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So we're, we're we at the end of, kind of at the, in the beginning of January, at our our big family meal that's gonna it's gonna represent the celebrate a celebration of this year, of 2024. You you hear a little bit more about that, here in the next few weeks. We're planning a a a big kind of year end celebration for all that the Lord has done, in you, in us, in the city, in the last year. That's gonna be in, like, the 2nd week of January. But you're gonna hear some, you're gonna hear some test host hear some more testimonies about what happened yesterday and what the what god has done there.

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And so I don't want you to think that this is the last time that you're gonna think or that you're gonna hear about this or that we're gonna talk about this, but, I wanted to let you know that there's more of that to come. Obviously, we do this at, Thanksgiving time every year. Some people have asked why do we do it at Thanksgiving time. And to be honest with you, there's a part of me that doesn't know why we made that decision 10 years ago to do Thanksgiving, but it has just become kind of a part of a part of, the culture here and a part of the church. And, obviously, this is a kind of a this is obviously a season of Thanksgiving with Thanksgiving being this Thursday, both of Thanksgiving and gratitude.

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And we should, even though this is a season of Thanksgiving and gratitude, I think we should always be thankful for reminders to be thankful, if that makes sense. I think that that that maybe sounds like a little strange to say it like that, but, you know, I I can I can recognize things in my life or patterns in my life where I'm, I'm so, like, focused in a direction or maybe not focused in a direction, but distracted from a reality that I forget that to to even slow down enough to be like, oh, hold on a second? What is the heart that I'm doing this thing in? Am I carrying with me a thankful and joyful and heart full of gratitude to the Lord for the even the provision and the strength and the ability to do this, to carry on in this way. It's just like it's not it's not wrong to have intention it's it's obviously a great thing to have an intentional season, a reminder to be thankful.

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Just like it's not it's a great thing that we have intentional seasons that remind us of, the salvation that the Lord offers us in Jesus Christ, the forgiveness of our sins, the resurrection of Jesus, and our resurrection by faith in him that we celebrated Easter. Right? Victory over death, victory over the grave, life into eternity. That's an intentional thing that we stop and be like, oh, wait. Yeah.

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Even though that's a reality of our life all the time as followers of Jesus, yeah, Easter is a good moment where we can slow down and intentionally be reminded of

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that again and celebrate it once again. Even

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though as a part of our faith in Jesus Christ, we always are carrying with us both the knowledge and the understanding that God is always with us in Jesus Christ. That God did not see it fit to stay far off from us, but in the incarnation, God came to us in Jesus that he might know who we are, we might know who he is, that he might give himself as a ransom for many so that many may be like, we we celebrate that at Christmas. It's an intentional time for us to stop and say, hey. Wait. Oh, yeah.

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That reality that we always are carrying with us as followers of Jesus, that God is with us, is something that we can slow down and say, oh, I'm thankful for the opportunity during the Advent season to be reminded of that once again. And we can be thankful again of the opportunity to be thankful during this season, To once again consider where does what we have come from? And not just where does what we have comes from, but who not what, but who is the object of our gratitude and thanksgiving in life. Not just what are the things we are thankful for, as if God is simply just some sort of spiritual vending machine that we push a button from, get a spiritual product, and then we're thankful for the product. But the heart of someone who carries gratitude and thanksgiving with them is the heart of one that recognizes not the gift but the giver and expresses gratitude and thanksgiving to the giver despite what the gift what value we might think the gift has.

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The Christian life is a life that should be marked with continual thanksgiving and gratitude. One of the things, growing up that my mom would make me do. And when I said when I say make me do, what I really mean is make me do. Like, you're not getting up out of the seat until it's done type of thing. And I would like to say that my, like, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 year old heart was, like, really eager to do this, but it was not.

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And the reason it was is not is because gratitude and thanksgiving is a learned virtue that the spirit of God puts in us through faith in Jesus Christ. It's not something that we come to very naturally. But my mom would make me sit down after every birthday and after every Christmas, and you know what I'm gonna say?

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Write thank you cards to everyone.

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Thank you for this gift. Also, thank you for your your, like, role in my life or thank you for your love or something like that. Shoot. It would it all the time To my grandparents, to my aunts and uncles, to my cousins, to who who whoever sent a gift. Like, I had to do it.

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I'd fallen I've fallen out of practice of doing it, but had have just recently even just as I was thinking about just the Thanksgiving event the last couple of days, I started making a list of all of the people, businesses, organizations, individuals, leaders, volunteers, who I needed to write a thank you card to. And I'm like, and I'm like, oh, like, okay. I understand now. I understand the value here,

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from early in life because

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it was a good practice. It's a good practice. It helped me early to understand both what I was thankful for, but also who I was thankful to Who I was thankful to. Not just what the thing was, but who was the person that provided the thing or gave the thing, and who are they in my life, and how I'm gonna thank them for being who they are, not just what they gave. Wanna share a few thoughts, nothing super insightful here about Thanksgiving and gratitude this morning.

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But to share a few thoughts for you and hope that it once again reminds, inspires, moves, and transforms you to move into an an additional season, or practice of gratitude and thanksgiving during these next few weeks months and, really, that it becomes a spirit and a heart posture that we carry with us all of the time. Because, listen, because we think of gratitude and thanksgiving as something that that's something that we just do and doesn't have a whole lot of effect on us if we don't. Right? Like, does the person really care whether or not they get a thank you card from me after they gave me

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a birthday gift? Well, most people probably not. Right? K.

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But it doesn't mean that a lack of gratitude in Thanksgiving, is just benign and doesn't create or do anything in me if I skip

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over. What is the lack

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of thanksgiving do to us? What is the lack of gratitude in life do to us? Scripture is not, not really silent on it. Paul says, in the letter to the Romans chapter 1 verse 21, he says that, a lack of gratitude and glorification of God creates, or is is a thing that people with, foolish or futile minds and foolish hearts do. He says this, for although they knew god, they neither glorified him as god nor did they give thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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These are people here, Paul, addressing that had knew who God was, have an understanding of who God was, were not completely godless or pagan. Right? They had an under they they had at least some awareness of who god was. But because they neither glorified him for who for actually who he was, the giver

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of all things, nor did they give thanks

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to him nor did they recognize that it was him that all things came from, that their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. So listen. When glorification of god and thankfulness to god cease in our lives, darkness of heart is soon to follow. That one of the markers of the darkness of hearts is an absence of glorification to God and thanks to him. This is what Paul recognized as he was writing to the the letter to the Roman church.

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But it also it does more than that in us because it reveals a lack of gratitude and thanksgiving to God reveals that we have become susceptible to an idolatry that focuses on our selves as the producer of all things that we have, as the, as the center of all things that we have. What does that mean? Like, an idle to idolize a lack of gratitude makes us susceptible to idolatry. You know, sometimes when we lack gratitude or thanksgiving to God, our minds become foolish and our hearts become darkened, and we begin to believe that everything that we have, even the strength to do the things that we do, is all because of something that we have done. Right?

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I have what I have because I have produced it. Because I have I I have provided for myself. I have gone out and got it. I I, I have been the one that has manufactured all of the good things in my life. It is my own strength, my own breath, my own thoughts, my own words, my own actions that has produced everything that I have.

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I am obviously the center of my universe, and without my hard work and action, I would have nothing.

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Now listen.

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What I'm not saying is that there is a Christian virtue of sitting back and being lazy and letting the Lord just give you all of all things. Laziness is not a Christian virtue. In fact, we, as people who follow Jesus, should be the hardest working, best employees that you have. If you work somewhere and you have a boss and you, like, and you follow Jesus, right, it is the life of God in you. It is the it is the it is the motivation to let everything that you do glorify the Lord and bring honor to Jesus that should lead you to be like, I'm gonna be the most honest, the hardest working, the kindest, the most dedicated, full of integrity, employee that this company has, that this business has.

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If you're a business owner, it it you you should be it should be in a your hard work, your character, your integrity, your honesty, your example should be the, like, the standard on which all other businesses are operating on. Like like, saying that we rely on God for all of the things that we receive is not the same thing as saying we shouldn't work hard, and we shouldn't be tremendous examples of what it means to lead businesses, work in businesses, work for companies that, with a with a hard work ethic. What I'm saying is that we should understand who gives us the ability to do those things. Who puts every breath in your lungs? Who makes your heart lit I mean, literally, I'm not just being foolish or facetious here.

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Who makes your heart beat? Who gives you the strength of your hands? Who gives you the power of your intellect? Who gives you the vitality of your spirit and your passion? Who puts things inside of you that cannot be manufactured by anything here in this world?

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Right? It is the lord. Absolutely and it is in him that we live and move and have our being. K? We get all that we have and all that we are capable of, and all that we're striving for and possess, ultimately, from the gracious hand of God who delivers delivers it to us.

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And when we seek to give gratitude to the Lord for the very breath in our lungs or strength of our hands or passions of our hearts, when we cease in gratitude and thanksgiving, we slide inevitably into an idolization of our own selves and the things that we have. And idol worship only leads to what? More idol worship. Because everything that we look for for satisfaction outside

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of God and God himself leads us wanting more. We can never be satisfied with the idolization of our things or the work of our own hands if we cannot find or not discover our satisfaction in him.

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An important part of the an important part of Thanksgiving and gratitude is understanding its role in the communal life of faith. Here's an example. If I were to ask the question,

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what are you thankful for? And some of you raised your hands. Most of us, 9 times out

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of 10, myself included. Right? Myself included would be like, well, I'm thankful for these things in my individual center of

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my own universe life. I wanna give thanks.

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The reason I'm here is to give thanks to the things

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that are going on in my own personal, individual life. Wrong? Not wrong at all. Right? But listen.

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Thanksgiving and gratitude is rooted in the communal life of faith. And as a communal body of faith here,

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It should become part of our regular practice to express thanksgiving and gratitude, not as a bunch of just individual figures who happen to come together and sit in the same room on one week, or on one day of the week, but as a whole body moving in gratitude and thankfulness together in one spirit to the Lord whom we serve.

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We live in a ruggedly

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individualistic society so much so that the that the words of the New Testament, especially in, like, the epistles and the book of Acts, right, that talk about the community or the body of faith, the communal life of all those who, express faith in Jesus, and we see the intensity upon which they were unified with one another, that we don't that it it's almost like we have to skip right over it and skip right past it because we don't have a box in our severely individualistic society to put the type of community that we see in the New Testament in the into our own context. We say things like, well, how would that work in this kind of context, in this kind type of environment? Right? Well, it would work exactly how

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it worked then. It would just require us to surrender a false sense of connection that we have for the real for a real sense of connection that we couldn't have in the spirit. The reality of our lives today is that we have never been more we have never had more opportunity to connect with people immediately at the push of a button right now. We have we have whole industries that are built upon connecting us with other people. Right?

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And we have never been so disconnected from one another.

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Our society has has never so fully sought connection at

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the push of a button, and at the same time, been so utterly disconnected from one another. Why? Well, because because there are marks of unity in the spirit of God that bring actual communal connection. And then there are marks that are facades masquerading

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as the way in which we connect with one another. Right? Many of you many of you have asked, hey. Why did we stop our livestream at Conduit?

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Why do we stop our livestream? This is why. That is exactly why. Right? Yeah.

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It's great to stroke the ego of seeing a 100 different people watch the livestream. But It's a it's a form of connection masquerading as the real thing.

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Right? And the body of Christ is meant to be connected hand to hand, side to side, eye to eye, body to body, spirit to spirit, one body together.

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This is not this is not a product. We this right here, this

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is not a product to be consumed. It's not a place that that you come to get to to get the thing and then to go out and expend the thing throughout the week and then to come back and get another thing. Right? It's not a product to be consumed. It is a place to belong with one another as we mutually together seek the presence and will of God for his body led by Jesus Christ filled by his spirit.

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And so when we come together, right, we we come together not expecting the excellence of a it's okay to expect good things. Right? But not expecting, oh, the x the excellence of a product and presentation that we can then take with us as somehow, like, we can we can we can that that somehow that's how God desired it to be.

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But, no, we come together because we are a family. Any of

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you gonna be gathering with family over Thanksgiving? Like, most of us will. Like, you don't

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see them all the time?

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We'll we'll we'll we'll pretend that we all love all of our family. Right? Okay. We don't we don't see them all the time. Right?

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They live in different places, have different jobs, whatever. Right? But but that one time, two times a year, whatever, they we we all come together, and it's like, oh, I missed you. So good to see you. So thankful you're here.

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Right? Let us share this meal. Right? Say it facetiously. You know what?

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You get what I'm saying. Right?

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But you go your separate ways, but you come together because you're a family. Right? You don't cease to be a part

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of the family when you're away. It's just like the the that one meal is the time that the family gets together. Sunday is the time the family gets together. It's just one of those times the family gets together. There's nothing sacred about Sunday morning.

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We could meet together on Wednesday night. We could get we could meet together on Tuesday morning. The point, right, is not that we play the game, the cultural game of going to church on Sunday and then not thinking anything about the life of the spirit that connects us with one another throughout the rest of the week. Right? The point is that the god has given has put his spirit in each of us by faith in Jesus Christ, and we are one.

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We are together, the unity of the spirit of God through faith in Jesus Christ. The more we think individualistically about our faith, the less we understand the power and presence and value of the body. So if we if we have a purely individualistic view on our faith in Jesus Christ, the church doesn't make sense.

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Why do I need to do that? Why do I need to go there? Right? I love Jesus. I just hate the church.

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You ever hear someone say that? Well, Jesus loves the church,

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so it says he calls it his bride, his body. Right? Jesus died for the church. It is the thing that he ransomed.

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You you don't get virtue points for hating the church, but loving Jesus. Jesus loves the church. Every time you slap around the bride, the groom gets pretty angry. Paul writes in Colossians chapter 3 verses 15 through 17. He says this.

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And remember that when he is writing to he when he's writing to Colossi, he's not writing to a dude named Colossi.

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This is not like, hey, dear bro, my man, Colossians.

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He's writing to a church. He's writing to a group, a communal group of people who follow Jesus. K? So the context here the context here is a is the, the communal life of faith. And what does he say to the communal body who's following Jesus?

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Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts since as members of one body, you were called to peace. And be

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thankful as little individuals. No. As one group. Be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom.

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And as you sing Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with what? Gratitude in your hearts to god. And whatever you do together whatever you do together, whether in word or indeed we did we did a lot of things indeed yesterday. K? Whether in word or indeed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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How? Giving thanks to God the father through him.

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Listen. Gratitude and thanksgiving is something that marks the communal life of the followers of Jesus. It is it is a intricate part of the DNA of what makes us who we are together, is that we give gratitude and thanks, giving glory to God through Jesus Christ, both in word and in deed. This takes the question from, hey. What are you all say what are you thankful from for?

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Away from just being about what I like, is most in my own little world, what I am thankful for. But it helps us as a body to say, what have we seen the Lord do? Who have we seen the Lord be? What has the Lord how has the Lord shown up, and how are we thankful for it together?

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What are we thankful for as a body? What are we anyone have a hard time finding a parking spot when they came in this morning? Yeah. I'm thankful for that. A lot of people in first service too.

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I'm thankful for that. What drives our praise in,

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in our in our life and community? What I well, you wanna you wanna know what I've recognized over the last it's probably been over the last 2 years or so? A way in which this community has been growing in the vitality of our spiritual faith is I can hear it.

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I can I don't know where Ellen is or members of the worship team who are usually on stage up here, but, like, I can hear it in the passion for which you sing to the Lord? It has changed. It is it is it is transforming. Right? We're we're no longer just standing, watching, and listening,

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unmoved by what the spirit of the Lord is doing in the room. But as a communal body, we're recognizing that, like, God's presence is here. The spirit is here. Or I recognize the the like, I I recognize the tremendous, like, movement of the Lord in my life, and so I offer my thanks and praise, my gratitude and thanksgiving in worship. That is what worship is.

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And we sing hymns, songs, psalms, and spiritual songs, giving thanks to God. What is driving that in us? What are what is our demeanor, our words, our heart posture? As we serve, as we deed. Right?

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What does Paul say? Whatever you do, whether in word or in deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father through him. What is the what is our posture of Thanksgiving in the midst of the ways that in while we are serving?

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As we serve, what is our heart attitude? Are we do do we do do we do the deeds of the life of community in a begrudging in a begrudging way? In an embittered way.

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I gotta serve today. Got other things I could

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be doing. I got other things I should be doing. Got other things I want to do. Got priorities, man. Got important things in life.

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Or as we serve, in whatever role we serve it, whether you're pouring a cup of coffee, whether you're scooping snow off the sidewalk in the winter, you're serving in a conduit kids' room. Right? Whether you're serve driving the bus to peep people up around the city or serving on the worship team or you served at the Thanksgiving event or you're serving on the food truck or you're offering to take out, the garbage that you see that is full in the bath when whenever you're serving, how what's the posture in which we serve?

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Do the people around you, when you are serving, know that you're doing that the do do they see that your service is

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being that you're you're deeding here, to use Paul's language, that you're deeding with gratitude and thanks in your heart to Lord to the Lord your God through Jesus Christ.

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I'm so grateful to be doing this today for the Lord. This is such a great opportunity to glorify the Lord through this small thing, to glorify the Lord through this big thing. Aren't you grateful that we get to

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do this together? Aren't you aren't you grateful that we get to serve the Lord in this way? I saw people yesterday tear like, breaking down cardboard boxes with smile on their smiles on their faces, full of joy at the opportunity to move a bunch of cardboard around yesterday. Why? Because they recognized that they weren't doing it to help me out.

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They they they recognized that they were that they were a part of the body that was seeking to bring glory and honor to Jesus through the small act. Right?

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And what this turns into is it turns into a way that our a a posture of gratitude and thanksgiving helps others around us when they're on the

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gratitude and thanksgiving struggle bus.

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Like, very obviously don't wanna be there. Having a difficult time with the attitude. And I don't know about you, but there was a few of you yesterday who your attitude changed my attitude.

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That your heart posture changed my heart posture.

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That your passion, your joy, your gratitude, your thanksgiving ended up being a testimony to me and to others around you of what it's like

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to serve with a joy joyful and grateful heart. See, like the testimony of hope, like a testimony of deliverance, or a testimony of salvation that inspires faith in others, so does the expression of thanksgiving and gratitude draw others into the place of recognizing God's own faithful presence and generous hand in their life and can inspire them to give thanks as well. I'll say this, and then we're gonna pray a psalm together. Okay? Is that Paul says something also increasing or, like, really significant about thanksgiving, about giving thanks,

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and he says that it is god's will for us in Christ Jesus. Anyone ever ask the question, what's God's will for my life? No? Okay. You should start asking that question.

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Try that again. Anyone ever well, everyone wanna know what God's will for their life is? Alright. Well, okay. Some of

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it is really clear in scripture and other other thing like, when it's real when it's really clear, it's clear like this. K? In 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 18, be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances. Why? For this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

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For this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. That is pretty clear. That needs no interpretation. That needs no qualification because the qualification that Paul gives is not make sure you give thanks in all the circumstances where you're really thankful. Some of y'all have gone through some circumstances, even in this past year where you gotta dig really deep down into the layers of what you're going through to find something to be thankful about, to be grateful for.

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And sometimes, there's nothing circumstantially to be thankful for. Well, what do I do when a situation in my life has completely just unraveled and fallen apart? There's nothing good that is there. There's nothing in the thing that I can be thankful for. So when we return to the beginning to understand we are not always just thankful for the things, We are thankful for him.

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We are thankful for him, a god whose love endures, a god whose name is great, A God who is faithful throughout all generations. God's will for us in Jesus Christ is to give thanks in all circumstances. This is not the same thing as to say that we give thanks because of all circumstances. Although, that is a really highly sanctified thing to do.

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If we had to put it in a different way, we would say something like when the going gets tough, the pressed get thankful.

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When life is pressing down, it is God's will for us in Christ Jesus to give thanks. Flooding your mind and your words with the truth about God, rather than the lie that the enemy wants to plant, keeps you from being consumed by the circumstances that you are in. It would go a little bit like this. Lord, thank you for your enduring love. Thank you, Lord, for your faithfulness.

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Thank you for showing me who you are through this. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for the deliverance that I know is coming, for the healing that I know is coming, for your presence with me in the midst of your of this pain. Lord, thank you. I give my my gratitude for your presence.

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If you would like to press into, a spirit or posture of Thanksgiving and gratitude in the next few weeks, we decided during first service today that we would, together over this next couple weeks left in 2,024, memorize together Psalm 100.

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We've memorized the entire Psalm so that it became listen. You know, the more the more truth that you put into your heart and mind, the less room there is for the lies of the enemy. Right? Like, the more the more you flood your mind

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and your heart and your spirit with the truth of God's word, the less room there is for a lie that the enemy tries to put there to take root. There ain't no room for

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it. Right? Every time that the that every time that Satan tried to tempt and lie to Jesus in the desert at the beginning of his, ministry, what did Jesus do? He responded to the temptation and the lie by quoting scripture every single 3 times in a row. And then and then what does the enemy do?

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The enemy got crafty the second time. He tempted Jesus, and

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he was like, oh, Jesus is using scripture? Okay. I'm gonna use scripture too. And Jesus is like, yeah. I'm sorry.

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I know the word so well that you're not able to twist it in my presence. Right. And so to both defeat the lies of the enemy, but also to defend against the twisting of the, of the word of god by the enemy, we must flood our minds with it so that it becomes reflexive to our spirits, and we do that by memorization, by saying I will so fully get this word in my heart and in my spirit, lord, that that that no lie of the enemy can take root. You wanna saw you wanna you wanna put in some truth about thankfulness and gratitude? Memorize Psalm 100.

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It's 5 verses. It's not hard to memorize. Shout to the Lord, all of the earth. Worship the lord with gladness. Come before him with joyful songs.

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Know that the lord is god. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name, for the lord is good and his love endures forever.

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His faithfulness continues through all through all generations. This psalm tells us a lot about giving thanks to the Lord. 1st, it says it says that we give thanks for who he for for his name, for who he is, not just for what he gives us. Right? It says, give for the Lord is or give thanks and praise his name.

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It's an exercise in recognizing where our gratitude and thanksgiving belongs. God is not only the rightful recipient of our thanks, but the object of our thankfulness objectively. We give thanks for his goodness and his enduring love. For the lord is good and his love endures forever, it says in Psalm 100. A love that endures is a love that stays, it sticks.

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God's love to us and to you is not temperamental. It is not temporary. God cannot be scared off from loving you by your conduct. Oh, I did x, y, and z. God does not love me anymore.

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God's love endures. We give thanks for God's faithfulness, a God who keeps his promises throughout all generations. If God is a God who has kept his promise throughout generations, God is a God who will keep his promise in this situation to you. His faithfulness continues throughout all generations. Psalm 100.

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What we're gonna do before we end here, as the worship team is coming up, we're gonna put this Psalm 100 back on

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the screen. We're gonna we're gonna say it out loud together. Throughout the week, I want

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you to work on memorizing this psalm. Like I said, it's only 5 verses long. A great way to memorize scripture, if you're just beginning that practice, is memorize 1 verse per day. It's 5 verses. Right?

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You got a couple extra days even for one of the some of the longer ones. Memorize 1 verse a day and put it together with the one previous. Alright? Here we go. Are you ready to read this together?

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Psalm 100. Shout for joy to the lord, all the earth. Worship the lord with gladness. Come before him with joyful songs. Know that the lord is god.

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It is he who made us and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name. For the lord is good, and his love endures forever.

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His faithfulness continues through all generations. Amen. Amen. Lord, thank you for your goodness, for your presence throughout the years despite the circumstances. Your love endures.

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Your faithfulness endures throughout all generations. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Conduit, you are loved. Have a great week.

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We'll see you next time.