Give Thanks to the LORD

Donnie Vick

Holidays and Time Away Radio Lessons • Sermon • Submitted 4 years ago

Thanksgiving Day

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INTRO

Good morning, we want to wish you a very happy Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is not about telling one another that we are thankful for them.

Thanksgiving as Washington originally intended it was a day to thank God. (Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789)

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favor, able interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

Look at what Psalms has to say about thanksgiving

DISCUSSION

Who should give thanks?

We should (Ps 75:1)

God's people (Ps 79:13)

Israel (Ps 122:4; Gal 6:16)

The time to give thanks

Now (Ps 6:5)

Midnight (Ps 119:62)

Duration--for ever (Ps 30:12; 79:13)

The location to give thanks

The congregation (Ps 35:18)

Court of heaven (Ps 100:4)

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