My motivation is to pursuit balance without deviation from the plumb-line of Christ with this subject matter. I’m one of those “purists” who did deep dives into the origins of holidays when I was younger, which I think it is important to be accurately informed. I was inspired, not by legalism, but a burning desire for Christ and truth. To start with, we will remove any condemnation from the table as I write very direct yet tempered with grace. Amen.
In my discovery there is so much mixture, corruption, “leaven,” if you will, in Christendom that I was literally getting physically sick. God encountered me, opened my eyes, brought me behind the veil. He put in my heart the desire for purity, how He prescribes the blue print for our lives. All that said, as I have gotten older, still a radical, burning one, a little more tempered, I have concluded, celebrate every day as, “this is the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it,” even Christmas. Amen. I will use every opportunity to celebrate Christ as king… 24/7. Yet I do it fully seeing the truth of the “Babylonian matrix” and its seduction, I refuse to be in bed with the “the god of this world” yet celebrate Christ as preeminent in kingdom family every
opportunity available. I believe, we must give room to every individual’s conscience in how they execute their decisions. We can’t control each other. Amen.
Keeping in mind, my or your opinion based in the traditions of men or our own carnality doesn’t hold a candle to the authority of Christ and properly interpreted scripture. Therefore, we need to grapple with the following passage without falling into the ditch of legalism or the ditch of Libertinism.
2 Cor. 6:14-18: “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.” 17Therefore, “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.” 18“I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”
