婉恩的爸爸腿骨斷了，被送到醫院醫治的時候，媽媽天天到醫院照顧爸爸，婉恩還小，不喜歡離開爸爸媽媽，因此她也陪著爸爸住進醫院裏。
Wan En’s father’s leg bone was broken. When he was sent to the hospital, Wan En’s mother attended to him at the hospital every day. Wan En was still small at that time and she did not like to be away from her parents. Therefore, she also stayed by her father’s side at the hospital.
那時候，聖誕節快到了，很多教會都要慶祝聖誕節，其他教派的人也帶著一些好吃的東西來醫院，送給那些住在醫院的病人當做聖誕節的禮物。
As the Christmas holidays drew near, many churches were preparing to celebrate Christmas. People from other Christian denominations also brought some delicious food to the hospital as a Christmas gift to the patients.
其他教派的人也要送那些當作聖誕節禮物的食物給婉恩的爸爸，但婉恩的爸爸告訴她媽媽不要接受那聖誕節禮物，因為他們慶祝聖誕節是不對的；我們如果吃了他們慶祝聖誕節的食物，我們就好像跟他們一起慶祝聖誕節了。
People from other Christian denominations wanted to give some food to Wan En’s father as a Christmas gift, but Wan En’s father told her mother not to accept them. He knew it was wrong to celebrate Christmas so he said, “If we eat their food for celebrating Christmas with them, then it would be as if we are celebrating Christmas with them.”
婉恩的媽媽想：這又不是別的東西，是可以吃的東西，又不是拜過偶像的東西，有甚麼關係呢？不收反而不好意思，因此她媽媽就收下來了。
Wan En’s mother thought to herself that it was only food and not something offered to idols, so it was not a big deal. She felt that it would be rude not to accept their kindness, so she accepted their gift.
婉恩的爸爸看到她們收下來，就告訴她們不要吃，因為那是有酵的（有錯）。媽媽還是覺得吃了不會有甚麼關係，不吃而送給別人或丟掉不是很可惜嗎？媽媽拿給婉恩吃了，也帶回去給姊姊們吃了。婉恩她們吃了那些其他教派的人送的東西後，第二天，不好了，魔鬼就來找她們一家人了。
When Wan En’s father saw that they accepted the gift, he told them not to eat it, because it “contained yeast”. They should not have accepted the gift. Wan En’s mother did not think it was a problem to eat it and it would be a waste if they gave it to others or threw it away. Then Wan En’s mother gave some to her to eat and brought some back home to give to her sisters. After they ate of the food given to them that’s when the trouble started. The next day Satan came for their family.
頭一天晚上，婉恩的二姊禱告後，躺下去睡的時候，看到了魔鬼。她只看到兩個眼睛，同時有聲音對她說：「我也是你們教會信徒，妳們如果不拜我，等妳們都不在的時候，要害妳們的爸爸。」
The first night, Wan En’s second eldest sister saw an evil spirit as she finished her prayer and lay down to sleep. She only saw two eyes, and heard a voice saying, “I’m one of your church members. If you don’t worship me, I’ll harm your dad when you are not around.”
那時魔鬼就開始唱讚美詩第二百四十五首，牠唱起來非常難聽，又唱的走了調，更難聽。魔鬼一定是為了要證明牠真的是我們教會信徒，所以唱我們教會的讚美詩給她聽。但婉恩的二姊才不相信牠呢！只是奉主耶穌的聖名趕走牠。
Then the spirit started to sing hymn 245. He sang it so poorly and completely out of tune. It must have been because he wanted to prove that he was one of our church members. Wan En’s sister did not believe him. She cast him out in the name of the Lord Jesus.
第二天晚上，她們禱告的時候，婉恩又看到異象，但這次她看到的不是像上次看到的美麗、和藹的天使們，而是看到可惡的魔鬼。婉恩在禱告中看到魔鬼先生帶著魔鬼太太，牠們還帶著一大群魔鬼孩子來了。婉恩看到了，很害怕地喊一聲：「哈利路亞！」當她喊哈利路亞時，那一羣魔鬼都愣了一下，這句哈利路亞真有能力。
The second night when they were praying, Wan En saw another vision. However, this time, it was not the vision of the beautiful, kind angels (like her past experience), but detestable evil spirits. In her prayer, she saw an evil spirit with his wife along with their big group of children, and they were coming towards her. As she saw them, she became afraid and shouted, “Hallelujah!” When she did this, the spirit and his family all paused for a short while. The word “Hallelujah” truly carries power!
那魔鬼一家愣了一下後，繼續走過來，婉恩再喊聲：「哈利路亞！」魔鬼全家又一愣，但一愣之後，還是繼續走過來。婉恩很緊張、很害怕。魔鬼先生來到婉恩面前，對她說：「小妹！我們全家要來住在妳家裏。妳們要拜我們，要不然，我們要害妳的媽媽（爸爸沒有吃聖誕節禮物）。」婉恩聽了，很害怕地叫：「主耶穌啊！請祢快來趕走這些魔鬼吧！」
After pausing for a short while, the evil spirit family continued approaching her. She again shouted, “Hallelujah!” The family paused again before continuing to walk towards her. Wan En was very nervous and scared now! The evil spirit then came before Wan En and said to her, “Little sister! Our whole family is coming to live in your house! You have to worship us, or we will hurt your mom.” Wan En’s father did not eat the Christmas gift so he was not a target. When she heard this, she shouted out with fear, and said, “Oh, Lord Jesus! Please come quickly to rid us of these spirits!”
主耶穌聽了她的禱告，真的派好多天使下來。他們手裏拿著劍和魔鬼打仗，打得很緊張，魔鬼孩子們在旁邊一直喊：「加油！加油！」可是婉恩看得都忘了加油。其實不用婉恩加油，因為真神已經賜很大的能力給天使，使他們能戰勝魔鬼。
The Lord Jesus listened to her prayer. He sent down so many angels and they carried swords in their hands to fight with the evil spirits. The battle was intense, and the little spirits were shouting, “Go! Go! Fight! Fight!” Wan En was watching so intently that she forgot to cheer for the angels. In fact, the angels did not need anyone to cheer for them, because the one true God had already given them enormous power so they could triumph over the evil spirits.
天使戰勝了魔鬼一家，又把魔鬼一個一個地抓進一個透明的監牢裏，魔鬼全家都這樣全部被關進那監牢裏，天使完成了工作，也飛回天上去了。
The angels prevailed over the family of evil spirits and put them all in a transparent prison one by one. They were all locked away in this prison. The angels had completed their job and flew back to heaven.
不久，魔鬼卻一個一個地從那透明的監牢裡跳出來了。婉恩想：這個監牢一定是有破洞，牠們才能跳出來。其實這是因為婉恩她們吃了不該吃的東西，給魔鬼留下地步，魔鬼因此才能來嚇唬她們。
Not long after, the evil spirits jumped out one by one from the transparent prison. Wan En thought that there must be a hole in the prison somewhere so that was why they could jump out and escape. Actually, it was because Wan En and her family ate what they were not supposed to and had left a foothold for the devil to trouble them. That was why the family of evil spirits could come and scare them in the first place.
婉恩這次所看到的魔鬼，全部都長得非常難看。牠們有眼睛有嘴巴，可是沒有鼻子，牠們沒有鼻子怎麼能呼吸呢？婉恩心想：「真醜！」婉恩年紀還小，只是幼稚班的小朋友，她不知道魔鬼不用呼吸，天使也不用呼吸，只有我們這些在地球上生活的人類和動物需要呼吸，因為天使和魔鬼都是靈，他們的身體和我們的身體不一樣，他們不用呼吸也不用吃飯或睡覺。
When they came out of the prison, Wan En saw that this time they were all extremely ugly! They had eyes and a mouth, but no nose! “How do they breathe without a nose?” she asked herself, shuddering. They were so ugly!
Wan En was still young and still in Elementary 1. She did not know that evil spirits do not need to breathe and neither do angels. Only people, animals and other creatures in this world need to breathe. Since angels and demons are spiritual beings, their bodies are different from ours; they need not breathe, eat, or sleep.
第三個晚上，婉恩的三姊睡到半夜，差不多在十二點的時候，被一些很可怕的吵鬧聲吵醒了，是很多很怪的叫聲，表姊和三姊睡在一起，因此表姊也醒過來，她們就起來禱告、趕魔鬼，趕了很久，才上床再睡。
On the third night, Wan En’s third eldest sister slept soundly until midnight. At midnight she was woken up by some frightening noises. The noises were very strange sounding wails. Her older cousin was sleeping together with her and was also woken up by the noise. After they got up they prayed together to cast out the devils. They tried to cast them out for a long while before going back to sleep.
隔天早上，媽媽覺得這兩三天魔鬼在她們家工作、搗亂，使她們一家人沒有平安，她知道這是因為她們吃了不該吃的那其他教派的人送的禮物，給魔鬼留了地步。她決心，要禁食禱告，求神原諒，並求趕走這些魔鬼。
The next morning, Wan En’s mother felt that Satan had been working and pestering her family for the past two to three days so that they had no peace. She knew it was because they ate what they were not supposed to eat; the gift of Christmas food from people of other Christian denominations. As a result, they left a foothold for Satan to work. She decided to fast and pray to ask for God’s forgiveness and to cast out these evil spirits.
媽媽就告訴婉恩她們，決定那天中午禁食禱告。婉恩還小，快到中午的時候，肚子真是餓了。
婉恩她就說：「媽媽！我肚子餓了，想要吃東西。」
媽媽說：「我們做錯了，吃了不該吃的聖誕節禮物，所以我們今天中午要餓著肚子像主耶穌說：『對不起』我們因為貪吃，才會上了魔鬼的當。」婉恩聽懂了，沒有在吵著要吃。
She told her children to fast and pray during the lunch hour. Wan En was still little at the time, so when lunch time came she was very hungry and said, “Mama! I’m hungry. I want to eat something.” Her mother replied, “We’ve done wrong, and ate the gift of Christmas food that we should not have eaten, so we will go to God with our empty stomach to say “sorry” to the Lord Jesus. Since we were greedy for food, we fell into Satan’s trap.” Wan En understood her mother’s words and stopped asking for something to eat.
那天晚上，婉恩禱告的時候，她向主耶穌禱告：「主耶穌啊！魔鬼如果趕不走，就把牠們的手和腳砍掉好了。」主耶穌聽了她的禱告，第二天晚上，天使向她顯現，告訴她：「主耶穌不是要砍掉牠們的手和腳，而是要砍掉牠們的頭。」（創三15）天使還用手勢做砍頭的樣子。這時婉恩看到天使的手，有細又嫩，好美啊！
從此，魔鬼就不再像這樣在她們家搗蛋了，小朋友，我們不可吃這種聖誕節禮物，也不可貪吃未信主的人拜過的東西，要不然魔鬼就有機會來害我們了。
That very night, when Wan En was praying, she asked the Lord Jesus, “Oh Lord Jesus, if you don’t cast out the evil spirits, can you please at least cut off their hands and feet.” The Lord Jesus heard her prayer. The next evening, an angel appeared to her and told her, “Instead of cutting off their hands and feet, the Lord Jesus will cut off their heads.” (Genesis 3:15). The angel even made a beheading gesture with his hands. Wan En saw the hands of the angel, and they were so fine and fair, very beautiful to look at! From then on, Satan no longer pestered their family.
Little children, we should not eat such Christmas gifts, and not be greedy for the items offered for worship by those who do not believe in Jesus. Otherwise, Satan will have an opportunity to harm us.
小朋友！甚麼是聖誕節呢？
其他教派的人把十二月二十五日當作主耶穌的生日慶祝，叫作「聖誕節」。其他教派的人也知道十二月二十五日不是主耶穌的生日。沒有人知主耶穌的生日，聖經上也沒有記載。這可能是主耶穌故意不讓人知道，免得大家藉著這好機會吃、喝、玩樂，反而會做錯事。因此主耶穌沒有叫我們紀念祂的生日，但祂吩咐我們，要常常紀念祂為我們死。靈恩會時，舉行聖餐典禮，聖餐典禮就是照著主耶穌所示範的方法，紀念主為我們捨命。
Little children! What is Christmas?
People from other Christian denominations take December 25th as the birthday of the Lord Jesus and call it “Christmas.” They know that this date is not really the date of the Lord’s birth. No one knows the exact date of the birth of the Lord Jesus. The date is not recorded in the Bible, very possibly because the Lord purposely withheld it from public knowledge to avoid people taking this opportunity to eat, drink, binge and even to commit wrong. We should note that the Lord Jesus never commanded us to remember His birth, but instead he commanded us to often remember that He died for us. During the spiritual convocation when we hold the Holy Communion, it is done in accordance with the example set by the Lord Jesus to commemorate the sacrifice of His life for us.
主耶穌還沒降生到這世上來的時候，祂早就在天上了，因為祂是神，沒有真的生日。很多的人藉著這日子跳舞、喝酒，盡情地玩，甚至不睡覺，主耶穌一定不喜歡他們這樣做。我們是主耶穌的好兒女，不應該像他們那樣慶祝聖誕節，不要收別人送的聖誕節禮物，也不要送聖誕節禮物給朋友，免得讓主耶穌不高興。
（摘自宗教教育第43期16頁）
Before the Lord Jesus came into this world, he was already in heaven, for He is God. There is no real “date of birth” for him. Many people use Christmas as an opportunity to dance, drink, and indulge themselves, sometimes for the entire night. The Lord Jesus is surely displeased with their actions.
We are the good children of the Lord Jesus. We should not celebrate Christmas like them; we should not receive Christmas gifts from others or give Christmas gifts to friends, lest we displease the Lord.
(Taken from Religious Education Publication, page 16 of Issue 43).
