Paul's Prayer of Thanksgiving!
Marvin D. Patterson
Philippians 1:1-6
Introduction -
THE SCRAWNY TURKEY
It's the day before Thanksgiving, and the butcher is just locking up when a man begins pounding on the front door.
''Please let me in,'' says the man desperately. ''I forgot to buy a turkey, and my wife will kill me if I don't come home with one.''
''Okay,'' says the butcher. ''Let me see what I have left.'' He goes into the freezer and discovers that there's only one scrawny turkey left. He brings it out to show the man.
''That's one is too skinny. What else you got?'' says the man.
The butcher takes the bird back into the freezer and waits a few minutes and brings the same turkey back out to the man.
''Oh, no,'' says the man, ''That one doesn't look any better. You better give me both of them!''
I love the Thanksgiving season of the year! It comes to remind us each year that God has been good to us in America. It is a national holiday, and first celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 with a mixture of Indians and pilgrims. They had fled the church of England to get away from the state-controlled church, and to allow God to lead them in their worship of Him.
To some Thanksgiving Day is a parade, or a football game, or a feast with ham and turkey, and a family gathering. And all of these things are good, but the most important thing that we can do on thanksgiving is to give thanks unto God! He has blessed us with blessing galore!
Have you thanked God for your salvation, and for your church family? That is a part of Thanksgiving, which is the spiritual side! That is the part that we will observe here as Paul shares his prayer of Thanksgiving for the Church of the Philippians! Notice first of all the way Paul starts his letter:
Body
1-The Greeting of Paul
1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
Chuck Smith says in reference here:
The church ...
Marvin D. Patterson
Philippians 1:1-6
Introduction -
THE SCRAWNY TURKEY
It's the day before Thanksgiving, and the butcher is just locking up when a man begins pounding on the front door.
''Please let me in,'' says the man desperately. ''I forgot to buy a turkey, and my wife will kill me if I don't come home with one.''
''Okay,'' says the butcher. ''Let me see what I have left.'' He goes into the freezer and discovers that there's only one scrawny turkey left. He brings it out to show the man.
''That's one is too skinny. What else you got?'' says the man.
The butcher takes the bird back into the freezer and waits a few minutes and brings the same turkey back out to the man.
''Oh, no,'' says the man, ''That one doesn't look any better. You better give me both of them!''
I love the Thanksgiving season of the year! It comes to remind us each year that God has been good to us in America. It is a national holiday, and first celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 with a mixture of Indians and pilgrims. They had fled the church of England to get away from the state-controlled church, and to allow God to lead them in their worship of Him.
To some Thanksgiving Day is a parade, or a football game, or a feast with ham and turkey, and a family gathering. And all of these things are good, but the most important thing that we can do on thanksgiving is to give thanks unto God! He has blessed us with blessing galore!
Have you thanked God for your salvation, and for your church family? That is a part of Thanksgiving, which is the spiritual side! That is the part that we will observe here as Paul shares his prayer of Thanksgiving for the Church of the Philippians! Notice first of all the way Paul starts his letter:
Body
1-The Greeting of Paul
1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
Chuck Smith says in reference here:
The church ...
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