Today, Pastor Seth Goldsmith continues with Week Two, of a 3-part sermon series about gratitude. Using our favorite seasonal pies, Seth connects Biblical truths and scripture with some of our most sought after Thanksgiving plate filled slices.
Teaching Points:
Your Crushing is sometimes self-inflicted
Your Crushing is not permanent
Your Crushing has a purpose
Key verse:
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NLT 16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
Scripture:
Acts 7:17-34 NLT
Exodus 2:15 NLT
15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
1 Peter 5:10 NLT
10 In his kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, he will restore, support, and strengthen you, and he will place you on a firm foundation.
Acts 7:30 NLT
30 “Forty years later, in the desert near Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to Moses in the flame of a burning bush.
Exodus 3:1-2 NLT
1 One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement.
Acts 7:20 NLT
20 “At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child. For three months he was cared for by his family. 21 When he was placed outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. 22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
Acts 7:25 NLT
25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.
Isaiah 53:3-6 NLT
3 He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. 4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! 5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. 6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
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