The Unpopular Truth as to Christmas and Easter, Truth As to Christmas and Easter, The (4:10-11)
John Wesley
Nearly everyone in Christendom celebrates Christmas, sends gifts and wishes the usual “Merry Christmas,” gladly taking it for granted that it must be right. In fact, it has become such a favorite tradition that inquiry as to its origin, which may be found in encyclopedias and unbiased church histories, is shunned. The Word of God does not justify its annual celebration either, but sternly condemns it in Galatians 4:1011: “Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.” Thus the observance itself, whether pious or riotous, is condemned.
The blessed Saviour did not come to make His birthday and His name to be popularized by the world. “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Tim. 1:15). “Christ died for the ungodly” (Rom. 5:6).