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<div class="SSN_title">"THANKSGIVING"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: A Christian should be marked by his thanksgiving, even as a non-Christian is marked by thanklessness "neither were they thankful."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE CAUSE OF TRUE THANKSGIVING.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The Grace of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Too often we think only in material realm.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Health...glory in infirmities.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Strength...glory in weakness God's strength.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Shelter..."The foxes have holes."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Food...</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Deeper causes of thanksgiving</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. God loves me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. I have victory through Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Forgiveness - peace - hope.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The case of the Lepers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. 10 men brought together by common misery.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "The lepers stood afar off and cried."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The method of Jesus with leper in Chap. 5.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Lesser things than this-have split the church.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Their faith is tested.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He told them to go show themselves to the priest.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. First necessary step before returning to society.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Only way to test the truth was to obey.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. First necessary step before returning to society.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Only way to test the truth was to obey.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Skin still covered with white blotches.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. At this stage they had nothing to lose by obeying Christ word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">3. Christianity not subject to test tube experimentation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE CHARACTER OF TRUE THANKSGIVING.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Attitude that calls for action.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Attitude springs from realization of what has been done.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. In this story only one took action.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He was a Samaritan-unorthodox.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He prostrated himself before Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. The person of Christ not the miracle became the most important.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. "Where are the nine?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Question shows the value Christ places on gratitude and misses it when not expressed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Pure praise is almost a lost art.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Most hymns of praise merge into thanksgiving which is less.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Christ must still be asking same question.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">Church membership in the U.S.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">10% never attend church.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">40% never give a dollar a year.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">50% never attend Sunday School.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">60% never attend Sunday night service.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">70% never give to missions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">75% never engage in church activity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">80% never attend prayer-meetings.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">90% never have family worship.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">95% never win a soul to Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE CONSEQUENCE OF TRUE THANKSGIVING.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Arise go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Implies far more-than mere physical healing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Miracle of grace in soul as well.</div>
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