The Exclamation Point of Thanksgiving

The Exclamation Point of Thanksgiving

Sermon Title: THE EXCLAMATION POINT OF THANKSGIVING

Sermon Text: 1 CHRONICLES 16:8 (NIV)

By: PTR. NESTOR SY


Sermon Notes:

1 CHRONICLES 16:1-8 NIV

1 They brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God.
2 After David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.
3 Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each Israelite man and woman.
4 He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, to make petition, to give thanks, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel:
5 Asaph was the chief, Zechariah second, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel. They were to play the lyres and harps, Asaph was to sound the cymbals,
6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
7 That day David first committed to Asaph and his associates this psalm of thanks to the LORD:
8 Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.

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Exclamation point of Thanksgiving!

“The beginning of man’s rebellion against God was, and is,
the lack of a thankful heart.”

Francis Schaeffer

GENESIS 4:26 NIV

26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on the name of the LORD.

GENESIS 12:8 NIV

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

1 CORINTHIANS 1:2 NIV

13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

ROMANS 10:13 NIV

2 To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--their Lord and ours:

When we call upon the name of the Lord, we recognize our relationship and dependence on him.

PSALMS 116:1-2 NIV

1 I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. 2 Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.

JEREMIAH 33:3 NIV

3 ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’

1 CHRONICLES 16:8 NIV

8 Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.

Evangelism is about our witness.

ACTS 4:13 NIV

13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.

“Thanksgiving is possible not because everything goes perfectly but because God is present.”

Adele Calhoun