Sermon Tone Analysis

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Speak the word Thanksgiving into Bixby on my Smartphone

The enumeration of the things we are grateful for such as the listing of people and possessions many give when sitting around the Turkey and taters on the holiday

You heard the Response

True thanksgiving is simply a genuine expression of gratitude.

Is Thanksgiving a day of celebration or an outward expression of an inner attitude?

Is Thanksgiving a day of celebration or an outward expression of an inner attitude?

One person defines it as simply the enumeration of the things we are grateful for such as the listing of people and possessions many give when sitting around the Turkey and taters on the holiday

Another defines it as the genuine expression of gratitude.

Yahoo Finance posted an article listing 13 things that successful people do in the first 10 minutes of the workday.

The article is aptly called “13 Things Successful People Do In The First 10 Minutes Of The Workday.”

I don’t know about you but that doesn’t strike me as something a Christian should be known for doing.

Here they are, in order:

1.

They reflect.

2. They take a moment to pause and be present.

3.

They get comfortable.

4. They review their to-do list, make any necessary adjustments, and mentally map out their day.

5.

They prioritize.

6.

They stretch, stand, and walk.

7.

They take time to greet their team.

8.

They take a temperature reading of their staff/coworkers.

9.

They organize their workspace area.

10.

They strategically check emails.

11.

They anticipate and avoid distractions.

12.

They smile and laugh.

13.

They take a moment to be grateful.

You heard the Response

Type the word Thanksgiving into most any search engine on your computer or smart phone, and the result is usually what you just heard, a holiday we celebrate on the 3rd Thursday of November.

Now I am not sure if the article meant #13 to be the most important thing successful people do, but the Bible tells us:

A the holiday that we eat turkey and taters then watch football or go shopping

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So, it may not be for successful people, but being grateful is the most important thing saved people (Christians) do.

The enumeration of the things we are grateful for such as the listing of people and possessions many give when sitting around the Turkey and taters on the holiday

being grateful is the most important thing saved people do.

The genuine expression of gratitude.

Now I am not sure if the article meant #1 or #13 to be the most important thing successful people do, but being grateful is the most important thing saved people should do.

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The Most Important Thing Saved People Do

In the text I want to read today, , is a purposeful and intentional response to chapter 11, Isaiah’s prophecy of the promised Messiah, coming as the Savior of the world, but especially for those who believe.

Coming to be the sacrifice for sin and a gift of personal salvation, something Isaiah was incredibly familiar with from his encounter with God in Isaiah 6:1-13.

In Isaiah the prophet describes the reign of the Davidic King

In the prophet describes the reign of the Davidic King promised from the beginning of the Nation - the Messiah.

In the text I want to read today, , the prophet gives a purposeful and intentional response of praise to what he had just foretold in chapter 11 would happen “on/in that day.” of the promised Messiah, coming the Savior of the world, and especially those who believe.

A sacrifice for sin and a a gift of personal salvation, something Isaiah was incredibly familiar with from his encounter with God in

IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY TURN THERE WITH ME AND STAND WITH ME TO HONOR OUR HOLY GOD WITH THE AWE AND REVERENCE EXPRESSED BY ISAIAH.

Isaiah 12:1-

Another preacher commented on the predicament of preaching a Thanksgiving sermon that it always seem as if present it so negatively.

“Christians need to be more thankful.”

or “If you love God then you will be thankful” He says though, “Thanksgiving cannot be commanded.”

Another preacher said that, “guilt is a terrible motivation for giving thanks.

We should view what scripture says about giving thanks not as some command but as an invitation.”

Isaiah, here in the text, bursts forth in praise giving thanks, knowing the weightiness of God’s redeeming work for him and everyone else in God’s True Family.

Furthermore, Isaiah invites the community of God’s people to do the same.

True thanksgiving is simply a genuine expression of gratitude for something you have been given

Any of you ever use one of those whistling tea kettles?

If you are not familiar, the whistling tea kettle is filled with water, placed on the stove.

The heat source underneath is applied and eventually the pressure of the water on the inside can no longer be contained and it begins to whistle very loudly to alert you of its readiness to be poured over tea leaves.

God invites His children to be His whistling tea pots of gratitude everyday.

Transitional Sentence/Keyword: Let me offer you the following 3 insights about grateful Christians and how you can be one if you are not already.

When somebody is aware of the love that the Father has for Jesus, that person is spontaneously grateful.

Cries of thankfulness become the dominant characteristic of the interior life, and the byproduct of gratitude is joy.

We’re not joyful and then become grateful—we’re grateful, and that makes us joyful.

—Brennan Manning, in “The Dick Staub Interview: Brennan Manning on Ruthless Trust,” ChristianityToday.com (December 1, 2002)[1]

[1] Larson, C. B., & Ten Elshof, P. (2008).

1001 illustrations that connect (p.

31).

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.

Transitional Sentence/Keyword: Let me offer you the following 3 insights about grateful Christians and how you can be one if you are not already.

Give thanks everyday because you are aware of your Basis for True Thanksgiving.

Give thanks everyday because you are aware of your Benefits or Blessings of True Thanksgiving.

Give thanks everyday because you are aware of your call to be a Badge of True Thanksgiving.

Give thanks everyday because you are aware of your Basis for True Thanksgiving.

Give thanks everyday because you are aware of your Basis for True Thanksgiving.

We see the word “although” in v.1 which gives us a clue as to the greatest reason a child of God has for giving thanks.

If you were to flip back to and this is what you would read.

This is exactly the same words we find the prophet saying here in .

which begins by saying how Moses and the 2 million plus Israelites broke forth in a song of praise and thanksgiving.

He is reminding them of something they were very familiar with, or at you expect them to be familiar with which begins by saying how Moses and the 2 million plus Israelites broke forth in a song of praise and thanksgiving.

Why is that?

Let me ask you: If you were just freed from slavery and making your way out of the land of slavery you would be quite happy right?

But if you looked behind you to see a massive army of men and chariots and then were confronted with a massive body of water but no boats, would you freak out a bit?

They knew it and we know the body of water as the Red Sea and the army as Pharaoh's best of Egypt.

The Israelites were doomed and facing certain death.

Isaiah speaks of even greater doom and even greater death - the Anger and Wrath of God.

Turn back to

Hebrews

God’s anger was fully known to them because they were fully aware of their sin and rebellion against Him.

God’s anger was fully known because their sin and rebellion was fully known.

and

The wrath of God is a matter of seriousness that many scoff at and run from, but the prophet says that on that day we will thank God because anger and wrath will be replaced with a far greater salvation than seen at the Red Sea. - Described in - Listen to the writer of Hebrews:

The wrath of God is a matter of seriousness that many scoff at and run from, but the prophet says that on that day we will thank God because His wrath had been turned away.

Christian - YOU CAN BE GRATEFUL BECAUSE OF JESUS.

HE IS ONE FOR YOU TO BE ENAMORED, INFATUATED, SMITTEN, CAPTIVATED WITH IN WORSHIP.

In v.2 - Jesus, God the Son, the Messiah, is Isaiah’s salvation.

He is my salvation.

Is he your salvation?

Jesus leads those who trust him across the sea of sin to be free.

Christian - YOU CAN BE GRATEFUL BECAUSE OF JESUS.

HE IS ONE FOR YOU TO BE ENAMORED, INFATUATED, SMITTEN, CAPTIVATED WITH IN WORSHIP.

People in our churches are not enamored with Jesus because they have forgotten what they have been saved from - the penalty of sin. - Joe Valenti