{"id":5988,"date":"2019-12-16T12:25:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/?p=5988"},"modified":"2020-12-31T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T12:33:39","slug":"this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS CHRISTMAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THIS CHRISTMAS: Is It – CHRISTMAS Or XMAS – I Know It’s CHRIST For Christmas And Not An ‘X’ For XMAS!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(An extract from my yearly publication on\nChristmas on – Achievers FAITH Digest Publications, e.g. AFD DECEMBER 2014\nEDITION). BLESSED READ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s imperative to commemorate and celebrate\nChrist birth. In being objective, I have sectioned the word Christmas in this\nway. That is, CHRIST and MAS. Wherefore, Christ – means, the anointed One, the\nMessiah, the Saviour, the Holy one of Israel and the Redeemer. And \u2018MAS\u2019 or\nMASS means – To Celebrate, Commemorate and Observe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHRISTMAS in this context is the yearly\ncommemoration and Celebration of God\u2019s love in the birth of Christ and His\nREDEMPTION cause on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, signifying the sharing of that grace and the benediction of the triune God which is expressed through their love to mankind as in 2 Corinthians 13:14:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some have replaced the \u2018Christ\u2019 of Christmas\nwith an ‘X’ for Xmas. Probably because they are ignorant or they can\u2019t\ncomprehend and imagine the good that Christ brings into Christmas, hence they\nchose the use of the negative connotations that ‘X’ represents. You see it in\nadvert through the media, Christmas cards and such like places to undermine the\ntrue essence for which Christ was born and named in Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christ is not the same as ‘X’ connotation. It\nis not a worthwhile abbreviation either by any margins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However there are other opinions about\nChristmas, while some say Christmas is not important and is not worth any form\nof commemoration and celebration because it\u2019s a heathen day, a pagan holiday.\nOthers indicate that December 25th is not the day on which Christ was born and\nsome even claimed it’s in October. These people also say that He was born\nspiritual and not with physical nature – not in humanity. According to some it\nis for pagans and Satanists due to the glamorous events and activities that are\nnow associated to this date especially with the financial indiscipline and\nindebtedness people entangle themselves into as a result of the celebration.\nand commemoration in quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May I say that just because the enemy\nperverts and distorts the meaning and essence of the celebration of Christmas,\ndoes not mean that we should let go of that which we believe is of God – that\nis, Christ was born for us all according to the scriptures irrespective of\nindividuals or selective fews indignation of Christ birth in humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me and every supposed Spirit born child of God, what is vital in the whole scenario of indifference is that Christ was born in the flesh – humanity. This is without controversy as endorsed in 1 Timothy 3:16.<\/strong> Dates and times not withstanding and should not be an issue, but the act of acknowledging this very fact and truth of God in the light of the Holy Scriptures makes the journey of the Christian FAITH meaningful and fulfilling to anyone that believes in Christ Jesus as saviour and Lord even as it’s written:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 John 4:1-6.
<\/strong> “Beloved, believe not EVERY spirit, but try (Examine) the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that CONFESSETH that Jesus Christ is COME in the FLESH (HUMANITY) is of God: 3 and every spirit that CONFESSETH NOT that Jesus Christ is COME in the FLESH (HUMANITY) is NOT of God: and this is that spirit of ANTICHRIST, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now ALREADY is it in the WORLD. 4 Ye ARE of God, little children, and have OVERCOME them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They ARE of the WORLD: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We ARE of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of TRUTH, and the spirit of ERROR”<\/em> (Emphasis Mine)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philemon 6
<\/strong>“That the COMMUNICATION of thy FAITH may become EFFECTUAL by the ACKNOWLEDGING of EVERY GOOD thing which is IN YOU in Christ Jesus”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Timothy 3:16.
<\/strong>“And WITHOUT CONTROVERSY great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the FLESH (HUMANITY), justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev Chukie MORSI<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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