{"id":7082,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-giving-of-thanks-2\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","slug":"the-giving-of-thanks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-giving-of-thanks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giving of Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon for Thanksgiving 1992.<br \/>\n                                                           Colossians 3:15-17<br \/>\n                            ====================<br \/>\n                            THE GIVING OF THANKS<br \/>\n                            ====================<\/p>\n<p>    I. Thanksgiving in plenty or in want.<\/p>\n<p>   II. What God requires for true Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>        A. Costly thanks.                                      2 Sam 24:24<br \/>\n            1) Thanksgiving often involves sacrifice.          Psalm 116:17<br \/>\n            2) Our verbal praise is sacrificial.               Heb 13:15<\/p>\n<p>        B. Clean thanks.<br \/>\n            1) Sacrifices must meet God&#8217;s conditions.          Lev 22:29<br \/>\n            2) Have clean hands and a pure, obedient heart.    1 Sam 15:22<br \/>\n            3) Reconcilation with fellow Christians.<\/p>\n<p>        C. Continuous thanks.                                  Eph 5:20<br \/>\n            1) Praise is a way of life.<br \/>\n            2) Be a living sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>  III. What our Thanksgiving reveals about us.<br \/>\n        A. Thanksgiving is an evidence of faith.               Luke 17:11-19<br \/>\n        B. Thanksgiving reveals the depth of our fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>   IV. How thankful are we?<br \/>\n        A. Thanks for hard times, in plague times?<br \/>\n        B. We should be thankful for the greatest gift of all &#8211; salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon for Thanksgiving 1992. Colossians 3:15-17 ==================== THE GIVING OF THANKS ==================== I. Thanksgiving in plenty or in want. II. What God requires for true Thanksgiving. A. Costly thanks. 2 Sam 24:24 1) Thanksgiving often involves sacrifice. Psalm 116:17 2) Our verbal praise is sacrificial. Heb 13:15 B. Clean thanks. 1) Sacrifices must meet God&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[445,142,104],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}