you
Amen
you
Sounds are ready.
Sing.
It was the time of the earth, the length of earth of air,
and all that ground was so tall.
It was sunny and windy, the rain was at the tower,
and many things went on.
I went to the people and said, Aloha, Aloha, Aloha,
as we all become a single one.
In the wake of night and day, we wash our seats,
and we all become a single one.
All that ground was large and holding everything
that was always here.
And when we tried to make a living out of it,
it started raining warm.
I said, Aloha, Aloha, Aloha, as we all become a single one.
In the wake of night and day, we wash our seats,
and we all become a single one.
In the wake of night and day, we wash our seats,
and we all become a single one.
I said, Aloha, Aloha, Aloha, as we all become a single one.
In the wake of night and day, we wash our seats,
and we all become a single one.
In the wake of night and day, we wash our seats,
and we all become a single one.
But at last, no more seats have gone.
We've got the world to see.
The wheels we have to win, the roads we have to reach,
and any future day.
A hundred years belong, a day will come to an end.
Tell Aloha, Aloha, Aloha, Aloha, Aloha,
the old one comes, he is the one,
and the old one comes, he settles on the road.
Alright, good morning everybody.
Welcome to Verity Baptist Church.
Take out your bullets in here today.
And our verse of the week is Proverbs 8, verse 36,
where the Bible reads, one second.
Proverbs 8, verse 36,
He that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul.
All they that hate me love death.
Now, obviously we're not promoting that picture
that's on the front.
It's just kind of picturing voodoo
and all they that hate me love death.
But we are a family integrated church,
and children and infants are welcome during the services.
We do have a mother-baby room back there
for your convenience, as well as the ladies restroom.
Men's restroom is up here in front.
Remember, no eating during the services.
Maintain a professional atmosphere
and keep the children from running and making noise
during the church service.
The kids are going to have a great day,
so they can make lots of noise later on today,
but just not during the church service.
Okay, just tell them.
All this week, you know, my son,
we got to do this in Pampanga yesterday, too,
but we had all these games and everything at our house,
you know, and my son's just wanting to play them.
He's like, just wait until Saturday.
He tried to bargain with me.
Like on Thursday, he said, tomorrow, Dad.
I was like, no, Saturday, son.
Okay, two days from now.
But anyways, in the middle of your bulletin,
our weekly service time is listed.
Our first service is at 10 a.m.
Then we have a short break in our 1130 service,
and our Wednesday evening Bible study is at 7 p.m.
Soul Winning Time is listed 5 p.m. on Wednesday afternoons.
Saturday, we have Soul Winning 10 to 12
and then 2 to 4.
And then Sunday afternoon,
we do have Soul Winning around 2.15 p.m. today.
Our goal is to get started early on the Soul Winning here today,
so the second sermon's probably going to be a little bit shorter.
And so we'll try to wrap up lunch as quickly as possible,
and we're going to go Soul Winning just nearby
probably for about an hour,
because we've got a lot of stuff going on.
And so our salvations are listed there
for Manila, Pampanga, Bicol, Hong Kong, Singapore.
So great work by all the churches and Bible study fellowships.
Birthdays and anniversaries for November.
We have quite a lot.
And then information for first-time guests.
On the next page, our Bible memorization challenge.
So chapters 23 through 41.
And if you memorize a chapter,
you're welcome to get a prize that we have back there.
We have either chips or some sort of candy.
It's a great early wedding gift.
Brother Marlon, memorize a chapter,
give your new bride.
I got this for you.
I memorized this chapter just for you.
But anyways, I'll actually be preaching
on Bible memorization for the second service here today.
And let's see.
Upcoming activities.
So today is our children's day,
so that's exciting.
So we're going to be having a jump house for the kids,
and we're going to be having a lot of different games.
So we're not able to do these things at the mall
for the last year and a half,
so we're going to be having a jump house
for the last year and a half,
so we're bringing the mall to us here today.
We're bringing KidZuna to us.
So it's going to be exciting for the kids.
Tomorrow we do have a soul-winning marathon
on All Saints Day.
So I didn't ask.
We might have more locations.
I'll talk to you after the service
and maybe Brother Raffi
if we're doing in Bullockon also.
But I know we're going to do in...
I don't know.
Brother Ehrman's in charge of this area
for the exact area that you guys are going to go here.
I know we're doing in Pampanga and Beekle,
so obviously it should be pretty receptive
to what I would say tomorrow.
I know in Pampanga some of the cemeteries are open,
but it's like they say only half open.
So I don't know if half open means
just the dead people are allowed to be there
but not the alive people
or what it means by 50% capacity,
how they judge that.
But anyways, we'll have soul-winning tomorrow
for All Saints Day,
so it's a busy weekend we got here.
Choir practice is going to be the next three weeks,
and we're going to have a performance on the 28th.
We do have our two-year anniversary in Pampanga
if anyone would like to come to that.
And then we have a ping-pong tournament
on our three-year anniversary here.
So that's going to be our big event for that day.
Obviously, we'll have food and fellowship.
And we're only going to have one sermon there
for our three-year anniversary,
so we're going to have more time for fellowship.
And current and upcoming series listed there,
information on our group chat.
Then on the back, there is a place for sermon notes.
So I believe that's it for announcements here today.
We'll have Brother Rafi lead us in another song.
And when we do that, we'll do the same thing.
We'll do the same thing.
Hymn number 247.
Same.
First, we'll do the same thing.
I found a friend.
First one's already sing.
I found a friend
who is old to me.
They make me walk away.
Same, I started by singing all alone
in the peace that to me.
Come home to me,
and I need you now
to live with me
eternally.
Same, I started by
singing to life so blind
and now I see tonight
all alone.
Same.
But for nication and all uncleanness
or covetousness
let it not be once named among you
as become a saints
neither filthiness nor foolish talking
nor jesting
which are not convenient
but rather giving of things.
For this ye know that no homonger
nor untamed person
nor covetous man
whose nidolata have any inheritance
in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Let no man deceive you with vain words
for because of these things
cometh the wrath of God
upon the children of disobedience.
Be not ye therefore partakers with them
for ye were sometimes darkness
but now are ye light in the Lord
walk as children of light
for the fruit of the Spirit
is in all goodness and righteousness and truth
proving what is acceptable unto the Lord
and have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works of darkness
but rather the truth of them.
For it is a shame
even to speak of those things
which are done of them in secret
but all things that are reproved
are made manifest by the light
for whatsoever doth make manifest
is light
wherefore he says
wake though that sleepest
and arise from the dead
speaking to yourselves
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord
giving thanks always
for all things unto God
and the Father
in the name of God
submitting yourselves
one to another
in the fear of God
Wives, submit yourselves
unto your own husbands
as unto the Lord
for the husband is the head of the wife
even as Christ is the head of the church
and he is the saviour of the body
therefore the church is subject unto Christ
so let the wives be to their own husbands
and everything
husbands love your wives
even as Christ also loved the church
and gave it
that he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of water by the word
that he might present it to himself
a glorious church
not having spot of wrinkle or any such thing
but that it should be holy and without blemish
so ought to mean to love the wives
as their own bodies
he that loveth his wife
loveth himself
for no man ever yet hated his own flesh
but notheth and shalteth it
even as the Lord the church
for we are members of his body
of his flesh
and of his bones
for this cause shall a man leave
his father and mother
and shall be joined unto his wife
this is a great mystery
but I speak concerning Christ and the church
nevertheless
let every one of you
in particular
so love his wife
even as himself
and the wife see
that she reverence her husband
that's great
thank you father
for your word
for this chapter
for the bible
thank you for everyone who's here
please help us to understand
the message
and also to apply in our lives
so that we can grow in truth
and in knowledge
and in mercy and grace
and we also pray that you will
anoint the preacher
and between your name
Jesus Christ
amen
alright
we are here in Ephesians chapter 5
the name of the sermon is
the satanic religion of voodoo
now
we are here at all saints day
halloween weekend
you know
different parts of the world
celebrate this weekend differently
but pretty much
all around the world
this weekend
people worship the devil
right
it's a very common
and look
that is what all saints day is doing
you're calling out
to dead spirits
right
your dead ancestors are either
in heaven or hell
there's no in between
ghost world
where they're at
so when you're communicating
with these spirits
of you think your ancestors
you're communicating with devils
okay
it's a very satanic weekend
and you know what
in the US
they worship
you know
that halloween is the big thing here
in Mexico
you got the day of the dead
you got all these skulls
and all these bones
and all these things
that people
halloween weekend
he saw all these bones
and these skulls
and he's like
what is wrong with the United States
he's like
everyone's possessed
you know
worshipping devils
because
when you look at it
that's obviously what they're doing
now
when it comes to voodoo
kind of the difference is this
as you know
here in the Philippines
they're coming out
to these spirits
and kind of worshipping
these devils
and things like that
in America
it's halloween
you know
October 31
in voodoo
it is year round
every single day
they are worshipping the devil
it's not just once a year
where you dress up
like the devil
and it's fun
it's like year round
they worship the devil
okay
now
you might think
voodoo is very uncommon
right
you've heard of voodoo dolls
where people do voodoo curses
and things like that
but there are
60 million people
in this world
where their primary religion
is voodoo
60 million
that puts it behind only
Christianity
Islam
Hinduism
and Buddhism
the only other things
could be atheism
if you consider that a religion
or daoism
which is kind of tough
to get the numbers
because religions like
daoism and voodoo
they don't just
worship one religion
they're welcome to worship
multiple religions at once
now
most people that worship
voodoo
are usually classified
as catholic
the reason why
is because
they're catholic
by morning
and voodoo
by night
now I would classify them
as voodoo though
because
it's not like
voodoo conforms
to being christian
where it's like
yeah it's kind of bad
but it's kind of christian
no no no
catholicism just becomes
voodoo
okay
so there are
60 million people
where this is
their primary religion
this is very common
in countries
in Africa
in Haiti
some of the Caribbean countries
but here in the Philippines
obviously there's a lot of people
that are
in Africa
right
where they're worshipping
and calling out
to these spirits
there's you know
a lot of witch doctors
in Albulario
and some of the provinces
and things like that
and so it's not like
this doesn't exist
at all
in the Philippines
and you know
you're going to see
a lot of links
to catholicism
and the pentecostal religion
in this sermon as well
so certainly
even under the realm
of christianity
or a christian country
so to speak
there is a lot of
pretty similar stuff
going on
okay
so we're going
to break this
into kind of three points
point number one
is before
getting possessed
by spirits
because the goal
of a voodoo
religious ceremony
is to get possessed
by spirits
that's what they say
their goal is
they're not hiding it
their goal is
to get possessed
by spirits
so what we're going
to talk about
is their method
of getting possessed
by spirits
what takes place
during the possession
and then just some
other satanic things
that are involved
so this is their goal
is to get possessed
by spirits
and quite honestly
they have a system
that is very effective
for getting possessed
by devils
okay
so when it comes
to getting possessed
before possession
the first thing you do
to kind of call out
to those spirits
is you get drunk
and you have a bunch
of alcohol
at these religious ceremonies
alcohol is a major part
of religious ceremonies
when it comes to voodoo
now you might think
this is very strange
but think about this
there are a lot of
religions that don't
use alcohol
but they use other drugs
right
think about native
religions
where they'll smoke
you know peyote
and things like that
and so basically
there's various drugs
they use
and that is actually
a method to actually
get possessed by spirits
well the question is
is this something
that's biblical
because I'm not just
going to preach a sermon
and just rail on a religion
without any Bible verses
the question is
does this fit with the Bible
well notice what it says
in Ephesians 5 verse 18
and be not drunk
with wine
wherein is excess
but be filled
with the spirit
the Bible says
if you want to get filled
with the spirit
do not drink alcohol
now obviously
as a saved person
you're indwelled
with the Holy Ghost
it doesn't mean that
you're filled
with the Holy Ghost
being filled
with the Holy Ghost
will give you boldness
to do things
you would never do
in your normal flesh
I mean think about
going soul winning
isn't soul winning
kind of intimidating
when you first go
it's pretty scary
but you know
when you're filled
with the Holy Spirit
don't you just have
confidence to do things
you would never do
people are walking
down the street
you're stopping everybody
and it's like
I'm not an outgoing
person normally
probably half this room
is not very outgoing
but yet you go
soul winning
you get filled
with the spirit
you're doing things
you would never do
right think about
coming up here
to preach a sermon
many people that preach
sermons are not
naturally outgoing
right I never considered
myself a public speaker
but the thing is
you have boldness
to do things that you
would never do
in your normal flesh
well here's the thing
if you get drunk
you have boldness
to do things
you would never do
in your normal flesh
but you do sinful things
right when people
drink alcohol
don't they just do
stupid things
people commit
all kinds of sins
I mean rape and murder
and getting in fights
at bars and stuff like that
people do things
they would never do
in their normal flesh
why?
because drinking alcohol
will give you boldness
to do what's wrong
now it does not mention
the fact that getting drunk
will get you possessed
but that's because
this is written to believers
so for us
not drinking alcohol
we can be filled
with the spirit
but the contrary
is going to be true
right for an unbeliever
so if somebody
does drink alcohol
they'll get filled
with unclean spirits
and isn't it interesting
that another name
for alcohol is spirits
isn't that true?
right
I mean the world
doesn't even try to hide it
it's like hey
you want some spirits?
right
I mean they're literally
getting unclean spirits
inside of their body
and in voodoo
alcohol is a big part
of the ceremonies
you drink alcohol
at the beginning
if you ever go
to a voodoo ceremony
which I do not do
but if you ever go
to a voodoo religious
drunken party fest ceremony
right
you're supposed to bring
alcohol as an offering
to the gods
and not only do they
drink alcohol
and they bring alcohol
but they spray alcohol
into the crowd
can you imagine
having a church service
and we're just spraying
some sort of drug
in the crowd
that's what they literally
do in voodoo ceremonies
and alcohol is a method
to try to summon
the spirits
because their goal
is to get possessed
and you know what
it's actually biblical
because this is what
the Bible says
in Ephesians 5
not only that
not only do you have
the alcohol
but you also have music
and dancing
is a large part
of getting possessed
by unclean spirits
by devils
in voodoo
now with voodoo
they call these spirits
the loa
okay
it's essentially
what we would say
with you know
fallen angels
but in voodoo
they don't think
these spirits
are necessarily
good or bad
they believe your
ancestors become spirits
and there's various gods
that are more like
spirits
and they consider
them just kind of
these spirits
that are out there
that are neither
good nor bad
but of course
from a biblical standpoint
we know these are
fallen angels
right
but to them
they're neither
good nor bad
but in voodoo
the thing is
you've got to keep
the loa happy
and if they get mad
at you
they might cause
a natural disaster
right
like in voodoo
they believe that
the earthquakes
that have been pretty
severe in Haiti
were actually caused
by the loa
because the loa
were angry
that's what they believe
right
so they believe that
even though these loa
aren't good
you better make sure
they stay happy with you
otherwise they might
just curse you
right
verse 19
music and dancing
the question is
does this fit with the bible
i would say the context
is not gone with being
filled with the spirit
one method to get filled
with the holy spirit
is speaking to yourselves
in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs
singing and making melody
in your heart to the lord
see we sing hymns
at the beginning
of a church service
because it kind of
gets the mood going
doesn't it
it gets you excited
it gets you filled
with the spirit
it
i mean
this is the reason why
you see this in the bible
but see
every religion
uses music
as a part of their
religious ceremonies
every religion
the difference is
what kind of music
do they have
we have psalms
hymns and spiritual
songs
right
now with voodoo
it's mainly
you know rock music
and a lot of drums
is the sort of music
they have
and of course
they have dancing
when it comes to
voodoo
which is this
hip hop rock
style dancing
obviously very
ungodly
you know what they're doing
but they have basically
a lot of drums
now we don't have drums
at our church service
you say
why don't we have drums
well one reason
is because all the
heathen religions
use drums to get
possessed by spirits
and you know what
they've mastered
their technique
right
now go to
exodus 32
exodus chapter 32
now this might seem
strange to you
because if you come
from a background
like
you know
victory
or i'm assuming
ccf also
i've never been to
a ccf service
but
a lot of service
because you know
what it's
it's not old
fashion
it's not the pattern
we see in the bible
and it's something
that you see
the heathen doing
okay
exodus 32 gives
us an example
here in verse 17
and when joshua
heard the noise
of the people
as they shouted
he said unto moses
there is a noise
of war in the camp
so
moses and joshua
are gone
they go up to
talk to god
for a while
and then
all of a sudden
joshua's like
it sounds like
a war broke out
in the camp
it sounds like
there's a big
battle taking place
i mean we were
just gone for
a little while
there's a war
going on
and he says
in verse 18
it is not the
battle
what does it mean
to shout for
mastery
it means like
if you win a
competition
you're like
yes
you know
because you won
right
you have a race
and then you
know
you get to the
finish line
first
and you throw
your arms up
and you scream
shouting for
mastery
right
it's not that
people are
shouting because
they got a
victory
you're gonna scream
ah
right
he's saying
it's not that
people are
winning a battle
it's not that
they're losing
a battle
but
the noise of
them that
sing do
i hear
he's like
oh it's not
a war
they're just
singing
it's a song
right
i mean at
first he
thought it
sounds like
a war
oh wait a
minute
i believe the
greatest application
would be rock
and even like
a hard rock
sort of genre
because you know
many of the
heavy metal
sort of music
you can't
understand
anything that
they're saying
it's just a
bunch of noise
right
i mean it's
just
i don't know
i always
listen to rock
music but
not like that
like the heavy
metal where
you can't
understand
anything
verse 19
and it came
to pass as soon
as he came
nigh
into the camp
that he saw
the calf
and the
dancing
and moses
anger waxed
hot and he
cast the
tables out
of his hands
and break
them
beneath
the mount
and so moses
sees this
and they're
worshipping
a golden
calf
they have
the dancing
theme
right
you know this
wednesday brother
mateus is
preaching and
then he's got
a golden calf
and everybody's
bowing down
and they're
playing like
heavy metal
music
it's like what
in the world
happened in
a couple
days
right
now here's
the thing
to understand
this you
need to
realize that
in our
church most
people are
worshiped
does that mean
that they were
all saved
though
i mean i'm
sure many
people were
saved but
i think a
very high
percentage were
unsaved and
you see the
indication with
all the battles
moses has to
deal with
anyway in this
i mean worshipping
a golden calf
a saved person
is not going to
push to worship
a golden calf
that's going to
be coming from
some heathen
that's not saved
and when you're
talking about a
golden calf and
dancing and
in my opinion
the implication
is drinking and
fornication and
real wickedness
i literally
believe a lot of
people are
getting possessed
in exodus 32
because they're
doing all the
telltale signs of
getting possessed
now obviously a
saved person is
not going to get
possessed but
what i'm saying
is this when
you're doing this
sort of music
this loud music
with drums this
rock music that
is a method for
getting possessed
by devils and
it's a method that
voodoo uses
go to matthew six
matthew six
mattew six
and clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid they're saying wait a
minute he's in his right mind there's no exchange of personality and he's wearing
clothes we've never seen this guy wear clothes and they're afraid that he's
wearing clothes now usually you'd be afraid of somebody wasn't wearing clothes
like what in the world right what's he wants but they see this man wearing
clothes and they're afraid why because he didn't normally wear clothes isn't
that the indication moral impurity well this is exactly what happens at voodoo
ceremonies somebody gets possessed they start immediately just taking off their
clothes right go to mark chapter 9 mark 9 isn't it great that the Bible has all
the answers I mean you have questions on something you go right to the Bible if
you study it there's the answers right now some of the things that take place
in terms of moral impurity two of their loa two of the big eight one of them is
Erzulie and people that are Catholic voodoo they Erzulie is basically Mary
they call her Mary in Catholicism you know like Jesus's mother and then they
say Erzulie I think that there's a lot of Mary's don't don't quote me on that
but I'm pretty sure it's Mary as in Jesus mother and Erzulie is the one in
voodoo but Erzulie is a pretty wicked person because here's a woman this
devilish woman spirit who will possess men or women and will sleep with men or
women bisexual Erzulie but see what takes place at the voodoo ceremony as I
said you're supposed to make the loa happy so if the loa wants something you
have to give it to them and if you do not they're afraid that those will curse
you with a tsunami or an earthquake so basically if you're in a ceremony and
someone gets possessed possessed by Erzulie and this person possessed by
Erzulie decides they want to sleep with you whether you're a man or woman
married or not whether it's same-gender or not you have to go along with it and
if you do not go along with it everybody else at the ceremony is gonna be mad at
you because they don't want to get cursed by these loa so basically in voodoo
ceremonies it's very common to have homosexuality rape you know everything
you can possibly imagine right I'm not even getting it I mean honestly it's a
lot more gruesome than this when it comes to voodoo this is a disgusting
perverted religion but it's very common you know adultery is taking place
homosexuality at these ceremonies because when Erzulie possesses someone
you got to just go along with it another one is Baron Samedi now I put a
picture up a couple days ago on my Facebook that's the Baron okay that's
their you know devil their loa got the snake there and everything looks like
you know the skulls and everything well he's very famous I think he's he's sort
of like the grim reaper of voodoo he kind of deals with the underworld and
death and things like that well they know somebody's possessed by the Baron
when they start to smoke and curse and eat glass those are the things where you
know somebody's been possessed by the Baron and then the Baron is known to
just attack women you know rape a bunch of women it's very common I mean can you
really think of much more of a perverted religion then I mean to call this even a
religion they're just worshipping the devil and they literally believe they've
got to make these loa happy so they do the most perverted and wicked things
ever but that's what they follow they think well if they get mad at us they
might send a tsunami we got to make them happy we got to do what they want
another thing that takes place when it comes to voodoo ceremonies is healing
healing is a large part of voodoo ceremonies and so you know basically
many people will go to Haiti to get healed of an ailment when they can't get
healed by normal medicine just like people would go to a witch doctor you
got a headache you can't get rid of well I tried drinking water I tried taking
aspirin let me just go to a devil-possessed person to try to do some
weird spell on me right I mean that's what literally and people do that in
Haiti all the time it's very common during ceremonies now this kind of goes
along with our Pentecostal theme which we're gonna see a lot of links to
Pentecostal because isn't that a major part of Pentecostal services getting
healed or supposedly another thing that takes place in voodoo ceremonies you're
in mark 9 is seizures and convulsions so basically when somebody gets possessed
they start just you know going crazy right just now that's certainly
Pentecostal isn't it they get possessed and then they're just like this rolling
around on the ground and you know some of the videos are pretty entertaining
because they literally are having you know superhuman strength they're doing
some crazy gymnastics just like flipping around like how do they do that and I
don't know why but sometimes they're inside of this like brown sack and
they're just like going just rolling around like crazy and it's like man this
is some world-class gymnastic ability these people have but they're just going
crazy just lose all control well this is what it says from the article almost
without exception the beginnings of a lower possession are marked by trembling
by a kind of frenzy without controls or direction the person being possessed may
stagger fall and go into convulsions isn't that just like a Pentecostal
service somebody gets hit you know Benny Hinn's got his suit he takes out his
suit and then he just whacks someone boom and then all of a sudden they hit
the deck and they're just like you know shaking like this I mean it's just like
you know a Benny Hinn service or whatever right and I'm sorry I'm trying
to make this interactive but anyway all right it's good I didn't take my tie
off because that's a lot harder to do on the spot anyways this seizure gradually
wears off and the person has to appear finally the person seems normal except
that he or she has completely switched personalities including perhaps sex or
gender so basically someone gets possessed they go crazy then they get
out of it but they've still changed their personality and a guy might have
just become a girl so all of a sudden this guy starts talking like a woman or
a woman starts talking like a guy sometimes when they get possessed
sometimes possessed persons also exhibit self-destructive tendencies low will
cause their horses to rub hot pepper into their eyes still others will
compel possessed persons to cut themselves with machetes there's the
blood they'll get people have these services they get them to cut themselves
with a machete is very sharp that's what when I lived in Sacramento that's the
method I use to cut down my tree I just use I'd climb the tree and just use a
machete it's very sharp right at times possessed persons have to be restrained
from throwing themselves into deep water so sometimes people get possessed they
try to kill themselves well the question is does this fit with the Bible well the
answer to that would be yes it does notice mark 9 verse 20 and they brought
him on to him and when he saw him straightway the spirit tear him and he
fell on the ground and wallowed foaming so basically the spirit tears him he
hits the deck and he's like foaming at the mouth right this is like you'd think
somebody's having a seizure somebody has some major disease or something and so
the spirit just basically hits him and he hits the deck I've seen this in
person from a Pentecostal preacher that basically touched this kid and he just
hit the deck and this kid was not faking it and this kid just gets up and he's
just like I don't know how anyone thinks they're getting healed now what I
believe and this fits with this sermon as well I believe that sort of preacher
is basically has this mediumistic ability where he's casting Devils in and
out of people I think that's what's taking place it's certainly taking place
at these voodoo ceremonies and it says here in verse 21 and he asked his father
how long is it ago since this came on to him and he said of a child and oft
times it hath cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him but if
thou canst do anything have compassion on us and help us so his father says you
know this this my son gets possessed and he tries to kill himself he's jumping in
fires he's jumping in water right I mean he's foaming at the mouth having
seizures and convulsions it's like does this fit with the Bible it absolutely
does and this takes place many times in voodoo because they have magical healing
waters that they go to and oftentimes what takes place is people just end up
drowning because they get possessed and they just dive in and then they die this
is a common thing that takes place at voodoo ceremonies go to mark 5 mark 5
mark chapter 5 mark chapter 5 so what takes place during possession well one
thing that takes place is an exchange of personality another thing is
clairvoyance another thing that takes place is superhuman strength moral
impurity a healing aspect seizures and convulsions trying to kill yourself
lastly speaking in tongues speaking in tongues now the only difference is any
religion in the world any society outside of Christianity calls speaking
in tongues glossolalia but it exists all over the world the idea that this is a
Christian thing is bizarre it's crazy because this is existed all over the
world and the technical definition is glossolalia that's what the definition
came from you know psychiatrists that would talk to people and say man they
lose control themselves they gave it the name glossolalia which is basically what
we would know as speaking in tongues with the Pentecostal Church so this
occurs when it comes to voodoo ceremonies now this is not isolated to
Christianity as I said because Plato you know the Greek philosopher Plato pretty
famous right he wrote about people speaking in tongues several times you
can go on Google and read about Plato talking about people that would say some
pretty amazing things and they'd have no idea what they said they'd wake up and
it's like oh really I didn't have any idea I said that now of course he
doesn't call it speaking in tongues but it's the same thing and see this is
where sometimes people get tripped up because the name changes and people say
oh it never existed I mean dinosaurs just started existing in the 19th
century right even though the Bible speaks about you know Leviathan behemoth
and all that stuff but it's just like just because a name is is new doesn't
mean it's never existed before and see glossolalia was existing in the time of
Plato it's very common in voodoo it's very common in large parts of India and
China and Japan shamanism when I preached on Taoism a while ago I didn't
really cover this aspect but I had like a funeral service one of the big things
is calling on your dead ancestors to possess you people start shaking and
then they start speaking in tongues glossolalia this is a common thing that
takes place it is not just part of Christianity so look there are a lot of
links between voodoo and Pentecostal there's also a lot of links between
Catholicism and voodoo as well I mean think about the holy water I've been to
one Catholic Church service because I would not suggest doing this but I got
saved in college and I told my friend I said hey you come to my church once I'll
come to your church once I'm never never doing that again okay but I went to the
Catholic service and I didn't know what to expect and then all of a sudden you
know I asked someone what's this that's the holy water I was like holy water
what right because it was new to me it was bizarre right and so it's not like
there's no links with Catholicism because I mean as I said All Saints Day
I mean obviously you're trying to communicate with your dead ancestors and
dead relatives it's a lot of hocus-pocus and weird stuff they have exorcisms in
Catholic churches a lot of weird stuff right and all of this stuff is demonic
you're dealing with devils and spirits it's all an evil thing okay now go to
mark 5 mark 5 so let's talk about we talk about things that help you get
possessed by Devils hopefully you don't try any of this stuff at home if you're
saved you're not gonna get possessed by Devils but at the same time weird stuff
might happen I don't know maybe you'll I wouldn't mess with it okay we talked
about what takes place during possession but let's talk about just briefly some
other dark practices or satanic practices with a religion of of voodoo
one of the big things is this that you know many times possessions take place
at graveyards okay so the Baron when he possesses people when it's not inside
of a voodoo temple it's oftentimes at graveyards we're basically the Baron
possesses someone and then all of a sudden he rapes a woman is it's a
complicated trial because the country's voodoo so it's kind of like innocent
right I mean it's reality because you know it's not it's not just when I'm
talking about Haiti it's like this in a lot of countries where the religion
takes power over like it in in India with the caste system if you're at a
high caste you can do whatever to a lower caste and you get away with it
right but the question is does this fit with the Bible of hanging out at
graveyards well it does fit notice what it says in mark 5 verse 2 and when he
was come out of the ship immediately there met him out of the tombs a man
with an unclean spirit who had his dwelling among the tombs in verse 5 and
always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs this guy is
just hanging out around dead bodies just hanging out in the graveyard right
look it's not normal for someone to hang out in the graveyard now I think it's
weird enough to do a one day a year right and look you don't have to confess
your faults to me I'm sure many of you on November 1st have tried to make your
Catholic relatives happy now I would say it's wrong you shouldn't do that but
probably many of you have been to graveyards but this is literally a man
who sleeps at a grave right he sleeps by a graveyard with a bunch of dead
bodies isn't that bizarre isn't that weird I mean there's something creepy
about a graveyard and you know during the day because I've been to graveyards
walk through there and stuff like that and I'm not saying it's wrong if you
have you know relative buried to try to remember them and stuff I would say what
the Catholics do is wrong because you're trying to summon dead spirits you need
to understand they've already passed away they're in heaven or hell forever
okay but you know I'm not saying it's wrong to go to graveyards but I'll be
honest I would be a little bit creeped out going at nighttime to a graveyard
especially by myself during the day it's not that creepy because you know near my
grandmother there's there's a graveyard nearby we have some relatives there even
during the day sometimes I'd get a little bit creeped out but you know you
go there at nighttime be pretty creepy and here's the thing I do believe devils
will actually be at graveyards because you see this man who's possessed hanging
out in a graveyard just you know sleeping next to dead bodies that's
creepy that's weird but it's biblical and this often takes place in voodoo
ceremonies that if you're by a graveyard you better watch out because if somebody
gets possessed by the Baron they might attack you or you might get possessed by
the Baron of course they think it's good to get possessed by the Baron so you know
I don't know what to tell them right it's pretty crazy go to Leviticus 20
Leviticus 20 now when it comes to voodoo their number one animal is the
snake their number one animal is the snake that's the one they revere it's
not just the Baron that has the snake actually one of their eight loa loa that
are really famous is Damballa and his representation is a giant serpent so if
you see a giant serpent you're like that's Damballa well isn't it interesting
because isn't the devil in Genesis 3 depicted as a serpent the one animal
they pick is the snake as their number one animal now I have seen pictures of
people wearing this voodoo garb and clothing and they've got a golden calf
on their head on their hat I'm not saying that's their number one
because their number one animal is a snake but it's not like the golden calf
is a very godly animal either I mean it's like that's Exodus 32 and you got
these people and they got literally at what snakes sometimes in the services
and then all of a sudden they got you know the golden calf on the hat now this
is another thing with Pentecostal though because where I'm from in West Virginia
and also in Kentucky those two states that are border states you know snakes
can sometimes be part of a Pentecostal service because they look at mark 16
where they basically can take up serpents and not be harmed and
literally the the the pastors will have a snake a poisonous snake that's on top
of them and they're like you know throwing it around and everything and
then of course sometimes they get bit and sometimes they die and there's like
a list on Wikipedia of deaths by snakes during Pentecostal services it's always
West Virginia or Kentucky my home state of West Virginia is like you know
usually it's Kentucky though because it's the southern part of West Virginia
which borders Kentucky so usually it's Kentucky but it's like Kentucky Kentucky
Kentucky West Virginia West Virginia Kentucky Kentucky and there's like a
couple others but in a chart of like 60 it's like Kentucky and West Virginia
these Pentecostals that are just playing with snakes it's like what is wrong with
these people but is it really that big of a shock when these are people that
are getting possessed and speaking in tongues that they have all these dark
practices another thing is the magical healing water which I talked about that
takes place by the way with some of the potions they use they use a lot of you
know blood as I said is a big part of their services and there's a lot of
disturbing stuff with this but you know even not the disgusting stuff just a use
human blood so sometimes they've killed like little children as sacrifices and
they use that blood because they think it's necessary for their potions and
this is I mean you can go on Google and see this it'll talk about voodoo deaths
and they'll say well it's part of a voodoo you know potion it's their
religion and they believe they have to kill people sometimes and I'm not saying
and here's here's where people go wrong they say well they don't really have
voodoo dolls and they don't really do that well number one when I saw
something in the Philippines that had you know an albulario up in a mountain
he said the number one thing he dealt with was uncasting voodoo spells and it's
just a random thing it had nothing to do with voodoo I didn't think but he said
the number one things he does is uncast voodoo spells voodoo spells are real
people actually do that okay now not all of them use a voodoo doll and try to
curse other people but just because the few are doing it doesn't mean it doesn't
exist in voodoo it does exist and here's the thing you want me to give you a
famous person Papa Doc Lou Valle who used to be the president of Haiti he was
the president when John F Kennedy died he claims he killed John F Kennedy by
performing a voodoo curse on him he basically cursed John F Kennedy over and
over again now I'm not saying he did kill him what I'm saying is that's a
pretty dark and satanic thing to cast a voodoo spell to try to kill a president
because US and Haiti were enemies at the time it's like this is not fake they
actually do this I mean can you imagine if a president died and then your
presence like yeah you know I killed him so I cast a voodoo spell that's what he
gets for messing with us that's what Papa Doc I think Lou Valle was his last
name or Duvalier or Lou Valle he said that he cast a voodoo spell and killed
John F Kennedy now as I said I'm not saying that's why John F Kennedy died
but this stuff's not completely fake there is from the World Cup a couple
years ago a couple World Cups ago I think brother Ironman can probably back
me up on this I'm not sure if anybody else saw this but in the crowd there is
this witch doctor from Ghana right you remember that the witch doctor did you
see that no but there's like this witch doctor in Ghana and he was like in all
of the crowd they're making a big deal and he was dressed similar to voodoo and
he cast a spell on Cristiano Ronaldo to give him an injury now Cristiano Ronaldo
did get an injury and missed the game I'm not saying that's why he got
injured I'm just saying there's certainly these people doing these dark
arts it's not fake it seems funny because it's ridiculous except the fact
that it is real to some degree so it's actually not just a joke right another
thing they have is they have a black cross they use a cross but it's black
and oftentimes there's a snake around it so obviously satanic and another thing
is you know divination buying animals to cast spells voodoo dolls notice what
it says in Leviticus 20 verse 27 Leviticus 20 verse 27 Leviticus 20 verse
27 a man also a woman that hath a familiar spirit or that as a wizard
shall be sure shall surely be put to death they shall stone them with stones
their blood shall be upon them so the Bible says those that would basically be
dealing with these devils and familiar spirits you know monk who cool om
wizard which witch doctor and I don't know all the differences I mean there's
similarities with a lot of these things necromancers the Bible says they get put
to death now an application to us even if you're not dealing with familiar
spirits why are you watching Harry Potter why are you watching Twilight
why are you playing video games with necromancers this stuff is not something
for Christians to mess with why are you listening to music and watching movies
and watching TV shows that are dealing with these things it's not a joke as
Christians we should have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness
none whatsoever you say brother second why is it I should not celebrate all
Saints Day have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness let me ask
you a question does going to those graves give you an opportunity to preach
the gospel to your Catholic relatives how many of you have gotten your
Catholic relative saved by going to a graveyard with them now many of you have
gotten Catholic relative say but you did that by just preaching the gospel to
them not basically saying that you accept their religion too by doing some
dark and satanic thing have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness but this is obviously a satanic religion let me just give you a couple
couple things in closing a couple other things is this voodoo is a large part of
the inspiration for the big rock movement that came in the 1950s 60s and
70s because when you look at voodoo worldwide the country of Haiti is the
number one country for voodoo they'll say 70% Catholic 30% Protestant 100%
voodoo or Catholic by morning voodoo by night well isn't it isn't it a pretty
big coincidence that the biggest natural disaster in the world during our
lifetime was in Haiti in 2010 300,000 plus people died in an instant you say
well that's a lot but we'll wait a minute the population was less than 10
million it would be like if we woke up tomorrow and three and a half million
people died wouldn't that be pretty crazy because their population is not
like India or Pakistan I mean the population was under 10 million with
that earthquake took place it killed over 300,000 people that is insane the
biggest earthquake worldwide during our lifetime because I'm pretty sure it's
been the biggest in hundreds of years I mean that is a huge amount of people
that died at one instance what's interesting is I wrote this sermon and
then after I wrote this sermon there's a big earthquake in Haiti just a month ago
and they said it was bigger than the last one it's just less people died but
just destroyed the country what seems like God hates voodoo doesn't it and see
that's worldwide but the biggest natural disaster in my lifetime in the u.s. was
Hurricane Katrina who knows Hurricane Katrina pretty famous hurricane guess
where it hit well it flooded 80% of New Orleans well where's the central part of
voodoo in the United States New Orleans you say what does that have to do with
rock music well my favorite basketball team growing up was the Utah Jazz but
they haven't always been in Utah and I mean cuz think of the name Utah Jazz
Mormons don't listen to a lot of jazz music right cuz that's usually associated
with people that are african-americans and Utah's like about the white one of
the whitest states so it's like why are they the Utah Jazz well they kept that
name because they used to be located where the New Orleans Jazz and they
changed cities but they kept the last name because jazz doesn't fit usually
they try to fit the last name with what the city's about jazz does not fit with
Utah but it fits with New Orleans and see the voodoo is very common for
basically jump-starting jazz and then jazz and blues were kind of the
introductions that would lead to rock and roll music because bringing in this
heavy drums and everything was something very common coming from Africa now of
course there's nothing new under the Sun I don't believe rock music is just the
last 50 years but here's what you have to understand the modern explosion
really came as a result of that obviously Exodus 32 has something very
similar to rock music if you listen to ancient Assyrian music it's just like
this pounding and drums I mean it's pretty similar but I'm just saying a lot
of the modern stuff came from voodoo is where that music comes from and as I
said here in the US or in the US I should say after that major earthquake
the United States just decided to bring in a bunch of devil worshipers to their
country now look I'm all for immigration I don't think there's anything wrong
with immigration biblically but the thing is you don't have a right to just
go and worship whatever God you want according to the Bible and worshipping
the devil was never accepted by God and I'll tell you what you know Hurricane
Katrina was bad enough but now it's like you know you might be getting a lot of
natural disasters all over the world because God obviously hates a religion
that openly worships the devil I mean all you have to do is take a look at a
picture like this I mean Halloween's once a year All Saints Day is once a
year this is year-round their religion isn't that pretty satanic you didn't
need all the verses and sermons and examples and cursing trying to put John
F Kennedy to death with a voodoo curse and all that stuff all you have to do is
look at the pictures it's pretty obvious what they're worshipping it's pretty
obvious what they're about and whether they realize it or not it's just like in
1st Kings 18 where they're worshipping bail now look those in 1st Kings 18 were
very religious people I mean aren't you pretty religious if you're willing to
cut yourself for your religion and cause yourself to bleed they were very
religious they might not have realized they're worshipping the devil but that's
exactly what they were doing and it's the same thing in voodoo today us as
Christians have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness let's close
in order prayer dear Heavenly Father thank you for allowing us to be here
today and getting to see your word in this topic and help us to stay away from
anything related to the dark arts and realize it's not a game it's not fun
it's not something for us to mess around with or play with it's something we
should have no fellowship and no contact with whatsoever we pray this in Jesus
name amen
I went to the point I think I look nothing him that what the book is a page
number 26 page number 26 a new name in glory
I once was a sinner I once was a sinner but I came for them to receive from the Lord
He was my friend he went and I've come for the Lord's gift he'll stay
He was my friend he went and I've come for the Lord's gift
He was my friend he went and I've come for the Lord's gift he'll stay
Amen.
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