Created to Give Thanks to God

This sermon was preached during Providence PCA's Congregational Day of Thanksgiving, during which we set aside a day to offer up thanksgiving to the Lord for the many blessings He has granted to us during the year.

The Sermon itself dwells on the fact that as mercy abounds to believers, so too they should be vessels of mercy to others that they in turn might glorify the Lord. This giving is not how we earn our salvation of course, but a natural outgrowth of the fact that we have been saved through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God's "indescribable gift" to us.

Spurgeon summarized this idea well when he said:

'we give to others, and they thank God for the kindness which he has inspired in us. Thus a round of thanksgiving to God is created by the spirit of giving, which first of all displayed itself in the unspeakable gift of God. We are as cups filled at the spring, and from us the thirsty drink and praise the fountain.'

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