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Title: Spiritual Disciplines: Celebration


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Spiritual Disciplines Celebration
Thanksgiving Psalm 100
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Spiritual Disciplines
Abstinence Solitude Silence Fasting Frugality Chas
tity Secrecy Sacrifice
Engagement Study Worship Celebration/Thanksgiving
Service Prayer Submission Fellowship
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Celebration Thanksgiving
There is an appointed time for everythinga time
to weep, and a time to laugh a time to mourn,
and a time to dance. Ecclesiastes 31, 4
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Celebration Thanksgiving
  • Celebration
  • Chagag (Heb.)
  • To make a pilgrimage, feast
  • let My people go that they may celebrate a
    feast to Me (Ex. 51)

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Celebration Thanksgiving
  • Celebration
  • Examples of Biblical celebration
  • Feasts of Israel (Lev. 23)
  • David danced before the Lord (2 Sam. 6)
  • Wedding feast at Cana (John 2)

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Celebration Thanksgiving
  • Celebration heartily done makes our sorrows seem
    small, and we find in it great strength to do the
    will of our God because His goodness becomes so
    real to us.
  • Dallas Willard
  • The Spirit of the Disciplines

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Celebration Thanksgiving
  • Thanksgiving
  • Yadah (Heb.)
  • To acknowledge, to praise, to confess, to express
    gratitude
  • Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,
    and tell of His works with joyful singing. (Ps.
    10722)

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Celebration Thanksgiving
  • Thanksgiving
  • Eucharistia (Grk.)
  • Good grace (lit.)
  • Grateful expression
  • Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
    prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let
    your requests be made known to God. (Phil. 46)

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Celebration Thanksgiving
  • Thanksgiving is intrinsically linked with praise,
    for when one declares Gods attributes and works,
    he cannot help but be thankful for these.

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Celebration Thanksgiving
  • Together these 2 terms call us to
  • surface our deep acknowledgement of Gods person
    provision and
  • passionately express our grateful response to Him

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Celebration Thanksgiving
  • The calendar of the Old Testament was highlighted
    by the 3 great harvests and called for 3
    celebratory feasts and heartfelt expressions of
    thanksgiving.

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Celebration Thanksgiving
  • Feast of Unleavened Bread (7 days)
  • Passover/First Fruits
  • Barley Harvest
  • Feast of Weeks (1 day)
  • Pentecost
  • Wheat Harvest
  • Feast of Trumpets (21 days)
  • Day of Atonement, Tabernacles
  • Fruit Harvest

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Psalm 100
  • Big Idea
  • God's people are invited to approach the Lord
    with joy in this popular psalm. We can serve Him
    gladly because He is the Creator, and we can
    worship Him thankfully because He is good and
    faithful.

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Psalm 100
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Psalm 100
  • A Psalm for Thanksgiving.
  • Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth. Serve
    the LORD with gladness Come before Him with
    joyful singing. Know that the LORD Himself is
    God It is He who has made us, and not we
    ourselves We are His people and the sheep of His
    pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and
    His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him
    bless His name. For the LORD is good His
    lovingkindness is everlasting, and His
    faithfulness to all generations.

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Psalm 100
  • Sung in the temple with the sacrifices of praise
  • Known as The Jubilate
  • Last of the eight Enthronement Psalms (93-100)

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Psalm 100
  • THE BIG SIX
  • Yahweh is God
  • He is our creator
  • We are His people
  • The Lord is good
  • His lovingkindness is everlasting
  • His faithfulness endures

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Psalm 100
  • BIG IDEA
  • The people of God are invited to approach the
    Lord with joy and celebration, serve Him gladly,
    and worship Him thankfully.

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Psalm 100
  • Joyful Service (1001-3)
  • Grateful Worship (1004-5)

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Psalm 100
  • Joyful Service (1001-3)
  • A Psalm for Thanksgiving
  • 4 commands
  • Shout!
  • Serve!
  • Come!
  • Know!

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Psalm 100
  • Joyful Service (1004)
  • 3 more commands
  • Enter!
  • Give thanks!
  • Bless His name!

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Psalm 100
  • Joyful Service (1005)
  • Why 7 commands?
  • He is good
  • His lovingkindness lasts
  • His faithfulness is for all generations

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Psalm 100
  • THE BIG SIX
  • Yahweh is God
  • He is our creator
  • We are His people
  • The Lord is good
  • His lovingkindness is everlasting
  • His faithfulness endures

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Application
We serve an amazing God! Let us praise Him aloud,
with joy and gladness in our hearts. May we often
enter into His gates and courts, to bless His
name.
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Application
  • Communion
  • Thanksgiving is intrinsically linked with praise,
    for when one declares Gods attributes and works,
    he cannot help but be thankful for these.
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