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THE TRUTH ABOUT CHRISTMAS by R.F. Becker

"This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with
their lips: but their heart is far from me" (Matt. 15:8)

"...Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your
hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the
sight of God" (Luke 16:15)

"Little children, keep yourselves from idols" (1 John 5:21)

PART ONE
- What is Christmas -

    These three verses from God's Word should be intensely startling to
anyone who is in the habit of celebrating Christmas.  They ought to search out
the very depths of the conscience and bring a conviction and condemnation to
every Christian who has been active in any way, in the festivals of Yuletide.

    From these words of the Spirit, we should have no trouble
understanding that what ever is very popular in the world is not of God.  They
place the unerring finality of Omnipotence on the decree, "That which is
highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God."  They also
present to our innermost being the chilling fact that people are not always at
heart what they appear to be.  And again, here we find a lesson as positive as
it is appalling, that the saints of Christ are often, even if unwittingly, led
through man's traditions into idolatry, which thing God hates.
    We all know holiday seasons are very popular.  Any time of festival
seems to have great sentimental appeal to the hearts of most people.  Add to
this emotional expectation, the complex of a conscience which compels a vague
respect of the day when Christ supposedly was born and we have - the Christmas
spirit.  No date on the calendar is welcomed more.  Old and young - rich and
poor - pious and vulgar - saint and sinner, with boundless frenzy, race with
the coming Christmas day like the waters of a flooded river, submerging
everything before it.  Christmas is the day when the driving power of this
festival love reaches its zenith.  No other day can equal it for fleshly
revelry, and debauchery combined with the heathen misrepresentation of Christ
which, as a fanatical religious orgy from every quarter swirls to a literal
vortex of confusion and jamboree on December 25th.
    No - Christmas is NOT of God.  It is abomination to Him.  It is NOT
honoring to Jesus Christ.  It only calls forth from multitudes of unthinking
people a natural sentimentality and a false worship of Him.  The observances
of Christmas are in no way inspired by the Holy Spirit.  The Christmas spirit
is only terrible mockery to Him.
    Christmas time is not a season of revival and upbuilding in the church
of God.  Instead it is a pagan spell of evil, which spreads spiritual
pollution as it rages among churches and believers for the time appointed.
Thousands of evangelical believers who would be horrified and deeply depressed
to find a professor smoking or drinking or dancing, calmly and deliberately
indulge in idolatries of the heathen at Christmas time..  And those who know
and love the truth are counted to be narrow minded and sacrilegious if a
protest is raised.  So, such honest souls are forced to stand aside and
witness annually this glittering cloud of  pagan observances descend with a
smoldering and paralyzing pall on all people.  And as we watch parents, who
loudly proclaim the necessity of truthfulness in children, who advocate the
need of so many social reformations and who bemoan the juvenile delinquency
which prevails, deliberately teach their unsuspecting little ones the
monstrous Santa Clause lie, we can only cry with the Apostle John "I wondered
with great wonder" (Rev. 17:6 R.V.)

"A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land.  The prophets
prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love
to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" (Jer. 5:30-31)

PART TWO
- The Origin of Christmas -

    The celebration of Christmas is a mixture of pagan Babylon's "mystery"
idolatry in it's purest form, imported through Pergamos (Rev. 2:13) into Rome,
and there incorporated into her pagan religious ritual, and from then
introduced into the world by the Roman Catholic church as a commemoration of
Christ's birth.  A wealth of proof can easily be produced today to put this
fact beyond question.
    It is freely admitted by all learned and honest writers of old, that
the date of Christ's birth cannot be known.  How then did it come to pass that
the Roman Catholic church fixed Dec. 25th as the day He was born?
    First we must remember that Satan's chief object has always been to
claim the honor and worship due the most High God.  For it is written in
Isaiah:

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou
cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in
thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of
the north:  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the
most High." (Isa. 14:12-14)

    In keeping with these words of Isaiah long centuries before the time
of Christ, Satan in his bid for the worship due to God, instituted a great
pagan feast which was celebrated at that exact time of the year in the
Chaldean city of Babylon.  The heathen celebration was in honor of the birth
of the son of Semeramis, or Cybele or Rhea, the Chaldeans queen of heaven.
    Now in Babylon where the sun was worshipped, it was not worshipped as
merely a light giving divinity, but as the Incarnate God.  And one essential
in this Chaldean worship was, that Baal was that same God.  So when Tammuz was
worshipped as God incarnate the implication was that he was an incarnation of
the sun, or Baal.

    When Belshazzar was slain (Dan 5:30) and the Chaldeans defeated by
Darius the Mede, those with authority and power to continue Babylon's
idolatrous "mystery" worship, fled to the city of Pergamos, where afterward a
Christian Church was founded (Rev. 2:13).  There for many centuries Satan
himself brought about the worship of Aesculapius, the child of the "incarnate
sun."  This worship was celebrated in frantic excesses of evil as Babylon's
"mystery" idolatries were perpetuated in their exile.  Then in the course of
time, at the death of Attalus III when Phyrgia was given to the Roman Empire
in 133 B.C., the worship of pagan Babylon was removed from Pergamos and it's
wicked course renewed in the city of Rome on the Tiber.
    Now, nearly every recorded form of pagan worship which has descended
from  the Babylonian "mysteries" focuses the attention of its deluded
worshippers on the mother god and her child.  In Egypt the mother and child
are Isi and Osiris.  In India they were Isa and Iswara.  In Asia the mother
was Cybele and the son Deoius.  In Greece we find Ceres and her son Plutus.
Even in Tibet and China the mother was Shing Moo, and her son was devoutly
worshipped with her.  Lastly, we have many records of the mother Fortuna and
her son Jupiter in pagan Rome.  In the worship of all these false gods there
had been more or less departure from the original Babylonian form.  Only in
the Roman Catholic church can we find the pure idolatry of the ancient
Chaldean "mysteries."  From that source has emanated the greatest "mystery"
idolatry of all ages.  For Rome has given to the world this mother and child
worship of wicked Babylon of old, concealed beneath the Satanic disguise of a
commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
    How did this come to pass?  In the third century when the Apostolic
Church was in its infancy, grievous wolves entered among the flock of God
speaking perverse and evil doctrines.  Slowly and cautiously at first (Acts
20:29), they began to bring Rome's pagan worship among the believers.
Constantine's false conversion and his edict making Christianity the state
religion of the Roman Empire, rapidly developed the imported paganism in the
worship of the fast decaying Church of Rome.
    Now Rome's way of converting the other pagans to her style of worship
has always been to absorb them gradually, along with their idolatrous
observances.  So about the 4th century the Roman church brought the worship of
Sereramis the Babylonian Queen of heaven and her son Tammuz into her ritual,
disguised as the worship of Mary and her son Jesus.  Then followed the
December 25th commemoration of the birth of Christ, and the evil institution
of the "mass" for Christ, and behold! - the iniquity of Christmas was launched
forth!  Thus the pagans in the now apostate church could worship the queen of
heaven and observe the birth of her son Tammuz while the untaught unsuspecting
believers thought they were honoring Christ in the same ritual.  Behold the
trail of Satan's Christmas festive ritual of counterfeit!  From Babylon to
Euphrates, to Pergamos once the capital of Asia, to Rome upon the Tiber and
thence into the apostate Church there, finally to emerge through the Roman
Catholic church a flood of lying pagan wonder, covering the earth.
    Faithful men of God who knew and loved the Scriptures of truth fought
against the mingling of paganism with the name of Christ.  They were valiant
in opposing the entry of Christmas and its festivals among the believers.  But
in spite of their efforts, the lukewarm and rapidly decaying church, with the
exception of a few faithful Christians, was overcome and finally forced to
submit to the observance of the mother and child worship from Babylon.  Sad
and solemn has been the spiritual and moral wreckage wrought by this Romish
evil down through the history of men.  And in spite of the plain truths of the
Word of God, revealing His holy hatred of idolatry, nearly all of the
Protestant Churches and assemblies of Christian believers have followed Rome
in her Satanic observance and unholy celebrations of Christ-mass.

    Now since the Roman Catholic church is truly the "Mystery, Babylon the
Great" of Rev. 17, and the virgin in her sanctuaries is the real and actual
Chaldean queen of heaven, and her blasphemous representation of the birth of
Christ is, in fearful reality, a form of devil worship, how we should shrink
from having any part in her heaven defying wickedness.  For though some may
consider the sin of idolatry a light thing, our God does not, no indeed, for
the Almighty has attached the greatest of all threatening to the commandment
forbidding false worship.

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything
that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve
them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that
hate me;" (Ex. 20:4-5)

    And shall we, who have been saved by the great grace of God through
the atoning blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and who enjoy the liberties of a
government founded by our Puritan fathers who themselves fled from Roman
Catholic persecution, shall we join hands with that same false and bloody Rome
which is daily adding to the fearful list of over 50 million martyrs of
Jesus?  Shall we embrace and love and celebrate with Babylon the Great, her
festivals of iniquity, and shall we do so any longer with our eyes wide open,
knowing that her Christ-mass is, after all, just Satan's pagan mockery of the
birth of our only Savior and Lord Jesus Christ?  And if, alas, too late we
awake suddenly to find the relentless judgments of God bearing down upon our
nation and people, can we not discern His own hand in fulfilling His Word for
our national sin of following Rome into her glittering sanctuary of Christmas
and Easter evils?

PART THREE
-Origin of Christmas Customs-

    The following quotations are from standards of authority on the origin
of Christmas customs and observances.

1. In Alexander Hislops famous book "The Two Babylon's" the following
quotation concerning the birth of Christ is on page 91...

"There is not a word in the Scriptures about the precise day of His birth, or
the time of the year He was born."

2. In Webster's Student Dictionary for Upper School Levels, page 145 (a
Catholic dictionary used in our schools today) we read...

"Christmas - Christ + mass.  A church festival, December 25.  Christmas day
commemorating the birth of Christ."

3. In the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1903, Vol. 2, page 987 - we
read...

"Christmas - Christmas properly begins with the evening of December 24... and
continues until Epiphany, January 6, the whole period called Christmastide.
In the Roman, Greek, Episcopal and Lutheran Churches Christmas is observed as
a religious festival with special services.  It's celebration was formerly
forbidden by the Puritans."

4. In the Encyclopedia Brittanica, 9th Edition, Vol. 5, page 611 - we read...

"Christmas Day - There is however difficulty in accepting this (December
25th), as the date of the Nativity, December being the height of the rainy
season when neither flocks nor shepherds could have been at night in the
fields of Bethlehem.  By the fifth century, however, whether from influence of
some tradition or from the desire to supplant heathen festivals of the period
of the year such as Saturnalia, the 25th of December has been gradually agreed
upon."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana, 1942 Edition, Vol. 6, page 623 reads thus...

"Christmas - It was according to many authorities not celebrated in the first
centuries of the Christian church as the Christian usage in general was to
celebrate the death of remarkable persons rather than their birth.  A feast
was established in memory of the birth of the Savior in the fourth century.
In the fifth century the western church (Roman Catholic) ordered it to be
celebrated forever on the day of the old Roman feast of the birth of Sol."

6. In the new Americanized Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1900, Vol. IX, page 5236,
we read...

"Saturn - an ancient Italian god... Saturnalis, this is the great 'Festival of
Saturn,' celebrated on the 19th, but after Caesar's reform of the calendar,
the 17th of December.  Augustus decreed that the 17th and the 18th should be
sacred to Saturn and the 19th and 20th to Opalia the festival of Ops.
Caligula added a fifth day, 'The Day of Youth,' December 25th lasting seven
days.  The time was one of general joy and mirth.  The wooden fetters were
taken from the feet of Saturn and each man offered a pig.  During the
festivals schools were closed..."

7. The new Americanized Encyclopedia Brittanica, Edition 1899, Vol. XI, page
404, has this...

"Befferna - a corruption of the word epipania (Epiphany) in the name of an old
female character in Italian folklore, who was so busily engaged in
housecleaning, when three wise men of the east passed by on their way to offer
their treasures to the Infant Savior, that she excused herself for not going
out to see them thinking she would have the opportunity of doing so when they
returned.  Not knowing that they went home by another road she has been ever
since watching for them.  She, like the Dutch Santa Clause, is supposed to
take great interest in children, where in Italy a stocking of each is hung up
before the fire.  Soon the cry 'Ecco le Beffena' is raised when the children
jump up and seize their stockings, each of which contains a present bearing
value in proportion to the conduct of the child during the year.  One whose
behavior has been particularly bad finds his stocking filled with ashes in
token of Beffena's displeasure."

The custom of carrying an effigy called the Beffena on the 'Twelfth Night' in
the procession through the streets is probably relic of one of the 'Mysteries
of the middle ages.' "

8.  The new International Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition, Vol. 3, page 27, tells
us...

"Epiphany - A festival held on the 6th of January be the Roman Catholic,
Eastern and Anglican churches in commemoration of the manifestations of
Christ.  Three different events are included in this celebration.  As early as
the third century at least, it was observed as the commemoration of the
baptism of Christ ... Later in the east it was taken to commemorate the
manifestation of divine power in Christ's first miracle at Cana in Galilee ...
In the forth century the birth of Christ was also connected with it by some
writers.  Many special observances have been connected with the day which
under the name 'Twelfth Day, Twelfth Night' was a time of special merry making
in England and closed the Christmas festivities."

9.  In the "History of the Christian Church" by Fisher on page 65, it is
recorded...

"About the end of this period (3rd century) two festivals came in.  One was
Epiphany originating in the East - the other was Christmas, a festival of
Roman origin taking the place of the heathen festival in honor of the sun or
of the deity bearing that name, which was celebrated at the winter solstice or
on the 25th of December, the time erroneously assigned for the solstice in the
Julian Calendar."

10.  In McAbes History of the Popes, Vol. 1, page 18, we find the following
information given by Bishop Eusebius in his "Ecclesiastical History" ...

"There was at the time (fourth century) an acute controversy about the date on
which Easter ought to be celebrated.  We must remember that Easter was then
the greatest, if not the only ecclesiastical festival; for December 25th was
the supreme festival of the pagan and Mithraic calendars and was an
abomination to Christians."

PART FOUR
- Practical Considerations -

    1. The name Christmas.  This very name is an abomination to our Holy
God.  The reason for this is that the word Christmas is an unholy and pagan
combination of the two words "Christ" and "Mass."  Christ died once for our
sins (Heb. 9:26).  By that ONE offering He has perfected forever every
believer (Heb. 10:14).
    But behold the terrible mystery on iniquity!  For in the Roman
Catholic mass, Satan himself has introduced unto the ends of the earth, the
crowning blasphemy of Anti-Christ.  It is the teaching that the 'mass' is not
a mere representation of the sacrifice of Christ, but that it is a
continuation of the same offering, as the priest commands our Lord Jesus to
come down from glory and become a piece of bread.  And besides all this, the
Roman priest teaches that this same 'mass' adds to and improves upon the
atonement of our Savior which He made on Calvary.  Thus in the blasphemy of
the 'mass' can we not hear Satan say "I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds: I will be like the most High" (Isa. 14:14)?
    Christ is the divine title of our wonderful Lord and Savior.  "Mas" is
just the shortening of the blasphemous "mass" of Rome.  Christ is the head of
the true and living Church which He bought with His own blood.  The Roman
Catholic church under the headship of the Pope is verily the synagogue of
Satan, the false church.  She is spoken of in God's Word as "The Mother of
Harlots and abomination of the earth" Rev. 17:5).  Nothing in the realm of the
natural will stir one to anger so suddenly as to learn of someone having
connected the name of his wife, sister or mother with the name of a well known
woman of ill fame.  Christian, how then can you, with serene composure, and
interested cooperation, join hands with Rome as she brazenly and wickedly
blends the "mass" of the harlot church with the name of Christ the risen Head
of the True Church of God?

    2. The Christmas tree.  The production and sale of evergreen trees in
the U.S.A. has developed, thanks to Rome, into a vast enterprise.  So while
lumber is becoming scarcer and prices soar, millions of young trees are
annually sacrificed to satisfy America's Christmas god, Tammuz.  During the
weeks of Christmas festivities one is met everywhere with these dead evergreen
trees arrayed in their glitter and tinsel, reminding us of the lifeless pagan
gods of old.  But behold! as the fervor of the festivity dies down, out goes
the stripped and bedraggled remains of the Christmas god into the junk pile or
garbage barrel or to be kicked around the street!  Yet thousands of untaught
people will gladly go hungry and willingly deprive their families of necessary
things in order to buy and decorate this same Christmas tree.
    The first decorating of an evergreen tree was done by pagans in honor
of their god Adonis, who after being slain was brought to life by the serpent
Aesculapius.  The representation of this slain god was a dead stump of a
tree.  Around this stump coiled the snake Aesculapius symbol of life
restoring.  And lo - from the roots of the dead tree comes forth another and
different tree - and evergreen tree symbolic to pagans of a god who cannot
die!  In Egypt this god was worshipped in a palm tree as Baal Tamar.  The fir
tree was worshipped in Rome as the same new born god as Baal Berith, who was
restored to life by the same serpent, and a feast was held in honor of him on
December 25th called the "Birthday of the unconquered Sun."
    Now in Babylon's "Mystery" system of idol worship the sun was called
"Baal," the one and only god.  So when Tammuz the son of the queen of heaven
was worshipped as God he was also reverenced by the name Baal. Thus we can see
how, in the annual custom of erecting and decorating evergreen trees, the
Roman Catholic church has brought down through the ages to us, the paganism of
Baal or the worship of the sun, mingled with the worship of Aesculapius the
serpent.  Whether erected in public or private, a tinseled and spangled
evergreen tree is just a glaring symbol of the worship of this false god.  So
in keeping with the policy of Rome for centuries, while she keeps millions
vainly supposing they do honor to Jesus Christ with the Christmas tree, they
are actually even if unwittingly commemorating a pagan festival in honor of
Baal, which thing our Go:14-15).
    It was not the wise men but the shepherds who came to visit the babe
Jesus in His manger cradle in Bethlehem.  They followed no star either as they
did not even see one.  They were informed of the birth of their Messiah by the
angel of the Lord (Luke 2:10).  Our country teems with covetous men who have
made the Christmas season a profitable one indeed for themselves.  And through
their misrepresentations of the Bible  the land abounds at the same season
with all sorts of literature, cards, books and programs of celebrations, which
utterly confuse the facts written in God's Word about the birth of Jesus.
Shepherds and wise men, angels and stars, stable and manger, manger and house
are misrepresented.  The visit of the shepherds and the wise men are confused,
so that the whole story of the birth of Christ becomes a distorted combination
of truth and error.
    Long ago King David said to a carnal generation like ours, "Why do the
heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?" (Psalm 2:1)

    7.  God's Judgment.  One more point we dare not overlook concerning
Christmas.  The very source of Christmas equipment condemns the tradition.
Until World War II nearly all Christmas goods were stamped "Made in Germany"
or "Made in Japan."  Thus these very goods, used by England and the United
States to pollute the worship of God and make whole nations to sin, came from
the very countries God used in bringing His judgment of war upon us.  How did
such poor nations finance so great a war?  By selling us the fruit of their
cheap labor among which Christmas goods played a major role.  Ought we to
regard this as a mere coincidence?  Ought we not rather to see the threatening
of God in it?  NO COUNTRY IN ALL HISTORY HAS TURNED TO IDOLS AND THEN
PROSPERED SO LONG!  The national fear and unrest, the ominous rumblings in the
various world councils, the low standard of morality, the universality of open
sin, along with the wickedness of idolatry and unbelief, all point to one
great event we may soon see come to pass, the fall of our nation.  FOR IF THE
SIN OF ROMAN CATHOLIC PAGAN IDOLATRY IS NOT NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AND
CONFESSED AND FORSAKEN WE CAN ONLY LOOK FOR NATIONAL DOOM.  If it is increased
and developed and our nation goes on with her open idolatry, her legalized
gambling, her mountainous liquor corruption, her disregard for the Truths of
the Bible, her desecration of the Lord's Day and the maintenance of pagan
festivals, all which are backed by the Roman Catholic Church, we may be sure
of one thing, The Lord's anger will not be "turned away", but "His hand" will
be "stretched out still" (Isa. 9:17).

"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people" (Prov.
14:34)

"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil" (Ex. 23:2)

    8.  Perhaps some well-meaning but untaught Christians will say, "We
only keep Christmas to give the children a good time."  Let me give you some
questions to consider.

(1)  If you are a Christian how can you teach little ones to delight in and
love a Christmas tree which actually is a pagan symbol of sun and serpent
worship?

(2)  How can you before the all-seeing eye of God tell your children the lie
about Santa Clause and his reindeer?  You should  read Rev. 21:27.  Do you
think that the God who holds our destiny in His hand will preserve the
freedoms of our future generations if we make them a nation of liars?

(3)  How can you have a brazen boldness to tell your children you are a
Christian, and then connect pagan idolatry to the birth of Christ?

(4)  How can you help a bewhiskered clown dressed like a dunce, who is hired
by some commercial establishment to lie to children all day long, betray your
own trusting child into a maze of falsehood to save your face before Christmas
idolaters?

(5)  How can you expect your children to have any confidence in whatever you
teach them, when they find you have lied deliberately to them for years about
Christmas and Santa Clause - and during those years you punish them for
telling untruths?

(6)  Does not your heart smite you as you think of them growing up in
servitude to the pagan observances and celebrations of Rome, instead of the
real truth of the gospel of Christ?

(7)  how can you have the shameless boldness before God, to teach your
children paganism and the Word of God at the same time?  Do you expect that
God will spare a people, whose chief delight is to make a mock of the birth of
His Son?

(8)  Does not your conscience accuse you as you combine the story of our
adorable Savior with the Roman heathen idol, the Christmas tree of Baal-Berith?

(9)  How can you expect your children to believe you, that they must worship
Christ alone, if they see you indulge in an annual festival which had its
beginning among the devil worshippers of ancient Chaldea?

(10)  How can you expect your child to believe your witnessing to him about
Christ when he finds out you have been lying to him about Santa Clause and his
reindeer, etc.?

(11)  Do you believe that a festive season that not only came to us through
Rome from Babylon, but in itself is a system of perpetual lying to little
children, is of God?

(12)  Can you teach your children to honor the Lord and the Lord's Day and
then help them engage in honoring a heathen god, Baal-Berith, a Christmas tree
and all the God-dishonoring observances connected with it?

(13)  How can you tell your children with a clear conscience that you are a
child of God yourself when they annually watch you celebrate a Romish
Christmas, and lie to them like a child of the devil?

"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them" (Matt. 7:20).

"Train up a young child in the way he should go; when he is old, he will not
depart from it" (Prov. 22:6)

PART FIVE
- Conclusions for your Meditation -

    It may be you saved up money to buy Christmas gifts and cards and
decorations and a tree.  Be sure, this is not pleasing to God, fellow
Christian.  Let me sugge been committed the care of God's flock, do
you not care if our church and nation drift on to disaster?  Dare you stand in
you pulpit between God and your people and yet not raise your voice against
those idolatries which have caused America to be weighed in the balances and
found wanting?  O Pastor watchmen, can you not see that God will require this
nation's blood of your hand  if you refuse to heed the handwriting on the
wall, and if you allow Babylon's idolatrous pageantry and revelry to prosper
in the Church of God for whom Christ dies?

TO MY FELLOW BELIEVERS IN CHRIST  "Wherefore my dearly beloved, flee from
idolatry" (1 Cor. 10:14)

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BELOW IS A SMALL LIST OF BOOKS WHICH I HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO ALL CHRISTIANS
WHO HAVE THE DESIRE TO GROW IN THE FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD. IN
THESE DAYS OF APOSTASY, MEN HAVE A WARPED VIEW OF GOD, HIS WAYS, AND HIS
GOSPEL. WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE BASICS OF THE SCRIPTURES AND WHAT THEY
TELL US OF GOD. MOST OF THESE BOOKS CAN BE PICKED UP, OR SPECIAL ORDERED
THROUGH YOUR LOCAL CHRISTIAN BOOK STORE, OR YOU CAN CALL OR WRITE AND
REQUEST A CATALOG FROM THE BELOW DISCOUNT BOOK SERVICE AND GET MANY GREAT
BOOKS.

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THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD by A. W. Pink
(Banner of Truth Trust; 160 page paperback; ISBN 0-85151-133-3)
The title is pretty much self explanatory.  This book defines and discusses
the various ways God displays His sovereignty to us in creation, salvation,
etc. and how it effects the human will and responsibility, and prayer.  A
truly excellent book to help you understand God and his affairs with man.
Rarely do modern churches teach anything this deep about God, so I highly
suggest picking it up.

EVANGELISM AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD  by J.I. Packer
(Inter Varsity Press; 126 page paperback; ISBN 0-87784-680-4)
An excellent book to help you understand God's place and work in witnessing.
Will help you understand why witnessing doesn't always end in the same result.

THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD   by A.W. Pink
The title, again, is self explanatory.  This book briefly looking at many of
God's attributes.  Each section is short, and makes for a great devotional.