 Hey man, all right, keep your place there in 2 Timothy chapter 3, we'll get there in just a minute. So here we're going to take a break from our study in the book of Acts and have a talk a little bit about Thanksgiving coming up. So we're having a long weekend, of course celebrating Thanksgiving and it's interesting because in 2 Timothy chapter 3 we're going to focus on the first few verses here but in 2 Timothy chapter 3 we see kind of a long list of pretty serious sins at the beginning of this chapter. Let's go ahead and just look at it and see what we can take from this this evening. The Bible says in verse number 1 it says, this know also that in the last days perilous times shall come. So of course we know, and I'm not going to re-preach this, but we know that we are in the last days. You know we're not in the end times but we're in the last days. I mean even Jesus said that at His time we're in the last days meaning I've preached on this before meaning the last half of whatever time we have left on this earth. We're in the last days perilous times. It says you know dangerous times and then it kind of gives us some detail on why these times are going to be dangerous. It says in verse number 2 it says, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away. So it gives us this kind of this description of these clues of what men are going to be like in these last days and like why can't we see that you know today in these last days we see these very serious sins listed out here in the first few verses of Second Timothy chapter 3 but what we're going to focus in on is up there in verse number 2 where the word unthankful is used and it says you know that these men are you know men are going to be in the last days like all these wicked things and enlisted amongst those things is unthankful. Now it's interesting in the Bible because when we think about Thanksgiving and just being thankful in our lives the word thankful is used just a couple times I think maybe I've studied it a couple years ago it's just it doesn't come up very much in the Bible it's maybe one or two or three times in the Bible and unthankful comes up also you know one or two times in the Bible but even though those words are used very little in the Bible this is one of those times obviously this thankful and unthankful word it is a main theme in the Bible and it's a main theme in the Bible something that is very serious so as we move into Thanksgiving let's first do a little Bible study on this theme of being unthankful in the Bible because it comes up over and over and I couldn't give you all the examples of people that are unthankful in the Bible I just pulled out a few obvious examples for you tonight and let's look at just unthankfulness and what that means what that means for the people that we're looking at in the Bible here and then what that could mean for us in our lives if we became or if we were unthankful and I hate to break you but I can guarantee you that in many places in your life you are unthankful tonight but we want to make sure that we put that in check in our lives because it's not a small thing even though that word is used just a few times just a handful of times it is a main theme that is has very serious consequences in the Bible so turn if you would to Ruth chapter number one even though those words are not used very much the theme itself and the philosophy of the sin of unthankfulness as it's listed as a very serious sin in second Timothy chapter three is very serious I mean think about it it's listed being unthankful is listed with things like without natural affection with things like fears with things you know just people that are violent people that are reprobate people that are you know just the worst type of people you know just unsafe people that have rejected God rejected the gospel and unthankful is used you know next to those types of sins all right so look let's look at some examples of people that were unthankful in the Bible look at Ruth chapter one so in Ruth we see the story of a woman named Naomi who at the beginning of the chapter of course she she loses she loses a lot she loses her husband and then she loses her two sons as they had moved into this foreign land and then she decides to go home and she goes home she goes back to Bethlehem and look at verse 19 in Ruth chapter one so they too now of course Ruth who was her daughter-in-law her sons had died and one of the daughter-in-laws this woman named Ruth decides to go with her and in verse number 19 she goes back to Bethlehem so the two went until they came to Bethlehem and it came to pass when they were come to Bethlehem that all the city was moved about them and said is this Naomi and she said to them call me not Naomi call me Mara for the Almighty had dealt very bitterly with me and went out full I went out full this is Naomi speaking and the Lord have brought me home again empty why then call me ye me why then call ye me Naomi seeing that the Lord had testified against me and the Almighty hath afflicted me so this is a woman that's pretty down right here they she comes back to her hometown after being in this foreign land and having lost her husband and her two sons and she comes back and they asked her hey what's going on and she's like I'm empty I'm done I have nothing but what you have to ask yourself go back to verse number 16 is it true that she was empty is it true that she really had nothing look at verse number 16 of Ruth chapter 1 she said I went out full and the Lord brought me home again empty look at verse 16 and Ruth said this is her daughter-in-law she said to her daughter-in-law after her sons died she's like go back to where you came from go back to Moab go back to your homes and Ruth said in verse 16 entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee for whether thou goest I will go and where thou lodgest I will lodge thy people shall be my people and thy God my God this is the Ruth speaking to Naomi where thou diest will I die and there will I be buried the Lord do so to me and more also if ought but death part thee and me that's pretty amazing right there Ruth is basically saying even though just imagine a daughter-in-law saying this to her mother-in-law after her husband has died you know the son of the mother of the mother-in-law she's saying I am with you I am loyal to you I will go where you go I will I will I will die where you die and and on top of that she says your God is my God which is you know the right God which is not the God of the Moabites it is the the one true God verse number 18 and when she saw that she was steadfastedly minded to go with her you think then she left speaking unto her so they too went and came to Bethlehem and then this is where Naomi gives this speech to the people of Bethlehem saying I have nothing I am empty as Ruth is standing next we're going I'm here can you imagine I mean so I mean you could say that Naomi's being a little bit unthankful for the fact that Ruth came back with her and what does Ruth turn out to be Ruth turns out to be this wonderful wonderful the only word in the body the only woman in the Bible is called a virtuous woman in the Bible is Ruth she's this hard-working woman ends up supporting Naomi ends up marrying Boaz ends up bringing Naomi's family into the lineage of the Messiah himself so Naomi was hardly empty you can say well she was just focusing on the negative and she was focusing on those things but the only point I want you to take from this story is focusing on the negative and always looking at the bad things that have happened to you in your life can make you unthankful that's the only thing that I want you to take from this story now let's look at a more serious example of unthankfulness turn to 1st Samuel chapter 19 so we see from Naomi that just just focusing on all the bad things that have happened to you and all that look there's definitely bad things that happen to her her husband died and then her two sons died that's an extreme event in somebody's life but that made her unthankful towards Ruth that this huge blessing that you know came out of that situation it's really a Romans 828 situation right there where you know the Lord just took a bad situation and made just this huge blessing to Naomi and you know the whole nation of Israel from that bad situation turn to 1st Samuel chapter 19 let's look at King Saul let's look at King Saul King Saul was somebody that was very unthankful in his life especially at the beginning look at 1st Samuel chapter 19 and verse number 4 now Jonathan his son actually warned him actually kind of you know nicely rebuked him about being unthankful now 1st Samuel chapter 19 David has just defeated Goliath like this just happened this just happened like a chapter over and already Saul is moved with envy against David he's just upset that people are liking you know David and thinking he's great so look at verse number 4 1st Samuel chapter 19 and look at his son says to him and his son says and Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father and said unto him but not the king sin against his servant against David because he had not sinned against thee and because his works have been to the word very good Jonathan is reminding him hey like two minutes ago he saved the entire nation remember David basically saved the whole army he basically saved them from defeat you know from the Philistines everyone was everyone in the army before David came and said he would fight Goliath was afraid they were terrified including David's own brothers look at verse number 5 Jonathan goes into more detail he says for he did put his life in his hand and slew the Philistine and the Lord brought a great salvation for all Israel he's like why are you getting upset at this guy he saved the entire nation thou sawest it and didst rejoice he's like you were happy five minutes ago I mean it wasn't five minutes but I mean it you were happy just right after this happened you were happy you were rejoicing about it wherefore then will thou sin against innocent blood to slay David without a cause and Saul Harkin he look he listened Saul Harkin unto the voice of Jonathan and Saul swear as the Lord liveth he shall not be slain and Jonathan called David and Jonathan showed him all those things and Jonathan brought David to Saul and he was in his presence as in times past so he was able to actually reset Saul in that situation however we know that Saul quickly fell right back into where he was but the point I'm trying to get you to understand this led where did this lead with Saul this he reset himself here after getting you know kind of reset by his son but he quickly fell back into that where he just didn't care about what David did and then he became bitter and he became envious against David and eventually it led to all things like him chasing David down like him murdering people like him trying to murder David again and again and again trying to murder his own son it just it literally led Saul it literally led Saul down this road where the Bible says over and over that God started chastising him and punishing him God gave him this evil spirit and if you read the story of Saul after this point it reads like he went insane it reads like he went crazy but he was just he was tormented by this evil spirit from the Lord is this is punishment from the Lord for not obeying God and it reads like he literally went crazy where did it start though where did it start it all started with what before the bitterness before the envy before everything what did Jonathan point out first he said he said he wrote a great salvation for Israel thou sawest it and did rejoice what he was saying to Saul was you were thankful and now you are not it began all this torment and literally like just insanity from Saul it began with unthankfulness it began with just not appreciating what David had done and from there came the envy from there came the insecurity from there came the bitterness from there came the wrath then it just went it just he just kept ramping it up and up and he's he's just murdering priests he's murdering he's just murdering anybody then he needs to murder trying to even murder his own son just to kill David but it all started with unthankfulness it all started with unthankfulness turn to second Chronicles chapter 24 second Chronicles chapter 24 second Chronicles chapter 24 I'll see another example even well maybe not worse it's hard to come up with an example that's worse than Saul but another very serious situation of unthankfulness in second Chronicles chapter 24 we see the story of Joash now Joash was he was a young boy who was saved by this priest if you remember Athaliah she took over the kingdom and she slew you know all the the blood royal she slew all her son's children she slew all her grandchildren so there would be no one to be king and Joash was saved by this priest Jehoida Jehoida raised Joash and then he eventually got Joash to be king and he put him on the throne and Joash was a good king but look at verse number 20 of second Chronicles chapter 24 as soon as Jehoida dies Joash he goes bad he goes he goes and he starts listening to the wrong people and he starts doing evil things and now Jehoida the priest had a son who comes and tries to rebuke Joash for doing the wicked things that he's doing look at verse number 20 it says in the spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoida the priest remember Jehoida basically raised Joash he basically was there you know raising him he protected him and then he put him on the throne the spirit God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoida the priest which stood above the people and said unto them thus sayeth God why transgress you the commandments of the Lord that you cannot prosper because you have forsaken the Lord he has forsaken you so here's a man of God standing up and just telling Joash how it is he's like you go against God God's gonna go against you and it's not gonna go well look at verse 21 and they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord so Joash commands that Jehoida's son Zechariah is killed thus Joash the king now look at this why did he do that thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoida his father had done to him but slew his son and when he died he said the Lord look upon it and require it so Joash who was saved by this man who was raised in many ways by this man this man Joida was his spiritual leader Joida dies and he ends up killing his own son and the Bible says that the start of that the spark of that was because he just he was not thankful for what Jehoida did he remembered not he was what he was unthankful you're starting to see like how serious unthankfulness actually is I mean unthankfulness it you think like oh you know somebody didn't say thank you or something no it leads to these terrible terrible things in the Bible it's very serious things stem from it turn to Romans chapter 1 turn to Romans chapter 1 I mean unthankfulness itself when we think about raising kids and we'll talk about that in just a few minutes but it really I mean it really seems like a small thing you know to just not be as thankful as we should and all this are guilty of that in many different places in our lives but I just need you to understand the seriousness of this sin look at Romans chapter 1 Romans chapter 1 of course talking about these people that you know rejected the Lord they changed the truth of God they turned into reprobates and all the talking about the unnaturalness and all this and just like explaining about all the wicked unnatural perversion that we see today but look at the very beginning of Romans chapter 1 very beginning of that process where did it start look at verse number 21 it says because that this is the beginning of this process where these people they turn against God they reject God and finally God is like I'm done with you I reject you you know this is how people become reprobate rejected from God look at verse number 21 it says because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God so they knew who God was they believed that there was God they just they just didn't give them any credit for they didn't worship him as God they didn't think he should be over them or whatever and then look what it says neither were what neither were thankful but instead instead so they're unthankful people but instead they became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened you can see how you know people that start out unthankful head down some pretty serious roads in in their lives you know this is talking about people that literally rejected God but they were first unthankful so look being thankful being thankful folks as we as we approach Thanksgiving being thankful is a constant battle it's a constant fight of the flesh that we have to be thankful and to guess what to remain thankful for things in your life many times like Naomi we want to focus on negative things in our lives and you say well you know bad things bad things happen to her and you could say the same thing about yourself you could say you know what bad things happen to me maybe you look back at a year that you had and you're just like you know what bad things happened this year but maybe you should start thinking about you know by looking at all those bad things that happen to you you're actually being unthankful about the good things that are in your life when you start looking at it that way you know through the eyes of Naomi and then not wanting to be unthankful like some of these examples we've seen in the Bible look turn to first Samuel chapter 31 Naomi was not left empty there is I don't care what bad has happened to you there are blessings in your life that you should be thankful for turn to first Samuel chapter 31 turn to first Samuel chapter 31 first Samuel chapter 31 so this is the death of Saul first Samuel chapter 31 is the death of Saul and if you remember back in first Samuel chapter 11 I believe it is the Ammonites were coming up against this this city of Jabash Gilead and they basically had the place surrounded and they had the people I mean the the men of Jabash Gilead came out and they're like we surrender and what are terms for our surrender and basically the king of the Ammonites said I'm gonna cut out all your right eyes I'm gonna you know then you're gonna be my servants and then this word got out to the nation and everyone was just they were in tears and they were weeping and they were crying what's gonna happen and then Saul rises up Saul rises up and he gathers the whole nation and he goes and he saves the people in the city he defeats the army and that's when everybody's just like this is our king right here in first Samuel chapter 11 so after that battle happens after he has made king after first Samuel chapter 11 he saves he wins this great battle he saves these people from this wicked torture that was gonna happen to them he saves them and then he just lives this wicked life as a king he is an absolute failure as a leader of the nation of Israel you know hit reading the story of Saul and his rain is like it's like watching a train wreck in slow motion he does all the wrong things he doesn't listen to the Lord he gets lifted up he does evil wicked things including murder but look at verse number 11 of first Samuel chapter 31 then of course God judges Saul God says because you've been this king I'm killing you I'm taking you off this earth he sends Samuel back to tell Saul tomorrow you and your sons will be with me Saul still gonna be in heaven but God's like you're done living on this earth it wasn't enough that God took the kingdom from Saul God finally got so fed up with this guy talk about the chastisement of God that he just says you're done I'm taking you off this earth he sends an army against him then of course we talked about this a couple weeks ago Saul saw the army coming he didn't want to be abused by the army and he killed himself he committed suicide he killed himself and you know what they did abuse him after he was dead they abused his body they cut they cut off his head they cut off the head of his sons and they hung him from the wall of the city of this Philistine city but look at verse number 11 of verse 31 and when the inhabitants of JBash Gili had heard of what the Philateen of that which the Philistines had done to Saul what did they do to him they just they desecrated his body in this way all the valiant men arose so all the brave men all the warriors of this city they get up and they went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan and came to JBash and burnt them there these men from JBash Giliad even though Saul was a wicked king he had a wicked rule he was not a good king by anybody's standards these men from JBash Giliad they remembered what Saul had done for them and guess what they were thankful enough to go and risk their own lives to give Saul a decent or a you know take care of his body in this way so it wouldn't be displayed and desecrated on this Philistines wall so look they were thankful they were thankful they were kind of like I don't want to compare these men to Naomi I'm kind of being hard on Naomi here just from one I'm just using one example but basically they took all the bad things that Saul did and you know what they did they just focused on the good they just focused on that thing that he had done you know what we're thankful for him and we are going to take care of this even at risk of our own lives we're thankful for what he did to us they were still thankful they were still thankful so we need to remain thankful in our lives we want to keep away from unthankfulness and always be thankful you know this is just something that we always need to remind ourselves of and guess what we need to be teaching this to our kids if you only take one thing away from this sermon tonight it's that it's that thankfulness and the opposite of it which is unthankfulness unthankfulness is a gateway sin to terrible things if you only take one thing away from the sermon tonight that's what I want you to take away from is just unthankfulness itself is a gateway to disaster it is a gateway to horrible sin it is a gateway really it's a gateway to a cursed life it's a gateway to a cursed life and you see that with these examples that I gave you with Saul and with Joash in the Bible so we need to teach our kids first of all to be thankful for things in their life look from the small things from the small things like when you if you go out to a restaurant with your kids and somebody brings them a glass a drink they should say thank you should know to be thankful because look every kid that is in this church and every kid that we know is very blessed in their life but look I believe that kids can be blessed in their life and they can also be thankful for those things you can raise your kids to be thankful that your kids should say thank you when you do things for them when they get you know a a present or a gift from somebody they should be saying thank you they should be what because it teaches them that that somebody did something for them that they didn't have to do they should never start to expect things they should never expect to be taken to a fun place they should never expect to be taken to a restaurant they should never expect to get money for things they should never expect gifts for things they should always be thankful for those things and look with kids it just takes reminding constantly did you say thank you you say thank you for that it's just a constant thing you have to constantly be on them for but guess what if you're constantly on them to just say those words thank you over and over and over again they will become thankful people they will become thankful adults I mean because look to become unthankful someone who expects things expects things to be done for them to be given to them is really to become a ruined person I mean this isn't this is like this is America today this is America today I mean these this new generation that's being raised that that is is you know what I deserve things I deserve to have things done for me anything anything that I don't have somebody should give to me anything wrong that has happened to me it's somebody else's fault you know it all starts all of that starts all that welfare mentality that laziness that you know as the the Bible would call it just being the slothfulness there's such a wicked sin you know what it starts with it starts with being unthankful that's that's the gateway sin to all these terrible things so we need to teach unthankfulness I'm a big I've said this before I'll say it again I love repetition repeat things to your kids again and again and again and they will end up being thankful people but look ultimately you want to talk about you know we're talking about getting a soda at a restaurant but you know what ultimately being being thankful translates into it translates into having good relationships because if you're a thankful person you will have good relationships in your life I mean an unthankful person is going to have a hard time having friends having long-term relationships what is the definition of a marriage is a long-term relationship this is how important it is to raise young people that are thankful for every little thing and not thinking that they deserve things guess what guess what else is a relationship don't you want your kids to have a relationship with the Lord you know what being unthankful we saw it in Romans chapter 1 being unthankful an individual that starts out just being an unthankful person could lead that individual to the point I mean forget becoming a reprobate it could lead them to the point where they never get saved because if you appreciate nothing just like the people in Rome chapter 1 they didn't appreciate God if you appreciate God you're not gonna if you don't appreciate God if you're unthankful to the Lord you're certainly not going to care what he did for you look it'll affect you know salvation you know people that are extremely unthankful you know the darkest outcome is that they don't get saved and they turn on God which is you know it could lead somebody it could lead somebody to never seek the Lord if they're not a thankful person let me just give you some things as adults that we should be thankful for turn to Proverbs chapter 14 turn to Proverbs chapter 14 as adults think I was just thinking about what am I thankful for you know what am I thankful for coming up this Thanksgiving you know some things that I'm thankful for that I feel like are being lost today Proverbs 14 look at verse number 23 so look just drive that thankfulness again and again and again into your kids because it's going to affect them for the rest of their lives if you can raise kids that appreciate and are thankful for their parents for their church for the things in their life look they're going to be appreciative and thankful to God look at Proverbs 14 verse number 23 the Bible says here's something I'm thankful for I'm thankful for labor you're like what the Bible says in all labor there is profit but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penery boy this would this would be one first of all labor's got a bad rap today nobody appreciates labor anymore but again this one would be easy this one would be easy to just focus on the negative wouldn't it just be like oh man I'm too busy oh man that was hard oh man it's just really I just like work is crazy you know work is really stressful this week but you know I'm thankful for labor I'm thankful that I can support my family you should be thankful for that you should be thankful for you know what the guy with two arms and two legs standing on the corner with a sign saying give me money you know he is he's unthankful he's unthankful he's unthankful because he's not thankful for his labor why how do I know that because he's not using it he's taking a gift that God gave him and he's throwing it on the ground and he's stomping on it and he's just asking for people just to give him stuff that's why people that give somebody like that somebody gives somebody money with two arms and two legs that has labor you're hurting him you're hurting that person you are doing something wrong according to the Bible because that is an unthankful person the first thing that they need to do is they need to be thankful for their labor labor's got a bad rap today I was like oh man that that job's hard that job's hard work hard work is good hard work is good labor is good the Bible says in all labor there is profit and guess what guess what I'm glad that I can labor I'm glad that I can support my family but you know what I'm really glad that I can do I'm glad I can labor for the Lord I'm glad that I can go and I can walk up and down the streets I'm glad that I can do all the things that the church needs and I'm glad that I can help out wherever things need to be help out I'm glad that I can use my I'm so thankful I'm so thankful no matter how things are going in my life and this is how you should be too you should be there's so many people out there flailing around that don't know where they're going or why they're going where they're going they have no idea the direction that they're headed they have no idea the direction that they should go here we know we know we're we're here to serve God with our labor with this life that we have and I'm so thankful that I can do it for another year or another day or however God allows me to be able to to serve him with my labor I'm thankful for a church that I can take my family to a lot of people don't have that a lot of people whether it's their fault or wherever you know a lot of people just they don't have a church that preaches the word of God where they can take their family where they can use their labor to serve the Lord with their lives a lot of people don't have that I'm thankful for that and you know what that here's the funny thing this church and our our thank you know this blessing that is this church whether we have a bad time or a good time or you're in a valley or a peak in your life it's always here whether or not you know we're going through some weird time in our country like COVID or you know you're having a good year or a bad year in your own mind the church is here be thankful for that that doesn't change you know I'm thankful for a church family I'm thankful for a church family you should be thankful for your church family to look as clown world gets worse and worse out there I am thankful for like minded believers I'm thankful for a place that we can get together and we can study the word of God and we can be edified through the word of God we can exhort one another maybe someone's having a bad time when somebody else is a little bit stronger maybe you know somebody's confused about some things need some sharpening here or there maybe you know I mean but this is the whole idea of a church family and guess what the kids in the church family I'm thankful for them too I mean the kids you kids are so important to this church you have no idea you kids are so important to this church why you're important for the other kids you're important because I mean you're kind of the whole goal kids I hate to break it to you you know I don't want to make you feel all self-important but you're kind of the next generation which is kind of the whole point of the whole thing so we can keep this thing going so you can keep this labor for the Lord going for another generation this is how important the kids are in this church I'm so thankful for that I can't tell you how happy it makes me when I see a bunch of kids running around here you know not causing trouble but I mean you know doing whatever they're doing it just makes me very happy I'm very thankful for that you should be thankful for that too look you kids have a lot of effect on you make the adults happy let me tell you that all right you make the adults in this church very happy I can see it I can see it on people's faces so all the adults here we're all thankful for the kids kids you should be thankful for the adults and your parents as well you know what else I'm thankful for I'm thankful for this church building I will never stop being thankful for this church building but guess what you know what I'm also thankful for the old church building you all kind of laugh and chuckle and I think about the old church building and some of the things that we all had to go through there and all that but you know what that building was a blessing and that building you know it's served that purpose for that time but you know what you know what another blessing of that old church building was is it will always make me appreciate this place I mean where we can go outside and the kids have an area to play we can barbecue we can play basketball I will I will that will never get old to me I will never allow that to get old to me that's why I had to clean up all that stuff at that old building you know you're doing stuff like that and you're wondering why you're going through things like that in your life and you're like why in the world would God put me through this again and again and again and this is why because I will never stop appreciating a place like this you know it's just a building but it's just it's a great place it's perfect for us and I'm so thankful for that guess what here's another thing you should be thankful for you should be thankful for your family men and women you should be thankful you should be thankful for your husband you should be thankful for your wife you know what don't ever get used to each other this is a tough one this is a tough one I've been married for 23 years some of you you know married longer and less time than that but here's the thing you just you live with somebody day-to-day my wife and I were just talking about this yesterday you live with somebody day-to-day and maybe you forget how you're speaking to them maybe you maybe you're too casual maybe you know you don't you don't you don't act like you're thankful enough to them but I tell you what if my wife was gone tomorrow oh boy I'd be a train wreck and you know you can men think about that with your wives as well you know if your if your spouse was no longer there anymore you know I mean be thankful for your husband and your wife you know and as the husband as he supports the family the wife should never get used to him the wife should just never take him for granted because you know what that's the beginning that's the start of unthankfulness you know and as a husband comes home and as he sees things just always taken care of just always squared away the kids always good the education always going right everything's just it is like I'm telling you it's completely out of my mind like I don't stress about it at all ever but I should never take that for granted why because that's the beginning that's the start of unthankfulness and that could lead to you know bad things like you know she the wife could be like why why doesn't he say you know nicer things why doesn't he say thank you enough and why doesn't he you know do nicer things because he's just taking it for granted probably because she's taking it for granted he's taking it for granted it's it's the start of unthankfulness don't let that creep into your marriage don't let that creep into the people in your house don't take your kids for granted kids don't take your parents for granted you know be thankful for every single day that you have with these people that you love the most you know I mean this relationship with Ruth and Naomi I mean I just think about I already kind of said this but I kind of think about how Ruth must have been feeling as Naomi was telling everybody she's empty and she's just focusing on the negative think about that also think about that also men if you're just a negative person or women if you're a negative person think about you know as a woman maybe you're just having a bad week or a bad month or a bad two months or whatever it is and you're just negative and focusing on the negative guess what there's people standing next to you going like hey like Ruth like hey what about us it could be taken as unthankfulness the husband's same thing maybe you're just having your stressed out at work things aren't going well maybe finances this year weren't as good as last year or whatever let me tell you something as you get older there's going to be good financial years and there's going to be ones that aren't as good that's just the way it is but if you're always finding the negative things look here's the thing if you're a busy laborious person I don't care if you're a woman or a man if you're a busy laborious person you're gonna have a lot of balls up in the air and some are going to be going good and some are going to be going bad that's just the way it is maybe some years two-thirds of the the balls you have in the air are not doing so well and and one-third are but if you just focus on the negative all the time people around you are gonna look at that as unthankful that you're starting to be unthankful it's gonna affect people so be thankful look no matter how bad my day is or how bad whatever is I should always be thankful for my wife I should always be thankful for my children because if something outside of that happens and all of a sudden it just seems like I don't appreciate them anymore that affects them that affects this is why unthankfulness this is why it's so important to teach this to your kids and just drive this thankfulness idea home because it affects relationships I tell you what a husband that appreciates a wife and is thankful for a wife every day and then a wife that also appreciates her husband and they're thankful for him every day I'm telling what that's that's gonna be a good marriage and then that's centered on the Bible that's gonna be a good marriage that's gonna be a great loving relationship so I appreciate my family I'm thankful for my family you know what and here's the thing at the end of the day we could go on and on and on about things that we should be thankful for just count the blessings in your life but at the end of the day you're saved I'm thankful for the fact that I'm saved I'm thankful for the fact that I can serve the Lord with whatever time he gives me in my life I'm thankful for the fact that my life will have no end don't ever get used to that don't ever take your salvation for granted I mean when you look at it from that perspective like hey you know I have eternal life could anything really be going wrong at that point and I know this is a tough perspective to always have all the time but the point is don't ever be unthankful for what Jesus Christ did for you that should always be your fall back position like if everything else is going wrong you are saved and nothing is ever gonna change the fact that you are saved and what that is ultimately always something to be thankful for no matter what is going on let's eat some pie stay thankful in your life let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer