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The Christ Of Christmas
By Gordon
The Forces of today’s culture are attempting to remove Christ from Christmas.
They pressure us to say “Happy Holiday” instead of “Merry Christmas.”
If you believe the world’s focus should remain on Jesus Christ during this holiday season, you need to be capable of offering reason why He is worthy of that honor.
What would you say if a friend asked for your reason for worshiping Christ?
In Matthew 16v13-16, Jesus asked His disciples who the world thought He was. To this very day, the world still offer many different answers.
We should tell people that its not just this day December 25 that we give honor to Jesus Christ but through the whole year every day.
The Bible offers us a great deal of ammunition to help us tell the world who Jesus Christ really is, and why He is worthy of our worship not only at Christmas time, but during the rest of the year as well.
1. What difference does it make to believe in Jesus?
When a person places his or her trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, several wonderful things will happen in there life.
1. Our Lord and Savior will mold his or her character.
2. He will impact their entire belief system.
3. He will influence the person’s life style so that it honors God in all things.
4. Christ will determine where they will spend eternity.
2. Who is Jesus?
Jesus was never born or created, but was present in the beginning with God, and He is the eternal Word of God. (John 1v1-4)
He was born of a virgin, conceived by the Holy Spirit, and His coming into this world was announced by an angel.
3. What did Jesus claim about Himself?
1. In Luke 22v70, He admitted that He was the Son of God.
2. In John 14v9, He said that anyone who had seen Him had seen the Father, and that He and the Father are one. (John 10v30)
3. Some people claim that they like or respect Jesus while refusing to except His divinity.
4. The fact is that either Jesus Christ is all that He said He was, or He was a fraud and a liar.
5. He cannot have been simply a “good person.”
4. How did Jesus characterize Himself?
1. In the Gospel according to John, Jesus characterized Himself as the Good Shepherd, the Vine, the Bread of Life, and the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
2. He said that He is the one who can offer eternal life, and that He is the Light of the world.
3. The Bible shows us that Jesus was the omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), and omnipresent (all-present) God, but that He was also fully human.
5. What were Jesus’s attributes?
1. Jesus made many statements to verify that He was God. He is one member of the Trinity, so that we worship one God in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2. Jesus is one with the Father, and He said that no one comes to the Father except through Him. (John 14v6)
3. Many people seem to believe they can earn admittance to heaven through their good works, but if that were true, it would mean that God had made a mistake in sending His Son to die for us.


6 What was Jesus’s mission?
Jesus came for a number of very important reasons.
1 He came to reveal the Father.
2 He came so that we might have an intimate relationship with the Father.
3 He came to die for our sinsand to redeem mankind, giving His life as a ransom for many.
4. He came to teach us.
5 He came to heal in order that people might understand that He was the Son of God.
6 He came to build His church, and to tell us about eternal life.
7 What is important about the name of Jesus?
The name of Jesus is the name above all names. Paul wrote in Philippians 2v10-11 that one day, at the name of Jesus, every knee would bow and every tongue would confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Jesus is also given many descriptive names in the Scriptures, including the Prince of Peace, the Lamb of God, the Son of God, the Son of Man, and the Good Shepherd, because no one name is adequate to describe all that He means to us.
8 Jesus is extraordinary.
Jesus never wrote a book, but He is the theme of the Bible.
He never traveled even a hundred miles from His home, yet there is no place where He is not.
He never went to medical school but He is the Great Physician.
He never raised an army, yet kingdoms have fallen because of His gospel.
No one in this world has ever lived a life to compare with the life of Jesus Christ. He is extraordinary in every way!


9 Jesus is invincible.
King Herod could not kill Jesus at the time of His birth.
The devil could not get Him to sin in the wilderness.
His enemies could not keep Him in His tomb, and the grave could not hold Him.
For two thousand years, people have tried to destroy the name of Jesus, but He is invincible.
Those people are forgotten, but one day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord.
10 Where is Jesus now?
The Bible tells us that Jesus ascended to heaven where He now sits at the Father’s right hand.
There He makes intercession for us, answers our prayers, convicts us of sin, and works in our lives for our good.
He is also preparing a place for you and me, because one day we will join Him there when He comes again to take us home.
Conclusion:
The Bible is not vague or uncertain when it comes to the identity of Jesus. From the first pages of Genesis to the final pages of Revelation, the Word of God boldly proclaims that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God.
Each of us must finally answer one question: How should we react in light of what we believe about Him?
To believe Him is to trust Him, to obey Him, and to follow Him.
Those actions are not enough, however. We must also proclaim Him.
Jesus has instructed us to go to the uttermost parts of the earth, tell the world about Him, baptize people in His name, and teach them.
This is why it is so important that you challenge the world when they try to take the name of our Lord and Savior from the title of His season.
When someone says, “Happy Holidays,” you can joyfully reply, “Merry Christmas!”

The Spirit of the Antichrist
By Gordon kb3aqa


Many people have the philosophy that “doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you’re sincere.” It does matter what you believe, however, because your beliefs determine your relationship to God. They determine how you relate to others, and what eternal destiny is in store for you. One day we will all stand before Almighty God to give an account of how we lived. Therefore, now is the time to be certain about what we believe and where those beliefs lead us.
What really matters is if our beliefs measure up to God’s Word, or whether we have been taken in by the spirit of the age which the Bible call “the spirit of antichrist.” Jesus said, “The world is passing away, and also its lusts, but the one who does the will of God lives forever” (1st John 2v17). Also in 1stJohn we are warned against the spirit of the antichrist.
What do we mean when we say “antichrist”?
When we speak of antichrist, there are three meanings. First, we refer to the spirit underlying our culture as it opposes the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We feel that spirit everywhere. Secondly, we mean those people whose lives embody that spirit of opposition to Christ. Thirdly, Antichrist is the Bible’s name for a specific individual: a powerful person who will arrive someday to bring rebellion throughout the earth against Almighty God. This study focuses on our first meaning of the word the spirit of antichrist which is do prevalent in our society.
From where does the spirit of antichrist come?
In short, the spirit of antichrist is as old as the Garden of Eden. As soon as Eve chose to rebel against the commands of God, the spirit of antichrist appeared in our world. It is the willful determination to take the place of God by making our own decisions and ignoring His wisdom and supreme power. Antichrists are those who continue to live by this delusion, and they fill our universities, our business world, and even our pulpits. The spirit of antichrist has penetrated every part of the world in which we live.
How do we respond to the spirit of antichrist?
The spirit of antichrist is so dangerous, so eternally destructive, and so prevalent that it is vitally important that we know what we believe and why we believe it. Many people are careless about that, however. If someone asked you to describe your basic spiritual belief, and then defend them, could you do it? If parents can’t present a full account of their faith, we can be certain that their children will not have that ability. Yet when those children attend our public universities, they will face the full indoctrination of the spirit of the age.
What are the beliefs of antichrist?
Jesus makes all the difference in our lives. He loves us, guides us, and protects us. Therefore He is the first point of attack for antichrist. John writes that “every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God” (1st John4v2) Any spirit opposing the Lordship of Christ is antichrist. (V3) Jesus identified Himself with God the Father many times. The spirit of antichrist denies His deity, His atoning death, and the truth of God’s Word.
What is the fatal weakness of antichrist?
When it comes to the subject of eternity, antichrist has nothing to offer us. You may live by the spirit of the age and conform yourself to this world, but as you come to the end of this life, what then? The spirit of antichrist collapses under its own inconsistent theology. It is self condemning, because it offers no eternal solutions. All it does is attack the truth that we have. For if Jesus Christ is not the Son of God, then who is? If He was just another man, what do we have? We would have no other reason to believe in God, nor would we be able to hold out the hope of salvation. There would be no redemption available to us for the problem of sin.
What do we have in Christ instead?
Let us think instead about what we can embrace rather than the hopeless spirit of antichrist. First, we have a wonderful, daily relationship with Jesus Christ. We have His friendship and guidance in every step we take in life. We have the eternal, imperishable, promise of the Son of God and of His return, as well as the comfort of the Holy Spirit within our hearts. Finally, when death approaches, we can face it boldly. It has no sting as it does for the spirit of antichrist, for we can look to an eternity in the presence of the Lord.
How do we protect ourselves from antichrist?
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God” (1st John4v1). The Lord has given every believer the presence of the Holy Spirit, whose responsibility is to help us discern truth from error. He will guide us into all truth, protecting us from the countless delusions of the spirit of the age, which surround us all the time. Secondly, we have the Word of God, which makes our faith clear. God’s Spirit interprets it for us and condemns the spirit of antichrist. Thirdly, we have teachers and instructors, godly men and woman who keep us accountable. The Spirit of God is infinity more powerful than the spirit of any age.
What are our basic beliefs?
If we must know and defend our basic beliefs, it is important to name them. First of all, we must believe that the Bible is the Word of God. Second, Jesus is the Son of God, deity in human flesh, and He is the only way to salvation. We must believe that He died on the cross as full payment for our sins, and experienced a bodily resurrection, so that we may be forgiven and have eternal life. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer and has sealed us as children of God. Finally, we believe that Jesus Christ is coming again and will take us to the eternal home He has prepared.
Conclusion:
Do you believe these things? If not, my friend, I must ask you, what do you have?
If we don’t have Jesus Christ, we have nothing. All else is vain and empty philosophy, and we might as well surrender to the spirit of antichrist, which is hollow and can offer us only death.
The truth is that we need not surrender to this deception, for Christ the Lord has risen. He is real, He is God, and He is the victor over the spirit of this or any other age. The opposition may seem powerful today, and it may seem to have won the war for our culture. Christ is still Lord of all creation, however, and he will have the final word. In the meantime, you and I must know our beliefs and know them well, so that we can communicate them to a world hungry for truth.