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Giving Thanks for God’s Enduring Love
by Jack Hayford
Text: Psalm 118
Topic: The greatness of God's love
Big Idea: God's chesed love is active, ongoing, and the basis of our thanksgiving.
Keywords: Covenant; God, goodness of; God, Love of; God, mercy of; Gratitude; Jerusalem; Jewish People; the Jews; Mercy; Old Testament; Praise; Thanksgiving
Introduction:
- Chesed is a Hebrew word that denotes stooping to bestow an act of mercy.
The mercy of God is an active mercy.
- Chesed signifies the kindness of God.
- Chesed signifies the constancy of God.
- Chesed signifies the covenant fidelity of God.
- God’s mercy is available when we enter into a covenant relationship with him through his Son.
The mercy of God never ends.
- The Israelites return from exile to build a new temple from the ruins of the old temple.
- Some of the people are discouraged because they believe nothing good can be reconstructed from the rubble.
- Some of the people are discouraged because the Persian government is withholding permission to rebuild.
- The Psalmist is thankful because God’s mercy endures even in their present circumstances.
Thanksgiving is the proper response to God’s mercy.
- The Psalmist praises God with the same song their ancestors sang after their deliverance from the Egyptians.
- The new temple would be even greater than the old one, because Jesus would walk into it.
- We throw our praises to God because he has sent Jesus to walk into our lives.
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