Why Christmas? People seldom stop to inquire in retrospect why they believe the things they believe, why they do the things they do. They don’t know how they came to believe what they do. You might think about that sometime.
How did you come to believe the things you believe? How did they find lodgement in your mind?
What keeps Christmas going? Does it celebrate the birthday of Christ? Does the Bible teach it? You’ll be surprised to find that the Bible says nothing about it whatsoever. That you can’t even tell when was the birth of Christ. The Bible nowhere gives us an idea except that it had to be. It could not have been in the winter. It could not have been anywhere near December 25th. As I said, it did not appear into the Christian religion for 300 years after Christ in the 4th century.
But what keeps it going? It is the advertising of merchants. That is what keeps newspapers going. That is what keeps television and radio going. That’s what keeps the magazines going is the advertising. It’s the commercialism. And commercialism is a means of getting your money, of wanting profit, a commercial proposition of what can we get? And that’s what is keeping it alive.
Now, we need to go back to the very beginning to learn where it really started and the original cause and how we came to have the kind of world that we do. You know, people don’t seem to understand. Have you ever been interested in how you came to be on the earth? How did human beings come to be here? Let me tell you, we were put here and for a purpose. Science doesn’t know. They will never tell you. Religion doesn’t know and won’t tell you. Education is not teaching it and you’ll never learn in any college or university.
But it all begins in your Bible with the creation of man. God shut off the Holy Spirit or the tree of life from mankind until Christ the second Adam should come.
Now Christmas is one of the things that men have invented by their own acquired knowledge. Man leaning to his own understanding trying to create his own ideas of life. I just want to give you the facts.
I just want to give you the truth. I’m not trying to tell you what to do.
