The one life wrestles and leaps onward in endless unrest, the other dwells in calmness and peace. In how many lives, is your whole life bound up! Thankfulness studies a suitable return. Now it cannot be necessary that we should speak at any great length on THE DUTY OF GIVING TEASES. "No," said he, "doctor, no. (2) Christ is the only Mediator to convey blessings to us and our services to God; for He is our High Priest and Intercessor. A working man is one of God's noblemen. Oh let me spend them in adoring our great Redeemer..." He then expatiated in the most striking manner upon these words of St. Paul, "All things are yours." When our Maker appointed us to labour, He made labour one of the dignities in His kingdom. Since work implies service, it is a beneficent endowment that it is honourable. (1) To keep us always in a remembrance of God, and that invisible hand that teacheth out all our supplies to us. We are directed by the apostle to give "thanks for all things"; and it were easy, and it would be a pleasing occupation, to bring before you a long and wide catalogue of benefits, and to summon you as each separate act of beneficence passed under review, to "praise the Lord, for His mercy endureth forever.". Stonehouse, seeing the great difficulty and pain with which he spoke, desired that he would spare himself. And yet, according to St. Paul, the need is the same in both cases; even our thanks must be offered up through Christ; we do not make God our debtor by such offerings; whether we ask or whether we pay tribute, it is we who are the gainers, and for both the one purpose and the other we need the righteousness of Christ, to make our approach to God's mercy seat acceptable. Nevins.A person being once cast upon a desolate island, spent a day in fasting and prayer for his deliverance, but no help came. Next to its homeliness, in matter for thankfulness, is the seclusion of home. Idleness enfeebles both mind and body. Instance of the Jewish sacrifice, rendered by the Greek translators, "the continual sacrifice." Objects suggested: An apple, a beautiful rock, or a fresh batch of cookies to share with the children, if appropriate to your situation. This throws a remarkable light upon the nature of thanksgiving. We frequent it day and night; we are in it from infancy to old age. In the first place, I would have you notice that St. Paul speaks of giving thanks "UNTO GOD AND THE FATHER." It is the sure destruction of self-respect and courage. It is only possible through faith. For things of discipline as well as things of nutriment, for toil and the hardness which toil works, for hunger and cold, for sickness and sorrow, for death itself, for mercy and also for judgment, for riches and also for poverty, for peaceful calm and also for purifying storm. What surrounds us from our infancy is a vision and prophecy of God.(N. V. Robinson, B. Sometimes it flung its waters in a mass on a lower shelf with an angry clash. "For all things." This is another result of being influenced by the Holy Spirit. It is the sure destruction of self-respect and courage. And this is an attribute in all work, in work of the hand as well as work of the mind. It exacts no etiquette except that which expresses the heart. That kind of talk doesnât fit our style. 5:1-20 (ESV) Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. Other things being equal, it is the busy who are healthy. Next to its homeliness, in matter for thankfulness, is the seclusion of home. Movement, activity, fulfilment of tasks — this is the law for every creature made by God. The Greek word for always means always, constantly, in every situation, including our trials. The range of Christian thankfulness becomes, in this way, very wide. As we learn the secrets of that pity in the heart of our earthly father we become acquainted with God. 17), the breadth of their incidence is still very significant. Adam, Where Are You? How entirely it surrounds us. And I will begin by naming the homeliness of home. THE CONTEXT Paul set the tone for chapters 4-5 when he said, "Walk (peripateo) worthily of the calling with which you were called" (4:1). V. Robinson, B. A.Every Christian life is like a psalm. Why must thanksgiving be made in Christ's name? V. Robinson, B. A.Every Christian life is like a psalm. As we should pray without ceasing by living in constant communication with God, so a spirit of gratitude should pervade our whole life and express itself by the brightness and color that it gives to every action (Psalm 34:1). Thankfulness is the harmony of contentment and aspiration.2. But there is a blessing in our homes greater than either its seclusion, or comfort. The joy of life perishes at the roots, and despair commences its evil reign. Thankfulness is the harmony of contentment and aspiration.2. The parables of the fireside are as Divine as those of Christ. "No," said he, "doctor, no. In a country like ours, we could make no selection of common mercies in which THE BLESSINGS OF EMPLOYMENT were left out. A grateful heart retains the impression of past mercies. Home is a blessing so common, and we have been all our days so familiar with it, that few realize the full riches of blessing which it is in our life. The Lord heard the voice of his praise.(C. "For all things." And yet, according to St. Paul, the need is the same in both cases; even our thanks must be offered up through Christ; we do not make God our debtor by such offerings; whether we ask or whether we pay tribute, it is we who are the gainers, and for both the one purpose and the other we need the righteousness of Christ, to make our approach to God's mercy seat acceptable.III. We are born into it, we die in it. 3. In my home I am at ease, and free to be myself. And it is a poor devotion indeed, that does not survive the sanctuary, and that is brushed out on Monday morning along with the dust of the place. It is a direct speaking to God. Another element in this blessing of work is its honourableness. One of the most important parts of prayer is thanksgiving, according to Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Paul gives thanks and prays for the Ephesians - Ephesians 1:15-23. Is our thanksgiving right? So is praise also our solace after trial. Besides, it ought to be evident, on the least reflection, that the common and daily benefits of life are usually the greatest and the most valuable in their nature. God is the Father of the universe, and the Giver of all the blessings which we receive, and which we behold around us. III. )The music of the Christian lifeW. Fresh blessings. )Varieties of praiseP. Ephesians 5:8 You Were Once In Darkness But Now You Are Light In The Lord (black) Ephesians 5:14 Arise From The Dead (utmost)02:16. In addition to the MLJ Trust’s collection of 1,600 of these sermons in audio format, most of these great sermon series are available in book form (including a 14 volume collection of the Romans sermons), as are other series such as "Spiritual Depression", "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount" and "Great Biblical Doctrines". 18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. One of the directest blessings of labour is its healthiness. Rising far up in the marshy hollows of the mountains, it made its way by steep and frequent plunges to the sea. Our natural feeling would (I think) be this, that if we came to ask any favour or mercy at the hands of God, we should rightly do so in the name of Him, through whom alone our petitions can be granted, but that the same thing would hardly hold good, if we came to pay the tribute of praise and thanksgiving to God; in asking we should feel that we needed a mediator, in giving (however small our gift might be) we should scarcely imagine that the same need existed. "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." Labour itself is a blessing. and then, leaning his head against the side of the easy chair in which he sat, he shut his eyes and fell asleep.(Romaine. Showers and streams, flowers and trees, bird and beast and creeping things, the wide sea and the lofty hills, sunshine and starlight, light and darkness, clouds and rainbows, waxing and waning moons, seasons and days. We are born into it, we die in it. (3)If it be a cheerful, thankful obedience (Romans 12:1; John 14:15).(T. In its results it is worse than bodily disease. 2. It should be offered to God our Father. For he that is either wholly ignorant of his obligations, or mistakes them, or passes them over with a slight and superficial view, can nowise be grateful. In our offices, workshops, and studies; at our crafts, domestic duties, and professional tasks, we are all supposed to have some employment. Nevins.A person being once cast upon a desolate island, spent a day in fasting and prayer for his deliverance, but no help came. (1)If the heart be brought near to God by every mercy we receive from Him (Psalm 96:8). What are all the cordials to the dying compared to the salvation of Christ?" St. Paul says, "giving thanks ALWAYS"; the word "always" is sufficiently strong and comprehensive in itself, and becomes additionally so by being joined to the words "all things." And the stream that leapt and churned higher up, lay still as a sleeping child. We rise in the morning, and find it filled with friendly faces; we retire for the night from amidst a group of the dearest we have. Working from Ephesians 5:20, he says that how much of prayer that is spent in thanksgiving is one of the clearest gauges of spiritual maturity. The range of Christian thankfulness becomes, in this way, very wide. Did we know how busy the devil is to hurt us, were it not for the sense of God's providence round about us, we would be more thankful to God. Labour itself is a blessing. Prayer for Ephesians' strength, praise to God - Ephesians 3:14-21. It implies a right apprehension of, and consequently a considerate attention unto, benefits conferred. Lastly: "giving thanks always" imports that we readily embrace every opportunity of actually expressing our thankfulness: for so in some places of Scripture, what is enjoined to be done continually, is in others only required to be done on all opportunities. But here and there, in its descent, it came to solitary spots, quiet basins of stone, where all the hasting and furious turbulence was at an end. Manton, D. D.)The duty of giving thanks to GodBishop Harvey Goodwin.I. We ought to be always in a habit of thankfulness, and in a readiness for actual thanksgiving, whenever providence calls us to it. What are all the cordials to the dying compared to the salvation of Christ?" At one point it came trailing down the face of the glistening rock behind; at another it tumbled and splashed in fantastic pools within its bed. Oct 12, 2006. Thirdly, this is a most sweet and delightful duty: as the performance of it proceeds from good humour and a cheerful disposition of mind, so it feeds and foments them both. But there is a blessing in our homes greater than either its seclusion, or comfort. II. Stonehouse, seeing the great difficulty and pain with which he spoke, desired that he would spare himself. "No," said he, "doctor, no. We give thanks for favours received from them, and obligations we are under to them. You see, as soon as he began to sing of mercy exercised, the exercise of mercy was renewed to him. 1. St. Paul is not intending (I think) so much to enjoin an unceasing course of thanksgiving, as to warn us against allowing our thankfulness to depend upon our own state of mind, or upon the prosperity or adversity of our outward condition. 2. (3)If it be a cheerful, thankful obedience (Romans 12:1; John 14:15).(T. One of the directest blessings of labour is its healthiness. There, doctor, is my cordial. Every way it is a comfort to us. (1) By way of celebration or commemoration, when we speak of God's mercies one to another. We are a nation of workers. Showers and streams, flowers and trees, bird and beast and creeping things, the wide sea and the lofty hills, sunshine and starlight, light and darkness, clouds and rainbows, waxing and waning moons, seasons and days. They are immense, innumerable, unconceivable, and unexpressible. Jehoshaphat's army sang praises before the battle. All the dispensations of God should be regarded as the acts of a Father, and therefore as demanding our thanks. Some of the best discipline of life is there. II. There is the wife of your choice — there are the children of your love. I. Next observe, THAT THANKS MUST BE GIVEN TO THE FATHER "IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST." Some of the best discipline of life is there. I know the difficulty of realizing this state of mind; a time may perhaps come, when we shall be able to look back from our place of rest upon the way by which God hath led us, and when we shall be able to see that in all its turns and twistings (so far as they were the result of God's leading, and not due to our own perversity), and in all its darker passages, in its roughest as well as its smoothest portions, it was indeed "the right way," and all demands our gratitude to Him, who led us by a way that we knew not.IV. 4. Life is one perpetual miracle. To this God, to this great, to this only Benefactor of ours, we owe this most natural and easy, this most just and equal, this most sweet and pleasant duty of giving thanks. 2. We are a nation of workers. Fuller. A revelation of God older than the Bible shines in the home. Read verse in The Message Bible Toggle navigation The verbal expression is nothing, unless corresponding views and feelings proceed, and corresponding actions follow it. THE MATTERS FOR WHICH WE ARE TO GIVE THANKS. His disinterested love should awaken in us sentiments of benevolence to our fellow men. Fuller. (3) It preventeth distrust and carking cares (Philippians 4:6). 2. Drink the Spirit of God, huge draughts of him. Fuller.Praise is the believer's help in his trials, and his companion after trial. "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." 2. "Giving thanks always for all things" is obviously as comprehensive a charge to give thanks as could possibly be devised; and I wish to remark that the peculiar force of the word "always" seems to be this, "under all circumstances." Other things being equal, it is the busy who are healthy. Above my summer hut one year was a mountain stream, which I often visited. "For all things" — for little mercies as well as great mercies — for the gospel first, but also for the humblest truth which enlarges the mind; for things in heaven and things on earth; for whatever is related to our growth and well-being; for the air we breathe, the water we drink, the fire which warms us, and the earth which is the bountiful food grower for us all. Sometimes it flung its waters in a mass on a lower shelf with an angry clash. As our High Priest He procured all our mercies for us by His oblation; and by His intercession He conveyeth them to us (Hebrews 8:2). Ephesians 5:20, NASB: "always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;" Ephesians 5:20, NLT: "And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." Other considerations may be briefly added: viz., that this duty is of all others most acceptable to God and profitable to us, inducing Him to bestow more, and qualifying us to receive it. And therefore, says the Apostle Paul, "Let us offer by Him the sacrifices of God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.". V. THE MEDIUM OF OUR ACCESS TO GOD IN THIS DUTY — "The name of Jesus Christ." A working man is one of God's noblemen. And it finds a new call to its exercise in the fact, that the lesser gifts have their origin in the love which gave us the greatest, and came to us through that greatest Himself. 1. WE ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE THANKS ALWAYS TO GOD. Living as Christ in this World Ephes. But Christian thankfulness shows itself in joyous acknowledgment of all gifts, great and small. In creation man was made like God, but in redemption God was made like man. Fourth pair. The range of Christian thankfulness becomes, in this way, very wide. St. Paul says, "giving thanks ALWAYS"; the word "always" is sufficiently strong and comprehensive in itself, and becomes additionally so by being joined to the words "all things." And anyone who knows the misery of the state indicated by the words "out of employment," also knows the greatness of the blessing. Sometimes it leapt from crag to crag, brawling in a confused way over the sudden breaks of rock in its march. All the dispensations of God should be regarded as the acts of a Father, and therefore as demanding our thanks. "For all things." I am simply a member of the home circle, a citizen of "that country which every man loves." And anyone who knows the misery of the state indicated by the words "out of employment," also knows the greatness of the blessing. What are all the cordials to the dying compared to the salvation of Christ?" Thanksgiving is our dialect. II. But again; St. Paul in the text gives a very wide range to thanksgiving, when he speaks of "GIVING THANKS FOR ALL THINGS." Power. If the context limits the application of St. Paul's words to public worship (ver. B. 3. 1. A working man is one of God's noblemen. (1)If the heart be brought near to God by every mercy we receive from Him (Psalm 96:8). We are to give thanks, not only for great and notable benefits, but for the least and most ordinary favours of God: though indeed none of God's favours are in themselves small and inconsiderable. Showers and streams, flowers and trees, bird and beast and creeping things, the wide sea and the lofty hills, sunshine and starlight, light and darkness, clouds and rainbows, waxing and waning moons, seasons and days. What surrounds us from our infancy is a vision and prophecy of God.(N. Thankfulness is the harmony between the deep sense of obligation, and the joy of perfect freedom.(W. For he that is no longer affected with a benefit than it incurs the sense, and suffers not itself to be disregarded, is far from being grateful; nay, if we believe the philosopher, is ungrateful in the worst kind and highest degree. "For all things." III. We frequent it day and night; we are in it from infancy to old age. But again; St. Paul in the text gives a very wide range to thanksgiving, when he speaks of "GIVING THANKS FOR ALL THINGS." 5 You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of themâthe usual variations on idolatryâwill get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God. Marriage Lived to the Glory of God. 19 Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. IV. 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