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2010.11.21 Sunday morning worship service
Bible: Title: Due Gratitude
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 ‘13. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Holy Spirit and faith in the truth.
14. To this end I have called you through our gospel, that you may receive the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.' -Amen.
The German literary genius once said, “The most useless person in the world is the ungrateful person.” Israel had to keep three feasts in the Old Testament era. It was a command, so if you didn't keep it, you were punished if you didn't keep it completely.
Deuteronomy 16:16-17 ‘16. Every male among you three times a year, on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on the Feast of Tabernacles, see the Lord your God in the place the Lord your God has chosen, but do not see the Lord empty-handed; I will give you as much as I can.”
In the New Testament, keeping the feasts in the law only had the spirit in the gospel of Jesus, but the form disappeared. However, although Christianity has been completed spiritually, thanksgiving to God for all things must still be maintained. Among the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles, today the last Feast of Tabernacles is also called the Feast of Ingathering.
Today, on the 3rd Sunday of November this year, the Puritans, who were persecuted in England in 1620, crossed over to the United States to farm and give thanks.
1. We should be thankful for the grace of election
So far, the testimonies of many saints and the studies of theologians have revealed that salvation is defined as the result of the total grace of God. No one can be saved on their own, and it is possible only when God calls them.
After receiving a certain amount of training in the military, they are now assigned to work and go as soon as they are called upon. It is not the will of the soldier, but the command of the superior. He also compared the kingdom of heaven to a banquet house, just as we can only go to a banquet house if we are invited by the Lord in the world, we have received the benefits of salvation from the Lord's call. is.
John 15:16 'You did not choose me, but I chose you...' 2 Thessalonians 2:13 '... Brothers and sisters, we ought always to give thanks to God for you, that from the beginning God Choose ...'
Just as he chose Israel in Deuteronomy 7:6, Ephesians 1:4 said that we Christians were predestined and called before the foundation of the world.
2. We must be thankful for the faith
It is recorded in Ephesians 2:8 that believing in the gospel and believing in Jesus and God is a mysterious thing and is a gift of grace from God.
Of course, we should believe that we are the chosen people, but faith itself is a gift from God, so we should be thankful, not boastful. It is something to be thankful for that I believe in Jesus as my Savior and live in hope in this evil age. Those who have not met Jesus will always live in vain in the world and go to the kingdom of punishment.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 “…Give thanks to God, for God has chosen you from the beginning… that you should be saved through faith in the truth.”
Faith is not something to brag about because it does not come from human character or zeal. Ephesians 2:9 “It is not of works, so that no one can boast”
3. Thank you for glorifying
The glory in the world is only the things that are seen and exalted by the Jewish way of thinking, and we are grateful and honored.
2 Thessalonians 2:4 “… he called you through the gospel, that you might receive the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
When the time for Jesus to die on the cross approaches, even when he prays to the Father in thanksgiving, John 12:23 “...the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.”
The Hebrew word for glory, kabod (dwObK), originally meant weight and meant important and valuable. Therefore, glory means not only the appearance of the Lord's resurrection, but also the glory of martyrdom for the sake of God's holy will. Because it is said that there are sufferings if we live according to the gospel, and it means that suffering itself brings glory to God.
In John 21:19, when the Lord foretold any kind of death of Peter, He said that He would give glory. Therefore, please believe that the sufferings of the saints are glory according to the gospel.
Nevertheless, in most comparisons with the world, the saints glorify it through a victorious life. Christian history has proven so, and even the Jews in the Old Testament see things going well in the world as they are the object of God's grace.
In this way, we must live with a heart of gratitude for God's grace that gives us victory through choice, faith, and the world.
The Greek word for thanks is ojfeivlw, which means to owe money. That is to say, I am a person to whom I have to be grateful. It is as if the moral burden of having a debt-pumasi to be grateful for because the work of the world is too great.
The Chinese word for gratitude must first be realized, i.e., a feeling to be felt before giving an example. Saying thank you, I think paying a few pennies is a reduction in production, but it's not like that, but when I realized God's will, I couldn't help but be thankful.
Psalm 116:12 “With what shall I repay the Lord for all the favors you have given me?”
Me and everyone, we have many things to be thankful for in the world, but do not lose the spirit of gratitude for the most precious grace of salvation. I wish you lots of work to do.