The Stack: Biblical Warnings and the Hope of Christmas
Guest host Gary Varvel delivers a direct biblical diagnosis of the chaos consuming America and the West. This isn’t random violence, political dysfunction, or cultural confusion—it’s the consequence of a nation that has suppressed truth and rejected God. Drawing from Romans 1, Isaiah 5, and 2 Timothy 3, Gary explains how moral insanity, lawlessness, and spiritual blindness follow when God is removed from public life.
From sexual confusion and rising violence to anti-Semitism and persecution of Christians, this episode connects today’s headlines to ancient warnings. Government solutions, legislation, and social programs cannot fix what is ultimately a heart problem. But this message doesn’t end in despair. Gary explains why Christmas matters, why Christ came, and how redemption—not regulation—is the only true solution.
A sobering yet hope-filled reminder that revival begins with repentance, truth still matters, and Jesus Christ remains the way, the truth, and the life.
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📝 Transcript: Biblical Warnings and the Hope of Christmas
The Todd Huff Show – December 24, 2025
Host: Gary Varve
Gary Varvel: We're not just watching random chaos, we're watching biblical warnings unfold. Hi, everybody, you're listening to the Todd Huff radio show. This is America's home for conservative, not bitter talk and education. And I am your guest host, Gary Varvel. I'm the editorial cartoonist for Creators Syndicate. And you can see my work at garyvarvel.substack.com. Over there, I write as well as post my cartoons, and I send it, I have a newsletter you could sign up for. You can also see my galleries of my work at garyvarvel.com. That last name is spelled V is in victory, A-R-V is in victory, E-L.
Gary Varvel: And I write about, from a conservative's perspective, I write about things and draw about the world around us from a biblical perspective. And one of the things that the media doesn't understand is the biblical perspective of what is going on. And that's why I say that we're watching biblical warnings unfold.
Gary Varvel: This isn't about partisan politics. It's about moral consequences. And America and the West has aggressively pushed God out of public life. And we're seeing, we're reaping the bad fruit from that. We were told removing God would make us enlightened, tolerant, and peaceful. How's that working out? It's not working out too well, in my opinion.
Gary Varvel: We've got chaos. We've got confusion. We've got bloodshed. We've got boys and girls bathrooms, boys and girls sports. We've got fraud and theft. We've got screaming protesters and rioting against cops in the streets and against ICE. And did I mention bloodshed? Yeah, I think I did.
Gary Varvel: So why is all of this insanity going on? I thought we were progressing as a culture. This doesn't look very progressive to me, not in the right direction. It's progressing all right, progressing toward evil.
Gary Varvel: Well, the Bible talks about this, that these days were coming, in Romans chapter one, verses 18 following. It talks about there's a judgment coming. And in fact, this is what it says. “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.” Who, and this is what they did wrong, suppressed the truth in unrighteousness.
Gary Varvel: Now, this is not a case where people didn't know. It's people rejected. They knew that there was a God and they rejected Him. They knew the Bible. They have heard of it, but they rejected it. They knew that there are certain things that the Bible says are wrong, moral issues, and they rejected it.
Gary Varvel: And as a result, what happens is, and what Romans chapter one tells us is that sometimes God doesn't judge us by sending fire from heaven. Sometimes He judges us by abandoning us. He basically says, fine, have it your way. Let's see how that works out for you.
Gary Varvel: Notice, I mentioned that they suppress the truth in unrighteousness because they want to sin. They love their sin, and that's the problem. And so God gave them over, and He repeats this three different times. God gave them over. God gave them over. God gave them over. He gave them over to moral insanity.
Gary Varvel: It's not accidental. It's judicial. God knows what He's doing, and He just wants us to continue on, see how this works. And as it gets worse and worse, then He sits back and He's waiting.
Gary Varvel: If you read the book of Judges, for instance, you see this pattern where everybody did what was right in their own eyes, which is basically rejecting God and just doing what you want. And as a result, they sin, and then they would come under judgment, and then they cry out to God and repent.
Gary Varvel: And then God would come and deliver them, and then they turn right around, and then everybody does what was right in their own eyes. It's just a big circle, a vicious circle that goes around and around.
Gary Varvel: When truth is rejected, then reason collapses. You know, even people who weren't religious, say 30 years ago, are kind of shocked at what in the world is going on today because it's been normalized.
Gary Varvel: But to our senses, even if you weren't a Christian, for instance, if you grew up in a Christian nation, I remember when I was young, and it shows you how old I am, I remember that a lot of stores weren't open on Sunday. A lot of things weren't happening on Sunday. That was the Lord's Day.
Gary Varvel: And yeah, so Chick-fil-A, we make fun of Chick-fil-A for doing that, but that used to be the norm. But that's not the norm today.
Gary Varvel: I'm not saying everybody has to shut down. What I'm saying is that as time went on, things changed. And so what we have today, just look at the results. We have sexual confusion. We have lawlessness. We have violence without remorse. And the Bible talks about all of this.
Gary Varvel: This is what the Bible said was going to come. In fact, in Isaiah chapter five, verse twenty, it says that there will come a day when they will call good evil and evil good. Are we there? I think we are.
Gary Varvel: You have to admit that things that even a not religious person can look at and say, wow, that just seems terrible, and it's being celebrated today.
Gary Varvel: That's a culture that's gone off the rails. So God's basically saying, you think you're smarter than Me? Okay, show Me. Show Me what you got.
Gary Varvel: If I were to draw a cartoon about this, it'd be like God stepping back while humanity drives a car labeled moral autonomy. And let's say that God had a road sign saying, detour this way. But we've decided we're going to continue on going our own way.
Gary Varvel: But the road ends, and we go off a cliff. That is what is happening. The warnings in the Bible aren't to make us unhappy. The warnings in the Bible are actually to protect us, protect us from destroying our life, from making huge mistakes.
Gary Varvel: So you can't build a society on feelings, and yet that's what we've done. You got to, it's gotten to the point where people get so bent out of shape and upset and have to go see a psychiatrist because somebody said the wrong pronoun to them.
Gary Varvel: Or actually said the right pronoun to them, but not the one they wanted, not the one they preferred.
Gary Varvel: We live in a culture where facts are negotiable. Biology is offensive. Reality has to check your feelings before you entering a room.
Gary Varvel: We have Supreme Court Justice who doesn't know who is a woman, who doesn't know what a woman is, can't define it because she said, I'm not a biologist. This is the insanity I'm talking about, and this is the result of a nation that says no to God.
Gary Varvel: Now, we're going to get into, I realize this is heavy stuff for a Christmas Eve or a Christmas time, but I want to, I'm going to transition if you hang with me long enough, I've got some good news, I've got some great news for you. I've got some solutions that we can look at that will right the ship here, so to speak.
Let's say the ship of state has kind of gone off the rails. Wait a minute, ships aren't on rails. I'm mixing my metaphors here. A ship that has capsized. Well, we can, it's possible to right the ship if we do a few things.Now, let's look again at some of the recent violence that we've talked about. Symptoms. These are not anomalies. It wasn't that long ago we were looking at the tragic events, the massacre that happened in Sydney, Australia, where Jews were celebrating the first day of Hanukkah.And then two men, father and son, just start mowing them down with gunfire. And this is in a country that's not supposed to have any guns. So gun control didn't fix the human heart.And this is the thing I want to talk about. Evil, Jesus said, comes out of the heart. It's not something that goes into the mouth. It's what comes out of the heart.
Gary Varvel: And the government always, what do they want to do? They want to spend more money. Always spend money. Always want to spend our money. They don't have any money. They want to spend our money to concoct some new programs.And these new programs, or they'll pass some laws to try to restrict good, legal gun owners, and we have to punish them for something that somebody else does.The wrong thinking is that if we don't have any weapons, then there won't be any crime. Well, they tried that in England, and if you'll notice, if you look at the stats, there are knifings all of the time.
People don't have guns, but they're cutting people's heads off. They're decapitating people in the streets. I know it's hard to believe, but this is what's happening, and we don't, the media doesn't talk a lot about it.
So gun control can't fix the human heart. In fact, evil doesn't need firearms. It just needs souls without restraint. It needs people who think that there's no God, there's no accountability.
Gary Varvel: That when they die, they become worm food and that's it. It's over. And they just go out of existence. But that's not what the Bible says.The Bible makes it very clear that there's coming a judgment and there's a God who's watching. In fact, if you look at Revelation chapter twenty, it talks about the books are opened.And all the things that people did are written in these books, and you're going to be judged by what you did.No, people need to understand that there, this is basically a testing ground for eternity. And when God is removed, human life loses its sacred value.And that's what we saw happen in Australia. That's what we saw happen at Brown University when this gunman goes into a classroom and kills two people and then ended up taking his own life.
Gary Varvel: This is what we see happening when we have DC National Guardsmen in DC just standing on a street corner and a man comes up and shoots them in the head, kills one.Now secular societies produce violence. That's what they do. And when I say secular, I mean godless. When there is no God sacred, then human life has no sacred value anymore and there's no restraint.Experts always say that this is not who we are. You know, when some tragedy happens, you will get the politician or you have even the media people say this is not who we are as a people.I'm sorry, but biblically speaking, that's exactly who we are. I mean, it's basically the Lord of the Flies if you just let it go long enough.In fact, what is the purifying effect to a nation? Our Christians. Our churches. That's the purifying effect.
Gary Varvel: Because you have people standing up at school board meetings and saying, you school board members, you've got literature in the school library that is too offensive to read in public.And yet you're letting my daughter read this. You're having little boys come into the girls bathroom with my daughters there. No, you're not. We're not standing for that.We're not going to put up with that. And that's the purifying effect. You know, it's crazy when people don't understand why these things are going on. To me, it's very simple if you understand what the Bible says.The Bible says this was coming. In fact, it says in verse twenty-one of Romans chapter one, “Because although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful.”
Gary Varvel: “But became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.” And then verse twenty-two, “Professing to be wise, they became fools.”Now you can have a PhD behind your name, but if you think there's no God, then you've become a fool.And you're going to live like a fool, and you're going to make judgments like a fool.And God is basically just taking His hands off and saying, go for it. See how that works.Lloyd George, a former British prime minister, once said education without God makes clever devils.
Gary Varvel: Now let me repeat that again. Lloyd George, who's a former British prime minister, he once said education without God makes clever devils.Now let me ask you, isn't that exactly what we've done in public schools though? We have removed God.In fact, you couldn't talk about a creator because you were supposed to teach evolution. Supposedly in their minds it was ignorant to say that there was a creator.But to me it only makes sense, because nothing can't produce something. Nothing produces nothing. There has to be a first cause.Now, I can't explain how God has always existed, but that's what the Bible says, and that's the only logical explanation.
Gary Varvel: And then when you look at the complexity science has discovered year after year, the complexity of life, the complexity of DNA, the amount of information in DNA, how could that just happen on its own?No, there has to be a God. So you can have a PhD and you can still not know what a woman is.That doesn't make sense, but that's where we are today. So in Second Timothy chapter three, it carries on with the same theme that Romans chapter one is talking about.And in Second Timothy chapter three, the apostle Paul, who wrote also the book of Romans, he said something very interesting.
Gary Varvel: In Second Timothy chapter three, the first verse, he says, “But know this.” So he's not saying that sometime in the future this might happen.
He's saying, know this, this is what's going to happen. “In the last days perilous times will come.”
“For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.”
“Unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good.”
“Traitors, headstrong,, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
“Having a form of godliness but denying its power, and from such people turn away.”
Don't have anything to do with those people.
Those are like nineteen things. And if you were to put a checklist, if I were to draw a cartoon of this and put a checklist of the last days and the things that people will do wrong, we hit every one of these.
Every one of these.
Gary Varvel: In fact, I mean, just look at some of them. Lovers of self, that's the narcissistic culture we have today. Everybody's staring at their cell phones, taking selfies and then posting them and seeing how many likes they get, how many, yeah, this is, that's a narcissism.
Unthankful, we have people who are unthankful in that they are, they think they're entitled to something. The reparations movement thinks that.
You know, something happened to an ancestor, had nothing to do with me. In fact, I'm living pretty good here, but I want reparations. I want, this is unthankful.
It's also greedy, greed for other people's money. Unholy, that's moral relativism.
God has established the moral order, but we have a generation right now we're living around and people who are morally ignorant. They're making up their own values.
Gary Varvel: And you know, I always think that's funny when a politician talks about values, you know, American values, these are our values.
I'm sometimes a politician from Indiana, Indiana values, Hoosier values, that's what a nickname for a person who lives in Indiana.
I don't know what that is. It sounds good. It's good political speak, but I don't know what it is because I'm sure you couldn't get ten Hoosiers in the same room and get agreement on much of anything.
So, but that's where we are. We have without natural affection is what the text says. This is a family breakdown.
You know, biblically, we're supposed to love our parents, supposed to honor our parents, that's what the Bible says.
Gary Varvel: But I see a lot of people don't do that. They actually hate their parents, who don't have anything to do with their parents.
And in some cases, some terrible cases, very rare, but every once in a while it happens and you have a child who kills their parents.
And we saw that with the, allegedly, with the Reiners. I hated to see that.
But, and then it also says that these people, and Tim, the Apostle Paul said these people would be brutal. Random violence.
Think about the stabbing of Arena Zorutska on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, minding her own business.
Gary Varvel: And here, this is what's so shocking. This man stands up, stabs her, and as she's writhing in pain, no one on the train, the video shows, no one came to her aid.No one goes after the murderer. Everybody just stands there and watches.I guess thinking that he was going to come after them next. This is a cold-hearted, brutal society we're living in. Where we're not trusting people. You can't. They hate good. Which means they persecute Christians.
Gary Varvel: What they're doing in Nigeria right now. Thousands and thousands of Christians are being killed by Islamic terrorists.The Fulani and the Boko Haram. And they're burning down churches all over the place.And I've drawn a cartoon about that too.Here's the key point. The Apostle Paul said this was going to happen.He said it in two places in the New Testament.
Gary Varvel: If Paul were alive today, people would probably accuse him of watching too much cable news. But he lived long before cable news. He was telling people what God had told him to write. This is where people are going to go. When God takes His hand off, this is where they go. He gave us a checklist. And we're checking it all off. Now in the case of both Nigeria and Australia, this is a case of anti-Semitism.
Gary Varvel: This is a hatred for the Jews, which the Bible said was going to happen in the last days.And now it's happened generation after generation. I mean World War Two, six million Jews were killed. The world has hated the Jews for centuries, and it doesn't make any sense. Until you understand that this is spiritual warfare. It's not social decay. This is spiritual warfare. It's not random.
Gary Varvel: You see, Satan hates the Jews because God made certain promises to the Jews.God promised that the Jews would birth a Messiah, for instance.And so Satan has been trying to stop all of that. And he is trying now.So God has future plans for the Jews.If you read Ezekiel chapter thirty-six all the way to the end of the book, there's a future for the Jews.
Gary Varvel: If you read Romans chapter eleven, it says that they're going to be grafted in in the last days.That they will all be saved. They'll come to know their Messiah.Which I believe the Bible is very clear, it's Jesus, it's Christ.Now this is not random. Satan cannot hurt God.So he attacks. What does he attack? God's image. God's people. Christians and Jews.
Gary Varvel: And God's truth, the Scripture. We shouldn't be surprised by this.In fact, it should be a warning to us. When we come back, we're going to hit this again. And then we're going to talk about the promise that God makes to those who love Him. And the good news for society. You're listening to the Todd Huff radio program. I'm Gary Varvel. Be right back.
Gary Varvel: As we start this second segment, I want you to think about this truth. This is not a war against the Jews. It's not a war against governments. It's a war against God. That is what's happening. As I said, Satan can't hurt God, but he can hurt those God loves. And that's why Christians are being persecuted. That's why Jews are being sought out and killed.
It's not that the devil needs new ideas. He just needs people who don't read the Bible. And then he just keeps doing the same thing. He hasn't changed his playbook. It's been effective. It's like if I were to draw a cartoon, it would be like Satan tearing out the pages of the Bible, which is listed as truth, and the world says that this is progress.
It's progress to tear out the pages of the Bible. I saw one cartoonist, and I wish I had drawn this cartoon, that if you start taking out the parts of the Bible you like, the only verse that you're left with that everybody would agree on is that Jesus cried. Well, that's true. It hurts the heart of God to see what we're doing and the consequences that we're paying.
Now, the culture refuses to diagnose the disease as I've just diagnosed it. It's wicked hearts and we have lying lips, and it's because we've rejected God. That's the diagnosis of the disease. But they just look at the symptoms and try to figure out what kind of Band-Aid we could put on it.
Gary Varvel: The media, for instance, they treat every violent act as like this is a policy problem, or this is a mental health problem, or a political problem, but never a spiritual problem. Christianity is blamed for divisions, actually, and secularism is never blamed for bloodshed. Why is that?
Every time there's violence, the media ask, what policy failed? Or they'll say to the politician, what are you going to do about this so this never happens again? What? So this never happens again? What truth was rejected? Should we be saying what truth of God's word have we rejected that got us to this point?
I find it interesting that, for instance, Charlie Kirk's shooter, there was a transgender connection. He was living with a transgender person. And, you know, the shooter in Minnesota, he had a manifesto. He wrote about that. He said the worst decision he ever made was transgendering or transitioning his gender.
You can't do that, folks. You can't change your DNA. You can't change your chromosomes. You just can't. It's like you can't change the bones of a house unless you tear the whole house down. You have what you have. You can decorate the outside of it. You can put some new paint on it, but it doesn't change what it is.
Gary Varvel: And this used to be simple science, but we've gotten away from that. It would be like a fire department going, you know, let's say you had a moral fire going on in some building labeled morality, and the fire is labeled sin maybe, and the hose is labeled legislation. But the hose is actually connected to a gas pump because whatever they pass is just going to make things worse. That's what government does.
It's not, you know, it goes to we're going to see this experiment. We're going to see this experiment play out in New York when Mayor-elect Mamdani takes over and some of the things that he wants to do. And he has the belief that there's not a problem that government can't fix.
Now, that's just the opposite of what Ronald Reagan said. Ronald Reagan said that government doesn't fix problems. Government is the problem. I may have butchered that quote, but you get the idea. That's the idea.
So then here's the core point. This is why Christmas matters. This is why Jesus Christ came to this earth. The Bible makes it very clear that Jesus Christ didn't start in the manger. He has always existed.
Gary Varvel: He left the throne of heaven to become a baby in the womb of a virgin who was to be born in a manger. And He was on a mission, and the mission was a rescue mission to rescue us from sin. That was what He was going to do. That's why He came. That's the message of Christmas.
No, God didn't send a program. He didn't send legislation. He didn't even send an army or any kind of rescue group. He didn't hire a committee. No, God sent a baby. He sent a Savior.
In Galatians chapter four, verses four and five, it says, “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption as sons.” God wants us in the family. He wants to adopt us.
He wants, in fact, He wants to make us part of the family by us being born again. He wants to give us spiritual birth. And this only comes when someone dies for our sins because the Bible says the wages of sin is death.
Gary Varvel: The wages of sin is death. Because we have sinned, we get paid, and that payment is death. We can't save ourselves. We needed someone who had never sinned. We needed someone who was perfect, who could substitute Himself for us. And that was why Jesus came.
That's why He was born on Christmas Day, whatever day that was. We celebrate it on the twenty-fifth, but I doubt if it was actually that day. But nevertheless, the point is, He wasn't born in a palace. He wasn't born in Jerusalem. He wasn't born to a queen.
He was born to a poor woman, a young woman, a virgin who was betrothed to a man in the line of David, as the Bible predicted would be, as it prophesied that He would be in the line of David, King David, and someday He would sit on David's throne.
He was born in a manger, and a manger is basically a feeding trough, probably in a cave where they kept sheep during the wintertime.
Gary Varvel: He was born in Bethlehem, and that was the town where shepherds raised sacrificial lambs for the sacrifice in Jerusalem. And that was something that was started by King David. So here we have the Lamb of God who will take away the sins of the world being born where lambs are born, where the sacrificial lambs were born.
And Bethlehem at that time was not too far from the Herodian. And the Herodian was a palace that King Herod the Great had built for himself on a high hill not too far from Bethlehem.
So instead of the King of Kings being born at the Herodian, no, He was born in a lowly manger. Why? So you and I could identify with Him. He could identify with us.
God didn't look at humanity and say, we need better messaging. No, He said we needed redemption. We needed to be bought back from a life of sin.
Gary Varvel: The world is drowning in chaos, and God throws us a lifeline in the shape of a cross. So Jesus came to this earth and experienced everything that we humans experience, even being born as a baby and growing up.
And He had a mission, and the mission was to pay for our sin debt. And then He rose from the dead, proving that death couldn't keep Him. He defeated death. He defeated Satan when He rose from the dead.
And this is what He says. He says He's coming again. And I believe that we could be that generation that sees Him return. I think we're that close.
Life has gotten to the point where, what I was saying earlier, we are living in the time the Bible described. Now, Jesus didn't come to affirm us. Jesus came because we were a mess, and He came to save us.
Gary Varvel: I've drawn so many cartoons about Christmas over the years. I've done several dual image Christmas cartoons that are available at garyvarvel.com in my store page, if you wanted to look at them. I've done them as Christmas cards and also as ornaments, if you're interested in that.
But the dual image, so the image looks like a manger. There's Mary, Joseph, and the babe, straw. But the image also makes a face, and it makes the face of Christ with a crown of thorns on His head. It connects the cradle with the cross, the reason why He came.
And I think that at this time of year, when we celebrate the birth of Christ, we also should be celebrating His death, burial, and resurrection because that gives us eternal life. That's the gift He came to give us, eternal life.
Life is the most precious gift we have. Eternal life is even more precious because it never ends. When we return, I'll finish up this Christmas story. You're listening to the Todd Huff radio program. I'm Gary Varvel, filling in for Todd. Be right back.
Gary Varvel: Can I give you some tough love just for a second here? Some people might be listening to me right now, and let's say they're not Christians, or maybe they follow a different religion, and they might be thinking, oh Gary, you act like you think you know the true way, and all the rest of us are all wrong.
I've got a verse for you. I didn't make this up. This is written by the apostle Paul in the book of Galatians. This is what he said in chapter one of Galatians, verse eight. Galatians one eight.
This is what he says, “But even if we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you other than what we have preached, let him be accursed.”
Let me repeat that. If we, meaning the apostle Paul or his followers or Timothy or any of those people, or listen to this, an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel other than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
Gary Varvel: Now, if you're following a religion that is basically a man who said he got a message from an angel, which is what Muhammad said, Muhammad said that he went in some cave and at first he thought it was a demon.
I think his wife told him, no, that's an angel. And then he said it was Gabriel. And then he comes up with a different gospel.
I'm just telling you the apostle Paul said that they are accursed. There is no other gospel.
Here's the gospel. Jesus came, born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, and He died according to the Scriptures, was buried and rose to life on the third day, according to the Scriptures.
And then He was witnessed by as many as five hundred at one time. He was witnessed by Mary Magdalene, the other women, then the two men on the road to Emmaus, then He appeared to the twelve, or actually eleven, Judas had already killed himself, and then to Peter, and then to Jesus's half brothers.
Gary Varvel: So He proved Himself by appearing. They wrote these things down. And we have so many copies from the early centuries that they have to be true.
There, we don't have as much evidence for the writings of Caesar or some of the other people that we just take on faith. Now the Bible, God has protected His word.
So what we've been talking about is the mess that the world is in. And the world says trust yourself. Christmas says that experiment didn't go well.
So Christmas says, I'm sending you a Savior, someone to save you from yourself. That's what we need.
The problem isn't also that we lost our way. As we said at the very top of the show, it's that we rejected the way, and His name is Jesus Christ.
He's the gift of God, eternal life. That's what Christmas is.
Gary Varvel: The wages of sin, as I said, the Bible says in Romans chapter six, verse twenty-three, is death. That's the bad news. The good news is that God gives us a gift.
And a gift is only a gift if it's free. If you could pay for it, it's no longer a gift. It's a purchase.
But the Bible says, no, this gift comes from God and it's free. The gift is free, and you accept it. You receive it by faith.
Some of you are going to open up Christmas presents maybe on Christmas Day. And the present will be, maybe it's under a tree, and there may be a tag on it, and it may have your name on it.
But when does that present actually become yours? When you receive it.
If you were to leave that house and never return, even though that present had your name on it, if you have never received the gift, you don't own it.
Gary Varvel: It was intended for you. It was purchased for you. But you don't have it.
Jesus Christ died to give you eternal life. He offers it to you, and you must receive it by faith. If you don't receive it, you don't own it.
That's the message of Christmas. That's also the warning.
We're watching what happens when a nation suppresses the truth. I'm trying to give you truth today. I'm trying to show you the consequences of a world gone mad because it rejected God, rejected truth.
But Jesus, born in that manger nearly two thousand years ago, He says this, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
That's the Bible truth.
And what the apostle Paul said is, even if an angel tells you something different, they are to be accursed. And if you attach yourself to that false teaching, you are being cursed.
Gary Varvel: Folks, what we need is revival. We need our spirits revived within us. And that only happens when we turn back to God, when we repent of the direction we've gone and go back to God.
After Charlie Kirk was murdered, we saw a lot of people, especially after his funeral service, when you had so many even politicians talking about Jesus Christ.
I couldn't believe I was hearing in America Jesus Christ publicly pronounced and professed from the mountaintops, I mean, from everywhere.
And I was hopeful that maybe this would be the beginning of a revival.
And we have seen many young people who were into all kinds of terrible things and have turned their lives around and have gotten baptized.
Time will tell if they're really following the Lord, but that's what America needs.
Gary Varvel: We need the next generation to reject the path that we've been on, to go back to the narrow way, the narrow gate, which is Jesus Christ.
I thank Todd for giving me his seat for just a short period of time. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and I hope you have a prosperous new year.
And we pray if the Lord tarries that we'll see America turn around for the better.
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