Haggadah 2025 | From Anointing to Resurrection | Sermon Video

When your children ask, what will you tell them? What happens when God’s children have separated from their roots, forgotten their heritage, and have no recollection from where they came? Yahweh built reminders into His culture to deter that from happening, but unfortunately it has. Christians have disconnected from the roots of their faith, surrendered to common culture, and adopted the traditions of the world around them. “Do not love the world or the things of the world,” John warned. Are you guilty of committing the same neglect, of which Y’shua accused the religious hypocrites in His day, “making the word of God of no effect through their traditions which they have handed down?”

I fear that too many Christians today could offer no acceptable defense for their traditions! “How can this be true?” you might be thinking. Just look around during the holidays and you will see the majority of Christians flocking to manmade celebrations, steeped in pagan traditions. And if their children ask, “What do these holidays mean?” or, “Has God has allowed us to do this?” they will have no legitimate answer. Instead like religious hypocrites, they have “made the word of God of no effect through their traditions,” which they too are handing down to their children. If Y’shua appeared on the earth today, would He ask a similar question of our religious leaders that He asked two thousand years ago? “Why do you violate the word of God with your traditions?” And would they be angered by Him as they were, or would they change? John warned us about loving the things of the world, “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life…” May the Body of Christ once again run from such things.

Then, the next time your children ask, “What does this holiday mean?” with confidence you will be able to say, “It’s the Passover; we were slaves and now we are free; may your children tell their children, and their children the next generation. It is a memorial forever.” The frightening alternative is this, “These are our pagan roots; go find your painted eggs and chocolate Easter bunnies. Fill your baskets; this is now how we remember the death, burial and resurrection of our blessed Savior.” Oh, how far we have fallen from the truth! I don’t know about you, but when my children ask, I will say “As for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh!”