James chapter 1 verse 17 says every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above and cometh down from the Father of lights with whom is no variableness
neither shadow of turning. Look a gift by definition is what? Something that
you give to somebody freely and expect nothing in return or something
you receive freely that you get and there's no strings attached you don't
have to work for it you don't have to pay for it that's a gift of course that
sodomite didn't believe in that definition I had to really explain it to
him and he still didn't real you know I talked about the gift to him and he's
like well you just explained that that's what the gift was that it's you know
doing something and getting something no I was trying to explain that Santa
Claus is used as a lie to tell people that gifts or something you have to work
for or be good for will pay for and that's what that's the really the most
damaging thing I think of all is that it teaches people that the wrong definition
of a gift because look salvation is free it doesn't cost a dime and when I and
you know if you teach children that you have to be good to get a gift then guess
what it makes our job way harder when we have to go up and give the gospel so
I've had lots of kids be confused about what a gift is just probably because of
that so the damage that this false Santa Claus this false God this this lie from
the pit of hell has done to children who knows how bad and how deep-rooted it is
in people and you're like you know you're making a big deal out of this
pastor Thompson yeah because it is a big deal because the gifts come from God
every good gift every perfect gift that comes from God it doesn't come from
Santa Claus and it's a gift and it's free so salvation is a gift it's eternal
life guess what it's free so you know and that's what the the lie of Santa
Claus says is if you're good and nice you get a gift from Santa no that's not
a gift that's working for it or if you're bad you get like I said you get
coal or Krampus comes and kills you in some cultures which I don't want to talk
about that any further but that is a real thing that people actually teach
in other cultures how weird is that you know that you're either gonna get a
present or death I mean that's that's a pretty scary culture that's like in
Germanic cultures and things like that but the definition of a gift let me give
it to you from the dictionary it says a thing given willingly to someone without
payment as a present a Christmas gift is the example given how funny is that but
they use through something that they say that you have to earn and then in the
real definition of it they say a Christmas gift you know people get
confused with the gift they really do and so that's why I think it's ultra
wicked to try to tell people they have to be good or they're not going to get a
gift because that's not a gift