A Psalm for Giving Thanks
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Thankfulness is easy on good days, when you’re happy and healthy and everything’s running smoothly. But what about on bad days? On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains why thankfulness should be the daily expression of God’s people—in all circumstances.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm going to be thankful on a good day when the sun is shining and everyone's happy and healthy and things are running smoothly. |
| 0:32.8 | What do we do on bad days? |
| 0:35.0 | Well, as we'll hear today on Truth for Life, joyful thankfulness should be the |
| 0:39.4 | daily expression of God's people, even when it seems like life has let us down. Alistair Begg |
| 0:46.1 | is teaching today from the Psalms. |
| 0:53.5 | The 100th Psalm is not an unknown Psalm, even to people who are on the fringes of the Bible. |
| 0:58.2 | And it is the very familiarity of the Psalm, which makes it difficult to deal with. |
| 1:03.5 | I know when I say that, some of you think it's a line, it's rhetoric, but it's not. It's absolutely true. |
| 1:08.9 | It is in many ways much easier to study stuff that is less familiar, |
| 1:13.7 | less well-known, and harder to tackle than it is to come to that which we apparently know, |
| 1:19.2 | because the problem is we think we know. And then we think that the people will think they |
| 1:23.3 | know, and since we know that we don't know, we know that they don't know either. And yet, how are we |
| 1:28.1 | going to convey this in a way that is absorbable and understandable? And I gathered my thoughts |
| 1:34.1 | around two main headings, which I'll mention to you. First of all, the invitation to Thanksgiving, |
| 1:42.2 | or if you like, what we are called to do, and then the foundation for |
| 1:49.3 | Thanksgiving, or if you like, what we need to know. First, then, the invitation to Thanksgiving. |
| 1:58.6 | You will realize, and the picture here is probably of the presiding priest, |
| 2:03.2 | welcoming people out and the courtyards as they make their way into the place of worship and |
| 2:09.1 | celebration. And he greets them with a whole succession of verbs. You will notice, shout for joy, |
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