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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