"The Halloween Deception" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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Rescue radio, because there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, indeed, the war is ongoing and ferocious and deep and multifaceted,

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Lord, but you are God and you are in control of all things.

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So we praise you and thank you, and we declare that your kingdom come.

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Your righteousness, your will be done on earth, in and through your people,

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as it's being done and declared in heaven, that your people will repent and

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turn towards you and embrace the truth of the revelation of your love and your freedom.

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And I thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for us. You defeated the enemy.

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You drove the stake in his heart with the cross.

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You defeated him, hell and death. And you resurrected and brought back to life

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our hope, our salvation, our destiny, our purpose.

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You've redeemed us out of the grip of the terrible one. And thank you for giving

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us power over all the power of the enemy that nothing shall by any means hurt

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us, reminding us that we do not have to walk in fear or in homage to the enemy.

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Father God, I pray that today you'd give us eyes to see and ears to hear and

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a heart to turn from our wicked ways if we have that being exposed in us by

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the Holy Spirit to turn from those practices and things that are not only an

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abomination but incredibly destructive in our own personal lives.

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I thank you, Lord, for giving us truth through your word. I thank you that your

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word is wisdom and counsel.

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I thank you for divine protection, especially at this season,

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this time of the year when the enemy is out in full force to romance those who

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are and seduce those who are intrigued by evil, evil, Father God.

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I pray that you'd protect your people, all of your people, that they will know

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the truth and walk in freedom and that no witchcraft, no curses,

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no words, no ploys of the enemy will be able to bring forth any shame,

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trouble, or reproach in the lives of your people,

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our people, and that there will be protection over us, over the work of our

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hands, the fruit of our labors are coming and going, that we will be walking

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in the safety and the protection and provision of the Most High God. Amen.

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Amen, amen, amen. Hey, hey, hey, we got to talk about Halloween.

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Well, Halloween is approaching. It is right on top of us.

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As a matter of fact, by the end of this week, you'll have gone through it.

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Been on top of us for a while.

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But you know, for the believer in Jesus Christ, there is absolutely nothing,

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nothing, no argument you can make, no rationalizing to justify participation

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in this very obviously demonic celebration or festival.

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You know, if you go back to looking at the beginning, the origins of something,

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you can tell, you know, from the root, you can get the fruit pretty much figured out.

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And so the Celtics were, you know, the Irish and the Scottish back in the day.

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They had this festival called Soeene, which was, you know, operated or celebrated

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on the last day of summer, which was October 31st for them.

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And then November 1st was the first day of their new year. And so they had all

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kinds of superstitions and festivals and situations where they had to kind of

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secure the new year, get safely through the winter.

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So they were doing a lot of these witchcraft practices, making deals with the

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devil, so to speak, to secure their winter safety and also celebrate the harvest.

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And so the belief was that this was the time of year when the.

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Spirit world is manifested more often.

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The line between the world of the earth and the world of the spirits and the

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departed dead was very close together.

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Yeah, that's absolutely correct. They believed that these ghosts of the dead

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would return onto the earth on that night, and so they were protecting themselves

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from that and also placating and trying to get through this treacherous time.

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So, it was really a festival, if you can call it a festival.

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Celebrating, if you can really celebrate, fear and human death.

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And, of course, the brokers of this festival were the Druids,

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the Celtic priests, who would set up various activities, including bonfires,

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and they'd all encourage people to wear costumes to hide themselves from the

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ghosts or whatever, and ward off those ghosts.

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Well, so, you know, if you're talking about the Druids, the Druids were like,

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they were the priests, they were the judges, they were the philosophers,

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they were the religious leaders.

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The mediators. They were quite wealthy people, and they were the ones who basically,

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they had the power to put curses on people if they were not part of the festival rules.

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They could make you— Or throughout the whole year. I mean, really, they had the power.

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They could make you a social outcast if you were not involved in their particular

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philosophies, trends, religions, sacrifices.

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They were involved, too, at times with human sacrifice.

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But they were people that had power.

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Yeah, given to them. Power over the people. Yeah, and so the people were afraid

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of them. And so at this time of the year now, we're coming into the place of it's—.

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Time to know what you have in store for the winter. Do you have enough potatoes?

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Do you have enough squash and turnips?

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And because the Druids were basically not farmers and not peasants,

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they didn't feel they could, you know, lower themselves to that.

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They didn't have to pay taxes. They didn't have a store.

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Yeah. They didn't have to be in the military.

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They were the religious elite of the day. And so they were honored and they also were lazy.

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And so the peasants worked to get their crops gathered about this time of the

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year. And so the Druids are looking around and their shells are pretty much bare.

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So I think one of the main activities of the Druids was to put a threat or intimidate

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the peasants by threatening to put curses on them, tricks on them,

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if they didn't treat them with abundant sharing of their vegetables.

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So this was really a kind of an in-gathering through this intimidation the Druids would.

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Get trick or treat is actually where that got started.

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You know, either you treat me or I'm going to put a curse on you is basically what they're saying.

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Another part of this, too, is that the people would set out food and stuff outside

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the villages, outside their little farms or garden plots, supposedly to pacify the spirit. Yeah.

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And you see that in many countries of the world today.

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You see it in India where people set out food. Yeah, a lot of superstitions. For their gods. Yeah.

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It's really a confusion and foolishness on how we deal with the dead.

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And because people are kind of, there's a lot of mystery around where do they

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go and what happens to the dead and where are my dead relatives?

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Satan uses all of that curiosity and concern to bring them to places of doing

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things that are contrary to what God says.

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And the Druids taught and believed that if once a person dies,

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their soul goes to another person.

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To another person? Yeah. Their soul goes from one body, one person to another.

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Well, that's kind of actually partially true because a lot of times when people

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die, the spirit or the demons actually— Familiar spirit.

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The familiar spirits of their dead relatives will try to find someone else to

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go into that is most familiar or similar to the one or closest to the one who

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passed away, someone who's still alive.

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And so a lot of times you'll notice if you ask the question,

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when did this thing get worse, whatever this thing is that you're working to get rid of?

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It usually goes back to a place where there was a death in the family,

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a death of a near-loved one, and that spirit is trying to get into you and take up residence in you.

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And you say, well, wow, that's pretty crazy, and that can't happen because I'm a believer.

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Well, anything can happen. Just because you're a believer doesn't make you immune

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to what Satan is doing, especially if you're ignorant of it.

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So that's why God gave us power to resist the devil.

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But anyway, back to the Catholics. Back in those days, the Catholics were incorporating

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some of their festivals into kind of merging these together,

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the Halloween with the All Saints, All Souls Day, November 1st.

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And that was kind of their way of honoring the dead, honoring the dead saints

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and their spirits and their memories and things.

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And so, yeah, so there was a lot of this pagan incorporation with the activities,

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the costumes, even bobbing for apples. All these things go back—that was a way

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of divination back in the day—.

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To incorporate fear and promote paganism. Paganism is not a new thing. It's a very old thing.

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And there's nothing, you know, it's really an outburst of what God forbade,

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forbid the people to do in the books of Leviticus, for example, and Deuteronomy.

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And what had happened is in the beginning when God said, thou shalt have no other gods before me,

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Satan kept creeping in with his fear and superstitions and tricks and promotions

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and seductions to draw the people away from God and from worshiping the one true God.

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And so all of the nations, except for Israel at that time that was following

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Abraham and Moses, that the people were brought back constantly into this place

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of superstition and fear.

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Idolatry, paganism, placating the demons, making deals with the devil.

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And so, yeah, go ahead, Jerry.

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Yeah, in Deuteronomy 18, beginning with verse 9, God says to the people of Israel,

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when you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you,

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you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.

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An abomination is something very detestable to God. Mm-hmm.

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There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter

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pass through the fire, that would be human sacrifices, or one who practices

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witchcraft or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer.

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We could say a sorcerer now is part of the sorcery thing is being a drug dealer.

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But anyway. It's just true.

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Or one who conjures spells or a medium or a spiritist or one who calls up the

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dead. Those would be like psychics and things like that.

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For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord.

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And because of these abominations, the Lord your God drives them out from before you.

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You shall be blameless before the Lord your God for these nations which you will dispossess.

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Listen to soothsayers and diviners.

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But as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed you for such.

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Right. So it's idolatry. It's placating, conversing with, seeking the counsel

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of the devil and his demons.

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And this is idolatry. It's also adultery because your loyalties towards the

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Lord God are being compromised.

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But anyway, so in the past, it was about participating,

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creating this as a day of celebration to celebrate fear and horror and human

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death and famine and darkness and human sacrifices and things made offered to demons.

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We do not understand how important this day is to Satan.

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This is a day of in-gathering for him. People who participate naively in all,

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whatever you do to participate in anything is in agreement with that thing.

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Whether you're dressing up in costumes, going trick-or-treating,

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having a Halloween party,

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you know, decorating your house with these kinds of things or your lawn,

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all of these things are acts of agreement with the spirits behind this,

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which are death and darkness and demons.

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Let's look at some of the specifics here.

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What about the origin of the jack-o'-lantern, what we call the jack-o'-lantern?

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In Ireland, Scotland, there was a tradition of a man named Stingy Jack.

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All right. He played, he's a guy who supposedly played tricks on the devil, and when he died, he,

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He was not led into heaven. He was not into hell, but he was destined to kind of roam the earth.

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And all the devil gave him was a coal, just a piece of coal.

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And apparently what supposedly this guy did is he lit the coal,

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and he made kind of a lantern out of a turnip, carved out a turnip,

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and put that coal in there.

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And he is that burning coal.

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And he has, the tradition is that he has roamed the earth ever since.

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Well, the only thing that roams the earth, the only thing that ever roams the

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earth and doesn't go heaven or hell to heaven or hell are the demonic spirits.

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And so they have all kinds of fables, fantasies, and fairy tales that they hook

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people in. How could you ever believe this?

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How could you even ascribe to this foolishness and with a sound of mind?

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It's myth and fable. And mystery.

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And mystery and it's all superstition is a big word superstition and it's all

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based on fear and death absolutely contact with demons yeah and and so and they

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they made what we later on they made,

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You know, pumpkins were more readily available than turnips,

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so they made these gross faces on these pumpkins, supposedly to scare off those spirits.

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And I think what they— Supposedly to scare off Stingy Jack and whatever— Demons. Spirits.

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Demons were roaming around. You know, it's all based on fear and fear and more fear.

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And, you know, with the massive effort of the enemy on the part of hell to really

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draw in the naive, the unsuspecting, and I call them the fringe believers,

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who join in these satanic festivals.

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Parties, dress up, under the guise of fun or fantasy or harmless activities.

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People, especially children, are being introduced to these demonic activities

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like it's great, it's full of fun and sweet treats.

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And so what Satan is really doing, he's seeing that dark, wicked,

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cold, terrifying experiences that the early peasants had in the Irish and Scottish communities.

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He's reintroducing that pagan ritual of fear and death, but he's guising it.

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Again, what she does, he's doing

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a makeover, you know, and we dress up our pets in Halloween costumes.

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I guess I hear there's $700 million worth of money.

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Of costumes purchased for pets. This year. Yeah, it was, I don't know,

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this year or last year. Yeah, well, this is what.

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$700 million. On pet costumes for Halloween. So it's a moneymaker as well.

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And another thing, too, is you just see houses decorated.

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You never used to see houses decorated for Halloween.

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But there's, you go by, you know, we used to go look at the Christmas lights,

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when I was a kid in different towns looking.

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And now you can go see the Halloween lights, the oranges and whatever.

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But people don't realize this now eat naive, and it is not harmless.

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It is not harmless. It is very dangerous because when you're entering into this

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kind of an agreement, you're opening up your family, the doors of your home,

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your finances, your life, your health.

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You're opening up everything to the dark side. And you know what?

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A lot of people just don't get it because they think, well, it is calling on evil spirits.

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In the early days, it was for fertility and fruitfulness of harvest and protection.

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And they were making deals with the devil. And today, we are also continuing

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to make deals with the devil.

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Every time you listen to fear or submit to fear or, oh, no, or what if,

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and it's up to me, and that's the basic line under witchcraft,

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it's up to me, I got to do it myself.

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So anytime you submit to those ideas which come through your mind put there

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by the enemy who tempts you, you are entering into a temptation to make a deal

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to look to the devil for help, protection, and use his resources properly.

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You know, you can't make a deal with the devil ever and win.

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You cannot because he's treacherous, deceptive, and he's a liar.

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And people just don't get the danger of all of these things.

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Oh, you make too much of the devil. Oh, he's nothing.

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And he makes himself look fun, fantastic, intriguing, alluring,

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because he's working with our enchantments.

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We've already been, for the most part, enchanted by the God of this world and are sleeping.

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And so this is just another way he pulls us into more agreement with him, unsuspectingly.

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Again, looking at some of the

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roots, there's different pagan roots for the trick-or-treating practice.

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There was a group called the Mummers. It was called Mumming, M-U-M-M-I-N-G.

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And what would happen right before the day of Samhain, back in the day,

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people would come dress up in costumes and go door to door and sing songs to the dead.

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So actually what they're doing is singing to a familiar spirit.

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Calling the dead. Singing, yeah, singing to the demons.

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And then they say, okay, we'll come to your house with a costume.

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We'll sing to the dead. you're honoring your dead relatives.

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And we're going to sing songs.

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And then they would play pranks on them if they didn't get the food.

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Or the treat. Or the treat. And then they would blame the pranks and the tricks on the fairies.

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Now fairies, how much? Fairy gardens and fairy tales. How much have we got? We got fairy tales.

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Fairies were demon spirits that they, you know. They took a different form.

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They worshipped a different form.

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Gremlins, leprechauns, all of these things, gargoyles.

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They're all of the same class. They're all of the dark side.

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And another thing, too, is what they would do is they would have dumb suppers.

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Where nobody's, people would eat their meal in silence in order to honor the dead.

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They were focusing on the dead spirits.

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So basically, they're opening themselves up to familiar spirits.

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Inviting, yeah. They're inviting familiar spirits. To come into their.

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To come into their lives, into their families. Well, this, and you know what?

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Satan is using grief and sorrow and loss.

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You love your loved ones. You want to see what they're doing, where they're at.

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You know, the Bible says, it is appointed to man once to die and then the judgment

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and absent from the body present with the Lord.

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The true body, soul, and spirit of your loved one is if they've loved the Lord,

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they're with the Lord, and they're not going to come back here.

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And these ghosts that we try to protect ourselves from are the apparitions of demon spirits.

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When Jesus was walking on the water, for example, the disciples,

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they knew about all this stuff. They say, it's a ghost. And Jesus said,

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no, it's not a ghost, it's me.

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And so they had these kinds of thoughts and fears as well. So this is a human fear.

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Where did my people go? And how do I honor them? And how do I reconnect with

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them? And will I ever see them again?

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The only way you're going to

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see them again is to live for God and get to heaven and meet them there.

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So anyway, and I think, too, the trick-or-treating thing, not only the mummers,

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but also the people who, like I said earlier, the peasants, I should say,

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which were pagans as well and fearful.

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Were forced to give up their vegetables to the druids, or the druids would put

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curses on them. So it's trick or treat.

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You give me the treat, or I'll put this curse on you.

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And people don't, these are the transactions we're making with the devil all the time.

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Some of them are really obvious, and some are very subtle. But whenever you

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listen to the liar, you're making a deal, you're using his solutions to the

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problem, and you're using his power to solve the problem, you are entering into,

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you know, coming under his control.

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Because if you buy your electricity from that power company,

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you're going to have to pay the bill to that power company, and that would be the devil.

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So Halloween is just another part of Satan's effort to saturate society with his lies.

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And you just think of, not to get off on a major tangent here or anything,

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but you think of children's books.

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Sometime, I don't know if you've been to an elementary school book fair lately.

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But probably 80% of it is... Spells, superstition, witchcraft.

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Well, you know, even talking about books, how about the children's fairy tales,

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you know, Grimm's fairy tales.

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Grimm's fairy tales. How about Mother Goose? How about Aesop's Fables?

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They're all, if you read them, if you read those to your children. How about Disney?

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Yeah. They've been saturating with witchcraft and spells for...

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know.

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And so if you're exposing your children to these things, how are you raising

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them up in the fear and admonition of the Lord when you expose them to all these things?

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And not show them that this is contrary to God? Okay, I'm going to throw you

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a very practical question here. Okay. All right?

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So, here you have, you know, Krishna,

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kids, Christian families, and the kids are thinking, okay, we're not going to

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participate in Halloween, but all these kids are going trick-or-treat and they're

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getting candy and they're having fun and they're having parties and everything like that.

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What do we get to do? You know what I'm saying?

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So what has happened with a lot of churches, they have, for example,

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Easter egg hunts, which is a pagan festival.

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We're celebrating that in many, many churches. What does that have to do with

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the resurrection of Jesus Christ? And also, you know, Halloween costumes.

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Well, it's dressed up in Bible character costumes.

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Or saints. I'm as Elijah or, you know, Mary, the mother of Jesus or something.

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How do we, what's a good way to deal with this? Because the pressure's on.

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You know, the little kids think, oh, they're in, you know, a Christian kid,

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they're in a public school and all the Halloween stuff going on.

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Their friends are going out trick-or-treating. Yeah, it's very much celebrated.

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It's not forbidden like Christmases or Christ— Talk about that.

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How should parents handle that? Well, there's no ban on Merry Christmas.

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I mean, there is a ban on Merry Christmas, but there's no ban on Happy Halloween.

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How should we deal with it? Well, I think sit down and read some of the Bible

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to the children and say, this is what God says and this is what happens.

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As a matter of fact, you know, and even these substituting harvest festivals,

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you can have a Thanksgiving festival. I think that's a good idea.

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It's called Thanksgiving. And you can praise God for the abundant harvest,

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for His faithfulness throughout the year.

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You can teach them how to rejoice in the Lord. But in Leviticus,

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we know there's some scary scriptures in there that talk about things that God

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hates that are abundant. Why does He hate them?

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Is He a killjoy? No, because these are so dangerous for His children.

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He says, you shall not, in Leviticus 19, 26, starting there,

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you shall not eat anything with blood, nor shall you practice divination or sussing.

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Even eating things, blood is sacred.

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The life of the flesh is in the blood. That's why God did not allow them to

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eat the blood of the meat, even, that they were using for food.

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And he says in chapter 20, verse 6, he says of Leviticus, he says,

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And the person who turns after mediums or goes in or looks towards or consults,

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turns after mediums and familiar spirits to prostitute himself with them,

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I will set my face against that person and cut him off from his people.

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Sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I, the Lord,

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get your God, am holy. So all of this stuff is unholy and prostitute.

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God sees it as prostitution.

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He sees it as betrayal. He sees it as going after another woman, so to speak.

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And that other woman is the powers offered by Satan to circumvent seeking God and holiness.

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He's giving us a shortcut to getting our needs met, which he always does,

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and then he catches us in the end.

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He says in verse 26, You shall be holy to me, for I, the Lord,

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am holy, and I have separated you from the peoples, or you could say from the pagans,

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that you should be mine. A man or a woman who is a medium, or that means a go-between

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between the dead and the living, a spiritist or a psychic or a fortune teller,

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all who have or who has a familiar spirit or who has familiar spirits shall

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surely be put to death, and they shall stone them with stones,

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their blood shall be upon them. In other words, you can kill them without being guilty.

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So God was wanting to rid the land of, and he had to be aware that his people

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were the only people who did not practice all of these occultic traditions.

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And all the occult, which means hidden knowledge, which of course is coming

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from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

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all occultic practices are hidden, and they draw people in through need,

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through curiosity, through desiring an answer to some issue or some problem.

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And so there's the prostitution, the pollution of this nation,

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of this earth is beyond calculating.

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We cannot be holy for I'm holy. Where's holiness?

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Where's holiness? We talk about

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making ourselves great again and all these things and draining the swamp.

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But the swamp is something that is so incredibly deep, it goes back to Lucifer.

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And Lucifer is still the head honcho in the swamp.

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And the only way the swamp is going to be drained is if the people of God will

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truly follow the Lord God and become holy and disdain and hold back and cleanse themselves.

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Speaking of cleansing, there's a lot of things in our houses,

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in our lives that we wear,

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that we participate in, that we put on our shelves, that we don't understand

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are also accursed objects that participate in and allow the enemy access into our lives.

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So that's why we need not only to not celebrate some of these horrible, vile things.

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Unholy days, but we also need to cleanse our houses from things that will attract,

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say, and I call them landing strips for the devil.

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You bring in these accursed objects. You don't know they're accursed,

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and the enemy, the demon, comes in and says, oh, there's something I can sit on.

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So he sits on it for a while and waits until he can set up calamity or chaos

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or conflict in your living room or cause a fight or cause the house to burn

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down or whatever he wants to do.

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So, you know, be aware that there

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is a battle between the clean and the unclean, the holy and the unholy.

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And I just want to kind of share this very powerful story in 2 Kings chapter

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23, where a young king named Josiah,

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who had come from a long line of very idolatrous, wicked kings, he was the grandson,

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the great-grandson of some of the most vile and bloody kings who practiced all

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of the things against God that they weren't supposed to.

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But when he came to power, he was young, but in his 18th year,

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so he's probably in his, I don't know, maybe mid-20s, early 30s,

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I suppose, when he got to this place, maybe mid-30s.

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They found the book of the law hidden in the temple.

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One of the priests brought it to him and showed it to him, and he was so shocked

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with what had happened and how they had degenerated.

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He tore his garments, and God said, I see that. You're upset with this, and that made God...

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So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord to follow

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the Lord and keep his commandments and testimonies.

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This is 2 Kings 23.3.

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And then we go on into hearing what he did.

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So he told the people, he says, Bring out of the temple of the Lord all the

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articles that were made for Baal, or Baal, for Ashtaroth,

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and for all the hosts of heaven, and burn them outside Jerusalem in the fields,

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and carry their ashes to Bethel.

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They removed the idolatrous priests, who the other kings had put in ordained,

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who burned incense on the high places, which were always idolatrous places,

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in the cities around Jerusalem to burn incense to Baal, to the sun,

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the moon, the constellations, and the hosts of heaven.

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He brought out the wooden images from the house of the Lord right there,

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Where the Ark of the Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant was,

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they have wood. Right there in church.

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Right. They have wood. They have this wooden image. They have,

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they burned incense to this thing. He ground up those ashes.

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And the women, he tore down the ritual booths where perverted persons were in

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the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving tapestries for the wooden idols.

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And he brought, this is how involved, it's right in the temple.

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These people have their booths.

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They're weaving vile things to the devil.

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And he defiled the high places where the priests had burned the incense.

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He broke down the high places and he cleansed.

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And there was a place called the Valley of Hinnom where they would offer their children.

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The degeneration had happened to the point where the children of Israel,

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their kids, were offering their sons for the salvation of their souls.

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They were burning them, killing them to make restitution or make a petition

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for the sin of their souls.

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Can you believe how vile, perverted, perverted means twisted,

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this had degenerated to in that the people of God are doing this? And you know what?

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Right after him, right after Josiah, God says, I'll keep it okay as long as

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you're alive, but when after you are dead, I'm going to pull down this thing.

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And exactly that happened after Josiah died. His sons, a couple of them tried

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to take over and reign. One was taken off into captivity in Babylon.

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The other one was killed. And the Babylonians came after them.

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And, you know, that's where they got locked up in the captivity.

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And some of them, you know, I mean, they never got back home.

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Well, yeah, it was a thorough reformation. Well, God had to allow the enemy

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to take them away because they had agreed with him.

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Right, but what Josiah was doing, he was seeing all these things.

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Pagan practices, and he was playing hardball with it. He said,

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you know, this has got to go.

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This has got to go. And the thing is, too, we talk about draining the swamp.

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Marjorie, the swamp is inside us. That's true enough. The swamp is within us.

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And so all of this, this— That's what needs to be drained by the grace and power of Jesus. Yeah.

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This Josiah event, which is in 2 Kings 23.

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Happened before or in congruent activity with the pagans who were over in the

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other parts of the world didn't have the gospel, didn't have the commandments,

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didn't have the revelation of God, were practicing all this witchcraft and Halloween things.

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And so, really, people, I'm serious. For the sake of your safety,

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your own eternal salvation, your children, your reform, repent,

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confess the sin as I have been sucked into the lies of the enemy,

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take and cleanse your house, Cleanse your mind.

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Do not, for the sake of your own soul, for the sake of your children,

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for the sake of your death.

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You know, wonder why your children are rebellious and go do drugs and create crazy things.

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Because we have taught them from little on, reading those fairy tales,

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those horrible stories, not teaching them faith and love in Jesus,

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but all this other wicked stuff.

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That's why we have the enemy carrying them away, breaking our lives, breaking our health.

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And yet, we don't go to the root of it. the root of it is where we came into

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an agreement with something that looks so fun and so innocent.

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Not saying Halloween is the only way we make an agreement with the devil,

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but it is one pretty obvious way.

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Ephesians 5, verse 8, Paul is writing to believers in the city of Ephesus,

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which was a strongly pagan community.

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He says, For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.

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Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness,

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righteousness, and truth, finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

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That means finding out what is unacceptable to the Lord as well.

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And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

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King James says, Reprove them, for it is shameful even to speak of those things

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which are done by them in secret.

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Right. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light,

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for whatever makes manifest is light.

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Therefore, he says, awake you who sleep, arise from the dead,

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and Christ will give you life. So if you have these problems going on in your

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life, in your health, your children. They're rebellious.

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Well, rebellion is one of the characteristics of witchcraft.

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Rebelling against God. So all of these things have a root.

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And if you're serious about following God and cleansing your lives,

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this might be a very first place to start.

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One place we see this happening is in Acts chapter 19, beginning with verse

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18, and many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds.

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And many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned

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them in the sight of all, and they counted up the value of them,

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and it totaled 50,000 pieces of silver.

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So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.

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It's estimated that people in the United States this year will spend $13.1 billion on Halloween.

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Forgive us, Lord God, for these abominations. And so it's time.

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Father, forgive us. Start with

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us. Yes, yes, cleanse us. To make that reference. Holy Spirit, point out.

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Point out. Cleanse our lives. Yes. Cleanse our hearts. Cleanse our homes.

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Point out to us, Lord God, where we need to cleanse our houses,

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our hearts, our lives, and cut off these activities that have allowed Satan

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such free access into every part of us, Lord God.

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Forgive us, Lord. And we also forgive the people, the fringe believers who don't

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know, haven't been taught, whatever, mistaught.

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We forgive them for inviting these demon spirits into their homes,

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into their lives, into their children, into their families, into their hearts and bodies.

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We forgive them, Father. We forgive this nation for following demons and for

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rejecting the counsel of the one true God.

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We forgive them, Lord, and we ask now that you, through this repentance and

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confession, that you would have mercy upon us before we go into captivity.

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That you would cleanse us, Lord God, especially individuals who are kind of

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on the fringe, that you would reveal yourself to them, that you are a God of

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goodness and righteousness, peace, truth, and love.

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And this is not something that is promoted at all by your holiness.

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Forgive us, Lord God, and cause us to change, turn around, repent,

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and come back to you, Father God, before it is too late, like Josiah did. And Lord, help us.

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This is so bad. This is so evil. If you don't help us see it,

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Lord God, we will be swallowed up by this vile, vile work of darkness, Father.

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Forgive our people who've gone before us, who've practiced also these Halloween

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traditions and participate in these things. Forgive us, Lord God.

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Cleanse us, Lord, and cause these things to deceive them for what they really

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are, vile abominations to the holiness of God. Thank you, Lord.

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Amen. Amen. Well, we have a couple of things we want to offer you today in terms

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of books, spiritual warfare, and how deliverance can change your life. Yeah.

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It's a very good expose on demons, darkness, territorial spirits, deliverance.

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And even, you know, wholehearted believers need deliverance.

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Absolutely. Sometimes we think deliverance is for those that have just given

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themselves over to every form of wickedness possible, and they need to get the

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demons out. Well, it's the same thing.

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Deliverance is for everybody. Even Paul.

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Paul said, who will deliver me? Paul said he needed deliverance.

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So if Paul needed deliverance and he got deliverance through Jesus Christ,

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who are we to say anything less?

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Right, so we encourage you, go to either liferecovery.com or you can get the books on Amazon.

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So be blessed and be safe in Jesus and know that you are loved by him. Amen.