for those that have come, and they put other things on the back burner because they know
that church is the most important thing in this world. It's the pillar and ground of
the truth, dear God. And Father, I just pray that you would help those that are here to
take something from the message, dear God, and that the teaching will be clear and plain.
And in Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Now this chapter of 1 Corinthians 8, I believe, is extremely a misunderstood chapter. Now
when I grew up, everybody had what was called the Scofield Reference Bible. You ever heard
of that Bible before? Put your hand up if you heard of it. Very common, especially among
independent fundamental Baptists. I have no idea why. I mean, the thing is filled with
lies, it's full of heresy. I mean, all you do is get to Genesis 1, 2, and it tells you
how there was a pre-existing civilization before Adam, and that there were other human
beings living on the earth before Adam that were destroyed by God. I mean, there's all
kinds of heresy and garbage like that, correcting the King James Bible, and all kinds of false
teaching. And I remember as I was growing up, I had a Scofield Reference Bible. That's
what I had. And preachers will get up and say, oh yeah, the Scofield Bible is great
for all the references. Just don't read the notes though, because there's weird stuff
in there. You know, you're going to read the notes, let's face it. And not only that, but
even if you don't read the notes at the bottom of the page, within the text there are headings
above each chapter and above each few verses that tell you what it's about. And you can't
help but read them. I mean, they're going to influence your mind. And I remember as
I was reading as a child, as a very young child, I remember reading 1 Corinthians 8,
and at the top it said, like, doubt, doubtful things. That's what it said, like, things
that are doubtful, like whether they're right or wrong, is what the chapter is about. Now,
that's not what this chapter is about at all, and that's what most people think it's about,
but that's not what it's about at all. It's not about something that's doubtful at all.
You see, this chapter is about eating things that are sacrificed to idols. And the problem
is, if you isolate just one or two verses in here, you'll get the idea that, hey, eating
things sacrificed to idols is neither right nor wrong. It doesn't matter. But if somebody
who's a weaker brother, you know, if they're offended by it, you shouldn't do it in front
of them. Just do it by yourself, okay? Now, here's the thing. That's not true at all.
First of all, God is not the God of the gray area. There's no such thing as doubtful things.
There's things that are right, and there's things that are wrong. And the Bible will
tell you everything that's right, and the Bible will tell you everything that's wrong.
Period. I mean, this is the law. This is what it is. Now, there's a doctrine that people
teach, and, you know, I like to teach a little bit of doctrine in every sermon. I'm not one
of these preachers that wants to just get up and yell and be exciting. I want to teach
you the Bible also, because the Bible says that the man of God is supposed to be apt
to teach. And so I want to teach you the doctrines of the Bible, and so I want you to know that
there's a false doctrine out there that teaches that we're free in Christ. You might have
heard this one, free in Christ. And this is what they mean by it. Now, I believe in freedom.
I'm free in Christ, but this is what they mean by that. They say, if the Holy Spirit
has not convicted you about that, then it's not wrong for you. You know? I mean, I've
told people. I've said that with my Bible and said, such and such is wrong, and I've
proved it to them. And they say, you know what? I'm glad that the Holy Spirit has spoken
to you about that. And so you shouldn't do it. But you know what? The Holy Spirit just
hasn't spoken to me about that. And so I'm just going to keep on doing it. And that is
the biggest clock in the world, because I'm going to tell you something. Just because
you have not searched the Scriptures and found what's right and wrong from the Bible does
not mean that God is not going to hold you accountable for it. I mean, otherwise, I would
read as little Bible as I can. I can get away with everything. But don't tell me the Ten
Commandments. You know, don't tell me that, because I don't want to be sinning when I
steal. But as long as I don't know, I'm all right. Isn't that retarded? Isn't that ridiculous?
But that's what they teach. And so they teach, well, if God convicts you about it and you
do it, it's a sin. But never mind that it's a law of God. If God convicts you about it,
it's a sin. If you're not convicted, by the way, a word that's not found in the Bible,
it's a conviction. You say, what? What? No, the word conviction is not found in the Bible.
Show it to me. Okay? It's a man-made idea where if God convicts you about that, well,
then it's wrong. But if he doesn't, no, if the book says it's wrong, it's wrong. If the
book says it's okay, it's okay. And so if you read a little further, see, God, he starts
out here just reasoning with logic. He starts out saying, look, we know that an idol's nothing.
We know that it's just a piece of wood, a piece of metal, a piece of stone, whatever.
But a lot of people don't know that and they think of it as a false god. They think of
it as an idol. And he says, so if you go and eat this food, he says, people are going to
think that you're worshipping a false god or they're going to be offended by the fact
that you're having any association with this false god. And so he starts out explaining,
hey, even if it's not wrong, is what he's saying. Even if it weren't wrong, you shouldn't
do it because it's offensive to people and it's emboldening people to sin against their
conscience. But all you have to do is read two chapters later, flip over in the Bible
to 1 Corinthians 10. And see, that's why you can't just take one chapter and isolate it
from the rest of the Bible. Because look at 1 Corinthians 10, he continues along the same
subject throughout 8, 9, and 10. And in 1 Corinthians 10, he flat out tells you that
it's wrong to eat at the table of an idol. Look at verse number 14. Wherefore, my dearly
beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men, judge ye what I say. The cup of
blessing which we bless is not the communion of the blood of Christ. The bread which we
break is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread
and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread. Behold, Israel, after the
flesh, are not they which eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar? He's saying, think
about it. The people who eat at the temple, the Israelis, the Jews, he says, aren't they
partakers of the altar? Aren't they worshipping God when they do that? What say I then, verse
19, that the idol is anything? What am I saying, that the idol is real? Or that which
is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? Look at verse 20. But I say that the things
which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils. You see that? He says it's not
the idols that are worshipping, they're worshipping devils, and not to God. And look at the next
phrase. And I would not that you should have fellowship with devils. You cannot drink the
cup of the Lord and the cup of devils. You cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and
of the table of devils. Now, does that say that it's wrong to sit at that table and eat
that meat sacrificed to idols? Absolutely, clearly, unequivocally. Look at Revelation
chapter two. And this is just an introduction into the sermon, which is about something
totally different. But look at Revelation chapter two and see it again. Revelation chapter
two and, boy, I don't have it written down on my nose for some reason. I left this part
out. Oh, here we go, Revelation 2.14. The Bible says here, but I have a few things against
thee, because thou hast there then that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to
cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Is that right or wrong? He's saying it's wrong. He's saying, I'm against you because you're
eating things that are sacrificed to idols and you're fornicating. Look at the next verse
and actually look at verse 20. Now, withstanding, I have a few things against thee, because
thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce
my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. So now we're
not seeing Paul just discussing the matter as a human being, saying, hey, look, we all
have knowledge. We know that the idol is not anything. But then here we have Jesus Christ
himself. And obviously the whole Bible is written by God, but Paul in chapter 10 explained
that it's a sin. But look here, Jesus Christ is saying, I'm against you because you're
fornicating and because you're eating things sacrificed to idols, it's wrong. Now, he only
brings up a few things, and that's one of the things he brings up, so it's very wicked
to do that. And so I don't think it's a doubtful thing. It's one of those gray areas, not sure
if it's okay to go into a false god's temple and sit down and eat meat that's been sacrificed
to an idol. It's ridiculous, isn't it? That's what you do. Take your Schofield Bible and
throw it in the trash if you have one. It's where it belongs. But if you would, I'm going
to talk about something different. The title of my sermon this morning is The Cup of Devils.
Look if you would at 1 Corinthians 10, and this is where I'm really going with the sermon,
but I wanted to establish that foundation and lay that foundation at the beginning of
the message. But look at 1 Corinthians 10 and look at verse 14. Wherefore, my dearly
beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men, judge ye what I say. And then look
if you would at verse number 21. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the title of
my sermon is The Cup of Devils. You cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the
table of devils. Now, number one, I want to establish, what is idolatry? What is idolatry?
Turn back to Exodus chapter 20, if you would. And again, this is just all the foundation
for the message. Look at Exodus chapter 20. Exodus chapter 20 is a very common passage,
the 10 commandments listed here. Now, Exodus chapter 20. Now, how do we know that there
are 10 commandments? Because the Bible says in Deuteronomy chapter 10, verse 4, it calls
them the 10 commandments. He says that God gave you on two tablets of stone, even 10
commandments. Now, it's not very hard to separate where the 10 commandments are in this passage
because they're all separated by a period, okay? I mean, you're like, wow, this is really
deep, isn't it? Did you know that the Catholic church and the Lutheran church does not believe
in the same 10 commandments as we do? And they actually group the first two commandments
together into one, and they try to divide the 10th one to try to stretch it out just
to make it be 10? And you act like I'm crazy, but this is something that people don't agree
on. This is something that the Catholic church does not believe. But it's not that hard because
there's a period between each of the 10 commandments here. So look at the first one. Verse 3, thou
shalt have no other gods before me, period. That's commandment number one. Commandment
number two, thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything
that is in heaven above, or that is in earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth. Now, see the colon at the end there? He's continuing the same thought. Thou shalt
not bow down thyself to them nor serve them, for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my
commandments, period. You see how that ends with the period every time? And then look
at the next one. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. That's number
three. I'll skip forward just for sake of time. Number four, remember the Sabbath day
in verse eight? And then no period, it just continues. Actually, I'm sorry, that one has
a period, then it explains it. And then another period. And then in verse number 12, honor
thy father and mother, that's number five. Thou shalt not kill is number six. Thou shalt
not commit adultery, number seven. Thou shalt not steal, number eight. Verse number 16 is
number nine. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. And number 10, thou
shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ash, nor anything that is thy neighbor's
period. Now, all of them are separated by periods. One of them has a period in the middle
of it, but they're all separated out by periods. Now, the Catholic church is what they do.
They group the first two commandments. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, and thou
shalt not make unto thee any graven image. And so they have to come up with the 10th
commandment. So here's what they do. They pull out of verse 17. Look at the order. First,
it says not to covet your neighbor's house. Then it says not to covet his wife, his manservant.
This is what they do. They separate out thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, and they
make that the ninth commandment. And then they bring down the one before that about
coveting his house, and they put that in the 10th commandment. So like the ninth commandment
is not to covet your neighbor's wife, and the 10th commandment is not to covet his house.
It's stupid, because all throughout the New Testament, it's quoted simply as thou shalt
not covet. But they separate that out. Why would they do that? Because they're trying
to hide that second commandment. Because if they can combine it with thou shalt have no
other gods before me, well, now it's okay to make images. It's okay to make graven images
and statues and idols as long as they're representative of God. Because if you combine
it with thou shalt have no other gods before me, but you can make a statue of Jesus Christ.
You can make a statue of God. You can make a statue of the Virgin Mary. You can make
a statue of the saints. You can make a statue of fill in the blank, which of course, that
they say, well, those aren't gods. See, those aren't gods. That's just Mary. That's just
the saints. We just pray to them and whatever. Hey, look, there's a commandment in here,
and this is a doctrine that I haven't really heard emphasized, and it's so vital. He doesn't
just say not to worship a false god. He says, don't even make a graven image. That's all.
He says, don't even make it. Then he goes on further to say, and also don't worship
it in another verse. But he says, don't even make it. He says, don't have other gods before
me, but also I don't want you making any image. Look at Deuteronomy chapter four. Deuteronomy
chapter four, and I'll show you this again. Deuteronomy chapter four, and look at verse
number 15. Deuteronomy 4.15. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves. Deuteronomy 4.15.
For ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in horror
about in the midst of the fire. That's where they heard God's voice out in the mountain
when God gave the thing about us. He said, you did not see any image or any similitude.
You did not see what God looks like. Let ye corrupt yourselves, verse 16, and make you
a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness
of any beast that is on the earth, and, I'm sorry, the likeness of any winged fowl that
flies in the air, the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground, the likeness
of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth, and lest thou lift up thine eyes
unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the hosts
of heaven shouldest be driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath
divided unto all the nations under the whole heaven. So very clearly he said, don't make
an image, don't engrave an image of any animal, and he gives two examples, a fish or a bird.
He says, don't make any animals, don't make any graven images of any likeness of anything,
don't try to make a likeness of God, don't try to make, and then he also, in a totally
different note, says, and by the way, don't worship the sun, moon, and stars either. But
nowhere is he saying here not to worship them, he's saying don't even make it. He says don't
make the image, not just don't worship it, don't even make it. And this is as a side
note unrelated to the sermon, but what are the two symbols that Christianity quote unquote
uses for a Christian symbol that's a molten image that they put on the back of their car?
Number one's a fish, and number two is a dove. The two things that God specifically says
here, when he says don't make a molten image, the word molten is like a melting of metal.
He says don't make a molten image, and what do they do? They put an animal to represent
God? I mean think about it, they have a molten image of an animal to represent Jesus Christ,
and to represent that they're a Christian when God said it's a sin to make these kind
of images and these kind of idols. Yes, the Jesus fish on the back of the car is an idol,
it's idolatry. But see, idolatry is when you make images of things, and the problem
with making images is that God says that when you worship those images, when you have these
idols, he said they represent something more than just an idol. He says the idol is nothing.
He said they represent a devil. Every idol represents a devil is what he's saying.
Well, and of course, I don't even need to mention the Jesus crucifixes, Jesus hanging
on the cross, and all that kind of stuff that the Catholics have, the Mary that bobs
around on the dash like the Taco Bell dog, and they have that on the dash as their lucky
charm. But I'm going to tell you something. Think about the holiday that's coming up in
a few days here. October 31st, Halloween. Now, we were out soul winning yesterday, Brother
Dave and I, and we saw the Halloween decorations. These people had gone all out. 24 hours a
day, they have a boombox playing this evil organ music, just all the time. It just plays
in their front yard, and it was decked out with all kinds of stuff. And what do you see?
You see a jack-o-lantern, a pumpkin carved with a face, with an evil face. What do you
think that represents? Where do you think that came from? Do you think that came from
some born again, godly Christian decided, I'm going to carve an evil face in a pumpkin
and put a candle in it and put it out on my porch? It's obviously some occultic, wicked
practice. It's idolatry. Yes, a jack-o-lantern is an idol. You think about the skeletons.
You think about the evil looking skeleton figures that people put on their front yard
and a skeleton wearing clothing with a mean face. What do you think that is? It's idolatry.
What do you think it is when they have the ghosts and the goblins? I wonder what that
represents. I wonder where that came from. I wonder where it comes from to have an image
of some evil creature on your front yard. You think I came from the father? You think
I came from God the father? You think I came from reading the Bible and loving God? No,
it didn't. It's idolatry. It's witchcraft. It's evil. I was thinking about the religions
in India where they have over a thousand false gods and they always have these gruesome creatures.
You know, the most famous one is the one with the four arms holding the severed head and
it's this evil looking creature and that's their false god. All these demonic, evil,
false gods, all the idols of the world. Think about in South America, the Mayans and so
forth, where they have these evil looking faces and stuff. What do you think they're
worshipping when they bow down to those? Well, who does the Bible say they're worshipping?
It says they're worshipping the devil. It says they're worshipping devils when they
bow down to those carved wood idols of these evil looking faces and the big masks that
they wear and dance around the campfire and have human sacrifices and so forth. It's wicked.
It's ungodly. You see, I'm going to list for you seven sins of Halloween. The seven sins
of Halloween or the other title could be the cup of devils. Number one is idolatry.
Number two, the glorification of death and darkness and evil. Let me read for you some
scriptures. Proverbs 8 36, but he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul. All they
that hate me love death, is what God said. All they that hate me love death. So who's
the crowd that loves death, that promotes death? It's the devil's crowd. Philippians
4 8, finally brethren, what so ever things are true, what so ever things are honest,
what so ever things are just, what so ever things are pure, what so ever things are lovely,
if there be, what so ever things are good report, if there be any virtue and if there
be any praise, think on these things. God doesn't want our mind to be filled with dark
evil things. He said I want you to be filled with things that are pure, honest, true, just,
lovely, good report. First John 1 5, this then is the message which we have heard of
him and declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darkness at all. But you're
a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, unholy nation, a peculiar people that you should
show forth the praises of him who had called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Ye are all the children of light and the children of the day. We're not of the night nor of
darkness. For Colossians 1 13, who had delivered us from the power of darkness and had translated
us into the kingdom of his dear son in whom we have redemption through his blood even
the forgiveness of sins. Ephesians 6 12, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 5 11, and have no fellowship with
the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them. Ephesians 5 8, 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 reprove them
for it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. Romans 13
12, the night is far spent, the day is at hand, let us therefore cast off the works
of darkness and let us put on the armor of light. Acts 26 18, to open their eyes and
to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may
receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith that
is in me. John 12 46, Jesus Christ said, I am come a light into the world that whosoever
believeth on me should not abide in darkness. John 8 12, then spake Jesus again unto them
saying, I am the light of the world, he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but
shall have the light of light. And this is the condemnation that light has come into
the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. Luke
22 53, when I was daily with you in the temple Jesus said in the garden of Gethsemane as
he's being arrested, you stress forth no hands against me, but this is your hour and
the power of darkness. Matthew 6 22, the light of the body is the eye, if therefore thine
eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole
body shall be full of darkness, if therefore the light that is in thee be darkness. How
great is that darkness. Now let me tell you something, when you participate in Halloween,
you know what you're doing? You're filling your eyes with darkness. You walk out there
with the little candy and the trick-or-treat. You're seeing every evil, satanic, demonic,
ungodly thing that there is and you want to take your kids and fill their eyes with darkness.
He says, look, if your eyes aren't right, your whole body will be wrong. That's why
the television is so dangerous. He says, don't put evil into your eyes. He says you're going
to destroy your whole body. Look at this illustration from Mark chapter five. Turn to Mark chapter
five. I'll show you this. Mark chapter five. Here's a man in the Bible whose favorite holiday
was Halloween. Mark chapter five verse one. And they came over onto the other side of
the sea into the country of the Gadarenes and when he was come out of the ship immediately
there met him out of the tombs. Notice that word. Out of the tombs, a man with an unclean
spirit, a demon-possessed man, who had his dwelling among the tombs, mentioned again,
and no man could bind him, no, not with chains, because that he had been often bound with
fetters and chains and the chains had been plucked asunder by him and the fetters broken
in pieces. Neither could any man tame him and always, night and day, he was in the mountains
and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off,
he ran and worshiped him and cried with a loud voice and said, what have I to do with
you, Jesus, thou son of God, thou son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that
that's where it made me not. For he said unto him, come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
So here's a man who's demon-possessed. What is his fascination with the graveyard? I mean,
that's where he hangs around. He loves to hang around the graveyard. He loves to hang
around death. He loves to hang around the tombs because God said all day but hate me.
Love death. And so number one, the sin of Halloween is all the idolatry, the jack-o'-lanterns,
the images, the evil faces, the demonic-looking images, the skeletons, the mummies, all these
monsters and false demonic idols that are built. You say, wait, nobody's worshiping
them. Did you miss the first part of the sermon? Because God said don't make images like that.
Okay, I'm going to go down. Tell me if this is okay. I'm going to go down to Cos plus
Imports. I don't even know if they sell this to everybody. And I'm going to get some artifact
from Africa, some false god idol, and I'm just going to put it on the coffee table for
a decoration. I'm not going to worship it. Do you think that would be okay for me to
do that? God said not to bring, he said, I want you to take, and I didn't write this
verse down, but he said when you take over Canaan land, he said I want you to take all
their pictures, all their images, all their false gods, and he said I want you to burn
all of them in the fire. He says I want you to destroy them. He says and don't bring one
of those accursed things into your house. He says don't bring an idol or an abomination
into your house or you'll be cursed like it. So no, it's not right to have idols and images
of demons and demonic things even if you're not worshiping them. He says don't bring it
into your house, don't make it, don't even put it near you, don't even look at it. That's
what God says. That's the number one idolatry. Number two, the glorification of death and
darkness and evil when God glorifies, walking in the light, fleeing the darkness and going
into the glorious light of the gospel. But number three, how about the glorification
of fear? I mean what's the big fun thing about Halloween? You go to a haunted house, right?
Because you can have the thrill and the fun of experiencing fear. I mean I remember when
I was a teenager I went to haunted houses and one time there was this big fancy haunted
house in Sacramento, California. It was huge. It was unbelievable. I mean you had to pay
like 20 bucks to get in. I mean it was just massive. And you had to wait in line for over
two hours to get into this thing. I mean it was like a snake line that wrapped around.
And I waited in that line for like two hours. You know, a bunch of friends had advised me
and took me to this thing with their parents. You know, their parents, even the people that
went to our church and everything, you know, they're taking us to this thing. And they
said this is the coolest haunted house because I'm going to tell you something, they're like
no matter how bold you are, you know, I mean even if you're an adult, you're not a wimp
at all, you will be scared in this haunted house. So it's like cool. You know, and see
look that's what the world does, they glorify fear. That's why they go to the horror movies,
right? Oh it's really scary. Watch this, you'll be scared. Look, God does not glorify fear.
Remember a few weeks ago? God has not given us the spirit of fear. God says that fear
is evidence of people that aren't saved. They live in fear. I was thinking about some of
the Bible verses, it says like in 2 Timothy 1.7, of course, for God has not given us the
spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of sound mind. Philippians 1.28, and in nothing
terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to
you of salvation and that of God. He said there's a marked difference between people
that are saved and unsaved. People that are unsaved live in fear. People that are saved
are fearless. Now that's not across the board because there are people who are saved who
live like they're unsaved, and then they start living a life characterized by fear.
But a person who's walking with God, a person who's filled with the Holy Spirit, a person
who's walking in the spirit and not in the flesh, their life is not characterized by
fear, it's characterized by boldness. The unsaved cloud, because they have no boldness,
because they have no spirit of God, they have to drink alcohol to give them the artificial
boldness. That's why they drink. But not only that, but because they're so characterized
by fear, they begin to glorify fear, because they don't want to admit that it's something
that's bad about being unsaved is that fear of death that keeps you in bondage, the Bible
says. They don't want to admit that it's a negative thing, they want to say fear is cool.
And so we're going to have a holiday where we glorify and make it fun and exciting to
live in fear. To fear God? No. I mean, you don't walk into that haunted house and say,
the fear of God is in me. What do you have fear of? Satan. Do you think God wants you
to fear Satan when he demands you hundreds of times? Fear me. No, but you go into a haunted
house and you're fearing some guy dressed up like a devil, some guy dressed up like
with a chainsaw, some guy that's some ghoul or goblin. And what are they? The Bible says
they're devils, they're demons. And so he wants you to fear the kingdom of darkness.
Fear the devil. Fear demons. Fear Satan. And God says, no, fear God. Don't fear some
devil. Don't fear some demon. He is nothing. He has no power. Greater is he that is in
you than he that's in the world. He's got it before us. Who can be against us? Resist
the devil and he'll flee from you. He says the devil should be running away screaming
scared of you. He says the man of God, one man shall put 10,000 to flight. That's what
he says. He says a man of God, a man who's filled with the Holy Spirit, a woman who's
filled with the Holy Spirit, the devil runs away screaming mad. He can't do anything.
He's a weakling compared to the person who is indwelled by the Holy Spirit of God. Now
in the flesh we're no match for the devil, but if God's with us, we should have no fear
of the devil. But what is the haunted house doing? It's trying to get you scared about
all these ghosts. You know, you'll be around people and you turn off the lights or something
and they flip out. Oh man, I'm scared. You think that's of God? It's not of God. It's
from the devil. And so number one we saw was idolatry. Number two, the glorification of
death and darkness and evil. Number three, the glorification of fear. Think about how
God sums it up in Revelation 21.8. What's the first sin that he lists but the fearful
and unbelieving? That's the first thing he says. But the fearful and unbelieving and
the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars
shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second
day. What's the first quintessential truth? The fearful and unbelieving. See how they
go together? Everything else in there is separated by commas. You know, there are different parts
of the list. But the first one is in one. The fearful and unbelieving. That's who's
saying the hell he's saying. The fearful and unbelieving because the unbelievers are
fearful and the fearful are unbelieving. That's why Jesus said fear not. That's one
of his most common statements out of his mouth. Fear not. And so the glorification of fear
is the third sin of Halloween. Number four, how about the appearance of evil? The Bible
says in 1 Thessalonians 5 22 abstain from all appearance of evil. You look, when you
go out and participate in Halloween, you look like you're condoning all the weird
filth that's going on. Because the whole holiday, and there's another holiday that's
the same thing in Germany, bashing, right? Basically like German Halloween or no? It's
like German Mardi Gras. It's all wicked as hell. It's all in God. It's the same thing.
But there's all kinds of drunkenness going on in Halloween. There's all kinds of people
being arrested for lewd acts. There's human sacrifices going on in the United States of
America on Halloween. There's all kinds of filthy, perverted, sinful things I'm not
going to mention that go on. And so, is that what you want to be grouped in with? Is that
the table that you want to sit down and eat at? You say, well, it's nothing. It's just
a pumpkin cut out like a mean face. It's just a joke. Hey look, knowledge puffeth up,
but charity edifyeth. God said, don't think you're all puffed up because you know that
it's all fake. I mean, I know those goblins aren't real. If you think the goblins aren't
real, then you're an idiot because they are real, because they're devils, because they're
demons and they are real. Yes, they are real. Yes, there is a power of darkness. Yes, there
really is a Satan and his minions. And so, abstain from the appearance of evil. I'm going
to blow through that one, but how about number five? So number one is idolatry. Number two,
the glorification of death and darkness and evil. Number three, the glorification of fear.
Number four, the appearance of evil if you're participating in it. But number five, how
about the sin of not thinking for yourself? Say, what? Well, Exodus 23 2 says, thou shalt
not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after
many to rest judgment. God says, don't follow a multitude to do evil. Let me ask you something.
If it wasn't so widely accepted in the United States to celebrate Halloween and to have
all these ghoulish evil decorations, and it was just you individually making a decision,
am I going to put a skeleton and a mummy and a dead body on my front lawn? And it wasn't
promoted by Hollywood, it wasn't in Fry's grocery store, every grocery store you go
to, but it was just something where you just decide, somebody, just one person said, this
is what I do on October 31st. I mean, I put dead bodies on my front lawn, I make it look
like a graveyard, I put spider webs, I put a mummy, I put a jack-o-lantern, and you'd
say like, you need to stop worshipping the devil, you're crazy, wouldn't you? I mean,
think about it, if it was only one person that did it, like in the whole city of Tempe,
there's just this one person who you walk by and it's like, ooh, and they got all those
weird freaks, you know what I'm talking about, all you have to do is drive around a couple
of streets and you'll see these people who are just die hard, Halloween. Hey, if you
saw somebody do that and they were the only one that did it, you'd be like calling the
police, this guy has dead bodies in his basement, you know, this guy's a freak, you'd say you're
nuts, and if he said, do it with me, you know, decorate your house, you'd say, I'm a Christian,
I love God, I love Jesus. Hey, number 510 is letting the world determine for you what's
right and wrong, not thinking for yourself, don't follow a multitude to do evil. I was
thinking about it a few weeks ago, we had some visitors from the Latter-day Saints Mormon
church, and by the way, I was upset by the fact that they were dressed so well, and I'm
thinking to myself, which Baptist could dress like they dress, you know, they're dressed
totally like ladies should dress, nice long skirts and everything like that, and we were
talking afterward and I was pointing out to them, you know, I was trying to get the younger
girl saved, and I was pointing out to her some of the inconsistencies of her religion
by far, and I was using the sermon that I preached that night as a little bit of a springboard,
and I told her, I said, you know, I said, the Mormon church, I said, they have a rule,
and she knew about this, and she admitted that it was stupid, I said, they have a rule
that R-rated videos are wrong, like, you cannot watch R-rated videos, but PG-13 is fine, and
I'm thinking to myself, the R rating has changed over the years, so you just let the world
tell you, this movie's okay, you know, or, you know, you let Tipper Gore, you know, tell
you, you know, she puts the parental advisory on this CD, but this one's okay and this one's
not, and you're gonna let the rating society or whoever idiots decide what movies are and
what movies PG-13 determine what's right and wrong, and she's like, yeah, you're right,
she's like, it's ridiculous, she said, the PG-13 movies are bad, you know, they're ungodly,
they're wicked, and it's, but that's the way we are sometimes, we let the world tell
us what's right and wrong, I mean, think about the screwed up mess of a world we live in,
look at it, I love to just pull these out, my wife just feeds me, I can't even use them
fast enough in the sermon she sent me, so here, here's some examples of how screwed
up the world we live in, okay, this is, this is somebody in Tempe wrote this article in
the newspaper in the Arizona Republic, saved marriage proposal hurts more than helps, listen
to this, I want to know who it is hurting, and this is who, this is the, I'm showing
you this, the warped view of right and wrong, okay, to let you know why we don't let the
world determine what's right and wrong, because if the world says Halloween's okay, I say
it's the table, I say it's drinking at the cup of the devil, I say you're fellowshiping
with devils, well, let's read what else they think about right and wrong, I want to know
who it is hurting, I'm reading the whole article, and how does it harm family values for two
people who are in love with each other to get married, they're talking about people
of the same gender, live and let live, okay, keep in mind that statement, live and let
live, I wish I could find a life partner, and then listen to the next sentence, and
I mean I couldn't even believe this when I read it, and you're not going to believe
me, I'm going to have to pass it around, I'm sure you're not going to believe me, next
sentence, there should be a law against having 13 children, did you hear that, I think it's
horrible to have that many kids, so they just said live and let live, I think there should
be a law against having 13 children, I think it's horrible to have that many kids, people
get real, gays have been around a long time and will be for a long time to come, they're
human beings and should be treated as such, I hope Prop 107 does not pass, Audrey Mascali,
Tempe, Arizona, can you believe that, so it's okay, you're not hurting anybody for a couple
of queers to get married in front of God and everybody, but having 13 kids is an abomination
to them, talk about a day when they call good evil an evil good, is that just insanity,
I mean how about this, study, some preschoolers can now use Ritalin, now they're giving Ritalin
to preschoolers, because they have ADHD, you know a preschooler, stand up Isaac, this is
a preschooler, I mean he's not in preschool, thank God, getting molested, but he's a 3
or 4 year old right here, this is who they're getting doped to, because they can't get them
under control, because they're freaks and monsters, and boy I wonder if it had something
to do with the demonic video games they play, the demonic television they watch and the
demonic stuff that they're going to see and experience on Halloween this year, we're living
in a crazy world, how about this one, this is who determines you're right and wrong,
remember the world, for the first time October 15th, Sunday 2006, for the first time unmarried
households reign in the US, 50.2% of households in the United States are unmarried now, did
you hear that, more than half, only 49.8%, let me see, 49.8% of households in America
have a man and a woman that are married, and I mean we're not even talking about if they've
been divorced and remarried or anything, I mean just if they're married at all, I mean
we're counting that, two people married living together in a house is less than half of the
households that you, if you go knocking doors, soul winning, more than half of the houses
that you knock on are going to be people that are living together unmarried, or just a couple
of guys living together, a couple of women living together, I mean this is the insane
world we're living in, I mean it's bizarre, and so number one we saw idolatry, number
two glorifying death, darkness, evil, number three glorifying fear, number four the appearance
of evil if you participate, number five the sin of not thinking for yourself but letting
the world determine what's right and wrong for you instead of letting this book determine
what is right and wrong for you, but number six, how about promoting of Hollywood and
all the worldly characters, because if you're not dressed up like Satan, if you're not dressed
up like the grim reaper, if you're not dressed up like a mummy, if you're not dressed up
like a dead body, then what are you going to dress up as? Spongebob. Spiderman. Am I
stepping on your toes back there? Batman. And by the way, notice how all these characters
are like a merging of an animal with a human being. You ever stop and think about that?
Batman. Spiderman. It's totally occultic, straight out of the Bible, read about it in
the Old Testament, all the false gods that are animal gods, giving human characteristics
to animals is what all the TV, all the cartoons are about, making animals seem human. I mean,
Hollywood and these worldly characters is what you're promoting when you're out into
Halloween, because that's what all the dress up is. You can't just dress up. I mean, try
and find a costume that's just like, you know, I'm going to dress up cowboy. Oh, you
mean Woody from Toy Story? Oh, you mean, you want to be, you know, I don't even know the
movies anymore, but I'm sure it'd just be some cowboy from some movie. Oh yeah, you
can dress up as this or that. It's always some Hollywood character. It's always some
Hollywood movie star that you're dressing as. It's always some cartoon character that
the kids are dressed as. If they're not dressed up like Satan, they're dressed up like Dora
the Explorer. You know, they're dressed up like one of these, I don't even know anymore.
I need to sit down and just watch TV for like 24 hours. I need to just sit down and just
bite the bullet and just say, forgive me, father, and just sit in front of it and learn
these shows so I can preach against them. No, I'm just kidding. You do it and tell me
about it. Yeah, and by the way, and I love to bring this up whenever I can. You know,
Walt Disney, the biggest stinking pervert that ever lived, is burning in hell right
now, yes, an occultic Satan worshiper, Walt Disney, and I go to Christian's house and
they say like, we don't watch TV, we just watch videos, and then they'll have them stacked
all the way to the ceiling, the whole anthology. Every Walt Disney cartoon video that's ever
known to man, and they'll have them all listed off. And you know, think about this, I got
this list out for you since you probably don't believe me right now. I got this list out
of all the Disney movies. Every cartoon Disney movie that's ever come out in order of when
they came out. Okay, the first one. Number one, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Say, come on, what's wrong with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Well, do you know the story? It's got a witch, mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest
of them all? And you're talking to a talking mirror, and then there's a witch that turns
herself into different people, and she can make herself look like anybody, and she comes
with an apple. Oh, does that sound familiar? She wants you to eat a piece of fruit? Boy,
that sounds real familiar, doesn't it? And eat this fruit, and then she eats the fruit,
and she passes out, she's like resurrected. I mean, it's this total demonic story. You
know it is. It's an occultic story. Number two, Pinocchio. You know, and some of these,
I don't know if I've really seen it, like I think I saw it a really long time ago, but
this is the only part of Pinocchio I remember, and me and Dave were talking about this, is
the part where like he goes to this weird, like because he's lied, you know, because
he lies or whatever, he does wrong, he goes to this like alternate reality where like
the boys start turning into animals, they start turning into donkeys, isn't that right?
And they start like becoming donkeys, and that's like their warped idea of like what
hell is like. It's like you become this donkey. It's weird. I mean, it's a warped video. Okay,
and then that's the first two that ever came out. The third one, and this is the worst
one of all, Fantasia, the third Disney movie that ever came out. Fantasia, also known as
the subtitle, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, is what it's called. I got a little information
on this. The Dukos piece, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, is often considered the best sequence
in the film, and was the only sequence carried over into Fantasia 2000. In the late 1930s,
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse was losing his popularity with movie audiences. He devised
a special short that would be produced as a comeback film for Mickey Mouse. This is
in 1940, okay? This is before all the filthy movies and all the weird stuff. This was probably
the most controversial thing that was out back then, you know, in 1940. This is before
all the filth, which is commonplace on movies. Mickey Mouse, as The Sorcerer's Apprentice,
has become such an iconic role for the character that he is regularly depicted as such in the
Disney parks. Mickey is seen wearing his famous red wizard's robe and blue sorcerer's hat
in numerous parades, as well as in the nighttime spectacular, Fantasmic, at both Disneyland
and MDM studios at Walt Disney World. The sorcerer's hat is also an official symbol
of MDM studios. The sorcerer in The Sorcerer's Apprentice is Yen Sid,
which is Disney spelled backwards. Okay, this is evil. It's wrong.
So, do me a favor and look up every time the word sorcerer occurs in the Bible.
God says, kill the sorcerer. Take him out and stone him to death and kill him.
Their blood shall be upon them. Let me find the verse, actually. I'm going to read it for you.
Yeah, here we go. Deuteronomy 18, 10. There shall not be found among you anyone
that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire. Human sacrifice.
Or the use of 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.
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord, and because of these abominations,
the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
For these nations with thou shalt possess hearken unto observers of times, unto diviners,
but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee to do so. Leviticus 20, 27.
A man also, or a woman, that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be
put to death. They shall stone them with stones, their blood shall be upon them. So according to the Bible,
a wizard is somebody who basically communicates with dead people,
that worships the devil, that has an unclean spirit living inside of them,
and he says, put them to death, kill them, their blood shall be upon them.
Look, and then let's make a cartoon character and we all watch. Somebody dressed up like a sorcerer
and put on a sorcerer hat and a wizard hat. And I've seen parts of it, I've never seen the whole thing again,
doing all these, he's saying these spells and stuff, and doing weird motions with his
hands, and things happen. Like he's controlling his environment around him and turning things into other things
and stuff. It's this total demonic portrayal. That's what put Mickey Mouse on
the map, he's saying. That's what made Mickey Mouse famous. It wasn't that popular. So they made this
movie to make him popular, and so that's why that's the logo of MGM.
And I've seen that logo, by the way, with the wizard hat. He says that's why it's in parades, you'll see
Mickey Mouse with the red robe, which is a sorcerer outfit they are even saying, and a blue
wizard hat. It's evil. It's sickening. And you know who the voice for
Mickey Mouse is? Walt Disney. You know who his favorite character is? Mickey Mouse.
Walt Disney was the one who devised that whole movie. He's the one who came up with these
whole characters. Every Disney movie has some kind of an occultic undertone. Every single
one. I was going through these. Dumbo. Again, animals having human attributes,
that's what they all are about. That's the one common thread. But how about the scene of pink elephants on
parade? Have you seen Dumbo? 20 minute scene in the movie where Dumbo gets drunk.
He falls into a bucket of liquor that the carnies are drinking, and he falls
into a bucket of liquor and he's drunk and he's seeing pink elephants on parade for 20 minutes. He's hallucinating
and laughing and having a good time. And it glorifies drunkenness like it's fun. There's nothing negative
about it. It's just funny. It's enjoyable. It's cool. Bambi.
The hunter is the bad guy. The hunter is demonized. You know, the animals.
Save the animal. Totally ungodly viewpoint. Peter Pan.
A feminine boy who wears tights. A boy who acts like a girl who wears little
tights and he doesn't want to grow up. He just wants to hang around with the little kids all day. You know, I mean, it's
wicked. It's ungodly. Go down the list. I'm going to sleeping beauty. That's one
that I've seen many times. And that is one of the worst ones. I mean, there's whole long scenes
of witchcraft and demonic things. The whole earth is like the devil sends
thorns all over the whole world. You remember the scene where the whole earth is just overspread with
these dark shadows and thorns and everything. And then they do some weird spell and get rid
of it. The fairy godmother comes floating down. I mean, it's all just
the occult. Is that what you want to fill your kids mind with? And then you tell them a Bible story and you know what they think?
They think it's just another fairy tale. They think it's just another sleeping beauty.
Tell them about the thorns that grew after the Garden of Eden. And they're like, yeah, I saw that on Sleeping Beauty.
On and on down the list. I mean, I don't have time to hit all these. The Little Mermaid.
She's half naked. The whole movie has subliminal messages in it that we used to laugh about when I was a
teenager of cussing and nudity and perverted things I'm not going to mention.
Beauty and the Beast. Just every girl has just the most low cut top imaginable
in the movie. The beast is made to look like a long haired man. And when she finally
falls in love with an animal. OK, that's filthy in and of itself.
She falls in love with an animal and then she kisses this animal and then he becomes a long haired man.
Becomes a sodomite looking man. On and on with that one.
Aladdin. Again, the long haired man is the central character as almost every Disney movie has a long haired man
is the central cartoon character. Rock music fills all of these. The Lion
King soundtrack by Elton John is a sodomite. Long
hair. All the lions look like men with long hair because they're men, but they have their hair groomed like a man
who has long hair. You know, homosexual characters in The Lion
King. Milan. The whole movie Milan. I've never seen this one, but it's about a girl who dresses up
like a man. That's the whole theme. She dressed up and impersonates a man throughout the movie. Ha ha, it's pretty
funny. Given the world that we're living in. False religion. False Asian religions are promoted.
Tarzan. Nudities promoted. It's made a big joke about.
Lilo and Stitch. Homosexuality, effeminate characters. I mean, the list goes on and on
friend. Why don't you just realize that Walt Disney is a pervert? Why don't you just realize that Walt Disney is
not of the father, but it's of the world, so you know it's going to be sinful. It's always going to be wrong.
You pick the most innocent thing you want and say Disney movies. They're clean. They're wholesome. You pick the most
innocent thing you want. It did not come from God. It came from the sinful, wicked, ungodly world
that you're living in. It's always going to be wrong. And so I've got to hurry
up and finish here, but quick review. Number one, idolatry. Number two, glorifying death,
darkness, evil. Number three, glorifying fear. Number four, appearance of evil. Number five, the sin of not
thinking for yourself and deciding what's right and wrong. Number six, the promoting of Hollywood and its worldly
characters, including Walt Disney characters. And number seven, you're fellowshipping
with devils. That's what you're fellowshipping with. You're partaking in a holiday
of people who are worshipping the devil, literally, and they're worshipping devils.
The Bible says in 2 Kings 23, 24, more over the workers with familiar spirits and the wizards
and the images and the idols and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and Jerusalem
did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law, which were
written in the book that helped Cai the priest found in the house of the Lord. He said, in order
for me to obey the Bible, in order for me to obey what I learned in church, he says I must put away
the wizards. I must put away the familiar spirits. I must put away the images.
I must put away the idols. I must put away the abominations if I'm ever going to obey
this book that I got in the house of the Lord. He says, I've got to get rid of this demonic
garbage out of my life. 1 Corinthians 10, 20, I'll close with this.
But I say that the things with the Gentile sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils
and not to God. And I would not that you should have fellowship with devils. You cannot
drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils. You cannot be partakers of the Lord's table
and at the table of devils. Let me ask you one question. This October 31st, this Tuesday,
whose table are you going to eat at? Are you going to eat at the table of the devil or are you going to eat
at God's table? Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father, thank you so much for the Bible and thank you so
much for the warnings that you've given us. The world is so slick. Walt Disney is so slick.
Hollywood is so slick and they'll try to make it seem fun. The Harry Potter,
the Lord of the Rings and all this garbage. They try to make it look cool. They try and they make it look fun.
But thank God I have a book that tells me what a wizard really is. He's a
pervert, demon possessed monster that needs to be taken out and killed, the Bible says. Thank God
I know what a sorcerer is. He's a dope dealing pervert who wants to control people and abuse people.
Father, please just help us not to fall into the trap of letting the world determine what's right and wrong,
but help us let you determine what's right and wrong.