, it is not a foreign site to look 242 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:40,600 to our fellow man and see that there is a familiar reflex to 243 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,700 seek God and to request from God. 244 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:48,200 Nor is it a strange sound in our own Hearts? 245 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,800 We see that here. Do we not ten out of the ten 246 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:56,000 lepers? Collectively in concert, ask 247 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,900 Jesus for something that they do not have. 248 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,600 We need you to restore our flesh. 249 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:07,700 We need you to heal us, we need you to restore us and so, it is 250 00:18:08,300 --> 00:18:12,200 that when it comes to crying out to God, especially when there is 251 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:17,600 desperate circumstances, you don't have to look too far. 252 00:18:19,100 --> 00:18:21,600 But as we continue with the story, we realize that there is 253 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,300 something else we are. We're taught about the 254 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:28,400 fallenness of us. And that, is this, that while 255 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:34,800 there is 10/10 Who Cried Out, who had a need who prayed Only 256 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,300 one. Praised. 257 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:45,400 Only one gave. Thanks. the same eagerness, we 258 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:52,900 might have in asking God, often, outweighs the energy, Of our 259 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:54,900 praise and response to his provision. 260 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,700 This miraculous moment teaches us something. 261 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:04,300 And it is this, that if we honestly compared are 262 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:09,600 petitioning with are praising, we will find very quickly that 263 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,800 the former is much more alive than the latter. 264 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,600 What am I trying to say? Let me let me speak. 265 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:19,800 Plain English. We are much better at praying, 266 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,700 then we are appraising. We are much more disciplined to 267 00:19:24,700 --> 00:19:30,900 cry out for a need to be met and to cry out with simple 268 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:35,600 adoration. I was reminded by reading this 269 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,800 story, that this thanking God thing. 270 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,700 It has to be intentional. It's not something that comes 271 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:47,200 natural to us. Just like praying. 272 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,000 Praying is not natural to us, praying is something that we 273 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,800 have to engage our will to perform, and oftentimes, we have 274 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,000 to fight our flesh to even do properly. 275 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,000 It is no different with praising. 276 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,800 The issue is we feel logically believe in Thanksgiving? 277 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,600 We listen to verses about it. It's a call to worship. 278 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,000 We understand it in the Bible. We understand it's there but 279 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,400 practically, I believe that many Christians do not understand 280 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,300 that. It's, it's supposed to be a 281 00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:20,300 training. It's supposed to be a 282 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:25,300 discipline. That's actually activated all my 283 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:26,800 life. I can tell you, I've heard many 284 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,900 sermons on prayer. many many books read on the importance of 285 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:34,400 praying and rightfully so I believe that's a great neglect 286 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,900 as well, but I cannot really pinpoint to a moment where where 287 00:20:38,900 --> 00:20:45,700 I heard something That taught me the necessity to not pray only, 288 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:50,600 but to praise to, praise God to, thank God. 289 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:55,400 And here's one of the results of this lack is that we have bred 290 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:59,000 Christians who have limited their communication to God, 291 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:04,200 simply and asking him for Stuff. And not just communing with them 292 00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:08,000 and loving him and exalting him for what you already have. 293 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:12,900 That's not a small thing that's not just like a suggestion, 294 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:15,500 that's not just something that we should wear as Christians 295 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:18,900 because that's our duty know there's much at stake here. 296 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,900 There's much at stake here. Makes you wonder huh. 297 00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:27,100 Why didn't the other nine come back? 298 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,500 Why didn't they follow suit? Why were they not caught up in, 299 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:34,100 Rogers? Praise and explosive 300 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:36,300 Thanksgiving? Why was that lacking? 301 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,200 Why was 90%? Not there. 302 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:43,300 Let's not be quick to condemn them, shall we? 303 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:48,300 Because how many times have we been so lost in our blessings 304 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:50,100 that we forgot site of the blesser? 305 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,200 How many times have we got so distracted? 306 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,900 While swimming in Provisions, that we forgot that he is the 307 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:01,500 Fountain by, which all these things that we are relishing in 308 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,400 come from. It's interesting to note the 309 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:10,000 thought process of this man and verse 15 of our text, how he 310 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,800 came to this realization. Look at it again, in verse 15, 311 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:17,400 then one of them when he saw that he was healed, turned back. 312 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:21,700 Praising God with a loud voice, or I can imagine that this 313 00:22:21,700 --> 00:22:24,600 miracle is so special because it demanded their faith. 314 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,600 He didn't say, you want healing, here's your healing. 315 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,100 And they saw the spots and the rotten flesh disappear. 316 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:33,900 He said Go and show yourself, which was according Law. 317 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:37,200 And as you're walking, you're going to be healed. 318 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:40,900 They took his word, they walked. And as they're walking, I could 319 00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:45,400 imagine the sight of this set of lepers that there's spots. 320 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,500 Maybe one by one were disappearing. 321 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,100 Maybe even some parts of their body being restored. 322 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:53,700 I don't know. But we are told about one of 323 00:22:53,708 --> 00:22:56,000 them. What we are told about, one of 324 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,600 them is that when he saw that, he was healed. 325 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,700 When he came into contact with the reality that the miraculous 326 00:23:01,700 --> 00:23:06,800 had touched him. His mind raced back to Christ. 327 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:12,900 but the initial thought that came to him in, that moment was 328 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:21,900 God made this possible, And that is the essence of Thanksgiving. 329 00:23:23,500 --> 00:23:28,900 The essence of Thanksgiving is that it crowns God. 330 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,900 As The Sovereign source of every good and perfect thing. 331 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,000 I'm telling you everything, as common as the hot meal that you 332 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,700 enjoy in your warm home to the miraculous Provisions, from 333 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:48,700 heaven for the most unlikely cases, Thanksgiving crowns him. 334 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,900 It exalts him, it identifies him. 335 00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:57,500 I could imagine what was flooding the minds of these 336 00:23:57,500 --> 00:24:00,400 other lepers. You got to remember what it was 337 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,400 like to be a leper. You were an outcast, you were 338 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,600 kicked out. You watch the normal World from 339 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,300 a distance while you just stood there and rot it to death. 340 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,900 And so, I can just I can sympathize with them that, as 341 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:17,800 they're receiving this healing, all we can be normal citizens of 342 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,400 society. Again, we can go to the market. 343 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,000 We can, we can go to to the lovely parks that I once knew. 344 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:28,800 I wonder if some of them thought I can finally embrace my wife. 345 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,900 Again, I haven't held her in so many years. 346 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:35,800 So many months, so many weeks. Oh, I can't wait to embrace my 347 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,000 spouse, perhaps the others, who thought we can resume. 348 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,500 Ding memories with our children for all this time. 349 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:47,200 All we can do is wave at them from a distance as they travel 350 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,200 to school with their with their mother. 351 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:56,100 I don't blame them for being so excited, but this man, this one 352 00:24:56,100 --> 00:25:01,400 man. the moment he realized that there was a provision, the 353 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,300 moment that this new opportunity at life presented itself because 354 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:11,500 of the mercy of God, his heart flooded with the revelation of 355 00:25:11,500 --> 00:25:18,900 the goodness of God, God. Because of this, he comes back. 356 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,400 It takes effort to thank God. He turns back meaning that he 357 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,200 put a delay on going to the temple on, being declared clean 358 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,200 from running to his home with a surprise from going back to his 359 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,300 workplace from seeing his friends at the local coffee 360 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:36,700 shop. He put all of that on pause. 361 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:42,800 Because he needed to praise God. Because he did not want to 362 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,400 delay. Somebody made this observation 363 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,900 if we are so so, so so so antsy for God, to answer our prayer so 364 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:56,500 quickly than we have no right to delay with our praise when he 365 00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:02,400 does act on our behalf. And the great crime of this 366 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,300 defensive being ungrateful is found in the words of Jesus in 367 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:09,200 verse 18. Was no one found to return and 368 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,500 give praise to God, except for this Foreigner of the 369 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:16,900 transitions would say was there. No one who can returned to give 370 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:21,400 glory to God? You see the connection between? 371 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:26,100 Thanks. Praise And Glory. 372 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:32,600 Jesus Christ is teaching us here, that Thanksgiving as a way 373 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:38,400 of identifying his goodness and his godness, if you will that 374 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,900 this learning to be thankful. Listen, it's not about good 375 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:44,100 manners. Okay, your mom and dad might 376 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:47,300 have taught you that We might have been raised by parents who 377 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:49,400 say learn to say thank you because they want to mold our 378 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,000 social skills but Thanksgiving in this case Thanksgiving toward 379 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,800 God has much more severe implications. 380 00:26:57,300 --> 00:27:00,800 When we train in this, when we train and Thanksgiving, it is a 381 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:06,700 matter of giving God his do its worship, its worship, its 382 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:10,800 adoration its rightful recognition, it's exaltation, 383 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:13,900 it's putting the spotlight on the one who deserves the 384 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:18,200 spotlight. It's the sound. 385 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,200 Thanksgiving, is the sound that awakens the eyes of the heart to 386 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,600 see God behind every gift? It's the stirring the spiritual 387 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:32,600 tool that stirs our affections in a way in which we love him 388 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,200 over, whatever he gives us to enjoy. 389 00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:38,900 It's the Declaration of the sovereignty of God and the 390 00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:42,800 reminder that we are undeserving creatures. 391 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:49,100 Who only should expect judgment, but receive so much more so much 392 00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:54,100 more. The crime of ingratitude is that 393 00:27:54,100 --> 00:28:01,300 it robs God of Glory. It robs God of his glory. 394 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:07,500 It keeps him in the dark. While we might credit ourselves 395 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:11,800 or others. no matter what skill or investment you made into 396 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,400 anything realize that you cannot even get out of your bed unless 397 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:22,100 God gives you the power to do so You can't even scratch your nose 398 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,000 today. Unless Heaven authorizes it. 399 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,000 Therefore to reserve Thanksgiving us to Rob God of 400 00:28:32,008 --> 00:28:37,500 glory and that's no small thing. And such such a reservation. 401 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:40,800 Such thievery is to be expected amongst The Godly ungodly. 402 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:41,700 Why? Because they don't even 403 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:45,500 acknowledge God to begin with, there's no acknowledgment of who 404 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:48,600 he is, even to begin with. And so, how can they thanked 405 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,700 him? How can they thanked him? 406 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,200 But the thing that is concerning to us is that we are a different 407 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,600 breed of people. We are a different breed of 408 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,200 people. The very basis of our faith is 409 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,100 from the place of receiving, something that we did not 410 00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:08,000 deserve. I want you to think about that, 411 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,400 that if Jesus Christ never does one more thing in your life. 412 00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:15,500 If he never answers one more prayer, if you never provides 413 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:19,500 one more meal, if you never does one more thing to make your 414 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:22,700 life, that much more enjoyable or comfortable, he's still 415 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:28,400 worthy of things. Because the gift and in Jesus, 416 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,100 the gift that was extended to you. 417 00:29:30,100 --> 00:29:34,700 And I is eternal and because it is eternal, it demands Eternal, 418 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:39,500 thanks it demands Eternal, praise the demands, Eternal 419 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:45,000 appreciation, beginning now, beginning now, And that is why 420 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,500 even though you might be enduring a job like situation, 421 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:51,300 where everything is stripped from you, even your own health. 422 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,400 He's still worthy to be worshiped. 423 00:29:55,700 --> 00:30:00,300 This is what God deserves. This is what he deserves. 424 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:06,600 And I can end it here, I can end it here to say he deserves it. 425 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,500 And that's that's enough because that's the primary function of 426 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:12,100 it. That's the primary goal but I 427 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:14,000 don't want to end there because there's something else that 428 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,900 happens in this story. At the end of it. 429 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:20,000 After this man comes to give, thanks to God. 430 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:25,000 Jesus concludes with a wonderful, wonderful assurance 431 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,200 and verse 19. He tells them rise and go your 432 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:33,000 way your faith has made you. Well, your faith has made you, 433 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:39,000 well, Many believe that what Jesus is doing here is not 434 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:44,800 restating that his faith led to his healing physically. 435 00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:48,700 And the reason why people don't believe that is because the 436 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:52,400 phrase there, your faith has made you. 437 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,000 Well in the Greek, it's different than the word 438 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,500 cleansing and healing in the earlier verses. 439 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,100 In fact, the phrase used their made you. 440 00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:05,700 Well, is often the phrase used when it talks about salvation 441 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,700 when it talks about sins being forgiven. 442 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:14,200 And so what you have here if this is true is not just Jesus 443 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,400 reassuring him that the faith, he expressed earlier has led to 444 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,200 his healing, but that he receives Another Blessing. 445 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:25,300 That is a Samaritan who is worshiping God and 446 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:27,900 acknowledging. Who Jesus is in his nature. 447 00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:32,000 Jesus says, you got healing, but I want to let you know that your 448 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,300 faith also. Now, got you salvation, Your 449 00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:41,700 body is healed, but I want to tell you now rise, your heart is 450 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:45,400 restored. Your heart is revive. 451 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:51,500 Your heart is now cleansed. She's talking about salvation. 452 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,700 And I think that this teaches us something more than just about 453 00:31:57,700 --> 00:31:59,900 faith. I think here that if you look at 454 00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:03,700 it through the lens of Thanksgiving that we see another 455 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:06,700 principle that's true about Thanksgiving, from cover, to 456 00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:09,500 cover in our Bibles. And this is it think about it. 457 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:12,800 This man with the 10 with the nine, rather, when they cried 458 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,200 out to God for healing, they all got it. 459 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:19,800 But when this one man came back with the motivation to give, 460 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:27,800 thanks, he got more. He got more, he received more. 461 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,400 What am I trying to say? This is what I'm trying to say. 462 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,800 Yes, the primary function of the primary purpose of Thanksgiving 463 00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:40,900 is that God would receive Glory. But just like many of the 464 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:45,500 commands of God that are God focused in their goal. 465 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,000 As we give, thanks something happens to us as well. 466 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:58,600 As we give, thanks, there are benefits that shower on us as a 467 00:32:58,608 --> 00:33:01,700 result of showering, Praise on him. 468 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,500 And so if you leave here today thinking, that Thanksgiving is 469 00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:10,500 merely my duty. Yes, you're right. 470 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,000 And that should be motivation enough, but our God is so good. 471 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:19,900 that when he prescribes such commands, He is not in need. 472 00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:24,700 He is not nervous, he's not insecure and Heaven, he's not 473 00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:28,500 complaining to the angels that my creation does not give thanks 474 00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:32,000 to me. He is sufficient within himself. 475 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:38,500 But when he prescribed such things, he knows you need this. 476 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:45,100 You need this? And I want to show you at least 477 00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:48,800 three things I want to show you at least three sanctifying 478 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:54,600 effects of Thanksgiving that will change your life. 479 00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:59,900 If you believe it, you've heard I'm sure most of your Christian 480 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:01,800 Life. Pray because prayer does this 481 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,100 and it does that and it will change your life. 482 00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:06,100 It will anchor you will protect you and that is right but I want 483 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:09,199 to now bring to your attention that if you implement the 484 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:13,300 discipline of Thanksgiving it's not natural to you my brother 485 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,800 it's not natural to you my sister it is not natural to me. 486 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,800 It's not And if we're just going to wait for waves of emotion, to 487 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:26,000 cause us to be thankful, we are as doomed as if we were waiting 488 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,800 for some motivation to pray every single day. 489 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,300 It has to be by faith. It has to be something you 490 00:34:32,300 --> 00:34:35,400 actually actually do intentionally with with 491 00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:38,800 mindfulness where you pause and you give. 492 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:44,100 Thanks it sounds childlike. And then say childish, sounds 493 00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:48,400 childlike, doesn't it? That's how often God works when 494 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,400 it comes to his commands. It demands childlike faith and 495 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,400 you grew up with parents. I'm sure that told you went to 496 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,400 say thanks. Never forget to say. 497 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,900 Thanks and your heavenly father today wants to teach you how to 498 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:04,100 give thanks. I want to show you sanctifying 499 00:35:04,100 --> 00:35:06,700 effect. Number one, when a Believer 500 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:12,100 implements Thanksgiving in his life, Number one, Thanksgiving 501 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:18,000 is a remedy that rescues us. From anxiety. 502 00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:24,200 Thanksgiving is a remedy that rescues us from anxiety. 503 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,800 I'm sure if I asked you. If you're an anxious person or 504 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,700 you experience anxious, thoughts, 98% of you with your 505 00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:35,000 hand, but I want to show you the Cure, the prescription is found 506 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,400 in Philippians chapter 4. Verse 6 and 7. 507 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:44,900 Philippians 4:6 reads, do not be anxious about anything. 508 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:47,400 Do you think he meant anything? Or do you think the Greek means 509 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,600 something else? I think he meant anything single 510 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,000 people don't be anxious by the fact that you're single. 511 00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:59,300 Right? Pandemic pressured people here. 512 00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:01,800 Don't don't be anxious about the future of your job. 513 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,900 Don't be anxious. Don't be anxious about anything. 514 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:08,100 There is nothing in this life, no matter how severe or 515 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:11,700 dangerous or threatening and maybe that deserves your 516 00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:16,100 anxiety. Do not be anxious about 517 00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:19,900 anything, well why? But so here's the instruction in 518 00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:21,800 everything. Do you think it means different 519 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,100 in the Greek or do you think everything means everything? 520 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:31,700 I think it means everything. But in everything by prayer and 521 00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:35,400 supplication with Thanksgiving, let your requests be made known 522 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,600 to God. And here's the result, and the 523 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:42,200 peace of God, which surpasses all understanding many people 524 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,800 have difficulty understanding the Trinity, does it my mind 525 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:51,400 can't understand how it works. One being three persons, one in 526 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,600 essence, Before you get to the Trinity, realize that there's a 527 00:36:55,607 --> 00:36:57,700 peace that God can offer you? That doesn't make sense? 528 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:05,500 That surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your 529 00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:09,400 minds in Christ Jesus. Now this verse is known. 530 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,200 You've heard it you've preached it you probably counseled your 531 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,100 own soul with it. You probably offered it to 532 00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:16,900 somebody else and it's so known that we look at and we kind of 533 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:18,700 just by I know this or I don't give it to me. 534 00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:22,400 May, I suggest to you today, that many people who have 535 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,000 attempted to apply these instructions have not seen their 536 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,700 desired results because they don't, they don't obey the full 537 00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:32,200 instruction. Because these verses are used to 538 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,500 often say if you're anxious, pray brother, pray and I say, 539 00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:39,800 Amen. Because it says it anxieties may 540 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,900 visit your heart, but they may not always be left on his feet. 541 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,700 Pour your heart out to him. Tell them your needs be detailed 542 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:54,900 grown if you need to do it. But is that all it says no and 543 00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:58,200 this is where many people fail. They come to God in their 544 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,300 anxiety, and their fear, and their concern and their, uh, 545 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:03,500 knees and they pray, they present their needs. 546 00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:06,300 They tell God what he needs to do about these needs. 547 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:09,600 And they fail that in the midst of that. 548 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:16,200 To be thankful. With thanks giving. 549 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,900 So you punched in one set of numbers, but you forgot the 550 00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:24,300 other set and you're wondering why as you press enter, there's 551 00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:28,400 error and your soul. You see what God is trying to 552 00:38:28,408 --> 00:38:31,200 say, is, don't just come to me and express your needs. 553 00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:35,200 Come to me, yes. But turn your attention away 554 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,300 from what you don't have, or what you would like for me to do 555 00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:42,300 to what I have already done. Turn your attention to that. 556 00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:45,700 And let me be extremely practical here. 557 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,500 Don't be General. And your thing I'm thankful for 558 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:49,300 you. Okay? 559 00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:54,000 Wonderful, be detailed. Be detailed because that is the 560 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,800 instruction. When you couple the relief that 561 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:01,300 comes from unburden, your soul and prayer as well as the 562 00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:04,500 mindfulness of his faithfulness as you declare with those same 563 00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:12,300 week lips, the goodness of God. You will extinguish everything 564 00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:14,800 that is uneasy in your soul and not only. 565 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,500 Will it be extinguished, it will be replaced with a supernatural. 566 00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:21,100 Peace. Remember somebody telling me 567 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:25,000 that about their day, it wasn't anything spectacular but it 568 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,400 blessed my heart that after a long day where they have to go 569 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,500 to some event, they were so they just it was just a Dark Night of 570 00:39:32,508 --> 00:39:35,400 the Soul. There was clouds covering the 571 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,700 Rays of warmth with the knowledge of God and they 572 00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:43,200 couldn't seem to shake out of it. and as they were getting 573 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:47,600 ready in the bathroom, doing their hair, fixing their beard, 574 00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:54,000 They couldn't shake this off. But couldn't, it was just heavy, 575 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,300 and it was just, it was destroying, even the hopeful 576 00:39:57,300 --> 00:40:01,800 plans for that same night. And this verse came to mind. 577 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:07,200 And so as he had a razor in his hand and he looked at himself in 578 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,800 the mirror, he said I'm going to do this, I'm just going to give 579 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,200 thanks to God for whatever I can think of right now. 580 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,900 So what does he do? God, I thank you that I can see 581 00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:21,600 with my eyes. God. 582 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,800 I thank you that as I'm standing in my bathroom. 583 00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:28,200 There's no pain. I'm not bound to some bed. 584 00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:33,700 God, I thank you that that I have a church family. 585 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,900 That loves me, that loves God, Lord. 586 00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:41,000 I Thank you that that I can be comfortable in this house and 587 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,400 everything is functioning just fine. 588 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:50,000 And as she began to list these things, the Rays of God's life 589 00:40:50,100 --> 00:40:52,900 penetrated through the cloud that covered his soul. 590 00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:59,100 And he found himself being able to worship without gifted 591 00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:03,200 musicians. Without the right worship track 592 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,700 playing in the background without anything. 593 00:41:06,700 --> 00:41:11,300 Other than the Simplicity of the sacrifice of, praise listing, 594 00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:16,600 the different blessings that he could identify and it rescued 595 00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,700 him. It rescued him and it put a 596 00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:26,000 Fresh Step into him. It's the remedy. 597 00:41:27,100 --> 00:41:32,400 I've heard of a Preacher because of the circumstances of his own 598 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,800 body. He had a, he had a strange voice 599 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,100 that made preaching very difficult because people would 600 00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:41,400 laugh at him with his voice. And he learned this principle of 601 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,100 sacrifice of praise. And so he made it his duty that 602 00:41:45,100 --> 00:41:48,600 every single morning before he would step foot on the ground, 603 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:52,400 on the floor, he would spend 10 minutes, just thanking God. 604 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,300 Thanking God for different things. 605 00:41:55,400 --> 00:42:00,500 He would not begin his day, otherwise I'm not saying you 606 00:42:00,500 --> 00:42:03,600 need to do 10 minutes. All I'm saying is if you thank 607 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,100 God enough intentionally with mindfulness I thank you God God 608 00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:09,900 I think no no you calculate your thoughts? 609 00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:16,900 You will know a Deliverance. From Dark Nights of the Soul. 610 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,200 Number two. Not only is Thanksgiving the 611 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,200 remedy that rescues us from anxiety among other things, but 612 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:31,500 Thanksgiving is a practice that protects us from sin. 613 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:38,100 Being thankful, let me, let me emphasize, this is not just your 614 00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:43,200 duty being thankful. Thankfulness gratitude, carries 615 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:49,900 a force that keeps in at Bay. There are such power behind 616 00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:54,300 this, that it can actually protect your heart from the 617 00:42:54,300 --> 00:42:57,500 passions of the flesh that war against your soul. 618 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,500 I want to prove that to you in the Book of Romans and verse 29 619 00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:08,500 of chapter 1. In Romans 129 we read about what 620 00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:10,700 society looks like. You've heard this passage before 621 00:43:10,700 --> 00:43:13,900 in the past few weeks, what society looks like? 622 00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:18,900 What their hearts are filled with by banding God. 623 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,600 And here's what people are filled with, notice filled not 624 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:26,400 visited by filled with, they are filled with all manner of 625 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,600 unrighteousness, Evil covetousness. 626 00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:33,800 Malice. They are full of Envy murder 627 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:38,500 Strife, deceit, maliciousness, they are filled. 628 00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:43,800 They are living in a continual state of these horrible things. 629 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:49,000 Now notice two of them, you ready covetousness Envy. 630 00:43:49,900 --> 00:43:53,500 Meaning what living in a Perpetual state of comparison? 631 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,600 Sensing this dissatisfaction as you continually, look at what 632 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,900 you don't have, what other people's have, what you think 633 00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:05,200 belongs to you, and that can be anything from a car to a 634 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,500 husband. I can be anything from a 635 00:44:09,508 --> 00:44:13,200 Ministry position. To a promotion. 636 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,500 This craving this ugly craving because of their abandoned of 637 00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:22,900 God, the people will be filled with this filled with it. 638 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,700 And this is not just a danger for unbelievers. 639 00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:28,500 Listen, James says, why are you guys fighting? 640 00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:30,900 He's speaking to the churches in chapter 4. 641 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,300 Why are you guys fighting? Why is there a quarreling? 642 00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:36,700 Why is their Strife? Let me answer it for you because 643 00:44:36,700 --> 00:44:42,700 you have desires. And they are not met. you covet 644 00:44:42,700 --> 00:44:47,300 and you don't have, listen, if we get a room filled with people 645 00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:51,800 in this place, That are covetousness or are filled with 646 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:58,500 jealousy or Envy guaranteed War. Guaranteed War. 647 00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:06,500 There is chaos in any setting, when a heart is not satisfied in 648 00:45:06,500 --> 00:45:09,800 God alone. When a man or woman does not 649 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,300 draw from God as their source of fulfillment. 650 00:45:13,700 --> 00:45:18,300 There is left this kind of filling because something has to 651 00:45:18,300 --> 00:45:21,000 go in there. There's no neutrality, there's 652 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,100 no emptiness, something will fill this heart and neither it 653 00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:28,800 will be God himself or things such as these. 654 00:45:29,700 --> 00:45:33,500 But wait, hold on. How? 655 00:45:35,900 --> 00:45:39,600 How are people filled with this? This is, this is not just the 656 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,000 fruit. This is the symptom. 657 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,000 This is a symptom to a deeper issue and Paul brings that up 658 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,200 earlier in the same chapter in verse 21. for, although they 659 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:56,300 knew God, They did not honor him as God or give thanks to him. 660 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,600 They didn't give thanks to him. They did not discipline 661 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:08,400 themselves to say God. You are the Reason God apart 662 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,200 from you. This would not be God apart from 663 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:12,200 you. I would not be. 664 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:18,900 They did not thank him. Therefore they were filled with 665 00:46:18,900 --> 00:46:22,500 covetousness. And envy. 666 00:46:24,700 --> 00:46:29,100 You see giving thanks Shields us from being filled with all 667 00:46:29,100 --> 00:46:34,800 manner of unrighteousness. It keeps us humble It keeps us 668 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,000 joyful. It keeps us full. 669 00:46:38,900 --> 00:46:43,200 It keeps us prioritizing what needs to be prioritized. 670 00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:47,400 And it keeps God where he belongs in our hearts. 671 00:46:50,100 --> 00:46:52,300 You can know this for certain that people who Walk In the 672 00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:57,100 Flesh even within the community of Faith people that strive 673 00:46:57,100 --> 00:46:58,700 against one. Another people that bigger 674 00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:01,200 against one other people that complain all the time, just like 675 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,700 the Israelites complained about Moses and about Aaron about 676 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,800 this, and people that do that, I can tell you one thing, they 677 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:12,900 don't give, thanks to God. Or they might pair it some words 678 00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:17,900 off a screen but there is no personal praise in their lives. 679 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,600 Do they pray? They asked God for a lot of 680 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:25,100 things but they do not stop to say God before I ask for another 681 00:47:25,100 --> 00:47:26,500 thing. I thank you. 682 00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:29,300 For what you've given me already. 683 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,000 They don't do that because that's what my Bible teaches. 684 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,300 Thanksgiving Shields your heart. It's The Floodgate from all this 685 00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:45,500 filth coming in because mankind refused to give, thanks to him. 686 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:50,800 They inherited all these things that are described how there's 687 00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,200 so many things about Thanksgiving. 688 00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:54,700 But let me give you a final one Thanksgiving. 689 00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:57,600 Not only is a remedy that rescues us from anxiety. 690 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:03,100 Thanksgiving is not only the protection From so much sin. 691 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:08,600 Thanksgiving is a light that brightens our Witness. our final 692 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:18,500 text is back in Philippians 2:14 Philippians 2:14 you and I heard 693 00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:21,100 in the beginning that in the last days, there will be those 694 00:48:21,100 --> 00:48:24,500 who will grow in their ingratitude more and more people 695 00:48:24,500 --> 00:48:28,200 will be ungrateful. So what do we do about it? 696 00:48:29,100 --> 00:48:31,400 What's our duty as Believers? Well here it is. 697 00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:36,800 Philippians 2:14 do all things without grumbling or disputing. 698 00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,400 Do you think the Greek means all things or do you think it means 699 00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,900 some things? All things. 700 00:48:42,900 --> 00:48:46,000 This is probably one of the most challenging things, most 701 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,600 challenging, Christian disciplines, all things without 702 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:53,200 grumbling or disputing. God, why can't you leave room 703 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,900 for some things all things? Because there's something at 704 00:48:57,900 --> 00:49:03,000 stake, that's why. That you may be blameless and 705 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,300 innocent children of God without blemish, in the midst of a 706 00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:10,800 crooked and twisted generation among whom you shine as lights 707 00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,100 in the world. See what he's saying here. 708 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:20,700 This is for the sake of the Gospel. because if we're not 709 00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:26,400 careful, we can muddy the gospel with our grumbles and groans. 710 00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:34,900 The motivation is be careful how you express your frustration. 711 00:49:36,100 --> 00:49:38,400 Be careful how you voice your annoyance. 712 00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:43,400 Be careful how you manage your attitude as you perform all 713 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,200 duties. All kinds of duties. 714 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:47,700 Because there's a watching world. 715 00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:53,900 There's a listening world. By performing all things with 716 00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:57,100 the genuine Spirit of gratitude. We stand out. 717 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,100 We stand out. Let me give you a very simple 718 00:50:02,100 --> 00:50:03,800 observation that you probably made. 719 00:50:04,500 --> 00:50:06,900 Isn't it wonderful to be around people who don't complain. 720 00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,600 Like I feel lighter. Not only that I'm blessed 721 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,600 because when you know what that person is going through and 722 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,900 they're not being superficial, they're not being like plasticy, 723 00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:22,000 they're being real. When they can they can look at 724 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,500 the positivity. They can look at the sanctifying 725 00:50:24,500 --> 00:50:26,200 element of whatever they're experiencing. 726 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,300 It's like your magnetized towards such people. 727 00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:33,600 And sometimes it even can Vic's you and sometimes you even like, 728 00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:35,000 yeah, but it really bothered. You didn't handle. 729 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:35,700 I cannot praise. God. 730 00:50:35,700 --> 00:50:37,500 God is in control. You like you sure like, I didn't 731 00:50:37,500 --> 00:50:39,800 do anything to you and you're like because there's something 732 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:45,300 Supernatural about it. And the opposite is true, it's 733 00:50:45,300 --> 00:50:47,700 amazing. How contagious negativity is, 734 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,800 it's amazing that you can sit with people even a group of 735 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,600 friends, and all of a sudden, somebody starts complaining 736 00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,700 about the church about how they don't do this and what starts 737 00:50:56,700 --> 00:50:57,900 happening. Oh yeah, you know, it alls. 738 00:50:57,900 --> 00:51:03,400 I also don't like that. And then you were intending to 739 00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,200 come to be built up. As we should would, leave it in 740 00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:06,300 your. Leave me there more frustrated 741 00:51:06,300 --> 00:51:11,100 than anything I know this is really practical but it will 742 00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:15,400 save your soul if you're serious about being a witness for Christ 743 00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,100 and you're going to be serious about Thanksgiving. 744 00:51:19,700 --> 00:51:21,000 You're going to be serious about it. 745 00:51:22,700 --> 00:51:25,700 And I want to tell you today that a watching world needs a 746 00:51:25,700 --> 00:51:29,500 thankful Church. Come on, man. 747 00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:30,900 Are you serious? I'm serious. 748 00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,600 I didn't write this. God did. 749 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:40,800 And the more twisted and crooked a generation becomes, the more 750 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,300 we must be disciplined to make sure that we don't complain like 751 00:51:44,300 --> 00:51:46,800 they do how fitting for a covid age. 752 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,300 How fitting for a day in which we see things that are causing 753 00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:54,700 people to act in a certain manner. 754 00:51:54,700 --> 00:51:57,100 I'm not saying that I agree with it and I'm not saying I'm not 755 00:51:57,100 --> 00:51:59,000 mad about it. I am frustrated about it. 756 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:06,400 Had a chance to go to the gym with after these crazy things, 757 00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:10,500 these mandates. And I went to the employee and I 758 00:52:10,500 --> 00:52:12,700 just I just looked at him because I had to go through a 759 00:52:12,707 --> 00:52:14,600 process to make sure that I can go in. 760 00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:19,300 And as I looked at him, I just said, sure, people are giving 761 00:52:19,300 --> 00:52:22,100 you a lot of headache, right? And he just, he didn't even say 762 00:52:22,100 --> 00:52:23,300 anything. He just stopped and he looked at 763 00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:28,200 me, he goes and he went back. And I thought to myself, check 764 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:29,600 this out. This actually ran through my 765 00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,100 mind because I was giving him my religious exemption. 766 00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:40,700 I better not blow this. Because the world, the world, 767 00:52:40,700 --> 00:52:44,500 they're good at their good at expressing themselves with no 768 00:52:44,500 --> 00:52:48,000 restraint. But this guy knows that I'm 769 00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,600 coming in here and there's my faith is involved to why I don't 770 00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:52,900 do this. And I don't do that. 771 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,400 He knows now. He knows who I am. 772 00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:01,300 Every time I come in and I give my barcode, he sees religious 773 00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:07,000 exemption. There's a watching world. 774 00:53:09,300 --> 00:53:13,500 And Thanksgiving. It's not just for you and me, 775 00:53:13,500 --> 00:53:16,500 it's for people to be convinced that the gospel is enough. 776 00:53:18,300 --> 00:53:21,300 Thanksgiving is for people who have no one to thank. 777 00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,400 To see that we actually believe in a God who is good and who is 778 00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:29,200 perfect, and who supplies all our needs? 779 00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:34,900 And who is our salvation, And if you think I'm pointing the 780 00:53:34,900 --> 00:53:37,300 finger you today, you've heard it, right? 781 00:53:39,500 --> 00:53:44,900 The three right back at me. I thank God for the Holy Spirit 782 00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:50,200 or else we're doomed. We're doomed, even in 783 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:54,300 Thanksgiving. But I can tell you this, he is 784 00:53:54,300 --> 00:53:57,800 our helper. And if you by faith just as 785 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,500 though, I preached on praying on different occasion, If You by 786 00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:02,600 faith will say, I'm going to apply this to my life. 787 00:54:04,100 --> 00:54:06,600 I have no doubt in my mind that you will be a different person. 788 00:54:08,100 --> 00:54:12,300 I have no my I have no doubt in my mind that you will be saved 789 00:54:12,300 --> 00:54:16,500 from much unnecessary harm. Let's give, thanks. 790 00:54:38,300 --> 00:54:43,200 Lord, we thank you for the sharp blade of your word. 791 00:54:44,900 --> 00:54:49,900 We thank your God. That your prescription is for 792 00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:54,000 our good. Heavenly Father. 793 00:54:55,900 --> 00:55:00,700 Let the world be ungrateful. But may not be found in US. 794 00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,000 Teach us to praise. Not just the prey but teach us 795 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:10,100 to praise teach us to specifically sanctify. 796 00:55:11,300 --> 00:55:16,300 Certain. Moments of our day. 797 00:55:18,700 --> 00:55:22,700 To give you praise. And as we do that, Lord protect 798 00:55:22,700 --> 00:55:26,600 us from legalistic attitudes, protect us from from not knowing 799 00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:32,300 the joy of this process. Lord, we are grateful to you. 800 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,100 Apart from you. We are nothing and we have 801 00:55:37,100 --> 00:55:41,200 nothing but we thank you. We, thank you that you are for 802 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:44,500 us and not against us and we thank you, o God, that you have 803 00:55:44,500 --> 00:55:47,800 primarily saved our soul from hell, you've saved our soul from 804 00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,300 your wrath that we have eternal life with you forever. 805 00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:54,800 We thank you. We, thank you that we have more 806 00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,500 than enough resources beyond for the need of survival. 807 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:02,200 We are now swimming in enjoyment and in comfort, and in 808 00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,600 Opportunities, and in toys, We are thankful. 809 00:56:06,700 --> 00:56:09,100 We're thankful that we have friendships in this place. 810 00:56:09,100 --> 00:56:13,700 We're thankful that we can worship you without any threats 811 00:56:14,300 --> 00:56:18,000 for our lives. We thank you that will get into 812 00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:23,000 cars in the next couple of hours and drive and we don't have to 813 00:56:23,900 --> 00:56:28,700 walk three hours to get home. We thank you, we thank you that 814 00:56:28,700 --> 00:56:31,400 we will have food to eat right after this. 815 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:35,300 We thank you. Help us. 816 00:56:35,300 --> 00:56:39,000 Oh God, to always find your goodness. 817 00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:40,600 And not find fault. Help us. 818 00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,100 Oh God! We've realized the seriousness 819 00:56:43,100 --> 00:56:45,600 of our murmurings. So protect us from such things. 820 00:56:46,700 --> 00:56:51,700 And Lord, we may fail at this. So continue to teach us and 821 00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:57,600 guide us moving forward. And Lord as people come to this 822 00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:02,900 church, may they find a grateful people filled with contentment 823 00:57:02,900 --> 00:57:08,300 filled with joy satisfied in God and God Alone, we want to 824 00:57:08,308 --> 00:57:11,400 worship you. And thanks for your goodness in 825 00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:13,300 Jesus name we pray. Amen. 826 00:56:56,300 --> 00:56:59,800 And Lord as people come to this church, may they find a grateful 827 00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:05,300 people filled with contentment filled with joy satisfied in God 828 00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,800 and God Alone, we want to worship you. 829 00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:12,400 And thanks for your goodness in Jesus name we pray. 830 00:57:12,900 --> 00:57:13,300 Amen.