Title: Why Be Grateful?
year 2014
October
12 days
Sermon Title
Why should I be thankful?
preacher
Old Testament text
1 Chronicles 29:10-19
New Testament text
Mark 8:6-9
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Old Testament
10 David blessed the LORD before all the congregation, saying, "O LORD, the God of our father Israel, are you from everlasting to everlasting?
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11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty; everything in heaven and on earth is Yours.
The sovereignty belongs to you, O LORD, for you are exalted and head over all.
12 Wealth and honor come from you, and you are lord over all, and in your hand is power and might, to make all men great,
Strength is in your hand.
13 Now we give thanks to you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
14 What are I and my people, that I have the strength to give with such a joyful heart? All things come from you.
I gave you what I received from your hand.
15 For we are strangers and sojourners before the Lord, like our fathers; our days in the world are like a shadow, so hope is
there is no
16 O LORD our God, all these things that we have saved in advance to build a temple for your holy name are you.
from the hand of yours, all are yours.
17 I know that you, my God, search the hearts and delight in uprightness.
You have given all you have, and now I am very glad to see your people here also volunteering to you.
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18 O LORD, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, you have set this in the hearts of your people forever,
revive him, and prepare his heart to turn to the Lord.
19 And you have given my son Solomon a sincere heart to keep your commandments, your admonitions, and your statutes, to do all these things;
Let the temple be built with what you have prepared for it.
new testament
6 Jesus commanded the crowds to sit on the ground, and took the seven loaves, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to share.
distributed to the crowd
7 And there were a couple of small fish, and he blessed them and commanded them to share these as well.
8 They ate, and gathered seven baskets of leftover pieces.
9 There were about four thousand men. Jesus scattered them and sent them away.
sermon
Even when we pray, we do not know the will of God well.
What is the reason for receiving answers to prayers as they are? Romans 8:26 says that the Holy Spirit prays for us.
is. The Holy Spirit searches our hearts and knows exactly what we need. And God's will
obviously you know Therefore, since the Holy Spirit groans and prays earnestly for the saints according to God's will, that prayer must be
that will be done.
But here the Bible makes a surprising declaration for us. We are not only the ones whose prayers reach us, we are all
They are people who work together for good. In all of this there are happy and good things as well as sad and painful things.
Even if it is unfortunate, it is said that all work together for good. How is that possible?
The reason is given in verses 29 and 30. It is that God foreknew us and foreordained us to become like Jesus Christ.
because it is God's amazing plan does not stop there.
God called them in due time and justified them by giving them faith.
And he says that in the end he will glorify those who are justified.
This is why you have called us. You are called to give all these things.
We, who have received this word, know how great God's love is, and we cannot doubt that love.
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