Sermon Note
Pastor Prince
The importance of hearing the Word of God. God wants us so much to be the beneficiary
Accept and receive all the finished work.
God made Adam and Eve last. He prepared everything for them. He prepared the Garden of Eden for them and they are the beneficiary
The woman listened to the snake talked more than God
When we fall, we don’t have everything from God
The devil tells them to try to be what they already are.
God will never see you in the flesh.
God sees you in the spirit
Sometimes you walk after the flesh. Sometimes you walk after the spirit
God Almighty. God became flesh and dwell among us.
We don’t deserve any of this
God still blesses sinners.
We all deserve hell but God gives us blessings by grace
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
There is no condemnation for you and I not because God just decided to. It is because the sentence was served at the cross. Jesus was at the cross as us and for us, representing us.
It is my sin that He was carrying. The same body rose from the dead without our sins.
Men’s position is thankfulness. Gratitude, praise.
All He went through can be received by a simple thank you. It makes us grateful.
Man wants to deserve everything they have.
We are no more under the law. We work out the righteousness that we are.
We have all the latest AI and there is still failure. No matter how we create AI it can never match human brain.
For us, God gives us wisdom
Do you know what it does when you said you deserve it?
When you get it, you are not grateful. You feel you deserve it
There are a lot of angry people now. They feel they are not getting what they deserve
Grace is also thanks
You thank God for something good, it increases
Say thank you.
Salvation, been saved from eternal destruction is by thank you
Everything is by grace through faith
Studies has shown that our memory banks receive memories are worse. They are trying capture it in camera to remember.
Brains are just like a muscle.
Give thanks. Be thankful
Enjoy the moment
What is the one characteristic that really grief God’s heart?
Complain
God is not the destroyer. Stan goes about seeking whom he may devour
Complaining is opposite of thanking God.
Find something to thank God for
John 6:22-23
The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone; (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)
Of all the things the Holy Spirit said, he did not say miracle.
The thing he was so pleased with is he gave thanks.
5 loaves and 2 small fish
Jesus lifted up and thank the Lord.
Be thankful
We are too busy looking at how people are spending their lives
Adam and Eve were given all kind of tastes bugs
When we compare our lives we become depressed
Social media itself is not bad.
It is the way it is used thet is bad
I am grateful
Creation tells us there is a Creator
Romans 1:19-21 NASB1995
“because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”
Romans 1:21-31 NASB1995
“For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;”
When you don’t give thanks, your thoughts become darken
You who claim the practise the law, you lied.
You tell others not to kill, do you kill?
“But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;”
Romans 3:21-24 NASB1995
Even the law said approved
Only grace. Grace will teach you more than the law can
This righteousness gift sent to all.
This gift is to all
It does not come on them
It is to all but not on them all
It is on all who believes
Justified FREELY
Freely means without cost
The payment is redemption through Christ Jesus
The complete redemption is simply believe
A life of thankfulness
1 Thessalonians 5:18
in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Caleb looked at problem as bread
There is good and bad stress
When you see stress, they are a channel to build you up
We over protect the children
Being thankful can improve your mental and physical health
Gratitude has always been associated with lower blood pressure
1996 Stamford University Complaining
How complaining affect your brain
Listening to people for 30 mins complaining can damage your brain
It is not worth it.
One of the hardest thing to thank children is to be thankful
It all starts by not being thankful
Hebrew word for complain is Lun
It either means spend all night or complain
You complain you remain all nights.
Abide (Lun)
Complaining is lack of gratefulness
Live a life thanking God
Church is a beautiful place. Is the Father’s house.
Be ever looking for the goodness of God. The more you thank God, the more you will see the goodness of God
