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Mark Galli, "The Impossibility of Thanksgiving," ChristianityToday.com (11-25-09); source: Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy, YouTube.com
(added 2-24-09)
A segment from Conan O'Brien's [late-night talk show] entitled Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy, with guest comedian Louis C.K., has been making the rounds.
In it, Louis talks about how he was on a plane that offered in-flight Wi-Fi access to the Internet, one of the first planes to do so.
But when it broke down in a few minutes, the man sitting next to him swore in disgust.
Louis was amazed, and said to O'Brien, "How quickly the world owes him something that he didn't know existed 10 seconds ago."
Louis then talked about how many of us describe less-than-perfect airline flights as if they were experiences from a horror film: "It was the worst day of my life.
First of all, we didn't board for 20 minutes!
And then we get on the plane and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes!"
Then he said mockingly, "Oh really?
Did you fly through the air incredibly, like a bird?
Did you partake in the miracle of human flight?
… Everybody on every plane should be going, 'O my God, wow!' … You're sitting in a chair in the sky!"
And then he mocks a passenger who, trying to push his seat back, complains, "It doesn't go back a lot!"
but discontent magnifies what is past, and vilifies what is present, without regard to truth or reason
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Ingratitude of people to God
Israel’s Repeated ingratitude to the Lord
For deliverance from Egypt:
Ex 16:3; Ex 16:8; Ex 17:7; Heb 3:7–9; Ps 95:7–9
They so undervalue their deliverance, that they wish, they had died in Egypt, nay, and died by the hand of the Lord too.
That is, by some of the plagues which cut off the Egyptians; as if it were not the hand of the Lord, but of Moses only, that brought them into this wilderness.
Hebrews 3:7-9 is a quote from 95:7-9
They count upon being killed in the wilderness—nothing less, at the first appearance of disaster.
If the Lord had been pleased to kill them, he could easily have done that in the Red Sea; but then he preserved them, and now could as easily provide for them.
It argues great distrust of God, and of his power and goodness, in every distress and appearance of danger to despair of life, and to talk of nothing but being speedily killed
Dt 32:6 They were rebuked by Moses for the way they repaid God;
1 Sa 8:7–8 They rejected the Lord when they rejected Samuel;
Ne 9:26 They rejected God’s law and killed his prophets.
It was in evidence at the fall
Ge 3:2–3 Eve showed ingratitude for God’s by not believing him.
It is part of fallen human nature
Rom.
1:21 Humanity from suffers a negative perspective
It is a sign of the last days
2 Ti 3:2 Does this sound familiar?
Ingratitude denotes spiritual immaturity.
Infants do not always appreciate what parents do for them.
They have short memories.
Their concern is not what you did for me yesterday, but what are you doing for me today.
The past is meaningless and so is the future.
They live for the present.
Those who are mature are deeply appreciative of those who labored in the past.
They recognize those who labor during the present and provide for those who will be laboring in the future.
Ingratitude to God is a rejection of His love
Grandpa Story
The ingratitude of people to one another
Biblical Examples of Ingratitude
Ge 40:23 the chief butler towards Joseph;
Nu 16:13–14 Dathan and Abiram to Moses
Jdg 8:35; Jdg 9:18 The Israelites to Gideon and his family:
1 Sa 25:21 Nabal to David;
2 Ch 24:22 King Joash to Jehoiada;
Ec 9:15 the citizens to the wise man who delivered a city
A story is told of Abraham Lincoln.
One day the President summoned to the White House a surgeon in the Army of the Cumberland from the state of Ohio.
The major assumed that
he was to be commended for some exceptional work.
During the conversation Mr. Lincoln asked the major about his widowed mother.
“She is doing fine”, he responded.
“How do you know?”, asked Lincoln.
“You haven’t written her.
But she has written
me.
She thinks that you are dead and she is asking that a special effort be made to return your body.”
At that the Commander and Chief placed a pen in the young doctor’s hand and ordered him to write a letter letting his mother know that he was alive and well.
Oh, the blessings that we take for granted.
Oh, the wretchedness of ingratitude.
Returning evil for good
Psalm 35:12 Unthankfulness causes grief
Ge 44:4; Ps 109:5; Pr 17:13; Je 18:20
Jesus exposed ingratitude
Luke 17:15-18 It is rare to see true thankfulness
God is loving to the ungrateful
Luke 6:35 God demonstrates love through our shortcomings and His character should be our model for living.
no man sins because he has not grace, but because he does not use the grace which he hath.
Wesley, J. (1999).
Sermons, on several occasions.
Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
Christians must example Thankfulness
Hebrew Words - Thank, Thankful, Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving
yadah - 155
yeda - 2
todah - 31
Huyyyedoth - 1
Greek Words - Thank, Thankful, Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving
Charis - 156
Eucharisteo - 38
Eucharistia - 15
Eucharistos - 1
Homologeo/Homologos - 26
Ps 107:22; Col 1:12; Col 3:15; 1 Th 5:18
1 Th 5:18 We are called to be grateful
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