The Sermon Expressing Gratitude by David McGee
Nov 21, 2010
Expressing Gratitude (35:02)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 7:1-12; Psalm 107:1-14
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Matthew 7:1-12
1) "Don‘t judge, so that you won‘t be judged.
2) For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged: and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
3) Why do you see the speck that is in your brother‘s eye, but don‘t consider the beam that is in your own eye?
4) Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;‘ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
5) You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother‘s eye.
6) "Don‘t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
7) "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.
8) For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
9) Or what man is there of you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
10) Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
11) If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
12) Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Psalm 107:1-14
1) Give thanks to Yahweh, For he is good, For his lovingkindness endures forever.
2) Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, Whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
3) Gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.
4) They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
5) Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
6) Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, And he delivered them out of their distresses,
7) He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city to live in.
8) Let them praise Yahweh for his lovingkindness, For his wonderful works to the children of men!
9) For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
10) Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
11) Because they rebelled against the words of God, And condemned the counsel of the Most High.
12) Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help.
13) Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses.
14) He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their bonds in sunder.
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Seven verses one through twelve. Matthew chapter seven, verses one through twelve. Whenever we whenever we think of them. This this Thursday is what day Thanksgiving. Thank you so you're thinking it had anybody planning on cooking a turkey this unfiltered had said at anybody going someplace else for Turkey day passes in a I always like those from those sorrows. Last year, sometimes listen to radio event is cooking show and the lady and a lady called on Thanksgiving day and she called up. This is what I do with his turkey and guys is wanting to get out of Fraser, she says yes, I'm getting it out now so needless to say she was not having a Thanksgiving meal that day but so we are to prepare ourselves for God 's goodness in our life and and we did. We spoke about some of this last week and I'm how that gratitude. Gratitude is something that that we have to express often we think that life is not a change and then will be grateful and it doesn't happen that way gratitude and thankfulness is a door that only opens from the inside and being thankful does not want to barge into your life and say here. Be thankful, though no one can barge and your life and say you need to be thankful. Here it is. Look at the good things in your life, thankfulness and something that counseling& and the inside is that which comes from our relationship with Jesus Christ when we have this relationship with Jesus Christ. Things change so I'm going to read this descriptor. It isn't it. This is, this kind of a starting with the opposite side. Hopefully I'll finish. I was sorry the opposite side, while what is not to be thankful while here we have a bit while I waited today is different. That's why Matthew chapter seven, verses one through twenty of one through twelve of this is from the message Bible says don't pick on people jump on their failures and criticize their faults, unless of course you want the same treatment that critical spirit has a way of boomerang and it's easy to see how a smart on your neighbor 's phase. It's easy to see a smartphone, your neighbor 's phrase and be oblivious to the ugly smear on your own. You have the nerve to say to wash your face when -year-old faces distorted by content owners. This lodging a little bit of dirt on the other person 's race, and there is a term of the error on your way and your son. Let me wash your face because you got guard on, and then saying we have gotten ugly snare on the earth that will chat watch all the rivers near an assessment is lying about here, it's that we wash her face when -year-old faces distorted by content is the whole. It's this whole traveling road show mentality. This whole traveling roadshow mentality all over again playing a holier than thou part instead of just living your part might Andres Sarah Brown. Thanks please fit to offer a washcloth to the neighbors dog leaflet with the start with the sacred banter and silliness can no honor to God. Don't reduce holy mysteries to slogans and trying to be relevant. You're only being cute and inviting sacrilege don't bargain with God. The direct as for what you need. This is in a cat and mouse hide and seek game wherein if your child asks for bread, you tricked him by sawdust, giving and sawdust every as for fish you scared them with a live snake on his plate as bad as you are you one think of such a thing, nine oh seven eight. Oh I got a good idea right now you at least do send in your own with your own children don't think the God who can see you doing well will he will be with you while anyhow gotten better. Here is a simple rule of thumb that his guy friends as a guide for you. Ask yourself what you want people to do for you then grab the initiative and do it for them. Ask yourself what you want people to do for you then grab the initiative and do it for them, and add up God 's law and prophets, and this is what you will get you want to others as you would have them do unto you. So is my backdoor gratitude and love back door to gratitude state what is a critical spirit knowing talk about who we will get to the thing about what what a giving spirit is about to think for a moment, a critical spirit is in this industry in the Scriptures that we read the critical spirit as one of pics on people, one that jumps on their failures, one that criticizes their fault critical spirit has away on boomerang what the Scripture tells us it can be critical about it, back slapping the back and had usually whatsoever a man so what that shall he also rate no one can night and being thankful is an inside job. No one can open the door for Thanksgiving and being thankful, but the person on the inside so once it's telling us in this in this text is that the critical spirit is like throwing a boomerang map and when you throw a boomerang if your skill is getting is out for twelve rounds was back at you like a new man throw a boomerang addendum back there and I think I lost the gun ban similar throughout the Québec and you know what you're doing, and that's what happens with a critical spirit in boomerangs on us and women being critical doesn't solve anything. You you have the nerve to say when the washer, dirty face and gotten ugly sneer on euro, so playing a role of religious original exhausted to your being, playing the role of being holier than someone else is not put our relationship with Jesus Christ is about. Ask yourself what you want people to do for you what kind of response you want people to give to you what type of relationship you want to have with people take the initiative and begin that within begin the relationship that you want to have began it with other people that we must take that initiative and doing it. If you want people to invite you over for Thanksgiving invite them over to your house and asked them to bring the five health. But you know what we want to want the kind of person we want to be is a kind of the kind of people we want to meet on the kind of person we wanted we have our friends and the people were acquaintances. I'm not lifting us up. Then we need to check out who our friends are. We need to check them out. I want type relationship you have with solutions is. I have, in the halls, though, so the essays as they saw people who are quick to pass judgment. Jesus warns us to judge ourselves to judge our own actions and actions, and to jog our own attitudes and not shy to make our statements. The final answer islands after final answer it off, I want your opinion outside what it is that everything that's not what scriptures telling us we are not to search for the worst in people, but we are to search for the best web search for the best in our lives. Remember last week we spoke about gratitude and how that out whenever we are grateful. We are building upon what we have people who are ungrateful are individuals that are constantly focus on what's missing. And you know you can never build anything in your life. I what's missing. You have to build your life on what and if you're not thankful for what you have more won't change anything, so if you are grateful for what you have God as a way of building on what you have, to build up what is missing in your life as it is that these are the principles that God wants us to have as part of character part of our relationship with him. I am our relationship with others. If we all fall finders with the wires and where father was how do we build on what is the worst we have to dismiss it because of the eye. Because of these failures that people have. We all have them. Our society has of individuals, communities, and there isn't any place that doesn't have failure falls, so blogging is an interesting how the God in his infinite wisdom looks at us and the first thing he wants to do in our relationship is forgive us of everything that is wrong in our life. The first thing God wants to do is forgive us of all of our failures because you can't build your life on failures. You can only build your life on what you have. So, when God forgives us of our sins, he forgives us of our sins removes those standards. Both barriers from our life and begins to implant his word at which case the promises of God takes the godly qualities that God has placed in our life, and he begins to build on the those seeds up the seeds of greatness are already planted in your soul, the shades of gray. It is already there. One. One person said it this way, said can you imagine going to the city in the springtime of the reasons this illustration he imagine going to the soil and science of the dirt can I have an advance on next fall harvest. No wonder the dirt and sing to me an advance on the next fall harvest the file well thanks a lot give me your scene, not your needs. Give me your scene. If you plan to save in the soil. The soil will give us a harvest, but many times we come. I need this and I mean no one, we have take a walk. We happened taking the seeds of what God has planted in us and give Angela that we plant them in our faith. We planted in our lives. We planted in the lives of others. It begins to take on a life of its own life and see so. First Corinthians four five says don't get ahead of the master and jump to conclusions. You say the reason we can be thankful if that were not jumping ahead were not passing judgment on ourselves and were not passing judgment on others. It says don't get a handle the massive jump to conclusions. Don't jump to conclusions with your adjustments before all the evidence is in. When he found he will bring out and bring into the open and place in evidence all kinds of things that we never dreamed inner motives and purposes and prayers. Only then will one of us get to hear the word of God to us. Well done thou good and faithful servant whenever we focus on what's missing were jumping to conclusions. Whenever we focus on what's wrong with other people in passing judgment on their lives. We are jumping to conclusions. The idea that the Scriptures telling us landed in God 's hands. Then why therefore, I would thank God will take care of all the things of God among all the bad people on holiday. Gone will be the one who will take care of all that is always an focus on what good things God has brought in for a life without getting into the blame game and without passing judgment. The thankful that God is the judge makes a holy God is the judge and not us, because he will judge fairly. God knows what we can do and what any knows what to expect of us, a downline art world. These outline are our hopes. These outline the mall across this placement inside of us. So what should our list of so much of our first impressions be whatever we are looking at ourselves and looking at our relationship with other people. What is the first impression, we should be the first impression, we should have is one of faithfulness, not all of you this much in your face adjourned. They watch long with somebody. It should be a civilian attitude of gratitude and attitude of thankfulness. It should be an attitude of gratefulness that God has given us this opportunity to interact and be part of all our relationship with one another, so we must be thankful in order to see thankful you must be a thankful order to save thankful it's almost like after being you have a blue shirt and orders a blue shirt of a judge, ever buy a car, get in the car whenever you drive down the road music while I don't deliver somebody these parts. I why what you said then you need to pick it out, and understanding happens when being thankful what you said you begin to pick up any of the pickup on an individual take care of already part of who you are and what you do so if you don't want for thankfulness and yourself and another shall never say it can be all around you, but not in thisI be thankful to see things worthy of gratitude to see things where the ingratitude, what things are worth being grateful for. I was not awkward to talk what are some things I went being grateful for my waking up in the morning. How maybe we don't like to wake up in the morning that so what are you thankful for what that raving at item brave on sleep and then set up, but I'm rating I'm not for the breast delivery barely break last week reminded us of that being grateful is that all the smoking something part give thanks in all things give me a thing that you thankful for family water job. Good how friends with me, Jenny came back from El Salvador. They did now to live or die with her cancer, but she responded to the treatments and she's doing very well right now so were grateful for that well this is done with Gmail. Yes, their favorite one came out, but you see, there's some things in an NL West would just start start naming them, and that's that's that's that's our problem is that if we think about okay if I ask you what, what's missing in your life would that be much easier to talk about than what you thankful for the web once lets me why wouldn't I don't have this in our last one. There is no one- I would yell and Ali Norlin Gateway rightists, Oregon, Alan, which is eight. Start on the programming that we put it here and in our life when we talk a lot about what we don't and and and that's our fault, but it's also are aware consumer society. The consumer society exists on consumption. That means it what you have is in good enough. We've got to have more soul. Therefore you by you. You got to always be seeing where all the advertisements, especially now that his neighbors. Form them look at the garden of eyes you could have one was named Xavier. Later we got it for you and you can have a right now to really good price on the move is a adult word work with that. That's our our our whole society is based on that. So if you know we've learned this initiative we've learned this now, I'm Dennis and it's away with a coming time. If you take a test, but we think it would be how many we missed a person. When asked why would you miss on your desk would you write a lot of info that the budget of the challenge is what you get what is so we look at why we get right to what we build on. You know I was alive. Saindon said that the we should measure knowledge by what we have because only build on the knowledge you have, to get more bigger build on what you don't know the author only guides us are used to help us understand what we know an empty node being thankful, then, is looking at what we have likely now is in our life and what we are thankful for that. Being there. It all begins in Christ. Everything that we have in our life that is of value is a gift from God, even people who don't believe in God. God has given them gifts and blessings in our life. God is a five hundred every good and perfect gift is a gift from God. God online. First Thessalonians five eighteen. Everything give thanks in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God 's will for you in Christ. The key is in Christ. This is God 's will give thanks we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and our relationship. We are giving thanks to God is with us, and if God is with me. I can face these things. Nothing should ever come between God and I nothing should ever come between God and you. Everything is Jesus Christ and me the hope of glory. Jesus Christ and me. The whole point. If the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, you shall quicken your mortal bodies. These look like enough. It is God in us and that is the quickening. I am in Christ, he is in me. We are together in this end Christ my sins are forgiven in Christ, he is my strength and I always pass away all things become new. Jesus Christ, I have eternal life in Jesus Christ as my brain and my throat and my life in Christ. I am healed and declines. Here's my righteousness my right rubric my right standing with God. I am in Christ, he is in the that we are together in this and in this togetherness, I can face the things of life. I can place the circumstances of life. I can be thankful for life. Paul and present in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice how can he say that while he is in prison because he and Jesus are in this together and then he goes into life. There he experiences life that he experiences what is going on Daniel in the Lions den, he obeyed God people plotted Daniel said, I'll continue to pray. I sent King says you're not allowed to ask petitions of anyone except the median for a period of time, and Daniel continue to pray. So what they do with them. When the Lions den, Daniel and God went to the den. What happens when Daniel and daughter together and the lines then the lines aren't hungry from their mouths are closed and Danielle spends the night in the Lions den Daniel and God together facing the circumstances of the lines that the three Hebrew children. I spoke Wednesday night in the and a dinner and one of the ladies goes to the· Joseph Henry, afterwards we're talking I said I was about the Cleveland show, and I'll think she knew who they were directly second indigo in the fiery furnace- to three hundred children and you probably thought my kids at his wonderful lady, but we are talking about God the three men, then they would not bow down to the case to the idle. So they stood up with God, God, and then together stood up to date indicate an end. The declaration was okay. Our daughters while able to deliver us from your furnace, but he doesn't. That's okay, we still won't bow down to the ideas they and God were able to face their life circumstances. We are in Christ are able to face our life, and from that position, front left, respectively are able to see God 's hand working with them, and then allow the outcome, but they're not going to back down from what they relate to the relationship that they have with God. They go to the fiery furnace. The throne in the fiery furnace, and the case as I thought we were throwing in their icy for I see for whenever we look at our lives we look in the near one. See two people, but does it have double vision because God is with us. Jesus in me the hope of glory God, and I together first Corinthians fifteen fifty seven but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through Christ and then cries. I am more than a conqueror in Jesus Christ. I live in hope and peace in Jesus Christ. He is my righteousness and Jesus Christ. I have eternal life in Jesus Christ to see how all this begins to take on a perspective that God is with us, and there is a victory that is in our life, because of our relationship with Christ. I must see thanks. I must see the things I'm thankful for before I began to see the marvelous and I see them around me, be steadfast, immovable of abounding in the work of the Lord, be steadfast in our relationship with Christ in the Cheju abounding in the work of God is Thanksgiving in abundance. There's an abundance that goes on in our life and no one can build anything without something you can't build anything without something if the use of some things that build some other things if the use of thankfulness that builds gratitude if you think were going to get gratitude, and then be thankful it happen that a start with our own perspective, and it's got to start with our daily use. Now there's a favorite story. Now I make it a bath in the last week why you took one before then just why Gaffigan one one. We know why the promises of God are renewed every morning we got misty down this same way were taken aback to take what all the time. Why, because you need it, while the same way with our thinking and our thoughts and our prayers. We have to keep review not alive and being thankful for what we have and we continue every day that we renew the attitude of being grateful. We know the attitude of thanksgiving gratitude is of the courage to look at life from a God centered perspective. Gratitude is the courage to look at life from a God centered perspective. If I have the courage to look at life from a God centered perspective, it means that I cannot be defeated. I can do all things to Christ and gives me strength through twice, I can do that means we are responsible for our actions, and it takes courage to be responsible. It takes courage to stand up to things that are wrong in our lives and things are wrong in our society, and things that are wrong with our friends when our friends don't match the character of Christ. We have to have the courage to stand up to them how racist and all this comes from a grateful heart, a grateful heart knows that I have a relationship with Jesus Christ that is so valuable that I do not want anyone or anything to destroy. I have a relationship with Jesus Christ that is so valuable that nothing on her can separate me from him. I will not allow my attitude, my thoughts, my friends, my circumstances to come between God and I I must have courage and gratitude is a is a courage that I open the door to live and I will be thankful. Already the law when the board to life and thank God I am grateful for this life if you given me. I don't have the right and pass judgment on is not over yet. God is the judge of life, not me. So therefore, I will have courage to try to go through the circumstances and go through life and open the door to life. I want traces of it. Philippians four thirteen I can do all things, the price of his new string that is a correct statement that there is nothing beyond my ability to do that God brings into my life so therefore I must find a way to make it happen to recognize the place we have in Jesus gives us a new perspective. The character of Christ is born in us in that same character that Jesus is saying character that is in us borne by the Holy Spirit human nature. Our human nature was not born with a grateful disposition, but our divine nature is one of gratefulness and gratitude characters built by how your response. What you have, not what you don't, in all things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus, in Christ Jesus. I give thanks because begin does not written yet it's not over yet. There's still life to be lived. The still promises to be fulfilled. There's still opportunity to see good in my life is still opportunity to see the good that God is going to bring in our life is still opportunity for the divine touch God be upon me upon what comes in my life. I thankful nature constantly renewed will sustain itself. Can't a grateful nature that is constantly renewed will sustain itself by giving a bushel of seeing and planting it, yeah, Bush will see porn you have a bushel of seed corn, and you plan that Marshall how much United back in the harvest yell thousands of bushels from one bushel of corn. One associate one will pronounce thousands of bushels of seed and you take part of that seeded planet again and use the rest of thankful heart is that same way as we continue to renew as we continue to plan as we continue to planted in our lives who find how God works in us went on to Psalm one oh seven numbers with this Psalm one oh seven and this is the children of Israel and in an Islamist is writing about them, and he says give thanks to the Lord for he is doing his love endures forever, and that's a key verse in this, and this Psalm give thanks to the Lord for he is God, his love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, those he rendered from the hand of the flow knows he gathered from the lands from the east and the lesson from the North and the South and he goes on to talk about how they got there that some wandered in the desert wasteland, finding no way to a city that they could settle. They were hungry and thirsty in their lives and the way. Then they cried out to the Lord and their troubles, and he delivered them from their distress elected by a straight way to a city where they could settle then let them give thanks Laura for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men, for he satisfies the thirsty, they filled the hungry with good things. Some sat in darkness deepens gloom that goes on inside you talk about the bitterness, a type of opposite. They could likely regain the Lord say so, it goes back to the second number. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good. His love endures forever. Give signs of the Lord for he is good for his love endures forever and he goes through you and me got solvency. How the people were brought from the stress and from the four winds of the earth in the corners of your bottom back together. They were hungry. They were thirsty. But God, bottom, and provided for them and what is to be the attitude one of Thanksgiving, God has a way. God is the way that has then he is our provider in our sustainer, and he is our strength. So let us have the courage to open the door to being great, God is with usSeven verses one through twelve. Matthew chapter seven, verses one through twelve. Whenever we whenever we think of them. This this Thursday is what day Thanksgiving. Thank you so you're thinking it had anybody planning on cooking a turkey this unfiltered had said at anybody going someplace else for Turkey day passes in a I always like those from those sorrows. Last year, sometimes listen to radio event is cooking show and the lady and a lady called on Thanksgiving day and she called up. This is what I do with his turkey and guys is wanting to get out of Fraser, she says yes, I'm getting it out now so needless to say she was not having a Thanksgiving meal that day but so we are to prepare ourselves for God 's goodness in our life and and we did. We spoke about some of this last week and I'm how that gratitude. Gratitude is something that that we have to express often we think that life is not a change and then will be grateful and it doesn't happen that way gratitude and thankfulness is a door that only opens from the inside and being thankful does not want to barge into your life and say here. Be thankful, though no one can barge and your life and say you need to be thankful. Here it is. Look at the good things in your life, thankfulness and something that counseling& and the inside is that which comes from our relationship with Jesus Christ when we have this relationship with Jesus Christ. Things change so I'm going to read this descriptor. It isn't it. This is, this kind of a starting with the opposite side. Hopefully I'll finish. I was sorry the opposite side, while what is not to be thankful while here we have a bit while I waited today is different. That's why Matthew chapter seven, verses one through twenty of one through twelve of this is from the message Bible says don't pick on people jump on their failures and criticize their faults, unless of course you want the same treatment that critical spirit has a way of boomerang and it's easy to see how a smart on your neighbor 's phase. It's easy to see a smartphone, your neighbor 's phrase and be oblivious to the ugly smear on your own. You have the nerve to say to wash your face when -year-old faces distorted by content owners. This lodging a little bit of dirt on the other person 's race, and there is a term of the error on your way and your son. Let me wash your face because you got guard on, and then saying we have gotten ugly snare on the earth that will chat watch all the rivers near an assessment is lying about here, it's that we wash her face when -year-old faces distorted by content is the whole. It's this whole traveling road show mentality. This whole traveling roadshow mentality all over again playing a holier than thou part instead of just living your part might Andres Sarah Brown. Thanks please fit to offer a washcloth to the neighbors dog leaflet with the start with the sacred banter and silliness can no honor to God. Don't reduce holy mysteries to slogans and trying to be relevant. You're only being cute and inviting sacrilege don't bargain with God. The direct as for what you need. This is in a cat and mouse hide and seek game wherein if your child asks for bread, you tricked him by sawdust, giving and sawdust every as for fish you scared them with a live snake on his plate as bad as you are you one think of such a thing, nine oh seven eight. Oh I got a good idea right now you at least do send in your own with your own children don't think the God who can see you doing well will he will be with you while anyhow gotten better. Here is a simple rule of thumb that his guy friends as a guide for you. Ask yourself what you want people to do for you then grab the initiative and do it for them. Ask yourself what you want people to do for you then grab the initiative and do it for them, and add up God 's law and prophets, and this is what you will get you want to others as you would have them do unto you. So is my backdoor gratitude and love back door to gratitude state what is a critical spirit knowing talk about who we will get to the thing about what what a giving spirit is about to think for a moment, a critical spirit is in this industry in the Scriptures that we read the critical spirit as one of pics on people, one that jumps on their failures, one that criticizes their fault critical spirit has away on boomerang what the Scripture tells us it can be critical about it, back slapping the back and had usually whatsoever a man so what that shall he also rate no one can night and being thankful is an inside job. No one can open the door for Thanksgiving and being thankful, but the person on the inside so once it's telling us in this in this text is that the critical spirit is like throwing a boomerang map and when you throw a boomerang if your skill is getting is out for twelve rounds was back at you like a new man throw a boomerang addendum back there and I think I lost the gun ban similar throughout the Québec and you know what you're doing, and that's what happens with a critical spirit in boomerangs on us and women being critical doesn't solve anything. You you have the nerve to say when the washer, dirty face and gotten ugly sneer on euro, so playing a role of religious original exhausted to your being, playing the role of being holier than someone else is not put our relationship with Jesus Christ is about. Ask yourself what you want people to do for you what kind of response you want people to give to you what type of relationship you want to have with people take the initiative and begin that within begin the relationship that you want to have began it with other people that we must take that initiative and doing it. If you want people to invite you over for Thanksgiving invite them over to your house and asked them to bring the five health. But you know what we want to want the kind of person we want to be is a kind of the kind of people we want to meet on the kind of person we wanted we have our friends and the people were acquaintances. I'm not lifting us up. Then we need to check out who our friends are. We need to check them out. I want type relationship you have with solutions is. I have, in the halls, though, so the essays as they saw people who are quick to pass judgment. Jesus warns us to judge ourselves to judge our own actions and actions, and to jog our own attitudes and not shy to make our statements. The final answer islands after final answer it off, I want your opinion outside what it is that everything that's not what scriptures telling us we are not to search for the worst in people, but we are to search for the best web search for the best in our lives. Remember last week we spoke about gratitude and how that out whenever we are grateful. We are building upon what we have people who are ungrateful are individuals that are constantly focus on what's missing. And you know you can never build anything in your life. I what's missing. You have to build your life on what and if you're not thankful for what you have more won't change anything, so if you are grateful for what you have God as a way of building on what you have, to build up what is missing in your life as it is that these are the principles that God wants us to have as part of character part of our relationship with him. I am our relationship with others. If we all fall finders with the wires and where father was how do we build on what is the worst we have to dismiss it because of the eye. Because of these failures that people have. We all have them. Our society has of individuals, communities, and there isn't any place that doesn't have failure falls, so blogging is an interesting how the God in his infinite wisdom looks at us and the first thing he wants to do in our relationship is forgive us of everything that is wrong in our life. The first thing God wants to do is forgive us of all of our failures because you can't build your life on failures. You can only build your life on what you have. So, when God forgives us of our sins, he forgives us of our sins removes those standards. Both barriers from our life and begins to implant his word at which case the promises of God takes the godly qualities that God has placed in our life, and he begins to build on the those seeds up the seeds of greatness are already planted in your soul, the shades of gray. It is already there. One. One person said it this way, said can you imagine going to the city in the springtime of the reasons this illustration he imagine going to the soil and science of the dirt can I have an advance on next fall harvest. No wonder the dirt and sing to me an advance on the next fall harvest the file well thanks a lot give me your scene, not your needs. Give me your scene. If you plan to save in the soil. The soil will give us a harvest, but many times we come. I need this and I mean no one, we have take a walk. We happened taking the seeds of what God has planted in us and give Angela that we plant them in our faith. We planted in our lives. We planted in the lives of others. It begins to take on a life of its own life and see so. First Corinthians four five says don't get ahead of the master and jump to conclusions. You say the reason we can be thankful if that were not jumping ahead were not passing judgment on ourselves and were not passing judgment on others. It says don't get a handle the massive jump to conclusions. Don't jump to conclusions with your adjustments before all the evidence is in. When he found he will bring out and bring into the open and place in evidence all kinds of things that we never dreamed inner motives and purposes and prayers. Only then will one of us get to hear the word of God to us. Well done thou good and faithful servant whenever we focus on what's missing were jumping to conclusions. Whenever we focus on what's wrong with other people in passing judgment on their lives. We are jumping to conclusions. The idea that the Scriptures telling us landed in God 's hands. Then why therefore, I would thank God will take care of all the things of God among all the bad people on holiday. Gone will be the one who will take care of all that is always an focus on what good things God has brought in for a life without getting into the blame game and without passing judgment. The thankful that God is the judge makes a holy God is the judge and not us, because he will judge fairly. God knows what we can do and what any knows what to expect of us, a downline art world. These outline are our hopes. These outline the mall across this placement inside of us. So what should our list of so much of our first impressions be whatever we are looking at ourselves and looking at our relationship with other people. What is the first impression, we should be the first impression, we should have is one of faithfulness, not all of you this much in your face adjourned. They watch long with somebody. It should be a civilian attitude of gratitude and attitude of thankfulness. It should be an attitude of gratefulness that God has given us this opportunity to interact and be part of all our relationship with one another, so we must be thankful in order to see thankful you must be a thankful order to save thankful it's almost like after being you have a blue shirt and orders a blue shirt of a judge, ever buy a car, get in the car whenever you drive down the road music while I don't deliver somebody these parts. I why what you said then you need to pick it out, and understanding happens when being thankful what you said you begin to pick up any of the pickup on an individual take care of already part of who you are and what you do so if you don't want for thankfulness and yourself and another shall never say it can be all around you, but not in thisI be thankful to see things worthy of gratitude to see things where the ingratitude, what things are worth being grateful for. I was not awkward to talk what are some things I went being grateful for my waking up in the morning. How maybe we don't like to wake up in the morning that so what are you thankful for what that raving at item brave on sleep and then set up, but I'm rating I'm not for the breast delivery barely break last week reminded us of that being grateful is that all the smoking something part give thanks in all things give me a thing that you thankful for family water job. Good how friends with me, Jenny came back from El Salvador. They did now to live or die with her cancer, but she responded to the treatments and she's doing very well right now so were grateful for that well this is done with Gmail. Yes, their favorite one came out, but you see, there's some things in an NL West would just start start naming them, and that's that's that's that's our problem is that if we think about okay if I ask you what, what's missing in your life would that be much easier to talk about than what you thankful for the web once lets me why wouldn't I don't have this in our last one. There is no one- I would yell and Ali Norlin Gateway rightists, Oregon, Alan, which is eight. Start on the programming that we put it here and in our life when we talk a lot about what we don't and and and that's our fault, but it's also are aware consumer society. The consumer society exists on consumption. That means it what you have is in good enough. We've got to have more soul. Therefore you by you. You got to always be seeing where all the advertisements, especially now that his neighbors. Form them look at the garden of eyes you could have one was named Xavier. Later we got it for you and you can have a right now to really good price on the move is a adult word work with that. That's our our our whole society is based on that. So if you know we've learned this initiative we've learned this now, I'm Dennis and it's away with a coming time. If you take a test, but we think it would be how many we missed a person. When asked why would you miss on your desk would you write a lot of info that the budget of the challenge is what you get what is so we look at why we get right to what we build on. You know I was alive. Saindon said that the we should measure knowledge by what we have because only build on the knowledge you have, to get more bigger build on what you don't know the author only guides us are used to help us understand what we know an empty node being thankful, then, is looking at what we have likely now is in our life and what we are thankful for that. Being there. It all begins in Christ. Everything that we have in our life that is of value is a gift from God, even people who don't believe in God. God has given them gifts and blessings in our life. God is a five hundred every good and perfect gift is a gift from God. God online. First Thessalonians five eighteen. Everything give thanks in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God 's will for you in Christ. The key is in Christ. This is God 's will give thanks we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and our relationship. We are giving thanks to God is with us, and if God is with me. I can face these things. Nothing should ever come between God and I nothing should ever come between God and you. Everything is Jesus Christ and me the hope of glory. Jesus Christ and me. The whole point. If the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, you shall quicken your mortal bodies. These look like enough. It is God in us and that is the quickening. I am in Christ, he is in me. We are together in this end Christ my sins are forgiven in Christ, he is my strength and I always pass away all things become new. Jesus Christ, I have eternal life in Jesus Christ as my brain and my throat and my life in Christ. I am healed and declines. Here's my righteousness my right rubric my right standing with God. I am in Christ, he is in the that we are together in this and in this togetherness, I can face the things of life. I can place the circumstances of life. I can be thankful for life. Paul and present in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice how can he say that while he is in prison because he and Jesus are in this together and then he goes into life. There he experiences life that he experiences what is going on Daniel in the Lions den, he obeyed God people plotted Daniel said, I'll continue to pray. I sent King says you're not allowed to ask petitions of anyone except the median for a period of time, and Daniel continue to pray. So what they do with them. When the Lions den, Daniel and God went to the den. What happens when Daniel and daughter together and the lines then the lines aren't hungry from their mouths are closed and Danielle spends the night in the Lions den Daniel and God together facing the circumstances of the lines that the three Hebrew children. I spoke Wednesday night in the and a dinner and one of the ladies goes to the· Joseph Henry, afterwards we're talking I said I was about the Cleveland show, and I'll think she knew who they were directly second indigo in the fiery furnace- to three hundred children and you probably thought my kids at his wonderful lady, but we are talking about God the three men, then they would not bow down to the case to the idle. So they stood up with God, God, and then together stood up to date indicate an end. The declaration was okay. Our daughters while able to deliver us from your furnace, but he doesn't. That's okay, we still won't bow down to the ideas they and God were able to face their life circumstances. We are in Christ are able to face our life, and from that position, front left, respectively are able to see God 's hand working with them, and then allow the outcome, but they're not going to back down from what they relate to the relationship that they have with God. They go to the fiery furnace. The throne in the fiery furnace, and the case as I thought we were throwing in their icy for I see for whenever we look at our lives we look in the near one. See two people, but does it have double vision because God is with us. Jesus in me the hope of glory God, and I together first Corinthians fifteen fifty seven but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through Christ and then cries. I am more than a conqueror in Jesus Christ. I live in hope and peace in Jesus Christ. He is my righteousness and Jesus Christ. I have eternal life in Jesus Christ to see how all this begins to take on a perspective that God is with us, and there is a victory that is in our life, because of our relationship with Christ. I must see thanks. I must see the things I'm thankful for before I began to see the marvelous and I see them around me, be steadfast, immovable of abounding in the work of the Lord, be steadfast in our relationship with Christ in the Cheju abounding in the work of God is Thanksgiving in abundance. There's an abundance that goes on in our life and no one can build anything without something you can't build anything without something if the use of some things that build some other things if the use of thankfulness that builds gratitude if you think were going to get gratitude, and then be thankful it happen that a start with our own perspective, and it's got to start with our daily use. Now there's a favorite story. Now I make it a bath in the last week why you took one before then just why Gaffigan one one. We know why the promises of God are renewed every morning we got misty down this same way were taken aback to take what all the time. Why, because you need it, while the same way with our thinking and our thoughts and our prayers. We have to keep review not alive and being thankful for what we have and we continue every day that we renew the attitude of being grateful. We know the attitude of thanksgiving gratitude is of the courage to look at life from a God centered perspective. Gratitude is the courage to look at life from a God centered perspective. If I have the courage to look at life from a God centered perspective, it means that I cannot be defeated. I can do all things to Christ and gives me strength through twice, I can do that means we are responsible for our actions, and it takes courage to be responsible. It takes courage to stand up to things that are wrong in our lives and things are wrong in our society, and things that are wrong with our friends when our friends don't match the character of Christ. We have to have the courage to stand up to them how racist and all this comes from a grateful heart, a grateful heart knows that I have a relationship with Jesus Christ that is so valuable that I do not want anyone or anything to destroy. I have a relationship with Jesus Christ that is so valuable that nothing on her can separate me from him. I will not allow my attitude, my thoughts, my friends, my circumstances to come between God and I I must have courage and gratitude is a is a courage that I open the door to live and I will be thankful. Already the law when the board to life and thank God I am grateful for this life if you given me. I don't have the right and pass judgment on is not over yet. God is the judge of life, not me. So therefore, I will have courage to try to go through the circumstances and go through life and open the door to life. I want traces of it. Philippians four thirteen I can do all things, the price of his new string that is a correct statement that there is nothing beyond my ability to do that God brings into my life so therefore I must find a way to make it happen to recognize the place we have in Jesus gives us a new perspective. The character of Christ is born in us in that same character that Jesus is saying character that is in us borne by the Holy Spirit human nature. Our human nature was not born with a grateful disposition, but our divine nature is one of gratefulness and gratitude characters built by how your response. What you have, not what you don't, in all things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus, in Christ Jesus. I give thanks because begin does not written yet it's not over yet. There's still life to be lived. The still promises to be fulfilled. There's still opportunity to see good in my life is still opportunity to see the good that God is going to bring in our life is still opportunity for the divine touch God be upon me upon what comes in my life. I thankful nature constantly renewed will sustain itself. Can't a grateful nature that is constantly renewed will sustain itself by giving a bushel of seeing and planting it, yeah, Bush will see porn you have a bushel of seed corn, and you plan that Marshall how much United back in the harvest yell thousands of bushels from one bushel of corn. One associate one will pronounce thousands of bushels of seed and you take part of that seeded planet again and use the rest of thankful heart is that same way as we continue to renew as we continue to plan as we continue to planted in our lives who find how God works in us went on to Psalm one oh seven numbers with this Psalm one oh seven and this is the children of Israel and in an Islamist is writing about them, and he says give thanks to the Lord for he is doing his love endures forever, and that's a key verse in this, and this Psalm give thanks to the Lord for he is God, his love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, those he rendered from the hand of the flow knows he gathered from the lands from the east and the lesson from the North and the South and he goes on to talk about how they got there that some wandered in the desert wasteland, finding no way to a city that they could settle. They were hungry and thirsty in their lives and the way. Then they cried out to the Lord and their troubles, and he delivered them from their distress elected by a straight way to a city where they could settle then let them give thanks Laura for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men, for he satisfies the thirsty, they filled the hungry with good things. Some sat in darkness deepens gloom that goes on inside you talk about the bitterness, a type of opposite. They could likely regain the Lord say so, it goes back to the second number. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good. His love endures forever. Give signs of the Lord for he is good for his love endures forever and he goes through you and me got solvency. How the people were brought from the stress and from the four winds of the earth in the corners of your bottom back together. They were hungry. They were thirsty. But God, bottom, and provided for them and what is to be the attitude one of Thanksgiving, God has a way. God is the way that has then he is our provider in our sustainer, and he is our strength. So let us have the courage to open the door to being great, God is with us