The name Mary is a Hebrew root word that means “Wished for Child”. The Hebrew root word name is Miryam. Remember Moses sister had this name. Also Mary Magdalene. The English form is Maria. The Latin form is Mariam. The name was most popular here in America in the 1940’s and 1950’s. However today here in America it has dropped out of the Top 100 baby names due to the spiritual decay of our culture! The Jewish women over the centuries would sometimes not get married in hopes they would be the chosen virgin to conceive the Messiah! One thing is for sure Mary’s parents were smart enough or shall we say wise enough to give her the right name! There is a destiny in a name! That is why we call ourselves Christians first above anything else! I am an American but first I am a Christian! Your identity determines your future! Did you know the name Adolf means a “Famous Wolf”. Did the Hitler family know the meaning they gave their son Adolf? I doubt it! When we were in India for those three years when a Hindu would come to Christ they would change their names from a Hindu god name to a Christian name! Then they would publish their new name in the local newspaper along with their photo! They recognized the power of a name for good or evil! Most parents name their kids a popular good sounding name yet do not know the meaning of that name? Ignorance! There is power in the name above all names Jesus Christ! Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
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What Would Replace Christmas?
If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it destroyed! T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), Poet, Essayist, Publisher, Playwright, Social Critic, Born to a prominent Boston Brahmin Family.
Evangelism & Christmas!
Luke 1:17 “And he (John the Baptist) shall go before him (Christ) in the spirit or breath of God and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers with their thoughts, reasonings, understanding, fear, love, joy and designs to the children, and the stubborn unbelieving disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” Comment: The Christmas story is about Evangelism! John went ahead of Christ to prepare the people to receive Christ as Savior! This is also our job in the 21st Century! Sunday school teachers are preparing the way of the Lord! Pastors, teachers, evangelists, prophets are preparing the way for you! Not just a way but the way! When we do our job well then decisions for Christ are made! It is team work! Everyone has to do their part! A song writer or singer is preparing the way! I as a young man I was not saved yet being in the Body of Christ preparing the way for me! If God would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children we would not have abortions today! There would be no divorce! Every family would have a father in the home! Every family would be in church on Sunday morning! However there are those who reject the way! The truth! Reject Christ! King Herod tried to have Jesus aborted at Bethlehem and failed yet he had John the Baptist beheaded! There will always be signs in our culture that some have rejected the way! Happy Holidays! Take those Crosses down! No nativity scenes allowed here! We will take you to court! We are like John preparing the way for others just as others have prepared the way for us! We need to be more persuasive to influence people to receive the way than those who try to influence others to reject the way! God can equip us to do this! Our Pastor Oscar Cope retired this month from 55 years of ministry! He has been my Pastor for the past three years. So what did he do for me over the past three years? He confirmed to me that I made the right decision in receiving Christ as my Savior forty five years ago! Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Celebrate Christmas While We Can!
“Much of the rhetoric of today’s leftists sounds like that espoused by the French Revolutionaries, with its savage attacks upon Christianity, liberty, property and life itself.” Steve Byas, Professor of History and Government, Randall University, Norman Oklahoma.
Christmas!! Drugs! Abortion!
Luke 1:15 “For he (John the Baptist), shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink (intoxicating liquor), and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost (the breath of God), even from his mother’s womb.” Comment: According to the Christmas account the womb is sacred! The Son of God Jesus Christ was born into the earth through the virgin womb of Mary! John the Baptist was special! His father Zechariah and his mother Elizabeth were in the Priesthood at the Jewish Temple! They were dedicated to the service of the Lord! They were old yet God kept his promise to them to have a son! The Angel instructed Zechariah that his son John was to stay away from drugs! His life was not to be sacrificed on the altar of drug addiction! It is paradox that many who celebrate Christmas drink liquor when God has warned us throughout scriptures to stay away from drugs! The way you can celebrate Christmas is to ask the Holy Spirit to come into your life to keep you from sin! The same Holy Spirit that produced Jesus and filled the life of John the Baptist even in the womb with righteousness! When God commands us not to do something and we go ahead and do it anyway and then ask God to Bless us we should know God is not a fool! However to be conflicted like this leads to sin and separation from God! Then you would be living as if there is no God! The first sign of this life style is that life has no value! Satan tried to stop the birth of Jesus through abortion! King Herod sent his Roman soldiers to Bethlehem to slay all the children two years old and younger! They ran daggers through the bellies of the pregnant women! They aborted these children! The life of any human is sacred from the womb to the grave! We need the same respect God has for life! The foundation for abortion in the 21st Century is Darwinism! The atheistic belief of Evolution produces death! The evil of the first Century is the same evil we face today! However the same hope we found in Christ in the first Century is the same hope we have today! The evil surrounding every Christmas cannot overcome the Light! The evil only confirms to the world they need the Savior! Are you following the Savior or the world? Christ is mercy to a dying world! The Holy Spirit will give you the power to change your life! Jesus blood will pardon your sin! Jesus will empower you to change from evil to righteous! We cannot change ourselves! Only God can do this! Confess your sin and he is faithful and just to forgive you your sin! Then ask the Holy Spirit to come into your life! He will! Submit to the authority of God and cease the rebellion against him! Find a good Bible believing Church where the scriptures are not compromised! Most important read the Bible yourself! Study it! Then when you are presented a lie you will recognize it! Give God all your failures and he will replace them with success! Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Christmas Thoughts!
Today as I look at the colored lights on our Christmas tree and listen to Silent Night my heart moves back in time to about 65 years ago! It is Christmas morning on the farm in Nebraska! Snow and cold outside! We had an illuminated clock in our bedroom where me and my little brother Tommy slept this Christmas night! I would watch the clock all night long! With every hour that had passed I wondered if Santa Claus has come? About every hour I would peek out our bedroom door down the hall for I could see the Christmas tree! Nothing yet? Mom told me unless I stop beating up my little brother Tommy Santa was not going to bring me any gifts! Had I crossed the line? I have stopped beating up Tommy for a long time in fact it seems like forever! Yesterday Tommy told me he did not like me! I told him I did not like him but Santa Claus might be listening so I am not going to say anything! We went to the small Methodist Church for Christmas Eve in Pilger. At the end of the service we the kids got bags of candy, fruit, peanuts and other goodies! We had to sing in the children’s choir so we had to work for food! Yes me and Tommy were there for the sweets! Then all the good food my grandmother prepared for the Christmas dinners over the years! The excitement of family being together around the same table! No outside distractions like today through mobile devices! Nothing coming from the outside could influence away from family and church! No competing voices challenging our Faith! Any divisions towards Christ were not there! We believed everyone must love Jesus! We prayed in our public school! We recited the Pledge of Allegiance every morning before classes began! A United States Flag was in every classroom and a map of the United States was in every classroom! We had a Christmas play every year and sang patriotic songs in our music class everyday! God Bless America was on our lips everyday! We heard no dissenting voices of division and hate! Our Pastor’s were esteemed and supported! We viewed their authority over the state but yet supported the state! Family, school, church were the Trinity of our unity! These three were in agreement with each other and bonded us together as one people! We were protected with a father in every home! Even though poor we were secure! Neighbors helped each other! We never considered ourselves in our community as enemies of each other! Why? Unity yes but forgiveness ruled the day! Christianity held the culture together because forgiveness reigned at this time in our history! As a culture drifts away from Christ vengeance replaces forgiveness! Then everyone views themselves as enemies of each other and vengeance is executed with shootings and other violence! This problem is not about guns it is about the forgiveness of God that is not woven into our culture where as Christians we forgive each other because God has forgiven us! Christmas is about forgiveness as Christ came to die for our sin! Then we can live for him in the Spirit of forgiveness towards each other!! Be sensitive to those as you are out shopping sensitive to those suffering from unforgiveness! Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Evolutionist’s View of Christmas!
You see, its been our misfortune to have the wrong religion! Why did we not have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness? Adolf Hitler Comment: The evolutionists or atheists on the political left in America have the same attitude towards Christianity today! Get rid of these nativity scenes! Push Christ out of our schools! Get rid of these Crosses across our land! Take prayer from our children and teach our public school children the ways of Darwin! Islam is better or Hinduism anything but Christ! If we can get rid of these Jews and Christians we will reach our utopia! History repeats itself! Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Creation & Christmas!
Colossians 1:15-16 “Who (Christ), is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by him:” Comment: It says in Hebrews 1:6, that he is the firstborn of the dead! Christmas is more than a manger scene in your front yard! Jesus created the world, saved the world and is Head of all Creation! If you had a request running an employment agency and your customer requested God you would send Jesus! Jesus is Creator of everything and thus judge of everything! He is owner of his Creation! Jesus came into the world as a baby in Bethlehem to die for our sin as a perfect sacrifice! No sin in him! Six times in the scriptures Jesus is declared the firstborn of God! Jesus pre-existed Creation and author of Creation! He is the first cause of Creation! The Trinity pre-existed everything with no beginning and no end! Our first parents Adam and Eve were not born but created! Jesus was born into the world for our redemption! God created us yet his creation you and me rebelled against him! Satan is the author of all rebellion! He will try to steal God’s Creation from you with his lies and deceptions! Jesus pre-existed his birth and post-existed his death! He conquered death for us! Our first natural birth cannot save us! We need to be born again! Born of the Spirit! A supernatural birth is needed! The virgin Mary had a supernatural birth! Impregnated by the Holy Spirit to produce the pre-existent Christ into the earth! We were born to live but Jesus was born to die! Our sin required the death of a sacrifice! God himself! Then raised from the dead for us! Science confirms Creation in that all humans DNA is 99.9 % similar! The .1 percent difference distinguishes us by hair color eye color , race and gender. The .1% also identifies us from each other! Much like a fingerprint! You are unique with no one exactly like you! You might say thank God? Your DNA is the blueprint for your soul and is sacred! This is why abortion is so horrible! We were created in the Image of God! Jesus showed us the invisible God! The missing link to eternal life is Jesus Creator of all! Jesus was without sin because he was God the perfect sacrifice! Christmas is a special time to wonder and stand in awe to God’s perfect plan! Imperfect man must embrace the perfect Savior for redemption from sin and death! For eternal life with Christ forever! To reject Christ is the only unpardonable sin because he took your judgment for sin for you! If you reject the Christ of Christmas then you take your own judgment separated from God in Hell! Christmas is about life! How could anyone say no to him? Even the demon possessed man living among the tombs chained to himself said yes to Jesus! He chose yes and not to follow Satan the two thousand pigs into the sea! Satan wants you for Christmas but only if you reject the Christ of Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Christmas Story
It was Christmas Eve in Brooklyn New York in 1942. The war was on and a difficult time. It was snowing in New York. A cold night as Wilber was walking down the street thinking about his past. Wilber was 98 years old and his past troubled him? He had committed crimes and betrayed his family and many friends. He was most troubled about where he would go if he died? As he went by a church he heard Christmas Carols. Then he thought I know what I can do! I will join a church and this will throw me in with all the good folks. Then I can escape hell! Wilber went into this Lutheran Church and asked the Pastor if he could join the church? The Pastor told him if he could answer one question correctly. The question is where was Jesus Christ born? Wilber thought a minute and said Pittsburg. Sorry said the Pastor you need to find another place. Wilber went back out into the snow and cold and found a Catholic Church. He went in and asked the Priest if he could join? The Priest said he could only if you can answer one question correctly. Where was Jesus Christ born? Wilber strained his brain and said Philadelphia. The Priest told Wilber he was too far gone to make a good Catholic! Down but not out Wilber hit the streets once again. The he walked by a Synagogue but it looked closed. Then he saw a light in one of the back offices so he knocked on the door. A Rabbi opened the door and invited him in. Wilber asked if he could join the Synagogue? The Rabbi said sure you can! Wilbur was perplexed? Are you going to ask me any questions? No replied the Rabbi. Wilber asked the Rabbi if he would mind if he asked him a question? Please go right ahead said the Rabbi. Where was Jesus Christ born? The Rabbi responded Bethlehem of course! Wilber replied and said, ” I knew it was in Pennsylvania some place! ” Source; Unknown. Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Communion & Holy Days!
In communion the bread representing Jesus body is about God becoming flesh at Bethlehem as we celebrate the Christmas story! His flesh broken for us as we break the bread together! His blood represented by the cup as his blood shed for our sin for an atonement a gift given to us! His blood shed at Calvary which we celebrate at Easter! So both Holy Days are represented in our communion services! His body and his blood! These two great events are the only hope for mankind! Pastor David Jeremiah