“Be Ye Thankful”
Psalms 107:1-22 Pastor Jerry Stepp F.G.B.C.
Introduction:
We are living in a time and day in which people are ungrateful, or a age of ingratitude. Mankind, day by day is blessed by the hand of the Lord God Almighty, yet few take just a minute each day to say thanks. We are continually asking God for help, and to quick to take the praise of it when it happens. Our thanks should be ALWAYS to God.
~The Word thankful means….feeling or expressing thanks or to show or express
.…appreciation by saying thanks.
~In our text from Psalms 107 the writer is telling us HOW, WHY, and to WHOM our gratitude ought to be.
Vv. 2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of
the enemy;
Because we have been Redeemed
Vv.3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the
north, and from the south.
Because God has gathered us from all over the country to worship His Holy name.
Vv.4-7 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell
in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord
in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. And he led them
forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Because God is our Director, or Portion, and our Guide.
Vv.8-9 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful
works to the children of men! For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the
hungry soul with goodness.
Because of God’s Goodness Wonderful Works, and He filleth the Soul
Vv. 14-16 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their
bands in sunder. Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
his wonderful works to the children of men! For he hath broken the gates of
brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Because God is our Deliverer
Vv.19-22 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their
distresses. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their
destructions. Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his
wonderful works to the children of men! And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of
thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
Because God has saved them.
I am Thankful, and this is why:
~That He carried my burdens in two nail scared hands.
~For Calvary, and the Love that he showed.
~For His life He gave for my life.
~My friends, family, home, and blessings of daily life.
~My old friends and habits that are gone.
~For my two homes, and my eternal home in Glory.
~The BARROWED tomb.
~The EMPTY tomb.
~The rejection by Israel.
~The acceptance of the Gentiles.
~Of your still small voice that speaks volumes to me.
~For the wind that blows and the grass that grows.
~For the Inspired Word of God.
~And for the Victory through the Blood.
To many times we make all we can, can all we can, and then we sit on our cans.
It is time to get off our cans and Praise the Lord!!!
Psalm 92:1 says…It is a Moral necessity to thank Him.
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
The word good here is a Hebrew word meaning “appropriate, right, and fitting”
Giving thanks is the right thing to do!
Psalms 95:1-11
¶ O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I swear in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Psalms 118:1-7
¶ O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever. Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever. I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me. The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
Psalms 100:1-5
¶ Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Colossians 3:15-17
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Philippians 1:3-6
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Romans 6:17-18
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Closing thought
The late Dr. Donald G. Barnhouse was traveling from Alabama to Florida. Feeling a tire going flat, he pulled to he pulled to the side of the road and inwardly groaned at the thought of removing hundreds of books in the trunk, so as to reach his spare tire. Seeing a jeep coming over the hill, he hailed the driver and offered him money to fix the flat. The big, strapping fellow was soon hard at work. When he expressed curiosity about the books, Dr. Barnhouse told him he was a Preac¬her. The man said, “My wife would be interested in those things.” All the time the man worked his dog stood close to him, licking him every minute. Now and again the man would stop and pat it. The man shared how the dog had once saved his life by pulling him out of quicksand and for that reason he was devoted to his dog. "It eats at my table and, though my wife doesn’t like it, he sleeps at the foot of my bed." Looking into the man’s face, Dr. Barnhouse commented, “How strange! The dog has saved your life from quicksand and you are devoted to it. Yet Christ has done more than the dog and you are not interested in Christ. You are in a worse plight than quicksand, from which Christ came to save you. The dog did not die for you, but Christ did; yet you thank the dog, but are not thankful to Christ.
"How that story ought to make us thank the Savior every moment for saving us from an eternity in hell”
Pastor Stepp
11/21/08
