Santa is Not Harmless Fun

In regard to the Santa craze, he is not a harmless fun cartoon character!

He is even worse than a lie, he is treated with god status, children pray to him, ask and expect miracles from him, look at him with longing worshipful eyes and every other form of adoration.

When we lie to children about Santa and the Easter bunny, we are teaching them to distrust us in subtle ways. Is it any wonder that children are not very interested in Christ when He brings a message of repentance and salvation through faith when we cannot see Him with our eyes, while Santa teaches them to be materialistic and base their assessment about relationships on how much someone gives to us and he is in every mall.

Christ is not on the lips of family members in the home frequently, but Santa is, which personality would we expect the children to love?
As a nation we are training our children to love a false god while ignoring and negating the One True Savior.

Christ Alone Can Save

God said:
Hebrews 13:5 "5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

"I will never leave you nor forsake you", I believe Him!

 

God said:
Deuteronomy 31:8 "It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

 

"he will not leave you nor forsake you", I believe Him!

 

God said:
Ephesians 2:8-9 "8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast."

"For by grace you have been saved through faith" I believe Him!

Anyone who tries to add works to their salvation on any level at any time, is living a salvation by works. We do not work to gain salvation, we do not work to keep it, to attempt to keep our salvation by not sinning would be saying that the sacrifice of Christ was not enough and we must help Him.

 

A "desperately wicked man" would have nothing that they could offer to help in their salvation.

Jeremiah 17:9 ""The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?"

The sacrifice that was acceptable to God could only be the perfect sinless God, nothing else would suffice. To think that any work we could do would help us, is the same as declaring Christ's sacrifice as insufficient.

 

Isaiah 1:11 ""What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats."

When Christ said "it is finished", that's what He meant, there is no more sacrifice for sin that could help anyone to "stay" saved. To say that we must work to keep what we didn't earn in the first place is to say that Christ is no capable of full, complete and eternal salvation on our behalf.

Jude 1:24 "Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,"

Christ was the only acceptable sacrifice for sin, the only One who could have paid the penalty that we owed. NO human effort of any kind could begin to pay for our sinfulness.

The Father of Lies

Satan is the father of lies, his lies are growing and more covert than ever. He disguises himself so cleverly to make the godly people think they are doing wrong while enabling and helping evil people to prevail.

Don't be discouraged by these people it is an end times problem designed to debilitate the Christian who is on fire for Christ. If we do not allow these people to control us, we can remain strong, serving God in obedience to Him.

If we allow the evil people controlled by the devil to influence our decisions or keep us in a state of doubt, we will be ineffective for Christ. Our best defense is to know the Word of God, pray continually and move ahead in our obedience no matter what these evil people are doing.

See the link below to learn more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLr4ZKJMHvo

Warning is not Fear

Have you been accused of being afraid for telling the truth about what is coming?
 
My answer to that is this: I don't believe those who talk about the mess we are in and what is coming are afraid, because I know I am not.

We warn others so they can turn to Christ and have hope, that isn't fear, it's courage. Those who are afraid will not face it, they will deny it or they will refuse to believe it.

Sleeping America

Why does it seem as though most of America is sleep walking, they are still calling our president "inept", "ineffective" and similar descriptions of his lack of empathy, love and concern for our country.

America is not going to get it! "O" is demonized, he has legions, this is the reason we don't see any form of authentic personality. His eyes are empty when we look at him, while the total lack of emotion and insight are conspicuously absent.

There is much more going on th...an a mere inexperience, it is monstrously demonic, carrying with it the dictatorial mentality that was demonstrated in Germany with Hitler. 
 

Hitler claimed to be a Christian too, every utterance from his mouth was a lie, just as with our present regime. There has been holocaust going on in this country for 40 years, 56 million babies have been murdered at the hands of doctors and mothers! And, we think that another holocaust cannot happen?
There is one coming and this time it will be people we can see, out of the womb, Christ loving people who are despised by Islam. Anyone who thinks it cannot happen here, has been refusing to see the obvious.

They Will Not Listen

When we read the accounts in God's Word about Lot and Noah, we see just how evil it was then and will be now, as we wait for the end. These accounts are pictures of the end of days. God said "And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man."

What was it like in the days of Noah and Lot? The people were doing everything they normally do right up until God closed the door on the ark, and right up until God took Lot out of Sodom,... just as they are doing now. 
 

In the days of Noah and Lot, no one wanted to hear truth, no one wanted to obey righteousness, just as it will be in the very end and is now.

Luke 17:26-36
"26 And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;
29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
31 On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back.
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
33 Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
34 I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.
35 There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.
36 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.”

Santa the False God!!!!

Satan comes as an angel of light appealing to the emotional side of our being.  If he can make us enjoy emotionally the idea of a fat man in a red suit, someone who travels all over the world blessing children with gifts, with fictitious flying reindeer, elves and other fantasy minions, it is hard for mankind to resist this kind of exciting sentimentality.  This Santa does miracles in the minds of the children, even more exciting than what Christ did, because he comes with presents and happy fun.

2 Corinthians 11:14 "No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light."

 

Since happy emotion is so enjoyable, it is hard to evaluate anything that is presented to us under these conditions.  Emotional sentimentality is addicting, it demolishes all reason causing those who fall into the mesmerizing obsession to hold fast to what makes them feel so wonderful, even fighting to maintain it the same way a drug addict has to have his next fix when he is coming down from his high.

Teaching children to love Santa, while at the same time teaching about Jesus is to lump Christ into the same category as any other cartoon character.  We see cartoon pictures of Jesus, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Bunny at Easter and other animated figures throughout the year, give the impression that Jesus is also a mythical cartoon character to enjoy. 

The gospel is hindered by this travesty, the Bible becomes nothing more than a book of suggestions by one of the cartoon characters and obedience to Christ is unimportant. After all, the children are told Santa is keeping a list whether they are naughty or nice, but never keeps anyone accountable to that list and everyone still gets to have their gifts, food and holiday fun, no matter how they lived that year.

Why do children have any reason to trust their parents when they lie to them about these characters?  Can we not see that making up stories for fun teaches children to make up their own rules while following their own desires above all else?

The standard for "good" in this life of fantasy is so low, it has no value at all.  Our present culture considers someone good if they are friendly or kind to people no matter what sin they are involved in.  Friendly and kind is defined by accepting sin and making no judgements at all about anything. 

Is it any wonder that this generation has no inclination to "obey" or "respect" anyone?  They were told all their lives that obedience was an insignificant matter, that we only honor those who say and do what we like and the enemy are those who attempt to bring accountability, submission or compliance to a standard that God has given in the Bible.

2 Timothy 4:3 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,"

Whether or not we celebrate the birth of Christ is between us and God, however I state unreservedly that teaching children to love Santa, is an abomination, it places Santa on a god status while enticing children to love someone who not only does not exist but also purports to teach salvation by self-effort. 

As a child the Bible accounts seemed exciting enough there was no need for the fairy stories.  Going with the world leads only one place and that is to hell for the unbeliever and a faithless and dead life for the believer. It has been the devils goal all along to confuse the truth, there is no better way to negate and demean Christ than to place Him in a manger as a helpless plastic baby while Santa is the savior of the world, bigger than life on every street corner, every mall and even in many homes, brining everything we want that pleasures us.

NO!!!! SANTA IS NOT HARMLESS, JUST THE OPPOSITE, HE IS A FALSE GOD CONCOCTED BY THE DEVIL TO DISTRACT AND CONFUSE.