In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, a happy Thanksgiving.

When you think of Thanksgiving, what do you think about?

Do you think about the landing of the pilgrims in 1620 on this shore after a long, hard trip

across the Atlantic?

Or do you think about the landing of Turkish dressing on your plate at your house on Thanksgiving morning.

Well, either one would be okay.

But don't you know that they were grateful beyond all measure, leaving their land of difficulty

and hardship, especially about their religion and their faith, and coming to a new land, unknown, adventurous,

uncertain, probably lots of hardships, but they were free.

They were free to worship God the way they intended.

And when I think about Thanksgiving, I think about what they must have thought about on that

first Thanksgiving that they observed, and probably they would have read the 100th Psalm.

So I want us to read this 100th Psalm, and then I want to talk about what God is saying to

us in it.

Shout joyfully to the Lord all the earth.

Serve the Lord with gladness.

Come before him with joyful singing.

Know that the Lord himself is God.

It is He who has made us and we not we ourselves.

We are His people and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.

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