We are continuing to look at the holiday known as Christmas. Remember, this is not a Biblical holiday, it was invented by the church in 336A.D. in an effort to attract members of some Babylonian cults who celebrated the Winter Solstice on December 25th. The church basically said, join us and you can still have your holiday. The festivals were drunken affairs with plenty of immorality contrary to how a Christian should live. We have been reading Matthew 11: 28: "Come unto me, all that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." What does it mean to "come." This is an expression often used, but often misunderstood. To "come" does not mean: going to church, or taking communion, or listening to popular preachers, or more than a head knowledge of Jesus Christ. To "come" to Christ means coming to Him with the heart by simple faith. Believing in Christ is coming to Him, and coming to Christ is believing in Him. It is that act of the soul which takes place when a person, feeling his own sins, and despairing of all other hope, commits himself to Christ for salvation, trusts Him, and casts himself wholly on Him. With that explanation, I ask you, "Have you come to Christ?
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