In Everything Give Thanks

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Jonny Ardavanis

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jonny Ardavanis examines the biblical theme of gratitude. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says, “in everything give thanks for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

In this episode, Jonny will survey:

The grounds of our thankfulness;
The fruit of our thankfulness
The hindrances to our thankfulness

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey folks, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is Dial In this episode, I want to look at the biblical imperative to be thankful.
0:07.8	First Thessalonians 5, 16 through 18 says, rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and everything give thanks for this is, watch this, God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
0:20.0	God's will for your life does not need to be found.
0:22.6	It needs to be obeyed. And gratitude is God's revealed will for your life. And it is, as we will soon
0:29.1	observe, Christianity 101. When you do examine this subject in greater detail, so without further ado, let's dial in.
0:38.8	I want to read this quote for you.
0:48.8	It says, quote, we have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven.
0:54.8	We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity.
0:58.3	We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown, but we
1:03.0	have forgotten God.
1:04.7	We have forgotten this gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched
1:09.4	and strengthened us. And we have vainly imagined
1:12.4	and the deceitfulness of our own hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior
1:17.5	wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient
1:23.7	to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God
1:28.9	that made us. It has seemed fit to me and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently, and
1:35.2	gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do therefore
1:41.4	invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent father who dwells in the heavens.
1:58.4	Signed Abraham Lincoln, October 3rd, 1863.
2:05.0	What a unique thing and really a powerful thing to hear from an American president,
2:09.7	that he's calling on people to remember God and to be thankful to God
2:14.2	because we've become intoxicated with unbroken success success and we've become too self-sufficient,
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