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The Little Drummer Boy Ruins Everything...

Bill Fix
12/22/19 - Sunday

The Little Drummer Boy Ruins Everything…

• Christmas celebrations…
  • Christians – Different levels of celebrating
    • Some don’t observe at all
    • No authority to observe Christ’s birth, but obviously His birth is important
    • Can be helpful to look at the details of Jesus’ birth at a time the world is focused on it
• What is the “worst” Christmas song?  For me, it’s “The Little Drummer Boy”…
  • So slow and repetitive, it is torture
  • Lyrics/story is total fabrication
  • Who lets a kid bang on a drum when an infant is trying to sleep?
  • Ox and lamb kept time?
• “The Little Drummer Boy” is a microcosm of adding to what we have in Scripture
  • Lk. 2:1-20
  • Mt. 1:18 – 2:18
    • No mention of date, but unlikely 12-25 (Lk. 2:8)
    • No mention of what animals, if any, were near manger (Lk. 2:7)
    • No account of how many wise men attended (Mt. 2:1)
    • Unclear exactly when wise men arrived, but unlikely at birth (Mt. 2:11)
    • No command to observe celebration of birth
• “I have no gift to bring” so I’ll bring what I have…
  • No preparation (Mt. 25:1-13)
  • Similar to Cain’s offering (Gen. 4:3-5)
  • God expects our all (Mt. 13:44-46; 23:23-28)
• Plenty of areas in life for creativity—but let’s refrain from adding to or subtracting from God’s word (Deut. 4:2; Rev. 22:18)
  • Applies to holiday celebrations of Christmas, but not just there
  • How we are saved
  • How the church is organized
  • What work the church performs
  • Speak where Bible speaks…
  • For the world, it is much more comforting to see Jesus as the babe in the manger instead of the one who died for our sins and judges manking.