Everyone is on the naughty list until they receive God's perfect gift.
Follow Santa's journey in this unique Christmas fable as he learns about
Jesus' message of grace and discovers what it means for both the naughty and
the nice.
This video sits alongside the book, written by Simon Camilleri and published
by 10Publishing.
(No compensation for any links.)
From Naughty
Romans 3:10-12 As the Scriptures say, "No one is righteous- not even one. 11 No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. 12 All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one."Ephesians 2:12 NLT In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.
All around the world the message has been told that trying to be good enough is good enough. That's the message that we are told in the story of Santa, it's the best that Santa could hope for, if people were good enough then he would get to keep his job.
According to God's standards, no matter how well you do at being nice and keeping the rules, you are still on
the naughty list. God's requirement for us is to be righteous, a word that we over use in our culture, so we fail to realize that the
standard of righteousness is defined by God's holiness.
Holiness sounds like a crazy goal for anyone to be required to obtain, even God's people in the church neglect this principle so that we can be more acceptable to the world and not be seen as strange. But when you dig into God's word you will find out that the Bible has over 900 references to the
holiness of God and it also tells us that we are required to be holy.
To Nice
2 Corinthians 5:17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!1 Peter 1:21 Through Christ you have come to trust in God. And you have placed your faith and hope in God because he raised Christ from the dead and gave him great glory.
We need a rescue from our sin nature but we had no way to get away from the consequences that we deserved. Our situation was just like God's chosen people in Egypt, enslaved to the kingdom of darkness, we didn't have any hope of getting out unless God sent a rescuer.
The good news of the gospel is the only way that we can get on God's list that he will check. When he opens the Book of Life my name will be on his list because of his forgiveness that I could have only received from him by accepting Jesus work on the cross.
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