Christmas Solidarity

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Christianity, John Piper, Devotional, Joy, Daily Devotional, Solid Joys, 163859, Jesus, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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If you want to give a gift to God this Christmas, walk off the assembly line of sin and don’t go back. Take up your place, instead, in the picket line of love.

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0:00.0	December 20, Christmas Solidarity.
0:08.7	The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil,
0:16.5	1st John 3.8.
0:19.1	The assembly line of Satan turns out millions of sins every day. He packs them into
0:27.7	huge cargo planes and flies them to heaven and spreads them out before God and laughs and laughs and laughs.
0:38.8	Some people work full-time on the assembly line.
0:42.5	Others have quit their jobs there, and only now and then return.
0:48.0	Every minute of work on the assembly line makes God the laughing stock of Satan.
0:54.0	Sin is Satan's business because he hates
0:56.9	the light and beauty and purity and glory of God. Nothing pleases him more than when creatures
1:04.6	distrust and disobey their maker. Therefore, Christmas is good news for man and good news for God.
1:18.6	The saying is trustworthy and deserving a full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world
1:24.6	to save sinners. 1. Timothy 115. That's good news for us. The reason the
1:31.8	son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil, 1 John 3, 8. That is also good news for God.
1:40.4	Christmas is good news for God because Jesus has come to lead a strike at Satan's assembly plant.
1:47.2	He has walked right into the plant, called for the solidarity of the faithful, and begun a massive walkout.
1:57.3	Christmas is a call to go on strike at the assembly plant of sin.
2:02.6	No negotiations with the management, no bargaining, just single-minded, unswerving opposition to the product.
2:09.6	We won't be a part of making it anymore.
2:13.6	Christmas solidarity aims to ground the cargo planes. It will not use force or violence,
2:21.9	but with relentless devotion to truth, it will expose the life-destroying conditions of the devil's
2:30.0	industry. Christmas solidarity will not give up until a complete shutdown has been achieved.
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