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Introduction
About one year ago the transmission went out in the van we had purchased only three months before.
The van was older and the cost to repair or replace the transmission was more than the van was worth.
We started saving and about eight months ago we got word that the transmission in our car was on its way out.
With the little bit of money the Lord allowed us to set aside, we started to look at vehicles.
It didn’t take us long to realized we didn’t have nearly enough.
It is at this point that God stepped in.
Through the generosity of others, we were given quite a lot of money and were able to purchase the van we have now had for about six months.
Our thankfulness for our van is huge because we never would have been able to get it ourselves!
Thanksgiving is in just over two weeks.
As I consider thanksgiving, there is nothing I am more thankful for than Jesus Christ.
For seven months this year we have spent the first Sunday of the month looking at .
Taking this familiar and powerful verse phrase by phrase we have soaked ourselves in the joy and glory of our salvation.
Anytime we do that it ought to lift our hearts with thanksgiving.
In writing his second letter to the Corinthian church, Paul closes out a discussion on financial giving with the following words.
(S).
These words bring some questions to mind.
As we consider the approaching holiday of thanksgiving and our response of thankfulness to God for salvation through Christ, we will be asking and answering three questions this morning.
Our goal is to be ever more thankful for Jesus Christ, and to express our thanksgiving appropriately.
As we are thankful for Christ and express that thankfulness our faith grows and our testimony in the world is strengthened.
The first question that this verse brings up is…
1.
Why Do We Give Thanks?
Thankfulness is expressed when someone does something for us.
We ask someone to please pass the salt, when they do we say thank you.
But how much more grateful are we when someone does something for us that we are unable to do for ourselves?
Please open this jar.
Thank you!
When we are unable to do something for ourselves there is a sense of frustration, inadequacy, and failure.
These feelings are compounded when what needs to be done is of vital importance.
explains our inability perfectly.
Turn there please.
When we are unable to do something for ourselves there is a sense of frustration, inadequacy, and failure.
These feelings are compounded when the thing that needs to be done is of vital importance.
explains our inability perfectly (S).
According to this verse, we give thanks because we were given a gift.
This gift is declared to be “indescribable”.
This is the Greek word ἀνεκδιήγητος (anekdiēgētos) indescribable.
Indescribable adj.
— defying expression or description.
Without strength, ungodly, sinners.
That is how we are described!
We needed salvation!
This is the most important need that has ever existed!
Yet we were unable to provide it for ourselves.
Our inability to save ourselves is difficult to swallow!
Yet the thanksgiving that comes when we realize everything has already been done is overwhelming!
Everything necessary for us to be saved has already been accomplished by Christ!
God gave a gift!
Something we couldn’t do for ourselves was done by Christ!
God gave a gift!
Something we couldn’t do for ourselves was done by Christ!
According to this verse, we give thanks because we were given a gift.
This gift is declared to be “indescribable”.
This is the Greek word ἀνεκδιήγητος (anekdiēgētos) meaning indescribable.
Defying expression or description.
Indescribable – ἀνεκδιήγητος (anekdiēgētos)
When we look at the root words we recognize that this gift defies human ability to fully comprehend, much less explain in complete detail.
That is why it is “indescribable”.
Thankfulness is expressed when someone does something for us.
Pass the salt, thank you.
But how much more grateful are we when someone does something for us that we are unable to do for ourselves?
Open this jar, thank you.
We are thankful because God did something that we couldn’t do!
When we are unable to do something for ourselves there is a sense of frustration, inadequacy, and failure.
These feelings are compounded when the thing that needs to be done is of vital importance.
Picture thanksgiving like a well (S).
If you draw from that well and draw from that well and never replenish it, your thankfulness disappears (S).
What fills up the well of our thanksgiving is being continually reminded of what God has done for us!
That is part of the value of a regular observance of the Lord’s Supper or communion.
We are thankful people when we continually acknowledge that we are recipients of the grace of God!
We are given His unmerited favor when all we deserve is wrath!
This is why we give thanks.
#175 “Hallelujah, What A Savior” (verses 1-2)
Our inability to save ourselves is difficult to swallow!
Yet the thanksgiving that comes when we realize everything has already been done is overwhelming!
Everything necessary for us to be saved has already been accomplished by Christ!
As we examine this verse a second question arises.
God gave a gift!
Something we couldn’t do for ourselves was done by Christ!
2. What Are We Thankful For?
Though we have alluded to it already, the verse reads “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”.
We are thankful for the indescribable gift of God.
What is that gift?
Well, it has two parts.
The first part is what we have examined in (S).
Jesus is God’s gift.
Next month we celebrate the birth of Jesus.
We celebrate the reality that the God of all eternity - Yahweh, Jehovah, God revealed in the Old Testament - became a man and was born of a virgin.
This reality is presented in .
Please turn there.
God sent His Son!
This is part of the indescribable gift we have been given.
Jesus Christ came in the likeness of sinful flesh.
Yet He came with purpose.
The giving of Christ was not God’s end game.
The person of Christ cannot be divorced from His work.
His work is seen in Romans 8:4 (S).
Christ condemned sin in the flesh!
He met the requirements of the law!
The purpose of giving us Jesus was for us to receive His righteousness resulting in Salvation.
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