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This is Later with Lee Matthews The
Lee Matthews Podcast more what You Hear weekday

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afternoons on the Drive. Earlier in
the week, I got a call from

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Margie. Margie said she lives in
Tulsa. Okay, well, you know,

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when my kids were growing up,
I wasn't a Christian, and so

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I thought it was okay to lie
to them about Santa. And so that's

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a long lasting lie. I would
have just punched anybody in the nose who

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would have told them the truth.
And I know a lot of parents feel

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like that because it's kind of a
fun thing. But after all, this

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is setting a precedent to tell your
child to lie. It's okay to lie

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in certain occasions. So the song
here Comes Santa Claus. I decided that

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I'm wrapping up my evangelism since our
world is in such terrible shape, and

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so I rewrote the lyrics. So
if you don't mind, I'd like to

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sing them to you. Okay,
don't wear me out, though, go

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ahead, Okay, here come Santa
Claus. Here comes Santa Claus. Right

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down Santa Claus Lane, taking attention
away from Jesus, just like he never

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came. They'll sair ringing children singing
darkness that they call light. They don't

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care if Jesus comes, because Santa
Claus is coming to you tonight. Here

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comes Santa Claus. Here comes Santa
Claus. Rite down, Santa Claus lane.

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If you change two letters in Santa, it's bells sat An. Let's

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all speak up. It's not funny
and it's certainly not cute. No moral

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lies and compromise. Let's give all
sanative boot well. I applaud your ability

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to write a parody song, Margie, and thanks for calling in. But

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unfortunately I respectfully disagree because I think
that you should include Santa Claus in your

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Christmas celebration. I think you should
include Santa Claus when you are talking to

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your children. So let me give
you my take on this whole thing.

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See, more than just a man
was born in that stable that we remember

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two thousand years ago this month,
something that profoundly changed not just the world

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and not just religion, but the
entire psychology of the human race. Until

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Jesus Christ was born, religions were
oppressive. You had to serve, you

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had to sacrifice, you had to
bend and bow to the will of whatever

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God you were bowing for. And
if that God required of you to sacrifice

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your own children on its altar,
you did and hoped, hoped that you'd

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have a good crop that year,
or something good would happen to you.

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Oh and if you made that God
angry, if you sinned against that God

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too late, no hope. But
you see, when Jesus Christ came along,

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all that changed. All of the
sudden, something new came into the

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world, something that comes to us
through love for the first time in the

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history of the human race. Redemption
was also blonde, because even if you

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were a monotheistic a member of a
monootheistic faith at that time Judaism, there

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wasn't a lot of redemption. But
Jesus Christ said, all you have to

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do is ask for it. No
matter who you are, no matter what

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you've done, no matter what color
your skin, no matter what your parents

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are or what they did, no
matter where your station in life is,

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no matter how much money you make, no matter how poor you are,

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Redemption is at hand. Just for
saying I've done wrong, Please redeem me,

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make me a better person. I
don't want to live this way anymore.

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And sure, sometimes the redemption may
be unpleasant. It may mean having

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to do something you don't want to
do. I don't know how many times

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I've said to the Lord God,
please don't make me do this. It

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might mean a prison sentence, it
might mean paying back in debts. But

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redemption is at hand and it comes
to us through love. I could go

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into all the different types of love, agape, love of God, arrows,

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the love of the opposite sex,
felos, brotherly love. But do

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you know when you bring all those
together in a relationship with Christ and God,

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they are one. That was the
gift the magi brought to Jesus Christ

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that night, and that's the gift
that he continues to give us. So

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what if you were to draw a
picture of that love and that redemption and

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that gift that came into our world
two thousand years ago or so this month,

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what do you think it would look
like. I think it would look

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like a happy, jolly old man
who goes around the world giving out that

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gift. I think that love that
comes through Christ on Christmas Eve is Santa

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Claus. And that's why you should
continue to include Santa Claus and your Christmas

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celebration. And I hope you have
Merry Christmas from our family to yours.

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