Offering to God the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving (Psalm 116)

FBC CTX Growing in Grace Podcast · Nov 21, 2025 · 29m

“I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.” 116:17

Luke tells us in his Gospel account that during His last supper with the disciples, Jesus took the bread and the cup, and then, gave thanks. This was the night before His death. Obviously, He was not giddy in His emotions, but He was deliberate in the exercise of His will in obedience to Father’s plan as He offered what I would call, a “sacrifice of thanksgiving”.

Similarly, some scholars believe the historical setting of Psalm 116 was the trauma King Hezekiah experienced when Isaiah the prophet…