Better Together
Jeff Ecklund
Job 1:21
Open: Appreciation of the season
I want to continue today on the theme of being grateful and being thankful...
In the O.T. gratitude was the only condition in which life could be enjoyed...
The Hebrew people thanked God for creation, gave thanks when they received good news...even thanked Him when they received bad news.
Job had just received the news that his family had all been lost...His response?
Job 1:21 (NASB95)
21He said, ''Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked I shall return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.''
Thanks was given for deliverance from enemies, from death, for forgiveness of sin...answers to prayer...compassion for the afflicted and oppressed....Thanks was given for God executing justice, and for continuing guidance....
In the Hebrew/Jewish culture, gratitude pervaded most ceremonies and customs! Thank-offerings, Shouts of Joy...
We see David giving instruction as the Ark of the Presence had been returned to the City of David...
1 Chronicles 16:4-7 (NASB95)?4 He appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, even to celebrate and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel:?5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom and Jeiel, with musical instruments, harps, lyres; also Asaph played loud-sounding cymbals,?6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.?7 Then on that day David first assigned Asaph and his relatives to give thanks to the Lord.
Ministers were appointed to celebrate and praise God
Stringed instruments (loud sounding cymbals)
Speaks of continuous music
Asaph and relatives ASSIGNED to give thanks...that important
A Thankful heart lives large...
A Thankful heart gives large...
Conversely, a Thankless heart is a pathway to destruction.. ...
Jeff Ecklund
Job 1:21
Open: Appreciation of the season
I want to continue today on the theme of being grateful and being thankful...
In the O.T. gratitude was the only condition in which life could be enjoyed...
The Hebrew people thanked God for creation, gave thanks when they received good news...even thanked Him when they received bad news.
Job had just received the news that his family had all been lost...His response?
Job 1:21 (NASB95)
21He said, ''Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked I shall return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.''
Thanks was given for deliverance from enemies, from death, for forgiveness of sin...answers to prayer...compassion for the afflicted and oppressed....Thanks was given for God executing justice, and for continuing guidance....
In the Hebrew/Jewish culture, gratitude pervaded most ceremonies and customs! Thank-offerings, Shouts of Joy...
We see David giving instruction as the Ark of the Presence had been returned to the City of David...
1 Chronicles 16:4-7 (NASB95)?4 He appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, even to celebrate and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel:?5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom and Jeiel, with musical instruments, harps, lyres; also Asaph played loud-sounding cymbals,?6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.?7 Then on that day David first assigned Asaph and his relatives to give thanks to the Lord.
Ministers were appointed to celebrate and praise God
Stringed instruments (loud sounding cymbals)
Speaks of continuous music
Asaph and relatives ASSIGNED to give thanks...that important
A Thankful heart lives large...
A Thankful heart gives large...
Conversely, a Thankless heart is a pathway to destruction.. ...
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