Category: holiness of God

Fearing the Keeping of Holy Days & the Spiritual Bondage of Christmas, Easter, Etc

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Galatians 4:9-11King James Version (KJV)

9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

2 Peter 2:21King James Version (KJV)

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

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From the comment line:

Asa (6/12/2014)

from Arizona
“ Great Sermon! ”
Good warnings about bringing pagan and Old Testament worship in the New Testament church. The sun has risen the shadows are ALL gone ! Still Waters Revival Books (6/18/2014)

from Edmonton, Alberta
“ The Spiritual Bondage Of Christmas, Easter, Etc. ”
Well said Asa! The following quote is interesting and sadly demonstrates how far our generation of Protestant and Reformed churches have fallen into the spiritual bondage of keeping Pagan and Roman Catholic holy days, which are not authorized by God in the Bible: In 1899, the General Assembly of the PCUS was overtured to give a “pronounced and explicit deliverance” against the recognition of “Christmas and Easter as religious days.” Even at this late date, the answer came back in a solid manner: “There is no warrant in Scripture for the observance of Christmas and Easter as holydays, rather the contrary (see Gal. 4:9-11; Col. 2:16-21), and such observance is contrary to the principles of the Reformed faith, conducive to will-worship, and not in harmony with the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” – Kevin Reed, Christmas: An Historical Survey Regarding Its Origins and Opposition to It (Free Online Book at http://ow.ly/yacpW).

 

The Great Revival

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“The Lord hath made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.” – Isaiah 52:10

Suggested Further Reading: 1 Corinthians 14:26-40

In the old revivals in America a hundred years ago, commonly called “the great awakening,” there were many strange things, such as continual shrieks and screams, and knockings, and twitchings, under the services. We cannot call that the work of the Spirit. Even the great Whitefield’s revival at Cambuslang, one of the greatest and most remarkable revivals ever known, was attended by some things that we cannot but regard as superstitious wonders. People were so excited, that they did not know what they did. Now, if in any revival you see any of these strange contortions of the body, always distinguish between things that differ. The Holy Spirit’s work is with the mind, not with the body in that way. It is not the will of God that such things should disgrace the proceedings. I believe that such things are the result of Satanic malice. The devil sees that there is a great deal of good doing; “Now,” says he, “I’ll spoil it all. I’ll put my hoof in there and do a world of mischief. There are souls being converted; I will let them get so excited that they will do ludicrous things, and then it will all be brought into contempt.” Now, if you see any of these strange things arising, look out. There is that old Apollyon busy, trying to mar the work. Put such vagaries down as soon as you can, for where the Spirit works, He never works against His own precept, and His precept is, “Let all things be done decently and in order.” It is neither decent nor orderly for people to dance under the sermon, nor howl, nor scream, while the gospel is being preached to them, and therefore it is not the Spirit’s work at all, but mere human excitement.

For meditation: The Holy Spirit produces self-control, not loss of control (1 Corinthians 14:32; Galatians 5:22,23; 2 Timothy 1:7).

Sermon no. 185
28 March (1858)

365 Days with C.H. Spurgeon, Vol. 1. A unique collection of 365 daily readings from sermons preached by Charles Haddon Spurgeon from his New Park Street Pulpit.

Please Don’t Twist Matthew 7…

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A Call to Separation – A. W. Pink

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XMas by A.W. Pink

Sermon-A Holy God and Holy Days

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Deuteronomy 7:5King James Version (KJV)

5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

Two ways to approach celebrating man-made “holy” days:

unbiblical way-you can celebrate anything so long as God does not forbid it in His Word (yet, He does forbid paganism mixed in with the holy worship of Him!)

biblical way-you can only celebrate that which is found in God’s Word and only in the way that is according to His Word

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That’s right!

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God is into annihilation,

not incorporation,

of paganism

Dan A’s post on FB says:

For those that seem to not to be able to shake hold of the evil days of h’ween-xmass-ishstar/easter—

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 2 Corinthians 6:14-18

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. 1 Corinthians 10:21

AFTER READING THOSE VERSES PLEASE TELL ME WHY YOU THINK IT IS OK TO DO AS THE PAGANS DO. HOW DO YOU GET AROUND THESE GOD BREATHED VERSES? I REALLY WANT TO KNOW–

Overlooked Bible Verses by Christians at Holiday Time

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This Bible verse is interpreted as meaning meats sacrificed to idols by many commentators (Gill did this, for one) but that cannot be since we have liberty to eat these meats with thanksgiving (1 Timothy 4:3-5) and not to eat it if it offends a fellow Christian (1 Corinthians 8:13; Romans 14:15, 21). The word is to abstain-to utterly avoid it. In these verses there are no exceptions mentioned.

Acts 15:20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols…

and verse 29 that you abstain from things offered to idols…

How many Christians confess to knowing the pagan background of the things of X Mass and Easter? And then they go on to disobey God’s Word given at the Jerusalem Council… Even today, these polluted things are used in the idol worship of Wicca.

If you believe the verse means meats, or foods, then you are still in disobedience by the eating of it when it is offered up on the idolatrous christo-pagan days of X Mass and Easter:

Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Most commentators will say that the admonition to abstain from things polluted by idols means to not participate in the idol worship ritual but why not just say that? This is adding to the words of the Council’s admonition. We can turn to Acts 19:19 to see an example of what was meant by the Council:

Acts 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

They utterly destroyed their books to keep themselves from having anything to do with the things polluted by idolatry. Since there are no scriptures showing the decorated indoor X Mass tree, or colored eggs, used by Christians in worship to God, we can assume that He did not redeem these things polluted by idols for His worship or for celebrating His Son’s birth on a pagan god’s holy day. We must put these things away, even to the burning of them, if possible.

CHRISTIANS HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE…

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FTA: For decades* this Eastern-influenced moral relativistic metaphysical thought system has spread worldwide like gangrene. I think it’s safe to say that pretty much everyone has been influenced by Eastern mysticism in one way or another.

For more than 50 years now the New Age movement has reared its ugly head in the visible Church in ways you may find surprising. Inside many churches, shepherds have the sheep partaking in what Scripture deems sorcery, i.e. the magic arts, even though Scripture clearly teaches that God hates the ways of pagan cultures. In the Old Testament those who dabbled in practices that were expressly forbidden by The Creator were often destroyed by Him — every man woman and child. Gulp.

If you’re thinking “My God wouldn’t do that,” you’d be wrong. Think: The worldwide flood where God destroyed all living things that’s found in the book of Genesis.

Article by Marsha West

*Actually, since the Church began via Gnosis

hattip: The Word Like Fire