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BornofGod108:
merry christmas

EMULATE GOD'S PURE LOVE FOR MAN

TEXT: ROMANS 5: 1-8

Key verse: John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

God's pure love is the reason for the season. The greatest love you can show at this festive season is to embrace and emulate God's pure love in salving man from sin, Satan and sicknesses. Pure love is based on the word of God. Love people and seek their welfare because God says so, not for selfish reasons.
Pure love comes with feelings of sympathy as you put yourself in that person's situation and feel it. If someone has not eaten for days will you not feel it? Suppose it was you. Suppose someone is down with sickness. You feel for him knowing what it feels like. Again, in cases of bereavement, you empathize with the bereaved and offer assistance to them.
Again, love moves with acts of charity and giving. Love will give. That's why love entertains and empathizes. Love entertains, gives, because you feel you sympathize you want to help, you want to do your part. You want to contribute. That's what love will do.
Again, love has the emotions of joy. You love a person you feel joyful with whatever is going on around him, you feel joyful of what he says. The word of that person makes you feel happy. You feel happy to hear their utterances because of love, you hear him to relate with him.
Again, love goes with kind words, kind actions, gentleness and meekness. That is what love does. Love makes you gentle in the presence of your lover and that makes your lover feel happy. The one that is loved feels happy. The one that you love feels happy. So, that is how love is.
You are kind in words, you speak softly. You speak for the benefit of that person. That's because love is there. Again, love moves with friendliness. Love is friendly because you love, you draw closer. The Bible says that he that has friends must show himself friendly.

Thought for the day: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Song for the day: To God be the glory great things He has done

Bible reading for the day: Haggai; Revelation 16

MaxInDHouse:
With all your noise on Nairaland your pastor did not teach you that Christ has nothing to do with this pagan holiday?

BornofGod108:
CHRISTMAS AND X-MAS ARE NOT THE SAME

What is Christmas? It means...
"For she shall bring forth a son, and thou shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people (the masses) from their sins" (Mathew 1:21).
"And suddenly there was with the angels a multitude of the heavenly hosts praising God saying, glory to God in the highest (for his Son's sake), and on earth peace (with God, reconciliation) and good will toward men (love and mercy).
The famous late holiness evangelist in the 18th century Charles Wesley, wrote a hymn on Christmas "hark the herald angels sing...glory to the new born King". If celebration of Christmas is sin or wrong, this holy man would have not written this spirit inspiring hymn. God would have forbad him, his elder brother John would have rebuke him!
Christmas is a joined words: Christ and the Masses. It means Christ's salvation to the Masses. The masses are sinners he came to save from sin. Jesus said "he came to call sinners to REPENTANCE. In fact, Christmas means evangelism. So every holiness believers must embark on aggressive evangelism during that day. It is a day to preach the truth, not dancing and parties.
Believers carry your Bible and preach, preach in the village, preach in the cities, preach everywhere. Tell people about the new born Jesus, tell them that Jesus must be born in them so that they may escape the burning hell and enter heaven.
Although 25th December was not the day of his birth, but it is never a sin if a Christian wish themselves "Merry Christmas" in that day, neither is it worldliness to travel home to see your beloved ones that day. What we prohibited is the spirit of worldliness, gluttony, drunkenness, revellings, banqueting, immoralities, image of father X-mas, going to Christmas worldly parties, where Jesus will be mocked publicly.
The earthly father of Christ is God, not the Santa Claus, not the man. He is the father of Xmas.
As Africans have masquerades, so do the West, their own is Father Xmas (Santa Claus). Their own masquerades only comes out during Xmas celebration. The Bible knows nothing like that!
X-MAS is wrong! It is evil itself. The world hates Christ, that's why they removed him and replace it with letter X meaning "we don't want him, away with him!" So Christians doesn't celebrate X-MAS. It is Christmas not X-MAS. X-MAS is where they do their parties, dance and fornicate, even kill.
Reject X-MAS, but accept CHRISTMAS.
Do the work of an Evangelist on 25th December..

MaxInDHouse:
Both XMAS and CHRISTMAS is not in the Bible so your long story is worthless if it's not scriptural!

BornofGod108:
my brother, if you are not celebrating this day live me alone to celebrate! the book of Rom 14: 5-6 say's that you should not judge those who choose to celebrate, he is doing it to the Lord Jesus, he is not sinning! the only thing we should do is to watch against worldliness

BornofGod108:
my brother, if you are not celebrating this day live me alone to celebrate! the book of Rom 14: 5-6 say's that you should not judge those who choose to celebrate, he is doing it to the Lord Jesus, he is not sinning! the only thing we should do is to watch against worldliness

Matthew 28:20, teaching them to OBEY EVERYTHING I have commanded you" minus Christmas/birthdays

Mark 6:21 & Mark 8:15, Oga,what did Jesus Christ & the disciples copy from king Herod?

Janosky:
Matthew 28:20, teaching them to OBEY EVERYTHING I have commanded you" minus Christmas/birthdays

Mark 6:21 & Mark 8:15, Oga,what did Jesus Christ & the disciples copy from king Herod?

Rosement:
Where in the Bible did Jesus say birthdays and Christmas is a sin. My own Bible did not even record that Jesus was invited to a birthday party and he refused to attend, so how you can just conclude that our own Jesus condemns birthdays and Christmas? Do you even know our Jesus, worship your own Yahushua and leave us alone. It is not a sin for a Christians to celebrate Christmas, since your own religion condemns it, don't practice it.

Job 1:4
4. And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Colossians 2:16
16. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Romans 14:6
6. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

Janosky:
Matthew 28:20, teaching them to OBEY EVERYTHING I have commanded you"

Matthew 28:20,Did Jesus Christ teach you to do Christmas and birthday celebrations?

Your Bible says that Job is a righteous man.
Did your Bible tell you he celebrated his birthday?

Between Job's children and Jesus Christ, whom is your Master?

Compare 1 Corinthians 11:1 & Mark 6:21/Mark 8:15, between Jesus Christ & king Herod,whom do you imitate?