Overflowing with Thankfulness (Part 1 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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You don’t have to be a believer to be thankful—and yet Christian gratitude should be distinctive. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explores the difference between natural appreciation and the overflowing gratefulness that should mark genuine believers.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't have to be a follower of Jesus to be thankful, and yet Christian gratitude should be distinctive. |
| 0:31.6 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll explore the difference between natural appreciation and the |
| 0:37.3 | gratefulness that ought to mark a genuine |
| 0:39.2 | believer's heart. |
| 0:41.3 | Alistair Begg is teaching from the book of Colossians chapters one and two. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, I have just one phrase that I want us to take away with us this morning, and that is the |
| 0:55.9 | final phrase of verse 7 of Colossians chapter 2, overflowing with thankfulness. |
| 1:04.3 | Overflowing with thankfulness. |
| 1:07.7 | Paul is writing to these Colossian believers who have come to faith in Christ, he tells us, |
| 1:14.8 | as a result of the ministry of Epaphras, whom he mentions there in verse 7 of chapter 1, |
| 1:20.9 | and now as Paul writes to them, he recognizes that because of all that Jesus has become to them, of all the things that |
| 1:30.2 | should mark them, one of the key characteristics of the Christian is to be a grateful heart. |
| 1:36.6 | And so he anticipates here in verse 7 of chapter 2 that when people, if you like, bump into |
| 1:43.9 | the Colossian Christians, |
| 1:45.8 | what will spill out of them is, in part, at least, thankfulness, |
| 1:52.0 | in the same way that if I go walking around with this glass of water, |
| 1:56.5 | you bump into me unexpectedly, and it spills what is in will come out. And the picture is clear, |
| 2:03.6 | concerning our character, if we are filled with bitterness, if we're filled with ingratitude, |
| 2:09.1 | if we're filled with envy and with jealousy, then it won't take much of a bump for what is |
| 2:15.1 | inside of us to spill out. And so says Paul, I want to ensure that you folks |
| 2:21.8 | are marked by this thankfulness. The word that he uses for overflowing is a fairly common word, |
| 2:29.8 | but Paul uses it not infrequently. It's the word that is used here for overflowing. It's the word |
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