THANKSGIVING

Today's Bible Verse: Ep 5:20 - giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

I would like to talk to you today about the Christian holiday of Thanksgiving. For our purposes Thanksgiving started in 1621 with the first Thanksgiving feast between the Indians and the Pilgrims, where they gave thanks to God for all he has done for them. If you listen to modern day historians the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for there help and not to God. I do believe that the Pilgrims first thanked God and then they thanked the Indians for there help and friendship.

The Continental Congress of 1777 wrote The First National Proclamation of Thanksgiving. George Washington wrote:

"FOR AS MUCH as it is the indispensable Duty of all Men to adore the superintending Providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with Gratitude their Obligation to him for Benefits received, and to implore such farther Blessings as they stand in Need of: And it having pleased him in his abundant Mercy, not only to continue to us the innumerable Bounties of his common Providence; but also to smile upon us in the Prosecution of a just and necessary War, for the Defense and Establishment of our unalienable Rights and Liberties; particularly in that he hath been pleased, in so great a Measure, to prosper the Means used for the Support of our Troops, and to crown our Arms with most signal success."

The Liberal Politians of today are trying to take Christianity out of this country and out of Thanksgiving. The politians don't want to understand without Christian holidays like Thanksgiving they would not be in politics and The United States of America would not be The United States of America. Thanking God should be done everyday and not just once a year.