Christmas: 8 New Free Reformed MP3s ow.ly/xXZCD Christmas was not celebrated by the apostolic church. It was not celebrated during the first few centuries of the church. As late as A.D. 245, Origen (Hom. 8 on Leviticus) repudiated ...the idea of keeping the birthday of Christ, as if he were a king Pharaoh. By the middle of the 4th century, many churches in the Latin west were celebrating Christmas. During the 5th century, Christmas became an official Roman Catholic holy day. In A.D. 534, Christmas was recognized as an official holy day by the Roman state.The reason that Christmas became a church holy day has nothing to do with the Bible. The Bible does not give the date of Christs birth. Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to celebrate Christmas. Christmas (as well as many other pagan practices) was adopted by the Roman church as a missionary strategy. - The Regulative Principle of Worship and Christmas by Brian Schwertley FREE BOOK at swrb/newslett/actualNLs/CHRISTMAS.htm or on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua. Christmas Is A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy puritandownloads/christmas-is-a-roman-catholic-missions-strategy/ The Puritan Hard Drive is out of this world in terms of usefulness! - Pastor Mencarow ow.ly/dZ3ua History of Holy Days (Sabbath/Lords Day, Christmas, Easter, etc.) by Dr. Steven Dilday puritandownloads/history-of-holy-days-sabbath-lords-day-christmas-easter-etc-by-dr-steven-dilday/ Historic and singular opportunity. - Dr. Steven Dilday on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua FREE SWRB iPhone & iPad App ow.ly/dZ57X FREE SWRB Android App App puritandownloads/free-swrb-android-app/ Puritan Hard Drive Reviews bit.ly/c5MGjL Thousands Of Links To Free Puritan And Reformed Audio Video And Printed Resources ow.ly/xXZd9 In 1899, the General Assembly of the PCUS was overtured to give a pronounced and explicit deliverance against the recognition of Christmas and Easter as religious days. Even at this late date, the answer came back in a solid manner: There is no warrant in Scripture for the observance of Christmas and Easter as holydays, rather the contrary (see Gal. 4:9-11; Col. 2:16-21), and such observance is contrary to the principles of the Reformed faith, conducive to will-worship, and not in harmony with the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. - Kevin Reed, Christmas: An Historical Survey Regarding Its Origins and Opposition to It (Free Online Book at swrb/newslett/actualNLs/Xmas_ch2.htm) All human inventions which are set up to corrupt the simple purity of the Word of God, and to undo the worship which he demands and approves, are true sacrileges, in which the Christian man cannot participate without blaspheming God, and trampling his honour underfoot. - John Calvin on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. - The Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 15:9) If you want to understand Reformed theology the Puritan Hard Drive is unsurpassed, outside the Bible itself. - Pastor Greg Price (Author, Theologian, Covenanter) ow.ly/gAu3F. FULL REVIEW: PASTOR GREG L. PRICE RECOMMENDS THE PURITAN HARD DRIVE ow.ly/gAtQr or puritandownloads/pastor-greg-l-price-on-the-puritan-hard-drive/ SOME OF THE BEST FREE TEACHING YOU WILL EVER HEAR ON PURITAN AND REFORMED WORSHIP IS AT ow.ly/zO6zp (4 FREE MP3s) Calvinism, or the Sovereignty of God, in Worship (Free Online Books Against Arminianism In Worship) puritandownloads/calvinism-or-the-sovereignty-of-god-in-worship-free-online-books-against-arminianism-in-worship/ The Regulative Principle of Worship declares that God alone is sovereign in worship. - Greg Price swrb/newslett/actualnls/REFORMATION-RPW-GP.htm devi Discounted and Free Books On the Fourth Commandment (the Lords Day) ow.ly/BxeOw It is easy to demonstrate by Scripture and argument, as well as by experience, that religion is just as the Sabbath is, and decays and grows as the Sabbath is esteemed: the immediate honor and worship of God, which is brought forth and swaddled in the first three commandments, is nursed up and suckled in the bosom of the Sabbath.—Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticae. (1649). ow.ly/BxeOw The Sabbath, Reformed Theologians and the Change of the Day of Rest (2 Free MP3s) by Dr. Francis N. Lee part way down the page at puritandownloads/the-fourth-commandment-the-lords-day-or-christian-sabbath-by-jonathan-edwards-greg-price-dr-francis-n-lee-david-dickson-and-greg-barrow-15-free-mp3s-with-many-free-text-articles-from-a-puritans-mind/ David Steeles Article on Sabbath, or Sunday. covenanter.org/Steele/sabbath.htm The Regulative Principle of Worship is Gods ordained law for worship... You see there is no neutrality in the way in which we approach God in worship. Either we approach the living God according to His revealed Word (i.e. the Regulative Principle of Worship), or we approach Him according to our revealed word. Someones word is going to expressly guide us in worship. The only question is, whose word will guide us? Gods or mans? - Greg Price, Foundation For Reformation: The Regulative Principle Of Worship, free online at swrb/newslett/actualNLs/REFORMATION-RPW-GP.htm. A Puritan Reformed Discussion of Holy Days (Lords Day/Christian Sabbath, Christmas, Easter, etc.) by Greg Barrow (Free MP3) puritandownloads/easter-is-not-biblical-it-is-a-superstitious-pagan-and-roman-catholic-holy-day-free-mp3s-books-etc/ THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH OR LORD’S DAY HOMEPAGE. covenanter.org/Sabbath/sabbathhomepage.htm All human inventions which are set up to corrupt the simple purity of the Word of God, and to undo the worship which he demands and approves, are true sacrileges, in which the Christian man cannot participate without blaspheming God, and trampling his honour underfoot. - John Calvin on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua. Thomas Melville Slaters Tract on Nicknaming the Sabbath: A Protest Against Using Other than the Scriptural Names for the Lords Day. covenanter.org/Sabbath/sabbathnicknames.htm Sabbath Keeping Ordinance by the Mayor to the Aldermen of the Several Wards in London. covenanter.org/Parliament/16420323by_the_mayor.html An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for the better observation of the Lords Day. covenanter.org/Parliament/16431220ordinance.html James Chrysties Article on The Lords Day, The Christian Sabbath. covenanter.org/JChrystie/lordsdayischristiansabbath.htm Pagan and Roman Catholic Holy-days (Holidays) Like Christmas, Easter, etc. (Many Free Reformation Resources) swrb/newslett/FREEBOOK/holyday.htm _____ SABBATH, OR SUNDAY by DAVID STEEL covenanter.org/Steele/sabbath.htm The Sabbath and the Family are coeval with creation. These two divine institutions are therefore equally of a moral nature and of permanent obligation. They are explicitly recognized and assigned a central position in the fourth and fifth commandments of the moral law, when republished—and published objectively for the first time by the ministry of Moses at Sinai. In creating the worlds, God occupied six days. But since the countless millions of the dead are to be raised to life at the last day, (1 Cor. 15:52) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye; can any one suppose that the Almighty Architect could not have finished the work of creation on the first day? To any rational, but especially to a pious mind these facts will be suggestive. The question will spontaneously arise in the sober mind of one who humbly searches the Scriptures:—can any reason be discovered why six days were spent in effecting a work which might have been done in a moment? Among other reasons of minor import will naturally occur to a reflecting mind the two following, which we think are pregnant with significance. 1. That our feeble intellects might thus be aided in apprehending the stupendous operation, and our hearts more deeply impressed by the daily and successive development of the chaotic mass, and each part taking its assigned place in the cosmic, completed organism. 2. A second reason, which a mere philosopher might consider a needless waste of time, why the work covered a whole week, is of deeper significance than the former—that all mankind might have before them their Creators own example till the end of the world. And indeed amid the ruins of our fall that example is not wholly obliterated from our moral nature, for universal history attests that all nations have practiced the dividing of time by hebdomadal sections; that is, by periods of seven days. But heathen nations could not discover this method of measuring time, by their knowledge of astronomy, none of the motions of the universe affording the means for such computation, diurnal, lunar or solar. This historical fact can be accounted for only on the ground that the Sabbath is of a moral nature, being part of that law connate [i.e., inborn] with man, and coming down through the ages by tradition. Rom. 2:15. Through the same historical medium may be traced the universal custom of sacrifice, up to the primitive institution in the first family of the human race. Heb. 11:4. When the work of creation was completed, the six working days were distinguished only by their successive numbers. So reads the Hebrew when literally translated. And there was evening and there was morning, day one. And thus it is with the five days which follow. Adam was deputed and directed to give names to all inferior creatures, and doubtless he distinguished them by names descriptive of their diverse natures, as he did in naming his wife, whom he called Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. But Adam, even in his state of innocence, was not capable of devising a name comprising the full meaning of the seventh day. Only the omniscient Creator himself could devise the name, Sabbath—a name of the same significance to which day soever he may be pleased to attach it. Now there are certain words which often occur in the Bible, words familiar and pleasant to the Christian’s ear; such as peace, rest, home, &c. They are pleasant because they suggest enjoyment. By these the happiness of the heavenly state is indicated. He shall enter into peace, Isa. 57:2. They rest from their labors, Rev. 14:13. Man goeth to his long home, Eccl. 12:5. Oh! how desirable to the weary pilgrim to enter into peace, into rest, into his everlasting home, to go no more out! Every intelligent person knows that Sunday is of Pagan origin and of idolatrous import, coming down to us through Popery and Prelacy, associated with Christmas, Easter and other idolatrous and superstitious ceremonies of antichristian origin. The infidel editor knows the pecuniary value of this idolatrous term prefixed to his secular journal, as the Sunday Mercury, Herald, &c. Were he to prefix the word Sabbath, or Lord’s day to his caption, the number of his patrons would be quickly reduced. From ignorance of the true meaning of the Sabbath and from hereditary superstition, such a person hates the very word; as on the other hand the enlightened Christian, from reverence to divine authority, must dislike a profane substitute. The Sabbath is the Lord’s day, of which no person or nation can rob him with impunity. 2 Chron. 36:21; Neh. 13:18. It has ever been a sign between the Lord and his people. Ex. 31:13. Since its first institution the Sabbath has been the Lord’s (katapausis) rest, before it can be that of a believer. Heb. 4:1. To the people of God there still remains, after the abrogation of the Mosaic economy (Sabbatismos) the keeping of a Sabbath—to be a weekly memorial of the works of creation and redemption as taught in Heb. 4:9,10. This Sabbatismos is to them a lively emblem, a sure pledge, and real antepast of their (katapausis) everlasting rest.—David Steele, (1882). covenanter.org/Steele/sabbath.htm _____ Easter, Lent, Christmas, And The Cross (Pagan/Roman Catholic/Antichrist Holy Days [Holidays] In The Church, Family, And Society) by Ergatees (Free MP3) puritandownloads/easter-is-not-biblical-it-is-a-superstitious-pagan-and-roman-catholic-holy-day-free-mp3s-books-etc/ Presbyterians Do Not Observe Christmas, Easter, etc. (A Reformation Argument Against Popish Holy Days) by Samuel Miller (Free MP3) puritandownloads/easter-is-not-biblical-it-is-a-superstitious-pagan-and-roman-catholic-holy-day-free-mp3s-books-etc/ Why No Christmas Or Easter? by David Silversides (Web, Article) puritandownloads/easter-is-not-biblical-it-is-a-superstitious-pagan-and-roman-catholic-holy-day-free-mp3s-books-etc/ Why Gradual Reformation Is Unbiblical & Separation Is Sometimes A Duty: Martin Luther & John Calvin On Reforming the Church Against False Teaching & False Worship By Dr. Matthew McMahon, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Calvin, Greg Price, et al. ow.ly/yzEaq A search for the word Easter, using the Master Search index on the Puritan Hard Drive (bit.ly/ci3g2z), brings up 7,325 results in 662 documents, all of which gives you the search term in the context of one line (under each book title in which they are found) --and when you click on this line the Puritan Hard Drive opens the correct book, to the correct page, and highlights your search term. There are also 112 Reformed resources under the category Holy Days (Lords Day, Christmas, Easter, etc.)and 25 resources with the word Easter in the title on the Puritan Hard Drive (bit.ly/ci3g2z). Easter: The Devils Holiday by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon (Web, Article) puritandownloads/easter-is-not-biblical-it-is-a-superstitious-pagan-and-roman-catholic-holy-day-free-mp3s-books-etc/ Easter has little to do with real Christianity. Does that surprise you? It should not. For example, Easter was not popular with the Puritans or the Pilgrim settlers in America. Neither Puritans or Pilgrims had use for ceremonies associated with religious festivals invented in either pagan history, or reinvented by Roman Catholicism. In actuality, here in the Americas only after the bloodshed Civil War did Easter begin again to be accepted. Read More at apuritansmind/the-christian-walk/easter-the-devils-holiday-by-dr-c-matthew-mcmahon/. FREE SWRB iPhone & iPad App ow.ly/dZ57X FREE SWRB Android App App puritandownloads/free-swrb-android-app/ Christmas: 8 New Free Reformed MP3s ow.ly/xXZCD. History of Holy Days (Sabbath/Lords Day, Christmas, Easter, etc.) by Dr. Steven Dilday puritandownloads/history-of-holy-days-sabbath-lords-day-christmas-easter-etc-by-dr-steven-dilday/. Much needed preaching in our day, when many Protestants worship more like Roman Catholics than like the best Reformers. This sermon contains much important Scriptural and historical information. puritandownloads/history-of-holy-days-sabbath-lords-day-christmas-easter-etc-by-dr-steven-dilday/.
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