Alright, Oh PVC online a ministry of old past Baptist Church in Northfield, Minnesota, and we are live here it is it's it's Christmas and I'm working overtime I'm working holidays here. I I'm working holidays and what I've what I've been told what I've been told is That That Holiday pay is double time. It's like double time and a half or something. I don't know. I've never been paid it before. So I'm just, I just, I just found out from some serious sources that that's, that's double time on holidays, man. Right? So, and I'm working double time today. Right? Cause I got my broadcasts here at 2 p.m. and then I'm preaching tonight at 7.30. 7.30 p.m. So, I'm working double time on a holiday, double. Huh? Anyway, well, I hope you're all doing well. I could see that 19 of you are watching on here, 30, 30 over on Rumble, 31. Let's see if anybody is on. Four people over there on, Sermon audio. Right? All right. Now, I've got an update for you. I try to follow the Lord when God leads me in doing his work. And the more I've studied the dissenters in London and the surrounding area, in England. I just do not believe that I will have time to go to Scotland. I just don't believe I will. I don't believe it's God's will for me to do that right now, for us to do that. I believe that God wants us to focus on London and the surrounding areas. Bristol, definitely Bristol. And I don't know if we'd have time to cross over to Wales right there. I don't know. But really, I'm telling you, London, the prisons that are there, Bristol, Litchfield, Keech's Meeting House, Bedford, There's a lot to do. Bun Hill, there's a lot to do. And I think I would be stretching myself far too much. And it might not be nice to the women's. And that Hispanic guy told me when I was preaching last year, you be nice to the women's. You be nice to the women's. So, I think I would be pushing them too hard. And also, I don't believe I can effectively do that in 10 days. I do believe by the grace of God that I can do London and the surrounding area in that 10 days. I do believe that. I do. I believe that narrowed focus will make a better, will make a better documentary, will gather better information. My mind will be more focused. And I can get through the material that I need to get through. And I just, God just really nailed me on that today. When I'm, I'm reading some books on the dissenters and I have been the Baptist. I'm reading something on the Baptist right now. Oh my goodness. I'm going to read this. I think I'm going to record it in a studio, have Andrew record it, crisp it up, and I'm going to use it along with the footage. Okay? Over in London, because it's phenomenal. I'm reading it and how the Baptists were treated at that time. And I'm reading the dying words. By the way, here's another thing out of this. Remember when I told you, look, if you can tell I'm excited, I always am, but I am excited about this. I was reading Bun Hill, the book on Bun Hill, I was reading it last night. And I started thinking about the dying words of the dissenters. Because Bun Hill Memorial has a lot of, it has a lot of dying words of the dissenters in it. And I was talking to my daughter, Mandy, about it, and I'm gonna have her compile the dying words of the dissenters. And we're gonna make a book of that and produce that book off of this. So not only is it gonna be the documentary that we do, but we're gonna work on the dying words of the dissenters. And we're gonna produce that book and make it available. Glean from these resources, pull them together and put them in a book. And she was pretty excited about doing that. And I think, because they're moving. I'll be reading some of them on site in London. But it is absolutely amazing. So there is so much, and I can see the Lord's leading in this. And I mean, January's next week. Next weekend, literally, we've got like 60 days to go. February 5th, March 5th. We're there. So we got a lot of work to do. So you pray for us. As we continue to put all this together, I mean, every night I'm reading for like two hours, just this, not the other stuff. And then I got, today I started reading, hold on a second, I'll show you. I'm telling you, I am so blessed. I have so many resources that God has provided me. between the collection that I've done for 20 years myself, and between what Brother Scott and others have given me over the years, just phenomenal things. But you know what I found out? I was shocked. I thought I had Joseph Iveme's four volume set on the history of the English Baptist. I don't. I have Thomas Crosby's four-volume set on the history of the English Baptist. So I have Scott hunting around right now for the four-volume set, The History of the English Baptist by Joseph Iveme, who, by the way, is buried in Bunhill Fields, Bunhill Memorial, okay? Anyway, this book I'm reading right now tracks on liberty of conscience and persecution by Edward Underhill. amazing. I'm reading through this and I'm like, this is it. This is the kind of opening I need to do before I get actually to the, when I get started reading some of this, it's phenomenal on the times that these men lived in. It's just phenomenal anyway. So, It's, it's something. Now, if you haven't watched our video yet, that explains kind of what we're doing. Hey, look, a penguin. I think that's what that was. It is somewhere around here. Right there. 2025 documentary trip. Okay. So we will be focusing and staying around London and England. It's just the best way to do it. And you pray for us as we do that. Brother Ross and Claire are gonna be meeting us. They're gonna be driving over. Ross is gonna be driving over. Him and Claire. They'll be meeting us. We'll be taking the train to a lot of places probably. Or the tube. The tube. Mind the gap. And we'll be taking The train possibly to some places too. We'll see how it goes. If we have to rent a car, we can do that too, or rent a vehicle. I don't think we're, we probably won't have to that much. But anyway, we'll figure all that out when the time comes. But anyway, so with a narrowed focus, I can get accomplished with what I believe the Lord is sending me over there to do. And it's simpler. wiser and we'll also be able to enjoy ourselves and not not push ourselves to the max traveling around and trying to meet a time limit that would be very difficult to meet, I believe. So this is wisdom and I have to use it. I've got to do when God sticks something in my gut and tells me this is what you need to do. I got to follow that and, uh, and use wisdom. And that's what I'm doing. So anyway, that's the direction we're going to go as we refine everything, you know, over the next, over the course of the next, you know, two or three weeks, we'll be refining things and narrowing things down and putting things and brother Ross is going to be helping me with that. And Harry's going to help over there with that. So, you know, we're going to be. working on that and everything like that. So you pray for us. And by the way, if you can give towards this, instead of putting something in somebody's stocking, well, you can give for this. And anyway, if you'd like to give, you could do it through PayPal, that is salvationpreacher at gmail.com. You can give through Venmo, pastorcoolieaticloud.com, or you can give through Apple Pay. You can text that number 952-210-2935, all right? Or Cash App, which I don't use a whole lot because that one dude says it's just, it's just ghetto app is all that is, but anyway. But also, I do have Coinbase if anybody has cryptocurrency. Also, but if you can't do anything, you can pray for us. I know you can do that. You can pray for us and ask God to bless us. And you know that he truly will. And that God would meet our needs and take care of us. All right? So be in prayer for us. Am I checking my list twice? I am, I'm checking it. I haven't found my double overtime yet, Luke. Right? I haven't found my double overtime. Still looking. Okay, so let me say hi to everybody on here. Gregory Pace. You get the honorable mention here on Rumble. Gregory Pace. Teresa. Daryl and Teresa. Daryl and Teresa are there. Although, Daryl and Teresa did send us chocolate bombs, just so you know. I didn't know there was a such thing as chocolate bombs, but if you're gonna get blown up, what a way to go! Huh? Getting blown up by chocolate. Now that's the way to go. If you're going out, go out getting blown up by chocolate. Huh? That's amazing. And Joey Mac, he's here. Marshall Mama's here. Mary's here. My wife is here. This is Bicey. Andrea. Frank reads books 21. Well, good for you, Frank. You should read some books. Baptist Not Ashamed. Luke Bicey. Okay. Let's see, who's over on YouTube? Who's on YouTube? Hey, my wife's on YouTube also. That's weird, they're on double, doing double time here. Gregory, Teresa, Carl. Carl's over on YouTube. Gregory, let's see, Pilgrim Lady. America Montes de Dosa is here. Big Whale. Big Whale. And Andrea's over there too. People working double overtime here. Ross Duncan. Nilta mims. I don't know what a nilta mims is. Is that a name nilta nilta? And jacob working double overtime Work a double overtime paying for corn cob. Okay. I'll flip back and forth depending on what I'm doing. Ah, okay. So there's 50 over here almost on rumble. 19 over there on YouTube. And nine on Servant Audio. Yep, Frank reads book said I used to watch you on YouTube, but I found rumble a lot better to find you on Because they were blocking you for a while. This is true This is true they still like to block me in fact I got I got a warning the other day and they want me to go to re-education camp and They gave me a warning the other day and said, you're going back to re-education camp. And I was like, look, I ain't getting on the bus. Whatever you do, don't get on the bus. All right? Whatever you do. Never let him take you to a second location. It's not going to turn out well. All right. Just make him kill you right there. All right. Okay. All right. Well, I guess we better get going here. Although none of you have anything to do today. Second Corinthians six. Let's get started. Why we don't observe Christmas. Cause you might wonder why don't you observe Christmas? Maybe you don't wonder, maybe you don't care, but that's okay, I don't either. I'm gonna tell you anyway. So, 2 Corinthians 6. We need to talk about separation. Here we go. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what conquered 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 has 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 I will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 1 Corinthians 6.15 says, Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid! You know, there are many reasons to abstain from the observance of Christmas. One main reason is that we can't find it in the Word of God anywhere. And I marvel sometimes as to why that is not enough for Christians. Why is that not enough for them just to say, well, you got a point there. Maybe I should rethink what I'm doing with this holiday. Right? I think the first main reason is nowhere in the scriptures are we told to observe Christ's birth. We're not told anywhere in the story of Christ's incarnation to worship him through his birthday. There's not one verse in the Bible that directs us to do such things. In fact, Our worship is strict, to be strict according to Scriptures, and we're commanded to follow the Bible. Turn to John chapter 4. But verse number 23, Jesus said in verse 22, you worship, you know not what. We know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. So, the rules of worshiping God are to worship Him in spirit and in truth. That's the principle that we're to live by. In our worship, It's to worship him in spirit and in truth. You know, that's important to remember because it's a guiding principle through all of our worship. It's a guiding principle through all that we do is that we worship God in spirit, and in truth. That's our guiding principle, right? That's what leads us. That's what guides us, is that we worship him in spirit and in truth. That should be what guides you. That should be what makes you say, you know what? That's what I should be doing. I should be worshiping God in spirit and in truth. Very important. Very important principle to remember, isn't it? Is it not? That that's what God would have us to do? Is worship Him in spirit and truth. You know, there's literally no record of Christmas observance before Rome's apostasy. That's another important point. Big Whale asks the question, I don't know why contemplating on the nativity is wrong. Well, first of all, the nativity is not generally right. The nativity that is put out by Rome and put out by most Protestants is not even accurate. It's not even the nativity. Most nativity scenes are not even scripturally correct. Most nativity scenes do not follow the Bible. They follow man. Right? Most of them don't. That's important to remember. Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. It was not celebrated, commemorated, or observed neither by the Apostles nor in the Apostolic Church, not for at least the first 300 years of Church history. It reveals that about 440 AD the Church at Jerusalem commenced the celebration of Christmas following the lead of Roman Catholicism. Thus the Babylonian mystery religions were introduced by Constantine. beginning in 313 A.D. and established a foothold with the holding of the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. The Constantine-led Roman Church was more than willing to adapt and adopt pagan practices in order to make Christianity palatable to the heathen. Constantine used religion as a political tool totally devoid of any true spirituality. Pagan rituals and idols took on Christian names. Jesus was presented as the Son of Righteousness, replacing the sun god Horus Temus Sol Invictus. Pagan holidays were reclassified as Christian holidays. Although Malachi 4.2 calls Jesus the Son of Righteousness with healing in his wings. We know that, but those pagan gods were modeled after the scripture, or they ripped off the scriptures. and took what truth it is about Jesus being the son of righteousness with healing at his wings, and adapted that to paganism, right? Pagan holidays were reclassified as Christian holy days. December 25th was the victory of the Sun God Festival in the pagan Babylonian world in the ancient Roman Empire. The celebration can be traced back to the Roman festivals of Saturnalia, which honored Saturn, the Harvest God, and Mithras, the God of Light. Both were celebrated shortly after the winter solstice, between the 17th and the 23rd of December. To all ancient pagan civilizations, December 25th was the birthday of the gods, the time of the year when the days began to lengthen and man was blessed with a regeneration of nature. Moreover, all of December 25th Babylonian and Roman festivals were characterized by a five to seven day celebration period of unrestrained promiscuous revelry and licentiousness. Okay. Let me get back to my other note. Because I believe we don't, one of the reasons we don't, the second reason we don't observe Christians, biblical Christians, and the reason why our church doesn't observe Christmas is because we maintain separation from Rome. We do not mix our religion, our worship of Christ in a ceremony or anything with Roman Catholicism. Rome is the harlot church. She's the false church. She's the woman that rides the beast. You know, 11 months out of the year, even the staunchest Baptist will hammer on Rome and its wicked apostasy. As well, they should. But for one month, they abstain from doing so and join in the festivities of what they call Christmas. I want you to think about the name Christ Mass. Where does the name Christmas come from? Christmas is a compound word originating in the term Christ Mass. It is derived from the Middle English christmasi, which is from Old English christismasi, a phrase first recorded in 1038, followed by the word christismasi. in 1131. Christ the genitive Christus is from the Greek Christos, a translation of Hebrew Messiah, meaning anointed. It's from Latin. The celebration of the Eucharist to form Christmas was also historically used. A celebration of the Eucharist. Wait. Really? Yeah. The form Christenmas was also historically used, but it's now considered archaic and dialectical. It derives from the Middle English Christenmas, literally Christian mass, or Xmas is an abbreviation of Christmas found particularly in print based on the initials chi, which is X, or chi, which is X, in Greek Christos. The X means Christ. Though numerous style guides discourage its use, it has precedent in Middle English. And exos masse, XO is an abbreviation for another word that I can't pronounce. In other words, X mass is supposed to be Christ's mass. Right? It's supposed to be Christ's mass. It's what it is. So the Catholic Church sees the Mass or Eucharist as the source and summit of the Christian life, to which the other sacraments are oriented. The Catholic Church believes that the Mass is exactly the same sacrifice that Jesus Christ offered on the cross at Calvary. Wait, you mean if I say Merry Christmas, I'm saying Merry Christ's death? Yeah. What do you think a mass is? Mary Christ mass. Wait, Mary Christ death? Mary Christ perpetual death? I thought Christmas was about his birth. What a bunch of witchcraft. Mary Christ mass? Mary Christ death? Right, what is the mass? Well, you don't observe the mass, do you? Mary Christ death. How many Baptists and Protestants would continue to do that if you walked around and just said the meaning of the word, right? Right? Okay, Webster's 1828 Dictionary says, the service of the Roman church, the office or prayers used to celebrate the Eucharist, the consecration of the bread and the wine. So is that what you believe too? Well, let's see, the Mass is the central liturgical service, not liturred, I didn't say liturred, liturred, liturgical, liturred, no, liturgical. The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church in which the bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ. Hold the phone. So when I say, marry Christ, Mass, that's what I'm saying? Marry Christ, death? Marry Christ, turning magically delicious? I'm turning the body and the blood, the bread and the wine into the body and the actual blood of Jesus? And I'm pulling him down from heaven? Wait, what does that have to do with his birth? Nothing! But hey, go ahead and shoot the messenger and get mad at me, right? All I did was look at it, use my God-given brains. Right? Just using my God-given brains. Say, well, I don't believe in Mary Christ's Mass. So, first of all, I don't see it in the scriptures at all. So that's why I don't observe it, number one. I'm not commanded to. What am I commanded to do? Remember the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ. Biblically, not through the Mass. And that's through baptism and the Lord's Supper that I remember those things. Jesus told me specifically how I'm to remember him. I mean, let me show you something. Actually, no, I wanna show you something else. Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. Okay? So then he said, in Luke, turn to Luke chapter 22. And I'm gonna, I'm just gonna keep teaching you anyway. We got another hour, whatever. I'm skipping around my points and having all kinds of fun, but that's okay. I can do that, right? It's all Bible. It's good. It's good for you. Luke 22 19. Now Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. Wait, let me go to one more verse. He said, this is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Okay? Now let's go back to Luke 22. What did he command you? Luke 22, 19. And he took the bread and gave thanks and break it and gave it, gave unto them saying, this is my body, which is given for you. This do in remembrance of me. Jesus told you how you are, how he wants, he commanded you how, if you are his friend, how you should remember him. Now do you think it's important to remember Jesus, how he commanded us to remember him? And he said, if you're my friends, if you love me, keep my commandments. And you are my friends if you do whatsoever I command you. So how would you like it if If you remembered, if your friend or your mom or your dad said, I want to always be remembered for this, but you remembered them for the worst thing that they ever did in their life, which that doesn't apply to Jesus because he never sinned. Or you remembered him, you remembered your friend in a way that one of his haters wanted you to remember him. So in other words, you're remembering Christ in an anti-Christ way. Do you think that brings honor to God? When Jesus said, do this, this doing remembrance of me, I want you to remember me in the Lord's supper. I want you to remember me. In baptism, I want you to remember me this way, but you decide to remember him in a different way. It's about separation, friend. I don't remember Christ the way Rome does. I have nothing to do with the mass. We're gonna observe the Lord's Supper on Sunday, and I'm gonna preach on it tonight, but we're gonna observe the Lord's Table on Sunday. And when I administer the ordinances to the local New Testament church, Old Past Baptist Church, I'm not turning the bread into his actual body. And I'm not turning the wine into his actual blood. Neither am I practicing consubstantiation, like the Lutherans teach, where the spirit of God is in the blood and the wine, or the blood and the body. No. Neither do I observe Christmas because I don't observe the mass. Because I have no truce with Rome. I'm not yoked with the harlot. God forbid that we should yoke with one who is an unrepentant murderer of the brethren, who shed the blood of our forefathers to sit down with them while El Papa tells you a Christmas story. No thanks. No thanks. Revelation 18. And honestly, this is the first time I've really talked about it this whole season. Because to be quite honest with you, I haven't had any time. I haven't really had time to talk about it. Got a lot going on, so haven't really had a lot of time to really deal with it. Nor did I really feel led to besides today. I was like, well, might as well do it today. Amen. Praise the Lord, we have 60 over here on Rumble. And we have 25 over on YouTube. 13 over on Sermon Audio. Okay, Revelation 18.2, And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon, the greatest fallen, is fallen, and has become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. And the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through her abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, that you receive not of her plagues. Amen. Revelation 18 5 for her sins have reached unto heaven and God hath remembered her iniquities I'm not having it's about separation friend. I'm not gonna yoke with Rome I'm not yoking with Rome. I'm not gonna worship with Rome See God's gonna pour out his wrath on them one day. And God Almighty is calling his people to come out of her, my people. Come out of pagan Babylon. Right? You think about this for a second. The word, let's, let's talk about the word Christ mass. It means death. Let's talk about that again. Right? The word mass means death and was conjoined originally by the Roman Catholic church and belongs exclusively to the church of Rome. The ritual of the mass involves the death of Christ and the distribution of the host. A word taken from the Latin word hasteo meaning victim. Charles Chinoquy talked about that, how Rome takes the host and they literally take control of Jesus. And they have power to bring Jesus down from heaven and crucify him afresh. What's Hebrews say about that? Let's look at it. If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucified themselves, the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. That's what they do, isn't it? They put him to an open shame. So, you know, the Roman Catholic Mass is performed by sacrificing Christ over and over again. Is that something you want to be yoked up with? You have to ask yourself that question. You're like, man, you're really ruining my fun. Well, you shouldn't have fun doing evil. You shouldn't have fun sinning, right? If your fun consists of sin, you need to get something new to have fun with. Correct? It's about separation, friend. Not only separation from Rome. What about separation from the world? There is such a grave danger in confusing an already confused people. The world is dead in trespasses and sins. See, some people look at Christmas as a way to get churchy, a way to get the world churchy, right? They're like, you know what? We'll get the world churchy. Let's do that, let's get the world churchy. You're not gonna get the world churchy. You're just gonna make the church more like the world. That's what's happening. You make the world, you make the church more like the world. Okay, let's turn to John 15. These things I command you that you love one another. Verse 17, if the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love his own. But because you're not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, and they will also persecute you. If they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. Question for you, my dear brethren. Has the world began to love Jesus? Does the world love the Jesus of the Bible? Well, I don't know. They sure do pay him lip service, don't they? Yeah, but Jesus said the world hates Christ. Has that changed? Here, let's see. of the United States, it's my tremendous honor to finally wish America and the world a very merry Christmas. For Christians, this is a holy season, the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. More than 2,000 years ago, the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary. He said, do not be afraid. You have found favor with God. The angel told her that she would give birth to a baby boy, Jesus, who would be called the Son of the Most High. Nine months later, Christ was born in the town of Bethlehem. The Son of God came into the world in a humble stable. Whatever our beliefs, we know that the birth of Jesus Christ and the story of this incredible life forever changed the course of human history. There's hardly an aspect of our lives today that his life has not touched art, music, culture, law, and our respect for the sacred dignity of every person, everywhere in the world. At Christmas, we give thanks to God and that God sent his only son to die for us and to offer everlasting peace to all humanity. And we recognize that the real spirit of Christmas is not what we have. It's about who we are. Each one of us is a child of God. There you go. Each one of us is a child of God. No, that's not true. That isn't true at all. but the Jesus that he worships, the Norman Vincent Peale Jesus, right? The one that accepts everybody, the one the Pope preaches, the one Cardinal Dolan preaches, the Jesus of the world. Right? That Jesus, they love. Do you understand? The world hates Christ. That's why they hate it when we preach Christ. Jesus said, remember the word that I said unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they've kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. See, that's not the same Jesus. Look what he said. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin. But now have they both seen and hated both me and my father. But this come at the pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law. They hated me without a cause. The world hates Christ. You can go back and listen to that sermon that I preached many, many years ago. The world hates Christ. Hates him. So when they gather around and they act like they love the babe in the manger, it's not the same one. See, the babe in the manger doesn't offend them. It's the Lord. It's Jesus Christ, the Lord that offends them. It's the preaching of the cross that offends them. It's the foolishness of preaching that offends them. 1 John 2.15 says, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loved the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away in the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. Where is the separation with the world? How can all these people that hate the preaching of God's word, that don't about the baby in the manger, but hate the Lord of glory. Right? And this is the condemnation that light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. You see, they wanna focus on the babe in the manger and mischaracterize Christ's coming. They wanna mischaracterize Christ's coming. because it doesn't bring them any conviction. But it's the preaching of the cross. It's the scandal of the cross that brings conviction. You know, we don't observe Christmas because we practice separation from the world. I don't worship God with the world. They don't know how to worship God. The Lord's church worships God in spirit and in truth. We don't worship God with the world. We don't worship the Lord with the world. because the world hates Christ. Just start preaching Christ in the public square and you'll realize how much the world hates Christ. Preach the Jesus of the Bible. Preach the Jesus that is called all men everywhere to repentance. Right? Another reason that we don't observe Christmas is because we should be separated from covetousness and idolatry. You know, these are some older statistics, but many people that are giving out of being forced through some tradition, that it's not giving from the heart. You know, some 45% of those polled a while back said the holiday season brings so much financial pressure. but they would prefer to skip it altogether. Almost half said their level of stress related to holiday expenses is high or extremely high. You know why? Because the same 45% of people say they do not expect to have enough money to set aside to cover holiday expenses. Did you know that, you know, InfoWars did a statistic many years ago and said that 90% of Americans celebrate either Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hanukkah. 90%. And Christmas in particular has become virtually synonymous with materialism. Years ago, the figure was that Americans would spend nearly $600 billion. With interest, what do you think it is now? Most of the money will be spent on Christmas gifts. The average person will spend nearly $800 on Christmas gifts. That was back then. I bet you it's like $1,500 now. People are wholly given over to materialism, charging money on credit cards for things that they can't afford. Racking up interests that they can't pay back. Buying gifts for people they don't even like. Right? They're buying gifts for people that they don't even like, spending money that they don't have. So why should you be a part of that destruction of your nation and of your economy, of just your own wellbeing and send the wrong message to your children? Are we not to teach them to be good stewards and not to rack up credit card debt and borrow for things they don't need and still can't pay off the next year? There are literally people that will be paying years on credit card interest of like 25 to 30%. High interest rates, paying triple what something is worth. Why should we be a part of that? Why should you and I? you know, be a part of that commercialization, that materialism, that really, that what it leads to, you know? Why should we? Shouldn't we be separated from that? Shouldn't we not have anything to do with that? It doesn't honor the Lord, none of it does. How does getting stuck in the commercialization, spending more money than you have, racking up debt, how does any of that have anything to do with celebrating Christ? It doesn't, friend. It doesn't have anything to do with it. It doesn't have anything to do with it. It's just an excuse to spend more money. It does nothing to help anyone. Here's another one. How about the separation from this weird thing that you hear, the spirit of Christmas? The spirit of Christmas. It's like, what in the world is the spirit of Christmas? I have no idea. The Bible says in 1 John 4, let's go there. Let's go there, 1 John 4. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby I know you the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God. Where did that come from, the spirit of Christmas? I see the fruit of the spirit of Christmas, and it's not the spirit of Christ. One Christmas, I read a newspaper article written by a reporter who had been searching for the meaning of the Christmas spirit, said one. When he concluded his quest, he rated this answer as the best. It's in your heart. It feels warm and glowy. You can't buy it, and you can't get it from anybody else. Really? It's the spirit of Christmas, you can't buy it. It's real warm and glowy. Is that like a burning in the bosom? Like the Mormons practice? Here's what Rosemary the psychic medium said. So here we are again, my favorite time of year, Christmas, that magical time of Santa, toys, children, trees, tinsel, elves, and Rudolph, carols, and turkey. It was the night before Christmas still sends thrills of delight as I think of my child waiting for Santa to come down the chimney a long time ago now. and magic truly in the air, the true spirit of Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or something else, perhaps even a different God, the lesson here still applies to you. This lesson is about the spirit of giving and receiving. So whether you celebrate Christmas or not, celebrate with me this Christmas time and take this month's lesson or apply it to your festivities, whatever they may be. We know that Christmas is a time for giving and receiving, a time to remember others less fortunate than ourselves, peace in the world, a time for families to end their quarrels and come together, a time to celebrate the birth of Christ. We know all these things and we know that this also is the true spirit of Christmas. Wait a minute. So Rosie, the psychic medium is telling you she has the spirit of Christmas and she really likes it. Right? Are you in the spirit, people say? Oh, you just need to be in the spirit. Well, there are two primary spirits in the world. There is the Spirit of God, and there's the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Ephesians chapter two. And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein in times past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past, in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. That's the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. That's the spirit of the world. That's the spirit of Christmas. That's why nobody gets offended by it. 1 Corinthians 2 12 though, tells us, now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Look, the spirit of Christmas is the spirit of the world. That's what it is. It isn't the spirit of Christ. It's not the spirit of Christ. It leads to worldliness and the world loves it. But I'm to come out from among them and be separate, saith the Lord. Look at all these people that are yoked up together. You got psychics, those that consult familiar spirits, you got the Pope, you got Roman Catholics. All these people. Right? That come together. Here's another one for you. Have you ever asked yourself this question? Well, I'll tell you what, here's what I'll do first. Hang on. Here's what I'll do first, okay? Let's play this first. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, you are quite the idolatry. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, you are quite the idolatry. Because they take you from the woods and give you decorations good. Oh, Christmas tree, oh, Christmas tree, you are quite the idolatry. Oh, Christmas tree, oh, Christmas tree, how warmly will I chop thee. Oh, Christmas tree, oh, Christmas tree, how warmly will I chop thee. Because there is no reason to Honor and worship only you O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree How warmly will I chop thee O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree me. Oh, thou art my bonfire free. For hours you have warmed me. Thank goodness for your resinous wood. It warms our house up really good. Oh, Christmas tree. Oh, Christmas tree. For hours you Okay, the real question that I have for you after you listen to that Obviously you can see we're mocking that but the real question that I have for you is what in the world Does a as a tree? Does a tree have to do With worshiping Christ Well nothing What does that have to do with Jesus' so-called birthday? Nothing. Jeremiah chapter 10. Justin Nielsen said this, they protected and defended us from the Ottomans. They stirred up the Ottomans, just like Rome has stirred up everyone to murder. The papacy is a bunch of murdering devils. Down with the Vatican! May God crush the Antichrist religion and destroy it off the face of the earth! May he melt it all with fervent heat and burn it down to the ground! It's wicked and Antichrist! Veil worship! Let it be accursed, and so say I now again. If any man preach any other gospel than that which you have received, let it be accursed. Cursed gospel of hell. Rome. No truce with Rome. None. Murdering devils. Jeremiah chapter 10. I wouldn't be a Muslim without them because I have the words of God. And let me tell you something, Junior. You want to hear something? Here's what I'll tell you, Junior. Why don't you do a little bit of study sometime instead of just talking Catholic talking points? Let me tell you, let me tell you that the Albigensis, that the Waldensis, let me tell you about the Novatians, let me tell you about the Donatists, let me tell you about all of them that lived alongside the Ottoman Empire and they were just fine. They did just fine until Rome got their greedy little hands in there and wanted the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. and they took the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. They wanted it and they stirred it up and they caused a war because they wanted to put their little temple in Jerusalem. That's what it was about. That's what the Crusades were about. That's why they slaughtered the Greeks, the Orthodox Greeks. That's why they went through there with the Crusades and slaughtered them. Don't give me Rome as some benevolent loving army. of murdering savages, and they always have been. And they have nothing to do with... I didn't come from Rome. I didn't come from Rome. You're looking at somebody that understands their history, Justin. I didn't come from Rome. Want to know where the Bible came from? You want to know where the scriptures came from? They came from Antioch. You want to know who had the scriptures in A.D. 130? The Vaudois. They got it from... Antioch, the Syrian, and they took it over to the valleys of Piedmont. And when Jerome came with his little popish, his little popish new Latin Vulgate and wanted to give them the scriptures, they rejected him and said, we don't need your bishops and we don't need your scriptures. So don't come on here and tell me about history, boy. I will school you like you've never been schooled in your life. Sit down and listen, son, or shut up and get off my broadcast. But you aren't going to come on here and defend Rome. Thank you. Now, moving right along. That's more history than you've heard in your entire life, probably. Now, back to what I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by some papist. Hear ye the word of the Lord. Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel. Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven. For the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain. For one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not. This is the Christmas tree. And right about now, there's somebody that's gonna say this, but that doesn't say Christmas tree. You see, that doesn't say Christmas tree, because this was written before Christmas tree. So that's not a Christmas tree. Well, if it looks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it stinks like a duck, if it's greasy like a duck, then it's a duck. It doesn't matter if you change the name of it, it's still a duck. Get it? That's pretty simple, isn't it? Yeah. So whether you call your duck a goose, if it's still a duck, it's a duck. If it quacks, it's a duck. Right? So, if you cut a tree out of the forest with an ax, then deck it with silver and with gold, and then fast it with nails and with hammers, you're observing the way of the heathen. It doesn't say you're a heathen. It says, learn not the way of the heathen. See, you're not gonna come on here and spit Roman Catholic history to me and expect me to fall for it. I'm not stupid. Number one, I'm a student of the Bible. And number two, I'm a student of history. And if you think I'm going to fall for Roman Catholicism as everybody came from the whore, well, you're just ignorant of history. Because all I have to do is go back to the great Donatus Schism. and the edict against the Donatists, and Constantine, and what he did in 300, and how he tried to install bishops over there, and how they rebelled against him, and how Rome apostatized from the truth. I already understand all, I already know that and understand it. And I'm not a Protestant in the sense of the Protestants who came from Rome. And God's gonna burn the bloody whore. And all her little bastard children do. Her little whores. Like the Church of England, who persecuted my forefathers, of which you'll hear much about when I get over to jolly old England. Smashing! Smashing, I tell you! Smashing! Henry Ward Beecher said this, to me Christmas is a foreign day, and I shall die so. When I was a boy, I wondered what Christmas was. I knew there was such a time because we had an Episcopal church in our town and I saw them dressing it with evergreens and wondered what they were taking to the woods. What would they were taking the woods to the church for? But I got no satisfactory explanation. A little later, I understood it was a Romish institution kept by the Romish church. Ah, Tertullian said this. He complained that too many fellow Christians had copied the pagan practices of adorning their houses with lamps and with wreaths of laurel at Christmas time. Oliver Cromwell preached against the heathen traditions of Christmas carols, decorating trees, and any joyful expression that desecrated that sacred event. William Bradford, the governor, tried hard to stamp out all pagan mockery at Christmas time. Christmas trees were not used at all in colonial times. However, if they were, they certainly have been forbidden. They would have been forbidden. In Europe, pagans in the past did not cut down whole evergreen trees and bring them into their homes and decorate them. That would have been far too destructive of nature. But during the Roman celebration, the Feast of Sant'Aurelia, Pagans did decorate their houses with clippings of evergreen shrubs. They also decorated living trees with bits of metal and replicas of their god Bacchus. Right. Many pagan cultures used to cut bows of evergreen trees in December, move them into the home or temple, and decorate them. Seven modern-day pagans still do. This was to recognize the winter solstice, the time of the year that had the shortest daylight hours and longest night of the year. This occurs annually, sometimes between December 20th and 23rd, most often. It is December 21st. As the solstice approached, they noticed that the days were gradually getting shorter. Many feared that the sun would eventually disappear forever and everyone would freeze in the dark. But even through deciduous trees, bushes and crops died or hibernated for the winter. The evergreen trees remained green. They seemed to have magical powers that enabled them to withstand the rigors of winter. In Northern Europe, The ancient Germanic people tied fruit and attached candles to evergreen tree branches in honor of their god Woden. Woden. Trees were viewed as symbolizing eternal life. This is the deity after which Woden's day was named. The trees joined holly, mistletoe, the wassobol, and the yule log as symbols of the season. All predated Christianity. Right. The first decorating of an evergreen was done by pagans in honor of their god Adonais, who after being slain was brought to life by the serpent Ascepolis. The representation of the slain Adonai was a Adonais, was a dead stump of a tree. Around this stump coiled the snake, the symbol of life restoring. From the roots of the dead tree then came forth another and different tree, an evergreen tree, symbolic to pagans of a god who cannot die. In Babylon, the evergreen tree came to represent the rebirth reincarnation of Nimrod as his new son, Tammuz. In Egypt, this god was worshipped in a palm tree as Baal Tamar. Heathen people in the land of Canaan also adopted tree worship calling it Asherah. A tree with its branches cut off was carved into a phallic symbol. Right! The fir tree was worshipped in Rome as the same newborn god named Baal-Bareth, who was restored to life by the same serpent. A feast was held in honor of him on December 25th, observed as the day on which the god reappeared on Earth. He had been killed and was reborn on that day victorious over death. It was called the birthday of the unconquered sun. Thus the annual custom of erecting and decorating evergreens was brought down to us through the centuries by the pagan Roman Catholic Church. The paganism of Temus and Baal or the worship of the sun mingled with the worship of Ascolapius, the serpent, whether erected in private homes or in churches, decorated or not, the evergreen tree is a glaring symbol of this false god. And of course, The mistletoe and wreath have nothing to do with Christ. Right? They have nothing to do with Christ. You know what I think is really interesting? You have a lot of these ministries out here that they're always, you know, They're always uncovering the Illuminati and paganism and, you know, all those things. Right? They're always uncovering that, aren't they? But when it comes to Christmas, I think most of them are pretty much, most of those pastors are pretty much afraid of their wives. And most pastors I think are afraid of women in their church, right? I think they're a little afraid of them. So, they don't talk about it. In pagan mythology, evergreen means eternal life and never-dying existence. Made from the evergreens, Christmas wreaths were frequently, most frequently round, which symbolizes the sun, just as do halos in most religious art. Hence, the round X-mas wreaths stand for an eternal sun and the circle of life. In addition, the round also represents the female private organs and is considered a fertility symbol. Get it? Because of these pagan associations, the Christian church was initially hostile towards the use of wreaths and other evergreen derivatives. But in the same way it Christianized other pagan traditions, the church has soon found a way to confer its own symbolic meanings. For example, a sharp pointed leaves of the male holly came to represent Christ's crown of thorns, and the red berries his blood, while the female ivy symbolized immortality. That's from Soulgrave Manor a Tudor Christmas. The tradition of the wreath extends further back than the beginning of Christian traditions. Pagan rituals of midwinter often featured a wreath of evergreen with four candles. The candles were placed in each of the four directions, representing the elements of earth, wind, water, and fire. Wait. Earth, wind, water, and fire. Wait, wait, wait. I remember that. You mean, you mean like this? Okay, that's, that's what it reminded me of. That's, that's it right there. That's what Captain Planet, I mean, I mean, just remember. That's what it that's what it was Captain Planet. That's you pagan you bunch of heathens Captain Planet bunch of heathens Learn not the way of the heathen That's white I mean right I Okay. The candles were placed in each of the four directions representing the elements of the earth, wind, water, and fire. Rituals are performed to ensure the continuance of the circle of life. You know, like the Lion King, the circle. Remember that? Yeah, that bunch of pagans. Man, I gotta quit yelling. Voices all dried out, yelling like crazy. What's the matter with me doing that? Why do you get so excited, preacher? It just reminds me of Timothy when you look at Martyrs' Mirrors. In Martyrs' Mirrors, it gives an account of Timothy. And Timothy, he was an old man. He got out there. He's like 50 something, I don't know, 60 years old. He got out there and he saw this long line of people going to this idolatrous worship. And he stood out there and he started preaching to them. He's a street preacher, right? So he starts preaching to them and he rebuked them for their ridiculous idolatry. And what did they do? They beat him to death. That's what they did. He died two days later, right? Okay. So, back to me notes anyway. Oh, look, it's almost four o'clock. Look, I can't do, look now. I mean, I got 10 minutes, but I can't do double time of double time Of overtime. I, I don't think that's, I, that's getting pricey. That's getting expensive right there. I mean, you know how much I, you know how much I gotta be paid to do that. I mean, you know what that is, don't you? What is that even called? Double, double, double overtime. Is that what it's called? I don't know. I don't know. Not yet I'm not, but I'm 351. Okay. The mistletoe. The use of the mistletoe plant, which is poisonous to both man and animals, can be traced back to the ancient Druids. The Druids were pagan Celtic priests. They're heathens. Just remember. No, no, I'm finished. I'm done. The Druids were pagan. They were heathen. The Bible doesn't use pagan. The Bible use heathen. Heathen. Okay, the Druids were heathen Celtic priests who were considered magicians and wizards. It represented the false messiah, considered by the Druids to be a divine branch that had dropped from heaven and grew upon a tree on earth. The mistletoe symbolized the reconciliation between the gods and man. And since a kiss is a well-known symbol of reconciliation, that is how kissing under the mistletoe became a custom. So a kiss showed reconciliation. and the mistletoe. So putting them together was that symbol that they used. The mistletoe being a sacred plant and symbol of fertility was also believed to contain certain magical powers. It was supposed to bring good luck and fertility, and even to protect from witchcraft, the house in which it hung. Mistletoe is considered to be a plant of male. Indeed, the white berries are reminiscent of the seed. That's all I'm going to say. Okay? It's reminiscent of the seed of man. It has feminine properties as well, however. It is also associated with the sun and the element of air. It is associated with the gods Apollo, Venus, Freya, Odin, and Balder. The mistletoe has use in spells to attract love. for protection, for luck while hunting, for forgiveness and reconciliation, to increase sexual potency in men and to help women conceive. Oh, so that's why like when they were kissing under the mistletoe or whatever, like that really doesn't have anything to do with Jesus's birth and all that stuff. And like, it has nothing to do with worshiping Christ. No, it has to do with worshiping fertility gods. Right. So it's actually the way of the heathen. Ah, right. So it really should be rejected then. Absolutely it should be. Is it by most people though? No. I will tell you the bulk of my Christian friends, pastor friends, they will not reject it. They will not. They accept it fully. They all walked away with nothing to say. They just lost their dearest friend. All that he said, now he was dead. So this was the way it would end. The dreams they had dreamed Not what they see Now that he was dead and gone The garden, the jail The hammer, the nails How could a knight be so wrong? Night turned into day And the stone was rolled away Hope rose with the dawn Shadows vanished before the sun Death had lost and life had won For morning had gone The angel star The kings from Othar The wedding, the water, the wine Now it was done He'd taken her son Wasted before his time She knew it was true She watched him die too Heard them call him just a man. But deep in her heart, all she knew from the start, somehow her son would live again. Then came the morning. I turned in today, and the stone was rolled away. Hope rose with the dawn. Shadows vanished before the sun Death had lost and life had won For morning had come Death had lost and life had won For morning had come. Morning had come. Hey, man, what a good song, huh? Man, that's a good one. All right. Look, I will play one more song and give you an opportunity if you have any questions or comments that you'd like to make. All right. Let's see here. How about... Though the angry surges roll On my tempest-driven soul I am peaceful for I know Wildly though those winds may blow I've an anchor that's safe and sure That will evermore endure And it holds, my anchor holds For your wildest in all care On my bark so small and frail By His grace I shall not fail For my anchor holds, my anchor holds I can feel the anchor fast As I meet each sudden blast And the cable though unseen Bears a heavy strain between Till the turning of the tide. Troubles almost whelm the soul. Reefs like billows over me roll. Tempters seek to lure astray. Storms obscure the light of day. But in Christ I can be bold I've an anchor that shall hold And it holds, my anchor holds Though you're wild it's still no kill On my back so small and frail By His grace I shall not fail For my anchor holds My anchor hold. Amen! All right, everybody. God bless you. Pray for us. We'll be back here, Lord willing, on Friday. Friday, 2 p.m. Central Time. You pray for us that God would bless all of that, and please be in prayer for our trip, which is a little over 60 days away. It's not that far when we start nailing it down in January of next week, anyway. Next Sunday, it'll be close to 60 days away. you pray for us that God would give us the time that we need and help us to get everything done. And if you'd like to give to our ministry, there it is right there. You can see it on the screen. PayPal, salvationpreacher at gmail.com. Venmo is pastorcoolie at icloud.com. Apple Pay, you can text it to 952-210-2935. Or you can mail us something at 1030 Highway 3 South, Northfield, Minnesota, 55057. If you can't give anything at all, you can pray. And you can ask God to speak to somebody else's heart. We still have needs and things that have to be taken care of for our trip here coming up. So you keep us in prayer, and Lord willing, we will see you again And by the way, I did this broadcast also to be an encouragement, because I know there are people that are not observing Christmas, and they're doing it because they love the Lord and they're following the scriptures. And they're hated by their brethren, they're marginalized, they're made to feel like garbage, and they feel bad because they're opting out of that, and there's a lot of pressure on them. So I want them to know that You know what? There's other people that are standing up for what is right and preaching the word of God. And for a pastor to take that stand, it's not easy. There's a lot of people that get upset. There's a lot of people that won't come to your church. There's a lot of people that don't want anything to do with you. And because you are faithful. So anyway, praise the Lord. So I do like coffee. Thank you. I'm going to probably drink some more.