So, the title of the sermon tonight is A Warning Against Witchcraft, A Warning Against Witchcraft.
Now you say Exodus, you got to read all of Exodus to get that. Well, you know, it kind
of shows you that there's some things that God takes pretty seriously. I mean, God goes
through here, he talks about, you know, if somebody's stealing or something's borrowed
and comes up lost, you know, he kind of goes through small claims court, right? And he
deals with all these different things that are, you know, we would say all these things
are important. You know, making restitution, if somebody's stealing something from you,
you know, they should pay back double. They should pay back, you know, fourfold or whatever.
You should have that made good. That's important. And if you don't think it's important, you
know, well, wait till somebody steals something from you. You'll probably feel differently.
You know, we would say everything in this passage is important, but, you know, there's
a quick verse there in verse 18 that just says, Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
You know, and it seems like we're living in a world today where witchcraft, you know,
is being promoted and accepted in our society. It's being accepted, it's being promoted.
It has in the past, you know, and there's no new thing under the sun. You know, witchcraft
is something, and we're going to just scratch the surface tonight on the amount of scripture
there is that deals with witchcraft and seers and sorcery and all these things. You know,
we could go and look at all the different nations that God mentions and how they practice
sorcery and witchcraft and all these wicked things that God condemns and even condemns
here with the death penalty. But we're living in a society today that is promoting witchcraft.
We're living in a society today that has no problem with things that God calls abominable.
You know, and this is an appropriate sermon this time of year because of the fact that
we're coming up on Halloween. You know, and, you know, I'm just going to come right out
and say, you know, we don't promote Halloween here. We don't celebrate Halloween here. I
believe it's a wicked holiday. And, you know, people are welcome to do whatever they want
on Halloween, but you'll never, I'm not going to dress up my kids as ghouls and goblins
or whatever else and send them out there to go run around with other kids who dressed
up as ghouls and goblins and celebrate all the, all the, just the death culture that's
out there. I mean, that's what Halloween is. I mean, you can't really, I mean, you can't
sit there and tell me it's not about death. I mean, go to any Home Depot or Walmart right
now and they're selling the, selling the decorations. They're frightening. You know,
my kids, you know, they, you say, well, your kids are sheltered. Yeah, they are. You know,
you're right. My kids are sheltered. You know, that's what you do when bombs are falling.
You take shelter. And we're living in a society today where there's just these demonic, you
know, bombs are being dropped on our children's minds and even our own minds. And it's good
to shelter your kids. Now, I'm not saying, you know, it's not good for them to see what
the world is like. You know, they can learn a lot about the world through just, you know,
you know, even a godly life. They can see what goes on in the world. But take your,
you know, I take my kids to places like, you know, Walmart, Home Depot and stuff like that.
And you have to say, look the other way, son. Don't look at that. You know, it'll literally
give them nightmares. Some of these decorations that people put out there. You say, well,
that's silly. Yeah, but that's because I'm not at home, you know, feeding my kids this
stuff every other day of the year. You know, they don't, they don't sit there and watch
all these, these shows with the ghouls and the goblins and the zombies. And, you know,
we've been, you know, our generation has been fed that, you know, people my age, you know,
we've gone through that, you know, and that's why people our age, you know, older people or
people my age, you know, they're still obsessed with this stuff. I mean, how else do you explain
all the zombie shows, right? All these, these, this is just zombie movie after zombie movie
after zombie movie, just whole shows dedicated to zombies. You know, I mean, I'm working with
grown men, you know, not anymore, okay, because I work for the church. But in the past, you know,
I'm working with grown men who are coming in and talking about, you know, what happened in the
latest zombie show, you know, who killed who, who got turned into a zombie. It's weird. You know,
it's like, you know, they must have watched thriller too many times growing up or something
that it's like, get over it. Right. So what I'm saying is that we're desensitized to it.
You know, you know, kids that are growing up in a godly home, hopefully, you know, if it's a godly
home, they're not being desensitized to it. And when you take them out in this in the world today,
this time of year, I mean, it's just all kinds of ghouls and goblins. And you know what a lot
of witches too. That's probably one of the most popular costumes this time of year is a witch.
I mean, I can think of several people in my past that I know and have dressed up as witches,
and so on and so forth. And it's being promoted today. And the biggest day of the year for
witchcraft and all this kind of stuff is Halloween. Okay, so that's why we don't participate in it.
You know, I'm not going to, you know, come to you and ask you and find out or if I find out,
I'm not going to come to you and condemn you. But I'm just saying it rod and clear for everybody to
hear right now that we don't celebrate Halloween. And that's why we have a chili cook off. So you
can come and be with God's people and have some good clean fellowship and not have to, you know,
go out and fill your minds with all this junk. You say, well, you're taking it overboard. Well,
you know what, God, God's pretty serious about this. You know, and we shouldn't, you know,
it's a shame to even speak of those things which are done of them in secret. You know,
we shouldn't even have the appearance of evil, the Bible says. You know, even just playing pretend.
Oh, they're just dressing up. It's just pretend. But, you know, it's the appearance of evil. You
know, it's promoting these things, promoting things that God condemns. You know, and I'll
even say this, even the superheroes, they say, well, my kid's not dressing up like a witch.
We can dress up like Wonder Woman. You know, my kid's not dressing up like a zombie. He's
going to dress up like Superman. You know, to me, that's supernatural in itself. I mean,
look at these superheroes, the things that they can do. They're God-like. You know,
even that is, I believe, a form of sorcery. You know, and this is my opinion, you know,
and I'm saying that, you know, there's the clause right there, but that's how I feel about it. I
mean, Superman, I mean, he can fly, he can turn back time. I mean, he can do all these, like,
things that God can do, right? I believe they're demonic in nature as well. You know,
these are supernatural things. What about all the children's books? I'm saying the kids are just
being barraged with this stuff today, and it just seems like the whole, our whole culture,
even in our churches, it doesn't get talked about very much. It just kind of gets glossed over,
you know, or maybe it's just that so many of us have gotten away from that stuff that we don't
really realize how bad it is, but I mean, it's in all the cartoons now. It's in all the children's
books, witchcraft, sorcery, magic spells, you know, My Little Pony, you know, with their little
spells that they cast and everything else. It's out there. The television shows, you know,
how about, here's a throwback, you know, let me, let me, let me get everybody, how about the
Wizard of Oz, right? I mean, you want to talk about witches? You say, well, what's so bad
about that? Well, other than it's an allegory for the fiat money, money system. I lost everybody with
that, right? Follow the Olympic road, follow, you know, yellow bricks, gold. How do you measure
gold in ounces? Wizard of Oz, you know, he gets to the wizard, everything's green. No?
Can I get anybody? All right, some of you are with me. That's another sermon. But you know,
it had a couple of witches in it, right? You know, it had the good witch and the bad witch,
right? You know, which one are you? You know, newsflash, there's no such thing as a good witch.
You know, not to God. Is that what God said here? Thou shalt not suffer a bad witch to live,
you know? Thou shalt drop a house on bad witches only. No, he said don't suffer a witch. Well,
God, is it a good witch or a bad witch, right? You know, I don't care if she shows up in a pretty
little bubble, you know, or she's got a green face and a long nose. You know, God says she's not to
be suffered to even live. How about Harry Potter? You know, that's one that even, even you can make
a Baptist church quiet by mentioning that one. Harry Potter is of the devil, all right? You know,
you're radical. You know what? It's so full of, you know, wizards and necromancy and spells and
all that other garbage. I haven't even seen it and I know that, you know, but I've known people
who, who fed that stuff to their kids, you know, and their kids grew up to be wicked people.
It's a fact. And I'm not saying every kid that watches Harry Potter is going to turn into some
reprobate, but I'm saying you're not doing them any favors when you're giving them the stuff
that's promoting this kind of thing. Something that God hates, something that God says is an
abomination that he cast out entire nations out of the land of Canaan over, this type of thing.
Sabrina the teenage witch, you know, that was one that keeps, that's still a show today, I guess.
You know, I was kind of looking into some of these things. That was a show like back when I was a kid
and now they're remaking it because they can't think of anything new. How about this? How about
just Disney in general? Just Disney in general? I mean, I'm sure you can find some Disney movie
that isn't all that bad, right? You know, Fievel or something like that. There's probably a witch
in that, I can't remember. But a lot of these Disney movies are the same way. Casting spells,
you know, doing all these kind of things, promoting this kind of thing to, to the two,
two children. You know, countless others. Dungeons and Dragons, you know, that's another, you know,
popular game that people, this role-playing game where it's all, you know, wizards and
necromancers, not to mention all the video games, right? Look, this stuff is all over the culture.
This stuff is all over in the world. You can't step foot out in the world and not run into this
type of thing. You're going to run into it. How about Ouija boards? You say, what? Parker
Brothers? It was Parker Brothers, right? Really? Dude, I could tell you stories about that thing.
I mean, things that, I won't touch them, I won't go near them. You know, when things start moving
around on their own, that's scary. You know, you say, oh, it's just a game. No, it's not. You know,
maybe it's just a game. Or maybe it's something that's to encourage people to get into the occult.
You know, the occult is a real thing. It's out there. You know, you start talking about stuff
like this and people start looking at you like you got two heads. But this is reality. You know,
there is a demonic realm. You know, there are evil spirits out there. We live in a supernatural
world. You know, we just can't see it all. You know, we shouldn't become obsessed with that. You
know, God has limited our knowledge of that. But the occult and things like this, you know, the
cult, they want to delve into that. They want to delve into things that they ought not to.
And they want to encourage your kids. They want to encourage them to get into this kind of thing
through the Ouija board, through the movies, through the books, through the TV shows,
and through Halloween, through dressing up and doing all these things. How about astrology?
That's another one. You know, reading your horoscope. I was talking to somebody recently,
I don't know if it was somebody in the room or not, but someone's telling me they knew the guy
that wrote the horoscope section in the newspaper back in the day. And he confessed. He's like,
I just made it up. He said, I didn't look at star charts. I didn't do anything. I just sat down and
wrote whatever I felt like. But I've known people who've turned to that horoscope page, oh, today's
the day. My lucky numbers are eight, three, and four. You know, and something great. It's got,
you know, just these general vague things. You know, some stupid fortune. You know,
nothing's coming to mind right now. But, you know, I wish I could come up with a good one,
but I'm getting a little tired. But you know what I'm talking about. It's just these general
vague, stupid sayings. Today, we'll meet somebody who will, you know, bring you closer on your path
to greatness. Okay? Just, and the guy's just like, yeah, I just made it all up. But people, man,
they lock into that. They'll get their birth charts made. You know, where were the stars
and the planets when I was born at, you know, a certain time in the day. And, you know,
it's crazy. And you know what it is? It's all a bunch of just necromancy, you know, just a bunch
of, you know, not necromancy necessarily, but it's a bunch of just wizardry, just hocus pocus,
mumbo jumbo. It's witchcraft is what it is at the end of the day. It's sorcery. And God, you know,
doesn't want us involved in it. And the world is targeting our children with it. Now, why,
you think that's a coincidence? You think it's a coincidence that Satan and the world target
children with this stuff when they're young and impressionable? I mean, they're like, you know,
they're like the cigarette company. Who remembers Camel Joe? Remember that stupid cartoon camel
that was always playing pool and smoking? I mean, you thought dogs playing cards were cool. I mean,
they had a camel that was, you know, shooting pool. You know when I first saw that? When I was
like six. We would collect them off the back of cigarettes, you know, the empty cigarette packs.
And I remember sitting around in elementary school, hey, I got this Camel Joe. Look at
Campbell Joe. He's pretty cool. You know, and, you know, no coincidence, you know, that
when I had opportunity, I smoked. You know, I gave it up. Okay. It's been two days. No, I'm just
kidding. Just kidding. It's not Smokers Cough. I was, I was up in Vancouver. It was really bad
air quality. That's my story. I'm sticking to it. But go over to Second Chronicles chapter 33.
Look, it's no coincidence that kids are targeted with this stuff. It's intentional. They want to
prey on them because they're young, they're impressionable. And if they can get them into
this type of thing at a young age, you know, they can open them up to all kinds of things.
You know, I remember talking to somebody once and I told him that Harry Potter was wicked.
You know, and, you know, I don't think I went so far as to say that their child is possessed.
But I definitely said, look, you're definitely opening up possibility of, you know,
demonic influence in your child's life. And I remember getting into a discussion with this
parent about God. And this particular child that I'm talking about started hissing at me
and curled up with his mom. And you say, oh, that's weird. Yeah, I thought it was weird too.
And mom just like, oh, okay. Hissing at me like a snake. Can you imagine I'm just talking to you
and one of your kids just starts hissing at me and glaring at me. That's weird. It's demonic.
And this kid was always off playing by himself. You know, casting spells. What are you doing?
Casting spells. You know, he was into it. He was into the Harry Potter. And today he's a full-blown
reprobate. Sodomite. Now I'm not saying that's what's going to happen to your kid, but I am
saying this. It's no coincidence that all of these things are targeted towards children.
Halloween is targeted towards children. They want to get this stuff in your kid's head
because it does open them up potentially to very wicked things. I mean, they're targeted because
think about it. This type of thing, this witchcraft, this wickedness, it can take over
in one generation. We could have one generation that's God-fearing, loves the Bible, loves church,
all of that. And then the next generation just wants nothing to do with the Lord. Thank you.
Wants nothing to do with God and is just into all kinds of wickedness. Did I have you go to
2 Chronicles chapter 33? Look at verse 1. Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to reign. So this
is a 12-year-old taking the throne. And he reigned 55 years in Jerusalem. But he did that which was
evil in the sight of the Lord, like unto the abominations of the heathen. So he says, look,
what he did was wicked. And what he did was an abomination. And it was a heathen practice,
whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. For he built again the high places,
which Hezekiah, his father, had broken down. So in one generation, this 12-year-old takes the
throne and turns everything back around the way it was. His dad, Hezekiah, went up, stepped up,
loved the Lord, had a great revival and broke down these high places. And his son in one generation
goes up and sets it back up and reared up altars for Balaam and made groves and worsted all the
hosts of heaven. So there's your astrology. And he served them. He built all altars also in the
house of the Lord. I mean, it's not just enough he had the high places. It's not just enough
he had to grow. He had to get into the church house. He had to make sure he corrupted the
church house. And nothing's changed. That's what these people want to do. They want to bring in
all this pagan idolatry. They want to bring in all these heathen practices even into God's house
today. They also built altars in the house of the Lord. Whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem
shall my name be forever. And he built it up altars for all the hosts of heaven, the two courts
of the house of the Lord, and caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son
of Hinnom. So he's burning his kids and sacrifice. That's what he's literally doing. Also he observed
times and used enchantments, which is what? Spells. He's observing times, right? He's looking
at the astrology. He's looking at the stars. And he's using enchantments. He's getting involved in
casting spells. I don't know what exactly they were doing back then. Maybe he was
looking at, you know, chicken entrails or something. He used witchcraft, right? That's another
thing he got into. Witchcraft. Oh, it's so harmless. But it's so harmless you're making too big of a deal.
Look, it's what wicked people get into. Wicked people. That's what they do to get in contact with
demonic things in this world. He dealt with the familiar spirit. That's a demon.
That's a demon. That's what that stuff led to, you know. And people, they start messing around
this stuff. They think it's funny. They think it's a game until they actually make contact with
something. And if it ever actually happened, it would send chills up your spine to see something
like that happen, you know. And I, you know, my dad, he tells a story. He, because he, my dad's side is
Native American. And he has, his aunt, I think it was his aunt or maybe it was a great aunt, was alive
when Black Elk was alive. And Black Elk was the last Sioux medicine man that lived. And he's wrote
books and stuff like that. And he, he had an aunt, I believe it was, it might have been a great aunt,
I can't remember, but he was real little. And he tells the story, and this is my dad, so you never know,
right. He comes, he tells the story about this day his aunt came over and she was just beside herself.
Like she was just really spooked. And she came to him and said, John, I was over at so-and-so's house
and Black Elk, this medicine man, showed up. And when he got there, lights start turning off,
cupboards were opening, stuff was moving around. I mean that's, that medicine man, that was a guy who
actually got in contact with familiar spirits. And people do, you know. If people want to get in
contact with that kind of stuff, believe me, there, there are spirits out there that are ready and
willing to communicate and to take over and possess people. And you know what, you start messing
around with enchantments and observing times and using witchcraft and get into this occult type of
stuff, you just might make contact with a familiar spirit. And you know what, it's not going to be
Casper the friendly ghost. It's going to be a fallen angel. It's going to be a demon that just
wants to use you and destroy you. And it says he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke
him to anger. So look, nothing good happens when people make, use this type of stuff, this
witchcraft, and make contact with these familiar spirits. Nothing good happens. It's not like
they're doing it to make, you know, the world a better place. It's not like they're doing it so
they can glorify God. They're doing it and what's the result? They wrought much evil in the sight of
the Lord. And that, what does what to the Lord? Provokes him to anger. You know, I don't want God
mad at me, so I'm not going to mess with any of this stuff. In fact, I'm going to avoid the mere
appearance of it. I'm not even going to mess around. I'm not even going to go near it with a
10-foot pole, this kind of stuff. You know, I was kind of reading up on a little bit of this,
and there I came across an article from W magazine, which I'm assuming stands for
Woman magazine, right? And they had an article called How to Become a Witch, a Beginner's Guide.
It was written in 2018. It was a literal article in a popular women's magazine about how to become
a witch. You know, and I've met multiple women that have been openly said that they're witches.
You'll see them, they'll put their decal, you know, their little pentagram or whatever,
on the back of their cars. They're Wiccan or whatever. And they're into it. You know,
and this whole article, I'm not going to read it to you for sake of time because it's a bunch
of trash anyway, but it's just explaining all the terminology and how you need to find a coven and
how you can start casting love spells or you can cause curses on people. And they just, they want
to give them this power. And people get into it and they start collecting their seer stones
or whatever. It's weird. And they start drawing. It's very strange. But there's articles out there,
and I'm not, and this wasn't just like a five minute read. This was like an article on how
to become a witch, a beginner's guide. And you know what? It's becoming more and more popular
in our culture today. Like I've said, I've known more than one woman that has just openly said,
I'm a witch. Like it was nothing. Like she could have said, yeah, I'm a dentist. I'm a nurse.
I'm a witch. Oh, okay. You know, it's no coincidence that one of these protesters that
were up in Vancouver, I went on her Facebook page. You know what she claims to be? I can't
say the first word, blanky and witchy. The first word rhymes with witchy. You can figure it out.
Right? And that's what she claims. She's like, I'm a witch. And there she is outside of the
house of God, you know, just spewing her filth. She was the sodomite protester claimed to be a
witch. They're out. They're proud. They're not ashamed of it. Well, you know what? They ought
to be ashamed of it. And the Bible says that they shouldn't even be suffered to live. They say,
well, that seems drastic. Yeah, but look what they're into. Look at what they want. They want
to make contact with the most, the darkest forces there are and use them to vex other people.
You say you're making this up. No, I'm not. When I ran a bus route, I knew a lady who claimed to be
a good witch. And her kids came on the bus one day and were all freaked out because stuff was
moving around in their bedroom. You say you're making it up. I don't know. Maybe they're making
up, but is that really out of the realm of possibility? That kind of stuff happens.
The Bible says in Galatians 5, now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft. Look, we wouldn't have
anything to do as God's people with the beginning of that list, would we? We'd say, I want nothing
to do with idolatry. I want nothing to do with fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry.
No way. Not me. But then it gets into witchcraft. We're kind of like, well, you know, maybe we'll
make an exception. Maybe we'll go ahead and tolerate a witch and suffer a witch, because
maybe the witch has something good to say. Maybe the witch has some useful information.
Look, I don't care what a witch has to say, whether she's right about something or not.
The Bible says not to suffer her to live. And Christians are going soft on this issue. People
who claim the name of Christ ought to know better, and they're going soft on it.
You know, I've even seen people who are severing relationships with other Christians,
because those Christians dare to be critical of some witch or someone who's practicing sorcery.
They're making comments and practicing sorcery, and they're endorsing this person, and then
somebody's critical of the witch, and they're like, oh, well, I don't want anything to do with
you, and just severing entire relationships with people. It's wicked. It's just like,
and just severing entire relationships with people. It's wicked. You know, it's infuriating
to see Christians behave this way. They ought to know better than to sit here and tolerate
witchcraft in any shape or form. Say, oh, they're not a witch. You know what? If it
looks like a duck and it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
And when you got people on who are talking about, you know, their stones and their potions and their
vibrations and their energies and all this weird stuff that witches talk about, it's a witch.
And look, God draws a hard, you say you're not being very nice. You know what? God draws a hard
line on this issue, and so do we. At least we should. You know, if we're going to be right with
God, if we're going to actually get up and say that we believe the Bible, if we're actually
going to say, let's preach the whole counsel of God, then let's do it. And where God draws a hard
line, let's learn to draw a hard line, and God draws a hard line on this subject when it comes
to witches. It's just that we don't hear it talked about very often, do we? Because quite
honestly, you know, that's not a sin that we run into a lot in Baptist churches. You know,
a lot of those other ones on the list, you run into adultery, you run into fornication,
the uncleanness, the lasciviousness, the drunkenness, you know, the variance,
the emulations, the wrath, the strife, heresies, seditions, that kind of thing you see. But you
know what? You don't really see a lot of witchcraft. I mean, that's not to say it never
happens, you know, but I haven't had to come to anybody and say, hey, I need to talk to you,
you know, about your cauldron. I could notice, you know, you wrote, you came to church tonight
on a broom, and you know, your black cat can't come here, and you need to get rid of that pointy
hat, right? It's not something that comes up very often, but you know what? That doesn't mean let's
go soft on it. That doesn't mean, hey, when it does come up, let's not draw a hard line. Look,
we need to draw a hard line on this. Go over to Exodus chapter 22. You're in Exodus 22.
Go over to Leviticus 19. I mean, Exodus 22 just couldn't be any clear and concise and just to
the point. Suffer not a witch to live. Someone's accused of witchcraft, you know, and that's the
criticism that, you know, mockers always bring up. Oh, you're Christians, and you're witch hunts,
and they try to throw out everything good about the Bible and everything, you know,
than just ridicule Christians because of the Salem witch trials or whatever.
Look, I wasn't alive then. Those weren't Baptists. I don't know what took place. I really don't care,
you know, but you think that witchcraft is something that isn't around?
It's been around, and it's even around today, so don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
You know, people want to run to the other extreme because they don't want to be called, you know,
accused of going on a witch hunt, you know, literally, but that doesn't mean we should
suffer witches to live either. Now, because it's very clear, I mean, witchcraft is punishable with
death. The Bible doesn't punish a lot of things with death, but it does punish some things with
death. Now, I mean, in this verse here, it says in Exodus chapter 22, it says, Thou shall not
suffer a witch to live. Verse 19, it goes on and says, Whosoever lieth with the beast shall surely
put to death. I mean, it's like, it's on par with bestiality. I mean, it's just a vile, disgusting
thing. It's demonic in nature because only, you know, only a reprobate would be into that type of,
you know, activity. Now, let me just say this. Yes, witchcraft is punishable by death,
but it's the government's job to execute. It's not our job. You know, we're not going to grab
some pitchforks today and go find, what's her name? J.K. Rowling or whatever. You know, we're
not going to hunt her down with torches and rope and pitchforks. It's not our job, you know, but
it is the government's job. You know, I'm not going to try to get on the ballot anytime soon,
and that's going to be my platform. Kill the witches, you know. Am I holding my breath
expecting, you know, one of these candidates to come out against witchcraft? Probably, no,
I'm not. In fact, probably a lot of them are there because of witchcraft. That's another story.
But it's the government's job to execute. But how about this? Can God's people at least avoid
witchcraft? Can we at least avoid it? Can we at least not promote it? Can we at least not,
you know, have anything to do with it? Can we avoid the mere appearance of evil? Can we not
teach it to our children? Can we not endorse it and promote it to other Christians? Look at
Leviticus chapter 19 where you are, verse 30. It says, you shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence
my sanctuary. I am the Lord. Verse 31, regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek
after wizards to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. And that's the commandment.
Regard not them that have familiar spirits. You know, don't go to the palm reader down here or
wherever they are. You know, I hope that there is one down there. Does anybody know what the
palm reader is? No, I'm just kidding. But you've seen them, right? You ever been just driving
around and it says palm reading? You know, it's always like somebody's house or something like
that. I've seen them multiple times. You know, you shouldn't regard them. They should not be
given any respect. Neither seek after wizards to be defiled by them. You know, you should get rid
of the Harry Potter stuff if you've got it. You know, again, it's the government's job
to carry out and execute, you know, capital punishment. But at a bare minimum, you know,
ignore and distance yourself from people who practice witchcraft, from people who are into
the new age and sorcery and these type of things. You know, people will scoff at this and go over
Leviticus chapter 20. They'll scoff and they'll disregard all this. But you know what they're in
and they'll say, oh, that preacher, he's office, you know, he's office rocker. He's making a big
deal about nothing. But you know what you're really scoffing and disregarding is God.
I mean, it's all Bible tonight. That's all everything I've read is out of the Bible.
You know, God's the one that's saying, look, regard them not, you know, suffer them not to
live, you know, and not do not seek after them. This is the Bible. Look at Leviticus chapter 20
verse one. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel,
whosoever be of the children of Israel, the strangers that sojourn in Israel,
that giveth any of his seed unto Molech, he shall be surely put to death. And the people of the land
shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man will cut him off from among
his people because he had given of his seed unto Molech to defile my sanctuary, to profane my holy
name. I'm sure there's nobody in the room tonight that would object to killing, you know, people who
would sacrifice their own children to Molech, right? And he goes on to verse four and says,
and if any of thy people of the land do any way hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth his
seed unto Molech and kill him not, then I will set my face against that man and against his family
and will cut him off. Look, he's even saying the people who will hide their eyes from this and not
call it out and deal with it. He's like, I'm not even going to be against that man. Not just the
guy who's sacrificing the seed unto Molech, but the people who are just turning a blind eye and
just saying, oh, nothing going on over there. God's going to go against those people too, who are not
holding them accountable. And look, God's holding this country accountable right now. God's, you
think 2020 has been bad? Buckle up, pucker up, buttercup, because God's just beginning to hold
this country's feet to the fire. I firmly believe that. And, you know, it's got it coming. It's got
it coming. And say, well, have we sacrificed our seed unto Molech? Yeah. Abortion, abortion,
abortion, abortion. You talk about this morning, I'm bringing it up again because it's a sin in
this land. And there's so many people that are just turning a blind eye to it. Like this new
Supreme Court nominee that everyone's just all giddy about. Oh, Trump is electing a new Supreme.
This is it. We're going to overturn Roe v. Wade. No, you're not. Look, that issue isn't going
anywhere ever. You know why? Because it's politicized. And again, I'm getting to politics.
It's something that they can use to leverage votes. You know how many candidates have said,
I'm going to overturn Roe v. Wade. I'm against it. And then they get in there, they do nothing
about it. They just use it to garner votes from people and to manipulate people.
And look, that's the country we're living in, where people are turning a blind eye. And this
next Supreme Court justice, it'd be great if there was somebody that didn't, but they're all
going to turn a blind eye to it. They're all going to promote it. They're all going to be fine with
it. All the politicians and all the people, they're all turning a blind eye. You know what? And God's
going to hold those people accountable and cut them off. All that go whoring after him to commit
whoredom with Molech from among the people. Look at verse six. And the soul that turneth after such
as have familiar spirits and after wizards and to go whoring after them. I will even set my face
against that soul and will cut him off from among his people. Now is this guy, is this guy actually
the wizard? Is he the one that has a familiar spirit? No. He says, verse six, the soul that
turneth after such as have familiar spirits. It's people who are going to start getting in,
mixing it up with that crowd, people who are into familiar spirits. The soul that turns after them
from God's people and after wizards to go whoring after them. I will even set my face against that
soul and will cut him off from among his people. Look, you want to get on God's bad side? Start
messing around with wizards and sorcerers and witches. Do people do that? Yes. Yes, they do.
They start getting into this new age occult mysticism and all that type of thing. They
try to blend it in with Christianity or they just start rubbing elbows with the wrong people.
You better be careful who you keep company with because God says, I mean,
he seems pretty serious here. I will set my face against that soul. And I said it this morning,
there's a lot of other people I'd rather have as my enemy than God Almighty.
In fact, there's nobody else that would scare me more than God.
You know, no one would object to executing these child murderers. But what about sorcerers?
Would anyone object to that? They'd say, well, you know, it's just their thing. It's just their
religion. They should be allowed to practice that. It's America after all. Well, you know,
this trumps the Constitution in my book. This right here. And if we had a godly country that
really loved the Lord, they would follow through on this. And again, I'm not holding my breath.
Look at verse 27. A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard,
shall surely be put to death. That's the third time tonight I've turned you to passage in the
Bible that says put witches and wizards and sorcerers to death. The third time.
They shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them. God says, you know, I'm not
going to lay guilt to you. You're going to get off scot free. I'm not going to hold you accountable.
Their blood shall be upon them. But he does say, look, you need to get rid of them.
Go over to, where should I go? Go over Deuteronomy chapter 18.
And say, oh, you know, you're going too far with this. You know, preaching against Halloween,
you know, come on, really? Preaching against, you know, the Ouija board, Wizard of Oz.
Come on, brother Corbin, you're going too far. But here's the problem is that the world dolls
up witchcraft. You know, the Bible is very clear. It calls it an abomination. It calls it wicked.
But the world wants to take that which is abominable to God and put, you know,
put the nice hairdo on it and the lipstick and dress it up and sell it to you and put it out
there as something as good. The world dolls all this stuff up. You know what the scripture does?
It just cuts right through it and shows us for what it really is. You in Deuteronomy 18,
look at verse nine. Well now art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee,
thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among
you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire or that useth divination
or an observer of times or an enchanter or a witch or a charmer or a consultor with
familiar spirits or a wizard or a necromancer. Have you noticed back in Leviticus and Deuteronomy 18
how child sacrifice and witchcraft kind of go hand in hand? How God mentions one and then
immediately mentions the other? That's not a coincidence. You know, these type of things that,
you know, when you get into, you hear these stories about people get involved in these
satanic cults, they get into human sacrifice. I mean, everyone's probably seen the Alex Jones
video right out of Bohemian Grove where they burned a human being in effigy. It was a fake
human. You know, that's just showing what they would really like to do if they could get away
with it. And look, there are places where they do practice this. This kind of stuff goes on even
today. I believe that. Do I have any proof? The Bible. Because every time you were looking at
these passages, you have child sacrifice, human sacrifice, and then God mentions in the next
breath necromancers, wizards, charmers, all of these things that the world is trying to dress up
and make it look nice and alluring and trying to get your children with and bring them in.
You know, all these witches out there, they try to come across as nice. We're white witches. We're
good witches, right? And here's the thing, you know, evil people, and I'm kind of getting ahead
of myself on 1 Samuel, but evil people can be nice at times. You know what? Did you know that?
Evil people can still possess some semblance of humanity and compassion for somebody.
You know, you think about the witch at Endor. I won't tear in a stare for the sake of time,
but remember when Saul went to the witch of Endor at the end of his life,
and he had already cast out all the witches and everything, and he'd put the, you know,
he said, look, if there's any witch found here, we're putting them to death.
And he goes to the witch of Endor to try to conjure up Samuel, and the witch is saying,
hey, look, you can't, I'm, you know, I'm not doing this. You know, Samuel disguised himself,
and he's saying, you know, Samuel might find out and kill me. And he's saying, no, go ahead and
do it. And then she does it, and Samuel comes up and tells Samuel or tells Saul how he's going to
die the next day, and then, and so on and so forth. You know the story, right? But you remember how
the witch ends the story? She flips out and says, oh, you're Saul. You did this to trick me. And
she's afraid for her life, and he doesn't do anything about it. But Saul's so distraught
about the message that he got from Samuel that he's, you know, he's not eating and everything.
What does the witch do? She gets him bread. She feeds him. She causes him to lie down. She's nice
to Saul. The guy who said, hey, I'll kill you if you're a witch. Now, does that mean she's a nice
person? Does that make her a good person because she treated Saul well? Probably to try and save
her own skin. Does that make her old? You know, she showed compassion on Saul. She's still a
witch. She still committed witchcraft, something that God condemns in Scripture. I don't care
what these people want to call themselves. I'm a white witch. I'm a good witch. You're a witch,
and that's good enough for me. And look, it's out there. It's everywhere today.
And the world's trying to doll it up. They're just trying to, oh, you know, it's just, it's just,
you know, looking into these searing stones or, you know, burning some sage and some incense and,
you know, chanting some things in a coven. It's just the ladies getting together, reading tarot
cards and drinking wine. You know, what it is, is witchcraft. And it's you opening up doors and
getting into things that you shouldn't even be going near regarding. You know, and the
people get into this because it allures to the flesh. You know, people are always looking for,
like, some secret hidden knowledge, aren't they? They always feel like they've got, you know,
some, that's what occult means, like secret or hidden knowledge. They want that occult knowledge.
They want to, they want to have the inside track on, you know, the spiritual realm. They want to,
they want to know things. They want to know and have seen things that nobody else has known or
seen. You know, they want to have that. But here's the thing. It's like, what about all the other
ladies of the coven? They're all in on it too, right? It allures to the flesh. People want hidden
knowledge. But God says don't go near it. You shouldn't have anything to do with it because
the truth of the matter is, is that it's demonic. That's all it is. That's all they're tapping into.
They're not tapping into some ancient lost wisdom or something like that. You're tapping into a
demonic source is what you're tapping into when you get into stuff. And they want, they want to
get into all this to get that knowledge. Why? Because they want to glorify themselves. People
get involved in this stuff because they want to be seen as somebody who knows something that nobody
else. Oh, you know, this witch or whatever, she has power. She can do this. She can do that.
Go talk to the witch. You know, go talk to the medicine man. They're going to fix you up right.
They want the glory. It's pride. But here's the thing. God's not going to share his glory with
another. God's not going to share it. Go over to Isaiah chapter eight, Isaiah chapter eight.
Actually, you know what? Just for sake of time, jump over to Acts chapter nine.
Acts chapter nine. He said in Isaiah forty-two, I am the Lord. That is my name and my glory will
I not give to another. Neither praise to given graven images. God's not going to share his glory
with another. And people that get into this kind of stuff and claim to have some, you know,
corner market on supernatural things, you know, God's not going to put up with it.
You know, God's not going to put up with it. The people that want to
glorify themselves. He said, well, what should I do? You know, I've got the Harry,
I've got all the Harry Potter movies. I've got the entire collection in my house.
I've got Wizard of Oz sitting on a shelf. Well, watch it one last time and look into that. No,
I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. Throw, burn it. Get rid of it. Get rid of that junk. Don't get,
don't donate it either. You're in Acts 19. Look what they did in Acts 19
verse 13. Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, you know, people were obsessed with
casting out spirits. People get way too into this stuff. Even Christians today,
they get so obsessed with like, man, I want to go out and I want to cast out some evil spirits
out of people. How about you get more worried about putting the Holy Spirit into people?
That's more exciting than casting out an evil spirit. And quite frankly, I don't believe that's
for us today. And that's another sermon. You know, that was special signs that were given
to the early church. I don't think we have that power today. This is a great example of people
who are trying to take on that power when they shouldn't. The certain vagabond Jews of verse 13
took upon them to call over them, which had evil spirits, the name of the Lord Jesus saying,
we adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there was one, seven sons of one, there were
seven sons of one, Sceva, a Jew, the chief of the priest, which did so. And the evil spirit answered
and said, Jesus, I know, and Paul, I know, but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was
leaped upon them and overcame them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house
naked and wounded. That's kind of an interesting story. People, what is it? It's people that are
trying to get into that realm, you know, the supernatural realm, doing things that are not
for them. You say, oh, but they're trying to cast out demons. Yeah, but you know what?
They're trying to, it's the principle, okay, of trying to get into things that God has forbidden.
And God has forbidden these occultic practices of witchcraft and sorcery. You say, why? Doesn't
matter why. You know, Deuteronomy was a quick verse. Thou shalt not suffer a wish to live.
Next verse. That's God's explanation for you. And you want to read the rest of all the verses
that I read tonight and how closely linked they are to some of the most wicked, abominable things
that people can do to one another. That's why. And God just says, don't go near it. Don't have
anything to do with it. Now look here at verse 17. You say, well, I've got this stuff. What
should I do? You know, I've got the Ouija board on the shelf. And it says in verse 17, this was
known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling in Ephesus and fear fell on them all. And the
name Lord of Jesus was magnified and many that believed came and confessed and showed their
deeds. Look at verse 19. Many of them also, which use curious arts, brought their books together
and burned them before all men. So they've got these curious arts. You know, they've got, you
know, the wiccan, they've got the beginner's guide to being a witch. You know, they've got W magazine
on the shelf. They've got the Harry Potter series. They've got Anton LaVey's writings. You know,
the head of the satanic church. They've got, you know, what was that other guy back in the day?
Alistair Crowley, you know, in his book about how to hold occultic practices. You know, go down to
the, you can go down to the new age store and find all kinds of this stuff. You can get stuff
on how to hold seances and what to burn and what to say and what to do. You can go to these
different countries where they're into this type of thing. I mean, they're cutting the heads off
chickens and lighting candles because it works. You know, newsflash, it actually works. You can
make contact with the demonic realm. They just don't identify it as such. They didn't think
it's something else. But that's what it is. You say, oh, I've got this stuff. I've got these books.
I've got this type of thing on my shelf. You know what you need to do? You need to burn it.
Or you need to get rid of it in a way where nobody else can get their hands on it.
And why didn't they just go, why doesn't it just say, well, they went home and, you know,
they just put it in a box and left it in the attic? Because somebody else might find it.
The grandkids might pull it out, dust it off and start reading about how to hold a seance,
how to get involved in curious arts. You know, this is kind of an embarrassing confession,
but I'm going to put myself out there for the edifying of the body of Christ.
Before I got saved, I kind of got into this astrology business for a little while.
And I got this book on astrology. And it's like, if your sign is this, if you were born
then under this star or whatever, you know, it tells you all the stuff. And then it said,
and then it ended by saying, you would benefit greatly from occult practices. That was what it
said. And so that's weird. And so I thought, you know what? So I just made one up. I just made up
a completely different person. Like somebody else was born another day. And you know how it ended?
You would benefit greatly from getting into occultic practices. You know what? I bet if I
took the time and did it over and over again, all the things they would say about every single one
of those people would be told, you would benefit greatly from occult practices. Getting involved
with the coven, it would be really good for you. Because that's the sign you were born under.
You know, this is your reincarnation where you should learn about this stuff or whatever.
You know, and praise God I didn't, you know, and got out of that kind of stuff.
You know what? That, unfortunately, I didn't know better. That book is still sitting in a
box somewhere down in the Caribbean. My dad's whole place. Maybe he got rid of it. I don't know.
But you know what? I wish I had been like these people, taking that book and burned it and got
rid of it. You say, well, I paid a lot of money for it. It's valuable. This stuff's hard to
come by. Well, how does this verse end? And they counted the price of them and found it 50,000
pieces of silver. I don't know how much that is, but I guarantee you it's not cheap. You know,
if you wanted to write me a check today, equivalent for 50,000 pieces of silver,
you know what I'd say? Yeah, go ahead. And if you don't believe me, try me. I challenge you.
Go ahead and test me after church. You can write that check, brother, and I will accept it. All
right, I'll cash that. What I'm saying here is it's not cheap, especially back then. I mean,
books weren't just flying off presses. I mean, these were probably like handmade, handwritten,
and they're coming down and just throwing in the fire. And they didn't even count them. They don't
even care. They're just like, it doesn't matter because they understood what they were dealing
with, the occult, witches, sorcery, abominations. That's what you need to do tonight if you've got
this stuff on your shelf. You know what? You need to take Cinderella off the shelf and burn it.
There, I said it. You need to take Beauty and the Beast off the shelf and burn it. Yep, you do.
You need to take your Harry Potter series tonight, go home and burn it. I paid a lot of money for
those DVDs. Burn them. Get rid of them. Because all they're doing is trying to influence your
children into getting into things that they shouldn't be getting into. Or at least making
them passive. Make them say, oh, it's all make-believe. It's just, it's no big deal.
And then they're going to run into a real witch. Then they're going to run into somebody who's
really actually into the stuff and just think, ah, it's not that big a deal. You have no idea
what that person's into in their spare time, what they're doing at these covens. You know,
they'll become passive at best. But here's the thing. Is God passive about the subject?
Because everything I've read tonight, it doesn't seem like God is passive about this.
It seems like God expects action to be taken. And that's what we see in Acts. They did something
about it. You know, God goes to a greater degree, doesn't he? He says, let's just kill those people
that are into this stuff. Go over to Malachi chapter three. Malachi chapter three. We'll end
here. Look, God is a passive on the subject and neither should we be. We should not be passive
about this and just think it's no big deal. It's a big deal. And I'm bringing it up this time of
year because we're coming into a month where it's just celebrated. It's going to be all over
the television. It's going to be in every supermarket. It's going to be in the movie
theaters. It's going to be, it's going to be everywhere. They're just going to be pushing
the occult for the next 30 to 40 days. And then they're going to do it again next year. And then
the next year and next year and next year and next year, as long as they can, they're going to
be pushing this nonsense. We shouldn't even call it nonsense. That's a very soft term to use for
it. It's an abomination. That's what it is. They're not passive about it, are they? They're
not passive about pushing their agenda. They're not passive about trying to influence your kids
to get into this stuff. So, you know, I'm going to get up and not be passive about it either
tonight. I'm going to tell you what the Bible says. And when I read the Bible is that God is
not passive about this subject. God doesn't just brush it off and say, it's no big deal. It's all
make-believe. It's not make-believe. They really do get, they get in contact with familiar spirits.
It's wicked. We should have nothing to do with the works of darkness. Nothing. Look at Malachi
chapter three, verse four. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord,
as in the days of old, as in the former years. And it shall come near, and I shall come near
to judgment. And I will be swift, a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,
and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling and his wages,
the widow and the fatherless. And turn the right, and turn, excuse me, and turn, and then turn
aside the stranger from his right. And fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. So look, when God's
getting right with people, when people are getting right, and God's coming near unto them,
you know, they're kind of making up, as in the former years, it says in verse four.
It says in verse five, part of that process of God getting, you know, when people are getting right
with God and drawing close to God, and God is drawing close to them, part of that process in
verse five, when he comes near to you, is in judgment. And I will be a swift witness against
who? Against the sorcerers. God's not passive. And when people get right, you know, if God,
when God draws near, he deals with these things. You know, you want to get close to God. You want
to start to live for the Lord. You need to start getting the things out of your life that God
hates. You need to get the sin out. People, they wonder why God feels so far away. But one,
it's because he is. And why is that? Because of our iniquities. Our iniquities have separated us
from our God. Often that's what happens. And if people would just start living right and getting
these things out of their life, you know what? God would draw near. But he's going to draw near
in judgment. You know, you say, oh God, I want to be closer. He's going to get close and say,
you need to do something about that sorcery in your house. You need to do something about the
witchcraft in your house. That's what God's going to say. And if we don't do it, then God's just
going to, okay, well, you just stay at arm's length then. God will bless us if we reject this
kind of thing and curse us if we don't. You know what? Let me just end by saying this, because I
know this can be a sensitive topic. When I start picking on Disney movies and Harry Potter and
Halloween and everything like that, and people say they start to have a problem with this subject,
even in Baptist churches. I'm not stupid. I don't suspect that anybody does. But it wouldn't
surprise me if there's somebody out there tonight that says, I have a problem with what you preach.
Let me just come out and say it. I'm not the problem. You are. And I think I've made that
pretty abundantly clear in the scripture tonight. That God hates this stuff. God's people
should have nothing to do with it. And that if you want to get right, the best thing you could
do tonight is go home and just get rid of that stuff once and for all and never go back to it.
You know, and that's all I wanted to say. I'll just give you a quick warning
about witchcraft in our society tonight. Let's go ahead and pray.