Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard Sunday, December 6, 2009

Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?

If you feel guilty about anything in life, you have sinned. So rebound and then either stop doing what you are doing or gain the appropriate mental attitude from the Word of God.

Satan wants to discredit everything that has to do with God and tear apart Christian fellowship.

Satan's objectives are to:

Satan's objectives are to: 1) Draw us away from God,

Satan's objectives are to: 1) Draw us away from God, 2) Thwart God's purpose,

Satan's objectives are to: 1) Draw us away from God, 2) Thwart God's purpose, 3) Deny God glory & honor,

Satan's objectives are to: 1) Draw us away from God, 2) Thwart God's purpose, 3) Deny God glory & honor, 4) Destr oy us.

His strategies are:

His strategies are: 1) Direct our attention to needs or desires,

His strategies are: 1) Direct our attention to needs or desires, 2) Choose his time,

His strategies are: 1) Direct our attention to needs or desires, 2) Choose his time, 3) Create doubt in our minds,

His strategies are: 1) Direct our attention to needs or desires, 2) Choose his time, 3) Create doubt in our minds, 4) Lure us into a debate, John 8:44

His strategies are: 5) Deception, Rev 12:9

His strategies are: 5) Deception, Rev 12:9 6) Create division,

His strategies are: 5) Deception, Rev 12:9 6) Create division, 7) Destroy us.

We should never judge the decisions of another Christian nor condemn them for their faith. Rom 14:5-10; Col 2:16; James 4:11

Col 2:16, “Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.”

1 Cor 9:23, “I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.”

Reasons why some believers do not celebrate Christmas.

Reasons why some believers do not celebrate Christmas. 1. The Christmas Tree was used in idolatrous celebration and is an abomination according to: Jer 3:13; 10:2-4; Isa 44:14-15

For the mature believer there are no idols in his life and he can be around what others deem idolatrous, but he is to do so allowing for grace. 1 Cor 8:1-10; 10:19-31

2. Christmas is Commer- cialized and Materialistic.

2. Christmas is Commer- cialized and Materialistic. Unfortunately this is true. Yet, if our Christmas celebration was so pagan, why is Satan attacking it like never before?

The giving of the Son of God who became the babe in the manger so that He might become the man of the cross and one day reign on earth with the crown should not be forgotten.

Satan and man distort and ruin everything in life, the Bible, sex, marriage, the church, food, everything. Yet, we don't throw things out just because the world distorts them.

We are in this world but not of this world. Phil 3:20

Communion

Grace Offering

Grace Fellowship Church Grace Fellowship Church Sunday, December 6, 2009 Tape # 09S-049 Should Christians Celebrate Christmas? Communion Rom 14:5-10; 1 Cor 8:1-10; 10:19-31; Col 2:16:17 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2009