A Short Christmas Message - Christmas Travesty – Pseudo Christmas Series

A SHORT CHRISTMAS MESSAGE - CHRISTMAS TRAVESTY – PSEUDO CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS IN SOCIETY

Well Christmas time is almost upon us again. Some people ignore this time and see it nothing but another holiday. Some see it as a means of satisfying the flesh in eating and drinking and getting drunk. Some consider it a time to meet with family and friends, give gifts, and to be happy.

Those in the commercial world see it as a time to make great profits in their businesses. Generally though, the world places Christmas in the box of family, riotous gluttony and drinking and fulfilling selfish aims.

Well, what of the Christian? How does the Christian understand Christmas? Some downplay the event because of the great materialism attached to Christmas, and realise that the birth of the Lord was most likely in August or September because shepherds were on the hills and fields, a thing not done in winter (not in December).

Many Christians go to church and celebrate what the First Advent was all about – the birth of the Saviour of the world. They sing Christmas carols and look at the biblical references to the birth of Christ such as these two –

{{Isaiah 9:6 “For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us, and the government will rest on His shoulders and His name will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.”}}

{{Isaiah 7:14-15 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. Isa 7:15 He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.”}}

Christmas plays are enacted and Christians are happy with rejoicing and enjoying their Saviour and friends and family. This is because of the “good tidings of great joy” that the angels spoke of. Joy is a condition that comes through the Holy Spirit in a person’s life, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

THE COUNTERFEIT HAS COME

For everything in this world that is good and is of God, the devil has his counterfeit. It is what’s false and is manifested in many aspects around us such as –

Creation. The counterfeit is evolution.

Marriage. The counterfeit is homosexual marriage.

Male and female. The counterfeit is over a dozen gender distortions.

The one true God. The counterfeit is idolatry and false gods of money, etc.

Has Christmas escaped this counterfeit? No it has not. Christians honour the Saviour and the Hope of mankind, the Lord Jesus Christ. Satan has his counterfeit known as Santa Claus. Santa Claus has replaced Christmas in carols, in schools and in shopping centres. Santa has become the hope of the world as he gives out gifts and overtakes children’s minds to distort truth into fiction.

Some shopping centres used to have beautiful window displays of the Christmas scene and I remember magnificent ones of those as a kid. Now all that is discarded, thrown away, replaced by Santa and reindeer and glitter and bling. A growing number of children only know Jesus Christ as associated with swearing and nothing else, but they all know who Santa Claus is.

Santa has become the great counterfeit for Christ. Mr Christmas rules Christmas just as the pagan nations discarded the knowledge of God to make for themselves idols of wood and gold and silver. It is all about transference. You take your creation and decorate it with expensive materials to make it more valuable then transfer to it the honour and worship that belongs to God alone. In the materialistic world they may not do that with wood and silver idols but it is done in prestige and possessions and behaviour, and bank balances. People worship the false; the flimsy insecurity of this world’s standards. The cross of Christ is the world’s Christmas tree.

Just as Santa is false, so too are all the natural beliefs of people. When a person and people replace God, then the vacuum must be filled by the substitutes. More and more right now we see this in the developed world as it throws out the standards set by God, and substitutes what is false. Satan will always fill a vacuum. People’s lives are vacuums because the knowledge of God has not only faded; it has been deliberately legislated against. That is why you see Government enforcement of homosexuality and abortion and the sexual destruction of our children and the stupidity of WOKE practices by people supposed to have intelligence.

Pseudo-Christmas is all that is false about Christmas; the first advent of Messiah. We as Christians hold to the biblical truth of the inspired word of God. We believe the Saviour came into the world, was born of a virgin, born in Bethlehem; the promised Son of David, Christ the Lord. Any system that would negate any of that and set up substitutes and honour creation more than the Creator, is false; pseudo beliefs of a fallen race of people.