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Pausing to Give ThanksPsalms 118
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Outline

• Text Psalms 118
• Background and Meditation
• Scriptural Basis of Thanksgiving
• Practical Application (Categories for
  Thanksgiving)

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Text Psalms 118
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Meditation Shotgun Houses
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Is This A Correct Attitude?

• We Ought to Be Thankful Because We Have So Much!

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This is a Correct Attitude!

• We Ought To Be Thankful Because God Has Given Us
  Everything We Have

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Thanksgiving Is Based on Dependence Upon God
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Thank Offerings Leviticus 711-15

• 11 These are the regulations for the fellowship
  offering a person may present to the LORD

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Thank Offerings Leviticus 711-15

• 12 If he offers it as an expression of
  thankfulness, then along with this thank offering
  he is to offer cakes of bread made without yeast
  and mixed with oil, wafers made without yeast and
  spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour
  well-kneaded and mixed with oil.

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Thank Offerings Lev. 711-15

• 13 Along with his fellowship offering of
  thanksgiving he is to present an offering with
  cakes of bread made with yeast. 14 He is to bring
  one of each kind as an offering, a contribution
  to the LORD it belongs to the priest who
  sprinkles the blood of the fellowship offerings.

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Psalms of Thanksgiving
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Jesus Gave Thanks

• Mark 641 Taking the five loaves and the two
  fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and
  broke the loaves.
• 41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus
  looked up and said, Father, I thank you that you
  have heard me.
• Regular Practice of Christ

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Paul Gave Thanks

• 1 Corinthians 14 I always thank God
  for you because of his grace given you in Christ
  Jesus.

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Categories for Thanksgiving
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Life, Existence
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Health
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Financial
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Food, Clothing, Shelter
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Country
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Technology
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Transportation
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Friendship
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Family
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Church Friends, Christian Brothers and Sisters
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Salvation

• 1 Corinthians 1557 But thanks be to God! He
  gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus
  Christ.