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i quit celebrating christmas years ago..i feel more comfortable with that decision since there is more to christmas than being shared here..i don't celebrate easter either..i am born again and love God with all my heart
Well 🤷♀️it is a great opp to glorify God, share the Scriptures with the lost in family and with those we know. Sometimes people choose to not do what we should, to feel comortable, but that doesnt help others and doesnt point to a life of obedience, love or caring about others if one chooses such a decision. I hope you reconsider Edit: for those w o common sense: >>realize 🤦♀️ im saying this is a specific extra day to share the gospel. A day the entire world knows as a Christian day * >> Yes God saves. Pls ask for clarity in future vs making assumptions 🙃
@@HiThereHeyThere we are to glorify God and share His gospel to all the world (not just our family) all the days of our lives. Surely you are not waiting once a year to do this 🤔? What God tells us to do is test the spirits according to His Word, but if we don't know His Word well enough then this is where we get in trouble. Who told you to celebrate Christmas in the first place? Family tradition, right? Certainly not the bible. You are fighting for something that isn't even biblical all in the name of tradition. All in the name of family tradition. If it weren't for that you wouldn't even know to celebrate on Dec 25. So Holy Spirit didn't tell you to celebrate this day in the first place. It was family tradition that did. God says his own people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Just because we think something is right because we've done it all of our lives doesn't mean that it is. There is enough evidence to show that this holiday has nothing to do with Jesus and everything to do with other gods. People celebrate because THEY want to celebrate family tradition all under the name of Jesus and to have a good "feeling". Let's celebrate what Jesus told us to celebrate and remember Him the way HE told us to remember Him. You can go straight to scripture for that as we should be doing in the first place.
The closer we've gotten to Jesus over the decades, the more Christmas has changed in our home from celebrating self through getting presents to celebrating Christ by praising and singing joyfully our worship to God.
research the origins of christmas on ytube...it is after the sun god saturnilla...so i ask you what happens after christmas say the rest of the year...people forget Jesus...Jesus said love not the world...and people buy material things, send cards, songs, dinner and a decorated tree which does not represent Jesus...at least you know so that you have no excuse for not knowing...if you hear the voice of God do not ignore..quote: Hebrews 4:12-16 Believe it or not, many people who attend church choose to ignore God’s truth because they don’t like hearing sermons that convict or demand a change.
quote: as you celebrate your xmas, Jesus was not even born on the 25th...true believers can recognize the wiles of the devil... 1-A worldly person’s identity is found in this world, and not in heaven (18:21b) 2-A worldly person finds escape through amusements, entertainments, and pleasure-seeking (18:22a) 3-A worldly person uses work, career success, and even daily life as a way out of spiritual responsibilities (18:22b) 4-A worldly person is tied to the technology, and the knowledge of this world-and not the next (18:23a) 5-A worldly person is tied to social life, party life, the calendar, and holidays (18:23b) 6-A worldly person is tied to finances, wealth, and possessions (18:23c) 7-A worldly person is intoxicated by the world (18:23d) Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Even if I don't want to celebrate Christmas, we all get time off for the holidays. Anyone have any fun suggestions for memories our family can make during the holidays ? I want to start new traditions, but it's all saturated with "Xmas" symbolism.
@@sherrcon Everyone knows, Jesus wasn't born on Dec 25. Illrelavent. While our main purpose, is to honor, and follow Jesus, and his word, we are not condemned, by enjoying what he has given us. True believers, don't spread false doctrine. They can recognize, the wiles of the devil. Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
A lecturer went to an Ivy League campus and a student challenged that there are no absolutes. His response to the student….”are you ABSOLUTELY SURE?” Priceless
My Father told me, when i first come to accept the truth of the holiday... "You can not sanctify the unholy...and make it Holy"!.. And when i tried to pull that line "He knows my heart".. He rebuked me so hard and said.. "But, do you know Mine?" People can spend their lives doing things that the world will justify.. When i hear the voice, attempting to justify my actions.. I stop dead in my tracks..because it ain't the voice of God.
The Lord showed me the Truth about all the holidays when I did a deep study into false gods/idols in the Old Testament. I've tried to show others but so many people just don't want to know the Truth. I just can't go back after seeing the Truth. And honestly I feel much freer not celebrating the man made, pagan traditions.
I also have found the truth and I won't return to pagan ways .. it was nice of you to try to share your knowledge of what happened to you .. sadly people don't want to hear the truth ..
man made holidays, none of it has anything to do with JESUS, but a lot to do with the devil turning people from TRUTH, just like the word santa,just the devil in desciss same letters as satan.LORD JESUS HELP US ALL
From a personal standpoint, my faith in Jesus Christ as a child was strengthened because my parents had always told me that there was no such thing as Santa Claus. . that raises a lot of eyebrows until I explain this. . if my mother and father were not willing to lie to me about a myth. They certainly would never lie to me about the truth.
I told my kids Santa was created by someone imagination to replace Jesus Christ. Santa is only imaginary in tradition of good fantasy, like batman, Superman, and Mickey Mouse, who are not real. Nothing in the world such of those people with all the imaginary powers. Imaginary Santa can blur and twist the truth purpose of Jesus coming to the world, and the spirit of the darkness has brought it so that human beings will get lost and confused in Satan's lies.
I so wish my parents would have told me the truth. This has carried on for generations. It's hard to break the cycle. Now our precious grand children are believing the same. I don't want to hurt their feelings. I try to ignore them when they speak about St Nicholas. I want their parents to tell them the truth but after them being raised believing at what age do they tell them the truth?? We love our Savior Jesus and know his actual birth isn't Christmas. I as a grand parent homeschool the 2 youngest boys. They're both 5 years old. I'm trying my best to make them righteous. This is hard.
You describe your parents' belief in the divinity of Jesus as "the truth." What makes you think that your parents know this to be "the truth"? It sounds like they believed that Jesus is who the Bible says he is. But that speaks only to what your parents believe. Surely you recognize that, without evidence, what they happen to have been raised to believe has little to do with what may actually be true. Have you simply done what they did? Just go along to get along, the truth be damned? If so, that's pretty lame.
A church asked me to give a devotion on the Christmas story. I asked him to help me by giving me scriptures that I could use. he gave me luke 2, and while I studied luke 2, i learned something, luke is not a story of xmas. its astory about salvaton, redemption, adoption, forgiveness, and the mercy of God that rains down on the just and the unjust. this message confirms what I always beleived.
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus says the Lord: “Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them.
"The noblest virtue is not tolerance, but righteousness!" "The most important thing in life is not what is possess, but what you believe!" "The goal of life is not personal satisfaction, but the goal of life is the glory of God... that the blessing of life."
@leezaslofsky4438 the Bible does not forbidd someone to have wealth, it's how the wealth was gained #1 and #2 how its being spent #3 whether you help out the poor or not.
I just had the best Christmas ever. The wife and I went down to Bicol province in the Philippines and had the privilege of feeding and giving gifts to 150 kids at her brother's church. If I want something, I'll buy it. Sharing my blessing with other's is priceless. Jesus is the Reason for the Season, not 🎅
Its nice what you have done! anyhow there are peoples that do this every singel week during the year or at least each month, then ? they celebrate the birth of the Lord Jesus eact time they do this?
Just be CHRIST centered 24/7 even on Christmas and Easter (pascua).Lets celebrate the WORD becoming flesh, the washing away of our sins and the resurrection to eternal life.
Exactly. The christ is intangible and becomes flesh when ANYONE is begotten of the Fathers incorruptible seed. The christ is formed within us as literal biological Sons of Elohiem. Is it not said YE are eloheim (little e). The christ (glory of YHWH) in YOU is the hope of glory. Christ is not flesh until its risen in us as Sons.
Ephesians 6:12 King James Version 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Church! Come out from her! Stop being yolked with her. End your adultry with her! Learn to walk in the Spirit! Be the City on the hill. Be the Light to the world! ❤
I stopped celebrating Christmas over 30 years ago. I don’t miss the fluff part, I just miss getting together with family to have fun. For some reason it never happens at any other time of year ! As Christians, we should get together more, just for good fellowship and fun year round. I thank Jesus daily for coming to earth to save me. I carry that gratefulness in my heart always.❤
For all those who are debating for or against christmas - maybe we should all go read Matthew 7: 21-23 and let that sit on your heart a while. Just because WE say it is for Him doesn't mean He will recognize it.
I h8 the way Christmas is celebrated but if we acknowledge it for what it is...just a civil holiday, not having much of anything to do with Jesus, then why should we fret so much over it? We have Thanksgiving, 4th of July, Mother's & Father's days etc. They are not commanded by God, but if they are observed responsibly, there is nothing inherently wrong. What IS wrong is trying to make it what it is not. The fact that so many perpetrate the myth that it's our Lord's birthday makes Christians beliefs totally unbelievable. I personally try to express God's love in EVERY circumstance. Frankly my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.
@@mamamia4745 See that's the point. Over the past 15 years I have heard/witnessed more pastors and believers champion the "reason for the season", which is suppose to be Christ. They started doing this because cities, town halls, and schools were being forced to stop having nativity scenes. Plus, they complained Xmas was just so commercial now - all about buying stuff and getting stuff. So it's hard to not fret when civil society wants separation of church and state. But the Church insists that the only reason for this "civil holiday" is the one and same person they are trying to deny. How about this. If the Church really wanted the State to stay out of it's festivals for God and Christ, they should return to the original week long celebration of Sukkot and Passover.
One so far but again what’s important is people read it. its time for people to stop playing Church and become fully engulfed in His word and practice what they read in scripture so they can truly know what our Heavenly Father requires of us to come to Heaven.
@@darlenemungo5483 Ephesians 2:8,9 We do not 'earn' our salvation inorder to have a place in Heaven. Jesus, on the cross shedding his blood for our sins is the works part of salvation and when I acknowledge that He paid the price with his blood and death for my sins and express from my heart and mouth my trust in that fact, that He died for me and I invite Him into my heart, then God honors that and I am 'born again' into His kingdom. He comes, in the Person of His Holy Spirit, to live in my heart and makes me a new creation!
@@stephenhagen234 I gotta say, I never really got that whole "sacrifice" thing. The guy had one lousy weekend, I'll grant you that. But where is he now? Running the universe? For the rest of time? That's not a sacrifice. That is the best deal ever! You show me somebody who wouldn't take that deal, and I'll show you an idiot. Sacrifice my ass.
Sorry to be the one to break it to you, Johnny, but countless studies have shown that intercessory prayer has no impact on those who are prayed for (for one example, see "Prayers don’t help heart surgery patients," Harvard Gazette, March 30, 2006). The best advice for people who want to make the world a better place? Get up off your knees and actually do something to help others. Otherwise, you’re just wasting your time.
Honoring the resurrection of Christ is a noble act. After all, Jesus broke bread, gave it to his disciples…and said “do this in memory of me.” I honor his sacrificial death and his victorious resurrection. Amen!
That is why even though Christ healed and feed many people He still been crucified because the world can’t accept this kind of preaching. Only to those who believe . ❤❤❤ thank you Father God that you reveal yourself through your Son. Trully you are Holy Holy Holy .
Christmas is a pagan celebration that was adopted by the Catholic cult and now has infiltrated the true church. Jesus was not born on December 25th, the pagan sun god is the one who’s been celebrated on December 25th around winter solstice since the time before Christ. 1 Samuel 15:15 And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.” 1 Samuel 15:22 So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.
Where in the bible does it specify Jesus birth date. It does not. And no this is not my interpretation. Its what's in the bible. Please wake up people before its too late. Christmas and all holidays are way of the pagans. Ways of man. Jeremiah 10 King James Version 10 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
True. However, life begins at conception and Jesus came into the world via Mary’s conception during Hanukkah. He did that because He was showing Himself as God above all the gods. He did that in many ways throughout the Bible and the story of Hanukkah is a true story. Miracles still happened between the old and the new and Hanukkah is mention in the Bible-the portico at the Feast of Dedication.
The date ist not specified, but the counting of the people was certainly not in winter time and the Sheppards were sleeping outside, when they saw the angles sing. Pretty sure, they did not sleept outside in wintertime. Can be cold there, too.
@@simonrudat9371 Luke 1:5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. Just follow the timeline according to the division of Abijah and do the math..
Mac Arthur he does believe Jesus be came a human, his a false prophet 2 John 7 Many deceivers have gone out all over the world, people who do not acknowledge that Jesus Christ came as a human being, Such a person is a deceiver and the enemy of Christ 8-9 Anyone who does not stay with the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it, does not have God. Who does stay with the teaching has both the Father and the Son. I listen his video and I no his false prophet
This is powerful because I always hear things in our culture like “you can do anything”, and “we need to learn more tolerance.” It’s good to remember that these philosophies are not from God, even if they seem “good” on the surface.
"Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:" Deuteronomy 12:2 KJV
Christians with the negative responses to the celebration of Christmas are contributors to the enemy's efforts to quench the Holy Spirit working in hearts that might just soften to the Good News that Christ died for their sins. I celebrate Jesus and His coming to earth to be among us and show us what God is in human form. That is why I think Christmas is important.
The joy and excitement I experienced as a child from Christmas and Santa Claus has been replaced with that same childhood joy by the good news. Thank you Jesus for working through Pastor MacArthur and his church and making his sermons available on CZcams
We never lied to our children about Christmas. I taught them the Truth of God's word. We did not celebrate pagan christmas. We took a lot of verbal abuse from our families, but they are lost sinners, so that's not surprising. I'd much rather please the Lord, than gain the approval of men.
Exactly. whenever i talk about it, i am told that i should celebrate Jesus and leave the rest. But how can i ignore the fact that we are commanded not to worship God in the way that the heathen celebrate their gods? Jesus wasnt even born in december, and so many other gods are celebrated at this time. Why should i add my Jesus to their celebrations? Jesus categorically told us what to celebrate, and it is not his birthday.
Thank you pastor MacArthur, I haven't celebrated a Christmas for about 17 years and I feel free, spiritually financially mentally physically and it's not because I couldn't afford it it was because I realized the lies in it and the myth and that's what the word says liars will not enter into the kingdom and don't follow the myths of men, 💞 but I learned to respect everybody's decision about Christmas do not let no one judge you on the holidays on the Sabbaths on what you eat and what you drink, and I have learned to do just that, some of my family members wants to do Christmas , go for it, Christ's birth was never given , it was not even told to celebrate it, what was told to do was to love God with all your heart all your mind , soul, love each other as you love yourself, do people really love each other even on Christmas? Not even on Christmas Day, or Christmas Eve, is their love in a man's heart? Some they're full of pride proudness greed always seeking for themselves, for me its a day of sadness, to see so many people that are lost in the world, even though I am not perfect and I do whatever I can to help anybody, I know that if I have not right with God I am a lost soul also, but I'm glad I'm alive and I'm glad I have peace and I'm glad that our heavenly father has Mercy and Grace on this wicked 🌎, but one day all that Mercy and Grace will end for the wicked, God Bless 🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏻🌍
Angels celebrating his birth is not precedent enough for you? God saw fit to record two accounts of his arrival, Angels, shepherds, parents, old saints in the temple, Magi on a long dangerous journey-- All rejoicing at his arrival--and His enemies troubled by it. Seems good reason for me to celebrate
When I was born again, it surprised me to discover that Christmas was celebrated in the church of God. Considering the roots of Christmas and Easter, it's vile to attribute these doctrines of demons to the Lord God Almighty. Ì asked Him how He felt about it and He answered me. My desire is that all Believers would get the revelation. It's like chocolate coating a turd and presenting it to your love ones. The picture God showed me was much worse than that.
Hello John, I’m gona comment but I’m not trying to argue at all. I respect others and what they want to do. It’s between them and God. But we did a huge study on Christmas and Easter and man it’s Not what it seems. I’m totally in for celebrating the Bible and birth of Christ. But that wasn’t dec 25. The reason we do not celebrate Christmas is because it was not originally for the Birth of Christ. If you go back Dec 25 is a pagan holiday. It was morphed into what you see now by the church giving in. Do you know the puritans knew it was pagan? It was actually illegal in the USA in many states until into the later 1800’s. Television morphed Santa into it. The trees, the decorating the trees are all old pagan rituals. God said to beware of your vain traditions. He does not like praise being mixed in with other stuff. The Israelites went in they were to get it ALL out. Take down the high places. Did you know the coloring of the eggs for Easter came from pagans that sacrificed children and used the blood to color eggs in a fertility ritual? All I’m saying is there is a world of knowledge to be had. I know a lot of people that don’t celebrate Christmas and a lot more that do. I treat them no different. People think they are doing good. But once a person knows I don’t think I could go back to celebrating it. I’m not Perfect in any way. I have to call on the Lord constantly for help. He is faithful to us. Only God knows what is pleasing to Him!! Although HE left His Word for a pathway for us. God Bless you!! Ps I’m not trying or wanting to argue sir so please don’t take this comment that way. Thank you
Merry Christmas. Starting the holiday with some mindfulness exercises...going through the book "30 Days to Reduce Stress" by Harper Daniels. Feels good. Relaxed.
God, in His word says Ho Ho, and says flee from the land of the north. Zeachariah 2:6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. Santa says Ho, Ho, Ho, and tells you to lie to your children and tell them that Santa Claus brings them presents from the North Pole. Satan or Santa? The letters are the same.
I had a neighbor lady who lived by me awhile back. She had lost everything. She knocked on my door. All she needed was a roll of toilet paper. I GAVE IT TO HER. Not long after that she passed on. Thinking back I also asked if she needed anything else. She said no I am grateful for this with a smile. I did not have a clue how bad it really was in her life.
A truly beautiful story. What a good Christian you are! To part with a roll of S-paper so willingly. Thank you! I now know how I shall live the rest of my life. Today I will buy a big supply of S-paper to hand out to all who need it!
@@leezaslofsky4438 Ahh...I was deeply moved to laughter - at your sarcasim. 99% of the time sarcism is not my thing, but the post was such a post that most people would have been embarassed to share it. Almost thought it wasn't real - so reread it again. Then I read your reply! I am thrilled that you'll be supplying your whole community as needed!
Since Christmas is a big enough deal to God that he dedicated much of a chapter in the Bible to it (Luke Chapter 2), I think I will continue to honor it.
Thank you, even me I never celebrate and enjoy Christmas since I knew the truth . Thank you Lord. John 8:32 The truth set me free and my family, God bless you for this message.
Luke 11:13 “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”
I understand what he’s saying, and Christmas HAS been commercialized. I work in retail & see this every Christmas season at work. However, if John would look back in history, there really was a Saint Nicholas who helped the poor & gave gifts to children. That’s where the Santa Claus idea came from. I grew up believing in him, until I was about 7, but at the same time I also knew Jesus is the real reason for the season! He came, shed his blood on the Cross to pay for our sin & rose gloriously 3 days later! 🙌🏻😇 For people who don’t know the Lord & just get caught up in the Christmas rush, they long for it to be over, so the day after Christmas, they take everything down. But for us as Christians, the celebration of Jesus’ birth continues all year long! Same thing with Easter. These are the two times of year many people who’d otherwise not go to church will often go if they’re invited. Always invite any and everyone you can to church!
It’s so much worse than commercialization. It’s pagans killing their own babies as a sacrifice. They would have a big bronze statue with its arms out. They would build a fire in it and get it red hot. Note the red. It would also have a hat on it. Much like a Santa hat. Note the hat. So they would go to the statue and ask for stuff they wanted and then put live infants into the arms of the red hot statue and they would burn alive and melt into the lap of the red statue. What does “Santa” look like? Where do kids sit on him? We are getting played by Devil worshippers. They get us to empty our bank accounts and blaspheme our Elohim. That’s just the start. The Christmas tree is garbage too. Easter is really Ishtar. They used to kill infants and paint eggs with their blood. That’swhere dying eggs comes from. We are lied to about almost everything. The hypocrites who Yeshua argued with, did their fathers work (Devil) didn’t just disappear. They are still here doing the same things they did back then.
Do you really believe that Pastor John (notice in humility I give him the title that God gives him, yet you refuse to and simply call him 'john') do ou believe that he doesnt know the history of "Santa Claus'. A learned man, of diligent tertiary study, published works, theologian and minister, and you think he needs to look back further to understand that, yes, a long time ago, a saint did good deeds for the poor. I think brother you need to think about your words, for of course this learned man knows the history, he is not naive, nor uninformed. Yet you believe you are more informed that 'john' as you call him. Thus you fail to see the plank in your own eye, and try to pick the speck from anothers. Truly Christ Mass, is tainted by the imagery of a man in a red suit, with large stomach, promoting that if you do good you get good and if you do bad you dont get bad, you just dont get good. perhaps it is more beneficial to teach a child that it is indeed bad. Not good, and that its nature will always be bad. It needs to obey. But it cant, its simply wont. Thus it needs someone to help it. It needs a real gift. It needs grace to learn humility and humble itself like a child. I pray you also do this. For as you try to elevate your knowledge above learned men, by proposing you know more, you simply expose the insecurity and pride in our own heart, by trying to pull others not only to your level, but again elevating what you deem as correct , above them. Ps John knows the history of santa claus, i can assure of that.I hope you can take this criticism with humility, it is not an attack, it is said in care, for Christ corrects us when we are wrong. Am i Christ? of course not, could He be in me? He could. Can I confess that He is writing now and afford myself the risk of pride and boasting...no I wont. That is for you to judge my friend if the words sound true or if your own pride flares up at being challenged, you are misguided Gods Grace, Christs peace, The Spirit's humility
@@Mungunimzuri 1 - 12 - 23 Four days ago SUNDAY PHYSICAL RESURRECTION WORSHIP day was GREAT ! "" I AM the RESURRECTION ! "". John 11 : 25 #1 I don't believe in his opening statement that he is insinuating that John MacArthur doesn't know the History about CHRISTMAS or Santa Claus #2 He even says that he understands what John MacArthur is talking about and he agrees in his opening statement that CHRISTMAS and Santa Claus has been commercialized #3 ANYTHING can be considered PAGAN at what point Even WATER was PAGAN at what time by the Egyptians Babylonians and many other groups #4 Are we not going take a shower or drink water because it's considered PAGAN by some ? #5 He ended his comment that because of CHRISTMAS and Easter many people are invited to come to church that otherwise would not come if it weren't for these two celebrations #6 We CELEBRATE the BIRTH of Jesus Christ and the PHYSICAL RESURRECTION on a beautiful SUNDAY ( EVERY SUNDAY ) ANSWER 1st Corinthians 15 : 1 - 4 ( EUANGELION ) in the GREEK for the GRACE of the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ( The CROSS ) His BURIAL ( NOT RESTED ) His PHYSICAL RESURRECTION on a beautiful SUNDAY !
God, in His word says Ho Ho, and says flee from the land of the north. Zeachariah 2:6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. Santa says Ho, Ho, Ho, and tells you to lie to your children and tell them that Santa Claus brings them presents from the North Pole. Satan or Santa? The letters are the same.
We always took our new toy to show Baby Jesus on Christmas morning to church as little ones and there was always a crib scene at church which explained the beauty of Christmas to us little ones, and I did the same for our children. Santa was a brief harmless episode in our young lives but the birth of Christ was and is always central. I wish you all a peaceful blessed Christmas 2023 as we celebrate and contemplate the birth of our Saviour.
That's what they say about church and Halloween. "Oh we have an unholy day of wicked practices of Halloween to draw the people in. Then we tell them about Jesus. Good deal. They do the same thing at used car dealerships, as they compete with each other. The Messiah, Son of God, King of kings, doesn't compete nor will He ever compete or need to compete with anything of this world. Just practice telling the truth of righteousness and salvation, which overcomes and defeats sin. That's all you need.
@@jefferydumont430 when we study the first church in Jerusalem and that time, there was no "Christmas celebration". It is alright to celebrate the birth of Jesus as described in the bible. But at some point unbiblical tradition started and fairy tale stories were mixed in stories such as Sanata Claus. God warned in Jeremiah chapter 10 of worshipping false gods etc. Same chapter describes a tree cut in the forest and decorated etc. much like a so called christmas tree and warned of it. Please take time and read it. I will not have a false god in my home and I follow Christ Jesus and His word. Hallelujah!
I agree. I was raised this way, my children and grand children. Our 2 youngest grands are 5 years old. How do I as a grand parent contradict what their parents have told them. I really wish my parents never started this. We wouldn't be telling the children today. Jesus is my Lord and Savior forever.
Sorry but Jesus was not born on 25th December. Remember the three wise men travelled to Bethlehem and passed shepherds tending their flock at night. Back then no shepherds tended their flock in December/January as they were in their stalls beneath the home as it was too cold at night. December was chosen in the 4th century to convince pagans to convert to Christianity as Pagans celebrated the winter solstice in December. No real Christian celebrates Jesus being born in December unless they do not know his actual birthtime.
A half truth, he neglected to mention the truth that God never gave the world Christmas. The true name of the holiday is called saturnalia, which in turn is the celebration of the sun god luc_ifer. Remember that it is he who decieves the whole world to dishonor God and receive judgement.
@@Peterwj9445 Correct Peter. In fact if you study the bible properly you would know it breaks Gods commandments to celebrate Jesus's birthdate in any way. This man is like many clergy who deceive the flock and lead them away from God whilst pretending to be a man of God. And again, the bible tells us of such false preachers.
@@saintsone7877 Correct, An easy one for folks who are unsure about the truth would be why if Christmas was to celebrate Jesus, why didn't they, he was right there. None of the scriptures record the celebration yearly of the birth of Jesus, not even Jesus. Can you imagine everyone celebrating your birthday and everyone getting gifts while you stand outside peering in through the window from outside. I just pray that people would desire the truth.
Thank You Heavenly Father for John MacArthur 🥰 Thank you Lord Jesus for his ministry ❤️ Thank You Holy Spirit for strengthening this man to speak Your truths 💕
@@eve3363 Once something is considered an act worship of God.Than it must come under spiritual scrutiny.Because has saturated the world with propaganda concerning God and his purpose.This guy was right about Christmas but he went back to other parts of the lie and accepted it.For example bible does not pin point December 25 as the dated God sent Christ here as a baby.Christ neither his apostles celebrated his birth.For good reason. read Ecclesiastes 7:1,2 God's reason why he does accept it as an honorable thing.
@@theodorefranklin2059 Exactly. Any Christian who knows the pagan roots of these holidays yet still choose to celebrate them have a lot to answer to on Judgment Day
@@eve3363 then PLEASE STOP celebrating everyone’s birthday as that is not in Scripture and don’t forget to throw your phone away too as Scripture talks about man making idols with gold & silver & metals as well as the trees!!!! MAN MADE RULES!!!! If you celebrate yourself & can’t celebrate Christ birth, your reasoning does not add up. The nations who ban this day are definitely pagan & anti-Christ. Scary!
Exactly. Definitely not a 'harnless' myth. It's absolutely satanic to deceive your children into believing in some god like man that watches over them and brings 'rewards' for good behaviour. Teaching your children to break the 1st commandment just for the sake of 'harmless silly fun.'
Jesus Christ did not come to celebrate pagan holidays such as christmas and easter. He also warned us about the false prophets who would come in his name in these end times.
Your father monogamy is not your father, your only husband all in mongamy is not yours, your mother is not yours.. And thats made as you, you cannot change that lies.. Basically evil.. What evil stuffed by stiff heart criminals .. on you will you tell its not my truth and walk away or criminals excecutable punished by law or God... On such criminals... Only there God exists too. God did not make criminals liars filthed me filthiest never repented, never felt that guilt.. Aversive... never were ashamed of doing filth on me... God after "Gods wrath" has killed all that filthed me dead...
I was told in church when I was 9 years old (50 years ago) that Jesus was not born on December 25th, I discovered the Church of Jesus Christ Christian in the 1980s on WWCR shortwave radio and there are sermons from Bertrand Lewis Comparet here on CZcams
I have been Pentecostal all my life, 71 years, 6 generations, and I have never heard prosperity doctrine preached in our churches. My husband traveled as evangelist and we had a wide scope of things. I know one Tv evangelist that preached that doctrine, but he also is trinity.
Christian Parents are responsible in teaching truth to their children so that even when they are expose to this world, they know the truth. I hear about santa when i was a child but was never taught about it. my parents never talk about him on Christmas and now that i am a parent, i never tell my children about him because i have not learned about him. We talk about Christ on Christmas month. Thanks Pastor John talking about the truth about Christmas. It's my prayer that people will listen to this message too.
Body of Christ... 2023 there is going to be a storm coming. Prepare yourselves for what's coming! Whatever you do hold fast to the profession of your faith. Remember we are in a race. A race of endurance and perseverance. No matter what situation you find yourself in hold on to your faith in Jesus Christ! Buckle up! It's about to get bad! Merry Christmas Everyone Jesus Christ is Born!!!
@@overtcovert Christmas is a pagan holiday and nowhere in the Bible does it tell us to celebrate the birth of Jesus (Yeshua) Christ. First century Christians did not celebrate Christmas and even up to the time that Jesus (Yeshua) Christ was crucified and put to death. Christmas evolved from a Roman pagan festival named Saturnalia. Saturnalia was the worship of the god of Saturn. God does not like it when we worship false gods or idols. People forget what happened when the Israelites were at Mount Sinai when Moses went to receive the 10 commandments after leaving Egypt and after crossing the Red Sea.
1 Peter 1:19-20 King James Version 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Ephesians 1:4-6 King James Version 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. Pretty hard to deny before the foundation of the world. And all the prophecies that came about in full detail spoken hundreds of years before each kings reign in Daniels prophecies. Scientist struggle to explain it. And no doubt why they rubbed out the "Bel and the Dragon" apochrypha from the 1611 bible. Not to mention most of Isaiah and especially ch 53. Which spoke in detail thousands of years before. God is all good but created evil. He allows the adversary to use evil to exhalt his goodness. Exodus 14:4 “And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.” All throughout his word he makes things as he desires them to become. Free will is a lie from the devil. To create more pride in us. How does this work? We began to belive we choose to do good when we do good. We then believe we chose to serve him and accept him and believe on the resurrected Christ. When we have examples like Paul. If it could come by knowledge of men through study of his word. Paul would have known. But he couldnt see it til the spirit of prophecy revealed it to him. THere is only one spirit . The Holy Spirit. But that Spirit person has traits of his spiritual person that he uses for different reasons. Here we learn many of the Holy spirits traits that would come to rest on Jesus. Isaiah 11:1 Context 1And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. Here we learn that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Another words as it says in one place that we can not even call him lord except the spirit gives it to us. Revelation 19:10 “And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” 1 Corinthians 12:3 “Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” And so if it has to be revealed to us by spirit. And he is the only door. Even accepting the "knowledge" preached doesn't work. It has to be a true revelation not just men convincing you. Matthew 16:17 “And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” Used to say I wasnt a calvinist. Actually still pretty much say it because I do not follow men I follow Christ. I hate all the labels. But Calvin was definitley onto something way back then. Exodus 33:19 “And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.” Romans 9:16 “So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.” Doesn't matter how much I will my children or wife to be saved. Or even how hard and how much I fast and pray (run the race of the faith). BUt only if God sheweth mercy. Good lucking running from the truth of predestination of God and his greatness and goodness. Its gonna be a hard row to hoe.
@@lilianhaggland2031 God, in His word says Ho Ho, and says flee from the land of the north. Zeachariah 2:6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. Santa says Ho, Ho, Ho, and tells you to lie to your children and tell them that Santa Claus brings them presents from the North Pole. Satan or Santa? The letters are the same.
If you're not Calvinist, MacArthur's myopic sectarian mind would paint you as a non-Christian. His view of the Church is small indeed (and very American).
@Some One You do realize the Pharisees were keeping man made laws and traditions, not God's Laws. If you study the Old Testament; hand washing, eating grain, healing on the Sabbath we're NEVER laws of God. They are Talmud laws that Rabbis wrote to add to God's word. Mark 7:7-9, 13. Matthew 23:3. Mark 7 16-19. Jesus came as God's living WORD, God's Word, Torah (instructions/law) implanted in a repentant heart grows in obedience to God. Jesus was the Perfect example, follow Him. Lawless ones are children of the devil!
@Some One The Pharisees accused Jesus and His disciples of breaking the Law of God against HARVESTING GRAIN ON THE SABBATH. They were plucking it to eat, not working. Pharisees have volumes of books called the Talmud which add to God's Laws. They instructed people how to hand wash, keep Sabbath etc. These laws WERE NOT IN GOD'S WORD. If Jesus broke God's LAW He could not have been the Perfect sacrifice. Start at the beginning, study God's Laws. Then you might understand why God sent his son to die for us. It was because he divorced Israel, and in order for the Harlot to remarry God he had to die. it says that he will no longer be called our Master but he will be called our husband.
@Some One I don't follow John MacArthur, or other men, I follow God's word. If Jesus came and set us free, what did He set us free from? Sin, or the punishment of sin, or God's Laws and ways? Preachers teach Jesus set us free from all of God's impossible Laws, this is FALSE. Did He say sinners would not go to heaven? What is sin? BREAKING GOD'S LAWS. (1John 3:4). What is truth?(Psalm 119:142,160) Jesus said MY sheep hear MY voice. And what did HIS voice sound like? The only way to know for sure if He was God's true son would be if He kept and obeyed and followed and SPOKE GOD'S word. And the only way to know God's true children is if they do the same. This is why Satan and his followers are called the Lawless ones. Why do you think Satan's famous words are "Did God really say?" He deceives us into disobeying God's laws, feasts, and instructions. When the Lord comes back and some people are left behind and they cry "Lord Lord we did miracles in your name, we healed in your name, we cast out demons in your name; He doesn't debate them and say, no you didn't. When the door shuts he says, "Depart from me you workers of iniquity(LAWLESSNESS), I never KNEW (intimate marriage covenant) you. The full story of Jesus is a marriage covenant and it's told throughout the Bible. The people keep breaking HIS marriage covenant and keep on committing adultery with false gods. God divorces Israel, not Judah. God's law says that a woman cannot remarry a husband who divorced her, and she is not free to remarry unless he dies. so how does God save Israel? The husband (Jesus/God) dies so she can remarry Jesus. That's why HE drank the New Covenant with his disciples who wanted to live in Covenant with him. They were HIS bride because they wanted to obey, Judas didn't. Then he leaves promising to come back for his bride, who should be following his ways, not committing adultery with all these false Pagan things.
@Some One Faith may be where you and I disagree on the definition. The Bible also says faith without works is dead. So how is it that faith can be separated from works? It can't. Every example of faith given in the Bible, contains some action ( Abraham, Rahab, etc...) Faith or belief in His truth causes us to be obedient. I mean TRULY if you believe Sin is BAD, and God is Good, why wouldn't you try to stop sinning and walk according to His instructions. Who would benefit from your disobedience. I know it sounds exactly opposite then what we've been told by preachers today, but we are in the great DECEPTION already. Why do you think there are so many denominations? They are all following man made traditions. Follow what God taught. Deuteronomy 13:4 Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, fear Him, and keep (guard and protect) His Commandments, and obey his voice, and Ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. How many examples has God given us in the Old Testament about his judgement for disobedience? Jesus said in Luke 16:31 If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead. And in Hebrews 10:29 we are warned that our punishment will be even worse then for those in the Old Testament, if we trample underfoot the son of God. Do you really think that God is going to judge them on the law and us not on the law? That would be unequal weights and unequal measures, and God considers that an abomination. What is Paul quoting in Romans 10:6 when he says, " but the righteousness that is by faith says: DO NOT SAY in your heart, "who will ascend into heaven( that is to bring Christ down), or who will descend into the deep ( that is to bring Christ up again from the dead). but what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth. Or in Romans 10:4-5? for Christ is the goal of the law for righteousness To everyone that believes. For Moses writes for the man who practices the righteousness which is based on the law shall live by that righteousness. He is quoting Deuteronomy 30:11-16 Notice in verse 30:16 it says to obey His commandments so that you will live? That's what Paul means when he says you will live by them. That's Faith! And that' why people can deceive us if we don't know what's being quoted in the Old Testament. Jesus used verses in the Old Testament to stand against the devil. It is our firm foundation an unchanging word that can be used as a weapon to tear down the lies of the enemy. Start memorizing the OT scriptures, and the enemy will never be able to deceive you!
@Some One Christ died to be an atonement for our sins. We are all sinners, but Paul says you ONCE WERE fornicators and revellers Etc. Repentance is turning from our sins to God's WAY. HIS WAY, HIS LAWS, Jesus is the WAY because he is God's word (TORAH/ instructions) made flesh.
TOTAL TRUTH!! This man is a blessed Godly man by ABBA, through the Holy Spirit!! I thank my Father in Heaven for the TRUE teaching of His Holy, Righteous, Living, Breathing, WORD!! May God-Almighty BLESS everyone that hears this man, in Jesus' name I pray 🙏🙏 Amen.
I did die giving birth to my boy and I did went through this portal and stood before Jesus. Our spirit when leaving our body is just as easy as taken once shoes off.
The Lord Jesus is celebrated at Christmas, along with the joy brought to little children through their imagination of someone special bringing them toys! Too soon they will learn the Truth about "Santa", but the Joy of the Lord will stay with them, as long as parents maintain a balance between the two. Pastor, you need to understand that both can be enriching to their lives as they grow. For you to deny the value of Joy in both cases is absolutely closed mindedness. Worship of the Lord and celebration of the Joy He gives to little ones are important to recognize as beneficial to children and adults alike. Amen
The fact that I grew up December 25 is Christmas Day but somehow when I received Our Lord Jesus Christ in my life, I found out that when Jesus was born was in a cool day and no month nor day.
Amen. Thank you Pastor John for teaching the truth of Christmas. God didn’t say a thing about Christmas in His words. That’s why in the NT there was no precise date mentioned about Lord’s birth! Thank You God for giving His true sheep Pastor John to teach boldly and steadfastly Your truth to Your true sheep! Very grateful to You, my dear God! All Glory Be To Christ, our KING!!! I can never stop listening to Your faithful saint, God. The more I listen to Your truth preached by Pastor John, the more I learnt about Your words and how to live my life to You, and for You and before You, God. Hallelujah. Amen.
The facts we know from the Bible is that Jesus was born at a time of census and at time when shepherds were able to sleep outside. This points to autmn, after planting time, before harvest time. Is it a coincidence this lines up with the Jewish new years day, the Feast of Trumpets.
@cowboysbrother, Pastor John MacArthur only preaches about Lord Jesus and for the past 53 years , in the same church, Grace Community Church , verse by verse explaining The Gospel truth. Praise Jesus. He is a faithful and bold saint of God. I thank God and I praise God that He has raised and kept Pastor John MacArthur faithful to Him and His words and His true sheep. Brother, I strongly encourage you to listen to Pastor John and follow his teachings and you shall know and gain the truth about Lord and The Gospel. I have followed him for the past 2 years and I have learnt so much. Praise God.
This pastor just said "the lie about Santa Clause does not do much damage". For a pastor to make that statement is very telling. He also said truth is absolute then at the end tells us it's ok the celebrate a lie (Dec 25, etc). Christmas brings out a lot of emotions in people but it's not truth. God is all truth.
He's come a long way. He use to believe in election only a few are selected to be saved and now he teaches John 3:16 God loves the world and all have the potential to be saved based on their belief in Christ. He only used Santa as an attention grabber. The man detest secular Christmas traditions. Especially Santa. He is the prince of expository preaching. Not many like him. The Mac...
I went to Wal-Mart, Cracker Barrel, and a local grocery store (part of a big chain), and I could not find even one Christmas card that mentioned the name of Jesus. I felt really sad.
As I read through the comments below, I was struck by the lack of love expressed by some towards their brothers and sisters concerning the birth our Lord and saviour. Truly God saw fit to not pinpoint the exact day of his birth into the world. The important thing is that he came. My friends please reread Colossians 2. Especially ver’s 16-17. -Therefore let no one judge you in good or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths. which are a shadow of things to come, but substance is of CHRIST. Celebrate our saviour as you see fit, as it is your choice, but celebrate his coming into the world to rescue us from our inherent sin. This bickering over a day of celebration is fruitless. Please reread this whole section of Paul’s letter and meditate on. I wish you a very blessed Christmas. Blessing and Love to all.
I have detested Santa for so long because he has stolen the real meaning of Christmas for so many people. Others think I am being miserable, but it has gone on too long. Love you Jesus
Look up St Nicholas of Myra , an early Christian bishop during the rule of Roman Emperor Diocietian . Most people posting here don't seem to have an understanding of early Christian church history.
@@100hm43700 The pastor here is not telling the whole truth. Christmas has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus (Yeshua) Christ. Christmas evolved from a pagan Roman festival called Saturnalia. The pastor did not once mention that. That's the real history of Christmas.
The opposite is true. Struggling Christianity took over the logical pagan celebration of the lengthening of the days signaling the rebirth of the actual sun in that the earth's tilt, it's axis, causes the days to lengthen and spring and summer are on the way, saving man from the dead winter days.
@@jazzman1904 nicely said Bernard. He was born in the summer. We should all now that. It would make religion wurth considering again. Truth must prevail.
@@johndevisser903 what ever you do do to the glory of God. For what ever is not done of faith is sin. Which father won't be happy that their son throw a birthday for him. If you understand what Christ did, the decision he took you'd see a reason to celebrate him. Origin?? Even if the origin is of darkness I am celebrating in light.
Literally speaking to myself right before watching this video saying that I hate how most churches make god and Christ into some “nice guys” but when I read the Bible they both are WARRIOR KINGS. They are power. Ultimate. Church feels so hollow to me and the messages are like motivation wrapped in Bible quotes. I’m not a ‘good’ Christian. I’ve only recently felt conviction and desire to ACTUALLY change (pastor is right, I can’t change me) vs have an emotional experience that makes ME feel good. But when I read the bible (never read much before now. The bible app makes you lazy) I read authority and commands and direction. I read about the HORROR of being outside Gods grace. But it explains why He created things this way. It shows he gave free will for us to CHOOSE to love him. I’m not his slave by force… …but i WANT to be His slave! I want to please him. And because the Bible tells of Gods goodness AND the blackness of being outside of him, im THANKFUL for Jesus and the cross. This pastor is a breath of fresh, conviction filling air.
@WatchMyVideoFor CovidTruth no. You misread. God and Christ aren’t “nice” to me. He’s a benevolent Lord. A just KING. But he’s portrayed as a nice guy you can walk all over and disobey at will and it’s cool because he forgives. No. They ARE authority. It tells us to fear him and give glory. Not feel terror but Fear his authority and going against it. But churches ONLY teach the nice guy. So people sin over and over never moving forward in their walk. They may be saved but their spiritual journey is stunted. And God didn’t make us slaves because without free will to choose evil, our love and worship of him would be a lie, which he can’t except. But I..ME…wish I was a slave to Christ. I wish I could abide perfectly in him and submit fully, as a slave who loves their masters word. But I’m flesh so I don’t. That’s what I meant.
I really needed to hear this. All I knew about Christmas was opening presents and secret Santa. It’s the devils distraction of the bigger picture, Our redeemer, Our Saviour, Our Salvation, Our Lord Jesus Christ! Thank you JM.
We don't know when Jesus was born. So that holiday is uh not accurate at all. It was made for a secular reasoning with a covering of Jesus birth. We celebrate God everyday, and understand Jesus birth as an important explanation of why he is righteous.
My Dad said to me if you arrange the letters of Santa around you get Satan. It isn't fun to believe in Santa because it takes the children's eyes and hearts off Christ who really knows if you have been bad or good.
There actually was a St. Nicholas. He was an orthodox Catholic bishop known for his charity towards the poor and punched out an Arian at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.
i quit celebrating christmas years ago..i feel more comfortable with that decision since there is more to christmas than being shared here..i don't celebrate easter either..i am born again and love God with all my heart
Me too.
Amen!
Well 🤷♀️it is a great opp to glorify God, share the Scriptures with the lost in family and with those we know. Sometimes people choose to not do what we should, to feel comortable, but that doesnt help others and doesnt point to a life of obedience, love or caring about others if one chooses such a decision. I hope you reconsider
Edit: for those w o common sense:
>>realize 🤦♀️ im saying this is a specific extra day to share the gospel. A day the entire world knows as a Christian day
* >> Yes God saves.
Pls ask for clarity in future vs making assumptions 🙃
with their origins in pagan god worship festivals something God commanded you shall not do, He is a jealous God.
@@HiThereHeyThere we are to glorify God and share His gospel to all the world (not just our family) all the days of our lives. Surely you are not waiting once a year to do this 🤔? What God tells us to do is test the spirits according to His Word, but if we don't know His Word well enough then this is where we get in trouble. Who told you to celebrate Christmas in the first place? Family tradition, right? Certainly not the bible. You are fighting for something that isn't even biblical all in the name of tradition. All in the name of family tradition. If it weren't for that you wouldn't even know to celebrate on Dec 25. So Holy Spirit didn't tell you to celebrate this day in the first place. It was family tradition that did. God says his own people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Just because we think something is right because we've done it all of our lives doesn't mean that it is. There is enough evidence to show that this holiday has nothing to do with Jesus and everything to do with other gods. People celebrate because THEY want to celebrate family tradition all under the name of Jesus and to have a good "feeling". Let's celebrate what Jesus told us to celebrate and remember Him the way HE told us to remember Him. You can go straight to scripture for that as we should be doing in the first place.
The Lord never asked to be celebrated He said give Him all the glory
The closer we've gotten to Jesus over the decades, the more Christmas has changed in our home from celebrating self through getting presents to celebrating Christ by praising and singing joyfully our worship to God.
research the origins of christmas on ytube...it is after the sun god saturnilla...so i ask you what happens after christmas say the rest of the year...people forget Jesus...Jesus said love not the world...and people buy material things, send cards, songs, dinner and a decorated tree which does not represent Jesus...at least you know so that you have no excuse for not knowing...if you hear the voice of God do not ignore..quote: Hebrews 4:12-16
Believe it or not, many people who attend church choose to ignore God’s truth because they don’t like hearing sermons that convict or demand a change.
quote: as you celebrate your xmas, Jesus was not even born on the 25th...true believers can recognize the wiles of the devil...
1-A worldly person’s identity is found in this world, and not in heaven (18:21b)
2-A worldly person finds escape through amusements, entertainments, and pleasure-seeking (18:22a)
3-A worldly person uses work, career success, and even daily life as a way out of spiritual responsibilities (18:22b)
4-A worldly person is tied to the technology, and the knowledge of this world-and not the next (18:23a)
5-A worldly person is tied to social life, party life, the calendar, and holidays (18:23b)
6-A worldly person is tied to finances, wealth, and possessions (18:23c)
7-A worldly person is intoxicated by the world (18:23d)
Ephesians 6:11
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Even if I don't want to celebrate Christmas, we all get time off for the holidays. Anyone have any fun suggestions for memories our family can make during the holidays ? I want to start new traditions, but it's all saturated with "Xmas" symbolism.
@@sherrcon Everyone knows, Jesus wasn't born on Dec 25. Illrelavent. While our main purpose, is to honor, and follow Jesus, and his word, we are not condemned, by enjoying what he has given us. True believers, don't spread false doctrine. They can recognize, the wiles of the devil. Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
A lecturer went to an Ivy League campus and a student challenged that there are no absolutes. His response to the student….”are you ABSOLUTELY SURE?” Priceless
If I was the one asked, I will reply again to him "ABSOLUTELY"
GOD'S WORDS IS,
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Tomorrow will be SUNDAY PHYSICAL RESURRECTION WORSHIP day !
"" I AM the RESURRECTION ! ""
John 11 : 25
I said the same thing.
My Father told me, when i first come to accept the truth of the holiday...
"You can not sanctify the unholy...and make it Holy"!..
And when i tried to pull that line
"He knows my heart"..
He rebuked me so hard and said..
"But, do you know Mine?"
People can spend their lives doing things that the world will justify..
When i hear the voice, attempting to justify my actions..
I stop dead in my tracks..because it ain't the voice of God.
The Lord showed me the Truth about all the holidays when I did a deep study into false gods/idols in the Old Testament. I've tried to show others but so many people just don't want to know the Truth. I just can't go back after seeing the Truth. And honestly I feel much freer not celebrating the man made, pagan traditions.
Amen! Me too.
I also have found the truth and I won't return to pagan ways .. it was nice of you to try to share your knowledge of what happened to you .. sadly people don't want to hear the truth ..
man made holidays, none of it has anything to do with JESUS, but a lot to do with the devil turning people from TRUTH, just like the word santa,just the devil in desciss same letters as satan.LORD JESUS HELP US ALL
Amen
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Three days ago SUNDAY PHYSICAL RESURRECTION WORSHIP day was GREAT !
"" I AM the RESURRECTION ! ""
John 11 : 25
From a personal standpoint, my faith in Jesus Christ as a child was strengthened because my parents had always told me that there was no such thing as Santa Claus. . that raises a lot of eyebrows until I explain this. . if my mother and father were not willing to lie to me about a myth. They certainly would never lie to me about the truth.
Good on your parents!
I told my kids Santa was created by someone imagination to replace Jesus Christ. Santa is only imaginary in tradition of good fantasy, like batman, Superman, and Mickey Mouse, who are not real. Nothing in the world such of those people with all the imaginary powers. Imaginary Santa can blur and twist the truth purpose of Jesus coming to the world, and the spirit of the darkness has brought it so that human beings will get lost and confused in Satan's lies.
I so wish my parents would have told me the truth. This has carried on for generations. It's hard to break the cycle. Now our precious grand children are believing the same. I don't want to hurt their feelings. I try to ignore them when they speak about St Nicholas. I want their parents to tell them the truth but after them being raised believing at what age do they tell them the truth?? We love our Savior Jesus and know his actual birth isn't Christmas. I as a grand parent homeschool the 2 youngest boys. They're both 5 years old. I'm trying my best to make them righteous. This is hard.
I agree 💯 with ur parents and if God ever give me children, I will tell them the SAME EXACT THING
AMEN
You describe your parents' belief in the divinity of Jesus as "the truth."
What makes you think that your parents know this to be "the truth"? It sounds like they believed that Jesus is who the Bible says he is. But that speaks only to what your parents believe. Surely you recognize that, without evidence, what they happen to have been raised to believe has little to do with what may actually be true.
Have you simply done what they did? Just go along to get along, the truth be damned?
If so, that's pretty lame.
A church asked me to give a devotion on the Christmas story. I asked him to help me by giving me scriptures that I could use. he gave me luke 2, and while I studied luke 2, i learned something, luke is not a story of xmas. its astory about salvaton, redemption, adoption, forgiveness, and the mercy of God that rains down on the just and the unjust. this message confirms what I always beleived.
Jeremiah 10:2
Thus says the Lord:
“Do not learn the way of the Gentiles;
Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven,
For the Gentiles are dismayed at them.
Read jeremiah 10:3-4
Its about christmas trees believe it or not.
"The noblest virtue is not tolerance, but righteousness!"
"The most important thing in life is not what is possess, but what you believe!"
"The goal of life is not personal satisfaction, but the goal of life is the glory of God... that the blessing of life."
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MacArthur has a net worth of $15 million. "Not what you possess"? Yeah, right.
@leezaslofsky4438 the Bible does not forbidd someone to have wealth, it's how the wealth was gained #1 and #2 how its being spent #3 whether you help out the poor or not.
I just had the best Christmas ever. The wife and I went down to Bicol province in the Philippines and had the privilege of feeding and giving gifts to 150 kids at her brother's church. If I want something, I'll buy it. Sharing my blessing with other's is priceless. Jesus is the Reason for the Season, not 🎅
Let's not forget, I am the reason for the Season. Jesus had to come for my sin.
Its nice what you have done! anyhow there are peoples that do this every singel week during the year or at least each month, then ? they celebrate the birth of the Lord Jesus eact time they do this?
Just be CHRIST centered 24/7 even on Christmas and Easter (pascua).Lets celebrate the WORD becoming flesh, the washing away of our sins and the resurrection to eternal life.
Exactly. The christ is intangible and becomes flesh when ANYONE is begotten of the Fathers incorruptible seed. The christ is formed within us as literal biological Sons of Elohiem. Is it not said YE are eloheim (little e). The christ (glory of YHWH) in YOU is the hope of glory. Christ is not flesh until its risen in us as Sons.
Ephesians 6:12
King James Version
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Church! Come out from her! Stop being yolked with her. End your adultry with her! Learn to walk in the Spirit! Be the City on the hill. Be the Light to the world! ❤
Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, nor recieve of her plagues. . .
I stopped celebrating Christmas over 30 years ago. I don’t miss the fluff part, I just miss getting together with family to have fun. For some reason it never happens at any other time of year ! As Christians, we should get together more, just for good fellowship and fun year round. I thank Jesus daily for coming to earth to save me. I carry that gratefulness in my heart always.❤
For all those who are debating for or against christmas - maybe we should all go read Matthew 7: 21-23 and let that sit on your heart a while. Just because WE say it is for Him doesn't mean He will recognize it.
I h8 the way Christmas is celebrated but if we acknowledge it for what it is...just a civil holiday, not having much of anything to do with Jesus, then why should we fret so much over it? We have Thanksgiving, 4th of July, Mother's & Father's days etc. They are not commanded by God, but if they are observed responsibly, there is nothing inherently wrong. What IS wrong is trying to make it what it is not. The fact that so many perpetrate the myth that it's our Lord's birthday makes Christians beliefs totally unbelievable. I personally try to express God's love in EVERY circumstance. Frankly my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.
@@mamamia4745 See that's the point. Over the past 15 years I have heard/witnessed more pastors and believers champion the "reason for the season", which is suppose to be Christ. They started doing this because cities, town halls, and schools were being forced to stop having nativity scenes. Plus, they complained Xmas was just so commercial now - all about buying stuff and getting stuff.
So it's hard to not fret when civil society wants separation of church and state. But the Church insists that the only reason for this "civil holiday" is the one and same person they are trying to deny.
How about this. If the Church really wanted the State to stay out of it's festivals for God and Christ, they should return to the original week long celebration of Sukkot and Passover.
@@paulwiederhold7629 Actually there are many Messianic temples which do that! Best wishes.
Such edifying words. I forwarded this to 10 people today. I pray they receive it.
How many ppl replied to you agreeing with you?
I’m not being sarcastic. I really want to know.
One so far but again what’s important is people read it. its time for people to stop playing Church and become fully engulfed in His word and practice what they read in scripture so they can truly know what our Heavenly Father requires of us to come to Heaven.
@@darlenemungo5483 Ephesians 2:8,9 We do not 'earn' our salvation inorder to have a place in Heaven. Jesus, on the cross shedding his blood for our sins is the works part of salvation and when I acknowledge that He paid the price with his blood and death for my sins and express from my heart and mouth my trust in that fact, that He died for me and I invite Him into my heart, then God honors that and I am 'born again' into His kingdom. He comes, in the Person of His Holy Spirit, to live in my heart and makes me a new creation!
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@@stephenhagen234 I gotta say, I never really got that whole "sacrifice" thing. The guy had one lousy weekend, I'll grant you that. But where is he now? Running the universe? For the rest of time?
That's not a sacrifice. That is the best deal ever!
You show me somebody who wouldn't take that deal, and I'll show you an idiot.
Sacrifice my ass.
always pray and never give up ...God is working...are you listening
Sorry to be the one to break it to you, Johnny, but countless studies have shown that intercessory prayer has no impact on those who are prayed for (for one example, see "Prayers don’t help heart surgery patients," Harvard Gazette, March 30, 2006).
The best advice for people who want to make the world a better place? Get up off your knees and actually do something to help others. Otherwise, you’re just wasting your time.
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Honoring the resurrection of Christ is a noble act. After all, Jesus broke bread, gave it to his disciples…and said “do this in memory of me.” I honor his sacrificial death and his victorious resurrection. Amen!
That is why even though Christ healed and feed many people He still been crucified because the world can’t accept this kind of preaching. Only to those who believe . ❤❤❤ thank you Father God that you reveal yourself through your Son. Trully you are Holy Holy Holy .
Christmas is a pagan celebration that was adopted by the Catholic cult and now has infiltrated the true church. Jesus was not born on December 25th, the pagan sun god is the one who’s been celebrated on December 25th around winter solstice since the time before Christ.
1 Samuel 15:15 And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”
1 Samuel 15:22 So Samuel said:
“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
Where in the bible does it specify Jesus birth date. It does not. And no this is not my interpretation. Its what's in the bible. Please wake up people before its too late. Christmas and all holidays are way of the pagans. Ways of man.
Jeremiah 10
King James Version
10 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
True. However, life begins at conception and Jesus came into the world via Mary’s conception during Hanukkah. He did that because He was showing Himself as God above all the gods. He did that in many ways throughout the Bible and the story of Hanukkah is a true story. Miracles still happened between the old and the new and Hanukkah is mention in the Bible-the portico at the Feast of Dedication.
True.
The date ist not specified, but the counting of the people was certainly not in winter time and the Sheppards were sleeping outside, when they saw the angles sing. Pretty sure, they did not sleept outside in wintertime. Can be cold there, too.
@@simonrudat9371 Luke 1:5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
Just follow the timeline according to the division of Abijah and do the math..
I wish I could sit and have a conversation with Pastor MacArthur. He is one of the last titans of the Gospel and true Godly wisdom.
Such a Knowledged man
Me too so I could straighten him out on the Bible
Mac Arthur he does believe Jesus be came a human, his a false prophet 2 John 7 Many deceivers have gone out all over the world, people who do not acknowledge that Jesus Christ came as a human being, Such a person is a deceiver and the enemy of Christ 8-9 Anyone who does not stay with the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it, does not have God. Who does stay with the teaching has both the Father and the Son. I listen his video and I no his false prophet
Careful, that's what alot of people thought and said about Ravi Zacharias.
@@richardthompson7431 I read scripture every day. I never heard any deviation from scripture by JM. Can you be specific?
This is powerful because I always hear things in our culture like “you can do anything”, and “we need to learn more tolerance.” It’s good to remember that these philosophies are not from God, even if they seem “good” on the surface.
Don't forget "nothing is impossible for God"
"Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:" Deuteronomy 12:2 KJV
Truth of God’s word can only be found in His word….. in the Bible!
It’s the truth and nothing but the truth that God gave us through your words.
Thank you Brother
Blessings and mercies
Christians with the negative responses to the celebration of Christmas are contributors to the enemy's efforts to quench the Holy Spirit working in hearts that might just soften to the Good News that Christ died for their sins. I celebrate Jesus and His coming to earth to be among us and show us what God is in human form. That is why I think Christmas is important.
The joy and excitement I experienced as a child from Christmas and Santa Claus has been replaced with that same childhood joy by the good news.
Thank you Jesus for working through Pastor MacArthur and his church and making his sermons available on CZcams
It sounds exactly like the world I'm living in John....what a sermon...I loved every word spoken John...may GOD BLESS YOU 🙏🙏
We never lied to our children about Christmas. I taught them the Truth of God's word. We did not celebrate pagan christmas. We took a lot of verbal abuse from our families, but they are lost sinners, so that's not surprising. I'd much rather please the Lord, than gain the approval of men.
Thank you. For this sermon. People have forgotten about our Lord Jesus Christ. Parents must stop lying to their children.
lol Grinch lol what a moron has been never change poor guy
Yes, not to mention the hidden subtleties of evil in the name Santa being an anagram of Satan.
Let us all Christians celebrate the holy things of God and the devils lies together once a year because we love God so much. Have mercy on us!
Exactly. whenever i talk about it, i am told that i should celebrate Jesus and leave the rest. But how can i ignore the fact that we are commanded not to worship God in the way that the heathen celebrate their gods? Jesus wasnt even born in december, and so many other gods are celebrated at this time. Why should i add my Jesus to their celebrations? Jesus categorically told us what to celebrate, and it is not his birthday.
Thank you pastor MacArthur, I haven't celebrated a Christmas for about 17 years and I feel free, spiritually financially mentally physically and it's not because I couldn't afford it it was because I realized the lies in it and the myth and that's what the word says liars will not enter into the kingdom and don't follow the myths of men, 💞 but I learned to respect everybody's decision about Christmas do not let no one judge you on the holidays on the Sabbaths on what you eat and what you drink, and I have learned to do just that, some of my family members wants to do Christmas , go for it,
Christ's birth was never given , it was not even told to celebrate it, what was told to do was to love God with all your heart all your mind , soul,
love each other as you love yourself, do people really love each other even on Christmas? Not even on Christmas Day, or Christmas Eve, is their love in a man's heart? Some they're full of pride proudness greed always seeking for themselves, for me its a day of sadness, to see so many people that are lost in the world, even though I am not perfect and I do whatever I can to help anybody, I know that if I have not right with God I am a lost soul also, but I'm glad I'm alive and I'm glad I have peace and I'm glad that our heavenly father has Mercy and Grace on this wicked 🌎, but one day all that Mercy and Grace will end for the wicked, God Bless 🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏻🌍
Angels celebrating his birth is not precedent enough for you?
God saw fit to record two accounts of his arrival, Angels, shepherds, parents, old saints in the temple,
Magi on a long dangerous journey--
All rejoicing at his arrival--and His enemies troubled by it.
Seems good reason for me to celebrate
@@johnbullard902 You are so right, John. When God celebrates, THAT is important and we should take note and do likewise!
When I was born again, it surprised me to discover that Christmas was celebrated in the church of God. Considering the roots of Christmas and Easter, it's vile to attribute these doctrines of demons to the Lord God Almighty. Ì asked Him how He felt about it and He answered me. My desire is that all Believers would get the revelation. It's like chocolate coating a turd and presenting it to your love ones. The picture God showed me was much worse than that.
@cowboys just because the Bible say so. Lie is a lie
Hello John,
I’m gona comment but I’m not trying to argue at all. I respect others and what they want to do. It’s between them and God. But we did a huge study on Christmas and Easter and man it’s Not what it seems.
I’m totally in for celebrating the Bible and birth of Christ. But that wasn’t dec 25.
The reason we do not celebrate Christmas is because it was not originally for the Birth of Christ. If you go back Dec 25 is a pagan holiday. It was morphed into what you see now by the church giving in. Do you know the puritans knew it was pagan? It was actually illegal in the USA in many states until into the later 1800’s.
Television morphed Santa into it. The trees, the decorating the trees are all old pagan rituals.
God said to beware of your vain traditions. He does not like praise being mixed in with other stuff. The Israelites went in they were to get it ALL out. Take down the high places.
Did you know the coloring of the eggs for Easter came from pagans that sacrificed children and used the blood to color eggs in a fertility ritual?
All I’m saying is there is a world of knowledge to be had. I know a lot of people that don’t celebrate Christmas and a lot more that do.
I treat them no different. People think they are doing good. But once a person knows I don’t think I could go back to celebrating it.
I’m not Perfect in any way. I have to call on the Lord constantly for help. He is faithful to us.
Only God knows what is pleasing to Him!! Although HE left His Word for a pathway for us.
God Bless you!!
Ps
I’m not trying or wanting to argue sir so please don’t take this comment that way.
Thank you
Amen, amen and amen all honor glory and praises to Almighty God in the Name of Lord Jesus Christ hallelujah hallelujah glory hallelujah Amen
Thank you Dr John, Explains so well the rebellion in the world against our Lord and Saviour.
Don't wait for christmas to celebrate the coming of the Christ. Without his coming no death burial and resurrection.
Thank you Jesus. You are Truth and no good live in me.
Thank you sir - this is the best Christmas message I have heard in a long time.
Pastor McArthur your speech Makes sense to me. Thank you for the upload.
Amazing approach and explanation of such great matters in 17 minutes. Thank you Ps.John MacArthur. I thank God for your life.
Merry Christmas. Starting the holiday with some mindfulness exercises...going through the book "30 Days to Reduce Stress" by Harper Daniels. Feels good. Relaxed.
The truth of god
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God, in His word says Ho Ho, and says flee from the land of the north.
Zeachariah 2:6
Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord.
Santa says Ho, Ho, Ho, and tells you to lie to your children and tell them that Santa Claus brings them presents from the North Pole.
Satan or Santa? The letters are the same.
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"" I AM the RESURRECTION ! ""
John 11 : 25
I had a neighbor lady who lived by me awhile back. She had lost everything. She knocked on my door. All she needed was a roll of toilet paper. I GAVE IT TO HER. Not long after that she passed on. Thinking back I also asked if she needed anything else. She said no I am grateful for this with a smile. I did not have a clue how bad it really was in her life.
Did you tell her about The Good News?
A truly beautiful story. What a good Christian you are! To part with a roll of S-paper so willingly. Thank you! I now know how I shall live the rest of my life. Today I will buy a big supply of S-paper to hand out to all who need it!
@@leezaslofsky4438 ok - Mr sarcastic! We get your point - and in all it's sarcasim it makes a good point - so thank you!
@@natnielsen8472 I am deeply moved by your generous praise.
@@leezaslofsky4438 Ahh...I was deeply moved to laughter - at your sarcasim. 99% of the time sarcism is not my thing, but the post was such a post that most people would have been embarassed to share it. Almost thought it wasn't real - so reread it again. Then I read your reply! I am thrilled that you'll be supplying your whole community as needed!
I chase after the HOLY GHOST daily sir as i workout my own soul salvation daily with fear and with trembling daily sir
Since Christmas is a big enough deal to God that he dedicated much of a chapter in the Bible to it (Luke Chapter 2), I think I will continue to honor it.
Thank you, even me I never celebrate and enjoy Christmas since I knew the truth . Thank you Lord. John 8:32 The truth set me free and my family, God bless you for this message.
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@@lighthousewc1 the Grinch is yet another mytho;ogical creature.Get in to the REAL world!
Excellent point from 11: follow the True God. my friends keep the truth. 📖☺👆
Luke 11:13
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”
I understand what he’s saying, and Christmas HAS been commercialized. I work in retail & see this every Christmas season at work. However, if John would look back in history, there really was a Saint Nicholas who helped the poor & gave gifts to children. That’s where the Santa Claus idea came from. I grew up believing in him, until I was about 7, but at the same time I also knew Jesus is the real reason for the season! He came, shed his blood on the Cross to pay for our sin & rose gloriously 3 days later! 🙌🏻😇 For people who don’t know the Lord & just get caught up in the Christmas rush, they long for it to be over, so the day after Christmas, they take everything down. But for us as Christians, the celebration of Jesus’ birth continues all year long! Same thing with Easter. These are the two times of year many people who’d otherwise not go to church will often go if they’re invited. Always invite any and everyone you can to church!
It’s so much worse than commercialization. It’s pagans killing their own babies as a sacrifice. They would have a big bronze statue with its arms out. They would build a fire in it and get it red hot. Note the red. It would also have a hat on it. Much like a Santa hat. Note the hat. So they would go to the statue and ask for stuff they wanted and then put live infants into the arms of the red hot statue and they would burn alive and melt into the lap of the red statue. What does “Santa” look like? Where do kids sit on him? We are getting played by Devil worshippers. They get us to empty our bank accounts and blaspheme our Elohim. That’s just the start. The Christmas tree is garbage too. Easter is really Ishtar. They used to kill infants and paint eggs with their blood. That’swhere dying eggs comes from. We are lied to about almost everything. The hypocrites who Yeshua argued with, did their fathers work (Devil) didn’t just disappear. They are still here doing the same things they did back then.
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Do you really believe that Pastor John (notice in humility I give him the title that God gives him, yet you refuse to and simply call him 'john') do ou believe that he doesnt know the history of "Santa Claus'. A learned man, of diligent tertiary study, published works, theologian and minister, and you think he needs to look back further to understand that, yes, a long time ago, a saint did good deeds for the poor. I think brother you need to think about your words, for of course this learned man knows the history, he is not naive, nor uninformed. Yet you believe you are more informed that 'john' as you call him. Thus you fail to see the plank in your own eye, and try to pick the speck from anothers.
Truly Christ Mass, is tainted by the imagery of a man in a red suit, with large stomach, promoting that if you do good you get good and if you do bad you dont get bad, you just dont get good. perhaps it is more beneficial to teach a child that it is indeed bad. Not good, and that its nature will always be bad. It needs to obey. But it cant, its simply wont. Thus it needs someone to help it. It needs a real gift. It needs grace to learn humility and humble itself like a child. I pray you also do this. For as you try to elevate your knowledge above learned men, by proposing you know more, you simply expose the insecurity and pride in our own heart, by trying to pull others not only to your level, but again elevating what you deem as correct , above them.
Ps John knows the history of santa claus, i can assure of that.I hope you can take this criticism with humility, it is not an attack, it is said in care, for Christ corrects us when we are wrong. Am i Christ? of course not, could He be in me? He could. Can I confess that He is writing now and afford myself the risk of pride and boasting...no I wont.
That is for you to judge my friend if the words sound true or if your own pride flares up at being challenged, you are misguided
Gods Grace, Christs peace, The Spirit's humility
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Four days ago SUNDAY PHYSICAL RESURRECTION WORSHIP day was GREAT !
"" I AM the RESURRECTION ! "".
John 11 : 25
#1
I don't believe in his opening statement that he is insinuating that John MacArthur doesn't know the History about CHRISTMAS or
Santa Claus
#2
He even says that he understands what John MacArthur is talking about and he agrees in his opening statement that CHRISTMAS and
Santa Claus has been commercialized
#3
ANYTHING can be considered PAGAN at what point
Even WATER was PAGAN at what time by the Egyptians
Babylonians and many other groups
#4
Are we not going take a shower or drink water because it's considered PAGAN by some ?
#5
He ended his comment that because of CHRISTMAS and Easter many people are invited to come to church that otherwise would not come if it weren't for these two celebrations
#6
We CELEBRATE the BIRTH of
Jesus Christ and the
PHYSICAL RESURRECTION on a beautiful SUNDAY
( EVERY SUNDAY )
ANSWER
1st Corinthians 15 : 1 - 4
( EUANGELION ) in the GREEK for the GRACE of the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
( The CROSS )
His BURIAL ( NOT RESTED )
His PHYSICAL RESURRECTION on a beautiful SUNDAY !
@@porfiriojohn5276 It needs grace to learn humility and humble itself like a child. I pray you also do this
Amen Pastor John
This message is well worth the 17 minutes to listen to!
Thank you Joshua.
God, in His word says Ho Ho, and says flee from the land of the north.
Zeachariah 2:6
Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord.
Santa says Ho, Ho, Ho, and tells you to lie to your children and tell them that Santa Claus brings them presents from the North Pole.
Satan or Santa? The letters are the same.
We always took our new toy to show Baby Jesus on Christmas morning to church as little ones and there was always a crib scene at church which explained the beauty of Christmas to us little ones, and I did the same for our children. Santa was a brief harmless episode in our young lives but the birth of Christ was and is always central. I wish you all a peaceful blessed Christmas 2023 as we celebrate and contemplate the birth of our Saviour.
Boy are you indoctrinated
That's what they say about church and Halloween. "Oh we have an unholy day of wicked practices of Halloween to draw the people in. Then we tell them about Jesus. Good deal. They do the same thing at used car dealerships, as they compete with each other. The Messiah, Son of God, King of kings, doesn't compete nor will He ever compete or need to compete with anything of this world. Just practice telling the truth of righteousness and salvation, which overcomes and defeats sin. That's all you need.
@@jefferydumont430 when we study the first church in Jerusalem and that time, there was no "Christmas celebration". It is alright to celebrate the birth of Jesus as described in the bible. But at some point unbiblical
tradition started and fairy tale stories were mixed in stories such as Sanata Claus. God warned in Jeremiah
chapter 10 of worshipping false gods etc. Same chapter describes a tree cut in the forest and decorated etc.
much like a so called christmas tree and warned of it. Please take time and read it.
I will not have a false god in my home and I follow Christ Jesus and His word. Hallelujah!
@@Bill32H-it3svwow 😮
I agree. I was raised this way, my children and grand children. Our 2 youngest grands are 5 years old. How do I as a grand parent contradict what their parents have told them. I really wish my parents never started this. We wouldn't be telling the children today. Jesus is my Lord and Savior forever.
Thank you for speaking the truth so accurately and without holding anything back!
This part time preacher bigot would'nt know the truth if he fell over it.
Sorry but Jesus was not born on 25th December. Remember the three wise men travelled to Bethlehem and passed shepherds tending their flock at night. Back then no shepherds tended their flock in December/January as they were in their stalls beneath the home as it was too cold at night. December was chosen in the 4th century to convince pagans to convert to Christianity as Pagans celebrated the winter solstice in December.
No real Christian celebrates Jesus being born in December unless they do not know his actual birthtime.
A half truth, he neglected to mention the truth that God never gave the world Christmas. The true name of the holiday is called saturnalia, which in turn is the celebration of the sun god luc_ifer. Remember that it is he who decieves the whole world to dishonor God and receive judgement.
@@Peterwj9445 Correct Peter. In fact if you study the bible properly you would know it breaks Gods commandments to celebrate Jesus's birthdate in any way.
This man is like many clergy who deceive the flock and lead them away from God whilst pretending to be a man of God.
And again, the bible tells us of such false preachers.
@@saintsone7877 Correct, An easy one for folks who are unsure about the truth would be why if Christmas was to celebrate Jesus, why didn't they, he was right there. None of the scriptures record the celebration yearly of the birth of Jesus, not even Jesus. Can you imagine everyone celebrating your birthday and everyone getting gifts while you stand outside peering in through the window from outside. I just pray that people would desire the truth.
Thank You Heavenly Father for John MacArthur 🥰 Thank you Lord Jesus for his ministry ❤️ Thank You Holy Spirit for strengthening this man to speak Your truths 💕
He’s good but he does teach one big false doctrine.
He is not correct. His sermons are mainly based on what he wants the Bible to say and not what the Bible actually says.
@@eve3363 Once something is considered an act worship of God.Than it must come under spiritual scrutiny.Because has saturated the world with propaganda concerning God and his purpose.This guy was right about Christmas but he went back to other parts of the lie and accepted it.For example bible does not pin point December 25 as the dated God sent Christ here as a baby.Christ neither his apostles celebrated his birth.For good reason. read Ecclesiastes 7:1,2 God's reason why he does accept it as an honorable thing.
@@theodorefranklin2059 Exactly. Any Christian who knows the pagan roots of these holidays yet still choose to celebrate them have a lot to answer to on Judgment Day
@@eve3363 then PLEASE STOP celebrating everyone’s birthday as that is not in Scripture and don’t forget to throw your phone away too as Scripture talks about man making idols with gold & silver & metals as well as the trees!!!! MAN MADE RULES!!!! If you celebrate yourself & can’t celebrate Christ birth, your reasoning does not add up. The nations who ban this day are definitely pagan & anti-Christ. Scary!
Santa Clause is an idol
Exactly. Definitely not a 'harnless' myth. It's absolutely satanic to deceive your children into believing in some god like man that watches over them and brings 'rewards' for good behaviour. Teaching your children to break the 1st commandment just for the sake of 'harmless silly fun.'
So are Christmas trees.
Can be an idol
Santa Clause can not be an idol by definition because it is, at least in its current incarnation, an overtly secular tradition.
Let us honor and glorify God!
oh shut up
A awesome message the truth will set you free amen.
Excellent and absolute truth
Very true! We celebrate to entertain and to tell them why Jesus came into this world.
What an interesting way to justify pagan practices in the church. Crafty 😂
Jesus Christ did not come to celebrate pagan holidays such as christmas and easter. He also warned us about the false prophets who would come in his name in these end times.
Pastor John MacArthurspeaks the truth. God bless you, sir.
Amen, I know when I listen to this brother there's going to be a whole lot of truth & reality checks in his message, to the glory of God.
Get real. Go ahead, get mad. Who cares?
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"" I AM the RESURRECTION ! ""
John 11 : 25
Don't let the Indians hear you say "Puritans" @@Marquus55
Oh, to have people say the same of me! That's a wonderful compliment to JMac.
He’s a false teacher
Very powerful 👏🙌🙏
It is not my truth,your truth, it is actual truth that matters.
Exactly my dear, truth matter a lot, where are you from?
Your father monogamy is not your father, your only husband all in mongamy is not yours, your mother is not yours.. And thats made as you, you cannot change that lies.. Basically evil.. What evil stuffed by stiff heart criminals
.. on you will you tell its not my truth and walk away or criminals excecutable punished by law or God... On such criminals... Only there God exists too. God did not make criminals liars filthed me filthiest never repented, never felt that guilt.. Aversive... never were ashamed of doing filth on me... God after "Gods wrath" has killed all that filthed me dead...
I was told in church when I was 9 years old (50 years ago) that Jesus was not born on December 25th, I discovered the Church of Jesus Christ Christian in the 1980s on WWCR shortwave radio and there are sermons from Bertrand Lewis Comparet here on CZcams
I have been Pentecostal all my life, 71 years, 6 generations, and I have never heard prosperity doctrine preached in our churches. My husband traveled as evangelist and we had a wide scope of things. I know one Tv evangelist that preached that doctrine, but he also is trinity.
Christian Parents are responsible in teaching truth to their children so that even when they are expose to this world, they know the truth. I hear about santa when i was a child but was never taught about it. my parents never talk about him on Christmas and now that i am a parent, i never tell my children about him because i have not learned about him. We talk about Christ on Christmas month. Thanks Pastor John talking about the truth about Christmas. It's my prayer that people will listen to this message too.
Amen!! Thank you, and the power of your Christmas Message!
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LOVE YOU ALMIGHTY GOD AND YOUR ONLY SON MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST 🙏 AMEN
Body of Christ...
2023 there is going to be a storm coming.
Prepare yourselves for what's coming!
Whatever you do hold fast to the profession of your faith.
Remember we are in a race.
A race of endurance and perseverance.
No matter what situation you find yourself in hold on to your faith in Jesus Christ!
Buckle up!
It's about to get bad!
Merry Christmas Everyone
Jesus Christ is Born!!!
God's greatest gift to the world (the birth of his only begotten son).
Praise the Lord. His GREATEST gift was taking the sin of the world on Himself and dying for it ALL and raising from the dead.
Yeah but I don't think he was born on a pagan gods day
Praise the Lord Amen
Well, according to John Mac, it would be God's greatest gift to the elect. The non-elect have nothing to be grateful for.
@@overtcovert Christmas is a pagan holiday and nowhere in the Bible does it tell us to celebrate the birth of Jesus (Yeshua) Christ. First century Christians did not celebrate Christmas and even up to the time that Jesus (Yeshua) Christ was crucified and put to death. Christmas evolved from a Roman pagan festival named Saturnalia. Saturnalia was the worship of the god of Saturn. God does not like it when we worship false gods or idols. People forget what happened when the Israelites were at Mount Sinai when Moses went to receive the 10 commandments after leaving Egypt and after crossing the Red Sea.
Amen. Beatiful message the truth about Christmas.
Just another pagan celebration
Thank you Pastor John for preaching the word of God. Not your opinion, nor mine, matters. God’s truth alone!
I'm not a Calvinist but I've always liked John Macarthur. Love his teaching.
Me too...lol
1 Peter 1:19-20
King James Version
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Ephesians 1:4-6
King James Version
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Pretty hard to deny before the foundation of the world. And all the prophecies that came about in full detail spoken hundreds of years before each kings reign in Daniels prophecies. Scientist struggle to explain it. And no doubt why they rubbed out the "Bel and the Dragon" apochrypha from the 1611 bible. Not to mention most of Isaiah and especially ch 53. Which spoke in detail thousands of years before. God is all good but created evil. He allows the adversary to use evil to exhalt his goodness.
Exodus 14:4
“And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.”
All throughout his word he makes things as he desires them to become. Free will is a lie from the devil. To create more pride in us. How does this work? We began to belive we choose to do good when we do good. We then believe we chose to serve him and accept him and believe on the resurrected Christ. When we have examples like Paul. If it could come by knowledge of men through study of his word. Paul would have known. But he couldnt see it til the spirit of prophecy revealed it to him. THere is only one spirit . The Holy Spirit. But that Spirit person has traits of his spiritual person that he uses for different reasons.
Here we learn many of the Holy spirits traits that would come to rest on Jesus.
Isaiah 11:1 Context
1And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Here we learn that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Another words as it says in one place that we can not even call him lord except the spirit gives it to us.
Revelation 19:10
“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
1 Corinthians 12:3
“Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.”
And so if it has to be revealed to us by spirit. And he is the only door. Even accepting the "knowledge" preached doesn't work. It has to be a true revelation not just men convincing you.
Matthew 16:17
“And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.”
Used to say I wasnt a calvinist. Actually still pretty much say it because I do not follow men I follow Christ. I hate all the labels. But Calvin was definitley onto something way back then.
Exodus 33:19
“And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.”
Romans 9:16
“So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”
Doesn't matter how much I will my children or wife to be saved. Or even how hard and how much I fast and pray (run the race of the faith). BUt only if God sheweth mercy.
Good lucking running from the truth of predestination of God and his greatness and goodness. Its gonna be a hard row to hoe.
Same here. Say what you want, he's a straight shooter, and I personally need that message of accountability.
@@lilianhaggland2031 God, in His word says Ho Ho, and says flee from the land of the north.
Zeachariah 2:6
Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord.
Santa says Ho, Ho, Ho, and tells you to lie to your children and tell them that Santa Claus brings them presents from the North Pole.
Satan or Santa? The letters are the same.
If you're not Calvinist, MacArthur's myopic sectarian mind would paint you as a non-Christian. His view of the Church is small indeed (and very American).
"You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions." (Mark 7:8)
@Some One You do realize the Pharisees were keeping man made laws and traditions, not God's Laws. If you study the Old Testament; hand washing, eating grain, healing on the Sabbath we're NEVER laws of God. They are Talmud laws that Rabbis wrote to add to God's word. Mark 7:7-9, 13. Matthew 23:3. Mark 7 16-19. Jesus came as God's living WORD, God's Word, Torah (instructions/law) implanted in a repentant heart grows in obedience to God. Jesus was the Perfect example, follow Him. Lawless ones are children of the devil!
@Some One The Pharisees accused Jesus and His disciples of breaking the Law of God against HARVESTING GRAIN ON THE SABBATH. They were plucking it to eat, not working. Pharisees have volumes of books called the Talmud which add to God's Laws. They instructed people how to hand wash, keep Sabbath etc. These laws WERE NOT IN GOD'S WORD. If Jesus broke God's LAW He could not have been the Perfect sacrifice. Start at the beginning, study God's Laws. Then you might understand why God sent his son to die for us. It was because he divorced Israel, and in order for the Harlot to remarry God he had to die. it says that he will no longer be called our Master but he will be called our husband.
@Some One I don't follow John MacArthur, or other men, I follow God's word. If Jesus came and set us free, what did He set us free from? Sin, or the punishment of sin, or God's Laws and ways? Preachers teach Jesus set us free from all of God's impossible Laws, this is FALSE. Did He say sinners would not go to heaven? What is sin? BREAKING GOD'S LAWS. (1John 3:4). What is truth?(Psalm 119:142,160) Jesus said MY sheep hear MY voice. And what did HIS voice sound like? The only way to know for sure if He was God's true son would be if He kept and obeyed and followed and SPOKE GOD'S word. And the only way to know God's true children is if they do the same. This is why Satan and his followers are called the Lawless ones. Why do you think Satan's famous words are "Did God really say?" He deceives us into disobeying God's laws, feasts, and instructions. When the Lord comes back and some people are left behind and they cry "Lord Lord we did miracles in your name, we healed in your name, we cast out demons in your name; He doesn't debate them and say, no you didn't. When the door shuts he says, "Depart from me you workers of iniquity(LAWLESSNESS), I never KNEW (intimate marriage covenant) you. The full story of Jesus is a marriage covenant and it's told throughout the Bible. The people keep breaking HIS marriage covenant and keep on committing adultery with false gods. God divorces Israel, not Judah. God's law says that a woman cannot remarry a husband who divorced her, and she is not free to remarry unless he dies. so how does God save Israel? The husband (Jesus/God) dies so she can remarry Jesus. That's why HE drank the New Covenant with his disciples who wanted to live in Covenant with him. They were HIS bride because they wanted to obey, Judas didn't. Then he leaves promising to come back for his bride, who should be following his ways, not committing adultery with all these false Pagan things.
@Some One Faith may be where you and I disagree on the definition. The Bible also says faith without works is dead. So how is it that faith can be separated from works? It can't. Every example of faith given in the Bible, contains some action ( Abraham, Rahab, etc...) Faith or belief in His truth causes us to be obedient. I mean TRULY if you believe Sin is BAD, and God is Good, why wouldn't you try to stop sinning and walk according to His instructions. Who would benefit from your disobedience. I know it sounds exactly opposite then what we've been told by preachers today, but we are in the great DECEPTION already. Why do you think there are so many denominations? They are all following man made traditions. Follow what God taught. Deuteronomy 13:4 Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, fear Him, and keep (guard and protect) His Commandments, and obey his voice, and Ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. How many examples has God given us in the Old Testament about his judgement for disobedience? Jesus said in Luke 16:31 If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead. And in Hebrews 10:29 we are warned that our punishment will be even worse then for those in the Old Testament, if we trample underfoot the son of God. Do you really think that God is going to judge them on the law and us not on the law? That would be unequal weights and unequal measures, and God considers that an abomination. What is Paul quoting in Romans 10:6 when he says, " but the righteousness that is by faith says: DO NOT SAY in your heart, "who will ascend into heaven( that is to bring Christ down), or who will descend into the deep ( that is to bring Christ up again from the dead). but what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth. Or in Romans 10:4-5? for Christ is the goal of the law for righteousness To everyone that believes. For Moses writes for the man who practices the righteousness which is based on the law shall live by that righteousness. He is quoting Deuteronomy 30:11-16 Notice in verse 30:16 it says to obey His commandments so that you will live? That's what Paul means when he says you will live by them. That's Faith! And that' why people can deceive us if we don't know what's being quoted in the Old Testament. Jesus used verses in the Old Testament to stand against the devil. It is our firm foundation an unchanging word that can be used as a weapon to tear down the lies of the enemy. Start memorizing the OT scriptures, and the enemy will never be able to deceive you!
@Some One Christ died to be an atonement for our sins. We are all sinners, but Paul says you ONCE WERE fornicators and revellers Etc. Repentance is turning from our sins to God's WAY. HIS WAY, HIS LAWS, Jesus is the WAY because he is God's word (TORAH/ instructions) made flesh.
TOTAL TRUTH!! This man is a blessed Godly man by ABBA, through the Holy Spirit!! I thank my Father in Heaven for the TRUE teaching of His Holy, Righteous, Living, Breathing, WORD!! May God-Almighty BLESS everyone that hears this man, in Jesus' name I pray 🙏🙏 Amen.
by whose authority does this foul mouth part time preacher interpret scripture ?
I did die giving birth to my boy and I did went through this portal and stood before Jesus. Our spirit when leaving our body is just as easy as taken once shoes off.
Tell me more.
The Lord Jesus is celebrated at Christmas, along with the joy brought to little children through their imagination of someone special bringing them toys! Too soon they will learn the Truth about "Santa", but the Joy of the Lord will stay with them, as long as parents maintain a balance between the two. Pastor, you need to understand that both can be enriching to their lives as they grow. For you to deny the value of Joy in both cases is absolutely closed mindedness. Worship of the Lord and celebration of the Joy He gives to little ones are important to recognize as beneficial to children and adults alike. Amen
The fact that I grew up December 25 is Christmas Day but somehow when I received Our Lord Jesus Christ in my life, I found out that when Jesus was born was in a cool day and no month nor day.
Amen. Thank you Pastor John for teaching the truth of Christmas. God didn’t say a thing about Christmas in His words. That’s why in the NT there was no precise date mentioned about Lord’s birth! Thank You God for giving His true sheep Pastor John to teach boldly and steadfastly Your truth to Your true sheep! Very grateful to You, my dear God! All Glory Be To Christ, our KING!!!
I can never stop listening to Your faithful saint, God. The more I listen to Your truth preached by Pastor John, the more I learnt about Your words and how to live my life to You, and for You and before You, God. Hallelujah. Amen.
The facts we know from the Bible is that Jesus was born at a time of census and at time when shepherds were able to sleep outside. This points to autmn, after planting time, before harvest time. Is it a coincidence this lines up with the Jewish new years day, the Feast of Trumpets.
He gave information needed by telling about John the Baptist and when he was to be born.
@@crb2061 Sukkot. Feast of Trumpets is His return.
@cowboysbrother, Pastor John MacArthur only preaches about Lord Jesus and for the past 53 years , in the same church, Grace
Community Church , verse by verse explaining The Gospel truth. Praise Jesus. He is a faithful and bold saint of God. I thank God and I praise God that He has raised and kept Pastor John MacArthur faithful to Him and His words and His true sheep. Brother, I strongly encourage you to listen to Pastor John and follow his teachings and you shall know and gain the truth about Lord and The Gospel. I have followed him for the past 2 years and I have learnt so much. Praise God.
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This pastor just said "the lie about Santa Clause does not do much damage". For a pastor to make that statement is very telling. He also said truth is absolute then at the end tells us it's ok the celebrate a lie (Dec 25, etc). Christmas brings out a lot of emotions in people but it's not truth. God is all truth.
Truth is absolute like he said
He said it might not be no big deal the he proceeds to say it does damage later down the road.
He's come a long way. He use to believe in election only a few are selected to be saved and now he teaches John 3:16 God loves the world and all have the potential to be saved based on their belief in Christ. He only used Santa as an attention grabber. The man detest secular Christmas traditions. Especially Santa. He is the prince of expository preaching. Not many like him. The Mac...
@@michaelwilliams5395 I listen to him often? He continues to teach reformed 'Biblical' theology 🙏🏻
AMEN! TRUTH!
What good preaching of the Gospel.
Thank you for this! Keep on going the way……..
Fantastic preacher
I went to Wal-Mart, Cracker Barrel, and a local grocery store (part of a big chain), and I could not find even one Christmas card that mentioned the name of Jesus. I felt really sad.
Born again believers celebrating Christmas. One word. Syncretism.
As I read through the comments below, I was struck by the lack of love expressed by some towards their brothers and sisters concerning the birth our Lord and saviour. Truly God saw fit to not pinpoint the exact day of his birth into the world. The important thing is that he came. My friends please reread Colossians 2. Especially ver’s 16-17. -Therefore let no one judge you in good or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths.
which are a shadow of things to come, but substance is of CHRIST.
Celebrate our saviour as you see fit, as it is your choice, but celebrate his coming into the world to rescue us from our inherent sin. This bickering over a day of celebration is fruitless. Please reread this whole section of Paul’s letter and meditate on.
I wish you a very blessed Christmas. Blessing and Love to all.
Great message
so beautiful message, God bless. thank you for your preaching
MARY XMAS THANK YOU FATHER GOD YOUR BLESSING FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING HEAVEN AND EARTH.
I love to listen to your lectures because I love earing the truth plain and simple, thank you so much Jesus, Amen 🙏...
Excellent message and so needed
I have detested Santa for so long because he has stolen the real meaning of Christmas for so many people. Others think I am being miserable, but it has gone on too long. Love you Jesus
Look up St Nicholas of Myra , an early Christian bishop during the rule of Roman Emperor Diocietian . Most people posting here don't seem to have an understanding of early Christian church history.
@@100hm43700 The pastor here is not telling the whole truth. Christmas has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus (Yeshua) Christ. Christmas evolved from a pagan Roman festival called Saturnalia. The pastor did not once mention that. That's the real history of Christmas.
santa is an anagram for satan
@@SuperheroJunior exactly, it's pagan and men's tradition which we are not to follow
Santa is part of Yule.
You truly have and truthfully shared the truth.
The opposite is true. Struggling Christianity took over the logical pagan celebration of the lengthening of the days signaling the rebirth of the actual sun in that the earth's tilt, it's axis, causes the days to lengthen and spring and summer are on the way, saving man from the dead winter days.
@@jazzman1904 nicely said Bernard. He was born in the summer. We should all now that. It would make religion wurth considering again. Truth must prevail.
👏👏Thank you Pastor McArthur. 🕊✨️✨️🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you for such a salient message about truth.
I celebrate Christmas but Christ centered. Pastor John tells it right on, pertaining to what really is going on, great preacher of truth
That's nonsense for Xmas is not Christ centered.
Is a worldly tradition of man.
Don't fool yourself for it makes you a fool.
@@johndevisser903
Truth about Christmas czcams.com/video/5zcaQlBbk6s/video.html
What is this Xmas meaning?
@@johndevisser903 Celebrating the birth of our God as a man sounds pretty Christ centered to me. It's only what you make it.
@@johndevisser903 what ever you do do to the glory of God. For what ever is not done of faith is sin.
Which father won't be happy that their son throw a birthday for him.
If you understand what Christ did, the decision he took you'd see a reason to celebrate him.
Origin?? Even if the origin is of darkness I am celebrating in light.
Amen!
Thanks for sharing eternal truth.
nonsense ..
Literally speaking to myself right before watching this video saying that I hate how most churches make god and Christ into some “nice guys” but when I read the Bible they both are WARRIOR KINGS. They are power. Ultimate. Church feels so hollow to me and the messages are like motivation wrapped in Bible quotes.
I’m not a ‘good’ Christian. I’ve only recently felt conviction and desire to ACTUALLY change (pastor is right, I can’t change me) vs have an emotional experience that makes ME feel good. But when I read the bible (never read much before now. The bible app makes you lazy) I read authority and commands and direction.
I read about the HORROR of being outside Gods grace.
But it explains why He created things this way. It shows he gave free will for us to CHOOSE to love him. I’m not his slave by force…
…but i WANT to be His slave! I want to please him.
And because the Bible tells of Gods goodness AND the blackness of being outside of him, im THANKFUL for Jesus and the cross.
This pastor is a breath of fresh, conviction filling air.
@WatchMyVideoFor CovidTruth no. You misread. God and Christ aren’t “nice” to me. He’s a benevolent Lord. A just KING. But he’s portrayed as a nice guy you can walk all over and disobey at will and it’s cool because he forgives.
No. They ARE authority. It tells us to fear him and give glory. Not feel terror but Fear his authority and going against it.
But churches ONLY teach the nice guy. So people sin over and over never moving forward in their walk. They may be saved but their spiritual journey is stunted.
And God didn’t make us slaves because without free will to choose evil, our love and worship of him would be a lie, which he can’t except. But I..ME…wish I was a slave to Christ. I wish I could abide perfectly in him and submit fully, as a slave who loves their masters word. But I’m flesh so I don’t. That’s what I meant.
I really needed to hear this. All I knew about Christmas was opening presents and secret Santa. It’s the devils distraction of the bigger picture, Our redeemer, Our Saviour, Our Salvation, Our Lord Jesus Christ! Thank you JM.
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We don't know when Jesus was born. So that holiday is uh not accurate at all. It was made for a secular reasoning with a covering of Jesus birth. We celebrate God everyday, and understand Jesus birth as an important explanation of why he is righteous.
@@zulmycruz you are exactly right.
@@zulmycruz John the Baptist was born at Passover, 6 months later is the Feast of Tabernacles, that's when Messiah is born.
My Dad said to me if you arrange the letters of Santa around you get Satan.
It isn't fun to believe in Santa because it takes the children's eyes and hearts off Christ who really knows if you have been bad or good.
Lighten up a little your taking life far too seriously.
Nope. It means Saint in Latin and Spanish and some other languages. God said all who believe are the saints. Are you a devil?
So? You can rearrange a lot of letters in words. God is dog spelled backwards.
Lying is a sin. There is no excuse for it. Santa is a false Christ who encourages love of mammon and empty standards of morality.
There actually was a St. Nicholas. He was an orthodox Catholic bishop known for his charity towards the poor and punched out an Arian at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.
Beautiful video, merry Christmas