30/10/2024
PART 3 OF 3 - HALLOWEEN - TO DO OR NOT TO DO?
LAST CALL...
Don’t be the one to mislead others!
Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but WOE TO ANYONE THROUGH WHOM THEY COME. It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble”, Luke 17:1-2. This covers so many things my friends. Here Jesus was talking about Judas who was about to betray Him. Jesus was acknowledging that His time for suffering and paying for our sins was coming but He feels really sorry for the one who will be the one to trigger the process.
See, people often ask, ‘if all the things Jesus was going to go through was predicted in the old testament, then its not Judas' fault that he betrayed Jesus because he was destined to do that’. That’s not true – the ‘destined’ bit. The fact that everything that has happened and is to happen, has been laid down in the Bible, it does not mean people who will do it is also written and decided – No. See, like everyone else, Judas had the ‘free will’ to choose whether or not to betray Jesus. It could have been any one of the other eleven apostles or disciples that were following them. But Judas proved to be weak. He had deceit in him. So when an opportunity – a big opportunity – to make money came, he took it!
Many things are predicted to happen but who will give in to the greed and temptations of this world, we don’t know. But one thing is certain that someone will definitely choose evil. The way the world is headed, we know things will get worse. So of course God knows the end from the beginning which is why He worked out a strategy well in time to save His people – Salvation through Jesus Christ. He sent Jesus Christ to make remission for our sins – past, present and future. Imagine the extent of those sins that God saw no other way but to shed His own blood to save us.
Our sins today don’t even scratch the surface of what we humans are about to do in the coming years, much worse and unimaginable. But thank God for the awesome gift of His son Jesus Christ, those of us who will believe in Him will for sure be saved.
But here’s the thing. I put up some facts about halloween the other day and many of you read it. Some of immediately chose to believe and take the tough decision not to get involved in it anymore. Congratulations because you chose not to be the cause of misleading others like your children, wife, husband, siblings etc) - you are the cause of saving them and their souls above all.
But then there are others who are reading or have read, and will or have decided to stick to their guns of 'doing halloween'. Not because they are bad people, of course not. Its because they cannot handle the pressure of their peers. People who expect them to participate or to throw the best halloween party ever and in fact beat the last one they did, that pressure is apparently more than the the pressure of hurting their Saviour who gave His life in a brutal death for them!
They’ve got this pressure of breaking their own record and doing even better (or worse) this year. So they are going ahead with their craziness and splashing out on putting up the best scary masks, and decorations inside and outside their homes, not forgetting their own black witch dress and hat lol. Question is,’ for what?’ Just so people would applaud them for ‘such a great party’!
Two things going on here….you who are not just hosting a very demonic thing, you are also the ‘cause’ of misleading others! Yes. You’re enticing them with great food, much laughter and musical entertainment – just like the devil does to us!
My friends, see what Jesus says about those who will be the stumbling block to others, ‘WOE TO ANYONE THROUGH WHOM THEY COME. It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble”.
Someone said, 'Oh it’s a once in a year thing and makes everyone forget their worries’. Wow! And that’s your reason for giving in? That couldn’t be more sadder. A momentary joy? Do you even realise that that momentary joy will never fill the vacuum you have inside of you? That fake laughter, loud noise called music, and forged loyalties of one night, will cause you the true joy that is available to you in choosing Christ?
Beware, if you participate in this, you will have strengthened the hold of the enemy upon your life and when things get worse and sicknesses take over, debts and lack begins to increase, those skulls and bones will be of no use to you. I know that many of you have been led to go to witch- doctors and fortune tellers etc but how has that ever worked for you? You might even think it did, but it really didn’t.
So this is a last call to all of you to STOP glamorising this cultic ritual called halloween, instead help others see the truth and let the truth set them free. ‘So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:31-32.
Listen, I have not put these messages up to condemn you or make you guys, my friends, feel guilty or convicted. In fact it is to guide you away from the darkness you are walking into. It is to say to you that you can return to God now, and He will forgive everything and bless your life here and in the ever after. That is the Good News!.
I was ignorant too once upon a time my friends. See God said in Hosea 4:6, ‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge,’ See when the Apostles Paul and Barnabas went round preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, many rejected them and they said to them, ‘Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and declared, "It was necessary that we first preach the word of God to you Jews. But since you have rejected it and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we will offer it to the Gentiles’ Acts 13:46.
My friends , don’t you go rejecting Jesus Christ today. Don’t you go sentencing yourselves to eternal life in hell. Committing a sin purposely, knowing full well that it is wrong, is quite serious. Repent now and turn away from this demonic act. Who knows whether you'll even live long enough to repent and save your souls. Today is your chance. Now if your heart is not hardened towards God, I know you will listen to Him.
I was going to say that I wasn't planning to to go on about Halloween, but actually I was - all because I love you guys!
As I've said before, the Holy Spirit just takes over my hand and types away! I adore Him and I worship Him. There is none like my God. There is no God but Him. And if you want a piece of what I have then make Jesus your Lord and Saviour because He is the only Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to God except through Him. There is only ONE way. That’s’ why it’s a narrow way because not many of you will take it.
Be courageous today in Jesus' Name.
