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The Truth about Thanks-giving!

November 22, 2020 Speaker: pastor dave Series: The Gospel according to Luke - Certainty for Believers

Topic: 1-AM Sermons, Luke, Thanks, Thanksgiving Passage: Luke 17:11–19, Luke 18:11–14

Luke tells the story of 10 lepers who were healed and yet only one returned to offer thanks.  The story indirectly calls us to consider what thanksgiving is really all about.  What is it that you are thankful for this year, that is the standard question.  However, as believers, we are always thankful and even to the same degree because our source for thanksgiving never changes and that source is our God and our Savior Jesus.  He has poured out his rich gifts on us through his sacrifice on the cross for our sins and his continued work in our lives.  His gift of the Word to instruct and help us to understand all that we truly possess.  How can we help but offer thanks?  Thanks-giving is all about praising God, confessing the realities of his character and his person!  This thanksgiving, praise him for who he is.  Every good thing we have is through him and because of him.  We have much for which to be thankful!

Luke writes to strengthen believers, to address misperceptions of unbelievers, while emphasizing the divine and perfect human aspects of Jesus’ life!  Jesus alone is the Lord and Redeemer of all humanity!  He offers us the assurance that God is at work, accomplishing his purposes, that Jesus is God incarnate and that true followers of Jesus are in reality the people of God, that the Holy Spirit is essential for our every response and action and that no matter who you are or where you’re from Jesus died to rescue you! Jesus is the fulfillment of all the promises of God and though every promise is not yet realized, we can be certain that one day they will be! Luke writes to give certainty and assurance to believers – you can be certain that everything about Jesus is true!

 

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