You want to have a church full of joy and blessing and happiness and peace where people love each other

and the church grows and flourishes, then have a church full of thankful people.

And if you want to really mess up a party just bring in somebody who's

negative and unfair.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

When God saves you, you're going to experience radical changes in your attitudes, particularly your thankfulness.

As one theologian put it, the inevitable difference between the Christian view of the world

and the secular view comes down to gratitude. Of course the kind of gratitude

he's talking about is gratitude to God. So what makes thankfulness so important

both to your relationship with God and your relationship with others.

And what should that thankfulness look like?

Find out today on Grace to you as John MacArthur helps you be truly grateful, important not only during the

Thanksgiving season but all the time. So now with the lesson here's John.

One of the essential attitudes, one of the essential motivations, the essential

spiritual realities in the life of the church through which its life flows is gratitude.

Turn to Ephesians chapter 5. Thanks should be a part of our normal speech.

Look at Ephesians 5. of our normal speech.

Look at Ephesons 5.

Do not let immorality, pornea, sexual sin, or any impurity that's a word that would mean every other form of sexual sin or

greed even be named among you as is proper among states. And verse four there must be no

filthiness dirty talk. No coarse jesting, that's a word for obscenities. No filthy talk, no foolish talk, no obscenities which are not fitting, but rather what giving

a thing. Boy, those two are far apart, aren't they?

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