Thanksgiving in Song
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Today we end our series on Thanksgiving. I wanted to leverage this time of the year where we tend to reflect on thankfulness and gratitude and learn what the bible teaches.
We learned first about thanksgiving in sacrifice
Then we learned about thanksgiving for answered prayer
Last week we learned about thanksgiving for the Church.
(Develop each)!
Today I want to consider thanksgiving in song.
When we sing or even when we reflect on all that God has done we should celebrate and sing thanksgiving to the Lord.
Let us read Jeremiah 30:18-22, chair Bible pg. 525
Are you ready for the message God has for us?
Cool get out your notes and let’s dig in!
God took me on a journey with this passsge and I’m looking forward to sharing it with you
Today is the last day of the liturgical calendar.
It is known as Christ the King Sunday.
Thanksgiving in song is fitting for this day, because as we will see this Prophecy of Jeremiah reminds us of the life given in our place for our sins.
So as we enter a study of his word, let us enter with thanksgiving and joy, because salvation has been given to man through Christ!
Our example today is this prophecy of Jeremiah and how Israel will respond when God fulfills it.
However, this prophecy is not just about Israel.
The Song of Thanksgiving & Celebration of Israel
The Song of Thanksgiving & Celebration of Israel
The historical context of this prophecy is the time of exile.
Jerusalem and the great temple of Solomon was destroyed in 586 BC when Nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian king conquered Judah.
Jeremiah lived to see the devastation and destruction inflicted upon the people of God.
It was a dark time, people were wondering why God would let this happen, how could God desert them.
At first they did not see it as judgment for their sins committed against God.
For them it was a time with no hope.
It is in the midst of this, through His prophet Jeremiah, God makes a promise to Israel.
18 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob And have compassion on his dwellings; And the city will be rebuilt on its ruins, And the palace will stand on its rightful place.
God is going to return Israel to the promised land - the Tents of Jacob.
They will again see the compassion of God
God is going to rebuild the city on it ruins which was fulfilled with the return of the Jews when Cyrus allowed captives to return to the ancestral lands.
Under the leadership of Nehemiah the rebuilding of Jerusalem would begin.
Zerubbabel being made governor would rebuild the Temple on the ruins of Solomon’s.
This governor grandson of Jehoiachin was part of the first return
64 The whole assembly together totaled 42,360,
65 besides their male and female slaves who totaled 7,337; and they had two hundred singing men and women.
God did rebuild and bring Judah and Israel back - Nehemiah 11:20
20 And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
So, all the tribes returned, now they were once again one nation being called Israel.
Then they began sing a song thanksgiving and celebration As recorded in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah
God also promised to multiply not decrease them as a nation and they would not be insignificant.
It is a wonderful study when history and scripture confirm God keeps His promises.
This is great pastor but what does that have to do with us?
The Application for us
The Application for us
Remember I said that this prophecy was more far reaching than just Israel.
Within this prophecy is the promise of God’s Messiah.
It is through Jesus that this prophecy connect with us, as it tells us about Jesus Messiah of God.
Look once again at Jeremiah 30:21
21 ‘Their leader shall be one of them, And their ruler will come out from their midst; And I will bring him near and he shall approach Me; For who would dare to risk his life to approach Me?’ declares the Lord.
This verse is connected to a verse earlier in the chapter Jeremiah 30:9
9 But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
Now this passage seems to say God is going to raise David as their King.
Jesus of course fulfilled this as He was born in the line David and is called “Son of David.” A title linking Him to the Dravidic prophecies
However, there is more to “I will raise Him up.”
God is actually referring to the resurrection of the Son of David.
You see God did say they would not be insignificant, because through them comes God’s Messiah!
In the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament) has a Greek word that means resurrection.
This means the translators saw this thought in Jeremiah’s prophecy. — Develop this idea!
This same word is used by Paul for example in Philippians 3:10
10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
Seeing then that Jesus is the key to some of this prophecy let consider verse 21.
21a — the fulfillment is seen in John 1:10-11
10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, and yet the world did not know Him.
11 He came to His own, and His own people did not accept Him.
Then 21b — after his resurrection Jesus tells his disciples Matthew 28:18
18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
At some point in those three days between His death and resurrection Jesus went to the presence of God in throne room and received the promised dominion and authority fulfilling prophecies of Daniel and Ezekiel.
Verse 22 Christians share in that promise - 2 Corinthians 6:16
16 Or what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell among them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Like the Jews who returned from captivity, through Jesus we too have returned to God from captivity the captivity of sin.
17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were entrusted,
18 and after being freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.
This should cause us to celebrate and sing songs of thanksgiving to God!
We have been able to return to God, to worship, praise, and honor Him!
Salvation has come through God’s anointed!
Do you remember the day of your Salvation?
Man, I remember mine as clear as a bell! - Describe
Jesus Christ is indeed the promised King whom God raised!
5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7 but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross.
9 For this reason also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Conclusion:
We are the people of God, spiritual Israel!
Let there come from us a song of thanksgiving, let our voices rise to celebrate!
I think of the New Song in Revelation 5:9-10
9 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the scroll and to break its seals; for You were slaughtered, and You purchased people for God with Your blood from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
10 You have made them into a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
Also Revelation 5:12
12 saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slaughtered to receive power, wealth, wisdom, might, honor, glory, and blessing.”
It is fitting that today we remind ourselves of Christ on the Cross and His resurrection, as next week we start at the beginning, we enter Advent with the anticipation of His birth.
We have so much to celebrate let’s sing with joy a song of thanksgiving!
Sing again “Great is The Lord!”