Title: Thanksgiving Message / Leviticus 23:39-40
Leviticus 23:39-40
After you have gathered all the crops from your fields, you must keep the feasts to the Lord for seven days from the full moon of the seventh month. The first day is a day of rest. Even the eighth day is a day of rest. On the first day you shall bring fruit from a good tree, and pluck palm branches and luxuriant branches and willows, and enjoy the seven feast days before the Lord your God.
Mark 4:26-29
Jesus said again. “The kingdom of God can be likened to this. A man sows a seed in the ground, and while he sleeps at night and wakes up during the day, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not know how it becomes. It produces buds on its own, first sprouts, then the ears, and then the grains of the ears. As soon as the fruit ripens, the sickle is put on it. Because the harvest time has come."
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Always rejoice. Pray constantly. Be grateful for everything. This is the will of God for you in Jesus Christ.
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The Jews are the most cursed people in the world, the people who have suffered unspeakable injustice and suffering. In the second world war, Hitler killed 6 million people in gas chambers, despite being constantly invaded, slaughtered, and taken into slavery by powerful countries, and living in unspeakable poverty, hunger, and suffering. It was the people. But when those people read the Old Testament, they are always full of gratitude. This is the power of the Jews. Nevertheless, as you may have seen their lives for which I am always grateful, I have vivid memories of seeing a movie I saw a long time ago. Despite the unfair and painful persecution and difficult life in Ukraine, they gathered in one village and sang hiddlers on the roof, hugging each other, dancing and singing thanks. it was to indicate. We don't think Jews are good, but we think that's the difference between those who have hope and those who don't.
Jesus Christ, whom we believe in, is now being arrested and dying on the cross with his whole body torn and bleeding. Before his death, he prayed all night, gathered his disciples, offered a prayer of thanks, and then distributed the bread. If we have the heart to give thanks by sharing the bread that the Lord has, the land we are treading today will be a place full of life and love. On this earth where the warmth of love between man and man has already cooled and where true human affection has evaporated, under this sky covered with black clouds of despair, destruction rather than creation, death rather than life, greed rather than love, peace In this reality that has been mixed with false conflicts and lies that are not true, today, we experience with our bodies the power of God's creative power, the energy of love, that sprouts from this polluted hole and brings a harvest from here. As we look at the harvest, we feel grateful once more. With humility in God's providence of new creation, we discover yet another lesson of faith that we can be thankful for.