Christmas 2015: Christmas in America

A few observations on the season and those making merry.

7 CHRISTMAS OBSERVATIONS

One Christian’s Thoughts on the Christmas Season

A few observations about this Christmas season, the time of the year when Americans are most likely to honor with their lips–if only for a moment or two–Jesus Christ. Some thoughts about a time known as Christmas in a country known as the United States of America.

“Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
—Matthew 15:7-9

1- A popular saying at this time of the year among Americans who wish to wear the label of “Christian” is: “Jesus is the reason for the season.” This writer has perhaps seen this slogan more the last two years than in all of the previous Christmas seasons together.

“Jesus is the reason for the season.”

Yet those who proclaim this motto seem to do it most frequently while out shopping for gifts, waiting in line or after some particularly-egregious tale of excessive spending.

“Yes, I probably shouldn’t have spent all that money on that 85-inch HD TV, but you know, you only live once. And we all know Jesus is the reason for the season, so…”

Jesus is on their lips, but their actions and preparations speak something else: Santa Claus, eating and drinking, Black Friday shopping sprees. And if there is time, perhaps a Christmas service–if it doesn’t last too long (after all, the family is coming by and…).

“Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:”
—Isaiah 29:13

2- IF anyone raises the issue of the amount of time, money and effort spent on gifts and get-togethers VS the time spent on Jesus Christ, they are met with “What are you? Some kind of Scrooge? Lighten up.”

For a holiday season which is claimed to be centered on Jesus Christ, Our Saviour sure gets very little attention.

“And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.”
—Ezekiel 33:31

3- For a solid month or more, many stores in the USA play songs associated with Christmas over their in-store sound systems. It has taken forty or fifty years, but the songs which are publicly played are all secular songs. The best one can hope for is a traditional hymn or two played on the day before Christmas–if that.

Red-nosed reindeer, rocking Christmas trees, Santa Claus coming to town, poor Grandma getting run over by a reindeer, silver bells and the breathy “Santa Baby” predominate.

Songs about Our Saviour, Jesus Christ?

Nope, not going to hear them. But what else can one expect during Christmas in America?

“And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.”
—Psalm 78:35-37

4- Christmas is NOT the birthday of Jesus Christ.

And even if it was, the Bible does not consider the birthday a day worthy of celebration. There’s a reason the Bible is mostly silent on the day in which our Savior came into this world: birthdays are NOT days Christians should celebrate.

Birthdays are days noted mostly by those who are born once.

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Yes, we understand that Christmas is a pagan holiday. Yes, we also understand that almost all rituals and traditions associated with Christmas are pagan in origin.

Worse than pagan, some of the most “beloved” Christmas fables are occult. Santa Claus is an elf. Elves are demons. The names of Santa’s reindeer are pagan gods. Which the Bible says are demons.

Christmas is the one season all year when Satan receives plenty of worship: you can’t spell Santa without the S-A-T-A-N.

5- After all that said in the previous note, Christmas is the one day of the year when the world takes notice of Jesus Christ, IF ONLY in hypocrisy; IF ONLY to misrepresent Him.

Christmas Day is perhaps the only day when a true Christian can lift up a prayer to Jesus and perhaps be joined by another American.

Unlike the other 364 days of the year.

6- Over the last seven or eight years, the very contrived, very artificial “War on Christmas” has been “raging.” What is the WoC about?

THE CLAIM: The forces of evil (secularism) are changing “Merry Christmas” into “Happy Holidays.” This is supposed to signal that government/business/whatever is trying to take “Christ” out of “Christmas.” So American who wear the label of “Christians” can fight back by saying “Merry Christmas!”

IF they would think about it for just a moment, Americans long ago took the Christ out of Christmas. The holiday itself has been an excuse for excess for decades. Yes, many do make an appearance at a church, but seriously? Is this to honor Jesus Christ–or to make themselves feel better? IF it was to honor Jesus Christ, more would do it every day in a serious manner–instead of once or twice a year when it is convenient and part of a secular celebration.

Jesus Himself would likely not want His Name associated with the annual Season of Greed.

But many go about proclaiming “Merry Christmas!” They are convinced by doing this, they are being holy, exhibiting their “Christianity” and subversively undermining the evil atheists in the bargain–and it makes them feel good.

Just by saying “Merry Christmas.”

The War on Christmas is a phoney war; a fraud, a secular invention, created in order to make the lost and apostates feel like they really are genuine Christians. IF ONLY for a few days or so.

The same goes for the evil atheists. There are very few people apostates can feel morally superior to. Atheists are one of these groups. Therefore, atheists (many who are professional atheists) make a tremendous show of force around Christmas–just to remind the hopelessly lost that there are people out there more wretched than they are.

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7- Lastly, if there is one season of the year that the gospel is shared less than any other, it would have to be Christmas. There are many Bible verses shared during Christmas.

But very, very few of those verses are 1 Corinthians 15:1-8

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”

And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

The gospel is the reason Jesus Christ came to earth: to save all those who would put their trust in Him for eternal salvation. IF Jesus is the reason for the season, the gospel is the reason Jesus came to earth.

It’s a shame the gospel is barely heard during the Christmas season.

But then, it is America.

CHRISTMAS WISHES:

Pray for wisdom.
Pray for discernment.
Pray for the lost.
Be obedient.
Perhaps most importantly: pray not to be deceived.

Merry Christmas!

[This article updated from Christmas 2014: Christmas in America.]

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–with Mondo Frazier

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Tender Mercies of the Lord: Will Not Always Be Available

“For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.”
—2 Samuel 24:11-14

When faced with God’s judgment, King David trusted to the “great mercies” of the Lord.

God sent a pestilence that killed 70,000 Israelites.

HOWEVER, it could have been much worse.

“So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.”
—2 Samuel 24:15-16

Today, God encourages evil man to repent (change direction) and believe on the name of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Basically, God will forgive AND forget all previous transgressions IF the sinner will only ask for such forgiveness.

“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
—Hebrews 8:12

“For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”
—Psalm 103:11-14

HOWEVER, God will not always be so merciful.

There is coming a time when he will temper His perfect mercy with perfect judgment of the wicked. There is coming a time when God will make the wicked unable to ask for mercy because the wicked will be completely deluded.

“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
—2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

There will be none slipping into heaven who think of repentance as a form of “fire insurance” when all other avenues appear closed.

All those who think to “wait until later” to repent and gain eternal salvation will find their way blocked; not only by a strong delusion but by a lack of God’s Word.

All those who earlier didn’t care about what constituted right and wrong will no longer be able to distinguish between what God declares is right and wrong.

“And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day…Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.”
—Amos 8:9,11-12

“Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.”
—Proverbs 1:28-30

“Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.”
—Jeremiah 11:11

WHO?

Who are all of these people who are calling on the Lord for mercy and who He declares He will not hear?

These ARE NOT worldly people: the world wants no part of God and His mercies. Indeed: the world mostly does not believe in God or His mercy.

These are the people who inhabit the churches: who think they are right with God because they are good enough to give Him an hour or two of their precious time during the week. These are people who have been deceived that they are good Christians because they say “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays.”

These are people who are very comfortable with this present world. They enjoy and value the things of this world.

“know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
—James 4:4

These are church people who constantly make excuses for being comfortable in this world. These are enemies of God who have deceived themselves into believing they are His friends.

They refuse to obey His commandments. They value their comfort and their church buildings more than they value Jesus Christ or God’s Word. They refuse to harken to His voice in the good times.

And so, God will refuse to hear their cries when times turn bad.

“Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”
—Isaiah 59:1-2

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But all should be encouraged:God still extends His tender mercies to all who truly desire them.

God is still looking for a people that fear Him and want Him as their God.

Though you have had a lifetime of sin and iniquity, you may still obtain a full pardon by a sincere desire to repent and follow Jesus.

NOW, God’s mercies are still new every morning.

“It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
—Lamentations 3:22-23

There is still yet time.

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THE GOSPEL

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

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—Matthew 24:4

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-–Romans 1:16

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