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Dec. 17, 2022 - Dan Bidondi Show
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Hell's Jingle Bells with David Carrico - Spiritual Warfare Friday LIVE 10pm est
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Thank you.
Thank you.
And welcome everybody to Spiritual Welfare Friday, right here on TruthRadioShow.com.
I'm your host Dan Badandi and my co-host is Brian Reese and we got a special guest, David Carrico.
What's going on guys?
How you doing?
Doing fine, Dan.
I really appreciate you having me on.
It's going to be a great time.
Absolutely, man.
And I apologize about the late start, guys.
Just had a little minor family emergency.
Nothing big.
My son's all right.
He just had a little temperature.
Yeah, that's what caused the delay, which is a good reason.
So anyway, guys, before we get going, I want to thank ShakenWakeRadio.com.
Thank you, Andy, for carrying all of our shows.
Me, David, and John's, and John's, and Brian's show.
So thank you so much.
It's a blessing and also thank you before it snooze.com for I'm a contributor writer for them as well and The show tonight is brought to you by what's leather comm so check them out guys watch leather comm the links are in description and the title of tonight's broadcast is hell's jingle bell so Buckle up guys because we did a Christmas show Wednesday.
We told you you know a lot of things about Christmas There's just so many avenues You know, different cultures and all that stuff.
So, like always, it's always a blessing to have Mr. Carrico on.
He's the host of FOGC Radio.
It's Followers of Jesus Christ Radio.
FOGCRadio.com.
And also the co-host of The Midnight Rider, which is coming up tomorrow night, 11 p.m.
Eastern.
So, let's get going, guys.
So, I know David's got a lot of stuff to talk about.
So, and again, I apologize, David.
We were supposed to be on an hour ago.
So, David just had a show tonight, too, so I feel bad.
So, anyway, what's going on, brother?
How are you doing?
Well, it's doing really good.
The Lord is really blessing, and it's just really very good.
The Lord is great.
He's doing wonderful things.
This is a very dark time spiritually for a lot of people.
There are more suicides, there's more mental breakdowns around this time of year than any other time of year.
And it's because of the spiritual atmosphere.
It's because this is a very dark time.
This is portrayed by the world as a very festive and, you know, jingle all the way time.
And the broadcast tonight, uh, entitled Hell's Jingle Bells.
And I was thinking about that old hokey John Lennon song, you know, imagine there's no heaven.
But you know, maybe for just a minute, we might imagine that the Bible really is true.
I mean, what if it really is?
In the scriptures, we have where it says in Leviticus 18, you shall therefore keep my statutes in my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.
For all these abominations have the men of the land done which were before you, and the land is defiled.
Let the land spew not you out also when ye defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations.
Now if you're a Bible underliner, you ought to underline that first part of verse 29 of Leviticus 18.
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them, shall be cut off from among the people.
Now that word cut off, you don't have to be the sharpest knife in the drawer to know that's not what you want to be.
You don't want to be cut off.
That's very serious.
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein.
I am the Lord your God.
And there's a straightforward warning and a command from the Father not to commit any of these abominable customs.
And it comes with the sternest of warnings.
It says that you're going to be defiled.
And the scripture tells us that you will be cut off.
Now, in Jeremiah chapter 10, We know the passage.
This is the so-called Christmas tree passage, which it is.
And in Jeremiah 10, there's the command there again.
Hear ye the word of the Lord, which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel.
Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen.
And the way of the heathen is something that God hates.
People today, they don't like the idea of a holy God that presides over the Israel of God that wants us to be a holy, set-apart people.
Learn not the way of the heathen.
Now in verse 3, for the customs of the people are vain.
And we just read in Leviticus that anyone that practices any of the abominable customs will be cut off.
Now, just imagine that the Bible's true, for just a moment.
If the Bible really is true, and if, like the majority of the American church says, that three-fourths of the Bible, basically everything left of Matthew, we don't have to pay a whole lot of attention to, but what if it is real?
What if the Bible really is real, and it really is true, and authoritative to this very moment?
For the customs of the people are vain, for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, The workmen, the work of the hands of the workmen with the axe, they deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not.
And we are not To do the pagan custom of the decoration of the tree.
And this is just one.
There is nothing associated with Christmas that is not a pagan custom.
There's none of it that comes from scripture.
Everything!
It comes from Norse mythology, it comes from Druidic mythology, from the mystery religions.
Nothing in it is anything from the word of God.
And I believe that The issue of Christmas is a much more serious one than what people think, because it's not just a matter of the way you want to express your personal preference.
It's a direct violation of the Word of God, and the Word of God is true, and these people have put them in the place where their love for paganism is putting in the place where they could be cut off.
I think, literally, the stakes here are very high for people that want to imagine the Word of God is not true and want to persist in this.
And the New Testament rather than diminishing or dismissing what the Old says, it's It says quite the opposite.
And it talks, in 2 Corinthians 10, it talks about that generation, the customs.
In Deuteronomy, it talks about the people that would do the customs that were in the land.
And in 1 Corinthians 10, It says now in verse 5, But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Now these things were for our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them.
As it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
I would submit to you gentlemen, and I would submit to the listeners of Truth Radio tonight, on this Spiritual Warfare Friday broadcast, that there's a war here.
That is grabbing hold of the people's souls.
It is dragging them into idolatry.
The idolatry is packaged in a pretty package of well-intentioned lies.
It's packaged with all the glitter and glam that the world can give it.
But when you look at it soberly, There's no other way to look at it than this is 100% top-to-bottom a pagan custom, and it's 100% a direct violation of the Word of God with the very strongest of warnings.
David, I love the hat, by the way.
And thanks for coming on the show, my friend.
Well, thank you.
And I agree with you on that.
It just seems like the spiritual bondage to, you know, they're just people getting so caught up in the vanity and buying things and they get, there's a lot of stress and you get a lot of, you go into debt and It's just, it makes just a, it makes a lot of hardships.
It just puts you in a lot of issues, a lot of financial issues.
I've done it in the past years ago.
And, um, it come January, February, you're sitting there and you're like, I don't have any money.
Because you're in credit card debt up to your ears, you know?
So it's kind of a scary thing.
So, yeah.
It is.
And going back to Jeremiah quick too, man.
Like, this perfectly describes the Christmas tree today.
Yeah, I mean, as David already read.
I mean, it's decorated with silver and gold.
It's cut down with an axe.
And it says in verse 5, they are upright as a palm tree, but speak not.
And they need to be born because they cannot go.
But anyway, it just perfectly describes today where we have a Christmas tree.
You decorate it with silver and gold and everything else.
It's amazing when you look at the scripture.
When you think the Bible does not possibly talk about something, you look deep and it's there.
It's just amazing.
It's right there in our faces.
It is.
And I think possibly the question we need to ask our friends that are still so wrapped up in this, the question really is, do you believe the Bible?
Because if you do believe the Bible, you won't be doing what the Bible says not to do.
This is just plain and simple.
And I think it's a good question to ask, do you care?
Do you really care if you're violating God's holy word and doing things that are going to defile you and cause you to be cut off.
That's serious.
If you take that phrase in Leviticus 18, cut off, and just run a few references of that, cut off, I'll give you a theological interpretation of cut off.
That means cut off.
You're out of it.
It's serious.
We're talking about the expulsion from the Israel of God of the damnation of the soul.
And people are so disenfranchised from the idea that God would have the Israel of God be on the old Old Covenant, they were to be a peculiar people and a holy nation.
The Lord give them laws that look very strange to the outside world.
And the same is true today.
We are to be a holy nation, a peculiar people.
We are not to live like the world.
We are to be set apart.
And I think this is one of the acid tests of a person's faith.
If they're going to obey the I don't know if they're going to obey the world.
And this is a big decision, but this is a very, very serious and a somber decision.
And it's not anything that you can say is ambiguous.
It's the mandate in scripture against pagan customs is so clear, and it identifies the pagan customs for you.
And in this legend of the tree and the decorating of it, it goes back before the time of Christ.
You know, they were decorating the tree in the pagan mysteries.
And in the pagan mysteries, the tree was always the symbol of fertility for the dying God.
that was worshipped with the summer solstice and the spring equinox and the winter solstice and it was at the time of our eastern Christmas and the festivals of the dying God.
This is paganism 101 and nothing could delight Satan anymore than to have The Israel of God, when it says that the true worshippers must worship him in spirit and truth, and to bend and pervert the worship of the true God into the framework of paganism, this is abomination!
It's not just a minor issue, it's a very serious one, and I just pray that anyone that's listening to this broadcast, just imagine that the Bible is real, and indeed believe that it is so, and just take stock in this very serious issue of participating in the way of the heathens.
Absolutely.
And like I said, Wednesday, we did a Christmas show Wednesday too.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's a bitter pill for anybody as well.
You know what I mean?
Christmas used to be my ultimate favorite holiday because I thought it was the birth of our Savior.
You know what I mean?
I went all out.
I even got a cake for him.
You know what I mean?
All that kind of stuff.
And, you know, it was like, again, a bitter pill to swallow, and I'm sure it was for everybody here, too.
But the thing is, a lot of people say, well, you know, if we do this or that, you know, they try to make excuses for Christmas.
You know what I mean?
But the thing is, why lie to yourself?
You know what I mean?
When you know the truth now, yeah, it's a bitter pill to swallow, but you know what?
We're all adults.
Suck it up and deal with it.
Plain and simple.
You know what I mean?
You can't just live off a lie and just say something fake.
You know what I mean?
Now you know the truth and now you, what are you going to do with the truth now?
And if you follow the Bible, you claim to say, I'm a Christian, I believe in the Bible.
You know what?
Then do what the Bible says.
You know what I mean?
Plain and simple.
And I hate to be harsh like that, but, you know, that's the reality I had to face too.
And I'm like, you know what?
Because I was trying to justify it too.
I was like, you know what?
Well, you know, like everybody says, oh, God knows my heart.
You know, all that, the cop-outs, you know, and, uh.
But then again, I'm like, you know, if the Lord says don't do something, don't do it.
What part of that don't I understand?
You know what I mean?
I yelled at myself.
I mean, what part of that, Dan, you don't understand?
You know what I mean?
Plain and simple.
So I drilled myself, you know what I mean?
Say, listen, like, yeah, we're going to do this and that's that, you know what I mean?
And we're going to trust in the Lord, his scripture and everything else.
Plain and clear as day.
And when you really look into it, there's more.
There's so much more about this stuff guys and it's right in the scripture blatant in our face, you know what I mean?
So yeah, that that's about that what you know, because like people need to understand that you know, I mean Understand where you are with scripture where you are with God saying if I want to trust him I want to believe everything he says and that now I believe everything he says, you know in plain and simple David what would you say?
There's people that's in my family and I have friends and
that still participate in Christmas they'll say well we don't we don't do Santa Claus because we know that's of the devil but we have to celebrate Christ's birthday and this is the only time we can celebrate it and that's what they that's what they'll say and I'm you know I don't like to get an argument I just tell them you know they they don't disrespect me or I don't disrespect them I've told them we just kind of go on a better merry way but
They believe in everything else, you know, as far as the scriptures, but this one thing is such a strong spiritual application that holds on.
They have to hold on dearly to that tree and, you know, deck the halls with boughs of holly and, you know, put the Christmas gifts and stack them out the windows, you know what I'm saying?
And then they believe that that's the only time, but they do say that Santa Claus and all that stuff, the devil, but it's, You know, and then you try to tell them that's pagan and then they'll make, well, that's just an opinion.
They'll say, well, it's just an opinion that Christ's birthday.
What do you say?
It's in September.
That's what they'll say.
That's just an opinion.
And it's just a very, um, I'll just kind of ask the question.
What do you, how, how would you go about explaining that?
If that's what, you know, they shut that door, they shut you down and say, well, I'm still going to do it, you know, but they say, well, I have to celebrate Christ's birthday.
Well, and there's a lot wrong with that on a lot of levels.
Number one, it isn't Jesus' birthday.
There's so many things right in the biblical narrative that the shepherds had their flocks in the field.
That wouldn't have happened in December.
When you study the narrative, probably around the Feast of Tabernacles, I think the Feast of Tabernacles would have been a good time for the Son of Man to come to dwell in human flesh.
And number one, it isn't his birthday.
Number two, we are not told to worship on his birthday.
We are not to celebrate it.
It's nowhere to be a part of our Christian worship.
It's not there.
So you're number one.
And it's not Jesus's birthday and whose birthday.
It isn't.
It's the birthday of Baal.
It's Baalmas.
It's the birth of the dying god that was born in the spring equinox in the sexual revelings and they were born nine months later at the winter solstice.
and literally in the rituals women were impregnated with rituals on Easter and they were delivered the babies for human sacrifice on Christmas there's nine months there perfectly between that and just everything wrong and it's like when you've got your son or your daughter and there's someone bullying him, you know, they come around they bull their
Pull their nose and harass them, or whatever they do, and then say, well, we're going to celebrate your birthday on their birthday!
It's just that crazy.
There's nothing biblical.
There's nothing.
They have not one scripture to stand on.
They are adding things to the word of God, and they are adding things that are pagan.
You know what I do?
Just as I have shared with everyone here, I have shared that it's not a matter of my opinion.
It's the matter of the Lord's opinion.
He demands that we do not partake in pagan customs, and it's his opinion.
And when you tell people the word of God, and they want to go on and do it anyway, I have a lot of trouble getting everyone to behave the way I would like them to, you know, though I would try.
But it's on them.
I mean, it's on them, and I'm not a Christmas Nazi.
You know, have you ever seen a Christmas Nazi?
They're just, uh, they want to fight!
It's Christmas!
I'm ready to fight, you Christmas celebrators!
And I don't partake.
I won't go.
I love to eat with people and friends.
Love a good party, but I'm not going to partake in anything that in any way looks like a Christmas party or celebration.
Ain't going Because we're, you know, I know better.
But, you know, in Colossians chapter 4 and 6, I think a lot of people do, and this gets emotional.
Because this is an emotional issue that involves our loved ones and people we love and care about.
But in Colossians chapter 4 verse 6, Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
And that's what we're doing.
We're answering people tonight.
We're telling them, you better be warned.
This is not just my opinion.
This is the opinion of the Almighty God.
and of scripture, we are not to partake in pagan customs.
And if you do so, you're sitting against the light, and you're going to be held accountable for it.
Yeah, and a lot of people, you know, that don't know the Scripture too well, that, you know, I'm not questioning if these people believe in Jesus or not, but they have this understanding that Jesus just came into existence through Mary, you know what I mean?
Jesus was the, you know, Lord of Spirits.
He talked to Moses.
He talked to people thousands of years before He came into flesh.
He was manifest in the flesh.
He was here, well, we don't even know when He was here, you know what I mean?
He was well before the earth was created and everything else.
And he just manifested in the flesh.
That's why you'll never find anywhere in the scripture where they even celebrate his birth.
In fact, if anything, he was celebrating his resurrection.
But, you know, then good old Charles Spurgeon, he made a quote on this too.
He says, those who follow the customs of observing Christmas follow not the Bible, but pagan ceremonies.
That's from Charles Spurgeon.
And I know David knows quite a bit on Charles Spurgeon, too.
Then we get into the Puritan, too.
I got the pictures here.
How they actually outlawed Christmas here in the United States of America.
And it wasn't until 1836.
They actually started legalizing in the 1800s, I believe.
Late 1800s when the Catholic Church started mingling their way here.
And they used Charles Dickens' book, A Christmas Carol.
Right here, 1870, Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States on June 26th, figures of my birthday, right?
1870, and they use Charles Dickens, the author of Christmas Carol, to push, you know, basically propaganda for people to accept Christmas.
So that's a little bit of history we can get into later on too.
A little bit of history of Christmas here in America.
Now a lot of people are shocked when you tell them that Christians are Puritans.
They didn't celebrate Christmas because it had nothing to do with Jesus.
Christmas came here and it opened the floodgates.
Halloween, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Easter, all these pagan non-Christian holidays, non-biblical holidays, I should say, that just massively came here in the United States and got widely accepted after that.
But, you know, because the thing is, Christians, Puritans went out, they knew the scriptures back then.
They knew what Rome was doing was evil, you know what I mean?
And now today people think, well, Christians and Catholics are the same.
Well, yeah, because today they're organized in the same, you know, category.
But for eons, Christians, real biblical following people appalled anything to do with Rome.
Even King James did, too, you know what I mean?
They couldn't stand what Rome was doing.
And that's why the Protestants broke away, too, because Martin Luther went out.
They figured out, they started reading the Bible for themselves.
It's like, wait a minute, what we're doing here as Catholic priests and all that contradicts the scripture.
And that's where the Protestant movement kicked up and everything else, too.
So, no, in that, you know, that old tale, oh, the Catholic Church started Christianity, you know.
Now, the Christian movement was going around long before Constantine was even born, you know what I mean?
So, all this came from the Catholic Church, basically.
They took pagan... They hijacked everything Christian, right?
The Church of Rome was all pagan, so Constantine did.
He kept all the same pagan things, didn't change nothing.
And he just simply took a paint of Christian coats, so to speak, and disguised everything as Christian holidays.
The same idols, the same everything, and they disguised it as Christian holidays.
Now today, in the churches, because they've been dumbed down with dispensationalism, the Jesuit movement and everything else infiltrates the United States, Christians in these churches today don't know their butts from the elbows when it comes to Scripture and this kind of stuff, spiritual warfare.
And that's why I'm blessed to know David and Brian here and all of us to deliver the truth through the scriptures.
And that is very true, that little historical synopsis there that Dan gave you.
And during the Protestant Reformation, Henry VIII And it wasn't so much from godly principles as it was from a hormone problem that hindered the 8th start of the Church of England.
Because, well, I'll not go into all the story, but for a while there in England, the issue during the Reformation, well, we'll join the Church of England, which is Protestant, or we'll join the Roman Catholic Church.
And then there was a fellow that came along by the name of William Perkins.
And there was a lot that was good and bad in the Church of England.
There were people there that were there for good reasons and some were there for not so good of reasons.
But there was a fellow by the name of William Perkins came along and he said, It's not about choosing between the Catholic Church and the Church of England.
It is about walking a holy, separated life that's pleasing to God.
And in the flash, Puritanism was born.
And there was no longer just door number one or door number two, but there was door number three.
And under the persecution of Bloody Mary, many Puritans lost their life.
Many Bible Christians were put to death in her bloody reign.
They knew what Catholicism was.
And then when the Church of England wanted to impose the same holy days upon them that the Catholics were They said no.
They said no.
And this resulted in the Puritans not only being persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church, but also by the Church of England.
And during this time, during the 1600s, this was really Christianity's brightest hour.
Their greatest minds that ever lived, the deepest study into the Word of God that has ever taken place, the writings that were produced during this time.
And it was interesting, they had what was called the Three Mile Act.
And they passed a law that if they caught a Puritan within three miles of the church he used to be the head of, they would throw him in prison.
And during this time, the Puritans would retreat to the farms.
And during this time, the mass of the great The bulk of Puritan literature, which we still have to this day, was written.
Sharnach's attributes of God will never be surpassed.
The writings of Bunyan and Cogut and Progress, they're just, you know, they're just unparalleled.
In their spirituality and in their depth, the minds of men like Owen and Watson.
It was just a, it was, there was so many of them.
There were so many people getting saved that literally England, the entire, well, not the entire, but the majority of the parliament in England was Christian.
It was amazing.
That's when King Charles had to ride his horse in the middle of the parliament to shut it down.
And then when that guy by the name of Cromwell, They gigged him one more time than they should and he went to war with King Charles.
It's just amazing the men of integrity that stood up.
There were people that were willing to lose their their position, their income, their livelihood, their family.
You know, and this does most definitely cause problems in families.
And there was another Puritan comes to mind.
His name was Robert Trail.
And when the persecution come down, they were coming to kill him and to take his life.
And he had to flee so quickly that he had to leave his wife and family and live in exile for several years before he could come back.
to his family are so touching, as he lived in exile, and it really gives us, and he said one of the letters to his wife, you know, he said, you know, so he says, Honey, you know, I will not let you down, because I know that you would rather have me dead or gone, than to come back and compromise with this apostasy.
And there have been so many men and women of God that have suffered and that have stood for the truth of God that we need and we've got them.
I mean, they're still here today.
A lot of the people that are listening to this broadcast tonight.
I know that we're speaking to the choir that you're standing up for the Lord wants us to stand.
But I tell you what, there's nobody That will stand for the Lord will have us to stand.
If we're standing where he's standing, we're standing in the right place and he will stand with us.
He won't only stand with us, but he will stand up.
When Stephen was the right hand of the father, or when Stephen was being stoned, he looked up and he saw Jesus standing at the right hand of the father.
He stood up when his people were being persecuted and each and every child of God.
And you know, well, it ain't a big deal.
It is a big deal.
We're talking about compromising our integrity and walking either free from idolatry or participating in it.
It is a big deal.
You stand where the Lord is, He will stand with you and He will stand up for you.
Amen to that.
And was it called the Five Mile Act of 1665?
Yeah, that's it.
Five Mile Act.
Yeah, I think it said Five Mile Act.
Yeah, that's it.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, I pulled it up.
Yeah, the Five Mile Act and basically it said we catch you within five miles of where you used to have your church, you're going to the Hokey Pokey.
And Bunyan went three times.
He was imprisoned three times.
Bunyan, at that time, he was a young man.
He had a wife.
and had children.
These Puritan women, they were strong.
They weren't there saying, oh honey, please give in so we won't have to do without.
They stood strong and they stood with their men.
It's just really touching.
It's just really touching.
And we need, and each and every child of God, we can be men and women of integrity and we can make a difference.
We really can make a difference.
But the minute you compromise, you have lost.
And even the devil doesn't respect you when you compromise.
Nobody respects a compromiser.
But when we stand for the Lord would have us to, he's going to bless us and greatly honor us.
And when we look around, we're going to, we're going to find that we're going to see more and more people that are standing with us.
Yeah, I know, David, you said this time of year it causes a lot of, well, it causes discord and separation of families.
You know, it's another, I'm going to ask you another question, just kind of a general question.
Probably a lot of people on the broadcast or in the chat are probably going through the same thing.
What would you say if somebody said, well, I've got 40 or 50 years of worshiping the Lord, Um, if you don't come over on the 25th, you're not going to, or whenever they have it close to proximity, Christmassy, whatever, you're not worship.
We're going to come over here.
We're going to put our tree up.
We're worshiping the Lord.
You can just stay where you're at and you're not, you know, you're not worshiping the Lord.
You know, that kind of mindset, that kind of concept.
And it's the same thing to my eyes as the golden calf, you know, back in the day.
And then, um, It's the same concept too when they say, well, you have to go to a brick and mortar, so-called physical place.
And after you leave, you don't have to worry about anything.
You know, it's the same.
Come on Sunday, come on Christmas.
They literally, I have the head that's been done to us.
Like, well, you can just stay where you're at, you know, basically saying that we're not worshiping the father or the son.
And it's, we got 365 days out of the year.
And I guess that one day, you know, I'm not trying to be a I'm not trying to be sarcastic or, you know, smart aleck, but I really have.
I'm being genuine here.
That's really has happened to me.
And it makes you wonder, you know, and they and I know they claim I know they love the Lord.
But why would they say that to us?
You know, that's one thing.
It's like, hey, like you said, emotions.
I think it's a lot.
I think the devil uses emotions and memories to fragment people's minds and it messes with people's emotions and, you know, ties that emotional good feeling of, you know, Eggnog and custard and reading Christmas stories and having a storybook and having all the traditions of man and all these, all these things that we've re-engineered and, you know, basically made it their own off of pagan traditions and saying it's for Christ.
And all those attachments of a gathering as a family, but then throughout the whole year, you can't get them to, you can't get them to, you couldn't get them to come if you say we're giving away a free, you know what I'm saying?
You know, it's like anything, you know, it's just amazing.
It blows my mind that you're like, Hey, let's come over, come over here.
We're going to plan on June the 12th or whatever day it is in the summer.
And you won't get, you'll get like one or two people show up out of like a family of a hundred.
And, you know, we're going to worship the Lord.
No, we can't worship the Lord on that day.
It just, what do you think about that, David?
It's kind of a question.
What would you say?
Well, their thinking is wrong of so many levels.
And as we all know the scripture in John, the fourth chapter, that the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
And we don't make it up as we go along.
When I say, well, I'm going to worship God, there's a prescribed order there in Scripture, the way I approach God.
I must approach the Father through Jesus' Son with great reverence and humility.
I worship according to what the Bible says.
Now, Aaron, in the Golden Calf episode that you alluded to, Aaron made a golden calf, and he said, this is a festival to the Lord!
I didn't like that idea too well.
It didn't turn out too well for Aaron.
Those people died, and the Lord put down his festivals, and I think, and this is just my idea, I can't prove it, but there are things to indicate that the Golden Calf took place on December 25th.
Can't prove it, but I have to say that's what I believe.
And he says, this is a festival to the Lord.
Well, the Lord didn't go along with that.
It's just like the new cart.
When they had the Ark was captured by the Philistines and they put it on a new cart.
You know, well, there was ways that the Lord said the ark was to be moved, and just like with the episode when the ark was coming out of the house of Obed-Edom, and Uriah touched it and was struck dead, the Bible has very specific ways, you know, those Levites had to put the poles through the ark, they had to bear the ark, they couldn't touch it, and when those rules of worship were violated, once again, somebody died, and you see,
We don't make it up.
We have to fear God and we worship and we approach Him the way He says, not the way we want to make up or think it should be.
And as we've said before, there's nothing in the Word of God that tells us to worship on Jesus's birthday.
And the Bible doesn't tell us when that is.
And I think there's good reason for that.
He doesn't tell us when it was, because I don't know how it could be much worse than what it is, but maybe it would be.
But, you know, people are just making it up.
They're adding things to the scripture.
They're making it up as they're going along.
And what they're blending in, they're mingling.
They're mingling in the things of paganism with the things of God.
And the results of that is going to be spiritual death.
You know?
And I would just ask the people that still are participating in this to just imagine for just a moment that the Bible really is real.
If the Bible really is real, you're in a lot of trouble.
What you're hoping for, and this is so many people that live in lifestyles that are just, we could say this I guess of the whole homosexual community, they're staking their eternal souls that the Bible's wrong.
Because the Bible has clear things to say about that.
The same way with these people with Christmas.
They're staking their eternal souls that the Bible, everything left of Matthew, just passed away.
That God no longer is offended at paganism.
That the Father that said, have no other gods before me is not on the throne anymore.
It's a serious issue.
And I want to impress that upon people.
It's a serious issue.
It's not some light, flippy issue.
It's a very serious one, and it could very well have eternal consequences.
Absolutely, and that's, people need to understand, because the thing is, me and David both are Italian, so we grew up in the families, and Italian families are very strict with tradition, you know what I mean?
And as we heard all the time, that's why my parents had to baptize me when I was a baby, unfortunately, as a Catholic, you know what I mean?
Because it's tradition, you know what I mean?
What does Jesus say about tradition, you know what I mean?
And you need to understand that, you know, don't, when he talked about When the disciples got yelled at for not washing their hands before they ate, and Jesus grilled them.
You know, He said, listen, those are traditions of men.
You know what I mean?
Then He grilled them for what they were doing against the Lord.
You know what I mean?
So, in other words, He said to follow God, not men, or His traditions.
You know what I mean?
And traditions is these religions out there.
Traditions is you have to do this and that because your father did it, your grandfather did it, and so on and so on.
You know what I mean?
But the thing is, you've got to break those traditions.
Yeah, it's not disrespecting you, even if it is, you know what I mean?
I'd rather disrespect my family than disrespect my father.
I'm talking about the father in heaven, you know what I mean?
So understand that because that's more important because he's the one you have to answer to when you pass on, you know what I mean?
So that's more important than your family's traditions, you know what I mean?
And the thing is if they really love you and understand you, okay, they'll respect that.
They might not agree with that.
And thank you Tanya B for the donation.
Thank you.
And this is Spiritual Warfare Friday, isn't it?
Let's talk a little bit about Christmas and Spiritual Warfare.
in the end when you face him one day.
I mean, you've got to answer for that.
And this is Spiritual Warfare Friday, isn't it?
Absolutely.
Well, let's talk a little bit about Christmas and Spiritual Warfare.
We have had people that have come to us that were afflicted with the demonic that we have had to tell them that unless they quit celebrating the pagan holidays, they're going to continue in their demonic affliction.
And we have seen people that have earnestly repented of the celebration of Christmas and all things pagan that have been set free from demonic influence.
There are many people And I'm sure as many of those will hear this broadcast that there are people that are no doubt under demonic affliction because of your persistence in the things of paganism.
Now let me give you a biblical example from the fourth chapter Galatians and we'll begin in verse eight.
And always what I like to do.
When I read the book of Galatians, I ask everybody to just look over at the person next to you and just put your hand on their shoulder and tell them the Galatians weren't Hebrews.
No, the Galatians weren't Hebrews.
The Galatians were the Gallic people.
They come down from the north, from the Caucus Mountains, and they became the Druidic people.
They became the Druids when they went from the area of Galatia in Asia Minor up into England.
They became the Druid people.
They weren't Hebrews.
Not in Galatians chapter 4 verse 8.
How be it then when ye knew not God?
Now this is talking to a Gentile pagan people, reflecting back to the time before they knew Christ.
Ye did service unto them, which by nature are no gods, plural.
The Galatian people, they served the gods of paganism before they knew Christ.
Verse 9 says, But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again?
Now, the Galatians were turning back to something that they did before they knew Christ.
Now, they weren't Hebrews.
We're not talking about Passover, Pentecost, and Feast of Tabernacles.
We're talking about the Galatians turning back to the celebration of the pagan holidays that they did before they knew Christ.
How turn ye again to the weak and beggarly And so many times this is thrown in our face and I know that Dan and Brian, like myself, that we will honor God's biblical feast days.
they did when they were pagan.
He observed days and months and times and years.
And so many times this is thrown in our face.
And I know that Dan and Brian, like myself, that we will honor God's biblical feast days.
We will honor the Sabbath and we will honor the Moedim that the Lord lays down in his feasts.
And these are, you know, this is absolutely talking about anything but that.
This is talking about the celebration of pagan holidays.
And in verse 11, here again, is this a big deal?
In verse 11, Paul said, I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
A very serious statement.
Paul was afraid they were about to shoot the whole thing in the foot.
Now, there's a word here I want to draw your attention to.
It's the word in verse 9 of Galatians 4.
It's translated beggarly elements.
And that word is stotion.
And we could run that through the biblical references and we could run that through the Greek lexicon and all the non-canonical references and there's a lot of them.
And what we would find out is that these are spiritual powers.
We're talking about literally a spiritual entity called the Stotian.
And the Stotian are, you see, this is rankly demonic.
It's rankly demonic.
The dying god, which is the basis of Harem Abyss, in the third degree of Freemasonry, being raised from the dead with a strong grip of the lions.
Paul, this is Nimrod, and this is Tammuz, this is Adonis, Osiris.
All of the dying gods were worshipped at the times which we would call Eastern Christmas at the winter solstice and the spring equinox.
And it is These are literally, the Stotian are literally devils that are amplified and cluster around the celebration of these events.
And people When you partake of the things of paganism, it's just like throwing your arms open wide.
You cannot eat of the table of the Lord and the table of devils, too.
There is a spiritual price tag for idolatry.
It's inescapable.
And there is a very specific little devil here that you're opening yourself up to.
There's real demonic spiritual affliction and bondage from these holidays.
It's much more serious than what people think.
Yeah, it was just like when you read that, um, Begley elements are right away.
It came to my head as Stoshon spirits.
And if guys, you know what those are, those are elemental spirits and that's why in witchcraft they have, you know, the five points, whatever earth, wind, fire, water, and all that.
The elements on the earth are, uh, you know, spiritual powers and all that stuff.
And, uh, so that plays a lot with this whole Christmas as well.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Uh, David too, uh, you know, like, uh, And there's another thing, too, that goes on that I know people that I love very dearly.
Like I said on Wednesday, I get emotional talking about this stuff, but they'll even say, well, Jesus was the sacrifice, and everything was done away with, so I can do these things now.
I can participate in these things, and all will be well.
Because I am supposed to, since I'm born again.
And you try to explain just what you just said, and they'll say that that's just too much research, too much for me to handle, and I'm just going to continue doing what I'm doing.
Because that's what Jesus would have me do.
You know, that breaks my heart, but that's happened to me many, many, many, many, many occasions.
So, uh, well, it's just kind of a question again.
What would you say in that situation?
Because they'll, they'll just disagree with you on everything.
It's almost like, you know, you, you know, it says dust your feet off.
You try, you try, but it's like, you pray, you pray, you pray, and you don't want to give up on them.
But in the long run, you're like, Lord, I don't know how much more I can take, but I don't want to give up.
You know, so it's just, you know, what's your, what's your take on it, David?
Well, I think in this situation, there's a clear scripture that we share from the fifth chapter, Matthew verse 17, and we know the text very well.
Think not, and this is Jesus speaking in the sermon on the mouth.
Now, that would take in Leviticus 18.
I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments.
Now, that would take in Leviticus 18.
That would take in the commandment not to observe pagan customs and practices.
And shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.
Thank you.
But whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
You could look at each and every Puritan expositor.
You could look at the great Baptist of John Gill and Charles Spurgeon.
You could look at John Wesley and all the scholars that came from him.
Each and every one of them, in a 100% agreement, would say that this meant that Jesus It did not come to do away with God's moral law.
Like Paul says in Romans 3.31, he said, well do we make void the law?
God forbid we establish the law.
through faith and it's amazing to me we live in a time when the vast majority of men that call themselves pastors and fill these pulpits on Sunday morning, they can read these words and they can say that what this means when Jesus said he didn't come to do away with the law and if you teach Anyone that they can break the least of them, you know, you're in trouble.
And they can take this and say, well, everything left of Matthew's gone.
Well, if people are going to read and hear it again, it's about the doctrine of Christ.
There's one faith, one Lord, one baptism.
What Jesus said is absolute truth.
And to me, there's no ambiguity here.
There's no way you can believe this and take it a half a dozen different ways.
And if people are going to follow false teachers that are going to tell them the law's passed away, that, well, yeah, I know that's back there in Leviticus, but you know, that's not any good anymore.
You know, I would just ask these people, just imagine Just imagine that maybe the Bible is true.
That maybe you need to consider that God's word is valid and that you need to have a little fear of God in your life of displeasing the almighty, omnipotent God.
Amen.
I like that verse there.
I should have added that on my Ten Commandments show.
Yeah, because you hear it all the time.
Oh yeah, well, you know, faith and, you know, like grace was saved by, so basically they want to say the law is void, but right there it says, you know, Paul's saying we don't, I mean, the void, I'm sorry, the law,
It's not voided, you know, through faith and God forbid and we shall establish the law and Yeah, and I don't want people to understand they make every excuse in the world To say that the Ten Commandments are gone, you know, they're abolished and all that and like they're just for the Jews or anything like that It's like wow, I mean the the apostles, you know, they followed the commandments Jesus did you know, I mean everybody did at the time and like you mean
You know, although, you know, the believers, whatever, and today they, you know, the dispensational structures and all that, they make every excuse in the world, oh, it's through grace, you know, yeah, we understand that, but grace is not a free pass to break the commandments, you know what I mean?
Then there's the difference between commandments, laws, ordinances, and statutes, those four different things, you know what I mean?
And so we understand the penalties, yeah, you know, when Mary Magdalene, when she was, you know, caught committing adultery, Jesus, you know, stopped their way from Stoner, they said, who is free from sin, cast the first sin.
But Jesus didn't go and tell them, oh no, Mary, you know what?
We're abolishing the law, because that's a 7th commandment violation, adultery.
You know what?
We're abolishing that now, so go sleep with whoever you want.
Jesus said no such thing.
He said, go and sin no more.
Repent.
You know what I mean?
Turn from those ways.
He didn't say to go keep doing it, you know what I mean?
And people just barely justify their excuse of breaking the commandments, you know what I mean?
And they just want to feel good, you know what I mean?
So basically, they think grace is just a free pass to do whatever the heck you want.
Well, to admit that you're fallen in a fallen state and the Holy Spirit convicts you that you're, you can do all kinds of bad without, you know, without the heavenly father and the son, the Holy Spirit, you know what I mean?
Like you get, when you, when you learn that and it comes down to it, that you feel just filthy and you know that you have to come to the site, like you have to come to the cross, like and beg for forgiveness and repentance.
And you know that you're in that nature, and the only way to get out of this earth or this earthly plane is through Jesus.
But like I said, there's people that is very dear to me that will tell and say, well, Brian, you're telling me I don't love Jesus.
If I don't, if I don't put the tree up, if I don't do this, you're telling me I don't love Christ, or I don't love, you know, if I put the tree up, you're telling me I don't love, you know, they take it that way.
Yeah.
They take it the negative.
They always take it a negative, and that's a fallen nature.
That's, that's a, that's still, you're assuming that I'm judging.
No, I'm just saying that this is wrong.
We need to turn away from it.
We need to turn around and do that.
We need to do what the father says, but they take it as a negative and then say that I'm casting judgment upon them, you know, so that's it's a.
It's like playing Russian Roulette almost.
You know what I mean?
We didn't write the Bible.
We just try to cooperate and go along with it.
And if they don't want to, that's on them.
But they need to know that if the Bible is true, they're in a lot of trouble.
And this is the atmosphere we live in.
Because here in America, It is this dispensational theology that's driving the train.
It breathes the atmosphere into the American Evangelical Church, and it is an atmosphere of lawlessness.
Holiness.
If you want to live holy, well good for you, but if you don't, it's optional.
Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.
Doesn't mean much anymore.
Lukewarm, you're spewed out, doesn't mean anything anymore.
And I was reading John Bunyan the other night, and I get such a kick out of him.
He's a pistol.
And he was talking about the Judgment Day.
And he was talking about the Ten Commandments.
And he said, oh, OU Center, don't you know that on the Judgment Day, the Ten Commandments are going to unload on you like cannons?
He said, basically, they're going to unload more powerful than the greatest guns England has.
And he said, the First Commandment will fire off its thunder and say, you have broken me.
And I damn your soul.
And the second commandment will fire off.
And this law of God, I tell you what, it's a booger.
You're not going to get around it.
You can say it's gone all you want, but it doesn't change the reality.
That God's law is as real tonight as it ever was.
At the bottom of the Ten Commandments, there's no Bible footnote, unless you've got a school field, maybe.
But there's no footnotes that this will expire in 2,000 years.
It's not there.
God's word is settled in heaven.
It will endure forever.
And just like Jesus said, he did not come to do away with the law.
And when we understand that, and the way of the Lord is the happy way.
It's not the sad way.
The things of the world aren't And it's my prayer that for the people that are listening tonight that would be of the idea that it's okay to do these pagan customs.
It is my heartfelt prayer that the Holy Spirit convict you and show you that you're wrong.
And he is more than able to speak to your heart and let you know.
Amen to that.
Amen.
Amen.
Yeah, and people could try to justify whatever you want.
You know what I mean?
You could argue with me.
You could argue with David or Brian, you know, all day long.
But you know what?
Try arguing with God when you meet him one day.
You know, when you meet the Father, try to say, oh, I didn't agree with that, or it's my opinion, or whatever.
He's got to tell you flat out.
No, I gave you those commandments.
And people say, well, you know, it's like, oh, again, just for the Jews.
Well, here's the thing.
A lot of these, me and Cascadia Cutlery, Nolan there, we did a show two years ago and we were trying to prove the commandments are already laws before they were actually the commandments before Mount Sinai.
And right from day, you know, seven, He says, you know what I mean, I sanctify the seven days my holiday, you know what I mean?
The Sabbath was established on creation, you know what I mean?
And if you go through what's going on, right?
You can steal, you can commit adultery, you can especially worship idols and all that.
Yeah, you'd be killed for that, you know what I mean?
The Ten Commandments already law what God would do.
He just reiterated them as the Ten Commandments for the Jews, you know what I mean?
To say, these are my prime laws, you know what I mean?
So they never went away and people said well, you know, he has a contradiction with these people too, right?
I notice how they do this, right?
They're like, oh we're saved by grace and all that and we're part of God's Israel because we're grafted in.
But we don't have to follow the commandments because it's just for the Jews.
Hold on right there.
If you are a part of God's Israel, right?
And you grafted in, don't you think you have to listen to his laws?
Does that make any sense?
Or, you know, what makes you exempt from those laws?
Oh, because we're not Jews and all.
You know what I mean?
That's a big total contradiction what they do.
You know what I mean?
And it's like, in that Deuteronomy 18, it says, leave out, you know, it's talking about the physical Israel back then.
In the modern day terms, it's talking about the spiritual Israel.
When you come into God's kingdom, you're supposed to leave those abominations from those other nations out.
You know what I mean?
witchcraft and all that stuff and this paganism with uh where you know this idol tree when you got that christmas tree in your church when you got that christmas tree in your house okay that's idol tree even you know i'm not worshiping it but you're still adorning like i call it a nimrod tree um but you're still adorning something that god told you in jeremiah don't do these things you know i mean don't justify it say well i'm gonna put a christian stamp on it so it's okay No, it's not.
You know what I mean?
And this is the problem with the churches.
This is why one of the things that just inspires me to do shows like this because we're trying to reveal to you what the scriptures say.
Not my opinion.
It's not David's or Brian's.
It's what the scripture says.
Regardless if you're a pastor or whoever behind the pulpit of your church or whatever, the scriptures go You know, first before the word they have to say, plain and simple.
So if they're saying something that's contrary to the scripture, you know, you're supposed to challenge them, plain and simple, and not listen to these people, you know what I mean?
And yeah, we're supposed to obey the laws of our land, okay, if the law says whatever, but if that law challenges the Constitution or our religious conviction, it is our duty to obey it, you know what I mean?
Disobey it, I'm sorry.
It's our duty to rebel against it, you know what I mean?
And same thing with the Jews all through history, man.
And yeah, they followed the laws and all that, but If that wall told them you had to work on a Sabbath, they would have rather died for us than work on a Sabbath.
You know what I mean?
So that's the mentality we need to have.
We need to follow the word of God over your church, over your family customs and traditions, over what the world is doing.
You know what I mean?
God comes for us.
You know, plain and simple.
They're not going to be here, you know, 10, 20, 30 years from now.
Okay, you're gonna be here and regardless where you go guys, I mean where they go, whatever, you have to face the Father by yourself, okay?
You're not gonna have your family and all them to try to defend you when you stand before judgment if you go to, hopefully you don't go to judgment, but regardless, we have to answer to the Lord no matter what.
And so I'd rather say, you know, I broke those traditions and I'm gonna, you know, and God's gonna say, well done good and faithful servant.
That's what I want to hear, you know what I mean?
And I don't know about you all, but that's what I want to hear.
Yeah, Dan.
Amen.
Amen to that.
Those will either be the greatest or the worst words you will ever hear.
Yeah.
And, you know, to Brian's thought, Brian was talking about those people that, well, you're saying that I don't love Jesus because I put my tree up.
Well, we might phrase the question like this, that we are following Jesus who said clearly in scripture that he did not come to do away with the law.
Could it be that the Jesus that you are following that says the laws passed away might be another Jesus?
Are you sure you have the real Jesus?
And the grace of God We'll tell everyone here just a little bit about the grace of God from the scriptures.
In Titus chapter 2 and verse 11, it says, For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.
That's what the real grace of God will teach you.
Now, the people that have what they call the grace of God, that is a get out of hell free card to sin and live every way they want, that is not the real grace of God.
That is not what the grace of God does.
So, here again, their idea of grace And I fear, and it's obvious, that their idea of Jesus is a flawed one.
Absolutely, and I believe that wholeheartedly because they say, oh, I believe in Jesus, so blah blah.
It's like, well, what Jesus are you following?
I mean, now you get into forums all the time, you know, you're chatting with people on these biblical chats, so, and it's like, what Jesus are you following?
Because you're certainly not following the Jesus of the Bible.
No, I'm not judging you, I'm just saying you're preaching something that Jesus told us not to do, or you're preaching something that Jesus did not say, you know what I mean?
So when you really look at that, you know what I mean, and then you say, you register that in your head for a minute, right?
Next time you say something like that or whatever, look what the scriptures have to say for us.
If Jesus didn't say or he says not to do that, yeah, you might want to repent and say, all right, I was wrong, I'm sorry.
This is Jesus' sin, you know what I mean?
And that's simple.
You know, it's basic instructions, all right?
And this is why you're encouraged to read the Bible for yourselves, you know what I mean?
I say this all the time when I do my biblical series.
I mean, I have the Bible right on the screen.
We go through it, explain every little detail about it, whatever.
But I tell you at the end, don't take my word for it or nobody else's.
Go back and read the whole thing for yourself and, you know what I mean?
Use the Holy Spirit to, you know, teach you, you know what I mean?
So that's what we try to encourage people, is read it for yourselves and don't just take the word from that pastor.
And I'm not, you know, judging them.
I'm not saying that bad guys are good guys.
There are bad ones, absolutely.
But I'm just saying, no matter what they say, if it's good or bad, you need to go read it for yourself and to understand it.
So I think, I think, I'm sorry, David.
Um, I think that, um, it comes down to like, uh, the devil has us fooled and in our way of thinking.
Um, because I know for years that he was the, he was manipulating my mind and, and God was, uh, moving me to turn away from these things.
And I remember even having conversations with my coworkers at the time before I got hurt when I'm my old job.
They were saying, Brian, if you give up, heck, if you give up these traditions, you know, give up all the holidays and everything, man, you're going to lose your family, lose your kids and all this crazy stuff and like insane comments.
Like you'll lose everybody.
You won't have no friends.
You won't.
You won't know nobody.
Nobody will like you.
Everybody's going to hate you and all these things.
And I recall those conversations.
I'm like, man, isn't that the devil?
Like speaking through people, you know?
And I'm like, how in the world is this even logical?
Any critical thinking in mind?
I was thinking like, man, if they truly love the Lord, why are they even speaking this stuff?
If they are like for example if they're a drunk or if they do alcoholism or anything like that or and I don't tell them that it's wrong and they need help or whatever and if they're coming in you know intoxicated and I don't love them enough to tell them that they might need to fix you know they might get the issues they'll listen.
They'll say, oh well Brian don't worry about it but this person was like hey you need to you're gonna lose everything it's like man you're condemning me but then Then they'll turn around and say, well, I love Jesus.
You know, they'll say, you know, I love Jesus too.
And I'm like, man, this is so contradicting of what you're trying to explain.
And it's like.
That's the devil right there, telling everybody, everybody's gonna hate you, nobody's gonna love you no more.
You're gonna be isolated for following the Bible.
And it's like, this is coming out of the words of people that are proclaiming to love the Bible and love Jesus.
And I'm like, how are you talking?
This is not loving your neighbor.
You're supposed to love your brother and your neighbor.
If you don't love your neighbor, you don't love God.
These are basic things, but they're like, Just putting their own spin on it and it's just causing all kinds of discord and confusion.
And it's like, whenever I knew that was going on, I was like, Lord, I'm going to have to take a step out on this.
I'm really going to have to implement this one day.
I'm going to pray about this.
Because it was such a big step.
It was a big step, and you know that all the precious memories and stuff like that, that you thought that you had, and then you start taking a little step back on all the gatherings, and I'll start reevaluating all the conversations, every type of everything.
All the gatherings would have to do with either getting gifts, how to return them, what new ad, Or what was under the tree?
What was you going to do with the ball game?
What was you going to do with this?
And how are you going to fix this?
And the whole day was so jam-packed full of vanity and you never spoke of Jesus' lips or off your lips besides maybe saying a little quick prayer over the food or if anything if you didn't even pray at all or you rushed it.
And it wasn't even genuine.
And then before you know it, your day's gone and y'all got your gifts and everything.
You got your mistletoe and you got your, you know, whatever type of cake or cookie and you're good to go.
You're content in your flesh.
And then you're like, and then there's nothing.
And you're like, hey, did we love Jesus?
No.
And then I've even said this years ago, whenever this started, you know, I was convicted.
over, you know, stop doing these things.
And I remember going into the gatherings, you know, be like, isn't it about Jesus?
And everybody would just look at me with the chicken leg hanging out of their mouth or, you know, they'd be like, yeah, just a little choke, got almost choked on it a little bit.
And like, Brian, what are you doing, man?
We've already prayed.
We've already got the Jesus stuff out of the way.
It's the kind of, that's the kind of feeling you get from it.
We've already got that out of the way.
Now it's time to have fun.
We gotta spend time with our family we haven't seen for a whole year.
But we have 365 days to see them, but we just, this is the only time to come together and love God.
And it just blows our mind.
It's mind boggling.
Thank you Jesus for this food that you told us not to eat.
Yeah, there you go.
I know you're sarcasm, I get y'all with the pork references, but what I'm getting at, it's almost like The whole world is geared.
The devil's got us like, you know, if you don't take that step of faith and like, and besides all the persecution that you'll, you'll hear it everything, you'll hear everything under the sun when you start pulling away from these things.
And it can be very lonely.
It can be very hurtful.
You can be very, you can just have a whole rush of emotions.
And if you, and I kept thinking, if I don't stay the course, And just forget what everybody's telling me and just hold the course of the narrow path and read, you know, literally focus on what Jesus is and who he is in the Bible and everything.
Then I don't want, you know, the devil's going to trip me up at every angle.
He's going to tell me, well, you're going to lose this.
You're going to lose that.
You're not going to gain this, or you're going to lose all your family.
Well, guess what?
Even back in the day, I remember my grandfather, my great-grandfather, we had Christmas dinner, and he would pour his heart and soul.
The man was so old school, I've never had in my life have seen anything like it.
Tears of joy.
He would be praying for the whole family.
And I remember as a little boy, I was like, man, this whole family's all messed up.
We've got so much corruption.
People, all kinds of different walks of life, we'd gather at this one place.
And my poor, poor, poor great-grandfather, and I knew he loved the Lord because you could just tell that passion and the tears coming out of his face.
And it was 71 years of marriage to his wife, and he lived almost to be 90, and had all this huge family.
And you could tell he was very genuine with his prayer, and he was praying for their souls.
And I have not seen that for years.
And he's been gone since 2002.
I have not seen that in years.
And it's just mind-boggling.
It's mind-boggling.
The same man would be shouting at the roof, screaming for the Lord to give him rain so he could literally have his crops grow and his animals be fed.
I mean, even though he still celebrated the Christmas traditions, I still think he was just lied to.
He didn't know no better.
But I still think that he did have a love for the Father and the Son.
Literally, he would talk about Jesus and everybody would look at him like he's a fool.
Nobody, you know, they say, well, he's just an old man sitting in his ways.
Well, I'm thinking, even today, I'm thinking, thank God.
That he was doing that, but then that whole family now has just completely, they have just completely gotten so far away from any kind of biblical narrative.
It's not even, I'm not saying, I don't want to even bash anybody.
My point is, is I'm praying just for souls to be saved and they get away from all this.
Everything, everything is just, it's insane how everything is just one detour after another to get you away from the word of God.
And I, we all suffer from that.
We all, we all, we all get caught up in the vanity of the world, but that's all, that's my rant.
You go ahead, David.
Well, there's one thing too I might want to clarify.
Um, let's talk about these people.
You know, I think that it's, has been well said that we have had passed on to us well-intentioned lies by people that love us and by many people that love the Lord.
And let's say we've got that relative that Never heard a message like this tonight.
They never heard that Christmas was wrong or pagan.
They never thought about it.
They never questioned it.
That was me until one day I did hear it.
I did question it.
Now, I believe, you know, when I was born again, I celebrated Christmas.
I didn't know any better.
And I believe, and I believe if I would have died then, I went to be with the Lord.
But then the truth came to me.
And when the truth came to me, thankfully, I repented and walked in the light that I had.
We will be judged by the light that we have.
And when the truth of God comes to you, and the truth of God is coming to you tonight in a clear, plain way, and you'll be accountable for it.
You know, the Lord will hold you accountable.
for the truth that you receive.
But the Lord is a righteous judge and he is not going to judge people and send them to hell for what they don't understand.
And another scripture we might ask our friends that would celebrate Christmas and you see the whole thing is upside down.
The whole thing is a false spiritual atmosphere where Yeah, the Bible's a nice book, but we don't really take it too serious.
Like, we really have to do this stuff, you know?
But in 1 John 2 and verse 3, And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar.
And the truth is not in him, but whosoever keepeth his word in him, verily is the love of God perfected.
Hereby know we that we are in him.
There is no genuine love of God.
That is separate from obeying His commandments.
Loving God is obeying His commandments.
And when we do love the Lord, and we obey because we want to, you know?
I don't celebrate Christmas because I want to do what pleases the Lord.
That makes Him happy, and that makes me happy.
You know?
And if it doesn't make everybody happy, I can't help that.
But it makes the Lord smile in me, too.
And there is no... and you see, hereby we know that we're in Him.
We know that we're born again when our heart It will go against the world.
It will go against what's popular.
It will go against the traditions of men.
And by this, we know that we're in Him.
It will be a supernatural witness of the Spirit.
And there's no greater blessing than that.
But there is no love of God that separates itself from the obedience to His commandments.
No such thing exists.
Amen so I mean a lot of people question to them the thumbnail switching gears a tiny bit Yeah, the thumbnail cuz we got bloody balls on the Christmas tree So if you want to take a minute to to explain what that means because pipe would understand why they put red balls bulbs, you know, I'm here up on the Christmas tree I Here we go Yeah Okay
Now we ask that question we must ask every year - What do those Christmas balls represent?
Those Christmas ornaments on the tree?
Well, I'll read here a little bit, and by the way, I want to plug our Hot Topics page, as Sister Donna told me to.
This is a printout from our FOJC radio.
You can go to FOJCRadio.com and we have a hot topics page.
You can see this is pretty thick.
There's a lot of stuff here.
And I know that last Wednesday, Brian and Dan, they did a show about all of the We've talked about many of the customs of Christmas, how it all goes to paganism, and this is just chock full of information that will give you the documented facts of all of the Christmas customs and where they come from and all of that.
And it's all pagan!
And you know, it's so easy for anybody that will take time to look at an Encyclopedia Britannica or anything, you know that we're talking about the Saturnalia and the whole thing.
It's all pagan.
And one of the...
Most pagan of all aspects is the tree and the worship that was associated with it.
And I want to read here from a book called The Golden Bough by Sir James George Fraser.
And this is the definitive scholarly work.
He was an Oxford scholar on the mystery religions.
And I'll just read a little bit here from page 405.
405 and it talks about the festival that was celebrated and even in the mystery religions they would put a tree up in the spring and they would put a tree up in the winter also.
They love these trees.
And it says this.
It says, The Great Spring Festival of Sibel and Attis.
On the 22nd day of March, a pine tree was cut in the woods and brought into the sanctuary of Cybele, where it was treated as a great divinity.
The duty of carrying the sacred tree was entrusted to a guild Of Tree Bears The archgolos, or high priest, drew blood from his arms and presented it as an offering.
Nor was he alone in making this bloody sacrifice.
Stirred by the wild barbaric music of clashing cymbals, rumbling drums, droning horns, and screaming flutes, The inferior clergy whirled about in the dance with waggling heads and streaming hair until, wrapped into a frenzy of excitement and insensible to pain, they dashed their bodies with potsherds and slashed them with knives in order to bespatter the altar
and the sacred tree with their flowing blood.
The ghastly rite probably formed the part of mourning for Attis and may have been intended to strengthen him for the resurrection.
It was on the same day of blood And for the same purpose that the novices sacrificed their virility, wrought up to the highest pitch of religious excitement, they dashed the severed portions of themselves against the image of the cruel goddess.
Now that, you know, what can you say about that?
Literally, we're talking about An orgiastic blood rite where literally men emasculated themselves and flung their testicles onto this tree.
What can you say about that?
And it goes on.
There's just so much in this about it, and I'll not read any more.
It's very explicit.
And are we nasty for reading this?
Well, no, we're really not.
People are nasty for perpetuating these pagan customs.
That's why the Lord says we're not the way, the heathen.
That's heathen.
This is very, very, very heathen.
And there's just so much in this.
I mean, um, it's disgusting.
It's wrong.
It's heathen.
It's pagan.
And that's why we should not do it.
And I hope that if any of you listening to the broadcast tonight, if you put up a Christmas tree and put your, your ornaments on it, I hope this ruins it for you.
Absolutely, and if you want to know more guys, right here on the Hot Topics on fojcradio.com.
If you go to Hot Topics and click on Christmas, it says right here, red balls on the tree.
So hit the search button and you'll see it.
And there's a lot of information more about that too.
Awesome page man, full of information.
fojcradio.com has links to their broadcast and all the shows they're on and everything else.
All information about almost every holiday too, man.
Like Valentine's Day and uh, wait till you hear about that, man.
It's like nasty holiday.
Uh, these biblical feasts, Freemasonry and all that, you know, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
And paganism is paganism and it all comes back to the worship of the heavenly luminaries, the host of heaven and to the worship of the male and female genitalia.
That's what it is.
That's what it comes back to every time.
Absolutely and now that's out, you know, basically this holiday called Christmas guys and it's Yeah, I came with words and just described because now knowing all the stuff and it's just like, you know You look back like I was so blind.
And I know it was nobody's fault.
We're not saying you're dumb or anything.
It's just that when you grow up and you grow up into these, you know, the school systems and the modern-day churches, they don't teach any of this stuff.
And it's unfortunate.
You know, it really is.
And, you know, the churches should be on top of this stuff, and they're not, you know what I mean?
And I noticed, too, I don't know if you've seen it, David, a lot of programs are coming out, you know, exposing what we've been saying for years, what you've been saying for decades, right?
They're finally exposing the stuff, you know, to show Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus.
But there are some of them, too, that do it in a way to try to diminish Jesus as well.
You know what I mean?
So a lot of truth is coming out, you know.
Yeah, and it's just all about following the doctrine of Christ.
When we come to Jesus, we really follow him.
We follow the one that said that he did not come to do away with the law.
So we just try to cooperate.
When I go to the Bible, there's one thing I believe when I go there.
Well, a couple things.
I start with believing that he knows more than I do.
And that's a pretty easy one.
And the second one's really easy too, that he loves me and that he wants what's best for me.
And if I just try to cooperate and go along with what the father says, things will work out fine.
Things will work out just fine.
That always takes people off when you tell them right out in the forums.
So God knows better.
That just like really stabs them right in the heart when you say that, which is true.
God knows better than all of us put together, you know, and, uh, he created everything.
He's, he makes the rules, you know?
And that's really the issue, isn't it?
Do you really believe the Bible is true, and will you submit to it?
The Apostle James says, submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
And we submit ourselves to the Lord by coming into submission to the Word of God, by renewing our minds and coming into submission to the Word.
That's how we renew our minds and submit to God.
And if we do, uh, the devil's got to run.
And when we don't, uh, and we do things we shouldn't, you're going to have stochian all up on your little self.
And, you know, and I, and people will say this, well, uh, we celebrate Christmas.
It doesn't hurt anything.
It doesn't hurt our church.
And I might ask people to consider this.
Look at our country.
There have been more, there's more churches now than ever before that have more money and more people in them.
And here in our country, we have men that think they're women and women think they're men.
We have every kind of abominable confusion in the world.
A funny thing happened on the way to the Christmas tree.
We no longer have a church that's the conscience of the nation.
We have a church that's gone silent on almost every issue that's important.
I was listening to a news broadcast this week.
It was the Charlie Kirk Show.
And I was listening and he had a congressman from Texas on and he was all fizzed up.
He was all bent out of shape.
And I was, you know, look at all this stuff going on.
They're indoctrinating our kids into giving them hormone blockers, all the horrible things that are going on.
And he asked this test because congressman, what can we do about it?
What are we going to do about it?
And this congressman said, it's, uh, he said, what needs to happen?
He said the pastors in this nation need to find the prophetic voice.
They need to thunder the word of God from the pulpits once again to proclaim what is right, what is wrong.
And you see, the law of God will tell us what is right and what is wrong.
And that's what needs to happen.
This man was so right.
It's time for men and women of God to find their voice and to speak the truth on all issues.
And that's what's going to rescue the perishing.
That's what's going to cause The loss to come to Christ, for by the laws, the knowledge of sin, Romans 3 and 20.
And the law of God will let us know one thing, that we've all broken it.
And that there's only one remedy for the broken law.
And that's the sacrifice of Christ upon the cross for all of our sins.
And that's the only hope we have.
It's our prayer that men and women of God find their voice once again and speak forth the Word of God.
Like Spurgeon said, when Spurgeon was talking about Baxter and Bunyan, he called it Puritan Thunder.
And that's what we need.
We need a little Puritan Thunder that will proclaim the Word of the Lord without compromise and stand where the Lord would have us to stand.
Absolutely.
So you want to hang off some phone calls or are you cooked out tonight?
Cause I know you had your show earlier.
Well, I am, but we'll might do a few.
I'll hang on here for a little bit.
I don't know how long, but we'll hang on here.
I got my coffee here.
I haven't finished my coffee.
So we'll finish.
that's good no no guys I will get to say yeah so there's a phone hey Brian can we can we do a shameless plug for that show coming up Sunday night oh yeah the shameless plug Yeah, go ahead.
Well, tomorrow night, going on Sunday night, on FOJC Rumble, that little fella right there, Brian Reese and Brett Graham, they're going to be doing a show on FOJC Rumble.
It'll be live at 8 p.m.
Sunday night on FOJC Rumble.
We're going to be talking about Another very serious topic about transhumanism and about the things that are transpiring to, uh, corrupt the human genome, things that are going forth so fast that we all need to know about.
And, uh, Brian and Brett are going to be doing a show.
And I tell you what, I don't want to give Brian the big head.
I don't know if we could handle him.
The work that he did on the thumbnail and the animation...
It'll be worth watching.
It is really top-notch.
I'm so thankful that he did that and very grateful and appreciative.
So it's going to be a great show.
It's going to rock.
It's going to be a no-holds-barred FOJC Rumble on the Rumble.
So tune in Sunday night at 8 p.m.
to go to FOJC and now if you just go to a Rumble channel, you'll be right there.
So thank you for letting me do the God bless you, David.
And we got our first caller on the phone.
Hi, what's your name and where are you from?
Hello, Brother Dan, Brian, and Brother David.
This is Agent 505, and I just wanted to call in tonight.
I know it's been a long night with all the teachings, great teachings.
We love you so much.
We love you all from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
And, you know, the reason I wanted to call in is the messages have just been so powerful each week, you know, with everything that's being taught about pagan religions and the deceptions of the world.
But I just wanted to share something.
You know, I came out of the dispensational religion as an evangelical, and Albert, of course, he came out of the Mormon religion.
When the Father spoke to us about Christmas, we were actually at a Christmas service at church, and I had invited a friend of ours, and I was with my mom at her church, and the Father spoke to me and said, they're not singing to me.
began to read the lyrics off the words that were being sung during that Christmas service, and I was greatly convicted and could hardly wait to get out of the church.
And so that was our last time ever attending church, and that was back in 2019.
2019.
And so it's just been a tremendous life-changing experience for Albert and I.
And, you know, we're so grateful for the truth.
Of course, we got to come out and meet Brother David and Donna and Brian.
Dan, you weren't there for the Pentecost, but it's just been a complete life-change experience for us.
We're so grateful that we don't celebrate these pagan holidays.
It does break our heart because
Our family members, they do still participate and, you know, just the teaching about how to, you know, direct them to Scripture and how to try to minister to them with love and be able to share with them has honestly caused some of our family members to kind of go more into the Christmas holiday and it's been
Really, really sad for us because we wished that they could feel and see what we know after learning everything that we have, but we still stick out like sore thumbs because we don't participate.
Yeah.
Some of our, you know, family members, they just, they don't understand it, but We're praying and we're believing, but we're being more silent.
But there is a form of, you know, depression that has come in.
I mean, this is our third year not practicing it, and it seems like every year it's a little heavier, you know.
It's not our burden, obviously.
It's the Father.
He understands.
He hates it.
We're more sad about it and it definitely is a time of feeling the pain of dystocia and all the stuff that is out there that's affecting our family because we not only live not doing it, but we're seeing the consequences of what happens when our family members do participate and that's Really hard on us.
I can totally relate to what you're saying.
Well, you all didn't fit in with the world very well, but you fit in pretty good here at the Puritan Barn.
And it was such a great time to be able to spend time with you and Albert and your mom.
I also just wanted... We love you so much.
We always will.
It's just like there's a bond there that'll never be broken.
And we know the witness of the spirit.
It was just such a wonderful thing.
And we Yeah, what can you say?
There's nothing better than the Fellowship of the Saints.
And, you know, so much of what is in the Incorporated church, it's so superficial.
As one person said, it's a mile long and an inch deep.
But when there's a real witness of the spirit among God's people, there's nothing like that.
You know, you can't buy that, you know, and it's just such a precious thing.
And we always will have the fondest of memories of you and your family.
And we're not going to believe it's going to be the last one.
And we're just looking together to be together again.
We just love you guys a bunch.
You know that we do.
We appreciate you and your whole family so much.
Absolutely, David.
And it just dawned on me, too.
It just dawned on me.
When she said, Albert, she had to say it a few times.
And I know exactly who you are.
I remember Albert.
And if he's on here, if you're beside him, you tell him, God bless him.
Because he helped out so much during the Pentecost.
I remember Albert.
And y'all drove so far.
Y'all think y'all might have been the farthest people to drive to the Pentecost.
So I remember exactly who you guys are.
It just, hey, took me a few minutes and then I was like, Albert, yes.
Yeah.
Tell him I said hello.
So yeah, that was a good time of fellowship.
So yeah.
Yeah.
And I'll be there and I'll be at the Puritan Bond for Passover.
I already planned that out.
So that's going to be pretty cool.
I wish I was there to meet you and I'll thank you for the donation by the way, as well.
Yeah.
Bless you.
Absolutely.
And you know, Albert says, hi, he's here.
We're listening together and You know, this year we're going to go out again for the Pentecost.
We won't be able to make it for the Passover, Dan.
We'd love to meet you, brother.
But, you know, we're going to take a crew with us out this year.
We have, you know, remnant here in New Mexico that have been meeting up for remnant meetings.
And, you know, it's just A life-changing experience, and there was a time when we were feeling alone because we were so far, but you all are in our thoughts and our prayers.
We love you all so much.
And from Albuquerque, New Mexico, we send our love and greeting, and also Santa Fe, because we have some remnant in Santa Fe.
But when we come out for Pentecost, we're going to be there.
They can hardly wait to meet you because The positive thing about it is that, you know, people would say, oh, they're just, you know, on YouTube.
They're just on YouTube.
You don't know them.
But we actually do know you and your family and we spent time with you.
We ate with you.
We fellowshiped with you.
And it is a very real thing.
It's not just, you know, watching somebody on YouTube.
And Dan will have that same perspective.
Hopefully in the future I'll have the opportunity to meet you because you are doing such a fantastic job on this Friday Spiritual Warfare.
I know there's other people that want to call in probably.
I just want to tell you something that recently happened because I've been, you know, watching your programs.
I might not watch them when they're live because sometimes I fall asleep, but I watch them on the Sabbath.
But, you know, I started having these like really weird Things happen on my phone that my phone would like twitch when I would watch your shows and then it would crash.
Then I had somebody hack into my bank account.
So I just wanted to let you know that whatever you're doing on this station, on this channel, on Friday nights, it is definitely disrupting the spiritual because they are coming at us from different angles.
But I really appreciate everything that you've been
Putting out you and Brian on Fridays and of course, you know, Sister Donna and David with just all the spiritual warfare stuff and just helping us prepare for this battle because the things that we're being taught in church, we didn't know how to deal with these issues, but what we're being taught on these Friday night spiritual warfares and midnight rides and John Hall and Patricia Hall with the Remnant Restoration and just the entire team, Tracy Burnett with
You know, her Sunday nights with Brother David.
I mean, this is tremendous growth for anyone who wants to know the truth and search out their salvation.
And I just, from the bottom of my heart, want to let you know that what you are doing is right.
It's so awesome.
We appreciate you so much for being out there and sharing the truth.
Our donation is just a small token of our appreciation.
We love you so, so much.
All of you for everything that you do.
And we just love you so very much.
And I don't want to take up any more time because I'm sure somebody else wants to call.
But we love you so much.
Thank you so much.
Well, I love you.
I love you.
Absolutely.
We have somebody on the chat that's also from New Mexico.
We have had a life change.
We went from being rebellious believers to giving up drugs and a lifestyle that was harming us to
Loving the Lord and wanting to be in fellowship with remnant that love Jesus, obey His commandments and obey His statutes and His ordinances and come on a Friday night and just be energized because we know that the truth is being put out and people will be delivered from these messages to come out of her because our time is short and And now is the time.
And we love you, we love you, we love you.
We love you too and I appreciate your words.
And things like that just keep the show going, you know what I mean?
That's what motivates me too, just get the truth out there.
And I'm learning as I go too.
I mean, I'm not a person that knows it all.
I'm still learning.
And as I do the Bible series I'm doing right now too, I'm still learning more.
It's a constant learning thing.
We all learn together, and I, you know, this is such a great program because this is our fellowship, you know what I mean?
We're all scattered all over the world, and we come here to this particular thing.
We're virtually in a chat, talking to each other like this, and this is my church here, you know what I mean?
And because there's nowhere in Rhode Island I could go for a real biblical church, and this is my church right here.
And I'm so appreciated for you and your husband, and tell him thank you so much as well.
We sure will.
And I might say too.
You guys have a wonderful night.
God bless you and talk to you very, very soon.
Oh, David wants to say something for a minute.
Well, I just want to say too, and it's, it's not about any one of us.
It's about Jesus.
The thing you'll hear, whether you're listening to the Midnight Ride or Dan's show or The Doctrine of Christ with Jimmy Cooper and myself, it's the message.
It's the Doctrine of Christ, the commandments of God.
It's lifting up Jesus.
And it's just telling people, it's all about Jesus.
And the scripture is just coming home to him.
And the Father is calling people home to him.
It's not about us.
We're just lifting up Jesus.
Absolutely.
And the Spirit's gonna draw.
And we're so thankful.
We're so thankful the Lord has given us a great team.
And there's more people that are coming on, uh, that are going in the Lord, like, uh, Brian and Tracy and Brett that are stepping up and taking their place on the firing line that are getting in.
And it's exciting to see what the Lord is doing.
It really is.
And, you know, we're not just, uh, talking in the air.
We're not just getting numbers on a video, but real people are being changed.
They're being brought to the Lord and they're being led into that abundant blessed life.
That the Lord wants us to have this real, the real victory in relationship when we unite with the living Christ.
So just doesn't get any better now.
Absolutely.
All glory to the Father.
Absolutely.
And thank you so much for the call.
Absolutely.
Shabbat Shalom, by the way.
Shabbat Shalom.
Good night.
Good night.
Yeah, so guys, I want to call in 512-547-1736.
The number is right up on the screen there.
So give us a ring if you want to tell a testimony, comment on the Christmas thing, whatever you want to do.
Yeah, that was awesome call.
Yeah, absolutely.
It was cool too.
541, you're on here.
What's your name and number?
I mean, your name and where you from?
Hi, this is Kathleen Lane calling from Springfield, Oregon.
Hey, Dan.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Brother David, hello.
Hi to Sister Donna.
I know she's out there listening, too.
Yeah, she is back in the office.
She's editing.
We did our broadcast tonight and she's editing it up.
Uploading it to our Rite-A-Yan and Rumble channels.
So she's back there.
She's close to hand.
You're great.
Yeah, you and David were talking at the same time.
I know it's hard to hear.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I can't hear David.
Okay, so go ahead David and talk and Dan let me know when I can talk.
Well, I just said that Donna is back in the office in the studio.
She's uploading our video we did tonight to her Rumble and Brydeon channel, and she's close at hand here, working away.
Yeah.
She's a hard worker.
She's always doing stuff.
It really is.
So I'm going to go ahead and start talking.
So I recently had a grandbaby.
He was born in June, and we haven't celebrated.
Satan's holidays since, I think, 2017, 2018.
So we were trying to, Harold and I were trying to come up with, so how are we, you know, how do we want to do this?
Because we don't want Gray to feel left out, but we're not going to do anything in December.
That's a given.
When should we do this?
And my husband says, you know, Tabernacles is a time when we're, you know, to celebrate, to eat, to give, you know, gifts, and just to come together and You know, people take weeks, two weeks off, and they go camping together, and they have these big gatherings, which sounds a lot like Christmas.
People, you know, they usually get two weeks off, the kids in school, and etc.
So, he brought up Taylor McNichols, and then not too soon after that, I watched a study on it about how, really, that is Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I just, I'm blabbering now, I'm kind of going in circles, but I just wanted to hear what you three would say, the Lord would say about that.
Well, I would say that any time that you want to get together with friends and family and honor the Lord, it's a good time.
You know, this is the day the Lord hath made.
It's a good thing, and the idea is so Worldly and long that the only really great time to do that is on Christmas, you know, and that really negates from Getting together multiple times when you should.
So it's right and proper that we gather together with our friends and family and enjoy the things that God has given us.
And we are not in any kind of a bondage that would limit us from doing that when the Lord would lead us to.
And when we do that in the right way, it's right and proper and blessed.
Amen.
Okay, amen.
So, Brother David, since I have on the phone right now, I go back and forth with birthdays.
Are we not to be celebrating birthdays?
Well, the only text in the scripture, it talks in the book of Job, where there was destruction when Job was setting his birthday.
But you know, I leave that up to the individual.
I don't really see clear-cut Scripture to forbid that.
And you know, if people are convicted to not do it, that's fine.
And if people want to celebrate their children's birthday, I don't trouble with them with that.
So I leave that to people to work out their own salvation on that issue.
Okay, that's good advice.
Thank you.
Okay, well, just I want to also say to the caller before me, Amen, sister.
What a blessing.
It was such a good testimony to hear.
Everything that she was saying and it's just very uplifting and positive and I just wanted to say thank you sister and amen.
Thank you and thank you for the call and God bless you and Shalom.
I can't hear you.
No, no, Sister Ann Marie, she just tried calling, so let's give her a call.
Yeah, David, that was a really good time at Pentecost, wasn't it?
It was great.
It was really a great time.
It was.
It was like 500 people, wasn't it?
500 people, 500 or so people.
I can't hear you.
Hey, how are you?
Hi, Dan.
Sister Ann Marie, how are you?
Hi, I'm great.
Hi, Brian.
Hi, Mr. Jericho.
How are you?
Can you hear me?
Yep. - Okay. - Hi, brother.
I will gladly do that.
Thank you for the walnuts and everything.
Hello, Anne-Marie.
Hey, Miss Kerko.
Give my love and a kiss on the forehead to sweet Donna Kerko.
I will gladly do that.
Yes, sir.
I'm going to work on my volume a little bit real quick.
Thank you for the walnuts and everything.
You got them in the mail.
Oh, you're welcome.
You're welcome.
It's a blessing.
And that would be a question.
I thought that was healthy, needed energy, and you know, that's some good stuff.
Yeah.
But I had a question for David Kyrko, if I could ask him.
You can.
Okay.
I'm still having a hard time hearing him.
But is it okay to make like home-baked goods and take them to your neighbors?
And it's not a Merry Christmas.
It's just we're thinking of you and we just wanted to bless you in Jesus name.
And we're very blessed.
We have numerous Christian neighbors that do not celebrate Christmas.
Is that okay?
I tell you, Anne-Marie, you can make some home-baked goods and send them to me.
I'd love it.
You got it.
And it's a good thing to bless, you know?
It's a good thing to bless our friends.
Sure, absolutely.
That's a good thing.
I don't know, that's a wonderful thing.
And it's a good way to show kindness to our neighbors and a good way to You know, establish a relationship to where we can witness to them.
And I can't, well, that'd get my attention.
You know, and uh, I hope you like nice, warm, homemade wheat almond bread.
And I hope you like cranberry, cranberry spice, not too spicy, with lemon and mint cheese balls.
And I will surely send you some homemade goodies.
You're making us hungry now.
I'll take you out.
I'll take Dan.
I'll put the ice thing, the freezing ice thing at the bottom of the box.
Amen to both sisters that have called tonight because, you know, you can let oppression and depression get in.
I'm biblically severed from my whole family.
I've had to go into the harsh rebuke with them because they do witchcraft.
And it's a good thing.
And for years I would cry, I would weep.
It would be so hard.
And we were brought up in the 60's.
I'm old but I don't have creepy skin.
I tell that to John Founders all the time.
But we've had to set our boundaries.
And there's a scripture.
That says one day Christ will wipe away all of our tears.
And this is really personal and I'm shocked I'm even going to share this on air, but I'm going to because I'm with the remnant.
I want you to think about this.
This is deep.
At what point are we asking the Holy Spirit to give us the spirit of obedience in every area of our life so that He doesn't weep Another tier, and what we do is we save to the fact that we know that Christ is going to weep for those he has to save.
Depart from me, I never knew you.
At what point do we, do we begin to dig in so deep, especially in these end times, to where we think, if I do this, it's going to cause my father to cry.
If I do this, it's going to cause Him to rejoice over me.
He sings over us every morning.
Every morning.
So where I used to be oppressed and feel a void, now we have so much peace.
It's not the get out in the road and buy all the shopping and oh they didn't like the gift like you were discussing tonight.
It's about fellowshipping with the remnant and knowing that you're living right by what the word says and that is where you get your shalom from.
And I'll take as much as I can in this evil dark world.
So it makes me happy.
And not only that, look at all the money that you physically save by not indulging in any of these pagan holidays.
It's insane.
insane, $940 to $960 billion spent on Christmas this year.
So I say be at peace, Pray for your families, your unsaved loved ones, those stuck in the middle.
We were stuck once.
And then I say, take as much joy as you can from the Father and know that when you do the right thing, you're making Him smile.
That's what makes me happy.
That's what gives me peace.
Not that I'm perfect.
Far from it.
Far from it.
I'm just dirt passing through this world.
And I repent sometimes every hour.
But I also accept the fact that God just like, and I don't cry, just like David said, I know Jesus loves me.
And Dan, you know Jesus loves you.
And Brian, you know that Jesus loves you.
And I know that Jesus loves me.
And there is no greater love.
Amen.
Amen to that.
You know, the Bible talks about grieving the Holy Spirit.
And to grieve someone means to make them sad.
And the Holy Spirit will work As our sanctifying agent to take us away from the things of the world unto the things of the Lord.
And when we don't cooperate in that, we literally grieve him and make him sad.
And I always, I'll ask people, I'll say, Well, Acts 5.32, it says, And we are his witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom the Lord hath given to them that obey him.
And I will ask them, you know, do you know why the Lord gives the Holy Ghost to those that obey him?
And the answer is, because if you're not going to obey him, you don't need him.
spirit is for it will draw us to Christ and to obedience and when we resist that process we grieve him and we make him sad and we make the heart of the father sad and this is the greatest way that we can look at it that we do things to make the father happy Amen David Amen thank you so much for that I mean I say head up guys
Amen.
Who's the glory and the lifter of your head?
Who is this King of Glory?
Jesus.
He's the one that's going to lift you up.
We don't want to get entrapped in this at all.
So, I appreciate all three of your shows.
I appreciate FOJC Underground Church.
I appreciate Jimmy Vision.
I appreciate the DOC.
I appreciate everything.
I'm going to subscribe to all you guys.
It's a family.
When I first met Dan, God love your heart Dan Bodoni.
When I first met you, I watched you for a long time in your car.
I'll end shortly with this because I tend to be long winded.
I watched you I think for like nine years.
Then when you started getting your channel, you were so kind to me.
My twin had just died.
You were so gracious to me.
My older brother died a year and a half before.
My twin died almost a year and eight months after.
And I was basically told by someone who was in sin at the time that I had to go on the harsher route.
Why don't you find another family?
And some ugly words because you suck the life out of us.
Well, you know, I was hurt by that by a long time, but he was an alcoholic.
Well, long story short, he stopped drinking.
Because I read in 1 Corinthians 6, 9-14, I said, doesn't your pastor love you enough to tell you the truth?
And I told him, he stopped drinking.
Four months, two bottles of 190 proof scotch before he died.
Cold turkey.
And he fell on his knees.
Two days before he passed away, this is my older brother, and he repented of his sins, and then he died the next evening, the next morning, late in the morning.
And my twin, who just passed about a year ago, I got to lead him to Jesus Christ through the doctrine of Christ, and I'm thrilled with that.
I mean, if I didn't learn, because we're all learning, Through the D.O.C.
and F.O.J.C.
I would have been able to explain to him Southern Baptist 501c3 style, but I'm telling you, God will use you if you keep your eyes on Him.
Don't look at this horrible world and Christmas and Easter and Austin.
Look to Him.
Let Him be the glory and the lifter of your head.
I'll tell you a quick story about my mother.
My mother was a hardworking woman, worked in a nursing home, but always walked to work.
In bad weather, she'd walk to work, walk home.
Farther than she should have had to have walked.
And never had a car.
Family didn't have a car.
And every Christmas, and she had a Sears and Roebuck credit card.
And every Christmas she would buy everyone more gifts than they deserve and would go in debt and would pay on it.
And it was a lot for her because she just had a fixed income and that bill was a bill she didn't need to have to pay.
But I was so thankful that, and she's been gone for several years, but Several years before she passed when I came into this understanding was able to share it with her that she received it and she repented and it broke that thing off of her and she was set free from that bondage and it was such a blessing to her and I think Brian alluded to this either that there's a lot of people that
Don't have the money to do this and it's like they feel they're under a bondage and this obligation and the Lord will set you free.
And when the Lord blesses you and set you free, it is indeed such a such a true and such a great blessing.
Yes.
Amen.
Amen.
I have a sister in heaven right now.
Your mama.
My mama, my daddy, my whole family.
That's amazing.
Thank you for sharing that story.
And Brian, you know, please don't let this burden you.
Don't let this burden you, brother.
I'm so glad to see that you don't have your glasses on.
I have those same glasses too, and I'm glad that you're better.
Bless you.
Well, I'm having a little bit of a better day, so I didn't want to wear out.
I wore them the other day.
I had to, and it was such a distraction in the show.
But today, it's a little bit better this evening.
Not really.
I mean, you really emulated Messiah.
You had your Terminator glasses on, and you said, I'll be back.
Hey, the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Let's not forget that one.
Well, everybody put an order in for Ann's bakery.
Yes, you can.
She delivers at all 50 states.
All I need is your address, mister.
I'll take it.
I'll email Dan, and I need David Kyrko's address.
And Dan knows that I'm a very private person in that way, and I don't violate.
According to 1 Corinthians, we don't violate each other's information.
And yes, you can put an order in.
Would you like some pumpkin gingerbread cookies?
Homemade!
Homemade!
All I can say is our address is on our website.
What I'll do is do it quickly.
You guys are ready, aren't ya?
Oh, them Southern bakery from Tennessee.
Yeah, I mean, I gave some to my neighbor.
She goes, oh my gosh, you should sell this.
And it was nice and warm.
And I was like, wow.
It's homemade.
You make it from scratch.
So, I'll be making y'all some, so be expecting it and deal, okay?
We'll just say deal.
All right.
Done deal.
I got this big tin of shorted nutshare you sent me.
It was awesome.
Oh, good.
I'm glad you like them, brother, because they give you energy.
They give you, you know, they give you all kinds of things.
And walnuts is the best thing for the heart.
Yeah.
That you can eat.
Oh good!
Good!
I'm glad you're enjoying that.
You've been such a blessing in my life.
All of you have.
I look further to, I know Dan the most, I look further to getting to fellowship with you and We live in Tennessee.
We're only three hours away from the Puritan Bar, if we take the long way.
So, we're planning a trip.
And I'm looking forward to Fellowship, and I just might bring some baked goods with me then, too.
Well, I'll be there a whole week for the Passover, so... I'll be there.
I'll be there.
Awesome.
And it's a blessing, Marie.
We love you.
Okay, we love you too, and head up, let Christ be the glory and the lift over your head.
It's about Him anyways.
Amen.
Okay, love you guys, and I'll talk to you later.
Okay, thank you, Mr. Perico.
Thank you, Brian.
Bless you, Anne.
Okay, night.
You guys, I want to give an acknowledgement to Valerie and Uncle Obvious.
By the way, David, Valerie and Uncle Obvious and my moderators and my brother Jason also, they all wanted me to tell you hello and all that.
Well, you give them a big hello from me and a big thank you for all they do to help you and the Lord.
We need all hands on deck, everyone.
And Harold in the chat room, thank you for our post-news Bible verses.
Got another caller here, 401, it's a Rhode Island number.
So what's your name?
Hey, hey Dan, it's Wendy in Kent, how are you?
Hey, what's up Wendy?
Not too much, we're just sitting here listening to you guys, having a great time listening to the show.
And my husband's trying to mute it and he can't see the button here, hang on one second.
But thank you Brother David for the message tonight.
We love listening to you guys on the Midnight Ride and just listening to all your teachings and stuff, so thank you so much for that.
Well, thank you for your kind words.
Kind of weird getting a phone call from Rhode Island.
Because we used to get a number of small over the country.
Right, right.
Where part of Rhode Island is from?
Originally from Warren.
Oh, okay.
I live in Cranes.
The Hope side of it.
Yep, yep.
We-- I-- We had called in before, my husband and I had called in before, and we talked about that, so I think that's funny.
But yeah, so I had a question for Mr. Carrico, and it was about the Stoychian.
My husband and I are getting ready to try to have a chat with some of our church-going people.
About the whole you know abomination of Christmas and and whatnot and so I added some of the clips from some of the different Videos that you guys have done on on Christmas and everything and and one of the things I had Put in there was the information that you had on the Stoichi on and so I grabbed the Strong's number for that and
was looking at the, like, I guess the definition, so to speak.
So could you talk a little bit more about, like, where, because in the Strongs it says, you know, the elements or the elementals, but it doesn't say that specific, like, the elemental spirits.
So can you, like, give me a little bit of information about that so I can add that to our presentation?
Yes.
When we begin studying in the Greek and the Hebrew, Strongs is very good, and it's, It's an entry-level work.
When you would go beyond Strong's, You would go to like a Thayer's lexicon and there's a five-volume theological dictionary that I have and a ten-volume.
And when you get into these more comprehensive Greek helps, it will tell you the way the word is used.
And like Dan alluded to earlier, that these stochion, these elemental spirits, these were, this is the foundation of ritual magic.
The spirits of the earth, air, the wind, being and this is something that I could bring out Bible commentaries that would Agree 100% scholarly commentaries with the accuracy of what we're saying.
These are the basic of elemental fallen spirits.
That's the basis of all of the occult.
And when you, you understand that we're talking about something a little different here, uh, that very few people talk about and like the spirits of the earth.
The Stotian have a unique capacity that a lot of the other fallen entities don't have, that they are able to attach themselves onto physical objects.
You literally can have a Stotian on you as well as in you.
And the Bible talks a lot, and I think this is one reason why they attach to the tree, Literally, you could have these critters on your tree because they have the capacity to attach to things that are tangible.
And you can have them on you as well as in you.
And there's even also, there's a cult work that I reference sometimes as a frame of reference.
It's called the Testament of Solomon.
And the Testament of Solomon talks a lot about the Stochion.
And it is a dark text.
It's not a spiritually, it's a spiritually toxic text.
And it talks about the Stochion, how that they are not only in the earth, but they are energized by the spirits in the host of heaven and the second heaven.
So this is a definite real thing.
This is a fundamental dark power and something that I have seen.
Is that, and this is just from experience you might say, but when you have unclean objects in your home, and by that I mean I know one time there was a young couple that were having poltergeist manifestations in their home, and they asked us to come up and pray for their home.
And above their bed, they had a bullwhip and a mask.
And it wasn't that they were into anything really weird.
Someone had given them a bullwhip and a mask.
They thought it was cool, and they put it above their bed.
But this had come from Africa, and it was used in ritualistic ceremonies and literally this thing was toxic and it was like we could call them devil magnets and it was causing poltergeist manifestations and there's a real epidemic of people all over seeing what they would call shadow people.
And they will see just like a dark presence and just like kind of something out of the corner of their eye that will just kind of manifest and move.
We get a lot of people are saying these a lot.
And I think there's a lot of reasons for this.
The release of spirits that we're seeing, I believe, from the abyss that's escalating.
But there's a real connection between unclean objects and one of the things we always tell people to do when they're seeing shadow people is That would be a three-dimensional object that's been used with an association with pagan worship and things associated with the pagan holidays.
They're devil magnets.
They really are.
And this is the Stochion, like I say, this isn't Kitty stuff.
It's not kitty stuff.
It isn't, well, uh, I want to do this.
I don't.
These are things that open doors to literally demonic affliction that is real and serious.
And it can even result in these, uh, poltergeist manifestations and opening doors where people are going to be seeing stuff.
And, uh, this is a real thing and it's a very serious component of the dark world that we need to be aware of and get out of our life.
Yeah, thank you so much for giving me that information.
I think that it was, you know, when I was watching that clip that I have as part of the presentation, I was like, this is so important for, you know, people to understand.
And I want to make sure I understand it myself so that I can, you know, be able to share that with others.
Because I totally agree with that.
You know, like you mentioned, In so many of the videos that you've done, we're bringing in a curse.
We're allowing this curse to attach itself to our homes, our families, our bodies, everything, when we partake in that.
And even if we do it innocently, like innocently, quote unquote, You know, where people don't know because, you know, my husband and I, this is our second year not celebrating Christmas and it's amazing.
It's wonderful.
But we were, you know, dumb, so to speak.
We were ignorant is the word I'm looking for, you know, in the past and thankfully through people like you and Dan Bodondi and Brian and John and everybody, you know, being able to share the truth, you know, we've been able to Recognize, you know that this is wrong and we needed to repent and we have and you know We just want to share that with anybody who will listen Which is it's tough sometimes but you know, you do the best you can right?
so Something else I might recommend to you is a teaching on our if you go to FOJCradio.com and go to our Brighton channel and And it might be on a Rumble channel, too, but there's a teaching I did called The Structure of the Satanic Kingdom, and it's a series of teachings.
And in that series, I go into the Stotion, and I give a lot of the other biblical citations and a lot of the references and commentaries and non-canonical works that will give you a lot more things there to look at.
Oh, great.
Thank you so much.
I will definitely do that.
Well thank you guys so much again for all that you're doing.
Just know that we are praying for you and we support you guys and just want to bless you guys.
Thank you so much.
Take care.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Blessings.
Have a good evening.
Bye.
Some great phone calls tonight.
Four women in a row.
That's great to have like female voices for Jay.
That's awesome.
So some good callers there.
Thank you all for the calls.
It's a blessing.
Absolutely.
A blessing.
So yeah, I guess we're probably going to wrap it up here.
I don't think anybody else is going to call in.
Yeah, David.
Yeah, go ahead, Dan.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Got ahead of myself.
Got ahead of myself, Dan.
No, it's alright.
Yeah, go for it, Brian.
I was just going to say, thank you, David.
It's always a pleasure, my friend.
Yeah.
And thanks for giving a shout out earlier.
Yeah, everybody go to FOJC Radio.
It's going to be nine o'clock, nine p.m.
Eastern time, Sunday night.
We're going to have a really good, interesting conversation on transhumanism.
Go check it out.
It's going to be on Rumble.
I don't have the link yet.
And I should have it tomorrow, I think.
Um, so I'll try to post it up and, uh, send it out everywhere.
I think I'll have it tomorrow, but yeah, just go to FOJC Rumble.
You won't miss it.
So it'd be live at 9 p.m.
Eastern time.
Thank you, David, for all the kind comments.
Um, I appreciate it.
And just, it's a pleasure just to, it's a pleasure to help you and Donna and just serve the kingdom, you know, I'm just, I'm just thankful to be, just be part of it.
So, and I know.
It is an honor to serve the King, and we love you and your whole family, and Dan, we just, you are family, and we love you very much, and it is just a joy, it is just a real blessing, whether we fellowship together or by This, if you can call this fellowship, it is, it's a blessing.
It's a blessing, and the call tonight has been such a blessing, but we love you bunches, and we're thankful that we're in a fight, but we're thankful we're in a fight with such good folks as yourself, and it's just a blessing to serve the Lord, and the Lord will never let you down.
You will never regret serving the Lord.
Amen and before we go guys, I just want to show you real quick.
I'm not gonna get too much in this.
We did Wednesday, but um, this is a list of satanic holidays.
Now mind you, um, this varies from different cults and to different levels of satanism, witchcraft.
So basically, this is a list of the holidays they got going on and the rituals and everything, which is, I don't really want to read out loud because it's disgusting, to do with kids and sexuality, sacrifice and the whole nine yards.
But just want to point out, again, this is how serious they take it.
So you've got to think about this, right?
They hate everything to do with Jesus, right?
Everything, you know, from witchcraft to paganism to all levels of Satanism and everything else.
They hate anything to do with Jesus, right?
So ask yourself, right?
If you're not convinced right now, right, about Christmas, right?
Ask yourself, why would witches, pagans and Satanists celebrate?
They really celebrate this Christmas thing.
So why would they do that if it's so-called something to do with Jesus?
Because it's not, you know what I mean?
So that being said, and David, you want to lead us out in a prayer?
That'd be awesome.
That would be awesome.
Yeah.
Father, we thank you.
you.
for this opportunity and every opportunity we have to share the gospel.
We thank you and we ask for your protection that you'll keep giving us avenues and platforms where we can share your word.
Father, we thank you for this feeling tonight of the presence of the Holy Spirit and of the communion of the saints.
We just thank you, Lord.
We just feel you wrapping your arms around us and just surrounding us in love tonight.
Father, we just pray the blessings of God upon the Israel of God that you'll keep us close to you and we just Just rebuke and bind these demonic spirits of oppression that come against your people in these times.
Father, we just rejoice in you and we just pray, Father, that this broadcast tonight will be used as an instrument in your hand to bring people unto the truth and to your Son, Jesus Christ, for salvation.
and we just humbly ask and agree together in Jesus name we pray amen and amen amen well thank you guys so much and uh everybody in the chat room wanna thank you from the bottom of my heart and I apologize about the late start But you know small minor family thing and Valerie and Ocobvious, thank you guys for moderating this chat room and Harold once again Thank you for the awesome bio verses.
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