Thankful For Nothing

Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Justin Peters. I hope that you and your family are doing well today. I want to thank you very much for watching this video and want to extend to you a very warm Wish of a happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

Thanksgiving Gratitude for Nothing

And I thought I would take just a moment or two to share with you that for which I am most thankful today. And I am most thankful today for nothing for absolutely.

Nothing.

Let me explain. Turn with me if you will or look with me if you will. To Psalm chapter 103. Psalm chapter 103 verses 9 10 and 11. He will not always strive with us nor will he keep his anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. The verse that I most want to bring your attention to is verse 10 notice carefully what it says.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. I Am most grateful today that God has not dealt with me According to my sin that he has not rewarded me according to my iniquity.

The Wages of Sin and the Need for Justice

Because if God dealt with me according to my sin if he rewarded me According to my iniquity Then I would receive nothing but his wrath. You see the wages of sin the reward of sin is death eternal death because we have sinned against the eternal God.

The punishment of that sin is also eternal and if we die in our sins. We were very rightly and very justly go to a very real place that the Bible calls hell. Where the worm will not die the fire will not be quenched they'll be wailing and weeping and gnashing of teeth and That is what I deserve.

That is what you deserve. There's a lot of people today clamoring for justice oh, we need justice and social justice, and I I want what I Deserve. I want what I am owed. I want justice. Dear ones. Let me tell you something.

You don't want justice. Trust me. You don't want justice because if you got justice Then you would get hell. My friend and a pastor up in northern, Idaho Jim Osmond, you've heard me mention him probably if you've watched me for very long.

Jim Osmond and I were having lunch one day a few years ago together. And he said that if God were to strike from me everything that I have Take away my wife take away my family Take away all my possessions everything I own stripped from me everything that I have and leave me to die a cold.

Slow.

Painful death alone in a ditch and then send me straight to hell. He would have done me no wrong.

And you know what?

He's right. Because that's what Jim deserves. That's what his sins have earned him. That's what I deserve. That's what my sins have earned me. That's what you deserve. That's what your sins have earned you.

Christ Bearing the Wrath We Deserve

The wages of sin is death and I am profoundly grateful that God has not dealt with me according to my sin. That he has not rewarded me. According to my iniquities you see the bow of God's wrath Was pulled back to full draw and it was pointed squarely at me.

But instead of releasing the bow of his wrath at me He diverted that bow and he pointed it at someone else. He pointed it at his son Jesus Christ. God sent his son Jesus Christ to this earth in. Jesus the God-man lived a perfect life and Then Jesus willingly laid down his life on the cross.

This perfect person.

Gave his.

Perfect life as a perfect sacrifice to perfectly satisfy the perfect wrath of God. You see God released The bow of his wrath and the the arrows of his fury.

That.

Burn against my sin and your sin. He pointed at Jesus Christ and the arrows of his fury sunk deep into Christ on the cross. Jesus satisfied God's wrath. Has the bow of God's wrath been diverted from you.

The only way to know that is to repent of sin. Turn from sin and place your trust in what Jesus Christ did on the cross. Your works will not save you. Your works are as filthy rags. They will not earn you a place in the heaven.

Repentance, Faith, and Being Thankful for Nothing

You must turn from sin repent of sin and place your trust in Jesus. If you have done that then you too can be thankful for nothing. You can join me in being thankful for nothing that God has not dealt with us.

According to our sin and he will not reward us according to our iniquity. Because someone else has paid that price for us. So dear ones be thankful today be thankful for nothing. And if you're watching this and maybe you're not certain of where you are in your relationship with Christ.

You're not certain that the bow of God's wrath is not still pointing at you right now. Then turn from sin repent of your sin. Place your trust in Jesus Christ what he did on the cross. Lay your works down.

Your works are as filthy rags. They will profit you nothing in the day of judgment. Place your trust in Christ and The wrath of God that we deserve will be removed of the bow of God's wrath will be diverted away from you and you too can be thankful for nothing.

I Hope that this has been helpful for you dear ones encouraging to you until our next time together. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the fellowship of his Holy Spirit be with you all.