{"id":992,"date":"2005-11-25T01:15:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T01:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/november-qreceived-with-thanksgivingq\/"},"modified":"2014-02-02T07:41:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T07:41:27","slug":"november-qreceived-with-thanksgivingq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/november-qreceived-with-thanksgivingq\/","title":{"rendered":"Received With Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.\u00a0 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer (1 Timothy 4:3-5).<\/span><\/p>\n

Many Americans will begin their Thanksgiving Day meal with giving God thanks.\u00a0 Some will even do it again at Christmas.\u00a0 For Christians, the giving of thanks to God is not something reserved for \u201cspecial\u201d occasions but is rather a matter of utmost importance at every meal, common or special.\u00a0 To lack this Christian attribute is to be as Ravi Zacharias described, \u201cThanksgiving Day has now been reduced to Turkey Day.\u00a0 That ironic caption may well be more descriptive than we ever intended.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving is a state of being for the Christian.\u00a0 He realizes that whatever has happened is under God\u2019s sovereign care:\u00a0 In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you (1 Thes. 5:18); He knows that other believers are God\u2019s gift of encouragement to him:\u00a0 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers (Phil. 1:2); He knows that his daily provisions are provided by the Creator:\u00a0 He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks (Rom. 14:6); He knows God opens doors of opportunity:\u00a0 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ (Col. 4:3); and he knows that the greatest gift of all is given by the grace of God:\u00a0 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift (2 Cor. 9:15).<\/p>\n

The Christian state of mind is often illustrated by the true story of Matthew Henry, the well-known seventeenth century commentator, who related the story of being robbed and later wrote in his diary, \u201clet me be thankful first, because I was never robbed before; second, because, although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.\u201d2<\/sup><\/p>\n

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The Improper Use<\/h3>\n

Not all who claim to be guided by Christian principles are to be followed.\u00a0 Paul had to warn Timothy of those who forbid the eating of certain foods for religious reasons as seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry . . . . (1 Tim 4:1-3).\u00a0 Lenski calls this \u201cvicious asceticism,\u201d a kind of spiritual status achieved by strict renunciation of the flesh.3<\/sup> William Barclay describes these in church history:<\/p>\n

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Irenaeus, writing toward the end of the second century, tells how certain followers of Saturninus \u2018declare that marriage and generation are from Satan.\u00a0 Many likewise abstain from animal food, and draw away multitudes by a feigned temperance of this kind.\u2019 (Against Heresies, 1, 24, 2).\u00a0 This kind of thing came to a head in the monks and hermits of the fourth century.\u00a0 They went away and lived in the Egyptian desert, entirely cut off from men.\u00a0 They spent their lives mortifying the flesh.\u00a0 One never ate cooked food and was famous for his \u2018fleshlessness.\u2019\u00a0 Another stood all night by a jutting crag so that it was impossible for him to sleep.\u00a0 Another was famous because he allowed his body to become so dirty and neglected that vermin dropped from him as he walked.\u00a0 Another deliberately ate salt in midsummer and then abstained from drinking water.4<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These days we may abstain from certain foods or eat voluntarily for various reasons.\u00a0 Doctors and dieticians may advise us to abstain or eat for health reasons; our conscience may cause us to fast for spiritual reasons; poverty may cause us to abstain because of economic reasons; vanity and pride may cause us to diet for selfish reasons; gluttony may cause us to indulge from lack of self-control; even testimony may cause us to abstain for the sake of another person, but in the end, food itself does not inject spirituality or sin into the body.<\/p>\n

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Our Food is Given by God<\/h3>\n

The giving of thanks for the food we eat is of special importance to the Christian because he knows it has come directly from God\u2019s hand.\u00a0 Paul says of food, Which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth (1 Tim. 4:4).\u00a0 God gave Adam and Eve food in the garden (evidently not animal meat).\u00a0 To you it shall be for meat . . . . And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good (Gen. 1:29, 31).\u00a0 After the Noahic flood, God allowed the eating of animal meat, Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things (Gen. 9:3).\u00a0 God reminded the Israelites, When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee (Deut. 8:10).<\/p>\n

The Apostle Paul, in illustrating God\u2019s provision to the believer in grace giving, uses God\u2019s creative design in food provision.\u00a0 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness (2 Cor. 9:10).\u00a0 The farmer can eat the grain and it will be gone, or he can put some of it back in the ground.\u00a0 Then he will get more food, more seed, more results because of the seed, and more thanksgiving to God by those who have planted and eaten.\u00a0 Man lives because living things die whether that is plant life or animal life.\u00a0 We don\u2019t eat non-living things.\u00a0 Therefore we give thanks for what has been planted (i.e. died), sprouted (i.e. resurrected) and then had its life taken for our benefit.\u00a0 Then by transference we accept the dying and resurrection of our Savior for our eternal life. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand (Isa. 53:10).<\/p>\n

In light of the modern discussion of Intelligent Design, we can also thank God when we eat our food because this potential for life within a single seed can only be explained by the presence of a Creator.\u00a0 William Dembski illustrated this difference between what man can design out of existing material, and what God alone can create:<\/p>\n

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Nature and design therefore represent two different ways of producing information.\u00a0 Nature produces information, as it were, internally.\u00a0 The acorn assumes the shape it does through powers internal to it–the acorn is a seed programmed to produce an oak tree.\u00a0 But a ship assumes the shape it does through powers external to it–a designing intelligence imposes a suitable structure on pieces of wood to form a ship.5<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because of this, the believer must thank the Creator for the food-producing cycle of the earth.\u00a0 In the final process, at the dinner table, he realizes that though he has worked in the garden or field, God is the One who has provided his food.\u00a0 \u201cSummer and winter, and spring-time and harvest, sun, moon and stars in their courses above, join with all nature in manifold witness, to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love!\u201d\u00a0 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness (Acts 14:17).<\/p>\n

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It is Sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer<\/h3>\n

\u201cSanctified\u201d should not be taken to mean that there is some sacramental power in the Bible or prayer to make food healthy to us or to keep bad food from hurting us.\u00a0 \u201cSanctified\u201d is the word for \u201choly\u201d in the present indicative passive, meaning \u201cbeing set apart\u201d or \u201crendered a sacred thing.\u201d\u00a0 Our recognition that everything that sustains us comes from God is in itself a sanctifying process to our souls.\u00a0 But this recognition is displayed in an important way:\u00a0 the word of God and prayer.<\/p>\n

These two things are not to be separated into two legalistic steps (\u201cput your hand on a Bible and pray\u201d), but are a single recognition of God\u2019s provision as well as permission to eat.\u00a0 A.T. Robertson says \u201cit is almost a hendiadys [translated] \u2018by the use of Scripture in prayer.\u2019\u201d6<\/sup> \u201cHendiadys\u201d means \u201cone through two\u201d (hen + dia + dyoin) and Walter Kaiser, Jr. explains that a hendiadys is \u201cthe use of two words when only one thing is meant (\u2018It rained fire and brimstone\u2019 = burning brimstone).\u201d7<\/sup> In applying this principle, Henry Alford wrote:<\/p>\n

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It would generally be the case, that any form of Christian thanksgiving before meat would contain words of Scripture, or at all events thoughts in exact accordance with them; and such utterance of God\u2019s revealed will, bringing as it would the assembled family and their meal into harmony with Him, might well be said agiazein the brwmata [\u201cbless the food\u201d] on the table for their use.8<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If we do think of these two elements separately, we simply mean that 1) God\u2019s Word has declared that various kinds of food are permissible.\u00a0 In the post-deluvian world that would mean the permission to eat animal meat, and in the post-Mosaic age that would mean the permission to eat what was pronounced unclean under the law.\u00a0\u00a0 God showed Peter that he should not call any man common or unclean (Acts 10:28) by permitting him to eat all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air (vs 12).\u00a0 Paul wrote to the Romans that I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself\u201d (Rom. 14:14), and in our text Paul has said, For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused (vs 4).<\/p>\n

In addition, 2) Prayer of thanksgiving acknowledges the truth of God\u2019s Word as it is about to be applied in the meal.\u00a0\u00a0 John Gill wrote, \u201cFor it is not by bread or meat only, but through the word of God commanding a blessing on what is eaten, that man lives.\u201d9<\/sup> Calvin goes further and holds that through prayer we acknowledge a restored cultural mandate through Christ to eat of the fruit of the ground that was lost in Adam\u2019s disobedience.10<\/sup> Regardless of the technical understanding of the person praying, God accepts our words as they acknowledge His Word.<\/p>\n

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And So . . . .<\/h3>\n

Acts 27 & 28 record the journey of the Apostle Paul from Caesarea to Rome on board ship.\u00a0 He was a prisoner among unbelieving sailors and soldiers.\u00a0 Off the coast of Crete the ship encountered the Euroclydon wind that blew the ship off course and endangered the life of everyone on board.\u00a0 The pagan crew responded by fasting for over two weeks (vs. 33) so they could please the gods and elements of the storm.<\/p>\n

The Apostle responded differently.\u00a0 God had already appeared to him (vss. 23-24) and assured him that no one would be lost but that the ship and crew would be marooned upon an island (vs. 26).\u00a0 Therefore Paul stood up in the midst of the storm and declared, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.\u00a0 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat; for this is for your health: for there shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you.\u00a0 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in the presence of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat.\u00a0 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat\u201d (vss. 33-36).<\/p>\n

That was truly a meal \u201csanctified by the Word of God and prayer.\u201d\u00a0 Trusting in what God had said, and testifying to all present of his own faith in God\u2019s promises, Paul gave a simple but enduring example of meal-time prayers.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God? (Dallas:\u00a0 Word Publications, 1994) 86.<\/address>\n
2. Given by Paul Lee Tan, ed. Encyclopedia of Illustrations (Rockville, MD: Assurance Pub. 1984) 1456.<\/address>\n
3. R.C.H. Lenski, Interpretation of Timothy (Minneapolis:\u00a0 Augsburg, 1961) 625.<\/address>\n
4. William Barclay, The Letters To Timothy (Philadelphia:\u00a0 The Westminster Press, 1975) 94.<\/address>\n
5. William Dembski, \u201cAn Information-Theoretic Design Argument,\u201d To Everyone An Answer, J.P Moreland and others, eds. (Downer\u2019s Grove:\u00a0 IVP, 2004) 83.<\/address>\n
6. A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures, vol. IV. (Nashville:\u00a0 Broadman Press, 1931) 579.<\/address>\n
7. Walter Kaiser, Jr. Toward an Exegetical Theology (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Baker, 1983) 124.<\/address>\n
8. Henry Alford, Alford\u2019s Greek Testament, vol III (Grand Rapids: Guardian Press, 1976) 338.<\/address>\n
9. John Gill, Dr. Gill\u2019s Commentary, vol. 6 (London: William Hill Collingridge, 1853) 606.<\/address>\n
10. John Calvin, Calvin\u2019s Commentaries, vol XXI (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981) 105.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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