Title: Gratitude and Life (July 18, 2004)
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Date: July 18, 2004
Word: Mark 6:30-44
Title: Gratitude and Life
Contents:
Last Sunday I preached on the subject of Thanksgiving and Blessing.
Just as gratitude and blessing are inseparable, so gratitude and life are inseparable.
Let's be grateful in nature.
“In the book of Genesis, God created everything in this world and gave it to man, subdue it and rule it.”
Everyone should be thankful for coming to this earth empty-handed. If you think you have received a lot, you should be grateful even more abundantly.
Let's give thanks for the special grace.
We should be thankful for being like the image of God. We should be thankful that God is our Father.
The crowds who followed Jesus Christ continued to grow with rumors, and those who came followed frantically for three days as they tasted the gospel of the kingdom of the Lord and witty explanations and power.
And today, the sun is setting in the field at Baeseda, and people are hungry and have no food. At this time, the Lord had the disciples prepare bread, which was worth two hundred denarii. It was impossible for the disciples.
However, with the five barley loaves and the two fish that the child brought, the Lord showed an amazing work so that even if only 5,000 men ate to their fullness, there were still 12 loaves left. Do you definitely believe in the amazing power of God's five bastards?
The Lord is telling us many things in the text. However, today, in the month of thanksgiving, what I want to offer in the text is that gratitude is the power. 5,000 men alone!! And there were 12 Gwangju or so left. However, in front of this wonderful miracle of power, there was the Lord's thanksgiving.
the Lord
① He took the bread and looked up to the sky and gave thanks.
I thank Heavenly Father and blessed him. Our members give thanks to God every time we eat food. The Bible teaches us to give thanks in everything, not just when we eat.
② Even with the most insignificant things, the Lord looked up to heaven and gave thanks.
Believers should be able to be filled with gratitude even for the smallest things.
But let's think back to when we first brought this rice cake and meat.
③ Rejoice in giving rather than receiving
To be honest, is the person who got it a blessed person?
Is the giver blessed?
How happy and thankful was the child who gave the barley bread to the Lord?