Resisting The Spirit of Antichrist

11/27/05

Jesus is the reason for the season!

Jesus is the Savior of the world!

Salvation only comes through Jesus--there is no other way to the Father!

Jesus was born of a virgin, lived 33 years without sin, died a horrible death, three days later was raised to life and now lives in Heaven at the right side of God the Father and ever lives to make intercession for you and for me!

Let’s pray

Satan hates Jesus. Remember "The Passion of The Christ." Remember the evil presence of the lady who lurked around with such a evil look upon her face?

Lk. 22:1 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching, ²and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people. ³Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. ⁴And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus.

The sacredness of Easter has been replaced with the Easter bunny!

The sacredness of Christmas has been replaced with Santa Claus!

Xmas, what clever deceit! The words happy holidays...........Merry Christmas 13 letters/14 letters?

If we do not stand against the attack of Christianity in this land we will eventually loose all of our Christian rights!

Is it godly to not care? Is it godly to be passive? Is it godly to be apathetic? Is it OK that our Lord and Savior’s name to slandered or at least removed from the public?

PepsiCo used an advertising campaign based on the Madonna "Like a Prayer" video. Understandably, Bishop Gracida was upset that PepsiCo had aired this commercial doing things that he said were “sacrilegious on a church altar.”

Bishop Gracida got the attention of both PepsiCo and national media with his Diocese-wide boycott of all of PepsiCo’s products, including FritoLay.

PepsiCo’s vending machines were no longer welcomed in the buildings of the Corpus Christi Diocese.

Bishop Gracida wrote to PepsiCo’s area distributor and asked him to remove the machines, but didn't get a response.

So Bishop Gracida publicly called for all Catholics in the Corpus Christi Diocese not to purchase any PepsiCo products.

"Almost immediately” Bishop Gracida “got a call from the Texas distributor, then the corporate office in New York called [him] and asked what it would take to get [him] to call it off.” They pulled the commercial.

To quote Paul Harvey...

I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue

somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I

don't agree with Darwin, but I didn't go out and hire a

lawyer when my high school teacher taught his theory

of evolution.

Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be

endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer

before a football game.

So what's the big deal? It's not like somebody is up there

reading the entire book of Acts. They're just talking to a

God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the

players on the field and the fans going home from the game.

"But it's a Christian prayer," some will argue.

Yes, and this is the United States of America, a country

founded on Christian principles. According to our very

own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others

better than 200-to-1. So what would you expect-somebody

chanting Hare Krishna?

If I went to a football game in Jerusalem,

I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer.

If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad,

I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer.

If I went to a ping pong match in China,

I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha.

"But what about the atheists?" is another argument.

What about them?

Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're not going to

pass the collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If

that's asking too much, bring a Walkman or a pair of ear

plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit the concession stand.

Call your lawyer!

Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or

two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do.

I don't think a short prayer at a football game is

going to shake the world's foundations.

Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other

cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our

parents and grandparents taught us to pray before

eating; to pray before we go to sleep.

Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. Now a

handful of people and their lawyers are telling us

to cease praying.

God, help us.

And if that last sentence offends you,

well . just sue me.

The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we

let that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard

.... that the vast majority don't care what they want. It

is time the majority rules! It's time we tell them, you don't

have to pray; you don't have to say the pledge of allegiance;

you don't have to believe in God or attend services that

honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your

right. But by golly, you are no longer going to take our

rights away.

God bless us one and all .. God bless America, despite all her faults. She is still

the greatest nation of all.

God bless our service men who are fighting to protect

our right to pray and worship God.

May 2005 be the year the silent majority is heard

and we put God back as the foundation of our

families and institutions.

Keep looking up.

This coming Thursday (December 1) will mark 50 years that a 42 year old lady from Montgomery, Ala. by the name of Rosa Parks took a stand against injustice. Rosa Parks, a black seamstress refused to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery. For her act of defiance, Mrs. Parks was arrested, convicted of violating the segregation laws and fined $10, plus $4 in court fees. In response, blacks in Montgomery boycotted the buses for nearly 13 months while mounting a successful Supreme Court challenge to the Jim Crow law that enforced their second-class status on the public bus system. The events that began on that bus in the winter of 1955 captivated the nation and transformed a 26-year-old preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. into a major civil rights leader. It was Dr. King, the new pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, who was drafted to head the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization formed to direct the civil rights struggle. She was born February 4, 1913 and passed away October 24, 2005.

In case we get tired and think it's too much bother....

Jer. 12:1 You are always righteous, O LORD,

when I bring a case before you.

Yet I would speak with you about your justice:

Why does the way of the wicked prosper?

Why do all the faithless live at ease?

²You have planted them, and they have taken root;

they grow and bear fruit.

You are always on their lips

but far from their hearts.

³Yet you know me, O LORD;

you see me and test my thoughts about you.

Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!

Set them apart for the day of slaughter!

⁴How long will the land lie parched

and the grass in every field be withered?

Because those who live in it are wicked,

the animals and birds have perished.

Moreover, the people are saying,

“He will not see what happens to us.”

⁵“If you have raced with men on foot

and they have worn you out,

how can you compete with horses?

If you stumble in safe country,

how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?

People, if we fail to see the big picture, we are blind!

I’m not a religious fanatic, I’m not one to twist scripture or ignore scripture. It is the cry of my heart to know the truth and teach the truth.

1 Jo. 4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. ²This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

2 Thess. 2:1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, ²not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. ³Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. ⁴He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

⁵Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? ⁶And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. ⁷For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. ⁸And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. ⁹The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, ¹⁰and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. ¹¹For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie ¹²and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Rev. 13:1 And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. ²The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. ³One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast. ⁴Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?”

⁵The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. ⁶He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. ⁷He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. ⁸All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.

⁹He who has an ear, let him hear.

¹⁰If anyone is to go into captivity,

into captivity he will go.

If anyone is to be killed with the sword,

with the sword he will be killed.

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.

¹¹Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. ¹²He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. ¹³And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. ¹⁴Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. ¹⁵He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. ¹⁶He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, ¹⁷so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

¹⁸This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666.

I’m calling for us to unify. I’m asking that we collectively boycott four department stores that have taken out of their advertisement the mention of Christmas because the word itself is based on Christ and what Christmas is really about.

The boycott starts tomorrow and runs through December 26.

These are not the only stores refusing to use the word Christmas. They are four of the largest--others will certainly take notice.

Ÿ Wal Mart

Ÿ Target

Ÿ Kohls

Ÿ Sears

Wal Mart

C.E.O. Lee Scott

702 S.W. 8th Street

Bentonville, Ark. 72716 Phone 1-800-Wal-Mart

Target

C.E.O. Bob Ulrich

Guest Relations

TFS-1A-X

P.O. Box 9350

Minneapolis, MN 55440-9073 Phone 1-800-440-0680

Kohls

C.E.O. Larry Montgomery

N56W 17000

Ridgewood Drive

Menomonee Falls, WI 53051 Phone 1-262-703-7000

Sears

C.E.O. Alvin Lewis

3333 Beverly Road

Hoffman Estates. IL 60179 Phone 1-847-286-2500

Local stores and their managers...

Wal Mart--Terrie

Target--Kevin

Kohls--David

Sears--Mike

The problem is not at the local level! It's at the corporate level!

The reason for the boycott is because of the advertisements on TV, radio and circulars.

They are refusing to use the Word Christ or anything associated with it.......Christmas.

Their reasoning--it offends some people. In so doing, they have greatly offended millions who hold to the fact that there would not be Christmas if is wasn’t for Jesus Christ!

If you work at one of these stores please don’t do anything to jeopardize your job!

Please do these three things...

1. Write the C.E.O.’s of these companies

2. Call the local managers.

Ÿ Be very respectful.

Ÿ Let them know it is not their fault.

Ÿ Urge them to let their corporate executives know what the public thinks of what they are doing.

Ÿ Be specific with the complaint--corporate level advertisements.

Ÿ If they become frustrated, their frustration will be passed to a higher level.

Ÿ Be sure and say that the boycott runs through December 26.

3. Call your local officials and thank them for allowing nativity scenes in the community.

In Herrin, Mayor Ritter is very positive about public nativity scenes.

In Marion, Mayor Butler is also very positive about manger scenes.

And now, let’s bring it really home. Have we, as Christians, allowed materialism and the “holiday” of Christmas to water down the Lordship of Jesus in our home?