Forsaking the Darkness of Halloween | 2 Corinthians 11:12-15
ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church · Carlos Montijo
October 23, 2022
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Oct 30, 2022 </span><span class="sermon-speaker"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> </span><span class="sermon-series"><a id="series-6" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/the-protestant-reformation">The Protestant Reformation</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/reformation">Reformation</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Gal%202.14%E2%80%9316;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Gal 2.14–16" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Galatians 2:14–16</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/John%205.24;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="John 5.24" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">John 5:24</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Heb%205.12;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Heb 5.12" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Hebrews 5:12</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Acts%2016.29%E2%80%9331;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Acts 16.29–31" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Acts 16:29–31</a></span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-28985" class="text 2Cor-11-12">And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.</span> <span id="en-ESV-28986" class="text 2Cor-11-13">For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.</span> <span id="en-ESV-28987" class="text 2Cor-11-14">And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.</span> <span id="en-ESV-28988" class="text 2Cor-11-15">So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. 2 Corinthians 11:12-15<br /></span></p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <h4><strong>What is Halloween? What is its Purpose?</strong></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Satanic Bible</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, published by Anton Lavey, who got most of his inspiration from Aleister Crowley, who wrote the satanic </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Book of the Law</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and inspired many famous people and artists today: “After one's own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht and Halloween (or All Hallows' Eve)” (p. 67):</span></p> <h5><strong>Birthday</strong></h5> <ul> <ul> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“THE highest of all holidays in the Satanic religion is the date of one's own birth. This is in direct contradiction to the holy of holy days of other religions, which deify a particular god who has been created in an anthropomorphic form of their own image, thereby showing that the ego is not really buried.”</span></li> </ol> </ul> </ul> <h5><strong>Walpurgisnacht</strong></h5> <ul> <ul> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“She [St. Walpurgis - or Walpurga, or Walburga] is commemorated at various times, but principally on May 1st, her day taking the place of an earlier Pagan festival. Amazingly enough, all of this rigmarole was found necessary simply to condone the continuance of the most important Pagan festival of the year - the grand climax of the </span><strong>spring equinox!” </strong></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Eve of May has been memorialized as the night that all of the demons, specters, afreets, and banshees would come forth and hold their wild revels, symbolizing the fruition of the </span><strong>spring equinox.”</strong></li> </ol> </ul> </ul> <h5><strong>Halloween</strong></h5> <ul> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Halloween - All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Day - falls on October 31st or November 1st. </span><strong>Originally, All Hallows' Eve was one of the great fire festivals of Britain at the time of the Druids. </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Scotland it was associated with the time when the spirits of the dead, the demons, witches, and sorcerers were unusually active and </span><strong>propitious</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Paradoxically, All Hallows' Eve was also the night when young people performed magical rituals to determine their future marriage partners. The youth of the villages carried on with much merry-making and sensual revelry, but the older people took great care to safeguard their homes from the evil spirits, witches, and demons who had exceptional power that night.”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Halloween is one of the most important satanic holidays of the year, which makes sense because it’s a celebration of the devil and his evil schemes</span></li> </ol> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.</p>