Giving Thanks

Luke 17:11-19

True Thankfulness Leads to Worship

WORSHIP is the act and attitude…

WORSHIP is the act and attitude…

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WORSHIP is the act and attitude…

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WORSHIP is the act and attitude…

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Why did God allow their suffering?

2 Corinthians 1:8-9We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

Why did God bring their healing?

James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

1 Thessalonians 5:18Give thanks in all circumstances…

Romans 8:31-32If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Thankfulness that doesn’t Lead to Worship is Idolatry

“The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead of pursuing him with steadfast passion and enthralled fury — instead of loving him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; instead of attributing to him glory and honor and praise and power and wisdom and strength — we just try to take his toys and run. It is still idolatry to want God for his benefits but not for himself.”

--Matt Chandler, Explicit Gospel