P I l g r I m Turkey Day

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P I l g r I m Turkey Day

• What It Means To Be Thankful !

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A Special Day To Give Thanks

• It is a North American Holiday
• It started as a form of Harvest Festival
• 1st record was San Augustine Florida September
  8th 1565.
• Best known recorded event was at Plymouth
  Plantation in 1621
• Celebrated 2nd Monday in October Canada
• 4th Thursday in United States

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Thanks for what?

• Material and Spiritual possessions
• Not based on any religious or pagan holidays
• It is remembered for the early colonist
  deliverance by the Native Americans after a
  brutal winter in Plymouth Massachusetts
• The Wampanoag tribe taught the pilgrims how to
  catch eel and grow corn
• They set aside a day to show their thankfulness

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The Early Settlers Had .....

• Plenty of water fowl
• Many Turkeys
• Much Venison
• Lots of Fish like cod and bass
• Indian Corn from which they made meal
• They wrote back to England of how prosperous
  this new land was

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Is life all about food and shelter

• In 1623, they were in a drought and prayed for
  rain and received one and they established a true
  Thanksgiving Day
• By the 1700s almost every colony had
  established a Thanksgiving Day to celebrate
  Gods manifold blessings.
• Today we may have lost site of the true meaning
  of this holiday, not just a feast

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Today we often forget to be thanful

• 1 Chron 1634 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for
  He is good!
• 1 Chron 168 Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call
  upon His name Make known His deeds among the
  peoples!
• Ps 751 We give thanks to You, O God, we give
  thanks !

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Today we often forget to be thanful

• Ps 7913 So we, Your people and sheep of Your
  pasture, Will give You thanks forever We
  will show forth Your praise to all generations.
• Ps 1078-9 Oh, that men would give thanks to
  the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful
  works to the children of men! 9 For He satisfies
  the longing soul, And fills the hungry soul with
  goodness

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For What Should We Be Thanful

• Rom 164 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow
  workers in Christ Jesus, 4 who risked their own
  necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks
  , but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
• 2 Cor 214-16 Now thanks be to God who always
  leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us
  diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every
  place. 15 For we are to God the
  fragrance of Christ among those who
  are being saved and among those who are
  perishing. 16 To the one we are the
  aroma of death leading to
  death, and to the other the aroma
  of life leading to life.

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For What Should We Be Thanful

• 2 Cor 910-15 Now may He who supplies
  seed to the sower, and bread for food,
  supply and multiply the seed you have sown and
  increase the fruits of your righteousness, 11
  while you are enriched in everything for all
  liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us
  to God. 12 For the administration of this service
  not only supplies the needs of the saints, but
  also is abounding through many thanksgivings to
  God, 13 while, through the proof of this
  ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of
  your confession to the gospel of Christ,
  and for your liberal sharing with them and all
  men, 14 and by their prayer for you,
  who long for you
  because of the exceeding grace of God
  in you. 15 Thanks be to God
  for
  His indescribable gift!

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How thankful should we be?
2 Tim 32-5 For men will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful ,
unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers,
without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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How thankful should we be?
2 Tim 36-9 For of this sort are those who
creep into households and make captives of
gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by
various lusts, 7 always learning and never able
to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as
Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these
also resist the truth men of corrupt minds,
disapproved concerning the faith 9 but they will
progress no further, for their folly will be
manifest to all, as theirs also was.
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How thankful should we be?
Eph 53-4 But fornication and all uncleanness or
covetousness, let it not even be named among you,
as is fitting for saints 4 neither filthiness,
nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which
are not fitting, but rather giving of
thanks
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P I l g r I m Turkey Day

• Art Thou Thankful !