 35, the Bible says, for whosoever findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord. But he that sineth against me wrongeth his own soul, and they that hate me, love death. So here we see a contrast. So again, the book of Proverbs many times is contrasting two things. You see one side of the coin and then either on the second part of that verse or the next verse over. You'll see the other half of that where the Bible says, you know, here it's saying to love the Lord is to love life or to find life whosoever findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord. So it's equating life with favorable, being favor of the Lord. And then in verse number 36, it's on the flip side of that, it's comparing death to those that it's basically equating hating the Lord with those that love death. Alright, so what are we talking about this morning? So coming up tomorrow and the day after tomorrow is this thing called Halloween. I don't even want to call it a holiday. You know, a lot of people will say it's a holiday. I just want to say in the United States, Halloween is celebrated tomorrow and then the next day, celebrated especially in California, especially in Fresno, is this thing called the day of the dead. Alright, it's celebrated on the first of November. Now these things in the United States, if you've noticed over the years, they're getting more and more what I would call actually out of control. You know, Halloween, it seems like, you know, we go out soul winning, I've said this before, but the soul winner will have their finger on the pulse of the community closer than anyone. You'll be able to see what's going on, you'll be able to see how people's beliefs change, what people are into, what they're not into. Halloween is getting completely out of control in this country. I mean, it seems like, you know, the trend seems like the less expensive the neighborhood, the more people spend on, you know, Halloween things and all these decorations. The latest thing that I've been seeing that was new to me this year is people, I've seen it twice now, people literally digging up their front yard. People have dug up their front yard to make, you know, graves and gravestones and skeletons laying in the graves and things like this, literally destroying their property to just, you know, decorate for, you know, this idea of Halloween. So the point is that it's just getting more and more extreme. It's very easy for most people, not just soul winners to see this, but we're going to look this morning at why that is happening. We're going to look at why it's happening. You know, there must be an agenda here. There must be an agenda. So let's do a quick Bible study this morning and kind of look at if we can see, you know, what the Bible says about some of these things. We'll learn a lot of things this morning, not just about Halloween and the day of the dead, but you'll see this morning how Satan works in society. The first thing that Satan wants to do with serious things in society, you'll see with Halloween and the day of the dead is just make light of these things. Make them seem like they're not that bad. All right? Turn to Ephesians chapter 5. Turn to Ephesians chapter 5. Let's do a quick, let's take the plane off this morning and we'll do a quick Bible study and then we'll kind of come back to this idea of, you know, how God wants us to view sin and how Satan wants us to view sin. You'll see that there's two very different philosophies when it comes to the devil's agenda and God's agenda. Of course, we can expect that, right? But look at Ephesians, Ephesians chapter 5 and look at verse number 7. So in Ephesians chapter 5, the context here is that Paul is writing to the church at Ephesus. He's writing to these Gentiles, to these new believers. You know, this obviously applies to us but he's kind of telling them like, hey, you need to get out of these things and we're learning the same thing in the book of Acts. There's these cultural divides. Everyone's getting saved. Some of the Jews got saved. The Gentiles are getting saved. The Jews were kind of, you know, taken aback by the fact that, you know, Gentiles are also, you know, getting saved. Now you have a church of these people. So, you know, they're kind of trying to get everybody into church and growing as new believers. Look at verse number 7 where Paul says, be not ye therefore partakers with them. Now notice verse number 8 here. So he's saying, you know, you've got to be separate now. You've got to be different from these people outside now that you've become believers and you're saved. Now, but look at verse number 8, he says, for you were sometimes, he says you were sometimes darkness. Now notice he doesn't say you were in darkness. He says you were literally, you were darkness. You know, it kind of equates, you know, this group of people that were unsaved and are now saved. He says you were darkness but now you're what? It says you were darkness but now you're, now are ye light in the world. So he says you have literally become, you were darkness and now you have become light. He's equating unbelief with darkness and belief with light. Alright? Then look what he says. He says walk as children of light. Now he's saying do what people that are supposed to be in the light are supposed to be light do. For the fruit of the spirit capital S, now these people have the spirit in them. They're saved. They're indwelled by the Holy Spirit. You know, they're sealed by the Holy Spirit. They have the down payment that God gave them of being the temple of the Holy Spirit. They have the Holy Spirit in them. So all of you this morning. For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth. Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And then again look what he says in verse number 11. He says and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Rather reprove them. So there's two things that he says in verse number 11. He says okay, he's like you were darkness. He's like you were literal darkness. Now you are light. He's like you should do things that prove the fruits of the spirit that prove that you have the Holy Spirit in you. You should walk meaning you should do these things. You should live a life that shows that you have the Holy Spirit in you. That's all of us. We all have the Holy Spirit in us. We should not grieve that Holy Spirit. We should live a life. We should walk a life that shows that light to the darkness. And then for those people that are still darkness, he says two things. He says number one, have no fellowship with them. Don't be doing the things that they're doing. Don't be going to those parties. Don't be doing those works of darkness. But instead look what he says. He says but rather reprove them. So he says don't be fellowshiping with the darkness but you should be speaking against the darkness. He's like you should actually be reproving the darkness. That means correcting the darkness. That means when there's darkness, there's people still doing these things, those people need to be corrected. So the light should shine on that and correct it. Verse number 12, for it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. He says all things again that are reproved. So he's like you should reprove them. Why reprove them? He says all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light. For whosoever doth make manifest is light. So it's saying the light should reprove the darkness. It's like shining a flashlight. Make manifest means made known. So what the Bible here is saying is it's kind of like giving some hope to the people that are in the darkness. The Bible says that the light should make known the darkness, make the truth known to the darkness. So isn't that true? Isn't there a lot of people that are in darkness today that don't even know that these things are wrong? These things that we'll talk about this morning, there's a lot of people that are just doing them because that's what people do. There's a lot of people out there just going along with society because that's what people do. They don't even know that it's wrong. But when the light shines on it, it will be known that it's wrong. Imagine, there's people that are celebrating Halloween and Day of the Dead that would tell you they believe the Bible. They're not saved. They would tell you they believe the Bible. And then when you went up and you showed them the Bible, that's reproving those works. And they would be like, oh man, I didn't even know that. There's a lot of people like that. There's a lot of people there. Evil people will talk about those as well. They don't love death and love these things, but they just don't have any idea because it's not known to them, which is why God says that the light shouldn't just be silent. You shouldn't just walk your own way and walk right. You should also reprove because there's still people over there that are darkness that they just don't know. It's not manifest to them. It's not known that it's wrong to them. Nobody's telling them the Bible. We were just talking yesterday. My wife and I were just talking yesterday just about how many churches there are. There's churches everywhere, everywhere. There's new churches popping up all over the place all the time. But none of these churches are teaching the Bible. None of these churches that are popping up everywhere are showing people what the Bible says. That's the problem. So it's not going to be made manifest there. The darkness is not going to be made manifest by the light because the light is the Bible. The light is God's word. Look at verse 14. Wherefore, he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give the light. So we can wake people up that are still in the darkness. The Bible is saying here, turn to Proverbs chapter 14. This is why people think, so the Bible here is saying that you shouldn't be part of any of that darkness, but you should rather reprove it. People will think the Bible believing Christian is extreme today. When they go out and they celebrate things like Halloween, they celebrate things like the day of the dead. When these things become normal in society, people look at the Bible believing Christian that doesn't want to have anything to do with that, and they say, that seems extreme. You don't even want to do that. Because what are they doing? They're making light of sin. Because it's been made light, it's been made nothing to them. They haven't had that light shine on the darkness for them. Look at Proverbs chapter 14 and verse number 9. I mean the Bible says in Romans 7.13 it says, the law is used to make sin that it might appear sin. That sin by the commandment might be made exceedingly sinful, the Bible says. That's what the law will do. That's how it will make these things manifest. But unlike that, the devil's philosophy, while God's word will make sin seem exceedingly sinful, the devil wants to make light of sin. And God is saying, don't have any part of it, instead reprove it and make it known so people in the darkness can come out of that. Proverbs 14.9 says, fools, make a mock at sin. This is what the devil starts out doing with everything. He makes it seem like a joke. He makes it seem like it's fun. But among the righteous there is favor. The Bible says, so look, sin always starts as a light thing. Sin always starts as a joke. Sin always starts as something that's portrayed as just fun. It's just a way for kids to get candy. I mean it started out, I remember Halloween decorations when I was a kid with somebody putting like, I mean you all remember this, somebody putting like a cardboard pumpkin in their window. Like these little cheap little cardboard pumpkins. Or a little cartoon witch in a window or something like that. Something that didn't look scary, didn't look bad. I mean we walked by one house the other day like there was like a full-on metal cage hanging from the basketball hoop in the driveway. The cage was like four feet tall, up in the air, and like a rotting corpse inside the thing. I'm just like, hopefully that's not real. But I mean where do you even buy it? I mean is that on Amazon or something? But I mean this stuff is like, can you imagine the money spent on this? Can you imagine, but like just going over the top to just celebrate death like this. But it started out it started out as a joke. It started out as something fun something light. And people still do that today they make light of it. And it went to just celebrating death. And just celebrating like Satan worship and all these terrible things. But ultimately it's just like a celebration like day of the day. It's a celebration of death. Halloween, I mean should death be celebrated? That's the question today. That's the question today. Should death be celebrated? Should a Christian, a Bible-believing Christian, should we celebrate death? Halloween, here's the origins of Halloween. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest in the beginning of the dark cold winter at a time of the year that was often associated with human death. Pagans, the Celts mainly, believed that one night before the new year the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. And the dead could come back. And on the night of October 31st they celebrated this day when the ghost of the dead returned to earth. This is the origin of Halloween. That's supposed to be fun for kids. The day of the dead is basically, I mean the best way I can explain this without getting into great detail it's like a family reunion for the dead. It's like a family reunion for dead people that you've known that died. But here's the thing, they're both Paggan practices and here's what's super interesting. They're both Paggan ceremonies or celebrations and they were hugely adopted by the Catholic Church. Are you seeing a pattern with the Catholic Church, by the way? The Catholic Church has been adopting Paggan practices and Paggan beliefs since the beginning of its inception. The Paggan, the Catholic Church is literally, the Roman Catholic Church is literally a combination of Paggan beliefs and Christianity. It's like Paggan worship of idols and worship of gods. They mixed that into a blender with Christianity. Now we get worship of saints. We still kept the idols. We'll keep the idols. There's still idol worship. The Catholic Church just adopts Paggan culture everywhere it goes. But the point is the day of the dead in Halloween kind of they both made fun and made a celebration out of death. I mean if you look at, you know, go around we actually, my wife and I actually went to a Mexican grocery store the other day to get some presents to bring up to Canada. And there's just like all these decorated skulls and all these fun decorations of just celebrations of death all over the place for this day of the dead. You know, they leave food out for the dead people. You know, and they're just, they're making light of it. What it is, it's making death seem tolerable. It's making death seem not that bad. You know, it's not just some, you know, rotted skull. It's like this beautifully porcelain painted up artistic skull. It's basically making light of death. In Romans chapter 6, verse number 23, if you're a soul winner, this one you have memorized for sure. But look, how should the unsaved world, how should the unsaved world, let's look at the unsaved world first, how should the unsaved world feel about death? How should they feel? The Bible tells us in Romans 6 23 it says the wages of sin is death. So the Bible here is saying that it doesn't bring up death and we bring this up all, whenever we preach the Gospel to somebody, we will go to this verse as one of the first verses that we go to. The Bible says that yes, death is something that's real. Death is something that's real, but it's actually what you deserve for your sin. So death is the punishment for your sin. The Bible is not talking about just physical death. In Romans chapter 6, in verse number 23, in Romans 2014, another verse that we always will go to when we're soul winning it says, and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire, this is the second death. So there's two deaths. There's your physical death and then your spiritual death, when you are cast into the lake of fire, when someone dies and they go to hell, and hell will eventually end up in the lake of fire, they end up spiritually dead in hell, the Bible teaches. So immediately when somebody dies that is not saved, they will end up, their soul will end up in hell and that is the second death. Look, death and that death, the Bible says, is the penalty for sin which everyone has. So does this sound like good news? Does this sound like let's have a party? This is a very serious thing and this is why we, this is the first thing that we talk to with people when we're out preaching the Gospel. We're telling them this very serious condition that they are currently in. So every unsaved person, every person that is not believed and trusted on the Lord Jesus Christ is currently in that position where they deserve that death, that spiritual death. I mean darkness, just think of the darkness of Halloween and the day of the dead. Halloween is celebrated in the dark. Halloween is complete, I mean we just talked about darkness but every activity even the kids, I mean people are sending their kids out into darkness in Halloween. Turn to Jeremiah chapter 13. Jeremiah chapter 13. I mean there's tons of crime by the way that happens on Halloween in the dark. So darkness is just part of this celebration of death. Look at Jeremiah 13, 16. Look what God says. Give glory to the Lord your God before he caused darkness and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains and while you look for light he turn it into the shadow of death. Notice how he kind of compares, you know he kind of equates darkness with death and then he says and make it gross darkness. Just associating darkness with death. Bad things always happen in the dark. My dad always told me this. He says nothing good happens after 9. You know when the kids would go out and he's like nothing good ever happens. You think about all the things that sin that happens in the dark. People that go to bars, they're in the dark. People that are in nightclubs, they're in the dark. There was a nightclub across from the old church downtown. And I'm sure I've never been inside that nightclub but looking at the people that went in there it was surely dark in there. I'm telling you because if somebody would have went in there and flipped on the lights everybody would have been like it was definitely dark in that place. Why? Because darkness it covers sin. Darkness, it just it what makes sin manifest? Light. And we are light. Turn to John chapter 3. Turn to John chapter 3. Jesus said this. When he was talking to Nicodemus he said that this was a problem. Right? He said that this was a problem. Jesus comparing himself to the light. Look at John 3 verse 19. Jesus says in this is the condemnation that light has come into the world. But why didn't everyone just accept him? Why didn't everyone just accept Jesus when this light did come into the world? It says in men love darkness rather than light. Why? Why do men love darkness? Because their deeds were evil. Dark things, sin is it grows, it flourishes in the dark. Well spiritually and literally. This is why it's such a great analogy of this light and darkness and God uses it all over the Bible. Look at verse 20. For everyone that doeth evil hateeth the light. Neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved. Again you know showing that just literal darkness, spiritual darkness. But he the doeth truth cometh to the light. That his deeds may be made again manifest that they are wrought in God. So beware of things going on in the dark. Halloween is celebrated in the dark. Nothing good happens and operate in the light. I've preached a whole sermon on just darkness. So back to the question. Back to the question. Should we, so we see that unbelievers should not, there shouldn't be anything that they are excited about about death. Unbelievers should be fearful of death. You know they should be fearful. But what about us? Turn to Hebrews chapter 2. Turn to Hebrews chapter 2. And look at verse number 14. I was actually, I was telling my wife, I told my wife this after we landed after the last plane ride and we landed and we were walking into the Fresno airport yesterday afternoon. I told my wife I said you know the funny thing about flying in a plane, the funny thing about flying in a plane, air traffic and flying in on a plane is much safer statistically than traveling in a car. Did you know that? It's like way safer. Just on the numbers of people that die flying in planes versus the numbers of people that die traveling in automobiles. But I told my wife this, the funny thing about flying in a plane and I don't know maybe I'm the only one that thinks this, my wife agreed with me, but whenever you're going to take off in a plane you always think I don't know why that is. But whenever you're getting ready to take off in an airplane you always just think when this huge airplane is creaking and coming off the ground you're like pretty much anything mechanically goes wrong right now and we're going to heaven. But I mean you never think about that getting into a car. Even though a plane is way safer and all that. So you think about dying, but how should the Christian feel about death? Look at Hebrews 2 and verse number 14. The Bible says for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the devil. Talking about Jesus here that through his death he destroyed him that had the power of death. So Jesus destroyed him that had the power of death that had the power of death. He's like who has the power of death? Then he explains that is the devil. So the devil the devil has power, the power of death over people that don't have Jesus is what the Bible is saying here. But here's the thing the devil doesn't have that power over me if you're saved today the devil doesn't have that power over you. The devil doesn't have that power of death over believers why? Because Jesus destroyed that. Jesus destroyed that so then look at verse 15 and deliver them who through and this is interesting right here who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. So before you were delivered you should have had fear of death you see what I'm saying? So I ask you the question how should unsaved people feel about death? And the answer is they should fear it because and here's the thing you won't even have to give this to somebody the Bible is saying that the unsaved person will just a normal unsaved person will just have a natural fear of death it comes along with that conscience package from Romans 2.15 and look you know this is true if you're a soul winner you know this is true if you go out soul winning most people will just readily agree with you that they don't know when they're going to die they could die in 5 minutes they could die in 50 years and you know they don't want to die and they have a general fear about dying it's a natural thing to fear dying. Now what about the believer? You say when I'm taking off in that airplane am I just like am I just terrified that I could die? Here's the thing I don't really want to die right now I pray to God a lot of times that he would keep me around for a while so I could serve him with my life so I could raise my children so I could do these things but if I do die in that moment it's like okay I'm going to see Jesus so I don't fear dying I would rather not die now so I could do more for the kingdom of God on earth but I don't fear it and neither should you if you're saved because the devil doesn't have that power over you anymore because for you to die physically is to live eternally that's it that's all it is but people that are not saved should have that fear of death. The Bible says that they will naturally have it. The people that are not as Hebrews 2.15 says they're not delivered yet they're not delivered so those are people without Christ they should fear death they should not be celebrating it it is only Christ that can free from death not some bananas put on a statue that you know not fruits and candy it is nothing for the unsaved world which is the vast majority of people it is nothing for the unsaved world to be celebrating at all nothing. They should be terrified of death they should be terrified of death. Everyone in this world is hanging over a cliff by a thread and a thread that is their physical life and at the bottom of that cliff is hell and eventually the lake of fire but at the bottom of that cliff the only thing is just their next breath and their next breath the only thing keeping them from that is that thread of their physical fragile life which is like a vapor like water spilled on the ground and they are risking hell every moment they are risking eternal damnation every moment they should be terrified of this you're out soul winning everyone will agree with you if you ask people the question you know if you died today a lot of times I'll preface that question with some kind of comment like if the kids like 16 years old or something and I say if you died today I'll say to the kid you know look because you don't know you're a young guy but you don't know if you're gonna you don't know how long you're gonna live everyone will agree with you you will never have anyone say I know that I'm gonna live to be 95 years old because everybody knows inherently in their conscience just like they will freely admit that they are a sinner they know that they have no idea when their last breath will be but no one's really taught them the Bible no one's really shown them the truth shine that light on that darkness that they're in and showed them what's below their feet showed them what's at the bottom of that cliff that they're hanging over this is what we are doing when we go out with the Word of God we are making that we are making what's below their feet manifest to them see that's mean what does it mean to tell people the truth no what's mean is to be some ministry that goes off and and goes along with the world and celebrating the fact that people are hanging over hell it's it's literal madness to be part of this but who wants who wants the Bibles what does the devil want? he wants to keep that covered he doesn't want people seeing what's below their feet he doesn't want people seeing what they're risking turn to Isaiah chapter 8 that's what Halloween the day of the dead let's have a big party and have a family reunion for our dead ancestors you're like what in the world it makes light or it makes a heresy of what's true is what it does look at Isaiah chapter 8 verse 19 Isaiah chapter 8 look at verse 19 God even God's even confused about this God says in Isaiah 8 19 he says and when they shall say to you seek unto them that have familiar spirits these are like witches sorcerers people that are conjuring spirits and unto wizards that peep and mutter should not a people seek unto their God God is saying why aren't people coming to me why are they going to all these devil worshipers and all these people that conjure demons which is what these familiar spirits are and then he says for the living to the dead question mark you know what that means that little phrase there at the end it says for the living to the dead you know what the Bible is saying here about the nation of Israel doing these things and he's saying why would the living want to go to the dead this is like the Christian that is involved in Halloween the saved person that is involved in the day of the dead God's like why would the living go to the dead what why would you do that knowing what you know as a believer why would you do that look this is what Satan's agenda is folks this is to make that eternal danger seem invisible to make that fear that is natural go away to make it seem funny to make it seem fun to cover it with alcohol and parties and costumes and disguises to cover it with these things to take away that fear of that physical death and what comes after this is the agenda of these next couple of days that are celebrated in this country to cover your conscience see the advantage that we have with the gospel is everybody has a conscience this is why we go shine that light and people will be like oh yeah you show them the Bible they'll be like that makes sense because everybody starts with a conscience everybody starts with a law written in their heart so look we shouldn't be celebrating death Christians should not be celebrating death we shouldn't fear death but we should be fearful for the people that should fear death but instead we see people that should fear death and they're starting to celebrate death they're starting to celebrate death now go back to Proverbs chapter 8 there's another level about this there's another level and you will find people out there that actually love death this is another level that's beyond celebrating death but in Proverbs 8 36 the Bible says Proverbs 8 chapter number 36 the Bible says it says he that sineth against me wrong with his own soul and all that hate me love death so we read that in the chapter that we read before the sermon started so the Bible here is equating people that love death with people that hate God there's people out there that love death if they love death they hate God if they hate God they're going to love death those two things are the same turn to Jude turn the book of Jude just right before the book of Revelation you'll find the book of Jude one chapter go to Jude so you got to be aware that there's people like this out there too there's people like this out there as well and they're going to love Halloween these are going to be the people that take all this stuff over the top every day is Halloween for these people every day is celebration of death for these people look at Jude and look at verse number 4 of Jude verse number 4 the Bible says there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the grace of our Lord God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ it's not that they didn't they didn't know this is a different group of people this is people that it's not like they didn't know it's not like you go and preach the gospel and they're like oh I had no idea that the Bible said that about sin about death, about these things that we shouldn't be doing this I had no idea just because I didn't know no these people knew and they denied it the Bible says these people knew the word of God and they denied it Jesus Christ is the word of God and Jesus Christ is they denied him though they said no they rejected him look at verse number 11 it says woe unto them for they have gone to the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward and perished in the gainsaying of Korah these are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you saying you should have nothing to do with these people these people should not be in church feeding themselves without fear these people don't have fear that conscience is seared in these people and look at this why don't they have fear feeding yourselves without fear clouds are they without water carried about of winds trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots these are people that are walking around on the earth right now these are people that their heart is beating and they're on the earth and the Bible is saying they are twice dead you know what that's saying is like the second death has already happened in them it's like they're done they're done there's people on this earth that love death that hate the Lord the Bible says they are twice dead these are the people that have been rejected by God they knew God this is Romans 1 people this is the unnatural these are people they knew God they rejected God they knew what God said they changed what God said they went and they knew who God was and they worshiped something else and not God and God said that's it I've rejected you and they're twice dead people that have experienced the second death before they physically died they hate God and they love death you'll find these people loving death equals hating God Satan worship is real stuff the occult is real a third of the angels went with Satan there is literally hundreds of millions of demons walking around on this earth witches diviners real stuff they're really contacting evil spirits demons they're real why in the world would anyone who calls himself a Christian want to have anything to do with this it's hatred of God turn to Luke 16 there's all these different places poem readers and all this stuff you go around Fresno they're all over the place and they're conjuring you think oh maybe they can conjure my great uncle for me it's not your great uncle because your great uncle is not saved he is somewhere that he can't get out of look at Luke chapter 16 look it doesn't make me happy to tell people that their relatives who weren't saved are in hell but at least we should tell people the truth so they can use that fear to get themselves and their loved ones past from death to life what's evil is not telling people the truth and making light and making a lie of the word of God verse 26 of Luke chapter 16 of course we have the rich man that went to hell and Lazarus went to heaven and the rich man as soon as he's in hell and he realizes that he's in hell and he's there and he can't get out he realizes he's like I want someone to go tell my relatives so they don't end up here look at verse 26 but Abraham says to him besides all this between us and you there's a great go fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot like nobody from heaven can come to you and help you is what Abraham is telling him neither can they pass to us that would come from then it's like there's nothing you could ever do to get out of there is what he tells him and then he says but what about my relatives but what about my relatives he's like they have the law and the prophets you know what the law is the bible you know the prophets are you when you carry the bible you when you knock on somebody's door and you read them the bible you tell them the gospel you are the prophet so who does the unsaved person have they have the bible and they have you that's what the bible says and all these spirits they are demons they are demons that are tricking people they're pulling people into the occult and look there's wicked people out there there's wicked people out there that love this that love this but the bible says those people are twice dead so look should churches have anything to do with this should Christians have anything to do with this you know where you will find the most halloween party signs in Fresno right now in front of churches it's crazy that they say look they say they say we're crazy look you read the bible and you find out what the bible actually says about these things you're just like the bible going saying around you is what you're doing we are not trying to mimic the world here that's what these churches are doing we are an independent fundamental baptist church you know what fundamental means that word fundamental means it is centered around some concept or idea you know what we are centered around the king james bible that's what we are fundamental about we're not fundamental about any bible we would be a changing church maybe we could change bibles every year and then we would our church would look different every year we would do different things we would omit things things would get weirder and weirder we could just change the bible no we are fundamentally centered around the king james bible that is our core principle and that's why from our perspective we see the world going further and further away and that's also why from their perspective looking at us we seem to just get weirder and weirder so we have all these people in the world looking at us going you guys don't do that you don't send your kids you don't let your kids what's going on and we're looking at them going you're crazy you're weird you know it's just like why because we're going like this that's why every year we're further apart every year we're further apart but guess what here's an example in relativity we're the ones that are not moving we've talked about that a lot in this oh you can't tell what's moving and everything's relative no we are centered they are moving away for sure because we're fundamentally centered around the king james bible and god's word does not change god doesn't change that's why you see just these churches it's just not just halloween it's these contemporary churches they're just moving with the culture of the day the rock concerts they're just trying to they're trying to be like the world but just a little bit better than the world so they'll have a halloween party and they'll say no scary costumes so you have to dress your daughter up as a cute witch make sure she's not a scary witch but a cute witch make sure you dress your daughter up as a cute devil worshiper that's what the bible would say even king saul the wicked king of israel put the witches out of the land the bible says suffer not a witch to live that's what god thinks about people that would worship satan it's crazy that churches would go along with this and think that it's okay alright but look turn to hebrus chapter 10 look at verse 25 we go to this verse a lot but I just want to point out the last part of this verse hebrus chapter 10 and verse 25 we're moving further and further apart from the world because the world is moving further and further away from god and we are centered on god but look at hebrus 10 25 the bible talks about the importance of assembling as a church it says not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and then look what it says here at the end it's such a smart and practical verse here it says much the more as you see the day approaching it's saying the bible knows here that the world is going to get worse and worse and worse and that way it's telling us that that church and being centered around other believers that are going to exhort you in your faith is going to be so much more important as they get for as the world gets further away from you so as the world gets weirder and weirder and in five years people start identifying as animal animals and furniture and whatever else and people are like you don't think it's normal that my son thinks he's a couch and we're like no I think that's weird I think it's unnatural and there's 300 genders when today there's 50 and it was like well you don't think there's 300 genders no I think there's two I mean the world is going to get weird and look it's more important that we're around like minded believers when things get crazier and crazier and crazier and look we need to be reproving those things we need to be reproving those things because look there's a lot of people getting hurt a lot of people getting hurt when they're talking about turning a little boy and giving him chemicals and mutilating surgeries and people are talking about this today and somebody needs to be saying this is crazy this is child abuse this is evil before it gets weirder and weirder and weirder and you know it's not something that we need to shine the light on these things because there is no other light except us so we need to be sticking together as a church learning the Bible, studying the Bible shining our light everywhere we can find it because there's darkness all around turn to Matthew 22 verse 32 or just look at the front of your bulletin back to Halloween and the day of the dead Matthew 22 32 or the front of your bulletin the verse of the week says I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob God is not a God of the dead but of the living and anybody that we can show the truth to that will then trust on the Lord Jesus Christ can move from that darkness to light they can move from that death to life and that is what we are to do the God frees people from death but death is very serious to the unsaved it's not something to joke about and make light of Satan wants the lost to remain dead because he's dead because he ends up in the lake of fire I mean we should not be celebrating death churches these churches that have all these signs out for trunk or treat most of them don't have the right gospel anyway but it is just pitiful if there is a church out there preaching the true gospel and they are involved in any way in this celebration of Halloween or the day of the dead it is, it sickens me because they should have nothing to do with it it needs to be reproved not joined not fellowshiped with so look we need to be getting the news of this to the dead so they can be brought to life it's a very serious thing we're going to celebrate the seasons changing tonight because God gave us the seasons so as we celebrate going into fall tonight praise God for the seasons praise God for this beautiful creation that he gave us for the blessings that he gives us for the fruits and the vegetables and everything that is good that comes from God that's what we will celebrate as Christians