Gratitude: The Foundation of Spiritual Growth

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I wonder why he did not give up on me. Now let's strike home to you. I wonder why he didn't give up on me. Can you think back of a time in your life for long periods in your life when you didn't care much about God and there was every reason for God to give up on you? [00:31:04]

I think of first as a dark planet full of grumbling, complaining, murmuring all the time. And in the midst of it, there are a few spots of light, those who never grumble, em over, and complain. Why don't they mother and grumble and complain? Because they are convinced that the only rightful thing they deserve was hell. [00:33:25]

See, many of us have not heard of proper gospel at the beginning. I think that is a problem. But sometimes, you know, we read in India, I don't know, you probably don't read much about here in the United States, but in India, every now and then, you read a newspaper of some building that collapsed. [00:44:31]

The message he came with was, you guys are rebelling against God. Turn from your rebellion. That's repentance. Turnaround. Submit to God. Make deep link God first in your life. So you go to love God more than your father, mother, brother, sister, wife, and children, more than yourself, and more than all your position. [07:51:00]

The anger of God is there against all unrighteousness and sin. So let me just show you some passage in Romans chapter 1. See, if your foundation of your Christian life did not begin with this teaching, then there's something shallow in the foundation, and maybe after the tenth floor, it'll collapse. [08:35:59]

I personally believe that the heart of every human being is exactly the same, and the way we were brought up by our parents may have restrained us from going ahead and doing some of those evil things. I mean, if I think of the worst terrorist or suicide bomber in the world which goes and blows up others. [13:36:12]

I want to say God's delivered me, and if you have not been delivered from this corruption that is in the flesh, consider it is because you don't feel it is there. You feel you're a little better. That's exactly how the devil wants you to feel all the time, a little better than that person. [14:42:29]

The first step downwards is here in verse 21. See that all the other words is at the bottom of the spiral. Look, verse 21 is the first step. When they knew God, they did not honor him as God and give thanks. They were not grateful that God didn't give up. [50:09:03]

I want to say that one of the dangers we face in a church that's preaching holiness is to look down on others, to be absolutely holy like Jesus, yet not to despise others. That is godliness. If you are holy and you despise someone who's not like you, you're not holy. [01:03:00]

Every time you attempted to despise someone, my brother's sister, remember that line of that song, I wonder why he never gave up on me. Every time he wanted to spy someone who's not measured up to your standard of holiness and you want to look down on that person, say that line to yourself. [01:04:34]

I want to be thankful for what God has done in my life, and I always want to be thankful, so I never want to look down on someone with failed, but I want to warn them when if you continue like that, can one day cross the line. You know, I feel that God has put a red line in front of all sinners. [01:06:00]

Seek God earnestly and say, Lord, I want to honor you. I always want to be thankful that you saved me from the wrath of God. I turned around from sin, which God hated. You know, I feel it may Kuragin haven't seen how much God hates in that his anger is against it. [01:06:00]

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