<TITLE>06. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 Now, no doubt if I would've heard that text read for Christmas message, I'd said, "Now isn't that a odd Christmas reading? The... My purpose in doing this, was to bring the church something perhaps maybe a little different, because that on the radio through Christmas you'll be hearing the familiar old story over and over of the wise men coming from the east and finding the Christ Child, and the adoration of the shepherds, and the appearing of the star, and all these Christmas stories that go to make up our religious belief of today. And they're all very well; now, I'm grateful for that. But I thought in the church this morning... And probably our pastor, maybe tonight or next Sunday will be bringing a message something on that. And I thought then to give the people a--a change of some other view from--about Christmas, that I would... I chose this text. Now, just a few words...

L-25 And now, I see you're changing places, some standing, some setting, and that's--that's nice. And soon we'll have room so we can't... Sorry we can't let these aisles be filled, on account of the fire marshal won't let us do that. But we'll have a little addition very soon, the Lord willing. They're already started on it, and--and that's as soon as we can we'll have it up, and it'll be a different place altogether when it comes to the material part of the place. There will be really none of the old tabernacle showing. It'll be there'll be stained glass windows, there'll be brick veneer around it. There'll be... It'll be altogether different. But the old building will remain here, because we got a purpose for that. See? "Let the old walls remain." See? And we're just going to cover it over and put stone around it, and so forth, but it remains just the same.

L-26 Now, Christmas... I wish that really the people would--could understand in this world, what really Christmas is. Now, the first word Christmas is a--a kind of a Catholic expression. It means "Christ's..." C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s," (See?) "Christ's mass." See? It was ordained or was begin with the Roman church. And Christ was no more borned on the twenty-fifth day of December than I was. Huh. It's just a complete conglomeration of dogma. That's all there is to it. "The whole world," as the prophet said, "has become a putrefied sore." That's right. Just it's just no clean thing nowhere. Every holiday is backed up by an... Why, Santa Claus took Christmas' place, the birth in the manger. The rabbit, and chicken, and new hats took the resurrection. And where does God appear in all of this at? See? The reason of this is because that man and commercial...
Why, they started buying Christmas present months ago, and what is it but a heathen trait. There's nothing about it godly. Oh, they try to say, "Give gifts, to the wise men." That's just a--a oasis for a devil's excuse. You want to give something, it's your life to Christ. Don't give to one another; give it to Him. That's what He died for. That's His purpose of coming. See?


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