The Body of Christ Fellowship Church
Date: December 21, 2010
Speaker:
Pastor Willie J. Henderson, Jr.
The Polytheistic Spirit Called Christmas
Focus:
Scriptures:
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Exodus 32:1-14,17-18 Exodus 20:3, 5 |
Deuteronomy 4:15-18 Acts 7:40 |
Acts 17:29 |
Points:
The Christmas spirit is a polytheistic spirit incorporating many gods.
The human nature is stuck on images.
Just because a majority agrees on something, that doesn't mean it is right.
We must love and worship God according to His terms.
We can't be too busy with what God has given us to study His Word.
Summary:
The Christmas spirit is a polytheistic spirit incorporating many gods. Throughout the scriptures, God tells His people to not mix idol worship with His worship. Exodus 32 records how the people of Israel saw Moses delayed to come back from the mountain. They went to Aaron who was second in charge and pressured him to make them gods. Because the majority agreed, they thought they were right. We get in trouble when we lean to our own understanding. God had commanded them earlier to not put any god before Him. Knowing this, Aaron still complied with the people by making a golden calf. He then declared a feast day unto the Lord. The golden calf represented an idol god of Egypt. They worshipped it and made sacrifices to it. They even gave it credit for delivering them from Egypt. They discredited God and Moses by serving this idol. Needless to say, God was very upset with them. Man with its imagination will make anything a god. When we do this, we discredit God. The worship that the Israelites were participating in was not true undefiled worship. Their worship was really a type of war, war against God. We can't marry a polytheistic spirit with our monotheistic God. If we don't have time to study God's Word, to fellowship with Him, we are too busy. God didn't bless us with things for us to serve them.