WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.040 Well, happy Thanksgiving. 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:02.399 Happy Thanksgiving week. 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:06.400 This morning I would love to talk some about Thanksgiving. 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:13.519 And as a talk about that, I would like to talk about what often gets in the way of being thankful. 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:16.879 A few weeks ago I I tapped this Instagram ad. 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:22.399 I tapped that Instagram ad uh because uh it looked like a good-looking blazer. 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:24.640 This looked like the kind of guy I want to be. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:32.000 Looks like maybe he's maybe he's in a marina, I don't know, but I was like, that looks like I could I could be like that. 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:37.359 I actually never wear blazers, but my ideal self wears blazers. 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:39.039 So I tapped it. 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:42.719 Um and you know he's not he doesn't look as anxious as I am. 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.640 He's just cool and calm, and maybe I could be that good looking, I don't know. 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.520 Um I could maybe I could look like that, right? 00:00:49.600 --> 00:01:04.959 Like if I had that blazer, and so now, of course, for weeks, all I have seen is blazers, like uh on YouTube, when I Google something on Instagram, like some they are now finding me over and over again. 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:13.359 Uh it's also catalog season, so for the last couple weeks I've been saving just like the the cat my favorites that have come in the mail. 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:15.920 Uh styles of outdoor brand free people. 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:19.200 Free people's big deal in my house, teenage girls, anybody? 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:21.599 Young ladies, free people, that's a big deal. 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:23.120 Um Johnny O. 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:24.400 Uh, okay. 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:28.879 REI, it's classic, Sid Mashburn, again, the ideal self. 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:31.680 I actually don't really have any of those clothes, really. 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:39.120 Uh Orvis came, um, which that's like outdoor brand and fly fishing stuff. 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:48.879 Uh, and so I I you you won't believe what the Orvis fly rod Helios 4 has come out. 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:50.560 I read the whole article. 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:56.560 It's amazing the technology that's happened from the Helios III to the Helios 4. 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:57.680 I couldn't believe it. 00:01:57.760 --> 00:01:59.280 I know you can't believe it. 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:03.359 Um, and I'm just super excited about the Helios IV. 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:08.719 I didn't know I needed it until I read about it, but it's gonna change my life one day. 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:13.360 Um so we're we're being pursued, aren't we? 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.680 Like we are being hunted down. 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.280 Like, like stuff wants to find us. 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:24.319 We're being pursued with a promise of a new life, a new me, right? 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:30.159 Like if I could if I could look like that guy in that marina, uh, what would be possible for my life? 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:36.800 If only I could look like that, if only I could have that, then maybe my problems could go away. 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:39.280 Then maybe I could be thankful. 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:41.599 Maybe I could be at peace. 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:48.719 And so maybe you're like me and you get duped this easily with this stuff. 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:55.039 Listen to what Jesus says about stuff and our hearts, Matthew 6, 19 through 21. 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:01.280 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:08.319 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:11.520 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.000 So Jesus is teaching against materialism. 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:21.439 Materialism is the treasuring of things, material things over intellectual and spiritual things. 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:28.319 It's the day-to-day preoccupation with things and attempting to draw value from them. 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:36.879 Materialism is that big nothing bunt cake, and you have the first piece, and it's so lovely, and then you think to yourself, I need a second piece. 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:41.680 So you go and you have the second piece, and then by the end of the second piece, you're sick. 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:44.719 The very thing you want makes you ill. 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:48.240 The more you have, the more you think you need a little more. 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:54.319 Point number one is this thankfulness is difficult when we treasure shiny things. 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:58.240 We have this growing problem in our coat closet. 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:04.960 So our coat closet, right when you come in our front door is this little closet, not big cloak closet, little closet, little door, and you open that thing up. 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:11.039 And it's it wasn't a problem years ago, but you know, we've just added a new jacket once a year, a new vest once a year. 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:14.719 And now to get something in there, you low you have to lower your shoulder. 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:15.840 I'm not kidding. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:21.199 You lower your shoulder to get the little edge, and then you just kind of jam it in. 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:25.920 And so what it means is I finally gave up and I I take some jackets out. 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:27.759 This is my mountain hardware jacket. 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:29.600 I bought this thing 15 years ago. 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:34.959 What I can still remember walking through the RDI aisle, this thing was on sale for 50% off. 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.399 I could not believe I was getting a mountain hardware jacket. 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.480 I'd never owned a mountain hardware jacket, and for the price that I got, it was an unbelievable deal. 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:44.959 It had been my winter jacket for years and years and years. 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.079 It used to be a very big puffy jacket. 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:52.720 Now it's like a it's like a windbreaker. 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:56.720 It's been it's been it's been 15 years. 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:59.279 It's broken down, right? 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:06.480 And it now no longer lives in the coat closet, it now lives in the garage because I wear it when I do yard work. 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:09.120 That's what happens. 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:10.639 It breaks down. 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.600 Eventually it won't even live in the garage, right? 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.600 It'll get thrown away. 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:26.160 And what Jesus is saying to that process that happens with all of our stuff, as wonderful as it is, is he says, use stuff. 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:28.000 Buy stuff and use it. 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:30.720 Just don't treasure it. 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:32.480 Because it just doesn't last. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:36.480 It's an incredibly practical argument by Jesus. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:45.439 And then he takes the practical argument and he goes into our hearts in verse 21, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:50.399 And point number two is this our heart is the origin of treasuring. 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:54.399 It's what we esteem, what we think about, and what we adore. 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:57.759 Jesus says that treasuring's a heart issue. 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:01.439 Jesus wants us to go to the desire under the desire, right? 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:09.360 The desire for the blazer, the desire for the helios for, not the helios three, heaven forbid, if you're on the river of the helios three. 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:11.360 That'd be ridiculous. 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.199 The treasure, what we think about, what we adore. 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.040 That's a heart issue. 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:21.360 Go past that initial because there's a desire under the desire. 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:27.120 Why do you feel more important or more valuable? 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:30.480 Because you have that new blazer. 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:35.920 Why didn't you feel important or beautiful or meaningful before? 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:41.680 Jesus would say, your heart is resting in the wrong place, it's treasuring the wrong thing. 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:46.560 Jesus is saying, treasure something that can never be taken from you. 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:48.240 Treasure him. 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.079 Verse 22, the eye is the lamp of the body. 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:58.879 So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:03.279 If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness? 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:10.160 No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:12.879 You cannot serve God and money. 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:14.399 The word money is the word mammon. 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:19.279 So it's it's money or things and material things. 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:26.879 Point three is this when our hearts treasure things, we are blind to what has true value. 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.879 Jesus moves from talking about treasures to talking about our eye. 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.959 In ancient culture, the eye was reflective of a man's character. 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:47.519 So Jesus is saying, as the heart moves from using things to treasuring things, our very character, the very core of who you are is being corrupted. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:58.319 When we go from using things to treasuring things, the very core of who we are is corrupted because we're losing sight of what has true value. 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:05.600 My oldest daughter turned 16 this year, and so she got my 2008 Toyota 4Runner. 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:08.959 I've been driving that 4Runner for a long, long time, so she got it. 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:14.319 I went out and bought a brand new Toyota 4Runner. 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:16.480 I've never bought and driven a brand new car. 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.439 I could not believe this happened at age 45. 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:23.439 Brand new, black with like knobby, cool tires. 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:24.879 I was driving around like a 16-year-old. 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:25.920 I was like, what's up? 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.399 You know, like pulling out the red line. 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:30.959 Could not believe it. 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:33.039 All the new tech, big tire. 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:34.320 I mean, I felt amazing. 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:35.279 I was cool again. 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:40.480 And then one Saturday, I was taking another daughter's soccer game, and she got out of the car and she went to warm up. 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:41.519 I stayed in the car for a little bit. 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:43.279 I'm in the car in the parking lot. 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:49.200 I'm sitting there Saturday mornings, having a little moment to myself, you know, and I hear. 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:52.480 And it wasn't another car. 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.120 I knew that because it was too small of a thump. 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:57.679 And it's just sort of like, like, I was parked. 00:08:57.759 --> 00:08:58.399 I was like, what? 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:06.240 Like, and then this moron walks by right by my, right by my driver window, like we're right, and he walks by. 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:12.320 He does not turn his head, nothing, and he has a chair on his back, like a backpack chair. 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:13.120 Yeah. 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.720 And he gets about 100 yards up, and I'm just sort of like piecing, like what? 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:18.159 Like, what was the noise? 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:22.159 And I was like, that moron, or that chair. 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:32.960 So I got out and I I walked to the back, and sure enough, on the back corner of the car was a half-inch scratch. 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:37.679 I I could I lost my mind. 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:40.559 I had an identity crisis for days. 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:41.600 I'm not kidding. 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:44.480 I Googled what to do about this, how do I solve it? 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:46.240 I called a friend of mine who's into cars. 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:47.039 He couldn't believe it. 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:48.080 He couldn't believe what happened. 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.960 He was like, he the car the guy did what with his chair? 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:54.720 I was I was out of it, right? 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:57.039 A mini identity crisis. 00:09:58.080 --> 00:09:59.120 Half inch. 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:00.480 Half inch scratch. 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:01.440 Did this. 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:09.120 The crazy thing is, is uh it's just a car that I use to drive around. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.279 Like that's all it really is. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:15.600 But somehow it snuck into me, right? 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:19.120 Like, like kind of went from using the treasuring. 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:23.279 And it started to, I started to pull personal value from it. 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:33.039 So the scratch wasn't really a scratch, like the scratch was an indictment on my value, which is materialism, which is Jesus' argument. 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:34.320 Don't do that. 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:35.679 It doesn't last. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:40.159 It can be taken from you, stolen, it'll rot, it'll rust. 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:44.000 This connection of material things to personal values become a cultural belief. 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:46.159 We are swimming in this. 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:48.159 It is pursuing us. 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:52.159 And Jesus is saying, don't treasure things that can be taken away. 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:57.360 Drive it, wear it, buy it, use it, have it. 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:58.799 Just don't treasure it. 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:00.799 Don't let it define you. 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:04.720 Because if you let it define you, it will enslave you. 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:10.799 I saw that new Orvis Heliosphore and what it can do. 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:21.279 I read the whole article, just drooled onto the pages, and I thought, man, I I can't believe what it's gonna do for my cast if I can get this rod, right? 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:25.200 If I can only get this rod for a thousand dollars. 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:27.120 For a thousand dollars. 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:28.480 So I'm not getting the rod. 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:33.200 I have a fly rod that costs$400, which that's ridiculous, right? 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:34.879 Like that's ridiculous. 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:42.240 What's interesting is that the Helios four, not the three, ridiculous, but the four. 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.519 The Helios four for a thousand dollars. 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:52.240 At first, I was, man, like the technology, what it can do, what you can do with oh my gosh. 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:58.240 And what was interesting is like all that inspiration, excitement, it slowly started to condemn me. 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:02.240 Because suddenly the thing I had wasn't enough. 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:03.919 Isn't that interesting? 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:14.639 That the$1,000 rod condemns the$400 rod, the$50,000 car condemns the$30,000 car, the$30,000 car condemns the$10,000 car. 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:15.759 We all know this. 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:17.840 We've done it to ourselves. 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:27.919 When we get in the comparison game, the thing that all we're having so much fun getting inspired by, and all of a sudden it begins to condemn us. 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.759 That's us using things for joy and peace. 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.879 Rather than just enjoying them, using them. 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:39.600 Paul wrote this about where we find our joy. 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:41.679 Philippians 4, 4 through 6. 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.080 Rejoice in the Lord always. 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:46.399 Again I will say, rejoice. 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:49.519 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:50.879 The Lord is at hand. 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:52.559 Do not be anxious about anything. 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.480 But in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving. 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:58.559 Let your request be known to God. 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:03.279 This sounds like an incredibly content position. 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:04.799 Doesn't it? 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:07.039 Like our joy is set in the Lord. 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:08.240 We're gonna be thankful. 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.320 We're gonna make our request known to God. 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:21.679 Paul's like taking us to the desire under the desire to pray for love and joy and peace, and we're gonna rejoice in the Lord, find our joy in him. 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:30.080 And then verse 7, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:37.519 Point number four is this as we rest more in God's love for us, we don't need to use things to define us. 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:40.240 We can just use things. 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:45.679 We can live in nice houses, we can live in okay houses, we can just use things. 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:47.759 But they don't have to define us. 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:49.840 We're resting in God's love. 00:13:50.799 --> 00:14:06.080 A new study this year researched 50,000 older women, followed them for four years, and found the more grateful they were, the more grateful they were, they were 10% less likely to die from any cause. 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:14.159 So Harvard participated, the Harvard School of Health participated in this research study, and they came out and they said, that's actually not that big of a percentage, 10%. 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:22.240 They said, but the amazing thing about this is this gratitude is available to anybody. 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:30.240 This beneficial emotion and state of being that can be beneficial to your life, it's free. 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:36.720 And it's for it's not just for the healthy and the wealthy, it's for anybody. 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:45.440 Harvard concluded when we're not feeling grateful, there's six questions that can just help us with gratitude. 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:47.440 I think these are helpful. 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.399 What happened today that was good? 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:55.120 What am I taking for granted that I can be thankful for? 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:58.720 Which people in my life am I grateful for? 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:07.919 What is the last book I read, or movie, show, or social media clip I saw that I really appreciated, and why? 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:10.960 What am I most looking forward to this week? 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.360 Month and year, and why? 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:17.440 What is the kindest things someone has said or done lately? 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:22.080 Now listen to how much God values a thankful heart. 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:24.960 Psalm 69, 30 through 32. 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:27.919 I will praise the name of God with a song. 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:30.559 I will magnify him with thanksgiving. 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:35.600 This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs. 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:38.720 When the humble see it, they will be glad. 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.000 You who seek God, let your hearts revive. 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:51.039 Isn't it amazing that the thing that God values is the very thing that's beneficial to you? 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:52.639 Isn't that lovely for us? 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:59.120 That to grow in gratitude is something that God values and calls us to, and at the same time is actually good for us. 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:07.679 Now, the only problem with all of this is that we are not always thankful. 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:10.559 And we're not perfectly thankful, that's for sure. 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:13.840 We're not remembering to be thankful for everything that we should be. 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:27.600 The good news of this is after this Matthew 6 teaching, where he teaches about treasuring things and treasuring him more than things, he comes off the mountain from teaching and a leper comes up to him, approaches him. 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:31.679 And the leper comes up to him and says, Lord, if you are willing, make me clean. 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:35.919 And everybody around is thinking, Ain't no way Jesus is touching this leper. 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:37.600 Nobody touches a leper. 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.120 And sure enough, Jesus touches him, reaches out his hand. 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:43.200 The crowd would have gasped. 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:56.639 And at the same time, you have to think, there's probably people in the crowd that thought to themselves, if Jesus can touch someone like that, maybe he will touch and relate and love someone like me. 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:02.000 And the point is that Jesus shows us a way of gratitude. 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:10.480 But he also comes toward us in our mess and our sinfulness and our selfishness and our coveting and envy and comparison and lack of gratitude. 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:16.400 So maybe this morning, when it comes to materialism, you're anything but clean. 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:24.960 And point number five is this we can be thankful because even when we are not thankful, God loves us. 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:26.880 The cross really is enough. 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:30.319 Our sin is put upon the cross for the forgiveness of all of our sin. 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:35.759 And his righteousness is given to us, so we're fully beloved in God's sight through Jesus alone. 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:38.480 We don't have everything we want. 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:39.759 We never will. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.240 But we can all be thankful. 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:44.880 I'm wondering what you're thankful for this morning. 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:47.200 Maybe you're thankful for the Auburn win. 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:47.920 Amen. 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:49.359 Auburn fans, amen. 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:50.640 Georgia fans, amen. 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:51.920 Georgia fans aren't sure. 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:53.839 We're still working out what it means. 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:57.200 Maybe you're thankful for your health. 00:17:57.839 --> 00:17:59.039 Maybe you're not healthy. 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:00.160 Maybe you're sick. 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.359 But you're thankful for your friends and your family. 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.160 Maybe you went for a lovely walk this week. 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:16.720 Maybe you woke up in a warm bed and you had a warm cup of coffee and you had a warm shower and you got in a warm car and you came to a warm church. 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:23.119 Let's read Psalm 6930 again. 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:24.720 Let's read it together. 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:27.440 Let's say it together. 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:30.400 I will praise the name of God with a psalm. 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.839 I will magnify him with thanksgiving. 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:40.000 Now, perhaps you're here and you have a question about any of that, or you have another spiritual question, and I'll be down front afterwards. 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:42.000 I would love to speak with you. 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:43.599 Let's pray together. 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:51.839 Heavenly Father, we thank you that you love us in our thankfulness and you love us even when we are not thankful. 00:18:54.400 --> 00:19:08.319 God, would you help our hearts to treasure you something, a profound love and validation definition, forgiveness and worth that is beyond this world, that does not rust or give out and cannot be taken from us? 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:14.880 Help us to live profound, deep lives, rooting deeper, resting more in your love for us. 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:20.799 Help us to use things, to enjoy things, but help us not to treasure them. 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:25.440 Would you grow us in gratitude? 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:34.799 Would you increase in our hearts sight of what is important, what's valuable, what matters. 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:38.160 And would our hearts be filled with gratitude. 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:39.759 In Christ's name we pray. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:40.559 Amen.