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Developing and Attitude of Gratitude \\ Luke 17-14-18 (all references NIV)
 
Thanksgiving is the act of expressing specific gratitude to God for the blessings God has given us, whether those things are physical, spiritual or material.
And as we grow as believers we should see an attitude of thanksgiving develop in our lives.
A relationship with Jesus Christ should transform us into a joyful, positive and grateful soul.
One sign that Jesus Christ is living in your heart is gratitude.
Someone once said that God lives in two places.
He lives in heaven and in a humble, grateful heart.
And so as believers we should make a concerted effort each and every day, not just one day a year to appreciate all the blessings God has given to us.
Our lives should be filled day to day with a spirit of thanksgiving.
Psalm 92:1-2 reads, "It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night."
Day and night, the verses say, we are to praise and thank God.
The apostle Paul wrote in Colossians 2:6 that our lives are to abound in thanksgiving.
Colossians 4:2 says that we are to be devoted to giving thanks.
Philippians 4:6 says we are to do everything with prayer and thanksgiving.
In Psalm 116 we read that we are to make our lives a thanksgiving offering before the Lord.
The book of Hebrews says we are to “serve the Lord with thanksgiving.”
And our lives are to be filled with a spirit of thanksgiving and gratitude towards God for all he has done.
But the sad truth is that most of us aren’t grateful people.
When it comes to having a spirit of thanksgiving we fall short don’t we.
We are much better at grumbling and complaining than we are at giving thanks.
Despite all the blessings sometimes we’re anything but thankful.
We’re often like the 9 lepers in Luke 17.
There we read of ten lepers who stood at a distance and cried out to Jesus as he was traveling along the border of Samaria and Galilee.
The diseased ridden lepers cried out, "Jesus, Master have pity on us."
And Jesus heard the lepers and said to them promptly, "Go show yourselves to the priest."
And Luke 17:14-16 says, "And as the lepers went they were cleansed.
One of them when he saw he was healed came back, praising God in a loud voice.
He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him."
And in verses 17-18 Jesus says to this one leper who returned.
"Were not all ten cleansed?" he said.
"Where are the other nine?
Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?"
Jesus’ emotional response to the ingratitude of the nine lepers gives us a glimpse into the heart of God.
Jesus was disappointed that only one person cared enough to express his gratitude.
William Barclay writes, "No story in all the gospels so poignantly shows man’s ingratitude like the lepers in Luke 17.
The lepers came to Jesus with desperate longing; he cured them and nine never came back to give thanks."
Barclay says, "So often once a man has got what he wants, he never comes back."
Doesn’t that look like us?
We take God’s goodness for granted.
We receive great blessings yet often we don’t give God our gratitude.
Psalm 103:2 reads, "Blessed be the Lord, O my soul and forget not all his blessings."
But in most cases we forget the blessings of God and never return to say thanks.
Now why do you think we so inclined to forget God and live as ungrateful people?
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We Are Ungrateful Because of Affluence
Charles Barkley, a former NBA basketball star said his mother was upset with him because he had voted for George Bush in the recent election.
"Charles," she said, "George Bush is the rich people’s president!" "Mom," he answered, "we are the rich people."
And guess what folks?
We are the rich people too.
In 1 Timothy 6 the apostle Paul addresses those who are rich in this present world.
Each of us, compared to the rest of the world are rich beyond our wildest dreams.
We travel by airplane, drive nice cars, live in air conditioned homes, have TV’s, VCR’s, computers.
We eat in nice restaurants and we worship in comfortable buildings.
On Thanksgiving we ate a meal that people in most parts of the world could only dream of having.
We each live a life of incredible ease and luxury even though we may not think so.
You would think that all these blessings would make us the most grateful people on earth.
But often all this affluence does is really just make us more and more discontented and ungrateful, because often the by-product of having so much is a desire for more.
And it is very hard to be grateful when we cannot learn to be happy with what we already have.
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We Are Ungrateful People Because of Pride
We are prideful because we think we have earned all the things we have received.
We say to ourselves, "I’ve worked hard to get that job.
I raised my kids to be good people.
I studied for those grades.
I earned that award."
A bumper sticker reads, "I couldn’t have done it without me."
And in our pride, we don’t even think to thank God.
We give ourselves a pat on the back and forget that it is God who has blessed us.
Psalm 10:4 reads, "In his pride the wicked does not seek God; in all his thoughts there is no room for Him."
And in our pride we have forgotten that it is God who gives good gifts from above.
\\ 3. We Are Ungrateful People Because Of Who We Hang Around With
Some of us live among such ungrateful, negative people that we soon turn grumpy and sour ourselves.
The Bible says, "Bad company corrupts good character." 1 Corinthians 15:33.
And the time we spend with negative ungrateful people will influence us whether we want it to or not.
When the British and French were fighting in Canada in the 1750s, Admiral Phipps, commander of the British fleet, was told to anchor outside Quebec.
His orders were to wait for the British land forces to arrive, then support them when they attacked the city.
Phipps’ navy arrived early.
And as he waited, he became annoyed by the statues of the saints that adorned the towers of a nearby cathedral, so he commanded his men to shoot them with the ships’ cannons.
No one knows how many many statues were knocked down, but when the land forces arrived, the admiral was of no help.
He had used up all his ammunition shooting at the "saints."
Too often that happens in spiritual warfare too.
Did you know that ingratitude and grumbling are just as addictive as crack.
Some have picked up a habit of complaining years ago in their homes and now it is in their nature.
Some do it so regularly they don’t even recognize it as a problem.
Some of us even come to church and complain.
"I hope they don’t sing too many songs today.
It is too cold in here.
Would you look at that, someone’s sitting in my chair.
Can you believe it, the preacher’s preaching to long again and we’ll never get a seat at Home Town Buffet for lunch."
People say all that and don’t even know they’re complaining.
It’s a bad habit, but even worse than that it’s sin.
\\ 5. We Are Ungrateful People Because of Circumstances
It is hard to rejoice and be thankful when the bills are piling up and the company is considering layoffs.
And often the reason behind our ingratitude is bad circumstances.
Remember when Moses took the Israelites into the desert and they became entrapped by the Red Sea with Pharaoh’s army in heavy pursuit of them they complained.
Exodus 14:10-11 says, "the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians, marching after them.
They said to Moses, ’Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die."
The Israelites first reaction to their tough circumstances was to grumble.
Maybe today, it is hard for you to be thankful because you are trapped by a situation in your life that is really tough.
Now I don’t know what specific reasons cause you to be ungrateful.
It could be a combination of many things.
Pride, affluence, habit or circumstances.
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