If Every Gift Comes from God, Why Thank Anyone Else?

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

All good gifts are from God, through God, and to God. But in his providence, those gifts often come to us through others, who rightly deserve our thanks.

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0:00.0	Well, why do we thank anyone?
0:07.2	It's a great question, really.
0:08.8	Candice writes in to ask it.
0:11.6	Here's our question.
0:12.9	Hello, Pastor John and Tony.
0:14.1	Thank you for this podcast.
0:15.3	It has been a great help to me.
0:18.4	And thanking you two plunges us right into my question.
0:23.3	How can we genuinely thank anyone but God?
0:27.1	If God is sovereign over all things, what role do people
0:29.9	themselves play?
0:31.7	I just listened to APJ 1195.
0:34.4	How does God's sovereignty not violate our decision-making?
0:38.2	But as these truths are new to me, I think I could really benefit from your answer to this
0:41.3	specific question.
0:43.0	If you go to a restaurant and are served by a waitress, God gives the waitress all the
0:47.8	abilities required to do her job, the opportunity to do her job, maybe the willingness to do
0:52.5	her work diligently and her very life and breath and existence.
0:57.9	Even she is working, it seems right to thank her for her efforts, but since the Lord
1:02.5	gives us everything, it seems right in another sense only to thank him.
1:08.0	How, Pastor John, do you process this?
1:10.8	Well, I think this is a very good question, even though some people probably will think
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