In today's troubled
world people are wondering,
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where are we headed?
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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Tonight's presentation is
one that you will surely enjoy.
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An American writer
was being interviewed
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shortly before his death
and he said in the interview.
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"I always thought
that with regard to death
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an exception would
be made in my case.
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Now what?"
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Now there's a question he asked,
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"Now what?"
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What awaits us beyond the grave?
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We're raised on a diet
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of ghost stories
and scary movies.
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Kids today are
reading the Twilight books.
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Books that deal
with the vampires
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which are people
back from the dead.
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What does the
Bible teach about this
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and why is it important?
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One of the most
important subjects
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you could ever hear,
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the mystery of
death and the occult.
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Please welcome the
presenter of Revelation Today,
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Ron Halvorsen.
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Tonight, we're going
to look at that subject
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"The Mystery of
Death- The Occult."
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Let's bow our
heads word of prayer.
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Gracious Father, I pray now
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for the Holy Spirit
to guide and direct us
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to this very important subject.
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We know that in the last
days according to Revelation
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that this will be a
great means of deception,
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not only to those
who do not know Christ,
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but to those who even
claim Christ is Lord and Savior.
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We pray tonight that
Your word will be clear
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that we'll see and understand
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and weigh the evidence
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and then, Father, we might
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know and
understand that you are a God,
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greater than all
the demons we have.
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In Christ's name, amen.
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"The Mystery of
Death- The Occult."
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Amazing today that
in this sophisticated
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and well educated culture
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that we're still talking
about on occult phenomena.
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In fact, I think of
the occult phenomena
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on the TV program
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where twelve and
half million people
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watch this program
faithfully, The Walking Dead.
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And by the way, it's
capturing imagination
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of people all
across the country.
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In fact, now I think
it's even reaching out
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around the world, the people.
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This television program
which was first viewed in 2010
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on MAMC Cable Television
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and twelve and
half million people
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watching a flesh
eating zombie or zombies.
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The Walking Dead
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is America's horror
television drama series
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developed by Frank Darabont.
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It is based on the comic book
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series of the same
name by Robert Kirkman
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and Tony Moore,
and Charlie Adlard.
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So are they caught up in
this since become occult,
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practice and following?
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Just like some
follow Batman, Superman,
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now they are
following The Walking Dead.
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When it premiered
twelve and half million people
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watch the program on cable.
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Why is this occult explosion?
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I mean, why is this?
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When we look at the
movies, The Dark Knight Rises,
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we talk about The Evil Dead,
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The Star Wars- Attack of
the Clones, Devil's Knot.
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We go on, The Fifth Element.
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Why is this
interest in the occult?
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Why lately has there
been such an interest?
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I could go on
and on and on and on.
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I mean, John writes
about it on the Isle of Patmos.
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He says this would be a
problem in the last days.
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This would be a part
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of the deceptive
work of antichrist.
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And I want you to
notice what he says here John,
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"And the sixth angel poured out
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his vial upon the
great river Euphrates,
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and the water
thereof was dried up,
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that the way of the kings
of the east might be prepared."
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He says, "And I saw
three unclean spirits
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like frogs come out of
the mouth of the dragon,
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out of the mouth of the beast,
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and out of the mouth
of the false prophet."
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And he says,
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"These are the
spirits of," what?
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"Devils, working miracles,
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which go forth unto
the kings of the earth
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and of the whole
world, to gather them
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to the battle of that
great day of God Almighty."
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Called the Battle of Armageddon.
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So as time marches on
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as we get closer
and closer to end time
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the Bible says there
would be more and more
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of these occult phenomena,
there would be more and more
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of this demon and demon worship
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as we get closer
to the end of time.
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And we can see that everywhere.
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Now we talk about the
horoscope and séances,
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and I mean, all forms of
communicating with the dead.
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I mean, they talk about
the outer body experience
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and this is all
setting the stage
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for the great deception
of Satan in the last days.
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And they talk about
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the crystal
ball, fortune telling
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and all these falls
under the occult deception.
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In Deuteronomy
18:9-12, it says this,
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"When thou art
come into the land
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which the Lord
thy God giveth thee,
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thou shalt not learn to do
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after the
abominations of those nations.
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There shall not be
found among you any one
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that maketh his
son or his daughter
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to pass through the
fire, or that useth divination,
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an observer of the times,
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or an enchanter, or a witch.
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Or a charmer, or a
consulter with familiar spirits,
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or a wizard, or a necromancer."
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So he warns them
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that when they got
into this pagan lands
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that there would be
all kinds of spiritism,
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all kinds of the
occult phenomena,
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but he says, don't
be over come by it,
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don't be deceive by it.
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And he was trying to
protect the people of God,
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trying to protect the
remnant there Israel of God,
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trying to keep them
through this great perception.
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And God wants to keep us
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in these final days
from that great deception.
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"For all that do these things
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are an abomination unto the Lord
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and because of
these abominations of Lord
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thy God doth drive
them out from before thee."
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God will drive
them out, He says.
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Because why?
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There are in
abomination to the Lord.
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Now prophecy tells us
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that Satan is
going to counterfeit,
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not only in a secular world,
but in the religious world
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and you and I
need to know the truth.
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You and I need to
know what the Bible says
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because the only
answer against this is
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what does the Word of God say,
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what does the Bible
really teach about it?
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And that's what we
want to know tonight.
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What happens to a man
five minutes after death?
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Are there such a thing
as zombies, haunted houses,
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return of loved
ones to their houses?
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I mean, in fact,
Revelation 16 warns us
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as a counterfeit
these occult phenomena.
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John the Revelator
tells us the final battle
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is for your soul, friend.
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The final battle
is for your soul.
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It's a cosmic
battle that's going on,
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but it's also a
personal battle that's going on,
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it's a personal battle
for your soul to deceive you,
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to capture you and to
bring you down to death.
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So there's cosmic
battle, cosmic forces
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and it's a force
against your soul.
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Now they call--
in the Revelation,
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they called the
spirit of devils,
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the spirit of devils
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and they are final
actors in the final battle.
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Just who are these spirits
or what are these spirits
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that plays such
an important role
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in the final days
of earth's history?
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According to the Apostle John,
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according to what
God showed him on Patmos
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who received the
vision, they are the dark,
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they from the dark side,
they are the spirits of devils
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used by Satan to
deceive the nations
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and bring governments to
unite furthering his cause.
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The most
powerful occult movement
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since the beginning of time,
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UFO'ers and Spiritualists
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and Witches and
Warlocks and The Craft,
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I mean, everywhere we turn.
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Every time we turn a channel
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we're being
influenced by the occult world.
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We're being influenced
by this satanic deception.
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Spiritualism and all of this.
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And I could tell you more.
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The Daughters of the Moon,
the witch series of Disney,
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The Craft, 1996,
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Witches of Eastwick,
1987 then came the Sweep,
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the most gruesome of all.
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UFO'ers, Star
Wars, Return of the Jedi,
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Independence Day,
The Empire Strikes Back.
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I could go on and on and on,
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all speaking
about the occult world,
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trying to influence you.
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In fact, Hollywood's pipeline
is full of these phenomena
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and then came
Harry Potter series.
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Wow. Just think about it.
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I mean, after
death communication,
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after ADC experience,
after all reincarnation,
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after
scientology, after all of these
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then comes the
Harry Potter series.
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J.K. Rowling living
in her car got the idea
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and she wrote a
series, Harry Potter.
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It's about wicker.
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The wicker tales.
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Innocent enough,
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yet it has
captured the youth culture.
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Wicker, the craft is
growing rapidly among teenagers.
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92.7 million in the first week
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of the Harry Potter
the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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Think of it.
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How many?
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92.7 million people.
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I wonder if that was--
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That many that turned
up at church that week
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or served the Lord that week.
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Not surprising to me.
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You see that no
civilization can survive
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when we talk about a strategy
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and its 5,000 years old,
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it goes back to the
caladiums, 5,000 years.
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And every
civilization that were caught up
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in this occult
could not survive.
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No civilization
can survive occultism.
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So we have to be aware.
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We have to be prepared for this.
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Not surprising, is it?
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Not when you consider LA alone
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has over 1,000
channels, City of L.A.
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You see, the devil's
first lie becomes his last lie.
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The New Ages,
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Shirley MacLaine
book going within
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where she propounds the idea
of crystals and visualizations
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and color therapy
and color jewelry.
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She's dusted off an
ancient occult practice
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and dressed in modern clothes.
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Satan worship is real.
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Ross Conklin spent
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his final hours on
the altar built to Satan
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where he was beaten
to death with chains.
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Dean Baker, 21-years-old
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was killing a helpless victim
under the direction of Satan.
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When he was arrested
he said-- they asked him,
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"Why did you do this?"
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He says, "I get my
orders from Satan."
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Satan is real.
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He's not dressed
in a little red suit
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with a pitch fork.
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He's real. He's dangerous.
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He wants to conquer this world.
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He set out to
conquer this world.
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One-third of the
heavenly host came with him
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to conquer this world.
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The demons that follow him.
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It's real.
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I was invited to
go to Casper, Wyoming.
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Now I got to admit
that I am not a country boy
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and I don't know if I
told you this story before,
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but I am gonna tell it again.
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I am not a country boy.
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My wife is from the
country. I am from the city.
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I get nervous in the country.
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I don't like bugs.
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I mean, I can walk through
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any neighborhood,
dangerous neighbor.
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I worked in East L.A.,
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I worked down in San Bernardino,
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I worked down in
the barrios of L.A.
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Listen to me, but
nothing like Casper, Wyoming.
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And they put me out on a
ranch in Casper, Wyoming.
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Can you imagine?
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Out on a ranch
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and they put me
in a little trailer.
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It wasn't-- no one
could really live in it,
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but you know, it was good
enough for visiting evangelist.
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Anyway, they put us out there.
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I remember I drove out
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and I could hear the
coyotes on the hills.
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I mean, and so I sent
my wife to the trailer
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and she got to the
trailer and she says,
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"it's okay, honey."
00:12:54.89\00:12:56.14
And zoom, I dashed across it.
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You know, I was
very nervous about this.
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Casper, Wyoming,
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I mean, I hope
there's no one from Casper,
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but there isn't a tree
between Casper and California.
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I mean, this is wilderness.
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Behind Casper,
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there's a beautiful
mountain with trees,
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but I mean, looking
west, going west, young man.
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And so there I
was, I stood up to speak
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in this auditorium
there in a ballroom
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in a motel there
in Casper, Wyoming.
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And after the first
night a woman came up to me.
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She had all the occult jewelry
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and she shook my hand, she said,
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"You know, the devil,
the devil is powerful."
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I said, "Well, that's true.
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But he that is in
me is more powerful
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than he that's in the world."
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Amen.
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Amen.
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And she kind of
with that walked away.
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And so I kept
shaking the hands of people,
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got in the car,
drove out to the ranch,
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sent my wife to the
trailer and it was safe
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and made my way across
and I was sitting there,
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trying to relax a little,
00:14:01.11\00:14:02.25
you know, after an
evening speaking on prophecy
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and knock at the door
and one of the usher said,
00:14:05.39\00:14:08.51
"You've got to
get back to the hall,
00:14:08.54\00:14:10.56
there's a great problem."
00:14:10.59\00:14:12.49
I knew right away this woman.
00:14:12.52\00:14:15.26
And so I said, "Honey,
quick, get to the car."
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She got to the car. It was safe.
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I ran around and got to the car
00:14:19.59\00:14:21.16
and she drove me
in and we stopped
00:14:21.19\00:14:24.21
and I said, "Honey, pray."
00:14:24.24\00:14:25.27
And there was two cars
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in the parking lot at that time.
00:14:26.42\00:14:28.77
Everybody had gone home.
00:14:28.80\00:14:30.98
The one was the preacher's car
00:14:31.01\00:14:32.10
and the other one
was this woman's car.
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I walked over to
the car and I leaned in.
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The pastor was
standing by the hood of the car
00:14:38.71\00:14:42.31
and I came up and
the window was down,
00:14:42.34\00:14:44.20
the woman was
sitting looking at me
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and I leaned over and
she hissed like a snake
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and tried to
scratch my eyes out.
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Well, let me tell you this.
00:14:50.90\00:14:52.01
I am not a demon chaser.
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I don't have the gift.
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So if you need someone to chase
00:14:57.25\00:14:58.59
the demon here in Charlotte
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I've got two or three pastors
I'd like to introduce you to.
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So I am not a demon
chaser, but you're confronted.
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I mean, here I
was leaning in the car
00:15:08.67\00:15:10.99
and like a snake,
hissing like snake
00:15:11.02\00:15:13.38
and trying to scratch my eyes.
00:15:13.41\00:15:15.08
And then she
levitated across the car
00:15:15.11\00:15:17.39
and then came back
and her mouth opened.
00:15:17.42\00:15:19.61
I can't describe it like rubber
00:15:19.64\00:15:21.21
and she-- a voice, a
melodious voice came out
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and said, "Before
this night is over,
00:15:24.50\00:15:26.31
your boy Ronnie
and your girl Dian
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will be dead."
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I had never mentioned the names
of my children in that city.
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In fact, there were
back in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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My boy was a
freshman at college,
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a sophomore at college
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and my daughter was a
senior at the academy,
00:15:40.64\00:15:43.88
spiritual
vice-president of her school.
00:15:43.91\00:15:46.60
And we could go
away for six weeks
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and leave them alone
00:15:48.56\00:15:49.78
and not have to
worry about them.
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Because you see you can--
00:15:51.52\00:15:53.42
you can't isolate your children.
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You've got to
insolate your children.
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You've got to lead
them to the gospel,
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lead them to Christ
and lead them to salvation
00:16:01.02\00:16:04.51
and then you don't
have to worry about them.
00:16:04.54\00:16:06.77
Way probably you try
to give them religion
00:16:06.80\00:16:11.86
and you think
that will protect them.
00:16:11.89\00:16:14.46
But anyway I said,
00:16:14.49\00:16:16.57
"Satan, you have no
power over my children."
00:16:16.60\00:16:19.68
Well, she levitated cross
came back in the voice again.
00:16:19.71\00:16:22.47
Before this night
is over your boy Ronnie
00:16:22.50\00:16:24.12
and your girl Dian will be dead.
00:16:24.15\00:16:25.91
Now that's scary for any parent.
00:16:25.94\00:16:31.39
That's scary.
00:16:31.42\00:16:33.49
So I said you have no--
00:16:33.52\00:16:34.62
and with that she drove
fast out of the parking lot.
00:16:34.65\00:16:38.08
When the preacher got
home his house had been robbed.
00:16:38.11\00:16:41.58
The next morning his house burst
00:16:41.61\00:16:42.99
in the flames caught on fire.
00:16:43.02\00:16:45.83
And so we knew
I had to visit her
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because I tried to visit as many
00:16:48.60\00:16:50.22
at that time as I could.
00:16:50.25\00:16:51.79
And so I said,
"We're goanna go visit her."
00:16:51.82\00:16:54.35
And I knew it was
a conflict with Satan
00:16:54.38\00:16:58.75
and so I said, "We
need to go apart and pray."
00:16:58.78\00:17:00.85
My wife and the
pastor and I went up
00:17:00.88\00:17:03.25
on to the mountain
in the grove of trees.
00:17:03.28\00:17:05.03
We studied our Bible we
prayed four hours with God.
00:17:05.06\00:17:10.02
We started driving back
00:17:10.05\00:17:11.15
and when we
driving we had a flat tire.
00:17:11.18\00:17:12.92
That could happen to anybody.
00:17:12.95\00:17:15.14
Change the tire,
drove a little further,
00:17:15.17\00:17:17.22
another flat tire.
00:17:17.25\00:17:19.51
Now we have two flat tires.
00:17:19.54\00:17:21.04
Jacked up the car,
took the two tires,
00:17:21.07\00:17:22.87
ran to the garage,
had the tires fixed,
00:17:22.90\00:17:25.39
came back, put them on the front
00:17:25.42\00:17:28.19
then we drove a
little further, another flat.
00:17:28.22\00:17:30.15
Before we got to that
house we had four flat tires
00:17:30.18\00:17:32.84
on brand new Michelin tires.
00:17:32.87\00:17:38.26
Can you imagine?
00:17:38.29\00:17:39.88
And when I got out of the car
00:17:39.91\00:17:43.06
my wife was there in the car.
00:17:43.09\00:17:44.25
When I went to the
first door with the pastor,
00:17:44.28\00:17:47.17
knocked on the
door and there was
00:17:47.20\00:17:49.23
one of the leaders of
Satan and he was right there.
00:17:49.26\00:17:53.60
And I said to so
and so live here.
00:17:53.63\00:17:54.94
I read the number over the door,
00:17:54.97\00:17:57.26
124 whatever it was,
I had the card with me
00:17:57.29\00:18:00.68
and he said, "No,
high priest of Satan's.
00:18:00.71\00:18:07.43
She's two houses down."
00:18:07.46\00:18:10.67
So I got in the
car, we drove down.
00:18:10.70\00:18:12.20
My wife and I and the
preacher went into that house.
00:18:12.23\00:18:18.13
She was a witch.
00:18:18.16\00:18:21.07
She said she was
married to Satan.
00:18:21.10\00:18:22.56
She had altered to Satan.
00:18:22.59\00:18:26.03
She got a picture of baby there
with little doves around it,
00:18:26.06\00:18:28.44
but I never saw any toys,
00:18:28.47\00:18:29.69
I never saw
anything about a baby.
00:18:29.72\00:18:34.73
And she says, "You
know, Satan is powerful."
00:18:34.76\00:18:37.87
I said, "But
Jesus is more powerful."
00:18:37.90\00:18:40.39
And she said,
"You should be dead."
00:18:40.42\00:18:42.89
You know, it's like Elijah.
00:18:42.92\00:18:45.49
I said, "No, I'm alive.
00:18:45.52\00:18:49.22
Because He is more powerful.
00:18:49.25\00:18:52.63
He is more powerful."
00:18:52.66\00:18:55.24
And she said, "We
had a mass for your death
00:18:55.27\00:18:57.37
in the cemetery
on Halloween night."
00:18:57.40\00:19:00.93
I discovered she was a witch.
00:19:00.96\00:19:02.41
And she was a
third grade teacher
00:19:02.44\00:19:04.30
in the public school system.
00:19:04.33\00:19:07.82
I just spent a beautiful morning
00:19:07.85\00:19:09.69
in the Christian
school right here,
00:19:09.72\00:19:12.09
in town right here.
00:19:12.12\00:19:13.18
I said, "Beautiful to
go to a Christian school
00:19:13.21\00:19:16.31
and to see those children.
00:19:16.34\00:19:18.53
Loving God, listen to me."
00:19:18.56\00:19:21.04
And so we shared.
00:19:21.07\00:19:23.62
I tried to
share Christ with her.
00:19:23.65\00:19:27.49
Two days later,
I called my family.
00:19:27.52\00:19:29.70
I didn't want the devil
think I was nervous about it.
00:19:29.73\00:19:34.05
So I called and
when my Dian answered,
00:19:34.08\00:19:36.02
she says,
"Daddy, you won't believe
00:19:36.05\00:19:37.63
what happened the other night."
00:19:37.66\00:19:40.60
I said, "What happened?"
00:19:40.63\00:19:42.88
She says, "Daddy--" She says,
00:19:42.91\00:19:45.46
"It's seemed like
death fell on the house."
00:19:45.49\00:19:49.31
"Death?
00:19:49.34\00:19:50.59
A teenage girl, what
do you know about death?"
00:19:50.62\00:19:52.69
She says, "Daddy, it was
cold, it was frightening."
00:19:52.72\00:19:54.55
She said, "I couldn't explain
00:19:54.58\00:19:56.19
and it was like something
was trying to get in the house.
00:19:56.22\00:19:58.45
The windows were raveling.
00:19:58.48\00:19:59.82
The doors and Ronnie
grabbed the baseball bat."
00:19:59.85\00:20:02.53
My son, a baseball bat.
00:20:02.56\00:20:04.90
He's gonna beat Satan
up with a baseball bat,
00:20:04.93\00:20:06.66
I guess, I don't know.
00:20:06.69\00:20:08.63
He is running around the
house with the baseball bat.
00:20:08.66\00:20:12.52
She says,
"Daddy, you won't believe
00:20:12.55\00:20:13.88
it was so terrible."
00:20:13.91\00:20:15.18
I said, "What time?"
00:20:15.21\00:20:16.54
The same time I was
in that parking lot.
00:20:16.57\00:20:19.32
The very same hour,
00:20:19.35\00:20:20.95
the very same
minutes I was there.
00:20:20.98\00:20:23.51
And she said, "It
was like death, daddy."
00:20:23.54\00:20:25.42
I said, "What
were you doing, honey?"
00:20:25.45\00:20:26.93
She says, "I was
reading my Bible.
00:20:26.96\00:20:31.15
And I was reading in Joel word,
00:20:31.18\00:20:32.67
said the Sons of
God came together
00:20:32.70\00:20:34.92
and Satan came also among them."
00:20:34.95\00:20:39.49
And then I told her the story
and she was relieved to know.
00:20:39.52\00:20:43.86
I said, "Honey, you
see, you have protection.
00:20:43.89\00:20:47.41
The blood of Jesus Christ,
place the blood on your heart.
00:20:47.44\00:20:51.83
You have protection,
put on the armor of God.
00:20:55.34\00:20:59.57
You have
protection, give God praise."
00:20:59.60\00:21:02.50
Bible says, "If
you give in praise,
00:21:02.53\00:21:04.04
the devil says, Oh,
that man's not today.
00:21:04.07\00:21:05.72
I'm not going
to get around him."
00:21:05.75\00:21:07.63
Kicks off.
00:21:07.66\00:21:09.33
I'm surprised
religious people hate praise.
00:21:09.36\00:21:11.80
God help you.
00:21:11.83\00:21:13.95
He says, "Give Him
praise from your lips.
00:21:13.98\00:21:17.39
Give Him praise from your lips."
00:21:17.42\00:21:19.18
But Satan is powerful.
00:21:19.21\00:21:20.59
This thing we are
talking about tonight
00:21:20.62\00:21:22.14
is nothing to play with.
00:21:22.17\00:21:24.07
VG Board, it's
nothing to play with.
00:21:24.10\00:21:26.24
Satanism, it's
nothing to play with.
00:21:26.27\00:21:28.52
Witchcraft,
nothing to play with.
00:21:28.55\00:21:30.45
Harry Potter, The
Craft, nothing to play with.
00:21:30.48\00:21:33.18
Vicar, nothing to play
with because the Bible says,
00:21:33.21\00:21:36.39
it will lead us to destruction.
00:21:36.42\00:21:38.62
The Bible says,
00:21:38.65\00:21:39.68
it will be the last great
deception of the last days.
00:21:39.71\00:21:44.52
No civilization
can survive occultism.
00:21:44.55\00:21:48.61
You see, the devil's first lie
00:21:48.64\00:21:51.17
became the lie of the last days.
00:21:51.20\00:21:54.44
And so Satan worship is real.
00:21:54.47\00:21:57.11
I've
experienced again and again.
00:21:57.14\00:21:58.43
I have seen it at work
and I warn you against it.
00:21:58.46\00:22:02.36
Let's look at this
an intelligent approach.
00:22:02.39\00:22:04.13
Now they called
Parapsychology, Hypnotism,
00:22:04.16\00:22:07.86
so he can control
your mind, your thoughts.
00:22:07.89\00:22:11.08
Listen this, UFO'ers, Spiritism,
00:22:11.11\00:22:15.50
this mystic world,
this world of spiritism,
00:22:15.53\00:22:19.31
the major doctrine of spiritism.
00:22:19.34\00:22:21.30
Listen to me, it's scary.
00:22:21.33\00:22:23.06
There are two organizations
of spiritism in America.
00:22:23.09\00:22:26.22
One is the National Association
of Spiritualistic Churches
00:22:26.25\00:22:29.40
and the Universal
Church of the Master,
00:22:29.43\00:22:31.97
and that was founded
in 1909 in Los Angeles.
00:22:32.00\00:22:34.92
The central form of spiritualism
00:22:34.95\00:22:36.66
is centered upon séances.
00:22:36.69\00:22:39.66
Now I want you to
follow me closely tonight.
00:22:39.69\00:22:42.57
There are six séances.
00:22:42.60\00:22:45.07
There are six
séances in spiritism.
00:22:45.10\00:22:48.47
First of all,
there is Passivity.
00:22:48.50\00:22:51.30
In Passivity, they blat
out all conscious thought
00:22:51.33\00:22:54.47
and open themselves
to the control of spirit.
00:22:54.50\00:22:58.15
Secondly, Vocal Reality.
00:22:58.18\00:23:00.18
Voices from the past.
00:23:00.21\00:23:01.80
I want to tell you something,
the Bible teaches you,
00:23:01.83\00:23:04.02
you can't ever
believe what you hear.
00:23:04.05\00:23:06.58
I heard from my grandfather
who died the other day.
00:23:06.61\00:23:09.32
That was not the
voice of your grandfather.
00:23:09.35\00:23:10.97
I'm gonna show you
that from the Bible.
00:23:11.00\00:23:12.60
That was voice of the
demons from hell itself.
00:23:12.63\00:23:17.33
The voices come to the
séance the voice of the parted,
00:23:17.36\00:23:21.15
so called the parted loved ones.
00:23:21.18\00:23:23.13
And then comes
Trumpet Revelations,
00:23:23.16\00:23:25.95
and that's when the voice comes,
00:23:25.98\00:23:27.55
the trumpet
floats through the air,
00:23:27.58\00:23:29.04
literally
floats through the air.
00:23:29.07\00:23:31.11
And the voice
comes out of the trumpet.
00:23:31.14\00:23:33.01
And then there comes Lights,
red light represent something,
00:23:33.04\00:23:37.00
the green lights
represent something
00:23:37.03\00:23:38.73
and the spirits
of spiritualism know,
00:23:38.76\00:23:41.60
the spiritualists
knows what they represent
00:23:41.63\00:23:44.51
and they see these color lights
floating in the dark room.
00:23:44.54\00:23:48.47
Then there's transfiguration.
00:23:48.50\00:23:50.74
Transfiguration, a
form of a loved one.
00:23:50.77\00:23:54.16
I had a woman sitting with me
00:23:54.19\00:23:55.85
and I was studying
the Bible with her.
00:23:55.88\00:23:56.96
She says, "No, Ron Halvorsen."
00:23:56.99\00:23:58.81
I said, "Well,
that's what the Bible says."
00:23:58.84\00:23:59.88
"No, Ron
Halverson," I saw my husband.
00:23:59.91\00:24:02.22
He dressed in the same suit.
00:24:02.25\00:24:03.94
He wore the same hat.
00:24:03.97\00:24:05.43
I knew it was my husband."
00:24:05.46\00:24:07.54
You won't be able
to believe your eyes.
00:24:07.57\00:24:09.68
You won't be able
to believe your ears.
00:24:09.71\00:24:11.65
The only thing
you'll be able to believe in
00:24:11.68\00:24:13.31
is thus saith the Lord.
00:24:13.34\00:24:16.81
The only solution you
have is, thus saith the Lord.
00:24:16.84\00:24:19.82
The only argument you
have thus saith the Lord,
00:24:19.85\00:24:23.08
that's your argument.
00:24:23.11\00:24:24.21
It's the Word of God.
00:24:24.24\00:24:25.31
You need to
believe the Word of God
00:24:25.34\00:24:26.68
before you believe the
mysterious, the magical.
00:24:26.71\00:24:31.21
You need to
believe the Word of God.
00:24:31.24\00:24:36.79
And sixthly, Levitation
00:24:36.82\00:24:39.60
where the body leaves the earth.
00:24:39.63\00:24:43.40
Now it's important we understand
00:24:43.43\00:24:45.50
how Satan uses these signs
00:24:45.53\00:24:47.28
and wonders to deceive
through modern theology.
00:24:47.31\00:24:51.06
It doesn't only
creep into the séance.
00:24:51.09\00:24:53.73
This theology has
crept even into the church.
00:24:53.76\00:24:59.37
Now there are
two important texts
00:24:59.40\00:25:00.58
I want to share with you.
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First of all, I want to
share with you Leviticus 19:31.
00:25:02.51\00:25:06.87
Now this is God
speaking through His word.
00:25:06.90\00:25:09.42
"Regard not them that
have familiar spirits,
00:25:09.45\00:25:12.52
neither seek after
wizards, to be defiled by them,
00:25:12.55\00:25:16.00
for I am the Lord your God."
00:25:16.03\00:25:18.56
Listen to the
word, Isaiah 8:19, 20.
00:25:18.59\00:25:21.97
"And when they
shall say unto you,
00:25:22.00\00:25:23.38
seek unto them that
have familiar spirits,
00:25:23.41\00:25:25.90
and wizards that
peep, and that mutter,
00:25:25.93\00:25:28.69
should not a people
seek unto their God?
00:25:28.72\00:25:31.42
For the living to the dead?"
00:25:31.45\00:25:33.97
And then, "To the
law and to the testimony,
00:25:34.00\00:25:36.19
if they speak not
according to this word,
00:25:36.22\00:25:38.40
it's because there
is no light in them."
00:25:38.43\00:25:40.98
He's saying, it's the law
00:25:41.01\00:25:42.66
and the
testimony, the Word of God.
00:25:42.69\00:25:44.87
If it is in the Word of
God, there is no light in it.
00:25:44.91\00:25:51.16
But, Brother
Halverson, it's so real.
00:25:51.19\00:25:53.00
No light in it.
00:25:53.03\00:25:56.90
No light in it.
00:25:56.93\00:25:59.51
The law and testimony.
00:25:59.54\00:26:01.69
If we do away
with the Lord of God
00:26:01.72\00:26:03.17
and the
testimony of Jesus Christ,
00:26:03.20\00:26:05.14
we're a lost race,
we're a lost nation.
00:26:05.17\00:26:08.95
If we do away with
the testimony of Jesus,
00:26:08.98\00:26:10.73
we're gonna fall into
the trap of deception,
00:26:10.76\00:26:14.15
of the
antichrist in the last days.
00:26:14.18\00:26:16.50
If Christians only knew
where this antinomianism
00:26:16.53\00:26:19.93
has come from against the law,
00:26:19.96\00:26:22.30
preaching against the
law, talking against the law,
00:26:22.33\00:26:25.17
telling you not to
worry about the law
00:26:25.20\00:26:27.68
and then worrying
if they take the law
00:26:27.71\00:26:29.15
out of the government building,
00:26:29.18\00:26:30.44
that's insanity
00:26:30.47\00:26:33.37
trying to do away with the law
00:26:33.40\00:26:34.61
and yet in your church,
00:26:34.64\00:26:36.12
but not do away with the law
00:26:36.15\00:26:37.34
in the government building.
00:26:37.37\00:26:39.05
If the law is good
enough for government,
00:26:39.08\00:26:40.51
it should be good
enough for church.
00:26:40.54\00:26:43.91
And he says the law
00:26:43.94\00:26:45.29
and he says the
testimony of Jesus.
00:26:45.32\00:26:47.60
So there it is the
Ten Commandment Law,
00:26:47.63\00:26:49.71
the law of Jesus
and the Testimony
00:26:49.74\00:26:51.91
of Jesus Christ.
00:26:51.94\00:26:53.69
The only test against
signs and wonders and miracles,
00:26:53.72\00:26:56.36
marvelous works
in the name of Jesus
00:26:56.39\00:26:57.97
is according to the
law and the testimony.
00:26:58.00\00:27:00.94
It's not how high you jump from
00:27:00.97\00:27:03.26
but it's how straight you walk.
00:27:03.29\00:27:06.61
It's not how high you
jump, but how straight you walk.
00:27:06.64\00:27:11.57
And it's to the law
and to the testimony.
00:27:11.60\00:27:14.77
The law and to the testimony.
00:27:14.80\00:27:16.00
You see, friend,
00:27:16.03\00:27:18.48
here's the
premises spiritualism,
00:27:18.51\00:27:20.20
its antichrist, it's against
all the Christ stands for.
00:27:20.23\00:27:23.88
And there is anti-Bible.
00:27:23.91\00:27:26.04
Listen to this 1 Timothy,
00:27:26.07\00:27:27.93
"Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly,
00:27:27.96\00:27:30.43
that in the latter times
00:27:30.46\00:27:32.12
some shall
depart from the faith"
00:27:32.15\00:27:33.88
It's a belief of
leaving faith. Why?
00:27:33.91\00:27:35.85
"Giving heed to
seducing spirits,
00:27:35.88\00:27:38.38
and doctrines of devils."
00:27:38.41\00:27:40.35
He says they'll
turn away from the truth
00:27:40.38\00:27:42.45
for the doctrine of devils.
00:27:42.48\00:27:44.16
He says they'll
turn away from Jesus
00:27:44.19\00:27:46.27
and give heed to
seducing, to seducing spirits.
00:27:46.30\00:27:50.29
Look at Genesis.
00:27:50.32\00:27:51.78
Let's look here
at Genesis Chapter 3.
00:27:51.81\00:27:54.00
He says, "Now the
serpent was more subtle
00:27:54.03\00:27:56.58
than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made.
00:27:56.61\00:27:59.77
And he said unto the
woman, Yea, hath God said."
00:27:59.80\00:28:02.56
Now you know
that's the struggle there
00:28:02.59\00:28:04.05
in the Garden of Eden.
00:28:04.08\00:28:06.15
You see, there's two trees.
00:28:06.18\00:28:08.57
There's a tree of life
00:28:08.60\00:28:09.63
and there's a tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
00:28:09.66\00:28:12.27
Both trees were not
evil, but one was a test.
00:28:12.30\00:28:16.62
The great problem with man,
00:28:16.65\00:28:17.74
you see, they take you the tree
of knowledge of good and evil
00:28:17.77\00:28:19.87
before they take
you the Tree of Life.
00:28:19.90\00:28:23.97
They try to deal with the tree
of knowledge of good and evil
00:28:24.00\00:28:26.10
before they dealt
with their own heart
00:28:26.13\00:28:27.92
and their own soul.
00:28:27.95\00:28:30.54
And now the serpent is
subtle and he says that a woman,
00:28:30.57\00:28:33.97
"Yea, hath God said."
00:28:34.00\00:28:37.12
And notice, "Ye shall not eat
00:28:37.15\00:28:38.73
of every tree of the garden?
00:28:38.76\00:28:40.56
And the woman
said unto the serpent,
00:28:40.59\00:28:41.71
we may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden."
00:28:41.74\00:28:44.21
But the fruit that is
in the midst of the garden,
00:28:44.24\00:28:46.18
God said, "Ye
shall not eat of it,
00:28:46.21\00:28:49.25
neither shall you
touch it, lest he died.
00:28:49.28\00:28:52.40
For God doth
know that in that day,
00:28:52.43\00:28:55.22
the day you eat there
off, your eyes shall be open,
00:28:55.25\00:28:58.20
you shall be as gods
knowing good and evil."
00:28:58.23\00:29:01.17
That was the temptation.
00:29:01.20\00:29:02.84
Wasn't that the
temptation of Lucifer in heaven?
00:29:02.87\00:29:05.40
Wanted to be like God.
00:29:05.43\00:29:07.05
Exalt his throne
above the Son of God
00:29:07.08\00:29:09.32
and he was cast out.
00:29:09.35\00:29:10.54
He was cast out. He
was cast out to this earth.
00:29:10.57\00:29:14.67
It wasn't kind of
snake like we see today,
00:29:14.70\00:29:16.31
it had wings it was beautiful.
00:29:16.34\00:29:18.00
The beautiful creature
00:29:18.03\00:29:19.14
and then speaks
and Eve moves over.
00:29:19.17\00:29:21.35
And by the way Adam
wasn't too far away.
00:29:21.38\00:29:25.01
Well, as soon as
she ate she offered him
00:29:25.04\00:29:27.62
must have been that close.
00:29:27.65\00:29:30.24
So men don't feel
too comfortable about it.
00:29:30.27\00:29:35.24
Yeah, don't feel too
comfortable about it.
00:29:35.27\00:29:38.10
You are right with that?
00:29:38.13\00:29:40.40
Anyway, the serpent, does
God say, does God mean it?
00:29:40.43\00:29:43.65
And that by the way,
is the greatest temptation
00:29:43.68\00:29:46.28
for you as a Christian
00:29:46.31\00:29:47.52
as you're
searching for the truth.
00:29:47.55\00:29:49.72
Does God say that?
00:29:49.75\00:29:50.80
Does He really mean that?
00:29:50.83\00:29:51.88
I mean He's really
serious about that?
00:29:51.91\00:29:53.39
I mean, really, is
God that particular?
00:29:53.42\00:29:57.42
Don't you see it's
the same temptation?
00:29:57.45\00:30:00.78
But if He says that He is.
00:30:00.81\00:30:03.70
And that was-- and you see,
00:30:03.73\00:30:04.94
what it was, you're not
dying, that's immortality.
00:30:04.97\00:30:08.04
You see, you have immortality,
00:30:08.07\00:30:10.47
but the Bible teaches us
00:30:10.50\00:30:11.88
she had conditional immortality,
00:30:11.91\00:30:14.40
conditioned upon her,
00:30:14.43\00:30:15.67
obedience and upon her love,
00:30:15.70\00:30:17.46
and when she sinned against God,
00:30:17.49\00:30:19.45
the wages of sin is death.
00:30:19.48\00:30:21.81
You can't possess immortality
and die at the same time.
00:30:21.84\00:30:25.35
And that's the
theology of the dark side.
00:30:30.15\00:30:32.83
By the way, it became
00:30:32.86\00:30:33.91
the leading
doctrine of paganism.
00:30:33.94\00:30:36.38
The philosophies,
the Greek philosophies
00:30:36.41\00:30:39.43
that something
lives on and floats off
00:30:39.46\00:30:41.33
and flits off and
to a special place
00:30:41.36\00:30:45.32
and then some got a hold of it
00:30:45.35\00:30:47.06
and heath and
it's got a hold of it,
00:30:47.09\00:30:48.33
then Romanism got a hold of it
00:30:48.36\00:30:50.21
and soon the
church got a hold of it
00:30:50.24\00:30:52.13
and they kind of
perfected it a little.
00:30:52.16\00:30:54.70
Immortality of the soul.
00:30:54.73\00:30:56.24
Listen, there are
six reasons I rejected.
00:30:56.27\00:30:58.27
First, because the
dead cannot be called up.
00:30:58.30\00:31:01.03
Where did you get that?
00:31:01.06\00:31:02.09
Well, I get it from the Bible.
00:31:02.12\00:31:03.97
The Bible says.
00:31:04.00\00:31:05.34
"As the cloud is
consumed and vanisheth away,
00:31:05.37\00:31:08.57
so he that goeth
down to the grave
00:31:08.60\00:31:10.81
shall come up no more.
00:31:10.84\00:31:12.20
He shall return
no more to his house,
00:31:12.23\00:31:14.27
neither shall his
place know him any more."
00:31:14.30\00:31:16.52
Bible says that
dead who died there
00:31:16.55\00:31:19.00
will not come
home to be with you.
00:31:19.03\00:31:24.25
That's clear.
00:31:24.28\00:31:26.11
I didn't say it, Job said it.
00:31:26.14\00:31:28.78
So don't get mad at
me, get made at Job.
00:31:28.81\00:31:31.75
It's one thing
I'm covering my basis.
00:31:31.78\00:31:33.27
Listen, tonight
I'm covering my basis.
00:31:33.30\00:31:36.69
And so he said that,
00:31:36.72\00:31:39.67
"So man lieth down, rises not,
till the heavens be no more,
00:31:39.70\00:31:42.90
they shall not awake,
00:31:42.93\00:31:43.96
nor be raised
out of their sleep.
00:31:43.99\00:31:45.57
O that thou wouldest
hide me in the grave,"
00:31:45.60\00:31:48.23
he goes on to say,
00:31:48.26\00:31:50.13
"that thou
wouldest keep me secret,
00:31:50.16\00:31:51.49
until your wrath be past,
00:31:51.52\00:31:53.36
that thou wouldest
appoint me a set time,
00:31:53.39\00:31:55.98
and remember me!"
00:31:56.01\00:31:57.67
The dead do not
come back to the house.
00:31:57.70\00:31:59.69
Secondly, because
the dead do not have
00:31:59.72\00:32:02.13
any superior knowledge.
00:32:02.16\00:32:04.22
The Bible tells me this word,
"Put not your trust in princes,
00:32:04.25\00:32:07.65
nor in the son of man,
in whom there is no help.
00:32:07.68\00:32:09.70
His breath goeth forth,
he returneth to his earth,
00:32:09.73\00:32:12.45
in that very day
his thoughts," what?
00:32:12.48\00:32:14.29
"Perish."
00:32:14.32\00:32:15.53
Now, listen to me
friend, you've heard it.
00:32:15.56\00:32:17.65
He's just passed over.
00:32:17.68\00:32:21.90
He has no superior knowledge.
00:32:21.93\00:32:24.95
The Bible says at that
moment, his knowledge, what?
00:32:24.98\00:32:28.06
Seizes.
00:32:28.09\00:32:29.25
Now that's what the Bible says.
00:32:29.28\00:32:31.16
"For the living
know that they shall die,
00:32:31.19\00:32:33.83
but the dead know not any thing,
00:32:33.86\00:32:37.49
neither have they
any more a reward,
00:32:37.52\00:32:40.10
for the memory of them is" what?
00:32:40.13\00:32:42.12
"Forgotten."
00:32:42.15\00:32:43.80
Wow! That's clear, isn't it?
00:32:43.83\00:32:45.86
"Also their
love, and their hatred,
00:32:45.89\00:32:48.04
and their envy, is
now perished," What?
00:32:48.07\00:32:51.00
Now perished.
00:32:51.03\00:32:52.94
"Neither have
they any more a portion
00:32:52.97\00:32:55.34
for ever in any thing
that is done under the sun."
00:32:55.37\00:32:58.59
He is not coming
back to meet with you.
00:32:58.62\00:33:01.36
The Bible says that clear.
00:33:01.39\00:33:02.42
And who would
know better than He
00:33:02.45\00:33:03.49
who was the
resurrection in life, amen.
00:33:03.52\00:33:05.83
Then He who is the
resurrection and the life.
00:33:05.86\00:33:08.63
Let's go on, let's look at this.
00:33:08.66\00:33:10.34
I reject Spiritism,
Satanism, and the Occultism
00:33:10.37\00:33:13.43
and Wicca because
the dead are in the grave
00:33:13.46\00:33:16.68
and not in a spirit world.
00:33:16.71\00:33:18.94
Let's look at the Bible
and see what the Bible says.
00:33:18.97\00:33:21.34
Notice, "In a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye,
00:33:21.37\00:33:25.37
at the last trump, for
the trumpet shall sound,
00:33:25.40\00:33:28.86
and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible,
00:33:28.89\00:33:32.00
and we shall be changed."
00:33:32.03\00:33:34.72
Wow.
00:33:34.75\00:33:35.81
Well, hey
tomorrow night I'm gonna--
00:33:35.84\00:33:37.02
this is part two.
00:33:37.05\00:33:38.41
What happens five
minutes after you die?
00:33:38.44\00:33:39.96
What the Bible really teaches?
00:33:39.99\00:33:42.55
So He says what?
00:33:42.58\00:33:43.61
He says a moment
you're gonna be raised up.
00:33:43.64\00:33:45.61
Think about this tonight
00:33:45.64\00:33:46.73
so get you
prepared for tomorrow night.
00:33:46.76\00:33:49.09
Why if you are in
heaven would He put your back
00:33:49.12\00:33:50.75
in the grave just to pick you up
00:33:50.78\00:33:52.02
and bring you back to heaven?
00:33:52.05\00:33:56.23
Come on.
00:33:56.26\00:34:01.32
Let's look at the Word
of God. Don't take my word.
00:34:01.35\00:34:04.09
"And so when this corruptible
shall put on incorruption,
00:34:04.12\00:34:05.98
and the mortal
shall put on immortality,"
00:34:06.01\00:34:07.97
putting it on,
00:34:08.00\00:34:10.26
"then shall be brought to
pass the saying is written,
00:34:10.29\00:34:12.79
Death is
swallowed up in victory."
00:34:12.82\00:34:15.50
Oh, death, where is thy stint?
00:34:15.53\00:34:17.44
Oh, grave, where is thy victory?
00:34:17.47\00:34:19.44
Then in 1
Thessalonians, he says this,
00:34:19.47\00:34:22.06
"The Lord shall descend
from heaven with a shout,
00:34:22.09\00:34:24.31
the voice of the
archangel, the trump of God,
00:34:24.34\00:34:26.41
and the deadi n
Christ shall rise first.
00:34:26.44\00:34:30.57
Then we which
are alive and remain
00:34:30.60\00:34:32.81
shall be caught up
together with them in the cloud,
00:34:32.84\00:34:35.24
to meet the Lord in the air,
00:34:35.27\00:34:36.46
so shall we ever
be with the Lord."
00:34:36.49\00:34:39.26
So we're gonna go
to heaven together.
00:34:39.29\00:34:42.93
I hope I'm in Brooklyn.
00:34:42.96\00:34:46.65
And my mom and dad come up
00:34:46.68\00:34:47.78
and my
grandmother, great Christian.
00:34:47.81\00:34:51.51
Just wonderful sweet spiritual
Christian that loved God
00:34:51.54\00:34:55.49
and we're gonna
be caught up together
00:34:55.52\00:34:57.09
to meet Him in the cloud.
00:34:57.12\00:34:59.01
"These things said he,
00:34:59.04\00:35:00.08
and after this
he said unto them,
00:35:00.11\00:35:01.41
our friend Lazarus" what?
00:35:01.44\00:35:02.81
"Sleepeth."
00:35:02.84\00:35:03.91
Every time Jesus
talks about death,
00:35:03.94\00:35:05.72
He doesn't talk about
death being in another realm,
00:35:05.75\00:35:08.60
He talks about
death being sleep.
00:35:08.63\00:35:10.74
He says I'm
going to wake him up.
00:35:10.77\00:35:12.04
What did He do?
00:35:12.07\00:35:13.10
Pull them out of the grave.
00:35:13.13\00:35:14.17
I mean, pull them
out of the heaven,
00:35:14.20\00:35:15.23
put them back in the
grave, stinking body,
00:35:15.26\00:35:17.75
call them back up again
to live a few more years.
00:35:17.78\00:35:20.57
Give me a break.
00:35:20.60\00:35:21.69
Once I'm in heaven,
you can't get me out.
00:35:21.72\00:35:24.80
Can't get me out.
00:35:30.13\00:35:32.78
Listen, I reject Spiritism,
Satanism, Occultism, Wicca
00:35:32.81\00:35:36.81
because it breaks up
the unity of the Bible.
00:35:36.84\00:35:38.75
Listen to me, here is
the unity of the Bible.
00:35:38.78\00:35:41.80
This is it.
00:35:41.83\00:35:43.23
Death, resurrection, reward.
00:35:43.26\00:35:47.28
Death, resurrection, reward,
00:35:47.31\00:35:49.67
it breaks up the
unity of the Bible
00:35:49.70\00:35:52.02
and I reject
spiritism, I reject occultism
00:35:52.05\00:35:55.94
because it breaks up that unity.
00:35:55.97\00:35:58.71
I tell you it breaks
up the unity of Bible
00:35:58.74\00:36:01.19
and Jesus said,
00:36:01.22\00:36:02.31
"I am the
resurrection and the life."
00:36:02.34\00:36:04.49
And Jesus is the
resurrection and He is the life.
00:36:04.52\00:36:10.20
Fifthly, because
it finds its root
00:36:10.23\00:36:12.98
in embodiment of Satan.
00:36:13.01\00:36:15.22
Follow me, please.
00:36:15.25\00:36:17.03
Notice the Word of God.
00:36:17.06\00:36:18.45
"And he doeth great wonders,
00:36:18.48\00:36:20.49
so that he make
a fire to come down
00:36:20.52\00:36:22.27
from heaven on the
earth in the sight of men."
00:36:22.30\00:36:24.72
Now He's performing
these great miracles.
00:36:24.75\00:36:27.25
We people always
fascinated by the miracles.
00:36:27.28\00:36:31.72
And the greatest miracle
is God working on your heart.
00:36:31.75\00:36:35.19
The greatest miracle
is changing your life
00:36:35.22\00:36:38.32
and you want to
see and you follow them
00:36:38.35\00:36:40.08
as long as they
perform the miracle.
00:36:40.11\00:36:42.11
And that's what happened,
the 5,000 when He fed them,
00:36:42.14\00:36:44.73
they followed Him.
00:36:44.76\00:36:46.08
I mean, the people
that saw Jesus walk on,
00:36:46.11\00:36:48.88
they followed Him.
00:36:48.91\00:36:50.07
When the miracles
happen, they followed Him,
00:36:50.10\00:36:52.14
but when it seized and
He the greatest miracle
00:36:52.17\00:36:55.07
hung upon the cross
performing the greatest miracle,
00:36:55.10\00:36:58.36
they turned and
walked away from Him.
00:36:58.39\00:37:02.98
Because they are fascinated
by the fire that comes down
00:37:03.01\00:37:08.79
and by the miracles.
00:37:08.82\00:37:10.98
It says that He
doeth in the sight of man.
00:37:11.01\00:37:14.69
I reject
Spiritism, Occultism, Satanism
00:37:14.72\00:37:18.79
because it's
rooted in deception.
00:37:18.82\00:37:21.96
The devil seeks to confuse us,
00:37:21.99\00:37:24.60
to deceive us and
then to destroy us.
00:37:24.63\00:37:27.83
That's the way he
works and in the last days
00:37:27.86\00:37:30.36
that is the way
he is going to work.
00:37:30.39\00:37:32.32
You better get into this book.
00:37:32.35\00:37:33.81
Do you hear me?
00:37:33.84\00:37:34.92
You better get
serious about this book.
00:37:34.95\00:37:37.40
Don't depend on your preacher.
00:37:37.43\00:37:38.93
Don't depend on your parents.
00:37:38.96\00:37:40.63
Don't depend on anybody.
00:37:40.66\00:37:42.05
Put your eyes to see
and your ears to hear
00:37:42.08\00:37:44.75
and your heart to respond
to what God says in His book.
00:37:44.78\00:37:50.15
In His book.
00:37:50.18\00:37:52.27
Listen to this, F.F. Morse,
00:37:52.30\00:37:56.87
"The phenomenal
aspect of modern spiritualism
00:37:56.90\00:37:59.44
reproduces all the
essential principles of" what?
00:37:59.47\00:38:02.29
"Magic, witchcraft
and sorcery of the past.
00:38:02.32\00:38:05.79
The same powers are involved,
00:38:05.82\00:38:07.55
the same
intelligences operating."
00:38:07.58\00:38:09.68
And what did God say to Israel?
00:38:09.71\00:38:11.25
He said, "Stay away from
those heathen practices."
00:38:11.28\00:38:13.98
Listen to me,
don't play with it.
00:38:14.01\00:38:17.73
Don't get it.
00:38:17.76\00:38:18.79
Your future is not in the stars.
00:38:18.82\00:38:20.82
Your future is in the
God who made the stars.
00:38:20.85\00:38:27.68
So put your faith
and trust in the God
00:38:27.71\00:38:30.55
and the God that
we love and serve.
00:38:30.58\00:38:32.98
Listen to the
Bible, the Word of God.
00:38:33.01\00:38:35.76
"For there shall
arise false Christs,
00:38:35.79\00:38:37.14
and false prophets,
and shall show great signs
00:38:37.17\00:38:39.81
and great wonders,
00:38:39.84\00:38:40.99
in so much that,
if it were possible,
00:38:41.02\00:38:42.77
they shall
deceive the very elect."
00:38:42.80\00:38:44.85
Well, why?
00:38:44.88\00:38:45.93
When that miracle
happens on the stage,
00:38:45.96\00:38:48.08
when that miracle happens,
we all fascinated by it,
00:38:48.11\00:38:50.85
but listen, test it.
00:38:50.88\00:38:54.24
If it speaks not
according to the law
00:38:54.27\00:38:56.76
and to the testimony,
there is no light in it.
00:38:56.79\00:39:02.07
That's why by the way,
many of those miracle workers
00:39:02.10\00:39:05.27
wind up in some
house of prostitution.
00:39:05.30\00:39:09.57
That's a fact.
00:39:09.60\00:39:10.64
That's why they--
because they are going on signs
00:39:10.67\00:39:12.90
and wonders and trying
to draw the crowd by sign
00:39:12.93\00:39:15.81
and the greatest
sign is a changed life
00:39:15.84\00:39:18.78
and a living for
Jesus Christ and holiness.
00:39:18.81\00:39:21.90
That is the greatest sign.
00:39:21.93\00:39:24.92
Greatest sign.
00:39:24.95\00:39:26.63
Well, he says, watch
out for unclean spirits,
00:39:26.66\00:39:28.95
beware of the
powers of darkness.
00:39:28.98\00:39:30.93
He says watch out
for those fallen angels
00:39:30.96\00:39:32.80
that masquerade themselves.
00:39:32.83\00:39:34.96
Listen, and that's it,
00:39:34.99\00:39:37.15
then why should the
major doctrine in theology
00:39:37.18\00:39:39.35
and teaching of spiritism
00:39:39.38\00:39:41.43
have impacted the
theology of Christianity?
00:39:41.46\00:39:44.38
Why should the first lie be
perpetuated from the pulpit?
00:39:44.41\00:39:51.34
The obvious answer is deception
00:39:51.37\00:39:55.14
and the counterfeit has
been used to its fullest.
00:39:55.17\00:39:58.93
And then the dark
ages we're going to see
00:39:58.96\00:40:00.66
when I talk
about the antichrist.
00:40:00.69\00:40:01.98
I talk about
the beast of Revel--
00:40:02.01\00:40:03.75
Hey, we're getting into
things these next few weeks.
00:40:03.78\00:40:06.28
Only the strong are
going to be able to handle.
00:40:06.31\00:40:10.16
Only the pilgrim
will be able to handle.
00:40:10.19\00:40:15.46
Beware of the deception, beware.
00:40:15.49\00:40:19.56
Deception and counterfeit.
00:40:19.59\00:40:21.16
I've studied the
cults of the dead,
00:40:21.19\00:40:23.23
and the claims of
the masters of the east
00:40:23.26\00:40:24.92
with their long wharf shoots
00:40:24.95\00:40:26.46
and I found
there's no master plan,
00:40:26.49\00:40:30.28
but it's a master
plan of Satan himself.
00:40:30.31\00:40:32.67
He is preparing for a takeover.
00:40:32.70\00:40:34.48
When he will come in
the very image of Christ,
00:40:34.51\00:40:36.98
so that they will
say, ah, there is Christ
00:40:37.01\00:40:39.01
and Jesus said and
warned us in Matthew,
00:40:39.04\00:40:41.20
if they say he is
here, don't believe it.
00:40:41.23\00:40:43.43
Say he is here,
don't believe it.
00:40:43.46\00:40:45.21
When He comes in glory
and every eye shall see Him
00:40:45.24\00:40:47.90
then you can believe it.
00:40:47.93\00:40:51.09
Then you can believe it.
00:40:51.12\00:40:53.50
That's the power of God's word.
00:40:53.53\00:40:55.04
Listen, that's the
power of God's word
00:40:55.07\00:40:57.24
and that's what He says
here, false prophets and all.
00:40:57.27\00:41:02.01
Now there are three
ways that Satan controls you.
00:41:02.04\00:41:04.82
First of all, depression.
00:41:04.85\00:41:06.82
Don't you let
depression get hold of you.
00:41:06.85\00:41:09.24
'Cause when you let
depression get hold,
00:41:09.27\00:41:10.84
I told my wife today
00:41:10.87\00:41:11.90
I take two pills
all day optimism pills.
00:41:11.93\00:41:15.09
That's prayer in the morning
and prayer in the evening.
00:41:15.12\00:41:17.03
Amen. Amen.
00:41:17.06\00:41:19.53
Prayer in the morning
and prayer in the evening.
00:41:23.47\00:41:25.68
Don't you get the--
00:41:25.71\00:41:26.74
why should you be
depressed your child of God.
00:41:26.77\00:41:29.78
Why should you be depressed
you're on your way to heaven.
00:41:29.81\00:41:32.87
Why should you be depressed,
00:41:32.90\00:41:34.69
God will provide for you
00:41:34.72\00:41:36.87
if you have the
faith to believe.
00:41:36.90\00:41:39.58
Why should you be depressed?
00:41:39.61\00:41:43.47
Secondly,
depression leads to obsession.
00:41:43.50\00:41:49.62
Don't become obsessed
00:41:49.65\00:41:51.97
by your depression or
obsessed with your sin.
00:41:52.00\00:41:55.38
Don't let that sin
00:41:55.41\00:41:56.70
become an oppression
or obsession with you
00:41:56.73\00:42:00.75
because there's three
steps to demon control.
00:42:00.78\00:42:04.55
There's three steps
to the devils control.
00:42:04.58\00:42:07.79
Depression, obsession
00:42:07.82\00:42:10.77
and finally, possession.
00:42:10.80\00:42:13.55
Possession.
00:42:13.58\00:42:15.40
Let me tell you, the
sophistries of Satan,
00:42:15.43\00:42:18.23
I'm gonna talk
about it tomorrow.
00:42:18.26\00:42:19.40
The theology of Satan.
00:42:19.43\00:42:21.37
What happens five
minutes after you die,
00:42:21.40\00:42:22.72
you can't miss it.
00:42:22.75\00:42:24.32
But listen to me
carefully, will you?
00:42:24.35\00:42:26.12
Be prepared.
00:42:26.15\00:42:27.18
How? How can I be prepared?
00:42:27.21\00:42:29.68
Study the Bible every day.
00:42:29.71\00:42:32.20
Read your Bible every day.
00:42:32.23\00:42:33.63
You say, well, Pastor Halvorsen,
I don't understand it.
00:42:33.66\00:42:36.01
That's all
right, just keep reading
00:42:36.04\00:42:37.32
and some day you will.
00:42:37.35\00:42:39.71
Hey, the first time I
ever preached just as--
00:42:39.74\00:42:42.03
I mean, I just have been
saved and I want to share faith
00:42:42.06\00:42:44.62
and I'm preaching on
street corners in New York
00:42:44.65\00:42:47.03
and everywhere and
they finally invited me
00:42:47.06\00:42:49.16
to Church to give my testimony
00:42:49.19\00:42:50.52
and then I held a meeting
called Evangelistic Meeting
00:42:50.55\00:42:53.85
in a bookie joint in Brooklyn.
00:42:53.88\00:42:56.13
That was my hall a bookie joint.
00:42:56.16\00:42:58.92
Come a long way,
baby, bookie joint.
00:42:58.95\00:43:01.76
And I preached on
David in the Lion's Den.
00:43:01.79\00:43:04.72
David in the Lion's Den.
00:43:09.35\00:43:13.41
But I preach
with such enthusiasm
00:43:13.44\00:43:14.93
they thought the
Bible had been written wrong
00:43:14.96\00:43:16.44
in my neighborhood.
00:43:16.47\00:43:18.51
Hey, David never got near.
00:43:18.54\00:43:19.99
I didn't know much about
it, but I knew one thing,
00:43:20.02\00:43:22.40
I would keep
learning and learning
00:43:22.43\00:43:24.29
and learning and learning
00:43:24.32\00:43:25.98
and until I won,
I'm going to learn
00:43:26.01\00:43:28.33
and learn and
learn until He comes
00:43:28.36\00:43:30.13
and then when I get
to heaven I'm gonna learn
00:43:30.16\00:43:31.87
and learn and learn and
learn and have a good time
00:43:31.90\00:43:34.37
of studying with you people.
00:43:34.40\00:43:38.13
Can you imagine
studying Revelation with John,
00:43:38.16\00:43:44.35
or the epistles with Paul?
00:43:44.38\00:43:46.82
And I can't wait to
get to Romans with Paul.
00:43:46.85\00:43:49.07
I have a few things
to question him about.
00:43:49.10\00:43:52.38
Isn't it gonna be wonderful?
00:43:52.41\00:43:53.47
Hey, listen to me.
00:43:53.50\00:43:55.01
Listen.
00:43:55.04\00:43:56.16
Pray and
secondly, pray everyday.
00:43:56.19\00:43:59.24
You don't have
to be holy to pray,
00:43:59.27\00:44:00.50
you don't have to be
good to pray, just pray.
00:44:00.53\00:44:03.97
Just pray.
00:44:04.00\00:44:05.71
Thirdly, share your faith.
00:44:05.74\00:44:07.65
My friend, share your faith.
00:44:07.68\00:44:09.52
You have a great opportunity
00:44:09.55\00:44:10.64
during these weeks
to invite somebody.
00:44:10.67\00:44:13.37
Witness for Jesus Christ
in your life, in your deeds,
00:44:13.40\00:44:17.62
in your words, only
hope listen to Jesus Christ.
00:44:17.65\00:44:22.46
I am the
resurrection and the life.
00:44:22.49\00:44:26.29
Demonism is real.
00:44:26.32\00:44:28.00
I was in New York, I
was teaching a seminary,
00:44:28.03\00:44:30.23
of course on evangelism.
00:44:30.26\00:44:32.55
I was holding a series
of meetings off Broadway,
00:44:32.58\00:44:34.34
I ran an
evangelistic center in New York
00:44:34.37\00:44:36.56
just to off
Broadway on 46th street.
00:44:36.59\00:44:40.21
And I was preaching one night,
00:44:40.24\00:44:41.29
a woman came up to me she said,
00:44:41.32\00:44:42.35
"I wish you'd
go see my daughter.
00:44:42.38\00:44:43.63
She's a wreck.
00:44:43.66\00:44:44.96
She's laying in a fetal
position in the living room,
00:44:44.99\00:44:48.41
hasn't moved for
three weeks throwing up,
00:44:48.44\00:44:50.62
doing everything
there and screaming
00:44:50.65\00:44:52.67
at the top of the lungs."
00:44:52.70\00:44:54.78
So I took two
seminary students with me
00:44:54.81\00:44:56.48
the one's that
were more skeptical.
00:44:56.51\00:44:58.41
Got on the subway went out,
00:44:58.44\00:44:59.93
got to the
apartment, knocked on the door.
00:44:59.96\00:45:01.42
When I got to the apartment door
00:45:01.45\00:45:02.52
I could hear
this terrible screech.
00:45:02.55\00:45:05.20
It was frightening.
00:45:05.23\00:45:07.30
And so the mother
answered and I walked in
00:45:07.33\00:45:08.87
and there was this
poor little pitiful thing,
00:45:08.90\00:45:10.88
21-years-old in
a fetal position,
00:45:10.91\00:45:13.23
screaming at the top of her lung
00:45:13.26\00:45:15.53
and it was a terrible scene.
00:45:15.56\00:45:17.17
I knelt beside
her, I took the oil
00:45:17.20\00:45:19.13
and anointed in the
name of Jesus Christ
00:45:19.16\00:45:20.96
and when that
happened, listen to me, friend,
00:45:20.99\00:45:22.80
her mouth opened and
there came screeching out
00:45:22.83\00:45:25.13
a demon bouncing off the
walls, cupboards full opened.
00:45:25.16\00:45:28.00
Hey, I don't chase demons.
00:45:28.03\00:45:32.98
The cupboards--
dishes flying everywhere.
00:45:33.01\00:45:35.60
But when I anointed that girl
in the name of Jesus Christ,
00:45:35.63\00:45:39.51
there is not a demon in
hell that can capture her.
00:45:39.54\00:45:42.90
There is not a demon
in hell that can hold her
00:45:42.93\00:45:45.48
because Jesus
Christ sets us free.
00:45:45.51\00:45:50.20
In that moment, a
smile came to her face
00:45:50.23\00:45:56.95
and we rejoiced in God.
00:45:56.98\00:45:58.40
She got up.
00:45:58.43\00:46:00.32
I said, "I'll see you
tomorrow night in our meeting."
00:46:00.35\00:46:02.27
She came in,
beautiful young girl
00:46:02.30\00:46:04.91
gave her heart to God.
00:46:04.94\00:46:05.97
We baptized her in the
name of the Father, Son
00:46:06.00\00:46:08.09
and Holy Spirit,
the name of Jesus.
00:46:08.12\00:46:10.54
And she came forth
00:46:10.57\00:46:11.60
and she became a
disciple of Christ,
00:46:11.63\00:46:13.88
a servant of Jesus Christ.
00:46:13.91\00:46:16.37
The devil is real,
but God is more powerful.
00:46:16.40\00:46:22.30
And so we want to serve,
00:46:22.33\00:46:23.48
we want to serve
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:46:23.51\00:46:26.15
We want to serve Him.
00:46:26.18\00:46:27.61
And it was
standing before the grave
00:46:27.64\00:46:29.19
there is no hope
outside of Jesus.
00:46:29.22\00:46:31.38
A husband and wife
have no hope without Jesus.
00:46:31.41\00:46:34.39
And so we need to have hope
00:46:34.42\00:46:35.69
and that hope is in Jesus Christ
00:46:35.72\00:46:37.42
and we can find
that hope in Jesus today
00:46:37.45\00:46:40.73
because this Jesus said,
00:46:40.76\00:46:42.16
"I go to
prepare a place for you.
00:46:42.19\00:46:44.05
I will come again and
receive you unto Myself
00:46:44.08\00:46:46.43
that where I am
there you may be also."
00:46:46.46\00:46:49.07
I mean, He made a promise to us
00:46:49.10\00:46:50.63
and He is going to
fulfill that promise
00:46:50.66\00:46:52.59
and He's gonna
fulfill that promise on time.
00:46:52.62\00:46:54.67
When you see these things happen
00:46:54.70\00:46:56.39
then lift up your head, look up
00:46:56.42\00:46:58.58
because your
redemption draweth near.
00:46:58.61\00:47:01.44
Where are you looking tonight?
00:47:01.47\00:47:03.22
Are you looking up
or you're looking down?
00:47:03.25\00:47:09.09
Cheer up.
00:47:09.12\00:47:11.12
Christ is the
answer. God bless you.
00:47:11.15\00:47:16.09
And now another Bible question.
00:47:51.15\00:47:53.92
"In considering
the subject of baptism
00:47:53.95\00:47:55.61
it seems to be that
having being baptized
00:47:55.64\00:47:57.98
as an infant is
good enough for me.
00:47:58.01\00:48:01.65
Why should I feel otherwise?"
00:48:01.68\00:48:03.87
Okay.
00:48:03.90\00:48:05.54
Let me read a verse to you.
00:48:05.57\00:48:07.62
Why should I feel otherwise?
00:48:07.65\00:48:08.98
All right.
00:48:09.01\00:48:10.04
Infant baptism. I was
baptized as an infant.
00:48:10.07\00:48:12.75
Well, actually not baptized
because the word baptize,
00:48:12.78\00:48:15.25
you know what it means?
00:48:15.28\00:48:16.45
It means to
immerse, immerse completely.
00:48:16.48\00:48:19.40
When I was an infant I had
some water sprinkled on my head.
00:48:19.43\00:48:21.83
I wasn't
baptized, I was sprinkled
00:48:21.86\00:48:24.69
or christened as we used to say.
00:48:24.72\00:48:30.05
Let's look at this.
00:48:30.08\00:48:32.16
Matthew 3:13,
00:48:32.19\00:48:36.67
"Then Jesus came
from Galilee to Jordan,"
00:48:36.70\00:48:41.93
we're not talking
about the country of Jordan,
00:48:41.96\00:48:44.58
"unto John to be
baptized of him."
00:48:44.61\00:48:48.44
Jesus went to the
River Jordan to be baptized.
00:48:48.47\00:48:53.70
He gave you an example.
00:48:53.73\00:48:55.72
Just a few verses
later the Father said,
00:48:55.75\00:48:57.80
"This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased."
00:48:57.83\00:49:01.05
Jesus' baptism
pleased our Heavenly Father.
00:49:01.08\00:49:06.24
Now you might
say, "it seems to me."
00:49:06.27\00:49:12.98
Allow me to take the opportunity
00:49:13.01\00:49:14.20
to use that expression
00:49:14.23\00:49:16.19
as a way to explain
how Christianity works.
00:49:16.22\00:49:19.40
You know, it might seem to you
00:49:19.43\00:49:22.11
like you're having
another hot-fudge Sunday
00:49:22.14\00:49:25.51
would be a perfectly good idea.
00:49:25.54\00:49:27.90
But it might seem
to your doctor that,
00:49:27.93\00:49:30.26
that's not so smart.
00:49:30.29\00:49:31.87
And when it comes to
matters of good health
00:49:31.90\00:49:34.29
and I am
speaking generally here,
00:49:34.32\00:49:36.42
your doctor
probably has the best idea.
00:49:36.45\00:49:39.75
You understand?
00:49:39.78\00:49:40.86
When you were
doing math in math class
00:49:40.89\00:49:42.97
it might have seemed to you
00:49:43.00\00:49:44.67
that the square
root of 36 was 37
00:49:44.70\00:49:48.50
but it seemed
to the math teacher
00:49:48.53\00:49:49.89
that the square root of 36 was 6
00:49:49.92\00:49:52.40
and in that situation best
to go with the math teacher.
00:49:52.43\00:49:55.77
You understand?
00:49:55.80\00:49:56.89
So it might seem to you
that infant baptism is okay
00:49:56.92\00:50:00.27
but the Bible has spoken
00:50:00.30\00:50:02.51
and God has made
His will really clear.
00:50:02.54\00:50:07.10
Having said that, I
need to add that love for God
00:50:07.13\00:50:13.67
must trump what
seems right to you.
00:50:13.70\00:50:18.96
You understand that?
00:50:18.99\00:50:20.56
Love for God.
00:50:20.59\00:50:21.91
I hope you know
what I am saying.
00:50:21.94\00:50:24.03
There are times
in a relationship,
00:50:24.06\00:50:29.06
perhaps he wants
to eat Mexican food,
00:50:29.09\00:50:35.15
she wants to eat Chinese food
00:50:35.18\00:50:39.14
and so it ought to be a
competition really to see
00:50:39.17\00:50:41.23
who first can please
the other one by saying,
00:50:41.26\00:50:43.18
it's not a deal
breaker, it's not a big deal.
00:50:43.21\00:50:44.97
Hey, let's eat at your place.
00:50:45.00\00:50:46.09
No, let's eat at your place.
00:50:46.12\00:50:47.26
You know what I mean?
00:50:47.29\00:50:48.61
Sometimes you
might have a preference
00:50:48.64\00:50:52.19
but love for somebody else
00:50:52.22\00:50:53.26
sees you
sacrifice that preference
00:50:53.29\00:50:55.21
so you can demonstrate
the love for that person.
00:50:55.24\00:50:58.07
About infant baptism,
00:50:58.10\00:50:59.37
think of what
baptism represents.
00:50:59.40\00:51:01.57
Romans 6, "Know ye
not, that so many of us
00:51:01.60\00:51:04.41
as were baptized
into Jesus Christ
00:51:04.44\00:51:06.76
were baptized into His death."
00:51:06.79\00:51:08.97
This is verse 4 now,
00:51:09.00\00:51:10.30
"Therefore we are buried
with him by baptism into death,
00:51:10.33\00:51:14.45
that like as Christ
was raised up from the dead
00:51:14.48\00:51:16.63
by the glory of the Father,
00:51:16.66\00:51:18.25
even so we also should
walk in newness of life."
00:51:18.28\00:51:21.25
Verse 5, "If we have
been planted together
00:51:21.28\00:51:24.64
in the likeness of his death,
00:51:24.67\00:51:25.73
we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection."
00:51:25.76\00:51:28.28
Verse 6, "Knowing this,
00:51:28.31\00:51:30.29
that our old man
is crucified with him,
00:51:30.32\00:51:33.77
that the body of
sin might be destroyed,
00:51:33.80\00:51:35.33
that henceforth we
should not serve sin."
00:51:35.36\00:51:37.14
So, Paul in Romans 6:3 says,
00:51:37.17\00:51:41.06
baptize,
00:51:41.09\00:51:42.99
verse 4, buried,
verse 5, planted.
00:51:43.02\00:51:47.48
You go under
when you are buried,
00:51:47.51\00:51:49.09
under when you are planted.
00:51:49.12\00:51:50.15
Verse 6,
crucified, put to death.
00:51:50.18\00:51:53.02
Sprinkling doesn't
signify any of those things.
00:51:53.05\00:51:55.95
When you plant a seed,
00:51:55.98\00:51:57.03
you don't put it on the ground
and sprinkle dirt over it.
00:51:57.06\00:52:00.25
When you bury-- oh, perished--
00:52:00.28\00:52:03.58
you thought you buried somebody,
00:52:03.61\00:52:04.75
take grandpa to the cemetery
and sprinkle dirt over him.
00:52:04.78\00:52:08.64
That's not gonna go
down too well, is it?
00:52:08.67\00:52:11.36
You see, Bible baptism carries
with a deep spiritual meaning.
00:52:11.39\00:52:16.11
It means that you come
to Christ, you've died.
00:52:16.14\00:52:19.49
And so now the old you is buried
00:52:19.52\00:52:22.19
and a new you is rise up
to walk in newness of life.
00:52:22.22\00:52:27.02
God bless you as I pray,
00:52:27.05\00:52:30.91
you chose God's
way for your life.
00:52:30.94\00:52:34.95
Another good
Bible question here.
00:52:34.98\00:52:36.27
"I've been baptized before
00:52:36.30\00:52:37.71
but I really gone
a long way from God,
00:52:37.74\00:52:41.00
should I be baptized again?"
00:52:41.03\00:52:45.48
Well, maybe.
00:52:45.51\00:52:46.55
That's for you to
decide as you pray to God.
00:52:46.58\00:52:49.51
If you look in Acts Chapter 19
00:52:49.54\00:52:52.83
you discover that Paul
said to some believers,
00:52:52.86\00:52:56.66
"Have you received the
gift of the Holy Ghost?"
00:52:56.69\00:53:00.01
They said -- this
is Verse 2 of Acts 19.
00:53:00.04\00:53:03.47
"We have not so much as heard
00:53:03.50\00:53:04.53
whether there
be any Holy Ghost."
00:53:04.56\00:53:07.38
And then when he
discovered or they told him
00:53:07.41\00:53:11.49
that they have been
baptized unto John's baptism,
00:53:11.52\00:53:15.68
"Believe on him which
should come after him."
00:53:15.71\00:53:19.58
Paul said, that they
should believe on him
00:53:19.61\00:53:23.54
who should come after
and who is Jesus Christ.
00:53:23.57\00:53:26.95
We were baptized
in John's baptism.
00:53:26.98\00:53:28.84
Well, John was
saying, follow Jesus Christ.
00:53:28.87\00:53:33.13
Point is these
weren't bad people
00:53:33.16\00:53:34.37
but their
experience was limited,
00:53:34.40\00:53:35.93
their experience was incomplete
00:53:35.96\00:53:38.32
and when they received
great new light, big new stuff.
00:53:38.35\00:53:41.28
They said, we're
gonna start again,
00:53:41.31\00:53:43.64
we're gonna embrace
Jesus and we're all in.
00:53:43.67\00:53:46.91
They were re-baptized.
00:53:46.94\00:53:49.27
If you consider marriage to--
baptism to be like a marriage.
00:53:49.30\00:53:53.45
In marriage too
lives are joined together,
00:53:53.48\00:53:55.07
in baptism you are
joined together with Jesus.
00:53:55.10\00:53:59.79
If you want to get
yourself divorced as it were
00:53:59.82\00:54:01.88
perhaps the right thing
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00:54:01.91\00:54:05.50
When people get divorced,
from a biblical perspective
00:54:05.53\00:54:08.86
they shouldn't just move
back in together and shack up,
00:54:08.89\00:54:13.02
there ought to be a wedding
that takes place or a marriage.
00:54:13.05\00:54:16.19
So you pray about that
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00:54:16.22\00:54:21.57
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wandered far from God,
00:54:21.60\00:54:24.51
lived godless lives
or whatever that might be
00:54:24.54\00:54:28.72
chose to be re-baptized
00:54:28.75\00:54:30.96
and that's not
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00:54:30.99\00:54:34.05
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