{"id":4243,"date":"2021-11-21T17:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2021-11-21T17:38:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T22:38:44","slug":"thanks-be-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/2021\/11\/thanks-be-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"THANKS BE TO GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThanks be to God for His indescribable gift!\u201d<\/i> 2 Corinthians 9:15<\/strong><\/p>\n

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THANKSGIVING<\/strong> is a time to give thanks to God for all He is and for all He has done for us. But above and beyond all our earthly blessings let us remember to give thanks to God for the indescribable gift of His Son Jesus Christ. There is simply no way to put into words all that Christ is to us or that He has done for us. But we can say THANK YOU.<\/p>\n

THANKS BE TO GOD<\/strong> – When Moses appeared before Pharaoh, God\u2019s supremacy was demonstrated by Aaron\u2019s rod becoming a serpent.\u00a0 The rods of Pharaoh\u2019s magicians also became serpents, but Aaron\u2019s serpent swallowed up the serpents of Pharaoh (Exodus 7:10-12).\u00a0Death was swallowed up in victory!<\/p>\n

THANKS BE TO GOD<\/strong> – Later, as the serpents bit the Israelites, they came to God for a cure.\u00a0 The Lord instructed Moses to make a serpent and place it on a pole.\u00a0When bitten by the serpents, they were to look at the snake on the pole and live.\u00a0 The same snake, which produced death in them, became (upon the pole) their means of life (Numbers 21:4-9).\u00a0 Death was swallowed up in victory!<\/p>\n

THANKS BE TO GOD<\/strong> – When the \u201csnakes of life\u201d bite you, those painful, destructive experiences, look to God for the cure.\u00a0 Drink the bitter cup as Christ did at Gethsemane.\u00a0You will find that what tastes like death, actually produces life.\u00a0 Christ tasted death for us, so that when He arose, we could find life in Him.\u00a0Without the cross, there can be no resurrection.\u00a0 As you look to God for the cure, you will discover that death has again been swallowed up in victory! (1 Corinthians 15:54)<\/p>\n

THANKS BE TO GOD<\/strong> – \u201cThanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d (1 Corinthians 15:57).\u00a0 Because we have been given the victor, our Lord Jesus Christ, we have the victory.\u00a0 So, when the sting of death comes your way, swallow it up.\u00a0 Respond with thanksgiving to God because you have the victory!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Lewis Gregory<\/p>\n

Copyright\u00a91983 Source Ministries Revised 2021<\/p>\n

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\u201cThanks be to God for His indescribable gift!\u201d 2 Corinthians 9:15 THANKSGIVING is a time to give thanks to God for all He is and for all He has done for us. But above and beyond all our earthly blessings let us remember to give thanks to God for the indescribable gift of His Son […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,152,40,218,92,41,51],"tags":[13,271,126,200,268,28],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4246,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/4246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceministries.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}