Witchcraft's Deception Part 7

What things do we participate in that is common to man and that does not agree with the holiness of Christ?

Deu 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart not be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and bow down to them;”

When my husband and I were bowing down to numerous other gods, we were in blatant rebellion, casting spells, making potions, seeking to enhance our “experience” with drugs and other sinful practices, we weren’t aware of the Spirit of Balaam which compromises and sells out for personal gain.  We were already sold out.  But this error of Balaam is crafty and worms its way into believer’s lives in the form of little compromises.  We might give in to peer pressure, because everyone else is doing it, we might let our children watch too much secular T.V. so we can spend more time doing what we want to do, we could be allowing our children to play games, watch movies, or read books involving magic.  We might be watching violent and sexually explicit movies, reasoning that at least we aren’t out actually doing the things we are watching.  We might pray that God would make our husbands change; we might be reading the horoscope every day in the paper.  There are many ways the enemy presents witchcraft to us repackaged to appeal to the hearts of Christians.  I’ll give a few more examples:

·         Name it and Claim it may be synonymous with casting spells. Lam 3:37, Eze 13:6

·         Repetitive prayers or prayer practices that substitute themselves for transcendental meditation and mysticism may be synonymous with incantations or mantras. Ecc 5:7, Matthew 6:7, Titus 2:1-6, Eph 6:18, 1Pe 5:8, 1Th 5:6

·         Readings done by psychics can be false prophesies. Jeremiah 23: 25-38

·         Horoscopes and fortunes may be divination. Deu 18:10

 These are just a few things we may need to be careful of in our culture today.  Here is another one.  Have you ever asked anyone if they know Jesus and if they are going to heaven, and they say, “Well, I am a good person, I have morals.”?  Morals are a substitute for Jesus Christ’s standards.  We cannot stand on our own morals.  Morals deny the power and sovereignty of our Lord.  But wait, isn’t it good to have morals?  No, it’s good to have Jesus Christ.