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the date of Christ's birth, and neither Christ

nor the apostles commanded the celebration

of His birth nor spoke about it; and not only

that, there are no examples anywhere in the

New Testament for celebrating the birth of

Jesus Christ. There is nothing in the

Scriptures that we can follow and set a

pattern and say, "This is what we're to do on

December the 25th." And not only that, for

the first 300 years of church history, the

church did not celebrate this holiday.

Again, I'm for the birth of Jesus Christ. I've

already preached on it several times this year.

One of those sermons was "The Mystery of

Godliness" out of 1 Timothy. I'm for speaking

of His birth and speaking of His birth often

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