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The Halloween Paradox Nobody Wants to Talk About · Heaven & Healing Podcast

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  any other day of the year. Hey little
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  Jimmy, don't get candy from a stranger
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  unless he's wearing a goblin mask on his
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  porch on October 31st. Then go get all
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  of the candy. Christians are so
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  vehematly against darkness. [music] We
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  hate the devil. We hate witchcraft until
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  this season comes around, until this
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  framework [music] comes around, and then
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  suddenly it's all fun and games and
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  entertainment and trunk or treat and oh,
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  just a night of candy and fun. This
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  [music] is a conversation about
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  agreements and influence. The devil does
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  not care about your intentions. He cares
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  about your agreement. I'm not trying to
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  tell you how to be a parent, [music]
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  but as a parent to another, don't offer
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  them mixture. Don't tell them that we
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  hate darkness and wickedness and then
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  give them just a pass because it's
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  [music] one night a year. It's a
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  cultural custom. When you are
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  desensitized, you are easier to deceive.
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  [music] And when you are easier to
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  deceive, you are easier to control. Stop
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  using grace as a hall pass to flirt with
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  the darkness. It has nothing to do with
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  the blood of Jesus not being sufficient
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  and has everything to do with you
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  opening a door that he insists that you
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  keep shut.
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  From the bottom of my heart, friends, I
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  did not want to make this video. Okay? I
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  did not want to talk about Halloween. I
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  didn't want to say a word about this
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  holiday this year. I really truly
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  didn't. I was telling my husband even a
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  couple weeks ago that, hey, I'm not
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  going to make any Halloween content this
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  year because you know what? I am so sick
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  of people just arguing with me about it.
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  I'm sick of people defending it. I'm
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  sick of it just being the subject and
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  like the crux of everything that you see
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  on the internet this time of year,
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  especially amongst Christians, because
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  it just we always have this like us
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  versus them when really we're of the
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  same body. And so I just didn't want to
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  I didn't want to contribute, for lack of
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  a better word, to the division that you
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  inevitably see regarding this subject.
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  And you know, as as you can tell, I had
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  a change of heart because here we are,
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  another year, another Halloween video.
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  Let me tell you why.
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  It's because I was willing to have a
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  change of heart. Maybe you see where I'm
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  going with that. Okay? We all need to be
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  willing to have a change of heart.
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  It can't be about us. It can't be about
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  our desires. It can't be about what we
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  are comfortable with.
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  It has to be about the father's heart
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  and allowing the father's heart to
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  minister the things of our heart to
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  transform us.
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  So yes, I had a change of heart because
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  I felt the father's heart regarding this
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  subject
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  especially this year. Like there was
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  something there's just there's something
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  in the atmosphere where I don't know if
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  you've noticed but the whole
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  climate of Halloween it seems to begin
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  earlier and earlier and earlier every
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  year like this year I'm seeing stuff in
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  July about it. People celebrating summer
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  ween and stuff like that. And
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  you know, as I began to press in more
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  with my with my uh secret time with the
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  Lord, I felt him tell me just just so
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  poignantly that
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  you need to tell my people that my heart
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  is broken.
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  You need to tell my people that my
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  spirit is grieved over their
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  participation
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  in this holiday.
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  because in their participation
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  in following after the pursuits of their
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  own heart
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  they have forgotten mine and they have
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  abandoned their first love.
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  He is no longer on the throne when we
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  are unwilling to submit our desires and
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  our preferences and our comfortability
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  and the things that we enjoy at his feet
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  and say, "Hey Lord, what do you think
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  about this?"
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  And in doing so, that creates idolatry.
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  We always think of idolatry as the
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  golden calf. It's not. Idolatry is
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  anything that has come in place
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  of the Lord because it becomes an
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  inverted form of worship.
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  And so, you know,
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  I didn't want to talk about it, but
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  he wants us to look at it. He wants us
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  to look at it. And as far as not wanting
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  division goes, well, he brought forth to
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  mind the scripture where Jesus says,
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  Jesus says himself, I have not come for
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  peace on earth. I've come to bring a a
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  sword.
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  He has come to divide in many ways. Why?
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  Because he is dogmatic.
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  He's not neutral.
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  He's truth. He is truth by name and by
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  function. And so anything that is
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  antithetical to truth, capital T truth,
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  there will naturally be a dividing line
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  because anything that's not on the side
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  of truth of him of the kingdom of light
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  is then by process of elimination on the
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  other side of it.
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  And so there is a necessary division
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  that is brought forth
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  by truth.
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  And so when we see this this discord in
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  the body, what we're seeing is the
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  separation of the wheats and the tears.
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  And I'm not saying anyone that
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  celebrates Halloween is losing their
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  sal. That's not what I'm saying. Don't
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  hear that.
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  But I am saying that it is revealing
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  something about your heart
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  and it needs to be uprooted and burnt in
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  the fire and you need to get back to
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  your first love. Okay.
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  So, I've been seeing a lot of If you
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  can't tell already, I'm pretty anti-h
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  Halloween. So, there's that. Um, I would
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  really like if you would stick around
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  and let me explain why. Because look,
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  look, I'm not getting into the origins
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  this year. I'm not going to come at you
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  with all this information, information,
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  information, because information is only
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  going to take us so far. And I have been
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  there, done that. You you want to go
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  hear about the information, you want to
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  hear about all the origins and and and
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  this and that. Go watch my videos from
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  last year, go watch my video from the
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  previous year. Okay?
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  This is not about information so much as
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  it is about revelation
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  because information really gets into
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  your mind. But revelation is is what
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  gets into your heart. And what gets into
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  your heart is what transforms you. Okay?
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  So we want this I want this to get into
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  your heart today.
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  I want this to get into your heart
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  today.
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  Not because I'm trying to be Holy Spirit
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  for you, but because I love you. And by
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  the way, I was reading the book of
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  Philippians,
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  and it says that when we do things, we
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  should do them in love. So, it's it's
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  it's loving for me to share this
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  revelation and to tell you the truth and
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  to pray that you have the ears to hear
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  and the heart to receive it. So, I've
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  seen a lot this year about how well look
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  there it's like a trend that's going
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  around. It's viral right now on
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  Instagram particularly of people using
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  their children dressed up as XYZ. Like,
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  hey, I don't know who needs to hear
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  this, but Jesus knows the difference
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  between your kid dressing up as Sully
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  from Monsters Inc. Uh, however, you
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  know, like Monsters, Inc. is about um
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  soul harvesting, but that's neither here
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  nor there. Jesus knows the difference
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  between your kid dressed up as Sully.
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  Jesus knows the difference if your kids
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  dressed up as a hot dog and and you
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  practicing witchcraft kind of thing.
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  Okay?
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  And and when I see this, you know, not
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  not only is there of course the
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  undercurrent of pride with that sort of
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  trend,
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  but we're missing the point. We're
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  missing the point, my friends. You know
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  why? Because we make everything,
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  especially on the internet, we make
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  everything about Jesus knows my heart.
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  Jesus knows my heart. That's great. Of
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  course, he knows your heart. He is God.
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  That's not the question. The question
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  is, do you know his heart? Does his
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  heart know you?
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  Okay.
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  It's not about your intentions.
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  It's about what's in his heart.
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  It's about truth as the standard. So, of
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  course, Jesus knows the difference
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  between you practicing witchcraft in a
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  pentagram circle under the moonlight on
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  on a Thursday evening versus a kid
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  dressed up. It's not the point. He knows
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  the difference. The point is
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  you don't. [laughter]
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  Okay? You don't.
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  Because
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  so many Christians, so many well-meaning
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  Christians, by the way, and I want to
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  really, really make it a point to say
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  that you're well-meaning. You're
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  well-meaning. Well-meaning Christians do
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  not understand the power of agreement.
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  This is why we have to stay close to the
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  father's heart. Because keeping us on
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  that narrow road, we won't stray to the
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  left or to the right. We we won't step
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  into evil. We stay close to his heart.
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  We're not going to be in agreement with
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  anything else. Okay?
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  We don't understand the power of
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  agreement because we've made our
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  intentions the highest standard of
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  truth. And I say this all the time. I
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  say this all the time. The devil does
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  not care about your intentions.
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  He cares about your agreement. And
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  participation
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  in Halloween is agreement regardless
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  of your intentions. Okay?
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  And
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  so many of us simply do not understand
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  how deeply problematic that actually is
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  because
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  you have unfortunately fallen for the
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  trap. And the trap is desensitation.
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  Desensitation
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  is the murderer of discernment.
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  Desensitation
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  is the death of discernment.
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  And above all else, I truly believe this
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  revelation is the predominant issue with
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  Halloween.
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  And I feel like I'm snitching on the
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  devil right now because I'm giving away
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  his master plan. See, because everything
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  everything about Halloween is
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  orchestrated
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  very cleverly to desensitize you to the
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  kingdom of darkness so that it's not
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  really a big deal.
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  Desensitize you. In fact, even to the
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  point that you begin to celebrate it and
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  not only celebrate it, but that you seek
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  it. You crave it.
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  Right?
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  Summerween. Now we're celebrating
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  Halloween in July. Okay. You crave it.
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  You desire it. And you even fool
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  yourself into believing that you are
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  able to redefine it all together because
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  you dress up as something love and
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  light. Let me tell you something, my
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  friends. Let me tell you something about
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  love and light.
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  That's exactly what I did when I was in
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  the new age. Okay? I did the same thing.
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  I used to believe that everything that I
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  was doing in the occult with my crystal
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  healing and my moon water and my Reiki
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  sessions and my yoga flows and my angel
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  cards and my spirit guides and my
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  astrology and all the things. The
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  spiritual buffet that I was consuming
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  for a decade, I would have never called
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  it evil in a million years. I would have
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  never said that anything that I was
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  partaking in was glorifying the devil.
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  Matter of fact, I was pretty averse, or
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  so I thought, to the darkness.
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  I would have never thought that I was
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  far from God. I thought I was an
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  expression of God manifesting itself
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  through the work that I was doing. Why?
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  Because I was just on a journey of
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  self-healing.
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  I wanted to help people,
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  okay? Wasn't like overtly evil, you
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  know?
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  I wasn't casting spells.
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  I wasn't doing black magic. I didn't
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  have pentagrams. I didn't have black
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  candles. I didn't have potions. I didn't
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  have any of that stuff. So, the thing
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  is, I wouldn't have even called myself a
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  witch at the time, despite the fact that
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  I was quite literally practicing
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  witchcraft. Okay?
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  But the thing is
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  I was desensitized.
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  So I was practicing a form of
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  desensitized witchcraft, which is
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  exactly what new age is. All right?
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  Desensitized witchcraft. all the
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  culturally acceptable stuff that we
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  think is just like cute and innocuous or
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  whatever, like yoga and the zodiac wheel
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  and the crystal grids and the long
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  island medium and the the whole nine.
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  Like, no, it's just as wicked as the
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  pentagram surrounded by black candles.
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  The difference is, you know what? I
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  would go as far as to say it's actually
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  more deceptive.
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  It's more deceptive
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  than the overtly evil stuff
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  because it's the covertly evil stuff
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  that really gets you. Take 2 Corinthians
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  11:14. I always say this is the thesis
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  of new age. Satan masquerades as an
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  angel of light. You see, that's why the
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  covert darkness
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  is worse
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  because that deception
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  is what desensitizes you to what overt
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  darkness actually is.
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  And you see, deception is the devil's
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  mo. More specifically,
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  according to scripture,
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  deception masquerading as purity and
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  innocence and fun and entertainment and
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  healing and oh, it's not really a big
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  deal. Oh, sister, it's just a night of
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  dressing up and having fun and being in
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  the community.
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  That's the form of deception that the
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  devil loves to take on.
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  So, it really is that serious, you guys.
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  It really is that serious.
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  I'm not a stick in the mud. I just hate
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  the freaking devil. Okay? I hate the
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  freaking devil. I'm sick of him
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  deceiving people. I'm sick of him
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  deceiving people like I used to be in
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  the new age. I'm sick of him deceiving
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  my brothers and sisters in the faith
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  by desensitizing them to the point that
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  they are just openly and willingly
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  handing over
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  their influence to him and giving him
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  the power.
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  They're like, "Oh, you give the devil
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  way too much power." Like, no, my
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  friends, your desensitation is giving
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  the devil power. All right? And I hate
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  that for you. Matter of fact, I hate it
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  for you. I hate it for you because I
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  actually think very highly of you. I
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  think you are
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  much better than the demonic realm. And
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  so I would prefer that you have nothing
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  to do with it.
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  So you see this deception through
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  desensitation, it is the playbook of the
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  enemy because when you are desensitized,
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  you are easier to deceive. And when you
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  are easier to deceive, you are easier to
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  control, right?
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  You lose the ability to filter through
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  vigilance when you're desensitized.
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  And I mean, doesn't that sound exactly
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  like the devil? Doesn't it sound exactly
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  like the devil to neuter your spiritual
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  sensitivity so that you become passive
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  in the face of darkness? and even
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  further than passive that you actually
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  get to a point where you begin defending
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  the darkness.
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  Doesn't that sound just like the devil?
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  Because desensitation is the death of
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  discernment. You see, being desensitized
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  literally means that you are no longer
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  sensitive. And so in the context of a
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  born again believer, what would you no
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  longer be sensitive to?
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  The Holy Spirit.
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  Because that's the thing, right? The
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  closer you are to him, the closer you
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  are to Holy Spirit, the more sensitive
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  you become to the things of darkness
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  because you are marinated in the light.
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  So you don't want anything to do with
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  it.
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  Not because you're afraid of it, but
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  because you are abored by it. You are
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  intolerant of it. You want nothing to do
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  with it because you want everything to
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  do with him. Okay? My pastor said it
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  well this past weekend at church. He
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  said this. He said, "If you don't have a
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  sensitivity to the demonic aggression
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  this time of year, then you're probably
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  not as close to the Lord as you need to
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  be."
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  And I think we really need to let that
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  sink in for a moment. Okay? Again, this
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  is not a question of your salvation. I'm
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  not saying that you're going to hell if
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  you participate in Halloween, but I am
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  saying that you're not really taking the
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  responsibility
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  that you have as an ambassador of the
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  kingdom to steward the power of the
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  kingdom of God on earth as it is in
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  heaven if you participate in Halloween
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  because you're desensitized and you're
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  not sensitive to the things of God.
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  You're not sensitive to the voice of
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  Holy Spirit.
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  So you justify the works of darkness.
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  So I'm not saying you're going to hell,
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  but I am saying that there is a
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  significant possibility that you're
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  opening yourself up to demonic influence
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  by participating in Halloween even as a
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  Christian. Because Christians can't have
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  demons. Now, if you don't think
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  Christians can have demons, then you're
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  probably someone that celebrates
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  Halloween. And um going back to the
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  whole topic of deception,
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  I'll let that fill its own blank. But um
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  you know, the same way we can have
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  cancer, the same way we can have sin,
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  the same way we can have trauma, we can
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  have demons, guys. We do not have
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  glorified bodies yet. They are still
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  susceptible to the nature and depravity
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  of the fallen world, which just so
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  happens to include
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  those annoying annoying demons.
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  And the thing about that is, look, those
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  of us, those of us that are casting
• 21:27
  demons out of people, we're not
• 21:29
  participating in Halloween.
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  Maybe that should tell you something.
• 21:35
  Okay?
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  And I know we want to go back to this
• 21:40
  whole thing again of like you give the
• 21:42
  you give the devil too much power.
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  May I present you the scripture.
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  Get the log out of your own eye. Okay.
• 21:55
  To remove the speck from someone else's
• 21:57
  before you remove the speck from someone
• 21:58
  else's. And let me present you to the
• 22:00
  possibility
• 22:02
  that you give yourself too much power.
• 22:06
  You think I give the devil too much
• 22:07
  power for talking about Halloween?
• 22:11
  What if you give yourself too much power
• 22:15
  by justifying it?
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  Now understand that when I say that that
• 22:21
  that has nothing to do with undermining
• 22:23
  the authority that we have in Christ,
• 22:25
  right? No, this is about our intention.
• 22:29
  This is about our intention
• 22:31
  creating the standard of what that
• 22:34
  authority actually means instead of
• 22:37
  letting him and his capital T truth name
• 22:41
  and function be the standard for what
• 22:43
  that authority actually is. Because the
• 22:45
  wicked irony here, you see, is that your
• 22:48
  desensitation is indeed what gives the
• 22:51
  devil all of his power.
• 22:55
  Your desensitation is what gives the
• 22:57
  devil too much power.
• 22:59
  because you're advocating for him and
• 23:00
  you don't even realize it
• 23:03
  because you've lost the sensitivity of
• 23:04
  the Holy Spirit.
• 23:07
  Because I don't know how many of you
• 23:08
  know this, but the Bible does say you
• 23:09
  can grieve the Holy Spirit. You can
• 23:12
  quench the Holy Spirit. Think about what
• 23:15
  the word quench means.
• 23:17
  Dry up. Dry up. Jesus is the living
• 23:22
  water. So if we are taking him in, if we
• 23:25
  are consuming him,
• 23:29
  we should be way too soaked in the
• 23:34
  living water to quench the Holy Spirit.
• 23:39
  We should be so oily
• 23:43
  [snorts] that the devil's like trying to
• 23:45
  grab at us and we just slip out of his
• 23:46
  hands. Okay? So when you quench the Holy
• 23:51
  Spirit,
• 23:52
  it's because you're not getting the oil
• 23:56
  and you are not drinking from the living
• 23:58
  water. You're looking for you're looking
• 24:00
  for a drink in some other well over
• 24:01
  there. I'm not being mean, guys. I'm
• 24:04
  being real because I I love you. I care
• 24:06
  about you. I really really care about
• 24:08
  you. I care about you so much. I know
• 24:12
  what it's like to be on the other side
• 24:13
  of the desensitation and to be so
• 24:15
  wickedly deceived that you have you
• 24:18
  you're blind. That's deception, right?
• 24:20
  What other what what is deception other
• 24:22
  than blindness? You're blind.
• 24:25
  So, I'm trying right now, you know, I'm
• 24:28
  I'm spitting in the mud and I'm like I'm
• 24:30
  trying to like rub it in your eyes.
• 24:32
  Please see. Please see what I'm saying
• 24:34
  here. Please see what I'm saying here.
• 24:36
  Okay.
• 24:38
  You're advocating for the devil and you
• 24:40
  don't even realize it. Well, Angela,
• 24:42
  scripture says, "Greater is he that
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  lives in you than he that is in the
• 24:45
  world." And you are absolutely right.
• 24:47
  You are absolutely right.
• 24:50
  100%.
• 24:51
  But let's be mindful to not just slap a
• 24:55
  Bible verse over top of our
• 24:56
  desensitation and call it authority.
• 25:00
  Okay? This is the point.
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  The desensitation is the point. The
• 25:06
  desensitation is the revelation that I
• 25:08
  want to take root in your heart here
• 25:11
  because it's the desensitation where the
• 25:13
  discernment dies. And where the
• 25:14
  discernment dies, the deception comes.
• 25:18
  And where the deception comes, the
• 25:21
  agreements are made. And when the
• 25:24
  agreements are made, the influence
• 25:28
  ushers in.
• 25:30
  This is the point about Christians
• 25:33
  celebrating Halloween. Look, I don't
• 25:35
  care if you trace the origins of
• 25:38
  Halloween back to paganism, back to
• 25:41
  Catholicism. I don't care, my friends,
• 25:44
  because the fact is, you don't need a
• 25:47
  history lesson to recognize darkness
• 25:50
  when you see it. Okay? It doesn't matter
• 25:52
  if it's a Catholic thing. It doesn't
• 25:54
  matter if it's a pagan thing. At the end
• 25:57
  of the day, it is not a Jesus thing. And
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  I'm telling you, evil doesn't suddenly
• 26:03
  become harmless because you found a
• 26:06
  different origin story for it. All
• 26:08
  right?
• 26:09
  I don't care where it came from. I don't
• 26:11
  care where it came from. The origin
• 26:14
  stories are muddy. You can debate back
• 26:17
  and forth all day. All saints stay or
• 26:19
  saw win. I don't care and neither does
• 26:22
  God.
• 26:24
  All right?
• 26:26
  I care who and what it glorifies much
• 26:32
  more than I care about where it came
• 26:33
  from.
• 26:35
  And matter of fact, I care about what
• 26:38
  spirit it agrees with. I care about what
• 26:42
  spirit it feeds
• 26:44
  and what spirit it will quench.
• 26:48
  And Halloween
• 26:50
  does not agree with the spirit of God.
• 26:55
  Halloween does not agree with the spirit
• 26:59
  of God.
• 27:01
  Okay?
• 27:03
  Halloween quenches the Holy Spirit.
• 27:10
  I don't care if you're dressed up as a
• 27:11
  hot dog, guys.
• 27:14
  I don't care if you're dressed up as a
• 27:16
  hot dog. Like, look, dress up as a hot
• 27:18
  dog any other of the 364 days of the
• 27:23
  year.
• 27:24
  If it is that important to you to dress
• 27:27
  up as a hot dog,
• 27:29
  my husband's laughing at me over on the
• 27:31
  other side of the screen. If it's that
• 27:33
  important to you to dress up as a hot
• 27:35
  dog, to represent yourself as a hot dog,
• 27:39
  okay,
• 27:41
  do it another day. But no, it it has to
• 27:44
  be this day. Yes. Why? Why does it have
• 27:48
  to be this day? Because there is a
• 27:50
  context. Okay, I'm getting somewhere. I
• 27:53
  promise. It has to be this day that you
• 27:56
  dress up as a hot dog because there is a
• 27:58
  context.
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  There is a framework
• 28:03
  that you know you are entering into
• 28:08
  regardless of your innocent intentions
• 28:11
  to just dress up as something cute and
• 28:13
  fun and silly. The reason you won't
• 28:16
  dress up as that cute, fun, or silly
• 28:17
  thing any of the other 364 days of the
• 28:20
  year is because you know that you know
• 28:23
  that you know that there is a framework
• 28:26
  about Halloween that you want to step
• 28:29
  into and participate in and thus agree
• 28:33
  with. And by the way, yes and amen. This
• 28:36
  is the day that the Lord has made. Let
• 28:38
  us rejoice and be glad in it. I'm not
• 28:41
  saying this is the devil's day. That's
• 28:43
  an accusation that I get all the time.
• 28:47
  Since when does the devil own a day? He
• 28:49
  doesn't own a day, but he does have a
• 28:52
  monopoly on the kingdom of darkness.
• 28:54
  Okay?
• 28:56
  He doesn't own days. He doesn't own
• 28:58
  time. This is not a conversation of
• 29:00
  ownership, my friends. This is a
• 29:02
  conversation
• 29:04
  about agreement and influence.
• 29:09
  And there is a particular influence that
• 29:13
  he has on this day and it is because of
• 29:16
  the framework that has been established
• 29:19
  pertaining to the celebration that takes
• 29:22
  place on Halloween.
• 29:25
  So it's not like he owns the day, but
• 29:27
  it's definitely a day that is special to
• 29:30
  him, right? There's a reason why this is
• 29:33
  the most active day on the satanic
• 29:35
  calendar. It's kind of like a birthday,
• 29:38
  you know, like you don't own your
• 29:39
  birthday, right? You don't own your
• 29:42
  birthday, but you're definitely
• 29:44
  celebrated on your birthday.
• 29:48
  That's Halloween to the devil.
• 29:50
  He's celebrated.
• 29:52
  He's celebrated as we enter into the
• 29:55
  framework of his celebration.
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  I mean, we just got to be honest and
• 30:01
  call a spade a spade that this is a
• 30:03
  celebration of darkness regardless of
• 30:05
  your intentions and regardless of
• 30:07
  whether you try and put glitter on it or
• 30:09
  lipstick on it or a hot dog on it
• 30:11
  [laughter] or I'm so fixed on the hot
• 30:13
  dog thing or whatever it is. Okay? And
• 30:16
  it's just so sad because it's like, you
• 30:18
  know, for the most part, at least I'd
• 30:21
  like to believe that for the most part,
• 30:22
  Christians are so vehematly against
• 30:25
  darkness, right? like we hate the devil,
• 30:28
  we hate witchcraft. We know that ghosts
• 30:31
  are demons and and the whole nine until
• 30:35
  this season comes around, until this day
• 30:38
  comes around, until this framework comes
• 30:42
  around. And then suddenly it's all fun
• 30:45
  and games and entertainment and trunk or
• 30:48
  treat and oh, just a night of candy and
• 30:50
  fun and any other day of the year. Hey
• 30:53
  little Jimmy, don't get candy for a from
• 30:55
  a stranger unless he's wearing a goblin
• 30:58
  mask on his porch on October 31st. Then
• 31:01
  go get all of the candy.
• 31:04
  Hello. All right. I'm sorry, y'all. I'm
• 31:07
  sorry. There there is no verse in the
• 31:11
  Bible that says have nothing to do with
• 31:15
  the unfruitful works of darkness except
• 31:19
  except when it's a form of entertainment
• 31:22
  or cultural custom. That is not from the
• 31:25
  Bible. That is a verse from literally my
• 31:27
  flesh 316. Okay? that is not from God.
• 31:32
  Because I don't know about y'all, but my
• 31:34
  Bible says, matter of fact, you cannot
• 31:37
  drink from the cup of the Lord and from
• 31:41
  the cup of demons. Which is not to say
• 31:44
  that you can't have mixture like in the
• 31:46
  sense that you physically can't step
• 31:48
  into a demonic framework. No, what the
• 31:50
  scripture means by saying you can't is
• 31:53
  that you you cannot
• 31:58
  have both like hold both in your hands
• 32:02
  without grieving one
• 32:05
  and fulfilling the other.
• 32:08
  Again, you're either filled up with the
• 32:11
  living water and you're just you're
• 32:14
  soaking you're soaking in the living
• 32:17
  water, dripping in the living water, or
• 32:21
  you're drinking from an opposing well,
• 32:23
  in this case, the cup of demons. In this
• 32:25
  case, Halloween. Okay,
• 32:28
  you're drinking from the cup of demons,
• 32:30
  even if the cup has glitter on it. And
• 32:32
  you're like, "Well, I don't even I don't
• 32:33
  even like decorate demonically or
• 32:36
  whatever." No, it's again not this is
• 32:38
  not a matter of your intentions. This is
• 32:40
  a matter of your agreement and the
• 32:41
  framework and all of the things. So yes,
• 32:43
  you enter this framework through your
• 32:45
  participation regardless of your
• 32:46
  intention and that becomes agreement
• 32:48
  with said framework and then that
• 32:51
  agreement
• 32:53
  allows the influence of the spirits
• 32:54
  behind the framework which by the way in
• 32:57
  case anyone was confused in this case is
• 32:59
  witchcraft, death, murder, uh fear, like
• 33:03
  just to name a few of the most popular
• 33:06
  contenders of Halloween. Uh well, you
• 33:08
  know, let's go back to what they say.
• 33:10
  Well, Jesus knows the difference between
• 33:12
  me actually agreeing with those things
• 33:13
  and
• 33:16
  Jesus knows the difference between
• 33:18
  practicing witchcraft and agreeing with
• 33:21
  death and fear and murder and my kid
• 33:23
  dressing up as XYZ.
• 33:27
  Let me tell you something about costumes
• 33:29
  and garments because as I was thinking
• 33:30
  about it this year, okay, again, didn't
• 33:34
  want to talk about this, but the Lord
• 33:36
  brought to mind actually how significant
• 33:40
  costumes and garments are in scripture
• 33:43
  and I felt it really kind of important
• 33:46
  to talk about. I thought it was silly,
• 33:47
  but
• 33:49
  it's crazy, you know, because this is
• 33:51
  the scapegoat most people use is that
• 33:53
  like it's just a costume, you're being
• 33:55
  dramat, whatever. But again, this is
• 33:56
  about the framework. What is being
• 33:58
  entered through the participation?
• 34:02
  But what's interesting, as dramatic as
• 34:05
  this sounds, you know, I know I'm being
• 34:07
  silly about the hot dog costume, but the
• 34:09
  biblical pattern is actually that
• 34:11
  garments are not treated as just a
• 34:15
  meaningless thing.
• 34:19
  They're used actually
• 34:21
  in a sense that you enter the framework
• 34:24
  of something through garments and
• 34:26
  clothing. Listen to this. Jacob put on
• 34:30
  Esau's clothes because
• 34:34
  he he was presenting himself as the
• 34:36
  identity of Esau.
• 34:39
  and he entered that encounter with Isaac
• 34:44
  under that identity and received
• 34:47
  something because of it. Okay, Saul,
• 34:52
  he didn't disguise himself before going
• 34:55
  to the medium because his clothes were
• 34:57
  occultic. It wasn't about like it wasn't
• 35:00
  about the fabric of his clothing when he
• 35:03
  was entering into this framework of
• 35:04
  necromancy, right? But he changed his
• 35:08
  appearance.
• 35:09
  He changed his appearance because he was
• 35:12
  deliberately stepping into a forbidden
• 35:16
  encounter.
• 35:18
  Right? Tamar's veil. Tamar's veil
• 35:21
  mattered because it communicated an
• 35:24
  identity within the framework that Judah
• 35:27
  was entering.
• 35:30
  Finally, Ahab's disguise. He was
• 35:33
  attempting to move through a prophetic
• 35:36
  situation under a different perceived
• 35:39
  identity.
• 35:41
  Okay,
• 35:43
  watch this. That's the point. Because
• 35:45
  throughout scripture, garments function
• 35:48
  as an outward sign of the role of the
• 35:53
  identity of the condition
• 35:56
  or of the realm that a person is
• 35:59
  choosing to participate in.
• 36:02
  It's really interesting.
• 36:05
  I had never considered that the past
• 36:07
  three years that I've been covering this
• 36:09
  subject,
• 36:11
  but it's actually everywhere in
• 36:12
  scripture. And the Bible even does it
• 36:14
  positively. You know, priests in the Old
• 36:17
  Testament wear garments when entering
• 36:19
  the priestly service. It it's very
• 36:22
  particular. There's like whole chapters
• 36:24
  about how particular the garments are.
• 36:26
  Matter of fact, you know, the sackcloth
• 36:28
  signifies repentance and mourning. The
• 36:30
  royal robes communicate the kingship.
• 36:32
  And then you have the prodigal son. When
• 36:35
  he comes home,
• 36:37
  he's given the robe, the best robe as a
• 36:40
  sign of sunship. And then you have the
• 36:43
  metaphors of it. It's not even just in
• 36:45
  the in the literal sense, but the the
• 36:47
  spiritual sense. Put on Christ. Put on
• 36:50
  the new man, right? Put the
• 36:52
  righteousness of Christ, the armor of
• 36:54
  God. So the thing is like the garments,
• 36:58
  the clothing is not the covenant, but
• 37:01
  throughout scripture garments we see do
• 37:06
  indeed identify guess what the framework
• 37:10
  that you are stepping into.
• 37:13
  And in fact to that point we are given
• 37:15
  no basis for pretending that you know
• 37:20
  intentionally clothing yourself in the
• 37:24
  imagery of a thing while entering into
• 37:26
  the celebration or the customs or the
• 37:28
  atmosphere and participation of that
• 37:31
  thing is just automatically meaningless.
• 37:33
  It's not a big deal. We have no basis
• 37:35
  for that. On the contrary we seem to
• 37:38
  have the opposite.
• 37:41
  So, I'm not like, "Does my superhero
• 37:44
  costume give the demon legal rights?"
• 37:47
  That's
• 37:49
  that's not that's not the point. The
• 37:52
  point is, what framework am I
• 37:55
  voluntarily entering
• 37:58
  and what am I choosing to represent
• 38:00
  while I am entering it? Okay. The
• 38:03
  clothing itself does not magically
• 38:06
  create spiritual agreement. But
• 38:08
  biblically, what you put on repeatedly
• 38:12
  signifies, what identity, what office,
• 38:16
  what condition, or what framework you
• 38:18
  are choosing to step into. So you can
• 38:21
  tell me that it's just a costume all you
• 38:24
  want. Scripture tells me something
• 38:26
  different.
• 38:29
  Of course, the enemy would want you to
• 38:30
  think that it's insignificant. It's just
• 38:32
  a costume. Why? Because Oh, guess what
• 38:35
  he likes to do? Masquerade.
• 38:39
  He likes to masquerade. Remember,
• 38:41
  masquerade as an angel of light. Why? To
• 38:44
  desensitize
• 38:45
  and deceive you, my friends. I'm telling
• 38:48
  you, this is the goal of Halloween. This
• 38:51
  is the goal of Halloween.
• 38:54
  And you really have to look no further
• 38:55
  than your own neighborhood if you don't
• 38:57
  believe me. Like, people are so
• 38:59
  desensitized. Christians and just
• 39:02
  secular folk alike that
• 39:04
  they literally construct. You pay I
• 39:08
  can't even imagine how much some of
• 39:09
  these animatronics must cost. They
• 39:12
  construct
• 39:14
  an altar of death and darkness and
• 39:17
  murder and gore and vile and filth on
• 39:21
  the very home
• 39:23
  that they pray to God every night to
• 39:26
  protect.
• 39:28
  That is how desensitized people are.
• 39:35
  So, you know, you want to talk about the
• 39:36
  conversation of garments and clothing
• 39:37
  and costumes, that's significant on its
• 39:40
  own, but if that's significant, how much
• 39:44
  more would an altar be significant?
• 39:47
  An altar, that's significant tenfold.
• 39:50
  Right? Like in the Bible, an altar is a
• 39:53
  point of contact. I'll say that again.
• 39:55
  An altar is a point of contact.
• 39:59
  It is a designed place, okay, to
• 40:03
  sacrifice, to worship, to to remember,
• 40:09
  to establish covenant,
• 40:11
  and by the way, to encounter.
• 40:15
  There's like a a five-fold method of
• 40:18
  operations for the intents of an altar,
• 40:21
  right? Abraham built altars where he
• 40:24
  called upon the name of the Lord. Israel
• 40:26
  built altars unto God. Pagan nations
• 40:30
  built altars unto other gods. And hey,
• 40:33
  Gideon was commanded to tear down the
• 40:35
  altar of Baal before building an altar
• 40:38
  to the Lord. Why, guys? Because altars
• 40:41
  signify who is being honored. Altars
• 40:46
  signify who is being honored. Because
• 40:49
  altars are points of contact. Altars are
• 40:53
  portals.
• 40:56
  This is real. Okay. According to the
• 40:58
  Bible, okay, places can become
• 41:01
  intentionally devoted to worship and
• 41:04
  sacrifice and agree
• 41:07
  and usher in spiritual activity.
• 41:11
  And altars are the physical point where
• 41:14
  that devotion is expressed and where
• 41:18
  that devotion is met.
• 41:22
  So
• 41:24
  you know somehow we we have Christians
• 41:26
  that are convinced that if we just call
• 41:29
  it decor it's
• 41:32
  it's neutral. the spiritual symbolism,
• 41:34
  the altar itself just becomes
• 41:36
  insignificant
• 41:37
  because we're not calling it an altar
• 41:40
  even though it is one. Okay, you I mean
• 41:42
  literally like graveyards on your front
• 41:44
  lawn. You have demons, skeleton things
• 41:48
  hanging off every every like what are
• 41:52
  they called? The things that hang from
• 41:54
  your house. What are they called, Mike?
• 41:57
  It doesn't matter. The things that hang
• 41:59
  from your house. [laughter]
• 42:02
  I I'm so eloquent sometimes. You have
• 42:05
  demons and witches and like severed
• 42:08
  bodies and heads and and death and blood
• 42:11
  and like darkness, guys, just covering
• 42:15
  your home.
• 42:19
  Relax. It's just a decoration.
• 42:22
  It's not a big deal.
• 42:25
  But like the thing is if I covered my
• 42:27
  front lawn with crosses
• 42:30
  and a banner that said Jesus is Lord
• 42:34
  and I just like had worship music
• 42:36
  playing out of a speaker at all times,
• 42:39
  everybody that walks by would recognize
• 42:42
  that I was making a declaration about
• 42:44
  what my home represents.
• 42:47
  So why do we suddenly pretend
• 42:51
  that the declaration and the symbolism
• 42:53
  and the altar now goes away and stops
• 42:56
  communicating what it is when the
• 42:59
  symbols belong to darkness and we call
• 43:01
  it Halloween.
• 43:04
  How convenient. Like genuinely, why
• 43:10
  why a Christian would in would
• 43:12
  voluntarily
• 43:14
  why a Christian would voluntarily
• 43:16
  decorate the territory that God has
• 43:19
  entrusted to them with imagery that
• 43:22
  celebrates the very darkness they've
• 43:24
  been delivered from.
• 43:27
  The very darkness that Christ came to
• 43:29
  destroy. There is no other explanation
• 43:32
  for that other than you have been
• 43:34
  desensitized. You have been deceived.
• 43:38
  You are quenching the Holy Spirit.
• 43:42
  Altars reveal your allegiance, guys.
• 43:44
  Symbols communicate your allegiance.
• 43:47
  Participation
• 43:48
  matters regardless of your intention.
• 43:52
  Participation matters regardless of your
• 43:54
  intention. And the fact that our culture
• 43:57
  calls something decoration does not
• 44:01
  automatically
• 44:02
  baptize it as being neutral.
• 44:07
  The devil has done such a good job of
• 44:12
  desensitizing you to the kingdom of
• 44:15
  darkness
• 44:17
  that you have an altar of Baal on your
• 44:20
  front lawn.
• 44:23
  And you laugh at me for calling it
• 44:24
  demonic.
• 44:26
  How backwards is that, guys? There is a
• 44:30
  a demonic portal on the front lawn. And
• 44:33
  again, I'm not saying the animatronomic
• 44:35
  from from I don't know Lowe's is like
• 44:39
  intrinsically
• 44:41
  demonic. It's not the thing itself. It's
• 44:44
  what you are building and participating
• 44:47
  in and the framework you are
• 44:49
  establishing by literally
• 44:52
  erecting an altar
• 44:54
  to the thing. It becomes a point of
• 44:57
  contact. There is a biblical precedent
• 44:59
  for that. I am not making it up. I am
• 45:02
  not pulling it out of my ear and just
• 45:04
  like here's what I think today.
• 45:08
  No, I'm trying to show you again. I
• 45:10
  didn't want to just like spit all this
• 45:12
  information at you about sawin and
• 45:14
  whatever else. I've I've done that.
• 45:15
  Okay. I am trying to show you
• 45:20
  the the the reality of the spirit realm,
• 45:23
  the revelation of the spirit realm
• 45:25
  because we wrestle not against flesh and
• 45:27
  blood and our weapons of warfare are not
• 45:29
  carnal.
• 45:33
  This is a spiritual battle and you're so
• 45:35
  desensitized
• 45:37
  by the just
• 45:42
  casual cander of Halloween and the
• 45:45
  celebration of it that you don't even
• 45:47
  recognize it. You don't even recognize
• 45:49
  evil when you see it anymore. You don't
• 45:51
  recognize evil when it's on your on your
• 45:53
  own front lawn.
• 45:55
  That's how desensitized you are. Greater
• 45:58
  is he that lives in you than he that is
• 46:00
  in the world. Why are we slapping a
• 46:01
  Bible verse over top of the
• 46:03
  desensitation and calling it authority
• 46:05
  and abusing grace? Grace does not
• 46:09
  empower you
• 46:12
  to do whatever you want. Grace does not
• 46:14
  empower you to flirt with darkness.
• 46:16
  Grace empowers you to stand firm against
• 46:19
  the darkness and say, "Get behind me,
• 46:21
  Satan." Not, "Here's an altar on my
• 46:24
  front lawn for October 31st." That's not
• 46:27
  grace. That's not grace.
• 46:31
  Okay? I'm not trying to be mean.
• 46:35
  My heart is broken. My heart is broken
• 46:38
  when I drive through my neighborhood.
• 46:39
  And I know there's people that call
• 46:40
  themselves Christians and they have just
• 46:43
  evil. Evil representing the home.
• 46:47
  Evil representing their home that they
• 46:49
  please Psalm 91 over every night. My
• 46:52
  heart is broken.
• 46:54
  Okay. These are altars. These are
• 46:57
  altars.
• 46:59
  So maybe we should start tearing them
• 47:01
  down like Gideon did. Maybe we should
• 47:03
  start tearing them down like Gideon did
• 47:06
  instead of writing off all these
• 47:09
  decorations is just harmless
• 47:11
  entertainment. You're being so dramatic,
• 47:14
  right? As for me in my house, we will
• 47:16
  serve the Lord. As for me in my house, I
• 47:18
  do not want to decorate, imitate,
• 47:20
  celebrate, or entertain anything that
• 47:22
  represents the kingdom that Jesus died.
• 47:25
  literally died, bled on a cross, was
• 47:28
  whipped
• 47:30
  to deliver me from.
• 47:33
  I'm not going to put that on my front
• 47:34
  lawn. No thank you.
• 47:37
  I don't need to figure out how close I
• 47:39
  can stand to darkness and still call
• 47:40
  myself covered.
• 47:43
  As far as I'm concerned, that's not what
• 47:44
  he paid for.
• 47:46
  I want my home and my body and my family
• 47:49
  and everything entrusted to me to be
• 47:52
  visibly intentionally and
• 47:54
  unapologetically
• 47:57
  Jesus.
• 47:58
  Jesus it just it all belongs to him. It
• 48:01
  all belongs to him. Not because I'm
• 48:03
  afraid of Halloween or whatever. No,
• 48:05
  like it's because I'm not desensitized
• 48:08
  to it. Okay. And man, guys, like I'm
• 48:11
  going to be real. It is such a strong It
• 48:14
  is such a I was going to say it's a
• 48:17
  strong man. I meant to say straw man,
• 48:19
  but actually, you know what? It is a
• 48:21
  strong man because it's a stronghold.
• 48:22
  Halloween is a stronghold. Anyway, it is
• 48:24
  a straw man to say that Christians that
• 48:28
  avoid Halloween are afraid of it.
• 48:31
  By the way, it's also ironic, right, to
• 48:34
  accuse fear while partnering with the
• 48:39
  day that glorifies fear as cultural
• 48:43
  entertainment and family fun, right?
• 48:45
  Like, no, I am not afraid of the devil.
• 48:49
  I am not afraid of Halloween. I am not
• 48:52
  intimidated by evil, guys. I am
• 48:55
  intolerant
• 48:57
  of it. I am intolerant of evil. That is
• 49:00
  why I hate Halloween.
• 49:04
  I am intolerant of it. And I know that
• 49:06
  people love to use Romans 14 as just the
• 49:10
  the blanket that we throw over the fire
• 49:13
  that is Halloween, right? This is a
• 49:15
  Romans 14 issue. Fire out. Celebrate it
• 49:20
  if you want. Don't. If you feel
• 49:21
  convicted, great. I'm out of here. No.
• 49:24
  Let me tell you why. Romans 14 is about
• 49:26
  disputable matters where the thing
• 49:29
  itself is not inherently participation
• 49:32
  in a particular demonic framework.
• 49:35
  Hello,
• 49:37
  we just spent the last what 50 minutes
• 49:39
  discussing that this is a framework that
• 49:40
  you're participating in. Okay,
• 49:43
  Romans 14 isn't talking about
• 49:45
  participating in the thing. Paul
• 49:48
  absolutely gives us liberty concerning
• 49:51
  like meat, you know, meat that has been
• 49:53
  associated with idols, sacrificed to
• 49:55
  idols. But notice what he doesn't say.
• 49:57
  He says, "Yeah, go ahead and eat the
• 49:58
  meat sacrificed to idols. Go ahead and
• 50:02
  eat the meat that that's been sacrificed
• 50:03
  to idols." But he doesn't say, "Go ahead
• 50:06
  and participate in the pagan ritual
• 50:10
  upon which the meat is being sacrificed
• 50:12
  to the idols. Go participate in the
• 50:14
  ceremony. Go join in the feast as an act
• 50:17
  of worship. It's just a conscious. No.
• 50:19
  Matter of fact, in 1 Corinthians 8:10,
• 50:22
  he makes that distinction so clear. And
• 50:26
  people that just want to throw Romans 14
• 50:28
  conveniently always leave this part out
• 50:30
  where he says, "Yes, you can eat meat
• 50:33
  sold in the marketplace without
• 50:36
  integrating its entire spiritual
• 50:38
  history." That is true. You can eat what
• 50:42
  is placed before you in someone's home
• 50:43
  without fear. That is true.
• 50:47
  But when participation becomes
• 50:50
  participation in the altar itself, in
• 50:52
  the framework itself, Paul, that's where
• 50:56
  he draws the line. And this takes us
• 50:58
  back to that verse. You cannot drink of
• 51:00
  the cup of the Lord and the cup of
• 51:01
  demons. You cannot partake of the Lord's
• 51:03
  table and the table of demons. That's
• 51:06
  not Romans 14 language. That is
• 51:09
  participation language. That is stepping
• 51:12
  into a framework language. So, let's not
• 51:16
  get confused, okay? Because these
• 51:17
  verses, Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians
• 51:19
  8-10, they do not contradict each other.
• 51:22
  They speak to each other. And you can't
• 51:24
  just advocate for one while nullifying
• 51:26
  the other. Okay? Paul gave us liberty
• 51:29
  regarding the meat. He said you can eat
• 51:31
  the meat. He never said you can join the
• 51:33
  sacrifice. So, don't tell me that
• 51:35
  Halloween is just a Romans 14 issue. No,
• 51:38
  Halloween is a 1 Corinthians 8 through10
• 51:40
  issue because you are joining in the
• 51:43
  framework by participating in it. Okay?
• 51:47
  Cuz if Romans 14 covers the meat on your
• 51:49
  plate, well, 1 Corinthians 10 addresses
• 51:52
  what happens when you pull up a chair to
• 51:55
  the table of the ritual where the meat
• 51:58
  itself was sacrificed. That's the line.
• 52:02
  That's the line.
• 52:04
  And this isn't
• 52:06
  this isn't me trying to tell you what to
• 52:09
  do. This isn't me trying to corrupt your
• 52:12
  conscience by imposing like what's on
• 52:14
  mine to you. No. Matter of fact, see,
• 52:18
  it's interesting because people love to
• 52:19
  use certain scripture and then forsake
• 52:21
  the rest of it. The same Romans 14
• 52:24
  scripture that Halloween advocates love
• 52:26
  to just blanket their participation in
• 52:29
  tells us that whatever we do,
• 52:33
  it needs to be done in love. Matter of
• 52:35
  fact, you know, I can eat the meat. I
• 52:38
  can eat the meat, but if it causes my
• 52:41
  brother or sister to stumble, I probably
• 52:42
  shouldn't because it's not loving.
• 52:46
  We're under a law of love. People want
• 52:48
  to say, "You're such a legalist for not
• 52:50
  celebrating Halloween. Stop being
• 52:51
  legalistic. Stop giving all these
• 52:53
  Christians like rules and blah blah
• 52:54
  blah." Like,
• 52:57
  we're not under the the the law. We're
• 52:59
  under the the law of love. Okay?
• 53:03
  The greatest commandment, Jesus said, is
• 53:05
  to love one another.
• 53:09
  love him and love one another.
• 53:12
  Now, you tell me in good conscience.
• 53:16
  You take you take an ex-satanist, okay?
• 53:18
  Someone that suffered Srra abuse
• 53:22
  on Halloween because that's when they do
• 53:23
  it most, by the way. And and then you
• 53:25
  dress up, you you go out on Halloween
• 53:27
  because like you you know it's Romans 14
• 53:29
  kind of thing. I'm sorry. What about the
• 53:31
  rest of the verse that says if it causes
• 53:32
  a brother or sister to stumble, don't do
• 53:34
  it.
• 53:40
  We're being selfish. And I mentioned
• 53:42
  this at the beginning of the video. I
• 53:43
  was reading Philippians. Guys, as soon
• 53:46
  as you get off this video, go read
• 53:48
  Philippians. And if you don't feel
• 53:50
  convicted about Halloween after reading
• 53:52
  Philippians,
• 53:55
  I I don't know what to say.
• 53:59
  Go read Philippians. Go read Romans 14
• 54:03
  in its entirety. Go read 1 Corinthians 8
• 54:06
  through10 in its entirety. Okay?
• 54:09
  I'm telling you this because of the law
• 54:12
  of love.
• 54:14
  Okay?
• 54:16
  I'm telling you this because I don't
• 54:18
  want the devil to have any influence
• 54:20
  over your life.
• 54:22
  Well, Angela, the devil has no power
• 54:24
  over Christians. That's true. The devil
• 54:27
  has no power over Christians until you
• 54:30
  give him a foothold. Okay? until you
• 54:33
  partner with him. Like,
• 54:37
  we really need to stop using the grace
• 54:40
  of God as a hall pass to flirt with
• 54:43
  darkness or to figure out how close we
• 54:46
  can get to the line without crossing it.
• 54:49
  Like, that's what we do on Halloween.
• 54:52
  Okay? The fact is, you can still be
• 54:54
  affected by a fallen world when you make
• 54:56
  decisions to not guard yourself from the
• 55:00
  consequences of the fallen world. Okay.
• 55:03
  In the same way
• 55:06
  you participate in a demonic system or a
• 55:08
  framework, you're probably going to have
• 55:10
  some spiritual consequence because of
• 55:12
  it. You're probably going to get a demon
• 55:14
  from it. And I'm not saying every single
• 55:16
  person that goes out on Halloween and
• 55:18
  trick-or-treat is getting a demon. Like,
• 55:20
  you're not picking up a demon at every
• 55:21
  neighbor's doorstep. But like, bro,
• 55:23
  you're opening a door. You're opening a
• 55:26
  door. You're It's within the realm of
• 55:28
  possibility.
• 55:30
  It's within the realm of possibility.
• 55:35
  And again, I think you're a lot better
• 55:36
  than demons. I don't think you should
• 55:38
  quench the spirit of God.
• 55:41
  You know, stop using grace as a hall
• 55:43
  pass to flirt with the darkness. There's
• 55:45
  consequences for your actions.
• 55:49
  And it it has nothing to do with the
• 55:50
  blood of Jesus not being strong enough
• 55:51
  to cover those things. Okay? Don't hear
• 55:54
  what I'm not saying.
• 55:56
  It has nothing to do with the blood of
• 55:58
  Jesus not being sufficient and has
• 56:01
  everything to do with you opening a door
• 56:06
  that he insists that you keep shut. All
• 56:10
  right?
• 56:12
  The enemy can't steal, kill, or destroy
• 56:15
  what you refuse to give him access to.
• 56:21
  But you best believe that he will take
• 56:25
  anything that you openly offer to him
• 56:28
  through your good intentions
• 56:31
  just as long as he can get you to
• 56:33
  participate. And I'm not saying this to
• 56:34
  scare you. I'm saying this with a prayer
• 56:40
  that you would become sensitive to the
• 56:41
  Holy Spirit again.
• 56:46
  I don't want to scare you with the talk
• 56:49
  about demons and portals and agreements.
• 56:54
  I want to kind of just shake you a
• 56:56
  little bit and say, "Hey friends,
• 56:59
  we're desensitized." And so, we've lost
• 57:02
  the fear of the Lord.
• 57:04
  We've lost the fear of the Lord, which
• 57:06
  is the beginning of wisdom.
• 57:10
  Are we truly walking in wisdom
• 57:12
  [clears throat] by participating in
• 57:14
  Halloween?
• 57:16
  I could have made a 60-second video just
• 57:18
  asking that question and it could have
• 57:20
  ended there.
• 57:23
  I want you to get really honest with
• 57:25
  yourself. I want you to get really
• 57:27
  honest with yourself and say, "Am I
• 57:28
  desensitized
• 57:31
  to the voice of Holy Spirit
• 57:34
  and so I don't recognize how deceptive
• 57:37
  this holiday is?
• 57:40
  See, because God's grace doesn't
• 57:42
  override your decisions, guys. God's
• 57:44
  grace does not override your decisions.
• 57:46
  It empowers you to make the right ones.
• 57:50
  That's what grace is. Grace empowers
• 57:52
  you.
• 57:53
  Grace empowers you.
• 57:56
  His grace empowers you. So my
• 57:58
  exhortation for you is let his grace
• 58:01
  empower you this year. Okay?
• 58:04
  Don't offer your children mixture. I'm
• 58:07
  not trying to tell you how to be a
• 58:08
  parent, but as a parent to another.
• 58:12
  Don't offer them mixture. Don't tell
• 58:14
  them that we hate darkness and
• 58:16
  wickedness and then give them just a
• 58:17
  pass because it's one night a year. It's
• 58:19
  a cultural custom. No, we are a peculiar
• 58:22
  people. We are set apart before the
• 58:23
  foundations of the earth. We are to walk
• 58:25
  in the light as he is the light. Well,
• 58:27
  okay. I want to be a light, so I'm gonna
• 58:30
  go out and and and celebrate Halloween.
• 58:32
  like,
• 58:35
  "No, we're not. We're called to sit with
• 58:38
  the sinners, not
• 58:41
  do what they're doing." Okay? You can be
• 58:44
  a light on your front door. I'm not
• 58:45
  saying go out and go and hide. People
• 58:47
  love to say, "Why should I hide? We
• 58:50
  shouldn't be afraid." I'm not saying sit
• 58:51
  in the corner of your house and cower
• 58:53
  and shake and tremble until it's
• 58:55
  November 1st. No. Go sit out on your
• 58:59
  front porch. Play worship music. Offer
• 59:02
  Bibles. Offer to pray for people that
• 59:05
  come up. Ask the Lord to give you words
• 59:07
  of knowledge, okay? That you can share
• 59:10
  with them, that you can demonstrate the
• 59:12
  kingdom of God. Do that with your kids.
• 59:14
  Show them the power of God on Halloween.
• 59:19
  This is the day that the Lord has made.
• 59:20
  Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Let us
• 59:22
  rejoice that we are ambassadors of the
• 59:24
  kingdom here to usher the kingdom in on
• 59:27
  earth as it is in heaven.
• 59:29
  Demonstrate the kingdom. Demonstrate the
• 59:32
  power of God. Cast out demons. Don't
• 59:34
  host demons for trunk or treat. Cast
• 59:37
  them out. Cast them out.
• 59:41
  Lay hands on the sick.
• 59:45
  Okay. Evangelize. Tell somebody your
• 59:48
  testimony.
• 59:50
  Not saying sit inside and hide, but if
• 59:54
  you really want to be the light, don't
• 59:56
  go out and masquerade with the rest of
• 59:58
  them. Actually be the light. Actually be
• 1:00:01
  set apart. Do something different.
• 1:00:07
  We don't change the world by being
• 1:00:13
  of the world.
• 1:00:16
  We change it by being in it. There's a
• 1:00:18
  difference.
• 1:00:20
  We are in it. We are not of it.
• 1:00:24
  So be set apart this year. What would
• 1:00:27
  happen if you said no this year to
• 1:00:29
  Halloween? What if you just gave the
• 1:00:30
  Lord one year to try? What would happen?
• 1:00:34
  What would happen? I challenge you to
• 1:00:37
  take that to prayer.
• 1:00:39
  Give him one year. Take one year off.
• 1:00:42
  And if you feel a resistance to that,
• 1:00:45
  that's more telling.
• 1:00:47
  That's more telling than you're probably
• 1:00:49
  willing to let on. It's almost like
• 1:00:51
  there's a spiritual yoke or something,
• 1:00:52
  right?
• 1:00:54
  Because here's the thing. I don't feel
• 1:00:56
  convicted about Halloween. You don't
• 1:00:57
  always have to be convicted to be
• 1:01:00
  obedient.
• 1:01:01
  The Lord actually says obedience is
• 1:01:03
  greater than sacrifice.
• 1:01:06
  And sometimes moving in obedience is
• 1:01:08
  moving in spite of there being a lack of
• 1:01:11
  conviction.
• 1:01:13
  Obedience is greater than sacrifice.
• 1:01:15
  Sacrifice means you're giving something
• 1:01:18
  up that you really, really want.
• 1:01:22
  That's a sacrifice and that's well and
• 1:01:24
  good. But obedience is moving in spite
• 1:01:26
  of whether or not you feel like it.
• 1:01:30
  Obedience just does. Obedience just
• 1:01:32
  acts. And obedience is greater than
• 1:01:34
  sacrifice. So I encourage you to be
• 1:01:37
  obedient this year.
• 1:01:41
  Halloween is evil. The question is not
• 1:01:44
  whether it feels harmless.
• 1:01:47
  The question is what
• 1:01:51
  kingdom
• 1:01:53
  does it reflect you belonging to?
• 1:01:57
  Take that to your prayer closet with
• 1:01:58
  Philippians
• 1:02:00
  and see what the Lord says. Be willing
• 1:02:03
  to hear him.
• 1:02:06
  Thank you guys so much for watching. Let
• 1:02:09
  me know in the comments down below what
• 1:02:11
  you think of the video. I encourage you
• 1:02:13
  to join our lost and found community.
• 1:02:15
  The theme of the month is actually
• 1:02:18
  discernment. Okay, so we're really
• 1:02:21
  pressing into this subject. Things like
• 1:02:23
  discernment versus suspicion, the
• 1:02:25
  discipline of discernment. We have a
• 1:02:27
  book for our book club, The Discerner by
• 1:02:29
  James Gaul, where we're really going to
• 1:02:31
  dig into what that looks like. And we
• 1:02:34
  meet live together to discuss these
• 1:02:36
  things every Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m.
• 1:02:38
  Central time. So, we're going to put the
• 1:02:40
  link to join down below or QR code up on
• 1:02:44
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• 1:02:49
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• 1:02:53
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• 1:02:56
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