The Christian And The Devil#130

Efforts are made to display the occult as innocent and friendly. Our children are encouraged to follow the lives of mystical characters that perform magic and cast spells. Astrology is a big business. Our daily newspapers always carry the horoscopes. Now perhaps following your horoscope and children pretending they are wizards seem innocent enough. But they are only a step away from deeper involvement in the occult. More than one person has attempted to communicate with the dead. Bereaved parents and lonely widows are particularly vulnerable to such practices. But the Bible warns against these things. "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who used divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead" (Deuteronomy 18:10-11). Why was God so emphatic? There is only one reason. The practices of the occult are a deception of God's enemy, the devil. The apostle Paul was very forthright with a magician who opposed him, "You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil" (Acts 13:10). Don't follow the devil. It may seem like a game right now. But the followers of the devil will be excluded from God's heaven. That's just what the devil wants. He wants you. Turn to God through Jesus Christ. Christ came into the world "that He might destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8).

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