Opening Reading: Psalm 100

Outline:

· The 4th Mark of a Believer: Continuous Thanksgiving

· Why Thank God?: Our Personal History

· Losing the Control We Never Had: God’s Promise of Redemption

· The Thankful and the Unthankful: Two Worldviews and God’s Wrath

· God’s Mighty Work of Salvation (and Adoption): It Is Finished

· Our Blessed Hope in the Righteous King of kings

Verses Read or Referenced in Sermon (Bold passages on screen):

· John 5:22

· Acts 17:30-31

· Revelation 20:14-15

· Philippians 1:21-23

· 1 Corinthians 15:9

· 1 Timothy 1:15

· Acts 8:3

· Romans 7:18-19

· Philippians 3:8-10

· Galatians 4:4-5

· Ephesians 2:4-5

· 1 Timothy 2:5-6

· Colossians 1:9-14

· Colossians 1:3-4

· Ephesians 2:1-3

· Romans 6:23

· Ephesians 2:4-9

· Romans 5:12

· Genesis 3:15

· Hebrews 9:26

· Revelation 7:11-12

· Psalm 92:1

· Ephesians 5:20

· 2 Timothy 3:1-5

· Romans 1:21

· John 6:37

· John 10:28-29

· Matthew 1:21

· Galatians 4:6-7

· John 8:44

· John 19:30

· Galatians 1:6-8

· 1 Peter 1:3-5

· 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

· Psalm 119:130, 105

· Ephesians 5:8-11

· 1 Corinthians 6:11

· 2 Corinthians 5:17

· Romans 6:2

· 1 John 3:4, 6

· Psalm 103:12

· Philippians 3:20

· Romans 1:16

· Romans 10:17