Charles Spurgeon on Celebrating the Savior’s Birth by Randy Alcorn

(This was originally published here by Randy Alcorn)

Charles Spurgeon closed his 1854 sermon entitled "The Birth of Christ" with the following, in a Christian context that was often critical of Christmas celebration because some people embraced sin and not the Savior. May his words for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day apply to the days ahead of us:

Now a happy Christmas to you all; and it will be a happy Christmas if you have God with you. I shall say nothing today against festivities on this great birthday of Christ. We will tomorrow think of Christ's birthday; we shall be obliged to do it, I am sure, however sturdily we may hold to our rough Puritanism. And so, 'let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.'

Do not feast as if you wished to keep the festival of Bacchus; do not live tomorrow as if you adored some heathen divinity.

Feast, Christians, feast; you have a right to feast. Go to the house of feasting tomorrow, celebrate your Saviour's birth; do not be ashamed to be glad; you have a right to be happy. Solomon says, "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment."

Religion never was designed to make your pleasures less.

I finish by again saying—“A HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!”

Have a wonderful Christmas with your friends and families! May your hearts overflow with the love of Jesus.