Volume Five -the final edition- is derived from various sources TRUTH ON THE WEB MINISTRIES PRESENTS:
TRUTH ON CHRISTMAS CLIPZ
Volume Five of "The X-mas Files"
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"The Calvinists declared that observing Christ's birthday was a human invention....They asserted that Christ would not have approved of it, for it merely furnished excuse for wrong doing...Town criers went around and cried out so loudly so that all might hear, 'No Christmas! no Christmas!'" ~(Mayme R. Krythe, All About Christmas)
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No Christmas
(Sung to the tune of "White Christmas")
I'm dreaming there'll be no Christmas
Just like those Scottish days of yore
When the people listened
Reformed truth glistened
And they laid low the Romish whore.
I'm dreaming there'll be no Christmas
And that the truth will be revived
May God's people follow His light
And put out this superstitious rite.
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THE MASS
I Stand At The Door and 'Knox'
How difficult it is to pull forth of the hearts of the people the thing(The Mass of Christ) wherein [their] opinion of holiness stands, declares the great tumult and uproar moved against Paul by Demetrius and his fellows, who, by idolatry, got great advantage, as our priests have done by the Mass in time past. The people, I say, hearing that the honour of their great goddess Diana stood in jeopardy, with furious voices cried, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians" (Acts 19:23-41). As [if] they would say, "We will not have the magnificence of our great goddess Diana (whom not only Asia but the whole world worships) called into doubt, come into question or controversy. Away with all men intending that impiety." And hereunto they were moved by long custom and false opinion. ~A Vindication of the Doctrine that the Sacrifice of the Mass is Idolatry, 1550,-John Knox- Extracted from: Selected Writings of John Knox: Public Epistles, Treatises, and Expositions to the Year 1559
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The Mass of 'Christ' Is Plainly Idolatry : Christmas gets its name from the Latin Christes Masse, or the Mass of Christ. (The French call Christmas Noel, the Scaninavians Yulen Jul, the Italians Natale, and the Germans Weihnacht. ) By celebrating the "Mass" of Christ, one is openly supporting the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, and its pagan Mass.
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School of Hard 'Knox'
The Mass is Idolatry. All worshipping, honouring, or service invented by the brain of man in the religion of God, without his own express commandment, is idolatry. The Mass is invented by the brain of man, without any commandment of God; therefore it is idolatry. ~A Vindication of the Doctrine that the Sacrifice of the Mass is Idolatry, 1550,-John Knox-Extracted from: Selected Writings of John Knox: Public Epistles, Treatises, and Expositions to the Year 1559
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CHRIST-MASS: The Blasphemy and Idolatry
"The mass is the unbloody renewal of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary's cross...Christ, through the ministry of the Roman Catholic priest, offers Himself to God in an unbloody manner under the appearances of bread and wine. The mass is the same sacrifice as the sacrifice of the cross because the Victim is the same. The purpose of the mass is, among other things, to satisfy the justice of God for the sins committed against Him." -Catholic Priest, John A. O'Brien, UNDERSTANDING THE CATHOLIC FAITH, Ave Maria Press, Nortre Dame, Ind, 1955, p. 212
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Definition: "The Sacrifice of the Mass is really the holy and living representation and at the same time the unbloody and efficacious oblation of the Lord's Passion [suffering] and that blood-stained sacrifice which was offered for us on the cross" ~The Catholic Encyclopedia, page 375
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Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
<<This Catholic Mass is an unbloody, unnecessary, and impotent substitute sacrifice. It is clearly a transgression of the second commandment against idolatry. ~kh>>
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"And so Papists, if you offer Christ in sacrifice for sin, you shed his blood, and thus newly slay him. Advert what fine [end] your own desire shall bring you even to be slayers of Jesus Christ. You will say, you never pretended such abomination. I dispute not what you intended, but I only show what absurdity does follow upon your own doctrine. For necessarily if you do offer Christ for sin, as you confess, and your law does teach, you cruelly shed his blood, and finally do slay him.
But now I will relieve you of this anguish. Dolourous it were daily to commit manslaughter, and oftentimes to crucify the King of Glory. Be not afraid; you do it not; for Jesus Christ may suffer no more, shed his blood no more, nor die no more. For he has died he so died for sin and that once; and now he lives, and death may not prevail against him. And so you do not slay Christ, for no power have you to do the same. Only you have deceived the people, causing them [to] believe that you offered Jesus Christ in sacrifice for sin in your Mass which is frivolous and false, for Jesus Christ may not be offered, because he may not die". ~ A Vindication of the Doctrine that the Sacrifice of the Mass is Idolatry, 1550,-John Knox, -Extracted from: Selected Writings of John Knox: Public Epistles, Treatises, and Expositions to the Year 1559
The Mass is Idolatry (1550) by John Knox http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualnls/Vindicat.htm
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That Little Town the Vatican
(to the tune of "O Little Town of Bethlehem")
That little town the Vat-i-can
How well it tells a lie
To lull you into hell-ish sleep
I-dol-a-try to ply.
Their net of dark-ness clos-es
O, Church of God to snare
Your heart to popish wick-ed-ness
Your minds their lies to bear.
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First, the mass is a most subtle and pernicious enemy against Christ, and that double, namely, against his priesthood and against his sacrifice. ...Christ's sacrifice once made by himself on the tree, on the mount of Calvary, is the full and perfect propitiatory sacrifice to the sanctification of all them that are and shall be saved, never more to be reiterated and done again, for that signifieth an imperfection."~Hurt Of Hearing Mass- Vol Two of The Writings of John Bradford. pp312
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"When the priest pronounces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens and brings Christ down from His throne, and places Him upon the (Roman Catholic) altar to be offered up again as the victim for the sins of man...Christ became incarnate a single time, the priest brings Christ down from heaven and renders Him present on the (Roman Catholic) altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man-not once but a thousand times! The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal, omnipotent God, bows His head in humble obedience to the priest's command...No wonder that the name which spiritual writers are especially fond of applying to the priest is that of 'altar Christus.' For the priest is and should be another Christ." - Catholic Priest- John A. O'Brien, Faith of Millions, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, Ind., pp. 243-244
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This is the False Christ of the Catholic Christmass- that is subservient to the Catholic Priest- This "Christ" is invoked at the priest's will and is crucified afresh endlessly - which denies the true Lord Jesus Christ and the sufficiency of His one time sacrificial death. - Little Children- Keep yourselves from idols! ~kh
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God Keep All of You C.O.G.'s
(to the tune of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen")
God keep all of you C.O.G.'s
From walking in the way
Of heathens and idolaters
To celebrate this day.
You resurrect this Romish mass,
for you have gone astray.
Chorus:
O, I know that its just a popish old ploy,
popish old ploy,
Yes, I know that its just a popish pagan ploy.
verse 2
You claim its for the birth of Christ
Such God did not command
This service of idolatry
Is not part of His plan
You wed the devil to the Son,
when Christ-Mass you demand.
Chorus
O, I know that its just a popish old ploy,
popish old ploy,
Yes, I know that its just a popish pagan ploy.
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And That Concludes VOLUME FIVE of TRUTH ON CHRISTMAS CLIPZ ~FINIS
Remember to Keep The Approaching Weekly Sabbath Holy (Avoid all trappings of Dec. 25th and its infamous heritage)
The 'Give 'em Hoeck' boys - Ken and Brian- (who both contributed to this X-Mas Files Series) and the rest of the little flock in NW Chicago hope you have a great 7th Day Sabbath- regardless of the pagan revelry going on around us. Be in the world ... not of the world. We hope you received these in time to share with your groups while it is yet considered 'in season' preaching. Take Care and God Bless You. ~ In Christian love and humility, ~kh
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And That Concludes VOLUME FIVE of TRUTH ON CHRISTMAS CLIPZ
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"Christmas:The Greatest Story Never Told by Harold E. Cormany at http://www.truthontheweb.org/christmas.htm
<<Anti-Xmas Songs contained herein this email were written by James Dodson 1995 & modified by Ken Hoeck1999>>
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