Holy Spirit you would fill me with your power and that you would
Speak to those that are here this morning dear God through the Word of God and through preaching
Father I pray that everyone that's here would not have a hard heart
To the subject that's being preached on but that they would
Open their heart and let you speak to them about the truth of this matter and in Jesus name I pray amen
Now turn if you would you're in 1st Corinthians chapter 10 pull it back just one page to 1st Corinthians chapter 8
And I'm going to I'm going to read a verse for you as we get into message in 1st Corinthians 8 4 the Bible reads as
Concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols
We know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is none other God, but one
So there's only one God the Bible says and these idols that the Gentiles worshiped and these idols that people in our day worship
They're not real is what he's saying, but but flip over if you would to 1st Corinthians chapter 10
We'll see this clarified in
Verse number 20 the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 10 20, but I say that the things which the Gentiles 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 of the table of devils, so let me ask you something although the idol is not real
Doesn't it represent something that is real which is a devil that people are worshipping when they worship an idol
That's what the Bible says
And so I'd like to preach to you this morning
And this just segues into my first point only of seven
I'm preaching for you this morning the seven sins of Halloween the seven sins of Halloween you say
I don't like the sermon already. You know it's only gonna get worse alright
so if you don't like it already you better just leave right now because it's only gonna get worse from here and
So number one the first sin of Halloween is idolatry idolatry
The Bible says here, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice
And we know he's talking about things sacrificed unto idols. He says they're not sacrificing it to an idol
They're not just sacrificing it to a piece of wood or stone or gold or silver some kind of a graven image
Cunningly graven by the work of man. Hey, we know that they're sacrificing it to a devil
You see the false gods of this world and if you study the word in the Bible
God small G
The little G
God and God is always referring to a devil or a demon as people call them today the Bible calls them devils
Now the Bible says in Exodus 20 verse 4 and if you've been working on the memorization with us
You'd know that the second commandment is thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image or any likeness of
Anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the waters under the earth thou shalt not bow
Down thyself to them nor serve them now before he told you not to bow down or serve them
He says don't make them don't make any graven images don't make any idols now
Let me ask you something when you walk down the street or drive down the road in the month of October
And you drive by a person's house whose house is decorated for Halloween
What will you see on their porch if it's not a carved image of a evil face in a pumpkin? Oh?
But that's not idolatry is it of course it's idolatry the Bible says not to make the any
graven image let alone taking a pumpkin or it doesn't matter what it is and
Carving an evil mean face into it. I wonder who came up with that idea in the first place anyway
You know what it was it was probably some Baptist pastor somewhere
Right no
I know what it was it was some godly soul winning Christian grandmother
Who decided that she was gonna carve evil faces into pumpkins and put a put a little candle in it and put it out on
Her front porch right next to her little home is where the heart is decoration that hangs on her front door
Good, where do you think it came from huh it came from idolatry? It's demonic now. I'm gonna tell you something
I'm not one of these preachers who
Preaches a lot of extra biblical material everything I preach is found in the Bible
So I'm not one of these guys who's going to give you some kind of a history lesson
I'm not going to get up here and tell you about the ancient origins of Halloween because you know what I don't know what that's really
True you won't know what I'm saying is true, but Jesus said thy word is truth
Referring to the Bible and so I'm going to preach to you from the Bible the seven sins that are become being committed
By celebrating and practicing Halloween number one is idolatry look at the idolatry of Halloween look at the images of
skeletons
Look at the life-sized skeletons look at the dead bodies look at the the witches and the mummies that are in people's front yards
Look at them and tell me that it's not idolatry. It's an image of something evil
It's an image of something
Satanic and I'm going to tell you something if I were to go down to the store right now and go to one of these
Exotic stores and bring home one of these tiki masks, and I've seen them on display in a Christian's home
You know who knows what I'm talking about put up your hand the tiki the big wooden carved mask the big evil face
What if I just put it on the wall today?
And I said this is my decoration, but I don't don't worry. I don't worship it
You think it'd be right for me to do that when that image comes from a culture that that participates in human sacrifices
When that comes from a culture of evil and
Anti-jesus christ you think I'm gonna hang that kind of an abomination or an idol in my house
I think not and you ought not either and so the sin of Halloween number one is idolatry
the sin of having images all over your front lawn images all over hanging from the door a
Skeleton a jack-o'-lantern, what do you think that stuff represents the Bible says it represents something it represents a devil
You don't like that. Let's move on to the second point number two
the glorification of death and darkness and evil that's the second sin of Halloween number one it's idolatry, but number two it
glorifies death darkness and evil
Proverbs 836 reads, but he that sinned against me wrongeth his own soul all they watch this all they that hate me
Love death, that's what God says
All they that hate me
Love death
What is the fascination with death about Halloween?
It's all about death. It's all about dead bodies skeletons ghouls ghosts goblins
I was thinking about this story turn if you would to mark chapter 5 in your Bible
mark chapter number five
You see Halloween glorifies death number one
it also glorifies darkness, and it also glorifies evil and
Don't try not to resist the message this morning
Just think it through just maybe keep an open mind and listen to all seven points and then decide for yourself
But please keep an open mind don't and you say why I just don't agree with you
Well, that's because you already have plans for Halloween
That's how you don't agree with me
The reason you don't agree with me is because you're already scheduled to go to that Halloween party the reason you don't agree with me
Right now is because you've already made plans, and it's too late to break your plans or here's why you don't agree with me
Right now because because you sir or you ma'am
I don't have the guts to stand up to your children who are running your house who?
Terrorize you they're the ones who decide what church you go to in many cases
They're the ones who decide what the rules are in your house
God help us when when children run the house and the parents are afraid of the children
If you sir if you ma'am at the end of this sermon agree with this
And if you believe this you ought to stand up to your kids and say
This is the way it is as for me in my house. We will serve the Lord and so
You know part of the reason why you may not agree with the sermon is because you already have plans
You've already bought that expensive costume. You've already told your children that you're going to take them out trick-or-treating
But look down at your Bible if you would have marked chapter 5 the Bible reads in mark 5 1 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 a man
with an unclean spirit this is a man that's demon possessed and
Who had his dwelling among the tombs where does he live where does he stay in a graveyard?
It is one among the tombs 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 thee Jesus thou son of the most I God I?
Adjure thee by God that thou torment me not for he said unto me come out of the man thou unclean spirit here
We see a man who's demon possessed. What are his telltale signs well number one. He loves the graveyard
He loves to hang around death
He loves to be around the tombs and and death and dead bodies. He thinks that that's cool
He thinks that that's fun. That's what he likes to do and not only that but he cuts himself
If you ever known people that cut themselves if you go to if you go to public school right now
There are all kinds of kids at public when I was in school there were girls
Many of them you'd see on their arms where they'd cut their own body
Why because they're demon possessed because they're listening to demonic music because they're involved in idolatry
They all these different things, and that's why they cut themselves
That's what the Bible says okay, and not only that but the Bible says no man could bind him
Nobody's gonna. Tell them what to do nobody's gonna. Give me any rules
Nobody's gonna
Give me a thou shalt or a thou shalt not
You see these are some of the signs of of someone being demon possessed according the Bible
But you see I was fascinated with death and Halloween glorifies death all of Halloween's about dead dead bodies
dying
gravestones in people's yards
Skeletons whatever the case may be but not only that it glorifies darkness now
God throughout the Bible is always describing things that are good as being light
Everything that's good is the light and everything. That's bad is epitomized by darkness. Let me read a few scriptures for you
The Bible says in Luke 22 53 no need to turn there when I was daily with you in the temple Jesus said
You stretch forth no hands against me, but this is your hour and the power of darkness
You see Jesus was arrested in the middle of the night in the Garden of Gethsemane
And he said why aren't you resting me in the daytime?
I'll tell you why because this is your hour and the power of darkness you know darkness
Nighttime is when most violent crimes are committed
You know nighttime is when the evil people come out you remember the story in
Genesis 18 and 19 of Sodom and Gomorrah when did those?
Queers surround lots house and try to attack him it was at night
The Bible makes it clear was the night and in Judges 19 the same type of a story
It was nighttime again, and the Bible makes it clear that as soon as the sun arose they all fled away
They all ran away and went back to normal because at nighttime people do bad things they do strange things the Bible says they that
Be drunken are drunken in the night
People get drunk at night people commit violent crimes at night people sneak around and commit adultery at night
Night is the power of darkness night is when wickedness happens the nighttime the darkness is is something
That's glorified with Halloween. It's all about nighttime
It's all about waiting until it gets dark so we can go out trick-or-treating
John 3 19 and this is the condemnation that light is coming to the world and men loved darkness
Rather than light because their deeds were evil the Bible says
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 life
John 12 35 then Jesus said of them yet a little while is the light with you
Walk while you have the light lest darkness come upon you for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth
John 12 46 I am come a light into the world that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness
Acts 26 18 to open their eyes and 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 which are sanctified by faith that is in me
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 life. You say pastor Anderson
Why don't you just preach the Bible? Why don't you just preach about Jesus?
Why do you have to preach about Halloween on Sunday morning? If I'm not if this isn't Bible preaching
I don't know what Bible preaching is
You're gonna hear more Bible this morning, then you'll hear down the street at mr.. Rogers Baptist Church. I'll tell you right now
Oh hello neighbor
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood a beautiful
Would you like to be my special neighbor this morning she had to be my friend
You know the Bible needs to be preached somewhere
And you know what you say well, this is so negative come back tonight
I have a positive sermon tonight for some of you
Sunday morning glories can show up on the evening service, and you'll hear the positive sermon tonight
But this morning
I'm trying to expose to you something that could be very positive in your life if you protect your children and protect yourself
From an influence that's wicked nothing could be more positive
Nothing could be more helpful. Nothing could be more of a blessing than to be protected and safe
from harm and ill of the devil
So
Second Corinthians 4 6 for God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts
To give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ
How about this one 2nd Corinthians 6 14 be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship at?
Righteousness with unrighteousness, and what communion have light with darkness
Ephesians chapter number 5 or 6 let no man deceive you with vain words
For because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience be not ye therefore partakers with them
Don't partake with this wicked world in their glorification of death and darkness and evil
For you were sometimes darkness
But now are you 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 to even speak of those things which are done of them in secret the Bible says
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
Colossians 1 13 who have delivered us from the power of darkness and have translated us into the kingdom of his dear son in whom we
Have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins 1st Thessalonians 5 5
You're all the children of the light and the children of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness
Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness. Let's put on the armor of light the Bible said previously
First Peter 2 9, but you're a chosen generation a royal priesthood
Unholy nation a peculiar people that you should show forth the praise of him what called you out of darkness into his marvelous light
Now think about this scripture for a moment
Let me read this for you turn there if you would actually to Matthew chapter number 6 turn your Bible to Matthew 6
And I want you to see this verse in Matthew chapter 6 verse number 22
Now number one we saw the sin of idolatry number two the glorification of darkness and death and evil
But let's look if we would at Matthew 6 22 the Bible says 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's think about this for a moment?
God is saying here that what goes into your eyes
Will affect your entire body is that what it says it says if your eyes are right?
Your whole body will be right if your eyes are wrong your whole body is gonna be full of darkness
He said the light of the body is the eye if therefore that I be single my whole body shall be full of life
And if I be evil thy whole body shall be full of darkness
Now think about this when you take your kids out trick-or-treating
Or take them out through Halloween and and to the Halloween party into the haunted house. What are you filling their eyes with?
You say oh, you don't understand pastor Anderson my little daughters dressed up like a princess
Okay, she's not dressed up like Satan or you know or goblin or a dead body. You know
She's dressed up like a princess pastor Anderson. I'll have you know and so
Let me ask you something. What is your little princess looking at?
What is she filling her eyes with and this is you know this is the problem with television?
This is why no Christian ought to watch television
Ouch
This is why I haven't had a television in years and years
This is why if you would be honest before God you know that when you sit down and watch television
You're filling your eyes with images that are wrong and ungodly
Why do you resist?
Stephen in his great sermon in Acts chapter 7 right before being scorned to death for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ
He said you do always resist the Holy Ghost
You know you sit in front of your TV and resist the Holy Ghost telling you this is wrong. This is every every
Cursing of Jesus name you go. Oh
And the Holy Ghost is saying are you watching this every nudity that comes on the screen every?
Scantily clad woman that comes on the screen every dirty off-color joke every reference
Dysautomy that comes on the screen you say oh, but why do you resist the Holy Ghost?
When God wants to use you in your life God wants to be filled with the Holy Spirit
But if you're crunching the spirit you're not gonna be filled with the spirit like God commands you to be filled
You wonder why you don't see the victories in your life you wonder why you don't see souls save
You wonder why your friends and loved ones never get saved you wonder
Why you don't see the power of God in your life you wonder why you can't give up the sin in your life because your whole
Body is full of darkness because your eye is full of darkness. That's what the Bible says
Clean up your eyes clean up your video case clean up your house and quit putting darkness into your eyes
But when you take your kids out on Halloween, they'll see the ghoul
They'll see Lucifer. They'll see the devils. They'll see the dead bodies the skeletons
They'll see the women that are that are in their little
Sleazy mini skirts and dress like their their hoochie mama a little outfit. They'll see it all
So
The so not only is it darkness and glorifying darkness
But you're exposing them to darkness the Bible says in first Psalm
I thought this is the message which we've heard of him and declared to you that God is light
and in him is no darkness at all if we say that we have fellowship with him and
Walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth, but if we walk in the light as he is in the light
We have fellowship one with another in the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin
So the sermon really could be let's change the title of the sermon how to have fellowship with Jesus Christ
How to fellowship with Jesus right is that better?
How does how to fellowship and walk with God?
How to walk in the light as he is in the light now that boy. That's wonderful isn't it?
But see you got to get that you can't you can't have fellowship with him and walk in darkness
God says you're lying if you say you have fellowship with me and walk in darkness so number one
Quick recap number one we had the this the seven sins of Halloween number one we have idolatry number two the glorification of
Darkness and death and evil, but number three how about the glorification of fear?
The Bible says in 2nd Timothy 1 7 for God have not given us the spirit of fear
But of power and of love and of a sound mind now flip over your Bible to Philippians chapter 1
And let me let me ask you this question
As you've studied the Bible and maybe you've studied the Bible some people more than others in this room obviously everybody here is at a
Different level of growth in their Christian life, but in your studies of the Bible
What do you think is the most common usage of the word fear?
Who what who or what are we supposed to fear? I mean most commonly mentioned in the Bible think about it for a moment God
On on fear God fear God fear the Lord the fear of the Lord fear God fear the Lord fear God keep his commandments
I mean on and on many times. That's the most common usage of fear, but did you know this that?
Every other time in the Bible that fear is mentioned
It's a negative thing did you know that the only fear that God ever tells you to have is to only?
fear God
Only fear the Lord that's the only thing I mean if you
I'm telling you fear does not come from God
God has not given us the spirit of fear the only fear
He says is fear me
But any other fear that you have is not from God you have the fear to go soul wings is not from God
Okay, if you walk down the street on a dark night
And you're afraid that didn't come from God because the Bible says yea, though
I walk through it what it doesn't yeah, you know I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort Jesus
How many times did Jesus say fear not I mean many times just do a search in the Bible in the steward fear
Not fear not fear you not therefore fear them not fear not fear not fear not
And you know really the Bible says there is no fear and love the perfect love cast about fear
Because fear hath torment he that fearth is not made perfect in love
We love him because he first loved us first John chapter 3. I believe and so fear is not from God
It's wrong the only fear that is not a wrong fear is
Fear in God because no matter where you are what situation you're in you should have the faith in God to not possess fear now
If you disagree with that go home
open what's called the concordance and look up the word fear every time the word fear occurs and
Tell me if I'm not telling you the truth. It's it's that's how I that's how I came to that conclusion
That's what I did okay, and every time fear was mentioned. It's either fearing God or he's telling you not to fear
But look down if you would in your Bible at Philippians chapter number one the Bible reads in verse 28
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries
Which is to them an evident token of perdition?
Perdition means damnation
But to you of salvation and that of God now the Bible says here that that fear or terror or being terrified
Is a is it a token in those that are that are unsaved now now
I'm not saying that if you have fear you're not saved because you know none of us are perfect
And so all of us have fear from time to time okay, but I'll tell you something the more that you're living
Ungodly the more fear will characterize your life
Because fear is not the spirit that God has given us
He's given us the spirit of power and of love and so let me give you another example
You don't turn there, but revelation 21 8 where he lists that great list of sins. He says, but the fearful and unbelieving
The first thing listed 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 burneth with fire and brimstone
Which is the second death, but why is that put right at the beginning there right before believing?
unbelieving rather
the fearful and unbelieving
How about this Hebrews 2 14 for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part
The same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death
That is the devil and deliver them who through fear of death while their lifetime subject to bondage so the unsaved man
The Bible says in a bondage of fear of death
But when we get saved we're freed from that bondage, and we're given a spirit not a fear
But a power and of love and of sound might now if you begin to live the Bible talks about being entangled again in the yoke
Of bondage as brother Jimenez so eloquently preached to us last Sunday night, and so
You can be entangled again in that bondage of fear
But you know God's will if you're saved is to bring you out of fear that you had before you're saved and
Bring you to a point in your life where you grow to a point and where the love in your heart increase to the point
Where it casts out the fear in your life and the only fear that you have is of God
That's the only fear that God wants you to have this morning. It's a fear
God all other fear. I mean ask yourself this quick whenever you have fear in your life
Just say am I fearing God right now, okay?
Then I need to get it out of my life the fear I need to trust God. I need to fear God alone
But you see Halloween glorifies fear
Think about this you go to the haunted house and
Whenever I was a teenager, and I would go to some kind of a haunted house
Before I knew these things this is what people say like you will be scared, okay, and I'd be like come on you know I
Don't get scared. You know I don't get scared of haunted houses right you think I'm a little kid
But this what they'd say this is a really good haunted house because you will be scared now
What do they say they're saying that being scared is good right?
I mean, they're saying like it's cool to be scared
Pay money be scared that that's what the whole the whole horror movie industry
I mean, how do you judge a horror movie, and I've never been in the horror movies. I don't really know
About them or whatever, but but let me ask this how do you judge a horror movie? Is it scary isn't that right like how?
Scary was it?
Now is that good or bad?
But let me say when you go in the haunted house and all the scary
You know dead bodies are popping out at you and everything. Do you just fall on your knees and just say?
Fear of the Lord is just you know is this invalid. Oh, man. I just fear God right now
I'm just fearing the look no. What are you fearing?
Who are you fearing some devil some skeleton some zombie some demon some satanic thing?
now let me ask them if God is commanding us over and over and over again to fear God and
Then we're sitting there taking our fear and taking it off of God and putting it on the devil
Man that sounds pretty bad
it sounds like you're taking what belongs to God which is all your fear, and you're putting it toward the devil and
That's what he wants because God he always said I'll be like the most high see the devil wants people to fear him
God wants people to fear him and so why don't you choose who you're gonna fear the Lord or the devil?
Fear is nothing to be glorified fear is a negative thing
And so advertising how much fear you can feel in your heart why because every unsaved person is filled with fear
And they don't like that feeling of fear, so they try to pretend like it's something cool
They try to pretend like the fear that they're experiencing is actually a positive thing when it's not it the Bible says fear have torment
And so they're tormented by their fear
But they want to pretend like it's something good that they're afraid and they want to drag you as a Christian
As one of God's people into their same life of fear I
Won't I won't allow the devil to do it to me and so number one the sins of Halloween number one is idolatry
Number two the glorification of darkness and death and evil and number three the glorification of fear itself, but number four not only that
How about the appearance of evil
First Thessalonians 5 22 says abstain from all appearance of evil now think about this
Let's say you're dressed up like Prince charming and princess, and you're out trick-or-treating
You're basically when people look at you. They see you participating in Halloween you're putting your stamp of approval on Halloween by your actions
I mean when they see you participating in it. Nothing. Okay. Let me let me put it to you this way
Let's say you thought you know I don't think Halloween is right and by the way
I never taught my kids that Halloween was wrong
My kids announced to me without me even telling that this is bad. This is wrong I
Mean it's not that hard for him to figure out little kids
They they look at the skeletons and the demons and the ghouls and they just said this is bad. It's wrong
Because they weren't brainwashed that it's okay. That's normal, but think about this
Let's say you thought to yourself. You know I don't think Halloween is such a good idea
I don't think all this darkness and death and demons. I don't think it's of God
I think it's of the world. I don't think it's of the father. I don't think it's wholesome
But then let's say you got in your car, and you drive somewhere, and you saw me out trick-or-treating
Okay, and you saw me out, and I've got you know
Some kind of a costume on and I'm out there. You'd look at that fancy. Well. You know I
mean pastor Anderson we like pastor Anderson and
He's not doing it, and I mean he reads the Bible he goes to church. He wins souls
Maybe it's not bad after all you see you see how it works when people see you doing something
And then they think that it's okay because they they're emboldened by you doing it
That's what it says in 1st Corinthians 8 and 1st Corinthians 10 where we started the sermon
They're emboldened if they see you go to that temple and eat meat sacrifice them to idols, which is a sin against God
And so you are not emboldened other be people's consciences because when they see you out
Participating in Halloween in your little benign fashion
You know they may be emboldened and really you're putting your stamp of approval on the whole thing
All the weird sick stuff that goes on in Halloween the fornication the adultery the human sacrifice the weird things
You're basically saying I approve of Halloween because you're out participating in it. You're right there with them, but number five all hasten
Number five how about the sin of not thinking for yourself turn to Exodus chapter 23 verse 2 so number one
We had idolatry number two the glorification of death darkness and everything that's evil number three the glorification of fear
number four the appearance of evil, but number five
How about the sin of not thinking for yourself the Bible says in Exodus 23 to thou shalt not?
follow a multitude to do evil
Neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to rest judgment
Don't follow a multitude to do evil
Don't do evil just because everyone else is doing evil. That's what he's saying now think about this I
I'm young you know I've grown up in America
So all my life Halloween has just been taught to me is something that's acceptable and every church that I went to it seemed like
Everybody was out. You know participating in Halloween or whatever. I mean, that's just the way I grew up
And so I thought it was just fine. I thought it was normal
There came a time my life where I decided to think for myself and decide this this is not right. This is not godly
Now think about this for a moment. Let's say that Halloween did not exist
Let's say you or let's put this way it exists, but you've never heard of it
It's just not that big in America. You've never heard of it
You don't really know anything about Halloween and let's say you have somebody on your street, right?
And you don't know what's going on. You don't know what this is about, but every October 31st
Their whole yard is decorated with dead bodies
And I mean are you using your imagination this morning, okay?
There's no such thing in your mind of Halloween and all of a sudden you see somebody on your street
And they've got dead bodies hanging from the ceiling they've got jack-o'-lanterns
Lit on their front porch
They've got skulls and dragons and and that a dead body and it that rises out of a casket
And they've got a mummy and all this weird stuff
And they just have this this tape player on their front porch. Just playing all day long
Okay, what would you think of that person
You think they're weird you think they're nuts
You think that they're satanic wouldn't you say that I mean come on be honest you'd say that person is worshipping Satan
What is wrong with them? Okay? You'd flip out
You'd go nuts, and then you find out oh and by the way
Did you know that they go to Faithful Word Baptist Church? They say I knew that church was crazy
I knew there was something weird about that church that church is apostate church look at their yard
Think about it, but see when you you say well come on though everybody's doing it
Is that what you want to guess what you want to teach your kids right?
Whatever everybody else does kids here you go go off to school. Here's your brown paper sack lunch. Hey, son
Whatever they do just do it
Whatever your friends say just go along with it. Son is how you tell your kids we drop them off
Hopefully you don't even drop mom. Yeah, you drop mom and say
Son if all your friends are smoking dope and they're taking meth you know
You got to just go with the flow son
I mean if it's just you don't do it. You know, but I mean everybody's doing it go ahead
Go ahead and do whatever they say son is that but see that's what we're teaching our children with our actions
When we do something that we would not normally be comfortable with doing
That normally would be considered freakish and weird
But we celebrate some sick holiday Halloween because everybody else is doing it that terrible
And so the the the fifth sin is the sin of not thinking for yourself
And you know you ought to think for yourself in every area of life
Don't let other people push you around. I don't even I don't want to do your thinking for you either by the way
Okay, that's why I preach all this Bible and anybody who goes to this church knows that I always say I challenge you if I don't
If what I'm saying is not in the Bible you go home and find it and don't believe a word
I'm saying if it's not from the Bible because I'm not God. I'm not infallible
I can make a mistake and so if you don't have your own walk with God if you're not reading the Bible daily for yourself
Don't lean on me as your crutch or your your decision maker I
Don't have some counseling session after the service where I'm going to tell you how to live your life
Come to church Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night
You'll know how to live your life
And then you but but you know that's not gonna be enough either
You better read the Bible every day for yourself and let the Holy Ghost be your teacher
He did not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teaches you of all things this truth
There's no lie, and he doesn't have taught you you shall abide in him
The Bible said the Holy Spirit should be your primary teacher of the Word of God and so you got to think for yourself
You know the Mormon Church has this standard and their rules is what they have no r-rated movies allowed
But I'm telling you my Mormon extended relatives and my Mormon friends that I had in high school
They watched everything else except r-rated. I mean they would watch anything that was pg-13. I
Mean it didn't matter the vulgarity it didn't matter what it was promoting it didn't matter the filth that was in it
If it was pg-13 the church allows we watch it
Now here's the problem with that you know the r-rating has changed over time okay the movies that are now pg-13
Would have been like not even allowed to be r-rated
You know 30 years ago. They would have been like x-rated. Okay. I'm not kidding
I mean some of the filth and smut that's in these pg-13 movies even pg movies when I was growing up
I watched a pg-rated movie that used the f-word
When I was growing up, I watched pg-rated movies that talked about filth and sodomy and homosexuality
And you know what I don't care if the movies about homosexuality or not all these bunch of Hollywood actors are a bunch of faggots
Anyway, yes, they are and so that's what they are in their personal life
So why do you want to sit and watch them? Yes, Keanu Reeves is a faggot. Yes. He is I'm sorry
Did I burst your little bubble did you know that Keanu Reeves is a sodomite?
Did you know that Leonardo DiCaprio your little heartthrob is a sodomite? He doesn't like girls, honey
Sorry, he likes other guys because he's a queer
And I'm not gonna let it into my house. I'm sorry
I don't want to raise a bunch of little sissies and queers in the back there
I'm gonna raise some manly men who know how to get up and work hard and don't be in a permanent queer little sissy
They're gonna dress like men and talk like men and act like men and if you had any sense at all
You wouldn't take your kid down to some church where the pastor's a sissy
Then you sit them down in front of a TV where they're watching a bunch of sissies and then you wonder why they grow up
And they get their earrings and their rings in other goofball places
You wonder why that they grow up and they buy all their clothes at Abercrombie and Fitch and Urban Outfitter and the Gap
Hey, why don't you grow up be a man and put on some manly clothes put on some work clothes put on some clothes
And make you look like a man
Is there any question right now what gender I am? Are you scratching your head right now when you look at my outfit?
Is there any question for you whether Pastor Steven Anderson is Steven or Stephanie right now?
I get so tired of looking at people I can't even tell whether they're a boy or a girl
If you're a man, dress like a man, get a haircut like a man, talk like a man, walk like a man, and quit acting like a girl
And women, dress like ladies, be feminine like ladies, and you know what, maybe then, God will make you look like a woman
Dress like ladies, be feminine like ladies, and you know what, maybe then, God will be pleased
If we actually have a distinction in the genders once again in America
Wonder why God's judgment is coming on America
And so the sin of not thinking for yourself, I don't want to be like an LDS
Latter Day Satan worshiper Mormon, okay
I don't want to do that because they don't think for themselves
They got some prophet in Salt Lake City telling them
Watch all the smut, watch all the Ben Stiller and all the comedy and all the dirty jokes and all the sodomy
Because it's PG-13 will allow that, just don't watch R-rated
Heavens no, don't watch an R-rated movie
You say I'm never coming back to this church, that's why you're getting it while you're here
You'll get it all while you're here because you're not coming back
And I hope everybody does come back, you know
And I wish to God that everybody would believe the most simple basic thing
I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm preaching against the worst sin in the Bible which is homosexuality
Wow, I'm really taking a stand right now
Wow, I'm taking against having a dead body in your front yard, isn't that terrible
Can you believe what a fanatic I am, I must be Little House on the Prairie
I must be an Amish person right now
Because I don't think that you should hang a skeleton in your front door
And worship Satan
But not only that, not only the sin of not thinking for yourself, but number six
Idolatry we saw, glorification of darkness, death and evil, glorification of fear, appearance of evil, number five
The sin of not thinking for yourself
But how about number six
Let's say you're not into all the death, how about the promoting of Hollywood and its worldly characters
Because let's face it, if you're not dressed up like a witch or a devil or a dead body
You're going to dress up like your favorite Hollywood character
Like Spongebob
Or you're going to dress up like Spiderman
Or Batman
Or Catwoman
And by the way, did you ever notice that all these characters are the merging of an animal and a human being
Oh that's godly
That's every false god in the Bible is a merger between an animal and a human being
Dragging God down to the image of a beast, the Bible says
And so we've got Spongebob, Spiderman, Batman and all these different Hollywood characters
If you go to buy costumes, if you look at the costumes, there will be satanic, demonic, grim reaper, Satan
And then you walk over to the other aisle and it's all your kids' favorite characters from Hollywood and Walt Disney
Walt Disney? No
That's so wholesome Walt Disney
Okay, let's talk about how wholesome Walt Disney is
Let's park it right there on Disney for a while
Here I've got the list right here
This is the list that comes from Walt Disney himself
And this is the thing where it's the magic
You know, some of the Disney movies, they come in like a plastic white case
You know what I'm talking about? They still do that?
And they come in like a white plastic case and it's a special collector's series
They're called the Disney Masterpiece Series
And sometimes Disney puts out more B-type movies
But their main releases are called the Disney Masterpiece
Well I have a list of every Disney Masterpiece in the order it came out
All the way up to Chicken Little, I guess that's a modern one, I've never, you know, I don't know
But the first 45 of the classic Disney Masterpieces
Walt Disney, it's so wholesome, it's all about the family
Oh really, is that why Disneyland in Los Angeles, California has a day every month just for homos?
Where you wear a red t-shirt if you're gay? Did you know that?
We're down at Lego, this is a funny story, we're down at Legoland
And we overheard a conversation, we were riding on a rider, I think they were actually conversing with us a little bit
And there was a guy wearing a red t-shirt, okay, Legoland
And he was there with his family and with his mother, his elderly mother
And all his kids and a big nice family
And he said, you know what? He said, you want to talk about long lines
Because they were talking about how the lines were pretty short, it was a really nice day
He said, you want to talk about long lines, go to Disneyland on one of those gay, those gay pride days at Disneyland
And he said, when you go there on those gay pride days, he said, I accidentally went on one
And he said, see how I'm wearing a red shirt right now? I was accidentally wearing a red shirt that day
I mean honestly, the guy just made an honest mistake, he just went to Disneyland wearing a red t-shirt
He didn't know that that's the sign, okay, that he's a funny boy
And so he's talking about how he went to Disneyland with a red t-shirt on, didn't even know it, okay
And he said the lines were unbelievable
He said it was packed with all these little red shirted little couples cuddling and kissing and making out with each other
That's what he said, that's what he said, okay
And he said they were all there with their little red t-shirt on
He said, I was embarrassed, I felt like a fool, you know, he's wearing a red t-shirt, can you imagine?
And this guy was a nice guy, you know, a masculine, normal guy
But that's what they have, okay, that's the truth
And did you know that they performed commitment ceremonies between gays at Cinderella's castle at Disneyland? Did you know that?
Now you know
Well, how about, let's go through Disney's wonderful masterpieces that you
And I've been to Christian's houses where they said like, we don't watch TV, we don't watch the smut
We don't watch Hollywood, but then they had just every Disney movie lined up
The whole collection, the whole library, filled the whole wall
Let's talk about Disney movies
Number one, how about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, that's the first Disney movie that ever came out, the first Disney masterpiece
Well, let's think about it
Every Disney movie has some kind of a warped, twisted undertone
All of them do
And they're perversions of the Bible and so forth
For example, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, do you remember a witch coming to the door of Snow White and what does she offer?
An apple
Wow, does that sound familiar?
Sounds kind of like the Garden of Eden, right?
You know, Eve with the apple
And then she takes the apple from the witch
She bites into the apple and what happens?
She falls asleep
She goes into a coma
And then she's resurrected
You know, by some kind of a prince charmer
So it's some kind of a twisted view of spiritual things
You know, witches and all this stuff
You know, why do you want your kids to be exposed to a bunch of witches anyway?
Is what I'd like to know
Let me read for you what the Bible says about witchcraft
Witches, wizards, well I'll get there in a minute
Number two
Number one, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs is the first one
Number two, Pinocchio
Now Pinocchio, I don't know if I've ever even seen the whole thing
But I remember one major part of Pinocchio is where he lies
Okay
And he does something wrong or whatever
And because of his lies and because of his sins
He becomes, somehow he's in this alternate reality
You might know the movie better than I do
And he ends up in this weird land where all the boys are turning into donkeys
You remember this?
It's like kind of this twisted weird concept of hell
Like instead of hell, he goes to this place where he turns into a donkey
And they're all turning into donkeys
And then another point in the movie, I remember Pinocchio is swallowed by a whale
That sounds kind of familiar
You see what I mean?
And so there's really weird stuff in these movies
But number three, this is the third Disney movie that ever came out
Fantasia
Okay, let's talk about Fantasia
By the late 1930s, I'm reading this off of an internet source describing, you know, promoting Disney
By the late 1930s, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse was losing his popularity with movie audiences
Mickey Mouse cartoon short series had spawned the spinoff Donald Duck series
But it wasn't proving to be any more profitable than the Mickey Mouse series
So they're motivated by making money, of course
However, Walt Disney wasn't ready to give up his favorite character
And devised a special short that would be produced as a comeback film for Mickey Mouse
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Now we'll get back to what the Bible says about sorcerers, okay
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, based on Gaidy's story of the same name, was planned as a special Mickey Mouse short
And would be completely silent, save for the classical music piece by Paul Ducat
The story's artists who developed The Sorcerer's Apprentice originally suggested Dopey from Snow White for the title role
But Disney insisted upon using Mickey
Now Fantasia, if you remember, is a cartoon of Mickey Mouse with a wizard cap on
With a big hat pointed up like a witch hat with all the stars and moons on it
And he holds a magic wand and he casts spells, he says things and weird things happen
And he's casting all these spells as a magician or sorcerer
Listen to this though
Fantasia did not turn a profit until its 1969 re-release
By then Fantasia had become immensely popular among teenagers and college students
Many of whom would take illegal drugs such as marijuana and LSD to better experience the film
Are you listening?
Disney therefore promoted the film
Disney therefore promoted the film as a trip film
That's what they were promoting it as, are you listening?
As a trip film for its 1969 re-release even creating a psychedelic styled poster to match this campaign
The re-release was a major success especially with the psychedelic young adult crowd
Many of whom would come, lie down in the front row of the theater and experience the film from there
You lie down in your living room and experience the film from there
And so they're putting out movies intended to be a trip film
So you can take dope and go down to the theater and watch not dopey but Mickey Mouse
Trip out and do spells and witchcraft and sorcery
This is what the Bible says about sorcery
Preach the Bible, okay
2 Chronicles 33, 6
And he caused his children to pass through the fire, isn't that pleasant?
2 Chronicles 33, 6
Through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom
He also observed times and used enchantments and used witchcraft and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards
Did you know that the emblem for Disney World is the Mickey Mouse head with the sorcerer cap on?
That's one of their icons, that's one of their emblems
Leviticus 20, 27
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit or that is a wizard shall surely be put to death
Did you hear that? That's what the Bible says
Leviticus 20, 27
They shall stone them with stones
Their blood shall be upon them
Deuteronomy 18, 11
Or a charmer or a consultor with familiar spirits
Or a wizard or a necromancer was to be put to death
Regard not them that have familiar spirits
Neither seek after wizards
This is Leviticus 19, 31
To be defiled by them
I am the Lord your God
Leviticus 26
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits
And after wizards to go a whoring after them
I will even set my face against that soul
And will cut him off from among his people
1 Samuel 28, 3
Now Samuel was dead and all Israel had lamented him
And buried him in Ramah even in his own city
And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits
And the wizards out of the land
2 Kings 21, 6
And he made his son to pass through the fire
And observed times and used enchantments
And dealt with familiar spirits and wizards
Do you see what wizards and sorcerers and magicians are associated with?
He wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits
2 Kings 23, 24
And the wizards and the images
And the idols and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah
And in Jerusalem did Josiah put away
That he might perform the words of the law
Which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord
Isaiah 19, 3
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof
And I will destroy the council thereof
And they that seek to the idols
And to the charmers
And to them that have the familiar spirits
And to the wizards
That's what God thinks about sorcerers and wizards
He thinks he's a demon possessed freak that needs to be killed
According to the Bible
A wizard or a sorcerer or a demonic enchanter or a magician
So that's the first three
Do I need to keep going down the list?
So far we're only on the third one
Oh I know what it is
Disney is getting better all the time, right?
They're getting more righteous and godly with every release
They started out bad, right?
With debt with Donald Duck
That was really the worst that they ever got, right?
I don't believe that for one minute
Dumbo
What's wrong with Dumbo?
What about the scene where Dumbo falls into a vat of liquor
That the carnies are drinking
And gets drunk
And sees pink elephants on parade
You remember that scene?
Pink elephants on parade
And he's drunk
But it's fun
Pink elephants are blowing bubbles
He's got a stupid grain on his face
You know, getting drunk is not fun
I don't know, I've never been drunk
But you know what?
I've seen alcohol destroy people's lives
I've seen people die because of a drunk driver
I've seen women abused because of alcohol
I've seen people commit adultery because of alcohol
I've seen people's lives ruined because of alcohol
I don't think there's anything fun about it
And you think I want my six year old watching a movie that makes it look fun?
I don't
Dumbo is not in my library that I don't have
Bambi
What about Bambi?
Oh, Bambi
Bambi
Okay, come on
This is number five in the list
The hunter is the bad guy, right?
That's a real good message
It's just an environmental wacko message
The hunter is the bad guy
Destroying wildlife
Animals are more important than people
Giving human attributes to animals
Number six
Saludos amigos
I don't even know what that is
The three caballeros
I don't know
Make mine music
Never heard of it
Fun and fancy free
I don't know
Those of you Disney diehards will have to help me out
Melody time
Never heard of it
Eleven
The adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Never heard of it
Cinderella
Well
Again, I don't know
I'm not the expert on these
But didn't she have like a
Fairy godmother
Who comes and appears to her?
Godmother
That sounds like a certain religion called
Catholicism
And the godmother is a fairy that does magic
And she makes the floor mop itself
And all that kind of...
I don't know that one that well
Alice in Wonderland
I'm just mentioning it because last time I preached against Disney
Somebody came to me after the service and said
You forgot the worst one
Alice in Wonderland
But I've never seen it
So I don't have anything to preach against it
So I'm just giving it an honorable mention right now
Peter Pan
Number fourteen
Peter Pan
It's an effeminate little boy who wears tights
He's a boy who he grows up but he doesn't want to grow up
He just wants to hang around with a bunch of kids
And he's effeminate and girly
I mean
If his name weren't Peter
I would be wondering if it was a boy or a girl
I mean you know that's right
You know that's true
I wonder
When I was a kid I questioned whether it was a boy or a girl
You know you're a kid you don't understand
I literally questioned
Is this a boy or a girl?
Because his name is Peter
But he looks like a girl
Okay
And I could create Lady and the Tramp
You know
I don't know
I'm not going to go through this whole list whatever
Sleeping Beauty
A lot of weird witches and witchcraft
And weird stuff about that one
The sword and the stone
You know the Merlin
The wizard and the witchcraft
And the
He's got all these potions brewing
And all these weird drugs that he's brewing up in his meth lab
On the
On Murvin
What's his name?
Merlin
The wizard
The Little Mermaid
She's half naked the whole movie
It's half animal half human being
Again
Wonderful
Beauty and the Beast
All the girls have little cut tops
The hero is a long haired man
Yes long hair on a man's a sin
Read First Corinthians 11
It's about bestiality
Aladdin
Long haired man character again
Promoting false religion
The Lion King
Soundtrack by Elton John
Sodomite that he is
The queer that he is
Milan
Is all about a girl who dresses up like a man
Cross dressing
Tarzan
Promotes and makes a joke of nudity
Lilo and Stitch
As sodomite and effeminate characters
And on and on and on and on and on
Don't resist the Holy Ghost my friend
These characters
Anything that's put out by the world
The Bible says
Love not the world
Neither the things that are in the world
For all that is
If any man love the world
The love of the father is not in him
For all that is in the world
All that is in the world
The lust of the eyes
And the lust of the flesh and the pride of life
Is not in the world
The pride of life is not of the father but is of the world
And the world passeth away and the lust thereof
But he that doeth the will of God abideth forever
And so I'll hasten and close here
But number six
You're promoting Hollywood
You're promoting worldly characters
You're promoting ungodliness and sin
Even if it's Disney
Whether it be Disney
That's one example, Disney
We could go through every
I mean if we had time
We'd go through every single movie
Every single cartoon show
I'll tell you what's wrong with all of them
Dora the Explorer
Has a family on it
That's monkeys
That dress like people
And have careers and have clothes on
What's wrong with that?
Well cause then you go to school
And you're taught that you're a monkey
And you believe it cause you grew up watching
Dora the Explorer
That's why
I don't think there's anything funny about it
But number seven
The final sin
We had number one
Idolatry
Number two
The glorification of death and darkness and evil
Number three
The glorification of fear
Number four
The appearance of evil
Number five
The sin of not thinking for yourself
Number six
The promoting of Hollywood and worldly characters
Yes including Disney
And number seven
Fellowshiping with devils
The last sin of Halloween
Fellowshiping with devils
The bible says
Have no fellowship
With the unfruitful works of darkness
But rather
Reprove them
Now I'm not
My purpose this morning
Is not to make you angry
My purpose this morning
Is to open your eyes
And maybe you don't agree with everything I said
But come on
You've got to agree with some of it
Maybe you didn't agree with all seven points
Did you agree with five?
Well how many sins do you have to commit
Before it's wrong?
Did you agree with one of the points?
Well then that will determine where you are this October 31st
You know I'll give you two places that you ought to be
Number one
The place that you really ought to be
Is in church
Because it's Wednesday night
Okay
So you should be in church on Wednesday night
Okay
Then number two
If you're not going to be in church
You know what you ought to do?
You ought to go in the house
Turn off the lights
And shut the door
And go to bed
You know but really you ought to be in church
Is where you ought to be
And you know come to church on Wednesday night
You'll hear John chapter 1 preached
In our new series
You know it's all about Jesus
It's all about in the beginning was the word
And the word was with God
And the word was God
The shame was in the beginning with God
All things were made by Him
And without Him was not anything made that was made
In Him was light
And the light was the light of men
And the light shined at the darkness
And the darkness comprehended it not
There was a man sent from God
His name was John
The same came for a witness
To bear witness of the light
That all men through Him might believe
He was not that light
But was sent to bear witness to that light
That was the true light
Which lighteth every man
That cometh into the world
He was in the world
And the world was made by Him
And He was in the world
And the world was made by Him
And the world knew Him not
He came unto His own
And His own received Him not
But as many as received Him
To them gave He power
To become the sons of God
Even to them that believe on His name
Which were born not of blood
Nor of the will of the flesh
Nor of the will of man
But of God
And the word was made flesh
And dwelt among us
We beheld His glory
The glory
As of the only begotten of the Father
Full of grace and truth
You know that's what you could be hearing
On Wednesday night
You hear John chapter 1 priest
The whole thing
Or you can go out and fellowship
With devils
The choice is up to you
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer
Father I love you dear God
I love the Bible
I love everyone who comes to this church dear God
I love those that are here visiting
I pray that you would let these words sink down
Into their ears dear God
And Father I pray that we would all
Decide not to have any fellowship
With darkness and sin and Satan
But rather that we would be filled
With the Holy Spirit
Filled with the Bible
Fill our lives with winning souls
And loving and caring about people
Doing good things for people
Not harm and hurt and death dear God
And please help everyone here
That's under the sound of my voice dear God
To decide I'm going to be in God's house
On Wednesday night
I will not be at the table of the devil
And Father please help those that are here
Children
Young people
Whoever it is
Help them to have the maturity
And the godliness
And the love for God
To understand
The things that I preached tonight
Were from the Bible
And they're true
Father bless everyone that's here