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Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Luke 17:11-19

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THANKSGIVING
Intro: Christians are thankful people. Non-Christian opposite "neither were they thankful."
I. THE CAUSE OF TRUE THANKSGIVING.
A. The grace of God.
1. Too often we think only in terms of material.
a. Health - Glory in infirmities.
b. Strength - God's strength made perfect.
c. Shelter - Christ who spoke of no place to lay His head.
d. Food.
2. Deeper causes of thanksgiving.
1. His gift of love.
2. Our victory through Christ.
3. Forgiveness - peace - hope.
B. The case of the lepers.
1. Leprous type of sin.
a. Defilement and separation from God.
b. Hideous loathsomeness and death.
2. "The lepers stood afar off and cried."
a. Jesus with leper in Chap. 5.
b. Church divided over lesser things.
3. Their faith tested.
a. Spoke five words to them.
b. Only way to test truth was to obey.
1. Christianity today not subject to test tube experimentation.
c. Imagine debate and arguments that must have ensued.
C. True cause is spiritual.
II. THE CHARACTER OF TRUE THANKSGIVING.
A. Attitude that calls for action.
1. Attitude comes from realization of what has been done.
2. In the story before us only one took proper action.
a. He was a Samaritan un-orthodox.
b. Prostrated himself before the Lord.
1. The person not the miracle became most important.
3. Where are the nine?
a. Value Christ places on gratitude and misses it when it is not expressed.
b. Pure praise almost lost art.
1. Most hymns of praise merge into thanksgiving which is less.
a. Thanksgiving is the expression of gladness because God is good to us.
b. Praise is worship and adoration - our sense of God's goodness and glory.
III. CONSEQUENCE OF TRUE THANKSGIVING.
A. "Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole."
1. Not only cleansed physically but spiritually.
2. Miracle of grace within soul.
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