Participants: David Shin and Steve Wolhberg
Series Code: BOF
Program Code: BOF000040
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00:15 I like to welcome you to Battles of Faith,
00:16 my name is David Shin and I'm here with 00:18 Steve Wohlberg who is the speaker and director 00:19 of While Horse Media based in Fresno, California. 00:22 He is the author of several books 00:23 and has done extensive research on the super 00:25 natural from a Biblical perspective and I like 00:27 to welcome you again to our program here. 00:30 I know your handshake. Yes, we've been doing 00:31 it quite often now, series of 13 00:34 and We have to keep going. 00:35 We've, taking a Biblical perspective as we 00:37 always like to do and basing it upon the 00:39 word of God, we've gone through the book 00:40 of Genesis, Revelation, Exodus, the book of 00:43 Acts and we've gone into our last program, 00:46 our last series of programs about 00:48 who is on the other side that behind these 00:50 magicians, there are strong super natural 00:53 currents that are driving these things and 00:55 we've going to be talking a little bit more 00:56 about that, I think when we're going to talking 00:57 about the chief, there is a little bit of 00:59 organizational structure in this isn't there? 01:01 There is a lot of organization structure 01:03 and you're right. Okay. We're going to focus 01:05 right now on the leader of Evil, 01:09 the prince of darkness himself and then 01:11 of course we want to focus and really center 01:15 everything on the prince of life, 01:17 the prince of light who is Jesus Christ. 01:18 The issue of the Devil is really an issue 01:22 today, it's a big issue the more you get 01:24 into the whole issue of the super natural 01:27 and who is out there and what's out there 01:30 and what's happening in Hollywood and 01:32 and in popular books and movies and 01:34 websites and just the whole supernatural 01:37 arena the question arises you know is 01:40 there a leader of Evil that is out there. 01:43 Some sinister being that is pulling the 01:46 strings behind the scenes, someone such 01:49 as the Devil, also called Lucifer or Satan 01:54 the prince of darkness, Beelzebub, 01:57 he has many names, there is a slide on 01:59 the screen that she just pulled that just 02:01 showed you know some sinister 02:03 personality pulling the strings behind the 02:07 scenes directing traffic in planet Earth, 02:12 on planet Earth, around planet Earth. 02:15 It's no secret that those that are into the 02:17 occult generally speaking do not 02:20 believe in the existence of a personality 02:22 named Satan. This is certainly a doctrine 02:26 of modern witchcraft or what we have 02:28 been talking about Wicca, Wicca, a 02:30 religion that practices witchcraft. We've 02:32 mentioned the other book teen witch 02:34 a couple of times in past programs, 02:36 this is a best selling books its being read 02:38 by unsuspecting teenagers around the 02:42 world. We certainly don't recommend it 02:43 at all, but it's no secret that the author of 02:47 that book who reflects the current 02:49 Wiccan philosophy just comes right out 02:51 openly and says there is no Devil. 02:53 Many times those that are into witchcraft 02:55 or Wicca will criticize Christians and 02:58 they will say to us, you Christians are 03:00 all wet you're all wrong, you think that 03:02 we're Devil worshipers and we don't 03:04 even believe in Satan and they use that 03:07 as an argument in favor of the fact that 03:10 they are not doing anything wrong, that's 03:12 their line. And I come back and say well 03:15 I understand that you don't believe in 03:17 Satan, but that doesn't mean that there is 03:19 no Satan, it just means that you don't 03:21 believe in him. Just to give a few more 03:25 evidences that the modern Wiccan 03:27 movement does not believe in Satan I 03:29 mentioned an article that was sent to me 03:31 from the Paso Robles High School 03:33 where I used to live. This is just a, 03:36 you know campus newspaper and there 03:38 was one particular article dealing with 03:39 witchcraft and it says here in Wicca 03:41 there is no Devil. A lot of Christians are 03:44 amazed by that, they think that witches 03:46 are Satan worshipers but the fact is they 03:48 are not Satan worshipers because they 03:49 don't believe there is a Satan. Here is 03:50 that quite a few statements, published 03:52 statements from people that are involved 03:54 in Wicca, one of them and most of these 03:57 are teenagers. There is not Devil in the 03:59 craft and as long as you do not harm 04:02 others it says so in the Wiccan read and 04:05 in the witches creed, that's their doctrine, 04:07 no Satan. Another Wiccan person said 04:10 Wiccans give no power to Satan because 04:12 they do not accept his existence. He is a 04:15 Christian creation only, we don't believe 04:17 in him. Another one from a woman 04:19 named Becky, she said this is just a 04:21 teenager, she said being only 16 years 04:23 old even I know that Wicca has nothing 04:25 to do with Satan, and here is one more 04:27 from a person that posted something on 04:30 the Internet, she says as a Wiccan we 04:32 know there is no such thing as a Satan 04:34 because there is no such thing as heaven 04:37 or hell. So, this is just typical and I just 04:40 want to bring this out for your 04:41 enlightenment in case you don't know 04:42 that, that people in the modern 04:44 witchcraft Wiccan movement that is 04:46 growing by leaps and bounds, all over 04:48 planet Earth is being reflected and 04:50 promoted in different television 04:52 programs and books and movies and 04:55 Hollywood has really gotten behind the 04:56 whole sorcery sells phenomenon, 05:00 you know witchcraft is making a lot of 05:01 money these days and it's just growing 05:03 rapidly and it's important for us to 05:05 realize that Wiccans don't believe that 05:07 there is a Satan. Now the same thing 05:09 applies David, to those is that are into 05:11 the medium spiritualist movement. 05:14 Modern mediums also don't accept the 05:16 existence of Satan. I've mentioned 05:18 Sylvia Brown, she is a best selling 05:21 author, she is written many books she 05:23 has been interviewed on the Montel 05:24 Williams Show on television many, many 05:26 times she's. You mentioned that you 05:28 you saw her. I saw her one time, yeah. 05:30 Once, you saw a clip of her being 05:31 interviewed by Montel and anyway she 05:33 has written numerous books and one of 05:35 her books she just comes right out and 05:37 says and by the way this woman 05:39 actually, she is a pastor of a church, 05:42 she has her own church and she speaks 05:45 and she quotes from the Bible many 05:46 times, which is amazing to me that she 05:49 doesn't read the entire Bible and that she 05:50 doesn't really accept the Biblical truth on 05:53 this but anyway here is one of her books 05:54 where she says that evil is a creation of 05:56 human kind, not from God and since 06:00 God not some mythical Devil created us 06:02 with souls that are eternal and then she 06:05 goes on and gives her philosophy, 06:07 she says the idea of equating anything 06:09 evil in the spiritual world is mystifying 06:11 to her. She doesn't, she can't comprehend 06:14 why we would think that there maybe 06:15 evil out there in visible world, because 06:18 she doesn't believe in a Devil. She refers 06:20 to the concept as a mythical Devil and 06:24 there is of lot statements like this 06:26 that I could share and so it's important to 06:29 realize this, and important to 06:31 understand that in the occult movement 06:34 today whether it's witchcraft or whether 06:37 it's mediums and spiritualists, there is a 06:40 general belief and that is that there is no 06:43 such thing as a personal Devil. 06:46 This has been amazing to me 06:49 because from a Christian standpoint 06:50 it's always been assumed that those 06:52 involved in Wicca or the occult are 06:55 Devil worshiper or worshipers or Satan 06:57 worshipers and we categorically assume 07:00 that these individuals adhere to the 07:02 existence of Satan, but this isn't true. 07:05 That's not true at all. Over and over 07:08 again they say there is no Devil and that 07:10 doesn't mean there is no Devil it just 07:11 means they don't believe he is there. 07:13 It reminds me of or just thinking about a 07:16 boy that wanders away from the village 07:19 one night in Africa and doesn't believe 07:21 that there are man-eating lions 07:22 out there. Now does that mean there are 07:24 no man-eating lions? No, it just means 07:26 he doesn't believe in them and that even 07:29 makes them more dangerous, because if 07:31 you don't believe that they're there and 07:32 they are there, they can much more 07:34 easily hurt you and destroy you. I like to 07:37 share a quotation from a book that's a 07:40 classic book in Christian literature 07:41 of you are familiar with it. It's called the 07:43 Great Controversy and it deals with the 07:45 battle between the forces of good 07:46 and evil and here on page 516 it says 07:50 that as we approach the close of time 07:53 as we get nearer and nearer to the end to 07:56 the return of Jesus. It says when Satan is 07:58 to work with greatest power to deceive 08:01 and to destroy, he spreads everywhere 08:06 the belief that he does not exist. 08:09 That's right; it is his policy to conceal 08:11 himself and his manner of working. 08:15 And it just makes sense that he would do 08:16 that, he would just that he would try to 08:18 convince people he is not there and if 08:20 you don't think he is there, then he can 08:21 just come right in and take over your 08:23 life. I've mentioned that on a previous 08:25 program my friend Pam that she was, 08:28 she grew up in a Christian home, she 08:29 went off into witchcraft, she was a 08:30 practicing witch for many years and then 08:33 God opened her eyes and she came out 08:34 and she wrote to me her testimony, she 08:37 sent me an email and one of that lines 08:38 I did not read before this is what she 08:40 said, she said pure Wicca holds that 08:43 there is no evil force, no Devil in the world 08:47 Clever ploy of the Devil. If he 08:50 doesn't exist we don't need to worry 08:51 about him and then she continues on 08:53 and talks about the dangers that she sees 08:55 in the craft. And that's it, if you don't 08:58 think he is out there then you don't 09:01 worry about him and he can easily come 09:03 right in to your mind and into your heart 09:06 and he can as the Bible says he can 09:08 seduce, deceive and destroy. Now let's 09:11 take a look at what this book actually 09:12 says and its amazing to me David, as I've 09:14 done a little bit of research into the 09:16 teachers of Sylvia Brown that she claims 09:19 as a modern medium to actually believe 09:21 in the Bible but then she says in the 09:23 same breath there is no Satan, there is no 09:26 Devil. Well, my Bible teaches 09:27 differently if you look at Isaiah chapter 09:31 14, verse 12, the scripture says how art 09:36 thou fallen from heaven? How you've 09:38 fallen from heaven, O Lucifer son of the 09:41 morning. Here talks about a being 09:44 named Lucifer that has actually fallen 09:46 from heaven and there are liberal 09:47 scholars that read this passage and they 09:49 say that this is just talking about a person 09:52 but it can't apply to an individual normal 09:56 human being because this being was in 09:59 heaven and he fell from heaven. Now 10:02 especially when you look at Ezekiel 10:04 chapter 28 and this is another chapter 10:06 that people spiritualize away 10:08 and rationalize away liberal scholars and 10:10 apply this to some human being. Ezekiel 10:13 28, verse 15, verse 14 talks about an 10:16 anointed Cherub, Cherub in the Bible is 10:18 an angel, it's a glorious angel 10:20 and God is here talking through his 10:22 prophet about someone who was an 10:24 anointed Cherub that used to cover. 10:27 He was in the Holy mountain of God; 10:29 he walked up and down in the midst of 10:32 the stones of fire. In verse 15 Ezekiel 10:35 said you were perfect in your ways from 10:39 the day that you were created until 10:41 iniquity which means sin was found in 10:44 you, now there is just no way around it, 10:48 there is no human being in this world, 10:50 in this fallen world that was created 10:53 perfect down here until sin was found in 10:59 that person and that can only apply to a 11:01 supernatural being. And when you again 11:03 the read the context it's talking about the 11:05 anointed Cherub, who was walking up 11:07 and down in the midst of the stones 11:09 of fire. And verse 17 says that he was 11:11 beautiful he was exalted but his wisdom 11:13 corrupted him and eventually he fell and 11:17 so the Bible's clear when you put the 11:19 pieces together. Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28, 11:21 especially when you compare it with 11:23 Revelation, chapter 12, which is the 11:26 greatest chapter that deals with the fall 11:29 of this heavenly being, this angelic entity 11:32 named Lucifer, Lucifer means light 11:35 bearer and after he's sinned against God 11:38 his name was changed to Satan, which 11:40 means the adversary, the enemy of God. 11:44 Revelation chapter 12:1, you read this 11:45 David. Chapter 12 verses 7 through 9 11:49 and this is the greatest book on 11:51 prophecy ever written, lifting the veil 11:53 showing us what's going on behind the scenes. 11:55 In Revelation 12:7, and war broke out in 11:58 heaven, Michael and his angels fought 12:01 with the dragon and the dragon fought 12:03 and his angels. But they did not prevail, 12:05 nor was a place found for them in 12:07 heaven any longer. So was the great 12:09 dragon cast out that serpent of old called 12:12 the Devil and Satan, who deceives the 12:14 whole world. He was cast out into the 12:16 earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 12:19 That's right, so that the first war was not 12:22 a war that occurred on Earth. It was not 12:25 a war that occurred in the Middle East, 12:26 it wasn't World War I, World War II; 12:28 it wasn't any human war, it was a 12:30 heavenly war that took place way up 12:32 beyond the stars. And it was a cosmic 12:35 conflict and Lucifer rebelled against God 12:38 and some of his sympathizers, the other 12:43 angels eventually joined him entirely in 12:45 their rebellion and the heavenly host was 12:47 divided, one group of angels stayed with 12:50 God and the other group of angels sided 12:53 with Lucifer and there was a conflict. 12:56 The Bible says there was a war that took 12:58 place in heaven and Lucifer and his 13:00 angels lost and it says that they were 13:02 kicked out. Verse 9 says the great dragon 13:04 was cast out, that old serpent called Devil 13:07 and Satan who deceives how many people. 13:11 The whole world. He deceives the whole world, 13:13 that's right and one of the deceptions of 13:15 the Devil is that there is no Devil. I mean 13:19 it's pretty simple, that's what he is trying 13:21 to pull off. It says he was cast out into 13:24 the Earth which is right here and his 13:27 angels, those are holy angels on his side 13:29 or they were holy angels and now they're 13:31 fallen angels, his angels were cast out 13:34 with him. And there's many examples in 13:37 the Bible of these evil angels appearing 13:40 and even of Satan himself showing up in 13:44 certain ways, tempting people, doing 13:46 things, working behind the scenes, one 13:49 of the classic examples is in Matthew 13:51 chapter 4. Matthew chapter 4 contains as 13:54 and seen when Jesus himself came down 13:58 to this world to do battle with this 14:01 enemy, this invisible angelic being and 14:04 he met him in conflict in the wilderness. 14:08 Matthew chapter 4, finds Jesus fasting 14:12 and praying at the beginning of this 14:13 ministries and then he is tempted, right, 14:16 three times by this being that the Bible 14:20 clearly identifies as Satan. Matthew 14:23 chapter 4, let me find it here. In verse 1, 14:27 it says Jesus was led by the Spirit into 14:29 the wilderness, to be tempted by the 14:31 Devil and when he had fasted 40 days 14:33 and 40 nights afterward he was 14:35 hungry and when the tempter came to 14:37 him he said, if your are really the son of 14:40 God command that these stones become 14:43 bread and Jesus responded in verse 4 14:45 and he said, it is written man shall not 14:48 leave by bread alone but by every word 14:50 that proceeds out of the mouth of God. 14:55 Each time Satan temped Jesus in the 14:58 wilderness he resisted those temptations 15:00 with scripture, he quoted the word 15:02 of God, quoted the word of God, just 15:04 like he did here that we should live by 15:05 every word that proceeds from God's 15:07 mouth and if we're going to do that, 15:09 if we're going to believe the Bible, 15:10 every word of the Bible then we're going 15:12 to believe that Jesus Christ was really 15:14 tempted by the Devil and there is a real 15:16 Devil and we're going to resist that Devil 15:19 with scripture and that's what witches 15:22 and Wiccans and mediums need to 15:23 understand, is there is a real Devil out 15:25 there and because they don't believe in 15:27 Satan they play with these supernatural 15:31 world and think they can tap in to the 15:33 energies and the spirits of nature and the 15:36 spirits of the dead and they are not on 15:38 God against an entity, a personality 15:42 named Satan and his fallen angels and 15:45 it's just a perfect set up. It's a perfect trap 15:48 and they are wide open to being just 15:50 duped and let astray. 15:52 So the, the irony for me is that it actually 15:55 place into the Devil's advantage to say 15:58 that he does not exist. Sure. 16:00 Because it opens you up to be more 16:01 susceptible to his deceptions. Now, 16:05 I just like to recap a little bit here so, 16:06 we're saying in Isaiah chapter 14, 16:08 Ezekiel chapter 28 as we pointed out 16:10 Lucifer, who was next to God fell from 16:13 heaven, he was in need in according to 16:15 Ezekiel chapter 28 and it says in book of 16:17 Revelation that there was war in heaven 16:19 and then we see Matthew chapter 4 16:21 that the war was transferred from heaven 16:23 to earth and so there is a conflict on a 16:27 spiritual level that we do not see of 16:29 which we are evidently a part, because 16:31 its here on planet earth. 16:32 That's exactly right. And we are in the 16:34 middle of that conflict. We have the 16:37 forces of good on the one side, the forces 16:39 of evil in the other side. People think of 16:42 you know the little proverbial Devil, Devil 16:45 sitting on your shoulder and whispering 16:47 into your ear well that's just a little 16:49 cartoonish illustration of a very real 16:53 reality that there is an evil force out 16:55 there, there is an a being named Satan, 16:57 he does command a host of fallen angels 17:01 and he certainly isn't happy that we are 17:03 discussing this and talking about what 17:05 the Bible actually says about it. Now 17:07 let's look at another passage, let's go to 17:09 Luke chapter 22 verse 3, this is a rather 17:12 frightening text and it shows one of the 17:15 goals of this fallen entity, this personality 17:19 named Satan. Luke chapter 22, verse 3 17:23 says then entered Satan into Judas, 17:27 surnamed Iscariot being of the number 17:29 of the 12. Judas was one of the disciples 17:32 of Jesus, he was in the inner circle of 17:35 Christ followers and right before he 17:37 betrayed his master with a kiss, this 17:41 verse says that he entered in to Judas 17:44 and then Judas went out, he went in to the 17:46 night, he betrayed Jesus for money, 17:49 he led the group of the Roman soldiers 17:52 and some of the temple priests to the 17:54 Garden of Gethsemane and he gave Jesus 17:56 a kiss which was the sign of betrayal to 17:59 his, to this mob and then they arrested 18:02 Jesus because Judas showed them who 18:04 the Messiah was and that this the one 18:07 that you are to arrest and take away 18:09 and eventually Jesus went through a 18:11 series of trials until he was whipped and 18:13 beaten and crucified on a cross for you and me. 18:17 And before Judas did hid deed, his 18:20 dastardly deed that has made him 18:21 infamous throughout history, the Bible 18:24 says that Satan actually entered him 18:27 and that shows us that Satan's goal is to 18:30 actually come inside of human beings, 18:34 he is an invisible being I've said often 18:36 that human beings were created as 18:38 indwell-able beings, that we have the 18:42 capacity as human beings to be indwelt 18:46 by one side or the other. And God wants 18:49 his Holy Spirit to come into our life and 18:52 Satan wants to come in himself and take 18:55 over and posses us. 18:56 So here on this angle on in Luke chapter 22, 18:59 verse 3, you see the concept of possession, 19:03 here Judas was going to betray Christ 19:06 and the Bible says that he possessed 19:08 not, that Satan possessed Judas 19:10 and then Judas went out to betray Jesus 19:12 and so you see on one hand the Christian 19:14 faith, Christ and on the other hand 19:16 you have Satan. So, these two are at 19:19 odds with one another. And so I don't 19:22 know as a young person, this is kind of 19:24 scary and so what is the alternative, 19:26 obviously we don't want to be possessed 19:28 by the other side, we don't want to betray 19:30 Christ, so is it possible for Christ to 19:33 posses us. Yes, very much so 19:36 and his possession is not like a Devil 19:38 possession, but its more of indwelling 19:40 where he comes into our lives and he 19:42 blesses us and gives us peace and love 19:44 and joy and before I finished this 19:46 program I want to illustrate this in a very 19:48 personal way through my son but before 19:50 we do that I want to show another 19:52 picture on the screen of a book written 19:56 or actually channeled by a woman 19:58 named Jane Robert that you see the 20:00 book called Seth Speaks and the voice 20:02 there says, I do not have a physical body, 20:04 yet I am writing this book. Jane Roberts 20:08 was one of the most famous mediums in 20:11 the 1960s, she was playing with the 20:12 Ouija board with her husband in 20:14 New York. In 1963 and a spirit took 20:19 control of the Ouija board and began to 20:21 talk to her and this spirit said his name 20:24 was Seth and he eventually came inside 20:27 of Jane Roberts and began to actually 20:30 dictate books and she wrote many, many 20:34 books. They are now called the Seth 20:36 material and those that have done their 20:38 homework about this it's very easily 20:40 documented that this woman truly was 20:43 possessed by some spirit from the other 20:46 side that called itself Seth. Now she 20:48 thought it was the spirit of a dead person 20:51 and it's fascinating that and I haven't 20:53 done this but I've read about it that if you 20:56 take the Seth dictated books and there is 20:58 many of them and then you compare 21:00 them to other books that Jane 21:02 Roberts herself wrote. She was also a writer 21:05 and when you compare the two books, 21:06 they are very different, the Seth dictated 21:08 books have a totally different personality 21:11 a different tone, a different flavor from 21:13 the books that Jane herself wrote and so 21:15 it's very clear that there was a being that 21:19 entered into Jane and called itself Seth. 21:21 Now, one of the fascinating things 21:23 is that most of the Seth books today have 21:26 very friendly covers, they're glowing in 21:28 there, they look nice. The first book that 21:32 came out, one of the Seth books that was 21:36 dictated by this spirit showed a picture 21:38 of Jane Roberts on the cover of it and 21:41 I've actually seen a copy of that, of that 21:44 book cover they've changed it because 21:46 it's just, it's not something that 21:48 you want to look at. But it used to be 21:51 there and we're not going to show a 21:53 picture of it, but let me just tell you that 21:55 I've seen it and on the cover is a picture 21:57 of Jane Roberts indwelt by this spirit 22:00 called Seth and her face looks absolutely 22:05 ghastly. I mean it's all contorted, her 22:08 eyes look dark, she looks like she is 22:10 almost being tortured. And a friend of 22:13 mine Tal Brooke is the president of the 22:14 spiritual counterfeit projects, who wrote 22:16 the forward to one of my books, he has 22:18 seen that cover as well and he said it 22:20 looks like something from a horror film 22:22 and it just, my point in sharing that is 22:25 that when this entity named Seth came 22:27 into Jane it made her look terrible, her 22:30 face looked awful and then when also lot 22:32 of other things have happened 22:33 in the history of Jane's experience that 22:35 are very, very frightening and I am 22:37 totally convinced without any doubt 22:39 especially based upon what I read in the 22:41 Bible that that spirit was an evil spirit 22:43 and what showed up on her face or 22:46 through her face was a reflection of 22:48 darkness and wickedness. Now, I want to show 22:51 another picture of another Seth which 22:55 hopefully will come up pretty quick, 22:56 there we go. Now there is another Seth. 23:00 That's right, there is me and my son 23:02 Seth, we there you Seth about two years 23:05 old, sitting on my shoulders, I 23:08 just, my wife's name is Kristen, our son is Seth, 23:10 we live up in Arbury, California and he 23:12 is just the joy of our lives and there is 23:13 another picture, that was a fairly recent 23:15 one and he is just as happy as can be, 23:18 we didn't name him Seth because of the 23:20 spirit that took over Jane Roberts, we 23:23 named him because in the Bible the third 23:25 son of Adam and Eve was Seth, right 23:28 and Seth means one who is appointed, 23:30 appointed by God and my point in 23:33 showing you those pictures is that 23:35 there is a vast difference. 23:39 What a contrast. What a contrast, 23:41 between what will happen to us if God's 23:43 love and his blessing and his joy is in 23:46 our lives, if the Holy Spirit is in lives as 23:49 compared to if we open ourselves up to 23:52 the forces of the Devil, when Satan came 23:54 into Judas he used him to betrayed Jesus 23:56 Christ. When the spirit calling himself 23:58 Seth came into Jane Roberts her face 24:01 looked horrible. In spite of what all these 24:04 mediums and witches and Wiccans say 24:05 today that there is no Devil, there is a 24:08 real Devil, he is out there, he is working 24:10 behind the scenes. We read in the Great 24:11 Controversy that one of his goals in the 24:14 end of time is to convince people 24:16 everywhere that he doesn't exist but that 24:19 just opens an open track, trimmed for 24:22 him to come right in to people's lives 24:24 and destroyed them And I, when I look 24:27 at the happy face of my boy I don't want 24:30 any evil influences inside of his happy 24:34 face, I only want the Holy Spirit, I want 24:36 God's love, God's goodness, God's 24:38 power and Bible truth inside of him 24:41 because that is what will make our faces 24:44 shine. And I want to finish David, 24:47 I know our time always seems to be 24:49 running out about this point, but in 24:52 Colossians chapter 1, verse 27 there is 24:55 very powerful passage about God's goal 24:57 for us. Colossians 1:27 it's called the 25:00 mystery, the Bible says to whom God 25:03 would make known what is the riches of 25:06 the glory of this mystery among the 25:09 Gentiles, and what is this mystery, it is 25:12 Christ in you, the hope of glory. When 25:16 Jesus comes into our lives through the 25:18 power of the Holy Spirit and when 25:20 angels are guarding us, all around us and 25:22 protecting us our faces are going to shine 25:25 just like Moses' face shown when he 25:27 came off the mountain, when he 25:28 received the Ten Commandments, 25:30 just like the face of my little boy is 25:32 happy, you know he is growing up in a 25:33 Christian home. He is memorizing the 25:35 Bible, he loves, he loves to talk to daddy 25:39 about scripture, he has memorized quite 25:41 a few verses and it's just, it's thrilling to 25:44 me and that's what God wants, that's 25:47 what God wants for me, that's what he 25:49 wants for you and so even though we've 25:51 talked about Satan and his real and he is 25:53 out there, we certainly must not lose our 25:56 awareness of that, we need to be on our 25:58 guard, but we don't need to be afraid 26:00 God's angels are more powerful, the 26:02 Holy Spirit is more powerful and God 26:04 wants to come in and make our faces 26:07 glow and that will, that is what will 26:09 happen to us if we open our hearts to the 26:13 love and to the goodness and to the 26:15 mercy of Jesus Christ. 26:17 Amen, and I like that illustration that 26:19 you use, one of illustration that 26:21 historical fact of Jesus while his was 26:23 tempted in the wilderness by Satan 26:25 the ammunition that he used to combat 26:28 the Devil's deception was scripture, 26:30 every answer was it was written and like 26:33 we see in Colossians chapter 1, verse 27, 26:35 that we have a mystery Christ in us, 26:38 the hope of glory. That exactly right 26:40 and I want to also clarify that in this 26:43 special series here that we are doing 26:44 that's called magic and ghosts in the 26:47 Bible. There are times when we do show 26:50 a picture on the screen, that is a book 26:53 that we certainly don't recommend, we're 26:54 simply doing this to illustrate what is 26:58 happening in our world and then to warn 27:01 people not to be mislead and not to be 27:03 deceived and to direct them away from 27:05 the darkness and to the light of God's 27:07 love and it's true if that's why we are 27:09 doing this. We are heading these issues 27:11 head on, we are talking about Wicca, 27:12 we are talking about witchcraft, we are 27:13 talking about mediums, we are talking 27:15 the occult, we are talking about these 27:17 things because they're happening all 27:18 around us and we are doing it as a 27:20 warning, as a warning to alert parents, 27:23 to guard their kids and to encourage 27:26 people to give their hearts to the one that 27:28 loves them and gave his life on the cross 27:30 and he is the only one that can heal and 27:33 fulfill and satisfy their souls. 27:36 Thank you so much Steve, this has been, 27:38 this has been a great study and very 27:40 educational for myself as well. 27:42 Well our time is quickly slipping away from us 27:44 and I'm sure that you've enjoyed the 27:46 study as much as I have and we've been 27:49 going from a Biblical perspective, 27:51 exposing some of the madness behind 27:54 the frenzy and so forth and I like to 27:56 invite you to join us again next time for 27:58 another edition of Battles of Faith, 28:01 my name is David Shin and I'm here with 28:02 Steve Wohlberg and we would like to 28:04 invite you to join us again next time and 28:07 live by every word that 28:08 proceeds from the mouth of God. |
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