WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:06.400 Lord, let every word that comes out of my mouth 2 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:08.119 be what you would have it to be. 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:11.720 Nothing of my own will, nothing of my own thought, 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:13.480 just your thoughts, and we just thank you and we 5 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:14.080 give you praise. 6 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:19.480 So I I thought I was going to be preaching 7 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:22.440 a different message in this, but it just keeps coming around, 8 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:28.000 and so here we go. Today's message is gonna be 9 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:31.160 a little bit like weight training. And what I mean 10 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:33.359 by that is that few years back, I decided I 11 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:35.880 was unhappy with like the level of health I was having, 12 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:38.600 and so I decided I was going to start exercising. 13 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:41.000 And then I was like, so I work out at home. 14 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:44.320 I had this particular trainer that I would watch and 15 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:46.359 eventually I've watched him so much I'm like, I need 16 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.320 something new. And so my wife was like, oh, you 17 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:51.679 should check out this guy, and so I you know, 18 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.119 you know, he says things that are ridiculous. He says 19 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:02.920 things like I'm here, I'm gonna get huge today, and 20 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:06.040 he just says the most ridiculous things like he's a 21 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:09.560 meathead and and it's it. And so it actually took 22 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:12.640 me a little while to like ignore what he was 23 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.040 saying to be able to catch on to the fact 24 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:17.599 that this guy's really brilliant in how he makes you 25 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.400 pick up weights and use them. And in scripture, uh, 26 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:27.680 it talks about that there's benefit to physical training, but 27 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.519 that there's actually a lot more benefit to spiritual training. 28 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:36.040 And so today there's gonna be a little bit. I'm 29 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:36.799 not gonna. 30 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.599 Tell you it's time, it's time to get huge. 31 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:41.359 I'm not gonna tell you that, but I am going 32 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:43.799 to tell you that we're gonna pick some weights up today. 33 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:47.680 And the benefit that you get is directly correlative to 34 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.079 whether or not you hold onto the weight and whether 35 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:51.760 you actually muscle the weight up. 36 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:54.000 You have to actually lift the weight to get the 37 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.799 benefit of the weight training. Okay, So. 38 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:04.359 The word thanksgiving appears twenty five times in the New 39 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:12.360 International Version translation, the Hebrew word for thanks appears seventy 40 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.680 two times in the Old Testament, and the Greek word 41 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:21.080 gratitude appears one hundred and fifty seven times one hundred 42 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:28.120 and fifty seven times in the New Testament. The words thanks, thanksgiving, 43 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:34.560 and gratitude are so absolutely interwoven through the scriptures that 44 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.879 you cannot get away from them. If you actually opened 45 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.000 up your Bible, you literally can't turn a page and 46 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:44.120 you're going to see one of those words or a 47 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.719 subset of one of those words that conveys the same thing. 48 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:50.039 And as we're getting ready to hang out with family 49 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:54.039 this week and rejoice and be thankful. 50 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:55.280 I. 51 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:59.960 Wanted to use this opportunity to talk to you about 52 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:05.759 true Thanksgiving and that it's not a day, it's a lifestyle. 53 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:09.120 Okay. 54 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:13.159 The Old Testament has the concept of the fellowship offering 55 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:17.360 of thanksgiving. Even in Jesus's miracles, before he feeds four thousand, 56 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:21.000 he goes and they give thanks and then they eat 57 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.599 right like it's everywhere, you cannot get it. So if 58 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:27.319 you think I'm like teaching something heretical, like I cut 59 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:29.680 out like fifteen scriptures out of here because we're going 60 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.520 to run out of time. But the point I'm making 61 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:37.960 is that this is so foundational to being a follower 62 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.240 of Jesus. I don't know that you can really be 63 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:44.879 an effective follower of Jesus without letting this like saturate you, 64 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.439 without letting this ruminate and come out of you. 65 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:48.159 Okay. 66 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:54.759 So the Hebrew word for thanksgiving is toda, and it 67 00:03:54.840 --> 00:04:01.400 means adoration, confession, praise, thanksgiving, and listen to this last part. 68 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.439 This is out of your strongest concordance. It says by 69 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:09.360 implication and extension of the hand. 70 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:11.159 Weird. 71 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:19.680 Thanksgiving is by implication and extension of the hand. Huh, 72 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:25.720 I thought thanksgiving was saying something. No, Thanksgiving actually opens 73 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:32.839 up God's hand over you. The Greek word for thanksgiving 74 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:34.759 is eucharista. 75 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:35.839 Listen to. 76 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:40.199 Eucharista means gratitude. It means grateful language to God. 77 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:43.639 It means an act of worship. 78 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:46.759 Some of you that have come out of certain faiths, 79 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:50.879 maybe more liturgical faiths, you might be familiar with the 80 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:56.639 term eucharist right by taking of the which we just did, 81 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.480 the bread and the body the Eucharist. So the word 82 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:11.519 eucharista actually means. The word eucharista actually means thanks and honor. 83 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:19.279 So it's an act of worship. So when you are thankful, 84 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:20.560 do you know what you're doing? 85 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.920 You're worshiping. You might be. 86 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:27.480 Thinking that the only way to worship is up here 87 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:31.279 on a stage with really talented musicians and vocalists. But 88 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:34.639 believe it or not, every time you are thankful and 89 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.759 you express thanksgiving, you're actually worshiping the King. And when 90 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:43.800 you worship the King, something's happening over you. 91 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:47.199 His arm is extending and his eyes are on you. 92 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:50.439 Jesus Wow. 93 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:56.879 The history of Thanksgiving is that in sixteen twenty one, 94 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:00.959 there's a Native American tribe called the wam Pog that 95 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:04.120 meet with the Pilgrims at the time who came here 96 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:09.079 and they basically wanted the capacity to worship God and 97 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:13.920 to pursue him freely without anybody telling him what to do, okay, 98 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.439 And they have a really wonderful harvest, and so they 99 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:20.959 end up having this bountiful harvest season. They gather with 100 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.040 the with the tribe at the time and they have 101 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.079 a multi day festival, and the purpose of the festival 102 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:32.240 was to express thanks for how gracious or how bountiful 103 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.680 God had been to them in giving him a harvest. 104 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:37.720 It was all about expressing thanks. 105 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.480 And if you look at the early people who came here, 106 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:43.360 the Pilgrims, all of them were Christian, not all, but 107 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:46.279 almost all of them are Christians. They came here to 108 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:51.360 pursue God and they didn't want any human constraint or 109 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:52.720 interference with that. 110 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:55.639 They were wholehearted devoted to. 111 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.639 Creating a new land where there was no obstacles to 112 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:02.480 pursuing the king and being intimate with him. 113 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.519 They were translating that over to the Native. 114 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:09.879 Americans and in well, anyhow, so I'm gonna skip past 115 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:13.240 some of this stuff. But in eighteen sixty three, President 116 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:18.800 Lincoln actually created Thanksgiving as a national holiday by proclamation. 117 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:22.839 So we've been celebrating a few hundred years here in 118 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:29.480 America of this thing called Thanksgiving. Earlier this morning, Pastor 119 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:34.040 Dwayne was talking about having God's face turned towards you, 120 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:38.639 and that the devil is roaring around like a lion, 121 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:40.079 seeking whom he may devour. 122 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:44.920 But if we will humble ourselves before. 123 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:48.160 The hand of the Lord, if we will humble ourselves, 124 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:51.160 turn from our wicked ways, he will look towards us. 125 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.279 He will see us. And this is even him talking 126 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:57.040 about healing our land. Right, So he sees us when 127 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:01.839 we're walking in humility. And he always opposes pride. He 128 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:04.120 gives grace to the humble, He opposes the pride, the 129 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:07.560 pride fuller the person who's proud. Right, You guys know 130 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.079 what I'm talking about. These are not like new scriptures 131 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:12.759 to you. What I'm going to tell you is that 132 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:15.800 I think that most people, when they think about. 133 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:17.920 The term humility. 134 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:22.240 I actually think that they think it's self deprecation, that 135 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:25.519 it would be like beating yourself up or presenting yourself 136 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:28.600 in a lowly light to somehow get someone else to 137 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.800 think that you're like pious or like holy or something 138 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:32.679 like that. 139 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:34.960 That's a bunch of junk. That's a lie. 140 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:40.159 What's true humility is Thanksgiving. There is no other thing 141 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:45.039 on the planet that expresses humility more effectively than Thanksgiving. 142 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:49.159 And the reason why that is is because you're saying, Lord, 143 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:50.360 I couldn't do it. 144 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:52.080 You did it for me. 145 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:57.840 It's all you, and so naturally in Thanksgiving, humility is 146 00:08:58.279 --> 00:08:59.879 the underlying current. 147 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:02.960 Of which Thanksgiving flows. Does that make sense? 148 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:06.600 And so if you're looking, if we don't want God 149 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.039 to oppose us because we're prideful, but we want him 150 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:11.720 to give grace because we're humble, we better be walking 151 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.320 in Thanksgiving twenty four to seven. Because that's the key 152 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:20.320 characteristic of humility. It's not saying, oh woe is me, 153 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.559 and so tough to be me. 154 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.360 No, that is not humility. To be totally honest with you. 155 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:30.159 More often than not, that's people looking for attention. That's 156 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:40.840 a wounded spirit that needs deliverance. There are few things 157 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:46.720 that will move the hand of God like a gratitude lifestyle. 158 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:51.639 It's not a day, it's a lifestyle, and it is 159 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:52.639 your superpower. 160 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:57.480 So the Lord gave me. 161 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:00.879 Before we get too far into this hope, you realize 162 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.159 that there's now no condemnation for all of us who 163 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:03.639 are in Christ. 164 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:08.360 Jesus correct that we're been hidden in him. 165 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.799 That's it's Christ in us, the hope of glory that 166 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:12.759 he's He loves us so much that he doesn't leave 167 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.840 us the way we are. He's renewing us day by day. Right, 168 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.799 this is this is what he's doing. He's our dad, 169 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.360 and so he doesn't like we come into the kingdom 170 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:22.399 and he just. 171 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.000 Doesn't leave us that way. 172 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.120 He loves us enough enough that he's trying to get 173 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:32.759 us to pick up the weights. So I'm going to 174 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:35.000 tell you that I had I have in the past 175 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:38.320 week done some whining and a little bit of complaining. 176 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:42.799 And it could be that maybe there's another person or 177 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:46.320 two in this building that might have done the same thing. 178 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:50.559 Could be possibly or maybe it's a different church. 179 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:59.080 Down the road, probably not new horizons. Do you know 180 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:01.639 that some sins, sins of commission, like if you went 181 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:04.720 and committed adultery, you're sinning. But some sins are a 182 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:07.600 sin of omission. Omission means you just didn't do the 183 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:09.360 right thing, but you should have done it. And a 184 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:12.200 lot of times, thanksgiving and gratitude, that's how they work. 185 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.120 You have so much to be thankful for, but yet 186 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.960 every day you're not getting up and giving thanks, you're 187 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:21.360 just taking it for granted. And so two hundred years ago, 188 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:24.279 people spent all of their time trying to heat their 189 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:27.039 home and get enough food where they could have food 190 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:28.840 in their tummy and make it through a season. 191 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:32.960 Today, you click a button, you flip a switch. 192 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:36.440 We're probably living in the easiest point in human history 193 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:39.399 right now. And do you know that people are less 194 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:42.039 happy today than they've ever been. Do you know they 195 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:44.720 whine and complain more today than they ever have. We're 196 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:50.159 actually a weaker society producing far weaker people. Yet we 197 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:53.159 have so much abundance it's available to us. And so 198 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:55.799 I believe that we actually commit the sin of omission 199 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:58.720 a lot, which is that we don't just simply step 200 00:11:58.799 --> 00:11:59.799 back and look at all that we have to be 201 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:03.919 thankful for it and say thank you Lord. The three words, 202 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:06.639 the three words that I want to come out of 203 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:11.039 my mouth more than any other words are thank you Lord, 204 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:14.360 thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Those are the three 205 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:17.000 words that should come out of my mouth more than 206 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:20.159 any other words on the planet. Those are the three 207 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:22.679 because you could be thanking him for what he did yesterday, 208 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:24.480 You could be thanking him for what he's doing today. 209 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:26.440 You could be thanking him for what you have today. 210 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:28.600 And you could also be thanking him for even that 211 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:31.159 maybe a difficulty or something where you need him to move. 212 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:33.480 You could just say, let's say you need him to 213 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:36.120 give you a job. You could say, thank you Jesus 214 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:39.519 fill in the blank for giving me this job, Thank 215 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:42.000 you Jesus that you've got this coming, Thank you Jesus 216 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:45.320 that the healing's on the way. You can actually function 217 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:49.320 in thanksgiving on any single thing, even something that you 218 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.039 want to see happen that you haven't seen happen yet, 219 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:52.720 that maybe. 220 00:12:52.440 --> 00:13:00.120 Even some like wound in your heart. The Lord gave 221 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:00.720 me a picture. 222 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:03.080 This is how I ended up coming up with this message, 223 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:05.799 because I was actually planning on preaching on something else, 224 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:09.519 and the Lord gave me a picture, and the picture 225 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.240 he gave me was of his death on the cross 226 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:23.320 and the tearing of the veil from top to bottom 227 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.159 that happened when Jesus was crucified. 228 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:30.919 Okay, why was the veil torn? The veil was. 229 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:37.960 Torn to separate the holy place in the most Holy Place. Correct, 230 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:40.799 you guys are looking at me like, did I just 231 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:41.679 say something wrong? 232 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:47.240 Yeah? Yeah. The reason he tore it was to. 233 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:51.440 Remove the veil and to give us access, you and me. 234 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.919 He tore the veil so that we could have access. 235 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:58.000 He woke me up this morning really early, and I didn't, 236 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.000 and so I'm like, what are you talking about? And 237 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.960 in the Book of Exodus, if you'll look at the 238 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:07.519 veil that was torn from top to bottom, which means 239 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.720 man didn't tore it, God tore it. On on the 240 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:19.679 veil that he tore, the cherubim or woven in. It's blue, 241 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:26.200 it's purple, it's red, and it's woven in. And on 242 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:29.240 the other side of it, in the most Holy Place, 243 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.200 you have the Ark of the Covenant. And on top 244 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:38.240 of the ark is what the mercy seat, but the Cherubim. 245 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:45.000 So what happens is that he tore this veil to 246 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:54.519 give us access to intimacy with him, and he said unfortunately, 247 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:59.759 he said, my kids, they'll grab a needle and thread, 248 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:04.200 and they're working from the bottom to try and actually 249 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:05.960 sew the veil back together. 250 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.679 And I'm like, what are you talking about? So the 251 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:10.759 veil back together? 252 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:20.840 Hebrews or excuse me, numbers eleven one through six. Now 253 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:23.879 the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of 254 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:28.799 the Lord. And when he heard them, his anger was aroused, 255 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:32.279 and fire from the Lord burned among them and consumed 256 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:35.240 some of the outskirts of the camp. When the people 257 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:37.879 cried out to Moses, he prayed to the Lord, and 258 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.840 the fire died down, so that place was called Tabah. 259 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.720 Because fire from the Lord had burned among them, the 260 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:49.679 rabble with them began to crave other food. And again 261 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:53.799 the Israelite started to wail and say, if only we 262 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:57.639 had meat to eat. We remember the fish we ate 263 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:01.000 in Egypt at no cost. Also the qcum melons leaks 264 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:08.679 onions and garlic. But now we've lost our appetite. We 265 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:13.519 never see anything but this manna. Moses heard the people 266 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:16.879 of every family wailing at. 267 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:18.600 The entrance to their tents. 268 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:26.159 And it says the Lord became exceedingly angry, and Moses 269 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:30.320 was troubled. Moses actually pleads with the Lord, and he says, Lord, 270 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:32.720 why did you make me lead these people? And then 271 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.679 he actually says kill me, now, kill me now, I 272 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:40.120 can't deal with them. That's how frustrated Moses was with this. 273 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:43.840 And if you look what was causing the Lord to 274 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:47.519 be exceedingly angry where he actually burned, you know, sections 275 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:49.960 of the outermost aspects of the camp up. 276 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:52.919 Complaining. 277 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:55.919 But I thought he produced something for them. That's what 278 00:16:55.960 --> 00:17:01.320 they needed in the manna. And you know, they couldn't 279 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:06.680 be thankful for the manna. All they could do is 280 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:09.759 wine and complain about the leaks, the onion, the garlic, 281 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:16.960 the fish that they had back in Egypt. Wow, I'm 282 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:19.839 gonna go to the New Testament now, so you don't 283 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:24.000 think I'm a heretic one Corinthians ten one through twelve, 284 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:29.079 For I do not this is the New Testament. 285 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:30.640 Okay, that was the Old Testament. 286 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.200 This is the New For I do not want you 287 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:35.519 to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that 288 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:38.880 our ancestors were all under the cloud, and that they 289 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:39.920 passed through the sea. 290 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:42.880 They were all baptized into Moses. In the cloud and 291 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:43.359 in the sea. 292 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.240 They all ate the same spiritual food and drink the 293 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:50.119 same spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock 294 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:56.240 that accompanied them. The spiritual rock was Christ. Huh, I 295 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:57.839 thought we were talking about the Old Testament. I thought 296 00:17:57.880 --> 00:17:58.400 it was Moses. 297 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:00.200 No. 298 00:18:01.079 --> 00:18:04.160 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them. Their 299 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:08.200 bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Now these things occurred 300 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:10.759 as examples to us to keep us from setting our 301 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:14.079 hearts on evil things as they did. Do not be 302 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:16.599 idolatrys as some of them were. As it is written, 303 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:18.799 the people sat down to eat and drink, got up 304 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:22.359 to indulge in revelly. We should not commit sexual immorality, 305 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:24.599 as some of them did, and in one day twenty 306 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:25.799 three thousand of them died. 307 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:33.599 We should not test Christ. We should not test Christ. 308 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.799 As some of them did and were killed by the snakes. 309 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:44.240 And listen to this, and do not grumble as some 310 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:48.519 of them did and were killed by the destroying angel. 311 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:50.920 Huh. 312 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:54.200 A destroying angel came and killed them because of their 313 00:18:54.279 --> 00:19:01.359 grumbling and complaining. If you think I'm talking an Old Testament, 314 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:05.400 I want you to listen to the next verse, these things. 315 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:08.400 Happened to them. 316 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:12.680 As examples written down as warnings for us, for me 317 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:20.440 and you on whom the culmination of the ages has come. 318 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:24.559 So if you think you're standing firm, be careful that 319 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:28.680 you do not fall. The devil is roaring around like 320 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:30.839 a lion, seeking whom he and it may devour. And 321 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:32.440 I'm going to share with you that a lot of 322 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:36.319 times we don't realize that God may have a perspective 323 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:40.119 and culture has a different perspective. And I think a 324 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:43.640 lot of times, as Christians, we can actually become so 325 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:47.640 influenced by culture we might not even realize we're being influenced. 326 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:53.640 Grumbling and complaining opens us up to the destroyer. 327 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:56.880 We need to check ourselves. 328 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:00.880 Like sometimes when I start to whine or complain, like here, 329 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:03.200 it's almost like the Lord wants to slap my face, 330 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:06.680 give me a check. And then I hear myself and 331 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:10.880 I'm like, no, okay, rudder, get back where you're supposed 332 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:12.960 to be. Let's praise and exalt him, let's. 333 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:13.440 Give him thanks. 334 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:18.000 And so what happens is that complaining and grumbling and 335 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:23.759 whining cannot occupy this same space, cannot occupy at the 336 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:28.680 same time as Thanksgiving. So if you are whining, if 337 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:31.640 you are unthankful, if you are complaining, if you are grumbling, 338 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:35.440 do you know what you're not doing. You're not giving thanks, 339 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:38.200 You're not operating in gratitude. And I'm wondering how much 340 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:43.359 of our days are actually spent whining and complaining. And 341 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:47.079 you know what I know is if he says thanksgiving 342 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.319 is worship unto him and it causes his outstretched arm 343 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:56.519 to rest over us, I kind of want that. So 344 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:59.079 it means I better stay in Thanksgiving and not get 345 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:02.480 out of it. And you know, I can tell really 346 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:07.119 easy whether I'm in Thanksgiving or whether I'm not, because 347 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.839 this thing always it's out of the abundance of the 348 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:15.079 heart that the mouth speaks, and it'll give you away 349 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:15.839 every time. 350 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:17.880 It'll just tell on you. 351 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:21.279 And then thankfully the Holy Spirit will come and he'll 352 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:23.400 since you have the mind of Christ, and he comes 353 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:26.440 and he's like and then you're like, Nope, I'm not 354 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:26.920 doing that. 355 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:31.440 I choose to give thanks even if there's something I 356 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:31.880 don't like. 357 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:35.400 Lord Jesus, I thank you that you're working this out 358 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:44.240 for me. The Lord works in contrasts. What do I 359 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:47.720 mean by that? So he always when he tells you 360 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:49.680 to do something, he'll always tell you what not to do. 361 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:50.160 Okay. 362 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:53.279 So if he says, be anxious about nothing, but in 363 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:55.480 all things, by prayer and supplication, make your request known 364 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:57.400 to God, he'll give you the peace. He'll also tell 365 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:00.000 you in four eight of Philippians, he'll tell you. 366 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.519 So when he tells you, don't be anxious, he says, 367 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:03.000 don't do this. 368 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:06.559 And then he comes over here and he says, finally, brethren, 369 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:10.039 whatever things are true, right, noble, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, 370 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:11.319 or praise worthy, think on these things. 371 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:13.519 He tells you, don't do this. Do this, okay. 372 00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:15.440 If you look at the Old Testament in the book 373 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.680 of Deuteronomy, the blessing of the Lord is if you 374 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:21.400 will harken diligently to my voice. That's the Holy Spirit 375 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:24.400 on you telling you what to do. He says, these 376 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:27.039 blessings will accompany you. And then he also goes to 377 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:30.440 say that if you don't do that, this comes on you, 378 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:31.480 which is what we don't want. 379 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:34.079 It's called the curse, and we don't participate with the curse. 380 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:37.599 And so what happens. He always gives you the do this, 381 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:40.279 don't do that. You know what I'm talking about. 382 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:44.240 So anybody who's in here, who's ever been to a wedding, 383 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:48.000 you have heard First Corinthians, chapter thirteen talked about. 384 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:50.319 It's the love verses, right, love. 385 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:54.240 Is patient, love is kind, love is gentle. It's not arrogant, rude, proud, 386 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:58.160 or boastful. It's not self seeking. It considers others better 387 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:00.920 than itself. It keeps no record of wrongs. So in 388 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:05.000 those verses, there's fifteen things that's talked about. Seven of 389 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:08.759 them are love is, eight of them are love isn't. 390 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:10.799 So he tells you what it is and what it 391 00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:12.559 isn't so you can figure out how to walk. 392 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:14.480 Do you know what I'm talking about. 393 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:18.119 He doesn't leave his kids without the direction like we're 394 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:19.319 not out here, like, oh what do I do? 395 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:23.079 Lord? No, I got direction for you. And so this 396 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:24.440 is how he operates. 397 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:29.720 And Pastor Frank last week when you were talking about 398 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:34.640 I believe it's First Corinthians, excuse me, Second Corinthians, and 399 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.559 it was chapter eleven, maybe like verse four or something. 400 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:39.400 We don't have to put it up right now, but. 401 00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:42.880