{"id":36636,"date":"2022-09-13T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-there-anybody-in-the-bible-except-jesus-or-in-the-world-now-who-thanks-god-for-being-god-the-highest-gratitude-anybody-can-show-is-to-forget-self-to-honor-jehovah-god\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:04:16","slug":"is-there-anybody-in-the-bible-except-jesus-or-in-the-world-now-who-thanks-god-for-being-god-the-highest-gratitude-anybody-can-show-is-to-forget-self-to-honor-jehovah-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-there-anybody-in-the-bible-except-jesus-or-in-the-world-now-who-thanks-god-for-being-god-the-highest-gratitude-anybody-can-show-is-to-forget-self-to-honor-jehovah-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there anybody in the Bible (except Jesus) or in the world now who thanks God for being god? The highest gratitude anybody can show is to forget self to honor JEHOVAH GOD."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Absolutely! <strong>All the righteous from Abel through the Apostles were grateful for God being the God that He is.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Scriptures abound with descriptions of the greatness of God&rsquo;s character. <strong>Whenever anyone acknowledges the characteristic attributes of our Lord Jehovah, we are praising<\/strong> and thanking Him for being Who He is!<\/p>\n<p>The Psalms are a litany of gratitude to God for being God. Consider Psalm 18:3, 25-28 (NKJV), &ldquo;I will call upon the&nbsp;Lord, who is <strong>worthy to be praised<\/strong>&hellip;&nbsp;With the merciful You will show Yourself <strong>merciful<\/strong>;&nbsp;With a blameless man You will show Yourself <strong>blameless<\/strong>; With the pure You will show Yourself <strong>pure<\/strong>; And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd. For You will save the humble people, But will bring down haughty looks. For <strong>You will light my lamp<\/strong>; The LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.&rdquo;&nbsp;<strong>David truly demonstrated gratitude to God for being Himself.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moses sang, &ldquo;For I <strong>proclaim the name of the L<\/strong><strong>ORD<\/strong>: <strong>Ascribe greatness<\/strong> to our God. He is the Rock, His work is <strong>perfect<\/strong>; For all His ways are <strong>justice<\/strong>, A God of <strong>truth<\/strong> and without injustice; <strong>Righteous and upright is He<\/strong>,&rdquo; Deuteronomy 32:3,4(NKJV).<\/p>\n<p>1 Samuel 2:1,2, &ldquo;Then Hannah prayed and said, &lsquo;My heart exults in the LORD&hellip;.there&nbsp;is <strong>no one holy like the LORD. <\/strong>Indeed, there&nbsp;is <strong>no one besides<\/strong><strong> You<\/strong>, Nor is there any&nbsp;like our God.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Even Job, despite his sufferings could say, &ldquo;I know that <strong>you&nbsp;can&nbsp;do anything<\/strong> and no plan of&nbsp;yours can&nbsp;be&nbsp;thwarted,&rdquo;&nbsp; Job 42:2 (CSB).<\/p>\n<p>As Christians, not only do we pray our honor and gratitude to God, but our <strong>hymns praise His name and character.<\/strong> What joy we receive when we acknowledge His greatness!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely! All the righteous from Abel through the Apostles were grateful for God being the God that He is.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Scriptures abound with descriptions of the greatness of God&rsquo;s character. Whenever anyone acknowledges the characteristic attributes of our Lord Jehovah, we are praising and thanking Him for being Who He is! The Psalms are a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-there-anybody-in-the-bible-except-jesus-or-in-the-world-now-who-thanks-god-for-being-god-the-highest-gratitude-anybody-can-show-is-to-forget-self-to-honor-jehovah-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is there anybody in the Bible (except Jesus) or in the world now who thanks God for being god? The highest gratitude anybody can show is to forget self to honor JEHOVAH GOD.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}