Thankfulness: A Mark of Grace (Part 2 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The apostle Paul exhorted believers to give thanks to God continually in all circumstances. Genuine gratitude isn’t merely driven by good habits or self-endeavors, though. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg teaches us how to become truly thankful.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The Apostle Paul frequently exhorted believers to give thanks to God continually in every circumstance.
0:31.3	But genuine gratitude isn't merely driven by good habits or self-endever.
0:36.4	Today on Truth for Life, we'll find out how we
0:38.5	become truly thankful. Alistair Begg is teaching from 1st Thessalonians chapter 5. We're
0:45.7	focusing on verse 18.
0:52.3	The cry of ethics is simply this, be what you are not.
1:00.0	The call of Christianity is to become what you are.
1:06.8	Now, let me illustrate that by the verses I said I had returned to in Colossians chapter 2.
1:11.2	Colossian chapter 2 in verse 6.
1:14.9	So then, says Paul, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, I want you to stop there.
1:25.5	So then just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord. The tense here is not simply the
1:33.5	past tense. It is a tense in the Greek language which conveys a completed action in the past with continuing results or conditions.
1:48.6	The completed action in the past is that this individual has come to receive Christ Jesus as Lord.
1:58.9	Now let me ask you a question this morning.
2:06.3	Have you ever received Christ Jesus as Lord?
2:15.3	You see, the call to thankfulness is not a call which is issued, as it were, Paul going out onto the streets and gathering up a crowd of people and saying
2:18.4	to them, listen, I think that since you live in such a nice place and you seem to be fairly well
2:24.6	put together, I think you all ought to be a far more thankful group of people than you are.
2:28.9	Now, go on and try and be far more thankful than you've been. And go on with you now and see if you
2:33.4	can do much better than you've been doing. But on with you now and see if you can do much better than
2:34.5	you've been doing. But that's the call of all kinds of religion. And that, you see, is what many of
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