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Okay so Deuteronomy chapter 18 I want to focus on the middle verses from verse 9 so Deuteronomy chapter 18 of verse 9 the Bible reads 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 which thou shalt possess hearken unto observers of times and unto diviners but as for thee the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee to do so and the title of my sermon today is The New Age Witchcraft Let's go to the Lord in a quick word of prayer Father I thank you for your word I thank you that you just make things so clear and help us to see through so many things that we see practiced today Please just fill me with your spirit now help me to preach accurately and boldly help everyone to have attentive ears and hearts and all these things We pray in your name, Amen Right so it's Halloween today isn't it? You know we see all this crazy stuff going around we see people we've been knocking on doors yesterday and all the scary stuff and people dressed in all sorts of weird stuff we knocked on a door and some lady had kind of had all this blood going down her face and she was about 50 years old you know and she's just really getting into the dressing up for it and thought it was so exciting and so fun and everything else and look a lot of it is ridiculous isn't it? And some of it we look at and some people do find that stuff scary and some people think well there's some truth to some of this stuff and in a way you know when you look at it it does in a way desensitize you a little bit doesn't it? So when you're seeing this stuff it's all such fun and such a laugh and such a game that people just think yeah well you know ghosts and spirits and everything else and that wouldn't have been the case would it? If anyone knows anyone ever read Demonology by King James? Yeah okay so King James wrote a book Demonology and that's talking about the witch trials and look back not that many hundred years ago people like this would have been killed they would have been arrested and they would have been killed and for good reason too and now we've got this point where people it's just all some big laugh it's all just some sort of fun isn't it? And obviously they play on the stereotypes so we see you know the kind of the hook-nosed witch with the big wart on her nose and the silly hats and the rest of it and I don't know how much evidence there is in that but in a way again it normalizes it doesn't it? But I'm not really talking about today about this kind of Halloween joke which is just ridiculous and like I say it does normalize it a bit but there is though there is a real there is a growing religion in this country of divination of witchcraft communicating with spirits etc all under the umbrella of what some might call the new age now many who believe in a lot of this stuff won't call themselves the new age for example they'll call themselves spiritualists or they'll call themselves you know they'll talk about zeitgeist or Eastern mysticism some of them call it and anyone heard of this sort of stuff? I'd say pretty much most the church okay and many will not call themselves any of this but they'll just combine what they like for a bit and combine it with sometimes with their version of Christianity or whatever beliefs they believe they have and sometimes they'll combine some of it with atheism as well which is quite bizarre anyway and they'll just take a bit of this take a bit of that and you know forgive the pun but hey presto you have this sort of mixture and their own sort of religion in a way their own sort of version of things now it can be a general term for parts of Hinduism and Buddhism paganism and again like I say often combined with Christianity as well so people will take parts of this this stuff and combine it with Christianity now some of the common beliefs so some of the common beliefs are as follows so one would be that obviously Jesus isn't God according to these people but he's one of many messengers along with Buddha, Muhammad etc God is more of an energy force you'll hear this stuff cosmic consciousness, higher power, mother nature, higher self you heard of that stuff before the higher self and that goes hand in hand with then that man is in fact divine so man it just needs to harness his own power we all have this inner power that we just don't harness the world you think of Genesis 3 don't you you shall be as gods don't you all religions lead to the same God very ecumenical this it's just you can just add what you want take what you want from it including so-called modern science they seem to think that it that it drives with it although some so-called scientists won't believe don't agree with that they believe that a lot of that basically ancient wisdom comes from Babylon, Egypt, Greece that that's the truth that's where the ancient wisdom comes from they reject the Bible as being all truth no such thing as sin evil and hell it's all love and unity and people just need to be encouraged to be more like that and for me the list in Deuteronomy chapter 18 that we've just read is the new age all over it's because and look hear me out here because it's not really the new age there's nothing new about it is there okay because really it's the same devilry that's been peddled from the beginning isn't it and they call it new age but it's old age okay but they call it new age and have a look at Deuteronomy like they're somehow just so much more enlightened now but have a look at Deuteronomy 18 and verse 10 to 11 said Deuteronomy 18 10 there shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire or use of divination or an observer of times or an enchanter or witch or a charmer or a consultor with familiar spirits or a wizard or a necromancer okay now let's put those into kind of modern you know today what we see today passing through the fire is child sacrifice okay now we could go to a study of this but for me clear all day long it's child sacrifice and with the evil abortion industry we are seeing that on an unprecedented level right now aren't we okay child sacrifice we're seeing you know by the minute aren't we it's just absolutely terrible in England and Wales there were over 200,000 abortions in 2020 over 200,000 England and Wales alone I mean that is that is some number isn't it of children murdered okay rejecting the Bible though we just saw some of their beliefs God you know rejecting God making themselves some divine being removing sin hell and judgment is it any wonder that we're seeing child sacrifice on this level now it's no wonder is it because the the new age or old age beliefs they do permeate through our society okay so you know this is everywhere this stuff and oh I don't know I don't know if I know many of these spiritualists look you know so many people will take at least a little part of this okay and that particular part the child sacrifice everywhere isn't it okay now divination is future telling basically and there are various ways that people try to do this you've got the crystal ball fortune teller haven't you the tarot card readers but then you've got people like for example popular fairly popular people at least the alternative circles people like David Icke with with big followings telling people that the spirit world tells him what's going to happen you know amongst the elite and everything else and then observers of times think of astrologers the sorry astrology what we call astrology horoscopes and look I mean from from as young as I can remember the major newspapers in this country which at the time when newspapers were big it's a lot less now always just had a horoscope on it like it was just fine and acceptable and what's wrong with that like these are national newspapers printing horoscope readings and people claiming to tell you what's going to happen in your future based on when you were born I mean again like how's that okay and like I said in a nation which not long ago people like this would have been would have been hung they would have been burnt it also with that observer of times is there much difference with a guy in a lab coat telling us when the world's going to end based on his observation of the stars and everything else maybe not but anyway enchanter, witch, charmers, consultors with familiar or what we'd known as evil spirits, wizards, necromancers now all of that can be grouped together and if you're wondering necromancy is the art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead okay is one of the dictionary definitions of this because they're not really communicating with the dead are they they're communicating with devils okay they're communicating with devils claiming to be the dead now if you think about that stuff think about mediums how big is that now I mean you see advertised psychic fair you see on banners around and come and talk to this medium and you see you know people I've been invited you know over the years by people to go to some medium to try and talk to talk to dead relatives and stuff like it's just absolutely fine nothing wrong with it anyone heard of spiritualist churches okay so spiritualist churches people will go there for that reason as well to try and communicate with dead relatives people that have died I mean this stuff is absolutely wicked isn't it now there's a problem with this as well is that people that often now go into what's known as a 12 step program which is growing more and more so AA, NA all that stuff they go through the 12 step and I've very rarely met people that come out of it I've had some old friends that have gone through this who don't come out talking about a higher power and don't come out with some sort of spiritualist beliefs with some sort of seeking mediums and everything else the vast, vast majority do they kind of basically replace their addiction with this stuff okay so you've got that you've got but when you think about this as well enchanters, witches, charmers all this sort of stuff what about some of the healing and alternative medicine out there and look that stuff's tricky because you know you've got different angles of that you've got one where look and understandably people are untrusting of what can be a pretty wicked pharmaceutical industry that we have out there and go look okay there's some evidence in natural things and there's less issues, less side effects but then sometimes people get into that and then they start going further into some of the more basically the more enchanting charmer type stuff the witch wizard type stuff because a lot of it is chakras, is this energy power within you and people do some really crazy stuff with that and you know I don't know about you guys I've been going to health food shops for many years to get bits and pieces you can't really get in other places although nowadays probably you could order most of it online and you go in there and there's some good stuff in there and then there's usually the health food shop witch in there you know with the bright coloured hair and who starts trying to tell you that she can feel a good aura about you or something else and that stuff sadly goes hand in hand and people do end up getting pulled into that healing crystals, you heard of that? healing crystals? yeah we can heal you with crystals apparently, psychic healing vibrational frequencies, oh they love a vibrational frequency don't we? and look it's all sadly is within this natural health this kind of alternative medicine sphere and you've got to be really careful with that stuff don't you now again it's all just the same stuff and healing angels, what about healing angels? anyone heard of healing angels? so people start praying to these healing angels and they have these little angel graven images that they're praying to mindfulness and meditation in schools, anyone know much about that? no? yeah? couple okay so when my children were in school just before we ended up pulling them out they wanted to basically the whole school had to do this mindfulness week where they were basically going to teach them how to meditate and again just all eastern mysticism which we pulled them out of it for that and had a bit of a row with the headmistress about it who was trying to show me the science behind it yoga? yoga as well what are they doing in yoga? snake poses and the rest of it again what is that? what is it? it's again all part of this eastern mysticism isn't it? law of attraction, what about law of attraction? anyone heard of that? the secret? anyone heard of the movie or the book called the secret? that is popular that's some popular stuff and people are basically you know I think the law of attraction is they'll write a check to themselves they'll put it under their pillow and then you know they feel that the law of attraction means that eventually they'll get that money and people do this with a load of stuff the secret they claim that all these people throughout history probably true some of that were you know these big names were into this sort of again weird what we call new age as an umbrella this weird mysticism and everything else this stuff is big and this stuff is everywhere and look like I said there are people that will claim to be Christians but won't have a problem with a bit of healing crystals won't have a problem with a bit of healing angels I won't have a look it's all wicked isn't it according to the bible it's all wicked so the title of my sermon is the new age witchcraft and I've got a few points about this number one is there's real power behind it okay there is real power behind it so in Deuteronomy 18 and verse 9 we see when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations there shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter pass through the fire or that useth divination or an observer of times or an enchanter or a witch or a charmer or a consultant with familiar spirits or a wizard or a necromancer okay so people are able to learn to do those things yeah you could take that from that thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those you didn't say thou shalt not try to do did he because people could learn to do this stuff now and look we you know and rightfully so we obviously most people here probably quite skeptical about this stuff yeah and you look at this and and you see some of these people and they are clowns yeah a lot of them are just just clowns they're liars they're fakes they're you know it's a lot of it's kind of circus tricks and everything else but not all of them not all of them are now you know and sometimes you look at this you say well okay well maybe you know they could poison someone with a natural potion or or maybe you know there's a scientific explanation to it because us in the western world we love to think that you know everyone else is just kind of a bit nuts you know and you know in in all these other parts of the world where where there's witchcraft and voodoo and all these sorts of things shamans and the rest of it well they're just not as educated you know they don't understand science like we understand it yeah but that's not the truth is it because there is there is power in some of this stuff and and there are people that can do some pretty amazing stuffs unfortunately and it's not amazing in a good way and and of course there's you know in in the new age in the western world you can combine it as much as you like with science so there's kind of some people will be very sciencey but they'll just believe a little bit you know and some people it's the other way but the Bible does give us examples of the power that wicked people can access okay have a look at Exodus chapter 7 go to Exodus chapter 7 okay Exodus 7 and from verse 10 Exodus 7 10 Moses and Aaron went into Pharaoh and they went in unto Pharaoh and they did so as the Lord had commanded and Aaron cast down his rod rod before Pharaoh and before his servants and it became a serpent then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers now the magicians of Egypt they also did in like manner with their enchantments for they cast down every man his rod and they became serpents but our rods swallowed up their rods okay so you basically got here you've got these these enchanters these magicians mimicking mimicking God but they are it seems by that they've turned their rods into serpents that's some pretty pretty strong power there isn't it anyone anyone here can do that I don't think so just one okay always one at least yeah imagine that you know and imagine seeing that as well it's one thing we've got well God's got this power but these are people that are not using any power God there are they okay these are people that were turning turning rods into snakes into serpents okay that's some power have a look at verse 19 you're in Exodus 7 look at verse 19 and the and the Lord spake unto Moses just quickly by the way on that point there although they could do it what ends up happening Aaron's rods swallowed up their rods yeah God's God's always more powerful we don't have to look at it and go oh they've got all this power no God's always more powerful yeah great receive it is in you than he that is in the world yeah but Exodus 7 and verse 19 and the Lord spake unto Moses say unto Aaron take thy rod and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt upon their streams upon their rivers and upon their ponds upon all their pools of water that they may become blood and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone and Moses and Aaron did so as the Lord commanded and he lift up the rod and smoke the waters that were in the river in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood and the fish that were in the river died and the river stank and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt and the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments and Pharaoh's heart was hardened neither did he hearken unto them as the Lord had said wow so they're able to turn water into blood as well again that's that's some power isn't it says here and this is a narrator of the Bible saying this isn't Pharaoh saying this and the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments okay so they were able to do this as well I don't know if they maybe just got some water and did it because at this point it looks like everything had been turned to blood and everything was dying but they at least showed that they were able to do something similar didn't they okay look at Exodus 8 now in verse 5 Exodus 8 5 and the Lord spake unto Moses sound to Aaron stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams over the rivers and over the ponds and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt and Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt and the magicians did so with their enchantments and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt okay again they're able to bring up frogs upon the land of Egypt again that's some power isn't it so there is real power there isn't there now who was able to destroy the frogs it was only God wasn't it so we see after that it's God that he has to beg entreat to take away and remove and kill the frogs but they were able to bring up the frogs weren't they okay Exodus chapter 8 and verse 16 and the Lord said unto Moses say unto Aaron stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt and they did so for Aaron stretch stretch out his hand with the rod and smote the dust of the earth and it became lice in man and in beast all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt look at verse 18 and the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice but they could not so there were lice upon man and upon beast then the magician said unto Pharaoh this is a finger of God and Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he hearkened not unto them as the Lord had said so they couldn't do it could they now they had so remember their power is limited isn't it okay they have nowhere near the power of God they couldn't do it now they're accepting it's of God and then they don't attempt the swarm of flies obviously not the slaying of all the cattle then the magicians and we won't go there but the magicians if you remember they end up with boils all over them with the plague of boils and then that's the last we see of them so God ends up dealing with them but up until this point just before they said doing some pretty amazing stuff aren't they serpent rods you know blood blood water frogs I don't know if I saw someone doing that I'll be pretty impressed now you might be sitting there thinking well that was over 3,000 years ago that's those wicked Egyptians isn't it you know that was a different time people maybe had more access to that stuff well turn to 2nd Kings 17 where we're told all you know we're told about all of the wickedness that Israel had done and from from verse 14 so 2nd Kings chapter 17 and verse 14 notwithstanding they would not hear but harden their necks like to the neck of their fathers that did not believe in the Lord their God and they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified against him and they followed vanity and became vain and went after heathen that were round about them concerning whom the Lord had charged him they should not do like them and they left all the commandments of the Lord their God and made their molten images even two calves and made a grove and worshipped all the hosts of heaven and serve Baal and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire and use divination and enchantments and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight there was none left but the tribe of Judah only so look at verse 17 they used divination enchantments okay they used divination and enchantments they caused their sons they were sacrificing their children and using divination enchantments now turn to 2nd Kings 21 where it's speaking about the wicked king of Judah Manasseh 2nd Kings 21 and verse 3 so that was kind of in what we've just seen was in between now what we see in 2nd Kings 21 because that was a history lesson before for he built up this from verse 3 for he built up again the high places which Hezekiah's father had destroyed and he reared up altars for Baal and made a grove as did Ahab king of Israel and worshipped all the hosts of heaven and served them and he built altars in the house of the Lord of which the Lord said in Jerusalem will I put my name he built altars for all the hosts of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord and he made his son pass through the fire and observed times and used enchantments and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger notice it said he observed times he used enchantments he dealt with familiar spirits and wizards that's over 500 years since the exodus from Egypt so now we're 500 years along now jump forward to Isaiah 47 have a look at Isaiah chapter 47 and this is speaking of the coming destruction of Babylon which is then another 300 years on so Isaiah 47 and verse 11 it says therefore shall evil come upon thee thou shalt not know from whence it riseth and mischief shall fall upon thee thou shalt not be able to put it off and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly which thou shalt not know stand now with thine enchantments and with the multitude of thy sorceries wherein thou has labored from thy youth if so if if so be thou shalt be able to profit if so be thou mayest prevail thou art worried in the multitude of thy counsels let now the astrologers the stargazers the monthly prognosticators stand up and save thee from these things that that shall come upon thee behold they shall be a stubble the fire shall burn and they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame there shall not be a cold or warm at nor fire to sit before it so again these are people it's talking about Babylon here enchantments multitude of sorceries astrologers stargazers monthly prognosticators these are all future readers aren't they and again the stuff's still going on isn't it okay now again you might think well that's the Old Testament the Old Testament is a long time ago you know is that really happening now well turn to Acts chapter 16 Acts chapter 16 and verse 16 Acts 16 16 and it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel possessed with the spirit of divination met us which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying the same followed Paul and us and cried saying these men are the servants of the Most High God which show unto us the way of salvation and this did she many days but Paul being grieved turned and said to the spirit I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ come out of her and he came out the same hour so verse 16 this is obviously after Jesus Christ we obviously see a lot of you know what we'd call exorcisms in when Jesus is is walking on the earth but verse 16 it's saying she has a spirit of divination which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying okay so there's obviously some power there there's something she's doing which is accurate to actually bring them gain didn't say oh well they thought she was no she brought them much gain gain through soothsaying so yes there are tricksters aren't there there are tricks I'm not saying everyone that calls themselves a medium or or you know these these clowns in the newspaper who are trying to tell you what what's going to happen in your life you're gonna you know you're gonna earn some money this month you know wow okay obviously there are some charlatans out there the con artists but there is some power to this isn't there the Bible says there's power to it and for me there still is so I don't think we want to just fob it all off as fake yeah so firstly let's just realize there is power there number two God hates it let's be clear God hates it doesn't he look at Deuteronomy 18 where we where we started and verse 9 Deuteronomy 18 9 says when thou art coming to the Lamb which the Lord thy God giveth thee thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations their abominations jump forward to verse 12 where it's just given the list of all the things that we've just been talking about for all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord what's an abomination something that God hates detestable he hates it not only are those practices hated by God but verse 12 all that do these things are hated by God they're an abomination he hates them he hates people that do that stuff on that list yeah now some people go well they just don't believe no God hates him he hates him for what they're doing and again you might go with that lady with the multicolored streaks in her hair and the graven images wrapped around her neck you know she was she hates vaccines too you know at least she hates you know on the same side she hates vaccines she hates the pharmaceutical industry she hates antibiotics you know she puts her feet in in a clay foot bath instead yeah you know what's wrong with her she believes in a god she believes in God you know she says she believes in God no she's a witch and God hates her God hates her he hates her that's what it says doesn't it all that do so an abomination people that are practicing that stuff God hates them that's what the Bible says turn the Leviticus 19 will I read Exodus 22 18 you turn the Leviticus 19 Exodus chapter 22 verse 18 says thou shalt not suffer a witch to live thou shalt not suffer a witch to live so under God's law and yes I appreciate we don't live under God's law and we're not trying to reenact God's law in this church and say that we're going to start you know finding people to kill what's the disclaimer there but under God's law okay and has anyone got a problem with God's law no no let's hope not okay under God's law she should have been put to death yeah under God's law which should be put to death thou shalt not suffer a witch to live in an ideal world in the millennial rule of Christ we will not suffer a witch to live okay now I'm not saying our government does that it should do that though shouldn't it a righteous government should and and and the government in this land did do that the government did do that when they claimed when at least attempted to follow the Bible okay why why live and let live hey well it's up to her just don't get involved yeah isn't that isn't that the mantra today just let people do whatever they want just live and let live you know why it's up to them what they want to do well Leviticus 19 you're in verse 31 Leviticus 19 31 says regard not them that have familiar spirits neither seek after wizards to be defiled by them I am the Lord the your God because they defile you and everyone else around you don't know they defile you that means they make you foul dirty corrupted okay they defile you turn over to Leviticus chapter 20 and verse 27 Leviticus 20 and verse 27 a man also or woman that have 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 if we were living under a God-fearing government then these people wouldn't be everywhere defiling us in our kids would they I tell you I don't think they'd be dressing them or their kids up in outfits I'm imagine a few hundred years ago I don't think they would have been going out trick-or-treating would they because they would have likely ended up being well yeah treated to death wouldn't they okay they wouldn't have been doing it and that that's how that's how God wants the government to behave isn't it that's how God wants the government to deal with these things says here that they shall be they shall stone them with stones that's a harsh way of dying isn't it it's all one stone in your out that's a lot of stones just battering you until you're dead battered to death okay and that's what they deserve unless we're questioning the Bible here we don't and and again that's what like I said that that multi-coloured multi-coloured head woman down at the health food shop that medium that that person who who's you know who's on on TV telling everyone you know about the horoscopes everything else that that guy deserves to die okay that's what the Bible says why cuz a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump because people start to get desensitized by this stuff don't they now I'm not saying that everyone who dress up in a fancy dress outfit should be stoned to death but I tell you what they'd stop dressing up like that wouldn't they wouldn't they and that's the thing is there is these punishments is to stop people ever going down that route stop people even thinking about that now you might sit there and think oh well I still think Russell Grant is harmless anyone remember Russell Grant yeah fat queer guy okay what a surprise he was a reprobate as well wasn't in all of a bar but he was yeah that guy was wicked but um you know some might think well David Ike you know he's helping people to see through the New World Order that guy's a devil isn't he that guy is a devil because what he what he does is he he uses a bit of bitch quite a lot of truth sometimes to wash down the poison doesn't he and he sucks people in there just thinking there's nobody I know that this is rubbish I know I'm getting brainwashed and yeah there's a lot of brainwash out there and then well David Ike's the answer then and then he starts going on about mother-son God worship that's what Christianity is and the rest of his is just blasphemy and rubbish that comes out his life didn't he say once that he thought he was a son of God yeah he thought he was some sort of ringer wicked guy what about Russell Brand oh he's just so down-to-earth and nice isn't he oh he's just such a nice guy so honest anyone know Russell Brand is yeah yeah that effeminate guy who's all over YouTube right now and and he's a bit anti-vax but quite clever about it and everything oh isn't he nice no that guy's wicked as well he promotes all this stuff spiritualism all this all this rubbish talk it communicating with the dead again for me unless I see I let's you know unless I'm wrong here for me is a wizard he's what the Bible call a wizard you know that guy's wicked and it I'll tell you what a lot of people seem like I'm sending me some video for the other day and I can't even watch that rubbish you know wicked okay and look and we look at these people we think well how why well second Corinthians 11 14 says and no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light so some of these people just look so innocent so nice no they don't have horns on their heads no they don't the women necessarily have big hook noses and warts everywhere and you know and walk around with cats and everything else no they don't obviously look like the evil which the Bible says they are but no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light okay and his ministers again appear to be ministers of righteousness don't they if God says they're an abomination and we do well to agree wouldn't we okay if he says they're an abomination they're an abomination okay I don't need to try and excuse it and find a way out of that God says they're an abomination Isaiah 5 20 you don't have to turn there says well unto them that call evil good a good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter so well unto you if you're still excusing these devils okay well unto you okay the new age witchcraft number one there's real power behind it number two God hates it okay God does hate it doesn't he I think that's pretty clear God hates it number three keep away from it okay keep as far away from it as possible Deuteronomy chapter 18 we were looking at we looked at from verses 9 to 14 have a look at verse 12 it says 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 says thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God for these nations which thou shalt possess harken unto observers of times and unto diviners but as for thee the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do now you might look at that and think well of course you know what Christians going to get involved with this stuff you know I like what sort of Christians going to start you know getting involved in this sort of soothsaying and wizards and witches and look we're all here no one's out dressed as a witch you know and and the rest of it well I would say a Christian living in the flesh again yeah yeah you don't have to turn there but Galatians 5 19 to 20 says now the works of flesh and manifest which are these so these are works of the flesh adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies so it's a work of the flesh isn't it people in the flesh can get involved with stuff like this can't they because someone involved in this stuff isn't automatically reprobate I think we can look at this and just think they're all just wicked reprobate that's it there's no chance for them they're done well turn to 2nd Chronicles 33 2nd Chronicles chapter 33 okay to think that the king of Judah Manasseh in 2nd Chronicles 33 verse 6 where it says and we saw earlier what he did and he caused his children this is 2nd Chronicles 33 verse 6 he and he caused his children to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and he observed times and used enchantments and used witchcraft and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger that's a wicked guy isn't it look at the state of that he's sacrificing his children he's observing times he's using enchantments he's using witchcraft he's dealing with a familiar spirit with wizards amongst everything else now jump forward to verse 12 and he gets saved verse 12 and when he was in affliction he besought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers and prayed unto him and he was entreated of him and heard his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God I believe he's been saved there and this is a guy that's been in some absolute wickedness there and he then goes on to take away the idols the altars he does a lot of a lot of work to show there that that he's had a change there isn't he that he's changed his mind about all of it and look that what you know this is a guy that you look at that don't you and you just think that is pure wickedness that is pure evil that guy you know and yeah he should have been killed shouldn't he okay he should have been killed but but he was still stable someone who commits adultery should be killed shouldn't they but they're still savable okay and it doesn't mean our world just because there's a death penalty on it no there's these people aren't necessarily reprobate now have a look at have a look at acts 19 because we we should keep away from it shouldn't we we should keep away from it and we see an example of this in in in Ephesus in Acts 19 Paul's preaching there many are getting saved and it says in Acts 19 19 many of them also which used curious arts they're all getting saved there's like loads of people are getting preached to gospel so many of them also which use curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it 50,000 pieces of silver so here we see people again that clearly have been using these curious arts they've got books with these curious arts they're then getting saved and they're burning the books yeah okay that's great but is that automatic is that automatic it's not is it okay and it's not automatic because you can look at this and just think well why you know okay it's good to preach about you know false kind of versions of religion and everything else but does it really affect us well what about newly saved Christians are they just automatically gonna know that all this stuff is wrong I don't know about you but when I preach the gospel to someone I don't start going into witchcraft and and every other thing and every other workings of the flesh that that ideally they should cut out of their life and obviously witchcraft is not just ideally they have to cut out they should cut that out shouldn't they because what sort of a walk they're gonna have without cutting that sort of rubbish out but how many of them probably are still into that how many people have you preached a gospel to this last year that are probably still at home thinking you know well you know is it that bad you know he's talking to a medium that bad you know I wonder if you know God thinks it's okay how if you haven't read the Bible you haven't heard any preaching you don't just automatically know everything do you or you know the you know the Holy Ghost he guides you into all truth from the Word of Truth doesn't he but you have to read the Word of God so there are people there are many Christians throughout the world that like I said that dabble there are safe people that dabble with this stuff okay and look if you're sitting there thinking no impossible no way if you're saved no way what so sorry where's your line on that then are you saying that because you're saved you you're never gonna lie again anyone here thinks they're never gonna lie again oh because you're saved though oh well you're never gonna you're never gonna covet something again no so wait there isn't a line is there there isn't a line okay that they're works of the flesh and people are able to do this and are able to be involved with this sort of stuff and it needs preaching doesn't it because how how many people like you everyone here pretty much is a disciple aren't they they're a disciple but how many how many say Christians aren't disciples but maybe they might stumble across some maybe they're looking maybe they're wondering maybe they're thinking I don't know about this stuff I don't you know I'm saved and he seems to speak some truth but this guy is trying to say that you know you could communicate with dead people or you could do this I don't know where to look in the Bible you know but no it's wicked isn't it it's evil it's an abomination okay but even seasoned Christians that know better can still dabble with this anyone wonder that well turn to 1st Samuel 28 where we see a backslidden soul dabbling with this don't we 1st Samuel chapter 28 1st Samuel 28 and verse 3 1st Samuel 28 verse 3 says 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 in the Wizards out of the land okay so he knows better doesn't he he's put them away out of the land yeah verse 4 and the Philistines gathered themselves together and came and pitched in Shunem and Saul gathered all Israel together and they pitched in Gilboa and when Saul saw the host of the Philistines he was afraid and his heart greatly trembled and when Saul inquired of the Lord the Lord answered him not neither by dreams nor by Urim nor by prophets then said Saul unto his servants seek me a woman that had the familiar spirit that I may go to her and inquire of her and his servant said to him behold there is a woman that had the familiar spirit at Endor so he's afraid isn't he he's afraid which I think is one of the triggers for this but he knows better doesn't he it's not an ignorance okay he knows better he knows that he's put them out the land he knows what they are he knows that God wants them put out of the land he's far from God though isn't he so he's clearly far from God in me the Lord answered him not okay verse 8 and Saul disguised himself and put on other raiment and he went and two men with him and they came to the woman by night and he said I pray thee divine unto me by the familiar spirit and bring me him up whom I shall name unto thee and as the story goes on Saul requests to speak to the spirit of Samuel doesn't he and the woman is then shocked isn't she when Samuel does actually appear and and we see that in verse 12 and when the woman saw Samuel she cried so she didn't start going boo-hoo she shouted out she cried with a loud voice and the woman spake to Saul saying why has thou deceived me for thou art Saul so I believe here that God does something unique here that's how I see this and and rather than evil spirits which is what she communicates with he sends Samuel and and that's how I see that hence the shouting when she sees him because she's absolutely shocked it's not something she's used to is it but the point is this is a saved man of God stoops to the low point of trying to commune with the dead okay a saved man of God stoops to the point who knows much better than that trying to commune with the dead and look at the result jump for the first Chronicles chapter 10 first Chronicles chapter 10 and verse 13 first Chronicles 10 13 so Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord even against the word of the Lord which he kept not and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit to inquire of it and inquired not of the Lord therefore he slew him and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse okay so he died for two reasons there didn't he also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit and that's the result isn't it that's why we need to keep away from it don't we so oh okay well you say yeah well you could still do it's just just a work of a nice a wicked work of the flesh isn't it okay it's wicked it carries a death penalty it's as wicked as adultery isn't it that sort of stuff it's wicked it carries a death penalty in a righteous godly government it should do shouldn't it and God hates it and we have to stay away from it don't we okay we have to stay away from it turn over to Leviticus chapter 20 Leviticus chapter 20 and verse 6 Leviticus 26 20 verse 6 says 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 sounds like God takes it pretty seriously doesn't he okay God takes it really seriously we should be as far away as possible and if you're in any doubt and again you might be sitting there thinking no chance you know I'm not gonna start hanging out down the psychic fair yeah I'm not gonna I know okay I get it I'm not gonna read my horoscopes anymore okay I get it I was only a bit of fun and I believe that they really know what they're talking about anyway you know you might be thinking that but it is I thought of this as an example okay say a family member is seriously ill yeah say someone really close say maybe yourself or maybe someone that you really love seriously ill you feel really distant from God at that time yeah because sometimes sadly when we should be closer to God we start to feel distant don't we when we're going through hard times the witch down at the health food shop and so I keep using the witch at the health just because I've had a lot of experiences with these witches at health food shop and look I'm not trying to put you off a gut of health food shops okay just be careful for the witch down there okay but say say that witch down the health food shop yeah starts telling you about this amazing healer yeah maybe it's crystals maybe it may be the crystals you won't get it but but there's someone who's really good at just just finding out what the body really needs they do this special testing and they can feel what the body really needs or something along that and I've had experience of this stuff there are people that do some crazy stuff that could do some really powerful stuff with this sort of thing and and in times of need people start to think man you know like well is that that bad you know it's for good it's a positive I'm trying to help someone who's sick is it that bad to just try and see if they can discover you know they're gonna talk to the body or they're gonna talk to some spirit or they're gonna you could see that couldn't you maybe in a time of need and I hope everyone's here thinking no way no way but I reckon maybe they will maybe someone would just sing well you know would it be that bad you know just maybe or maybe just so what they do this thing where they kind of ask a question it depends I think which way the the pendant swings if it's a yes or no people like me would do a lot of this stuff yeah and look look there are some people that you would be surprised who have been involved in this stuff yeah and and just because you're saved doesn't mean right never you could be at a time where you're literally you know you got you know God forbid you've got someone who's really close to you that they're close to death and you think there's got to be an answer it's got to be a cure there's got to be a way and then the witch starts giving you a suggestion if I was um I was a food stall in town the other week and there's a guy this Jordanian food place I sometimes talk to this guy and he started he's talking to me about vaccines and he said to me he said have you heard of and basically you know the the cupping people do where they kind of like basically they pull out blood with it okay so he was saying to me well there's this special you know the special technique that they do in Jordan or somewhere else where basically they can draw out all the toxins of a vaccine with it so you could get the vaccine because he's quite anti-vaxxist guy but he's saying you could get it and the next day you could draw and I'm not trying to encourage anyone to do this by the way okay this is what he was trying to tell me you could do now okay now you might have some different views that you might think oh there's a lot of science behind it or whatever else so look one man science is another man pseudoscience isn't it and it's hard to you know we don't necessarily know but for me just alarm bells are ringing straight away you know because then I thought you know I think I had a quick Google just to make sure that I wasn't you know that I had a bit of evidence to what I was thinking and the courses you know it's based on some sort of energy systems and everything else but in the way he's trying to build it is it's very scientific it's basically just drawing toxins out your body you could go and get the vaccine draw out obviously I wasn't tempted but are we saying that no Christian could have been by that could have thought well you know why not getting toxins pulled out your body what's wrong with that but but look people do and we could I don't know about that but you might not but someone else might you know and look someone else might have been a lot more into that someone else might look you know there's some tricky ways people try and draw you into stuff and and all I'm saying is that the Bible is clear that God hates any of that stuff we should keep away from it and I'm not saying keep away from their natural supplement I'm not saying keep away from the herb okay but what I am saying is is if you start to feel a bit you know because because it quickly can change can't it and we could always so anti anti anything that's Western medicine and then next thing you know you've got people waving crystals over you okay and I hope you don't but please don't yeah don't because that stuff is wicked and God hates it and it's an abomination yeah okay take it seriously so the New Age witchcraft number one there is real power behind it okay there is real power behind it number two God hates it and number three keep away from it let's pray father I thank you for your word I thank you for thank you for the for the clear examples you give in the Bible and just to just to show us things which which amazingly apply to this day so clearly and you know I pray that you just help us all to keep away from all this sort of stuff to be to be wise with it all to just just stay in the word to just stay in the spirit so we don't get tempted by these sorts of things and I pray that you believers as well you just helped to ground them help us to ground them as well in your truth your word and pray that you just help us all to be strong and strong in your word and strong and strong in the power of your might and help us to go out this afternoon get some people saved to help them to live for you to help them to resist all of this wickedness that's in our world today and help us to be back here for the evening service in Jesus name we pray amen