How Do You Do Thanksgiving?

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So, today's question: we would love for you to call in and share. How do you do? Thanksgiving. And how is it actually done that you give thanks on Thanksgiving? You know, what is it that what is the action?

It's a verb, right? To give is a verb. You know, thanks, we've talked about before in Hebrew. I love it, is tada.

So how do you I learn in Hebrew from you, Robbie? How do you actually give it? Uh how how is that? play out i you know actually And so very cool. We also have two other sub-questions.

If you want to call in on these, these are really fun. If it were up to the Continental Congress in 1776, what would we not be eating on Thanksgiving? What would we not be eating on Thanksgiving if it were up to that Congress? Or Alternatively, and it is a different item. If you're up to Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Big Ben, you know, he saved a penny on this one, I'm sure.

But if he. If he had his way, what would we not be eating for Thanksgiving? 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884, as this idea of Thanksgiving is in action. And how do you do it? Is it in your family tradition that you do something in particular?

Or or you as an individual, you know. But we we got a psalm that that that apparently Doc, we we're supposed to be doing something together, right? Yeah, um Psalms ninety-five And I hope our listeners will take a look at Psalms 95 because it gives us seven calls. To let us So it's a lettuce Thanksgiving. There you go.

It's a salad. It's a Thanksgiving salad because it's got plenty of lettuce. It's a head of lettuce. And I love this psalm. It says, Oh, come, let us sing to the Lord.

So, one of the actions of Thanksgiving should be some singing, and I'd love to hear from our listeners what songs they love to sing. I'd love to hear if there's a family. That sings like around the table. And when they gather together, is there a song that they sing? Maybe when we gather together?

I love that particular song, and I would love to say that our family does that as our regular practice. But if somebody does have a practice like that, I would love to hear it. And I would love to know what you sing. I think that's beautiful. 866-348-7884.

So part of our Thanksgiving salad could be. To sing. And then it says, let us shout joyfully. To the rock of our salvation, not to the cowboys or the lions or whoever's playing football. But let us shout joyfully to the Lord of our salvation.

Now, how do you make that happen? I think they must have been that King David must have been a beetle. Because here he's singing and shouting. Yeah. And it's always talking about I want to hold your hand.

So, I mean, it just so so now, Robbie, some people aren't going to know what. a beetle is. It was the rock group of the sixties. There you go. And they they they would sing and shout.

So and they always do kind of go together singing and shout. Uh But you know I That shows that this is an action. You know that joy uh I I I studied a lot recently and and and literally would lead to this spinning motion. Inside That would You know, that joy should cause you to want to do the things that you just described. Yes.

Well, then, when you think about in his presence, his fullness of joy, well, there you go.

Some singing and shouting has got to be done. Yeah. I. Love, and I use that word carefully, love Virginia Tech football. And um Even though they're having a rough season, you love Ohio State football.

I do. Oh, yes. But there's just something about the beginning of. The entrance at the Virginia Tech football game when the Virginia Tech team comes out and they've got Metallica singing and. Oh, my word.

Everybody's jumping and everybody's shouting. There's so much.

Well, this is what David says needs to be for our rock of our salvation. How cool would it be, right? Yeah. If we opened up Thanksgiving With that kind of excitement, the smoke is clearing, you know, you can hear them, and people are just screaming and shouting because God. Is who he is.

Well, we have. Our first Thanksgiving caller idea in today we need yours at 866-348-7884. And our old friend Bucksman is in Dayton, Ohio, where we know that you are loaded up. And when you guys do Thanksgiving, you're singing and shouting, right, Bucksman? Oh, you know what, Brother Robbie?

And I want Dr. Carson's. I heard a sermon, guys, and I want to check with Dr. Carson because I know he's very. And so are you, Robbie.

Gosh, I love your. You're you're a Greek and your Hebrew uh Commentary when you go through a verse, when you're leading the program, it's awful. Guys, you need to tune in to Truth Talk Live because not only are you getting great. discussions, but these men are biblically literate. That's my word for the year, guys.

Biblically literate. I like that. Doct Dr. Carson, so t I I will answer your your Thanksgiving question, but I I want to know the answer because I think this will this will uh uh decide my answer.

So Dr. Carson, is it true, sir, and maybe you know this too, Robbie? Is it true that the Jew the Hebrew word For hallelujah. It's supposed to be Yelled at the top of your lungs. In other words, In ancient Hebrew, they yelled, Hallelujah, instead of this.

Spoke it like we do mostly in our church. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Is it?

Is it Dr. Carlson? Oh, it's supposed to be shout it. Because listen, the rocks need to be hearing it. If they don't hear you crying out, hallelujah, then they're going to cry out.

Amen, brother. And I'll tell you, when I heard that teaching. From all of my research, brothers, I kept coming up. Yeah, the pastor is right. In other words, I bereoned this pastor to see if he was right when he told us all that.

Honestly, you guys, he said in the sermon, we don't say it right. We don't say it with the way that God intends it. When we read the word hallelujah, He said, We're supposed to shout it because that's what God meant in the ancient text: that there was a sense of emotion, and that we were not to dishonor him by just going in and going. Hallelujah. Well, like I hear in so many songs that we sing at church.

Hallelujah. Oh, praise my soul, and nobody's going, Hallelujah! Oh, praise my soul! And that's what Pastor was teaching the other day.

So I checked it. And sure enough, What I found out, that's why I had to get this the testimony of two witnesses. Oh, I'll be quiet, and I'll tell you my answer on Thanksgiving.

Well, we're looking forward to all that, but we would also really be looking to your call as well with your signs, songs, or shouts: 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884. We'll be right back. Truth talk line. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Um Welcome back to True Talk Live.

Today's question. How do you do? Thanksgiving. I mean, how do you practice it? What actual actions, verbs, are your normal routine or perhaps what you're trying to think about be intentional about doing this year for Thanksgiving.

It's like, how do you actually do that giving thanks?

Now, right before the break, um Bucksman called in with a wonderful question about hallelujah. And I want to speak to it a minute. Because it's it's really spectacular in Hebrew and there there's aspects to it and interestingly you don't find it necessarily in Hebrew in the way that people say it. That There are certain psalms, the 113th through the 118th Psalm, which are called the Hillels. Right?

And that's the beginning of that word hallelujah.

Well, the Yah at the end of Hallelujah, Yah is. is short for Yahweh. Are you f are you getting the drift bucksman? That you're actually using God's name. That is awesome, Robbie.

You're actually using God's name with the Yah, with the. The idea of halel is to lift up, especially your hands. Um, and and you're supposed to make the Baptists angry, they're supposed to lift up partnerships. What's that one group that doesn't allow you to raise your hands in church service?

Well, do you hear that? Close your ears, whatever that denomination is.

Well, it says it all the way through the psalm. I don't know how many times it says to lift your hands, but that is it is part of the idea of lifting your heart. And it's got a double lament in it, which is an absolutely beautiful concept of this rising to God.

So, you want this to rise, you want your heart to rise to Yah, which is again, especially in those Hillel Psalms, you'll find them use God's name several times as just Yah. Um Which is It's the beginning of Yahweh, which is the Yudhei of the Yudhei Vavhe. And so. The idea of hallelujah, I'm not sure where they got the idea that that would always necessarily be a shout. But I do love the idea that it's certainly our hearts shouting to God, man, that we long to be with you, we long for you.

Right. But. I don't know, Doc. Had you heard that? I had never heard anybody say that it.

Well, yeah, and it's. It's expressive. And for me, I'm thinking also, not only Thanksgiving now, but when we think, Bucksman, of that hallelujah, the Hallelujah Course. You can't sing the Hallelujah Course setting down. No, I agree.

You got to get up. You got to get up. And every time I'm at one of those Christmas programs and they start singing it, you know, I just, I've got to join them. I can't sing a lick, but I am going to sing the Hallelujah Course. His is.

I've heard it, and it is a joyful noise. To God, to no one else. I'm going to get asked every Christmas to sing a solo.

Solo no one could hear. Easter, Bucksman, you're not going to believe this, but they'll ask me to sing on a hill far away. Oh, no, I got that, Dr. Carson. That was a dad, Joe Project.

It was. That's just so low and the hill far away. But nonetheless, no, I'm with you guys that it's certainly. Joy And hallelujah. They go together beautifully.

So, you promised at the end of all that that you would actually answer the question. I did. I did. Now, I'm sorry. Um Street Talk Live and my dear brothers.

It's Manning the Mics and St. Nick working our production board. It's really boring. Um, I I usually don't have family. Um God's healing us, but I'm one of those groups.

I fall in one of the categories, guys, of a lot of Christians around this time where The family unit has been, you know. Let's just say, you know, dispersed, dispersed. Because I always say this, my fellow Christians in this category. We're not having Thanksgiving this year, but maybe next year in Jerusalem even. Maybe the Lord will come back and take us.

But we must keep that faith and hope especially hope around these these holidays that You know, when we see our our our friends having their grandkids over and their their You know, their siblings that they haven't seen in forever come over. We do get down because. Yeah, it really affects us because we want to be with our loved ones too. And then there's also, I know, I lost my mom and my brother. In one weekend, guys, in one weekend, they both passed away in the same weekend.

Separate days, not in the same accident or or arena of death. No, one died in the hospital, the other one died. uh mysteriously died suddenly. And I think I know what caused it. But They died and and that very next Holiday, which was my mother's birthday, no, my brother's birthday, came first.

We couldn't celebrate that wondrous day. with the family. Um so I get it. I get it. Ladies and gentlemen, on Truth Talk Live Listening, I get it.

You have to rely on your father. To be your family member at Thanksgiving because he never leaves us nor forsakes us, praise God.

So, what I do. What I do is I listen to a bunch of I know I'm crusty, but my dear brothers working the microphone will appreciate it. I listen to old hymns. Isaac Watts, Fannie Crosby, you know, the old hymns that we don't sing in church anymore. And Martin Luther, Mighty Fortresses Are God.

And I just really listen, I let those listen to me. And when I'm talking and crying out to God, missing my mom and my brother and my other brothers who have been gone for several years. And my estranged family, where my son and daughter are currently estranged right now, but God, but God, next year in Jerusalem, Lord, we'll all be together. And I just sing him and I play him on YouTube. I play him on this big amplifier that I got in my home, and I just revel in it.

And then what I do is I go have dinner at my friend's house. He always says, Rossman, come over to my house.

So I go over there and knee and then after we we disperse, I go to the to a a really nice outside of Yellow Springs nature preserve and I walk in. And I just take in God's glory. And some of the leaves are still on the trees. The rains here in Southwest Ohio haven't knocked them all off.

So that's my plan, unless God says, Busting, you come home this very hour, of which I will be singing along with all of your families Probably heavenly. Very good. But that's what I do, guys. That's what I do, guys. Thank you, Buxman.

I'm so grateful for your call and for your testimony. All right. Thank you, buddy. God bless. How about you, 866-866?

3487884. How do you do? Do you sing? I would love. Do you hear somebody that actually sings songs around the table what they sing, shout, dance?

Is there something that has become part of your Thanksgiving that is actually in action where you can sense? That thankfulness. You know, Robbie, something Buckman said there. I hadn't really thought about it for this show, but. Um You know, he brings out a good point, and it has become part of our Thanksgiving action, is to pray for.

especially those who are experiencing their first Thanksgiving. with an empty chair. Oh yeah. And I just want to remind our listeners right now, be thinking about those people who this will be their first Thanksgiving. With an empty chair.

And for me, it was 1989. And I gotta be very honest with you, I had no idea. about that empty chair. My mom had died in uh May, and now we're getting together for Thanksgiving 'cause we thought that was the right thing to do, to get together for Thanksgiving as a family with my dad at the house. And then all of a sudden we're sitting there and there's this empty chair.

Oh, my word And I felt a pain that I had never felt before. And it was a way of God helping me now to understand a lot of people, it's not Christmas that's the difficult holiday. It's Thanksgiving. And I'm reminded of Psalm 68, 5. Buxman mentioned this.

He's a father to the fatherless, a defender of widows. And that's a good word. And to be thankful for those who are sitting around the table for you. Yes.

And yes. I mean, that's because next year they may not, you know, as the case may be.

So it's, and you don't know whether that's that younger brother or whoever. We'll be right back with yours: 866-348-7884. We'll be right back. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to True Talk Live today.

We are talking about how do you do? How do you do Thanksgiving? It's a verb. Right. Thanksgiving.

And so You know, when it comes to the things that are actually actions that your family does or that you do individually, like Buxman was talking about, take a walk. And like, God's beauty is meant for the soul. And, you know, the shepherds, as they were watching over their flocks by night, where were they? They are out there under the stars, right? uh and and listening as only you can outside where there's a peace.

That transcends all understanding to some extent. At times, when you think about looking up at that night sky in a field somewhere and realize that part of the reason that God came to the shepherds first was they were listening. They were listening. Um being outside. I saw a Facebook post today.

It's a repost. of a friend of mine. I'll just say his first name, Andy. Where Andy a few years ago decided to go for a walk, and on his walk He wanted to come up with 100 things to give thanks for. That's a great action to take.

Now, that stretches you. I've usually said to people: come up with 50. But he wanted to come up with 100, and I am looking right now at his Facebook page where he was able to come up with 100. Hundreds of things.

Now I don't know if on his walk he found himself needing to stop at a restroom. But I'm going to tell you, Robbie. I am thankful for restrooms. I am thankful for jewels. I have a dear friend.

You know, we have a Bible study at the Brock Center in Moxville every Thursday, and her name is Jan Dyer. She sometimes calls into our show, but She always says that. She says, You got to be thankful that God's taking out the garbage. Yes.

And I, you know, and sin is the same kind of thing that God's taking out the garbage, man. He allows us to be refreshed.

Well, if you think of all the different occupations you want to be thankful for, I've got a friend in Ohio, and he says, at the top of his list has always been, thank God for the plumbers. Yeah. Because if you if you got to choose of all the things you got to have in life, you got to have a plumber. Because you got to have someone who's going to get water in that's clean, but you got to have someone who will get the dirty water Out. And so today.

I've always heard that a straight flush beats a full house. It just does. Any day of the week. And I got to say, I just got to believe we have listeners who are thankful for Robbie's humor. And we're working on a book, Robbie's Humor.

Oh, no, we're not. It would never be published. I am thankful for humor, though. You know, and I, in my personal opinion, is nobody has a more amazing sense of humor than God. And how often, you know, does he Pull that on.

I mean, I don't know how to put it other than that. He just will get you to where you just have to laugh at yourself because it's so hilarious. I remember when. You know, the one year I was memorizing different psalms, right? And I was, you know, just like being obedient, asking God, what psalm do you want me to memorize next?

Uh He says, I want you to memorize the 13th Psalm. And at the time, I thought, I have no clue what the 13th Psalm is. I hope it's not long. Those were my exact words. I hope it's not long.

Well, the opening verse in the 13th Psalm is, How long, O Lord? Which happens to be the 13th Psalm is fairly short. Um compared to other ones he had me memorized later. But nonetheless, if you could have said, I sat there, you know, by myself at whatever time of the morning, just laughing, laughing, laughing, because he has such an amazing sense of humor. How long?

And then he did have you memorize another psalm. Which one was that one? Yeah, it was actually right after that one. He had me memorize 119, which is, yeah, it's fairly long. It only has 178 verses.

And you memorized all of them. Yeah, but it's an act you know, it's a it's a it's a wonderful thing that I would tell anybody To engage the Holy Spirit. We talked about earlier you and I were talking about how you can commune with the triune God. And The Holy Spirit will give you a verse. When you work on it.

And then all of a sudden it pops it into your mind.

So as you Begin to memorize different things in the scripture, and then all of a sudden you get that verse where you know you didn't really know what it meant, what it was, or how, and you go, Oh, thank you, Holy Spirit, because that came right from Him. And uh You know, that's it's. It's a wonderful exercise, and I thank God for the spirit, the spirit of truth, because he wants to guide you into all truth.

Well, I had that happen the other night in a Thanksgiving service where a gentleman was sharing about how when Jesus told the leper who came back and said, thank you, he said, your faith has made you whole. And, well, I'm used to the newer versions, and I was like, I've always heard that as made you well, made you well. He was a leper. He needed to be made well. But if you go back to the King James, it says it made.

him whole. And I just got to thinking about the totality of what God does with a person's life. And it's not just that spiritual component of us that he makes whole. It is the total person, holistically, emotionally, mentally, physically. He's going to make us whole.

And we need some lettuce.

So we're still in our salad and we need some lettuce. Like, let us call the Truth Network with our Thanksgiving. How we do that? 866-348-7884.

Let us call. Let us call. Isn't that part of that psalm? Let us call. It does say, let us bow down before him.

And, you know, interestingly, as we look at our national history. Um This idea of a day of Thanksgiving was a day of humbling oneself. Um It is saying that I'm not God. I'm recognizing I am a dependent person, and to bow down is to humble oneself before God. To say to Him, God, you are my source.

And I acknowledge that. Um I'm not bigger than you. I'm in need of you. Let us bow down. It's a wonderful practice.

I don't know if you've done it much. I'll credit Nikita Kovov for that one because we go to man camp, he puts a carpet down in the middle of the concrete floor, actually, so that people that want to get on their face. can get on their face. And as I've had an opportunity to get down and pray with many, many men in that situation, I began that practice. And I was just at boot camp last week.

And as soon as I saw that carpet, man, the first place I had to go was right down there because there's this sense there. Yeah. God, you got this, but it is an amazing way. to give thanks. Um that that really you wouldn't understand unless you spent a lot of time down there.

Well, and and and the idea of being humble. Um it goes against us. because we do think we are the center of the universe. Uh we're self-centered, we're selfish. and to humble yourself before Almighty God, to bow down, bow your head in prayer.

Think about that on Thursday when you have your Thanksgiving. Let's bow. our heads. And along those lines, you know, we said at the beginning of the show, you could call in. With these special questions that we had, like the Congress had decided there was something they didn't want people to eat for Thanksgiving, and it was very humiliating, as a matter of fact.

And if you happen to know that, 866-348-7884.

Now, Ben Franklin, not so much. You know, he just had a particular opinion of what he thought people shouldn't eat on Thanksgiving, as you'll understand why when we get to that, because we don't want you to forget that we would love your call. Yes.

We sephantly let us call 866-348-7884. But I do love that. Let us bow down. And again, these different practices, as you enjoy them, you realize that God knew what He was saying when He gave us that in this homes. And after that one comes, let us kneel.

And now we're kneeling before God, and that's a component of worship now. I'm kneeling before God. And I did a sermon one time at Liberty, Robbie, that I entitled The Strongest. I will ever be is on my knees. And that seems to be the weakest place you will ever be, is on your knees.

You don't want to be on your knees. How can you defend yourself when you're on your knees? But when you're on your knees, and I remember as a young dad, I got two young boys. Getting down on my knees, we had some of the best times. I'm a tall guy, they're not gonna be able to do anything with me as I'm standing.

But I got down on my knees, we went back and forth. It was wrestlemania right there in the living room. They had a blast with me being able to be on their level and um. Then you come down on your knees before God. And you say, God, I need you.

The strongest you'll ever be is on your knees. And maybe for Thanksgiving, if there's a way not only to bow down, but to kneel down as one of your practices for acknowledging your dependence on God. Yeah, that's cool that and you may have heard that they called James the You know, brother of Christ was old camel knees because he was on his knees as much as he was, which it speaks to a couple different things that. Uh, camels kneel, and and and and the letter in Hebrew, gimel, is meant to be like a camel, and it's fascinating that that letter also has to do with provision, and it's interesting, you don't have unless you ask, right? That's right, and so there's an idea of kneeling and provision that kind of go together.

Um And obviously, when you take Elijah being one who also reportedly had camel knees, because he was down there quite often, and you can't help but just love his prayer for the cloud when he says, Go check, see if it's there. And he goes back and prays again, and prays again and prays again. You know, that's a that's a wonderful, amazing uh experience that To me, prayer is where the rubber meets the road. Like, if you want, you can experience God, it's a relationship, and that relationship happens through his word, but his word through prayer. Yeah.

And it's just something about, again, I encourage our listeners, on your knees. Um Down on your knees, bow before God. That position of dependence, submission. God just begins to flow through, does great things. We're coming from Psalms 95, by the way.

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It's very humbling, I'm telling you. Truth talk line. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. Today's question is: How do you do it?

How do you give Thanks on Thanksgiving. What's the actual actions involved? You know, what is it that you scream and shout about? Like, what does that feel like? We would love to hear from you.

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And the super bonus questions today are: what did the 1775 Congress 1776? Yeah, it's a bigger year. Yeah. It was a year after the seventeen seventy six Congress. That if they had their way, you would not have this for Thanksgiving.

They just and and and Ben Franklin, Benjamin, some people thought of him, he was the son of his right hand of the kite. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta be paying attention out there.

He had his way. You wouldn't have this for Thanksgiving. It would be a sad, sad thing in the Stillmore household if Ben. Benjamin. Had gotten his way.

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If you know those answers, we'd have a lot of fun with that. And meanwhile, We got some more lettuce. We got to have this Thanksgiving salad.

Now we come back to Psalms 95. And so for our listeners, as you're preparing, thinking about, being intentional for your Thanksgiving meal, read Psalms 95 as you have your salad. And it goes like this, oh come, let us sing to the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.

Let us shout joyfully to him with psalms. Read it some Psalms. Psalms 100. I highly recommend it. Isn't it fascinating how joy and thanksgiving?

Right. Or so closely. Um associated Well, Thanksgiving takes the focus off of ourselves. And when we're focused on ourselves, we're such a small package. You know, if you're all wrapped up in yourself, you're making for a small package.

You're looking inward. Thanksgiving is looking outward, and things look a lot brighter when you're looking outward, and there's a lot of joy there. You see things that are so different. When you look at yourself, yeah, there's not a lot to see. And so that outward look and so yeah, thanksgiving brings a belt of joy.

He says when it comes to giving shouts for joy from the Psalms, he says, for the Lord is great and the great king above all gods. In his hands are deep places of the earth. The heights of the hills are his. The seas are his, for he made it all. And his hands formed a dry land.

And then he calls us, Oh, come, let us worship. Thanksgiving should be a time of worship. And let us bow down. We mentioned that. Let us kneel before the Lord our God, for He is our God.

For He is our God.

So this is Psalms 95. And so how do we worship I always encourage pastors at this time of the year to do the Lord's Supper. Because it's called the Eucharist. Jesus gave thanks. And to just give that worship to God, he is worthy.

Worthy is the lamb. Yes, and we did last Sunday. As it was our Thanksgiving service, because we actually had a Thanksgiving lunch and it was absolutely spectacular. And the association of bread With this meal, right, is is huge and and that it is the body That is You know, it's a fascinating connection to Luke chapter two when the angel says, you know, we're going to give you good news.

Well, news in Hebrew is the word bizarre, interestingly, and it has to do with a body. Because good news is a person.

Okay, and that person, right, said, this is my body. Right? Do this in remembrance of me. And so here's this beautiful, amazing piece of this news. And it also becomes then As we talk about multiplication, it becomes the body.

Of of Christ, the church itself is right that once again, good news, right? And that beautiful are the feet that bring that stuff.

So it's really cool. And then the joy of that that he talked about in Luke chapter 2 again. you know, that idea of, you know, good tidings of great joy.

Well, joy is very much associated in Hebrew, it's ayan. It's associated with the idea of joy as wine.

Now, you know, I understand that A lot of people struggle with alcohol. I get it, but there is an association with that idea of joy and wine. And so it's kind of fascinating how Thanksgiving. And again, if you go to any Jewish feast, I can assure you. There will be wine.

And that's part of the way that they have their thanksgivings or their Sukkot. You know, there's wine that's involved in their offerings. That is, again, associated with the blood that we're taking. That's the blood of the covenant. Is that not joyful to think that He's going to give us a new covenant in His blood?

Right? And to remember all that in thanksgiving is a beautiful thing when you're, like you said, taking the Lord's Supper and doing communion because it is a co-munion. Right. That's good. I hope you listeners are enjoying this from Robbie.

I just, when he starts teaching like this, I just get fixated. I just, I love it. And uh we want to hear from you. How do you do? Thanksgiving as we're starting to wrap this program up.

There's still time for let us call 1-866-348-7500. We're going to have to spill a few beans here. We're going to spill the smaller beans. Yeah, we're going to have to tell them about it. We're going to have to tell them about Ben.

We're going to say the 1776 Congress one, the humility structure that they had in mind. But why Dr. Carson, who came up with this, is amazing. Why did the son of our right hand of the kite Benjamin Franklin thought the turkey should be our national bird?

So you can't be eating turkey. You can't be carving up the national bird. And you know, he was a wise man, but I am so glad that didn't play out. The eagle is such a much better bird for our national bird. And I sure love eating turkey.

Um I do too. I can't tell you that I've overkilled one. Oh, and the gravy. Like, can you imagine with no turkey, where would where would we get the gravy? And if there was no gravy?

Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving goes with gravy. I give thanks for gravy. And I know my friend Mike is in Dayton, Ohio. He thanks God for gravy.

But he may know, according to the 1776 Congress, well, what would happen to Gravy, Mike? I don't know. It's gravy's important, isn't it? I think that if you don't put gravy on it, I don't know if it would taste good. I can assure you, if it had been up to that Congress in seventeen seventy six, No gravy for you, man.

It never would have been the same. But it's kind of neat. Go ahead, Mike. Go ahead. I'm sorry.

Yeah, we had I know we have short time, so I thought I want to get this point across. We had a service today, too, about It was about meal. And the meal was so important because The animal had to be the sacrifice, and the turkey has to be the sacrifice. And if you go hunting, You know, I've gone hunting and w me and my dad went turkey hunting a few times, and they're hard to kill. and uh they're hard to shoot.

and they're a beautiful bird and uh To have a turkey on your plate because of that sacrifice, a living thing being sacrificed. For us.

So that we can partake in that And we had communion as well. And I thought that was very Um intriguing of uh Beautiful that the pastor had this: this is the sacrifice of living thing for us to eat. And if you're a If you're a vegetarian, you know. you know, that that's okay too, but You know, this is, you know, Animal literally offers, that's an offering. He's offering his life to you so that you can have that.

But interestingly, since we don't have enough time for. We're gonna have to go for well, we got you here, Mike. The seventeen seventy-six Congress they proclaimed during the Revolution. Are you ready? I'm ready.

Yeah. A day of fasting. and humiliation. They called for a day of fasting. Thanksgiving is to be a day of fasting.

So, how will we live out Thanksgiving in 2025? No producing. No turkey a la king.

Sorry. No turkey. No. Fasting this year. I did not know what a Tredunken is.

Did you describe that to our listeners? Do you know what a Tredunken is, Mike? Yes, I do. I feel like you're from Ohio. Oh, it's an Ohio thing.

It's a Pennsylvania thing. Have you ever eaten such a thing? No, I've seen it on football. John Madden introduced the Treduck into the world. My mother-in-law wouldn't make it.

You stuff a duck inner chicken and the chicken now into the turkey and it's a traduction. Yeah. There you go. That's what you call some stuffing. Let's see.

And that 1776 Congress, we would have that. But I do love the idea. That I did you. you know, talk about a way to be thankful. Uh i i is that to just acknowledge that God's providing everything your body needs to begin with.

And uh there's a food we really you know, we Don't have a sense of, right, Mike? Yeah. Um I think I think uh You know The fasting is a way to get closer to God, and that's the whole idea of Thanksgiving. is to say thank you, God, and get closer to Him. And then say, you know, God, I appreciate you, what you provide for me all the time.

Well, Doc, you got something there. Yeah, as we get ready to go, I just want it's it won't work for this Thanksgiving date, but Deuteronomy 12, 7. Is a verse you gotta have because it says, And you shall eat before the Lord your God and rejoice of His great hand upon you. Deuteronomy 12:7 for your thanksgiving feast. Rejoice, rejoice.

Thank you, Mike. Thank you, listeners. Enjoy your thanksgiving. Um