Christian Thankfulness: What It Is (and Isn’t)

Ask Pastor John
Episode 2102

[TheCreepypro]

may we live in gratitude everyday for our Lord provides for us daily both without and within!

[PaulLee-rsuw]

Praise to the Lord( Jesus😊1st❤) and thank you pastor John 😊❤ for sharing about Thanksgiving😊❤ theme in Christ😊❤ too in Christ. I thank God last night since left my phone at workplace by accident so i went back again after spent another 3 hours back and forth due to traffic at night after work and then came home late in Christ and did my best in Christ to post by faith😊❤ in Christ😊❤ as soon as i could in Christ😊❤. Anyways Happy Thanksgiving( Colossians 3:15😊❤ and Colossians 4:2😊❤ and Philippians 4:6😊❤-7😊❤) in Christ. My wife woke me this morning before work, and let go to treat our aunts for more food. So we went as soon as we could in Christ😊❤ and half hour earlier too in Christ😊❤.

Exodus 36:10-13 of Exodus 35:30-36:38(  Construction 😊❤
of the Tabernacle😊❤)

Exodus 36:10-13
"10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other  five curtains he coupled to one another.
11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.
12 He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and  he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another.
13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to the other with clasps. So the tabernacle(😊❤) was a singlw whole."( Exodus 36:10-13 ESV Study Bible)

Hebrews 3:5-6
" 5 Now Moses(😊❤) was faithful(😊❤) in all God's house(😊❤) as a servant(😊❤), to testify( 😊❤) to the things that were to be spoken later, but(😊❤) Christ( Jesus😊1st❤) is(😊❤)
faithful(😊❤) over God's house(😊❤) as a son(Jesus😊1st❤). And we are his house(😊❤) if indeed we(😊❤'s)
hold(😊❤) fast(😊❤) our confidence(😊❤)and our boasting (😊❤) in our hope(😊❤)."( Hebrews 3:5-6 ESV Study Bible)

Colossians 1:24-2:5( Paul 😊❤'s ministry😊❤
to the church(😊❤))

"24  Now I rejoice(😊❤) in my suffering for your sake(😊❤), and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflication for the sake of his body(😊❤)
, that is the church( 😊❤),
25 of which I became a minister(😊❤) according to the stewardship (😊❤) from God(😊100%❤) that was given (😊❤) to me for you(😊❤'s), to make the word(😊❤) of God(😊100%❤) fully known(😊❤),
26 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed(😊❤) to his(😊100%❤ )saints.
27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles(😊❤'s) are the riches of the glory(😊❤) of this mystery, which is Christ( Jesus😊1st❤) in (😊❤) you( " you😊❤'s " or today to us😊❤'s  in Christ too), the hope (😊❤) of glory(😊❤). 28Him( Jesus😊1st❤) we proclaim(😊❤), warning everyone(😊❤) and teaching(😊❤) everyone(😊❤) with all(😊❤) wisdom(😊❤), that we( 😊❤'s) may present(😊❤)
everyone(😊❤) mature( 😊❤) in Christ(Jesus😊1st❤).
29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he  powerfully works(😊❤)within(😊❤) me."(  Colossians 1:24-29 ESV Study Bible so far in Christ.  In Colossians 1:29😊❤ according to my ESV Study Bible said,
"Paul is struggling with his[ that is, Christ( Jesus'😊1st❤)] energy to help them grow(😊❤) and mature(😊❤) in Christ(😊❤)." ( ESV Study Bible)

Back to Colossians
2:1-5
"2  For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea( not cold and not hot) and how for all who have not seen me face to face,
2 that their hearts(❤'s) may be encouraged(😊❤), being knit together in love(😊❤), to reach all the riches of full assurance (😊❤) of the understandinging(😊❤) and the knowledge(😊❤) of God's mystery(😊❤), which is Christ( Jesus😊1st❤ = Messiah or the Annointed One to me is Jesus😊1st❤ is Christ😊1st❤),
3 in whom are hidden all the treasures(
😊1st❤)
of wisdom(😊❤) and knowledge(😊❤).
4 I say this i  order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.
5  For( Because😊❤) though I am absent(😊❤) in the body(😊❤), yet(😊❤) I am(😊❤)  with(😊❤)
you( " you😊❤'s")  in spirit(😊❤), rejoicing(😊❤) to see your(😊❤) good(😊❤)
order(😊❤)  and  the firmness(😊❤) of your faith( trust in Jesus😊1st❤) in Christ( Jesus😊1st❤ our Lord and our savior too in Christ Jesus😊1st❤)."( Colossians 2:1-5 ESV Study Bible).
Above meant to share😊❤ by faith in Christ on Colossians 1:24-2:5 ESV Study Bible and all parenthesis parts and symbols in Christ also for (😊❤) and in(😊❤) Christ Jesus(😊1st❤) too in  Christ😊❤. So help me God to share by faith in Christ. In Jesus😊1st❤
's name, i pray( Colossians 1:24-2:5😊❤
( Paul's ministry😊❤ to the church😊❤
) in Christ.) Amen.

[MikeofGod]

Wow this expanded my understanding of gratitude by the things that are incompatible with thankfulness. It's at the heart of Christian faith really, wow thank you John and Jesus Christ.

[jesusistheanswer]

Thank you for taking the time to give us this beautiful message for thanksgiving

[thorxvx]

I was eating dairy Queen when I started listening to this lol

[glyons]

What ask pastor John episodes are covered in the book in the pages they mention

[Shawn-qx]

After all Jesus did to lead us to the Father, they still think Jesus is God:
It is so twisted what man has done; and nothing twisted belongs to *God—NOTHING!* They have called Jesus a liar time and time again. Jesus truly has a Father he speaks to and not to himself. Jesus is not God. Man has forgotten the very fact that once Jesus says something it _cannot_ be changed—it is eternal, just as he speaks in these verses: John 17:3, Rev 3:14, John 8:28, John 5:30, John 12:49-50, John 10:32. The Father is the only true God, and He is Jesus’ God and Father. If anyone does not believe this, may they read 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 for many things are going to happen to those who reject the Father and his words. Repent.