“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his
name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21
Not all Christians celebrate Christmas, it does not make
them weird, or strange, or even hateful, nor does it make them non-Christian.
See, Christmas is a pagan holiday it is not a “holyday”. Christmas is not really
about Jesus, His birth, nor is it about Jesus period, it is a secular holiday
that the world make-believe it to be about Jesus. If Christmas was about Jesus,
it would all be about Him and nothing else. It certainly would not be about a
fictional man named Santa Clause that people lie to their children about being
real. No, I am not rude, I am not a scrooge, I am a Christian and a Pastor that
believes it is a sin to lie, even to lie for fun is still a sin. So, you do
what you want, it is you that will one day account to Jesus Christ (the real
giver of gifts) for your sinfulness of lies. I will not argue about it, because
God said, “For thou shalt worship no
other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:” Exodus
34:14 I know what people say, “I don’t worship Santa Clause” well maybe
you do not, but you are teaching your children to do so by lying to them.
However, with all that said, let us look at the birth of our
Saviour Jesus The Christ. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, He had no human
Father. The bible says “And Jacob begat
Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. Matthew
1:16, it does not say Joseph begat Jesus, it says Jesus was born of Mary.
But Jesus was a person, a real person, He was born of a woman that carried Him
for nine months. Listen to this scripture very carefully, “And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come
upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also
that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.”
Luke 1:35 I believe that when Luke wrote “The Holy Ghost shall come upon
thee” it means that the Holy Spirit put the seed of God in Mary to cause her to
be pregnant, because we all know it takes a male seed to make a woman with child.
The words “shall come” means – to influence – and the word “upon” means - as a
relation of distribution – then the scripture goes on to say “the power of the
Highest shall overshadow thee” meaning - to invest with preternatural influence
– and if you look in the Greek you will find two of these definitions comes
from the Greek word “epi” which is the third one “upon” which means - as a
relation of distribution – which tells me the Holy Spirit delivered the seed of
God into Mary’s womb creating “that holy thing” in her womb “which shall be
born of thee shall be called the Son of God”. This is why Mary was surprised
that she was pregnant because of verse 34 “Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a
man?” I believe Jesus was more than the Incarnate Son of God, but that
humanly speaking He was God’s Son humanly as well as deity. Jesus never loses
His sonship, and fleshly He was and is still the fleshly Son of God as well as Incarnate.
As God’s Son in the human body He was born without sin, lived without sin, and
died only with our sins. This is how He could be born, grow, learn, weep,
suffer pain, and die. God cannot because God is immutable, even the second part
of the Godhead the Son. We know that the Holy Spirt raised Him from the grave, “And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice,
he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said
thus, he gave up the ghost.” Luke 23:46 The things Jesus went through
God could not have gone through because of His deity and immutability only the
human Son of God could do these things. So, God the Father gave Him a name above
all other names, He gave Him all glory, and He gave Him His rightful place in
heaven, the throne on the Father right.
God did all this because He loved us, and He sent Jesus to
die for us, therefore Jesus is our Saviour. Santa Clause has nothing to do with
Jesus because he is fictional, and how dare people belittle our Glorious
Saviour with a lie. The same goes for anything else for salvation, it belittles
Jesus, his birth, life, sacrifice, and the entire meaning of Saviour. Folks, we
had a Saviour born of a virgin woman, by the seed of God, sent from God to wash
our sins by His blood, please do not belittle our Saviour. “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried
our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted…But
he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:4 - 5
