That is the problem is that when instead of you know being truly thankful to God on this holiday
I don't think there's anything wrong with watching football, but if that's your main focus for Thanksgiving, you're wrong
If your main focus is to mark the beginning of the holiday shopping season, you're wrong
Do you think God is pleased with that? He's not pleased with that at all
If you're focusing and being idolatrous towards some football team and that's all you care about
That's the only thing you care about on Thanksgiving. You're not right with God
Now
It should be celebrated with family. It should be celebrated with friends
It should be something that you thank God for and God gives us many wonderful things and wonderful benefits and he's truly
Amazing to us and he's better to us than we really deserve and let's be honest. So
This holiday has turned into nothing more than an idolatrous gluttonous
Gluttonous covetousness in this country and you know, even Christmas is ruined, you know Christmas there
They're talking about Santa Claus. Who's that?
Not real. Okay, Santa Claus is fake. He's phony and you know, it's just trying to take the place of Jesus
Right. He don't know when you're sleeping. He don't know when you're awake because he doesn't exist
So God knows when you're sleeping though. God knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good too, right?
But anyway
So instead of being thankful to God for goodness and mercy and provision people are thankful for sports heroes teams
People are thankful that they can stand in line all night to get some stupid piece of junk television
You know that is just gonna defile their mind even further. It's like here
Let me defile your mind in ultra ultra ultra ultra HD, you know, so get the 72 incher, you know
Make sure that everything is covered all parts of your your ears and your your eyes are defiled
So turn to Romans chapter 1 Romans chapter 1
Romans chapter 1 verse 20 says for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen
Being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and God had so they're without
Excuse so you should be able to look just at creation in general and realize that there's a creator. I mean, they're without excuse
Even if they don't hear about Jesus, they're still without excuse the Bible says
Verse 21 says because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God
Neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened
So why what is one of the reasons they were not thankful and so if we have a nation of people that are not
Truly thankful to God, you know, it said the Bible says they became vain in their imaginations
They're foolish heart was dark. Do you want to have a foolish darkened heart? You want to be a god-hating?
Reprobate well
the the first way to do is to not be thankful to God for the things that he gives you to not acknowledge that God
is the creator to not acknowledge and be saved by the Lord Jesus Christ is a easy way to
Become a reprobate to become a fool with a darkened heart