The Sacrifice of Thanksgiving
Rev. Carl Haak expounds Psalm 116 to illustrate the believer's personal experience of salvation through three interconnected elements: guilt (recognition of sin and depravity), grace (God's unmerited deliverance), and gratitude (thankful response to divine mercy). This article demonstrates how these doctrinal realities work together continually in the Christian life, moving the believer to love and worship God.
Rev. Haak is pastor of Georgetown Protestant Reformed Church in Hudsonville, MI. This article is the text of one of the six speeches given at the PR Seminary-sponsored conference, in October of last year, commemorating the 450th anniversary of the writing of the Heidelberg Catechism. The other five were printed in the November 1, 2013 issue of the SB. "I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him...
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