Objections of Christmas Justifiers Answered!
Objections of Christmas Justifiers Answered!
Objections of Christmas Justifiers Answered!
Mike Jeshurun
OBJECTION NO.1
Are you saying saved people will end up in hell because they practice
Christmas? This is not possible. But, if you are using the word 'Christian'
to mean the nominal unsaved person who thinks they are Christian, then
he will end up in hell anway, regardless of Christmas.
“the nominal unsaved person who thinks he is Christian, then he will end
up in hell anway, regardless of Christmas”. This is the most sickening
statement one can make with regards to preaching. The nominal
Christian will wind up in Hell anyway, so why make a fuss about
anything?!
Who the elect or the nonelect are, is none of our business. The
commission He has given His servants is to preach the Gospel to and to
warn every creature, and they certainly have not fully obeyed until they
bid their hearers "Repent ye, and believe the Gospel" (Mark 1:15).
Whom God quickens, is His own affair; ours is to faithfully warn all the
unsaved, to show wherein their sins consists, to bid them to throw down
the weapons of their warfare against Him, to call upon them to repent
(Acts 17:30), to proclaim the One who receives all who come to Him in
faith.
OBJECTION NO.2
“This is a very harsh thing to say. Most have no idea what Christmas is.
They cannot just be condemned out of hand”.
This may have been true say even ten years ago, but anymore. With the
coming of the ‘Information technology’ at least 90% of all so called
Christians know or at least have heard that this festival is spoken against
by many Christians the world over. Last year our own secular ‘Daily
News paper’ had a full page article questioning the origins of Christmas.
And this is one of the reasons that I did not take any pains to reiterate
what many Christians have already exposed, i.e. the roots of all that goes
with this Pagan practice….the tree, Santa Claus, the Star etc.
And the Holy Spirit is faithful to lead all His elect into ALL truth. And
should a newly born again Christian hear for the first time that
Christmas is Pagan then it is his bounden duty to examine whether it be
so! Ignorance is not bliss in the Christian walk!
OBJECTION NO.3
“And what of those Christians who hold Christmas just as a holiday?
They do not use it as a disguise... it is just a holiday time”.
The true Christian is not content with having no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reproves (EXPOSES) them!
[Eph 5:11]. To stick your head in the sand and pretend everything’s okay
and have a ‘holiday’ is no mark of a Christian. What is written
concerning the Head is also true concerning all those who belong to the
body ….i.e. “The zeal of Thine house hath eaten me up”!!!
OBJECTION NO.4
OBJECTION NO.5
“Yes, you are right to give the truth... but must be careful not to appear
to be hateful towards the brethren”.
The Psalmist said, “Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness:
and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break
my head” [Psa 141:5]. And the Apostle asks – “Am I therefore become
your enemy, because I tell you the truth”? [Gal 4:16]
OBJECTION NO.6
“We know, that many who are believers follow silly or even evil ways.
But, it does not mean they are lost, or that God will destroy them...”
Sure there are many true believers caught in sin who are praying for
deliverance. But the stubborn Christian who justifies this pagan
celebration is not one who is helplessly caught in sin, but one who
deliberately is suppressing the truth in unrighteousness and is
determined to offer strange fire before the LORD, which He commanded
us not [Lev 10:1,2]. The Lord Jesus came to save His people from their
sins not in their sins! In all His dealings with us God acts in grace, but
His grace ever reigns “through righteousness,” and never at the expense
of it! [Pink]
“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and
forsaketh them shall have mercy” [Proverbs 28:13]. To seek to be
justified by Christ while deliberately following a known course of
sin, is one of the greatest delusions of the Devil!