JT'S Permutations

From messages of 26Dec1994 from a Curious Questioner--
>CQ> Subj: SANTA CLAUS

>CQ> Richard, allow me to start with your own names and some of the permutations thereof.

Will I be "Happy as a Clark" if I allow your full descent into the depths of such permutations?

>CQ> One of the diminutives of Richard refers to men's... >beep<

Hey Dude, keep your punches above the belt. This is a family echo.

>CQ> But "Richard" does mean "rich heart".

God who is RICH in mercy, dwells in the HEARTS of them that love him.

>CQ> Do you want to go into the entomology of "Clark," a derivative of "clerk"? You may want to forsake both names and want others.

Why would I "want" a name without an "ark" to keep me high and dry?

>CQ> You Learned that Santa Claus was a myth. But did you look for the basis of the myth to find the truth?

"Know ye not that a little leaven leaventh the whole lump?" The truth is in JESUS, not some fat-faced-fable called Santa Claus.

>CQ> Santa Claus is a spirit of God's love for us.

The "spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience", may appear as an angel of light, and imitate God's love, but let no man deceive himself, GOD does not love the fables and perversions of ungodly pagan idolators.

>CQ> We will also be telling the true story of Jesus, and his bride, the church. We are prostitutes...

Children of the GREAT WHORE of Revelation 17 don't tell true stories.

>CQ> Matthew> "Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, "Why could not we cast him out?"

Comparing scripture with scripture, we see that the kind that goeth not out but by prayer and fasting is none other than a "dumb and deaf spirit" lacking "ears to hear" them telling it to come out.

Mark 9:25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

Remember that Jesus is the Lord and be not deceived by pagan fables. Grace be to them that love the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. --Richard