Title: True Gratitude
Contents
Bible Text: Luke 17:11-19
true gratitude
Introduction
David Soper pointed out the difference between a prison and a monastery in his book The Inescapable God. He said that the fundamental difference between prisons and monasteries lies in complaints and gratitude. Convicts in prison always spend everything complaining, while monks in monasteries spend every waking moment with gratitude. However, any prison can become a monastery if the prisoners give thanks, and a monastery can become a prison if the monks stop auditing.
So, are we always complaining like the prisoners in prison today?
Or are you living with gratitude from moment to moment like the monks? Perhaps most of us sometimes complain like prisoners in prison, and sometimes live a life of gratitude like monks in monasteries. Of course, like prisoners, complaining is more common than being grateful. Through today's text event, we can know what kind of gratitude God is pleased with.
Main subject
1. God says that true gratitude is the remembrance of grace.
2. God says true gratitude is to glorify God.
3. It says that God works out perfect salvation to those who give thanks.
In verse 19, the Lord declared to the Samaritan who returned alone to give thanks, “Rise and go, for your faith has made you well.” These verses tell us that the Samaritan was not only saved from leprosy in body, but now his soul was also eternally forgiven and saved. So ten lepers found the Lord and were healed. In the true sense of the word, there was only one person who was completely saved, the Samaritan. Although they all received the Lord's grace, the nine men received physical and temporary salvation, while the Samaritans received salvation both spiritually and physically. How pitiful are the nine people who were saved in the flesh, but did not thank God for the grace they received and did not give glory to God. However, the Samaritan who came to Jesus, the eternal High Priest, expressed his thanks and gave glory to him, and entered the city of the eternal kingdom of heaven. How much grace over grace? Yes. Herein lies the eternal distinction between the grateful and the unthankful.
conclusion
Therefore, let us not be like the Jews, who were only temporarily saved without giving thanks for the grace they received, like the nine foolish men, but always remembering the grace they received, and going to God to give thanks and glory. You must live a life that turns When we truly live a life of gratitude that God is pleased with, God prepares eternal salvation and heaven as a gift for us, and when the time comes, He will surely lead us there.