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I don't want to preach on today, not that one but that was that would be a good one, for sure.

Well it's the week of Thanksgiving and as you know, we've been in a series on financial stewardship but I thought today that I would deviate from that.

And today I'm going to preach a Thanksgiving message today and I'm not going to I'm not going to give you any Hebrew or Greek words.

There's not going to be any deep theological teaching today.

Here's what I'm going to do today.

Today, I'm going to preach a devotional sermon.

Dial pad has already said it.

He said take a little time.

This week, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, and thank the Lord for what he's done in your life.

Now, I know when we look across this land of ours, we have a lot to be concerned about Sometimes it's hard to find things to be thankful for, but that's because we're looking in the wrong place.

We're looking for the world to give us what we need and only the Lord can do that.

So this morning, I want to preach a Thanksgiving message out of Deuteronomy.

So take your Bibles and turn to Deuteronomy chapter 2 and verse 7.

And the title of this sermon is very simple.

Thank you Lord.

We have a lot to be thankful for today.

And matter fact, I'm going to give you six things that you can thank the Lord for this week before Thanksgiving.

If you have a little trouble finding something to be thankful for, I'm going to give you six things to be thankful for this week.

So let's read the text.

Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Bible.

Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy.

So just turn the Genesis and go five books old Deuteronomy chapter 2 and we're only going to look at one verse today, vs 7 and I'm going to pull all six of these things to be thankful for from 7. And this is what the Bible says.

For the Lord, your God has blessed you and all the work of your hand.

He knows you're trudging or walking through this Great Wilderness, these forty years, the Lord, your God has been with you.

You have lacked nothing.

Now you say, what, why would you kind of pick an obscure text like that?

Well, this is let me give you the background.

This is Moses reflecting on the blessings of God upon God's people.

Now, you know, that they wondered forty years in the wilderness and before that, they were in captivity to Egypt.

He is simply rehearsing what God has done for them in these forty years since they had been delivered from the cruel hand of pharaoh.

Now, Moses was talkin to Israel here.

We know that, but certainly this scripture is talking to us.

Not, let me.

Just give you a little caveat hear.

There's a lot of people today, a lot of preachers who will tell you do not read the Old Testament because that was written to Israel.

It has no effect for us.

If you want to read something, you go to the New Testament and you read about Jesus and his miracles.

And healings, and Paul's teaching, you can just let go of the Old Testament friend.

What a travesty, that would be because even though this is written to Israel, The Bible tells us clearly in 1st Corinthians 10:11 that does things that happened to them in the Old Testament happened.

To them for examples for us.

In other words, we can learn something from reading the stories in the narratives of the Old Testament, it is examples for us and so we're not misusing.

Scripture this morning, we're taking something that God did for his ancient people, and we're going to apply to God's modern people.

Amen! That's what we're going to do because the Bible has basic principles all the way through.

It that applies, whether you were born in 2060 or 2020 to today, it doesn't matter.

These principles apply as well, so Moses and just having a time of Thanksgiving.

And that's what we're going to do this morning.

So let me give you the first thing that we can be thankful for, and we can start pray.

For this the day number 1, let's be thankful for God's Providence thankful for God's Providence.

You see it there on the screen that look at it in the first part of our 7 for the Lord, your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand underscore the word.

All All the work of your hand.

Now, sometimes it's very easy and our lives to see the Lord doing and working some things in our life.

And we'll say, we asked, you know, you may have a baby or something.

Yeah, that was a blessing or we got a new job or we got to, we build a house.

Yes, that was a blessing, but friends, let me tell you something.

From the time that you have been redeemed.

Just think about it from the time that you were saved from that time that God brought you out of Egypt by the blood of the lamb, and through the Red Sea from that time forward, everything that have happened to you has happened for your good.

You say, but everything that happened has not been good.

No circumstances.

May not be good.

We all have trials and tribulations but God is working the good things, the bad things, the neutral things, the tragic things into your life and he's working it out for your good.

That is God's Providence.

You want to see a new testament.

Passage that says the same thing is they're looking Romans 8:28 and we know that what some things few things All that, we know that all things work together for, what, for good to those who love God to those, who are called according to his purpose, all things, that means the loss of job.

That means the flat tire on the way to work and you going to be late, that means that broken relationship.

Never had a broken relationship in here and you saw my life is over.

He's working it all.

For your good.

Trials tribulations, what tragedies whatever it is, he is working it all for your good for a lot of Christians, get saved and they say, well, I'm saved now.

So my life is just going to be hunky-dory the rest of my life.

No Christians have problems.

If you read the history of Israel and Moses, they had all kinds of problem, I have problems today, you have problems today, but I want to tell you that the problems that we have, if you compare them to the problems that we had before we were saved, they're not even the same, I'm happier.

Now as a Christian, when I'm sad than I was, when I was happy as an unbeliever, Did you get that?

You can be happier when you are sad as a Christian.

Then you can as an unbeliever with everything going, right?

You see, a Christian has problems, but there's a difference.

Let me tell you the difference in our problems.

As a Christian, we have somebody to Bear these problems.

We don't have to carry these problems.

Ourselves looking what Psalm 55 verse 22, says, cast your burden, on who cast your burden on the Lord and He Shall sustain you friend.

If you are save this morning, you've been bought by the blood of Christ.

You can cast all your anxieties, all your stress, all your depression, all your discouragement, all your burdens upon Him and He will sustain you.

That is guaranteed.

That's a promise from the word of God.

He will sustain you cast your burden on him, but let me give you another something else about these problems.

Our problems are really not problems because the Bible says all things work for good.

All things are working for good in your life.

God has this big pot and he put your wedding and he puts the birth of your child and he puts that job promotion in there.

And he put that sickness in there and he put that broken relationship in there.

He puts that divorce in there.

He puts that Financial challenge in there and he mixes it all up and it's all working for good.

You say, what?

What good could it be?

So that he is making you more and more like his son?

Jesus Christ.

And he does that through difficulty, through challenges, through tribulation, through trials, through the good times of life in through the bad times of life.

Don't, you know, when we study the book Ecclesiastes, there's a time to dance.

There's a time to sing.

There's a time to laugh.

There's a time to cry.