The Rise of Millennial Witches | Ep 216

hey guys welcome to relatable happy Monday I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend so for those of you who have missed theology Mondays you are in luck today we are going to be talking about two things that have happened one cultural trend and then one thing that a very famous atheist said and we are going to see what the Bible has to say about these things what truth has to say about these things and to analyze how we should take a look at these two phenomenon from a phenomena I think that is the plural form of that from a Christian perspective and we're not talking about the primary today you might be wondering how can you skip on something so big that just happened the reason that we're not talking about the Nevada caucus or Nevada caucus what have you affirm to that a message to me and said that I said Nevada and that was the wrong way to say it so the Nevada caucus is because I'm actually recording this the week before so as I'm recording this I don't actually know the results so 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so I want to talk about something that Richard Dawkins he is a very famous atheist something that he said on Twitter that caused a lot of uproar not just from Christians not just from conservatives but from people all across the spectrum will talk about why so he said it's one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological political moral grounds it's quite another to conclude that it wouldn't work in practice ok of course it would it works for cows horses pigs dogs and roses why on earth would net work for humans facts ignore ideology so people freaked out about this now I will say it has a twenty five thousand five hundred likes and four thousand retweets so there were some people who thought that hey this is a really good idea I'm so glad that Richard Dawkins brought this up but they did get ratio to got a ton of replies from people saying why would you say this what was the point of saying this this is totally just something that we didn't need to see today was one tweet that I that I saw and of course I agree with that but I'm actually glad I'm glad that he said this because he is saying the quiet parts out loud which is why wouldn't we what's what's wrong he doesn't say this part and I'll get to this in a minute but really for the atheists what is wrong with eugenics Oh eugenics the process of basically breeding out any kind of imperfection so breeding out any kind of disability whether it be autism whether it be you know Down syndrome spina bifida any of those things trying to create a perfect human race so people could jump higher could run faster could be smarter whatever obviously this was endorsed by Nazi Germany to try to create a perfect Aryan race and so it doesn't really have the best history but here we've got Richard Dawkins his gift to us on his Twitter was to say you know eugenics would probably work now when people freaked out and the reason why people freaked out across the ideological spectrum is because it doesn't matter what your political background is everyone knows someone with special needs everyone knows someone who is imperfect because we're all imperfect in some way and when you think about some kind of higher government power deciding who is most valuable whether it's based on race whether it's based on sex whether it's based on your IQ some kind of other cognitive ability your personality whatever it is if we get to the point to where you can even start to determine all of that kind of stuff in the womb is it possible to be able to cut out a portion of the human race that doesn't fit this arbitrary standard of perfection that some kind of bureaucratic power decides upon the reason why we freaked out is because we all know someone maybe even ourselves that probably wouldn't fit into that arbitrarily definite arbitrarily decided definition of perfection so people freaked out and people started replying and saying you know this is ablest this is bigoted this could be racist this could be sexist of course all this is true we've seen what the one-china or when the one-child policy did in China where you've had thousands and thousands and thousands of aborted babies up until the point of nine months old that's not just a you know hyperbolic scale tactic that is true you should watch the documentary one-child policy I think it's on Amazon Prime it is extremely eye-opening so we've seen the effects of at least if it's not called eugenics eugenic type thinking and eugenic type policy people don't like that whether you are on the right or the lacz whether you are a Christian or you're an atheist it kind of makes you feel icky because it is all of the things that the left says that they don't like it is condescension based on some inherent quality so the color of your skin the type of ability that you have the sexual organs that you have and the right doesn't like it for the most part because we believe at least Christian conservatives believe that human beings are made in the image of God and therefore we are inherently valuable and not just inherently valuable but inherently more valuable than any other species and so we are against the idea of eugenics we don't believe in some kind of perfect human race we don't believe that people are more valuable based on their capability based on their talent based on their cognitive ability we believe that someone who is completely physically disabled and totally mentally disabled someone who needs help to do everything physically mentally is unable to emote we believe that that person is inherently and infinitely more valuable than the most capable the winningest horse or any kind of animal that you find capable or majestic or valuable any kind of human being regardless of their capacity regardless of their capability regardless of their accomplishments the Christian believes he is inherently and infinitely more valuable than any other member of any other species however if you are an atheist although there are a lot of atheists that say what Richard Dawkins says you know that's so gross why would you even say that I'm completely morally against this here's to think and here's the point that I want to make the atheist really has no reason morally to be against this and Richard Dawkins I think knows this but he lives in this crazy constant state of contradiction and paradoxes in his mind where he pretends to be a moral person he pretends that righteousness objective righteousness exists he pretends that an objective good exist and yet he denies the existence of a standard-bearer he denies the existence of an objective moral arbiter and yet he purports that some kind of objective goodness and objective badness does exist and we see that so he was very frustrated that people were ratio in him that people were saying why would you even say this and he said for those determined to miss the point I deplored the idea of eugenic policy I simply said deploring it doesn't mean it wouldn't work just as we breathe cows to yield more milk we could breed humans to run faster jump higher but heaven forbid that we do it so he is trying to back up and say whoa whoa I'm not saying that we should do it I'm saying that we could do it that we have the capability to do it but well I'm totally morally against it first of all if that's true why even bring it up like there yes sure there are lots of things that people could do but we don't talk about it and we don't say we don't say hey just FYI everyone this morally reprehensible thing is possible but we shouldn't do it why even bring it into the conversation but he thought that this was a good enough thought not just to consider in his own mind not just to say in private conversation not to you know I don't know talk about privately in some other way or write an article down he actually thought that you know what this is good enough to tweet and to go out there and to make sure that people share and like and see thousands of times that's how highly he thought of this consideration that he held in his mind and then he realized that human beings whether Richard Dawkins wants to admit it or not are all inherently moral because we are made in the image of God and so whether or not we deny objective morality all of us as image bearers of God have this have this instinct in this when something is wrong when something is icky when something we know is corrupt or depraved and we're not even sure why that speaks to the fact that we are made in God's image that all of us have an objective morality that is buried deep inside us that God gave us that when he realized that oh yeah people reacting this way because they don't like this because they have a higher view of the human race than this he backs up and he has oh no no I know I don't think that we should do this this is know this is wrong this is wrong and here's the question why why is it wrong for Richard Dawkins who is an atheist for any atheist that is mad and Richard Dawkins saying that we should or that we could do eugenics if he said we should do eugenics why would any atheist be mad at that if you believe in evolution like if you believe that we came from the Big Bang and that that is that we are just one grand cosmic accident if you believe that human beings have no inherent value outside of our capability if you believe that we are no more important than any other animal in fact we are just animals like if you don't believe that we have souls that give us value if you don't believe that we were made in the image of God if you don't believe that there is at least at the very least a higher power that is saying this is the objective standard of right and wrong then why why do you believe that eugenics is wrong what what would be wrong with it if you believe in survival of the fittest then why not create a human race according to atheists thinking survival of the fittest thinking why not create a human race that has the best capability it's the largest capacity for success the largest capacity for health what is what is wrong with that and then that just goes to the bigger question what is morality what is a should or ssin because the fact of the matter is in the Atheist worldview there is no objective should or shouldn't beyond what you feel or beyond what advances the human race according to the atheistic thinking everything that we feel everything that exists on exist or everything that we do we do because it at one time helped our ancestors survive and carry on if that is the case what to you is wrong with eugenics not even speaking about the fact that actually there's a lot of studies that say eugenics wouldn't work with the human race because we're actually a lot more complex than an ape or some other animal but that's the question what either should what is it shouldn't what is a moral right what is a moral wrong if you do not believe that there is a moral arbiter if you do not believe a CS Lewis said in mere Christianity a grand a supreme moral lawgiver and it's funny because Richard Dawkins obviously he famously denies the existence of God and then he goes on to say that it's wrong that it's wrong that we shouldn't do eugenics with human beings well why why not why if you are an atheist why not if you don't believe that there is any inherent value and human beings beyond what they can do what would be wrong with creating a perfect human race but a theist exists in this world of paradoxes that they cannot reconcile because they are unwilling to say why they believe in a morality why they believe in a right and wrong why they believe that there is any kind of objective standard of righteousness or goodness or decency now they do they do believe in morals they do have standards as Richard Dawkins says he does think that eugenic policy is wrong but he can't tell you why um and that's the problem with a large portion of the scientific community and even the technological community is that the capability to be able to do something scientifically or technologically with technological innovation grants a lot of people in that community the license to actually do it so it's never a question of is this good for people is this good for society but can we do it and if we can do it then we will do it and so I find Richard Dawkins has an argument very weak that's his argument that we can't do it but we shouldn't do it on the basis of nothing except for feelings I just don't find that very compelling I would love for Richard Dawkins to give a good argument for why morally it is wrong to do what he is proposing we can do and not use some kind of higher standard of morality that is given by a higher standard bearer and not use that as the basis of his argument it's just impossible again if you believe that the only standard of morality is what has ever advanced humanity starting with our ancestors - now then you're gonna have to answer that question what's what's the reason I actually had an atheist reach out to me not that long ago and she's like eh he was like you know I am an atheist I'm kind of an agnostic and I've pondered this question forever of where I get morality why I believe some things are right and some things are wrong and I don't know I just kind of feel it to me that takes so much more faith I mean atheists laughing Christians all the time for having the belief in the things that we do or they laugh at anyone who believes in God and just says oh that's you know I get this a lot oh just your sky daddy which is just a funny phrase and you just believe in this fairy tell the tale book and this fiction well you your beliefs honestly take a lot more faith than mind you now I don't know if that's objectively true but it takes faith it takes faith to believe in a theistic worldview that we're all just doing everything that we're doing for a basic survival and based on feeling I don't believe that I believe that we were all made in the image of God and therefore we've all got the same instinct for morality and there's all all the same instinct against the things that God calls bad now we are sinful human beings we are fallen human beings and so we resist that and without Christ we are dead in our sin and so we don't know which way is up that's how you get someone like Richard Dawkins purporting this kind of stuff and the other crazy things that he puts for it but I think that that is a much more much more formidable idea than the idea that we're just all kind of moving along by some accidents and figuring out morality as we go I think that's just a little a little bit too far-fetched for me but this is the nature of godlessness the nature of godlessness is confusion thankfully according to you the Bible Christians serve a guide of peace not a God of confusion and without God you constantly see confusion you constantly you constantly see contradictions and we're going to talk about another contradiction that we see and another symptom of godlessness in our society in 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like you know steamy cauldron and they're putting I don't know chicken feet and sawed-off fingers into it and casting spells from a spell book from 1482 that's not what witchcraft looks like today it looks a lot trendier it looks a lot prettier it looks a lot lighter and looks a lot more fun it looks like a bunch of celebrities that we really admire circling up and setting their intentions for the year and if you're thinking oh that's not witchcraft at all you are just being dramatic well I want to read to you from an article this is the reason why I'm talking about this from the Atlantic titled why is witchcraft on the rise so we are going to kind of analyze that article and talk about what it says about witchcraft what it says about our society what it says about godless is and then what the Bible has to say about all this stuff because I think a lot of us we're just kind of waiting through culture and letting culture happen to us we're letting in society evangelize to us we're letting society share its gospel with us and before we know it we find ourselves accepting these things without even realizing it like we don't you know say the prayer that society wants us to say and and walk down the aisle that society wants us to walk down and accept society as our Lord and Savior we don't do that in an obvious way or in a deliberate way or even all at once but over time it's like the frog in the boiling water we start to believe the things that society is telling us that certainly is what has happened with the whole self love culture with the whole trendy narcissism culture is what I call it that Christians have sorry to believe the gospel of self that is being propagated by the world and we have started sounding like the world rather than the world sounding like us so when you see churches talk about oh you are enough you just need to love yourself before you can love other people if that sounds if that sounds suspiciously like every secular non-christian artist and non-christian you know outlet resource that you know that you read that you follow that's because the church unfortunately has been evangelized to by the world for so long that we have started sounding like the world and so as Christians it is our obligation it's our responsibility it is our privilege it's our right to push back against that with truth and truth that is so much better than all of that self-love crap sorry if you didn't want your kids to hear that word that's exactly what it is it's trash so I want to talk about how witchcraft being on the rice is actually connected to the gospel of self this world of trendy narcissism that is so popular that is so pervasive in a roll today and you might be thinking no no no ally at least self love is pure it is the culture of self love is about motivation it's about taking charge of your life at least it works witchcraft is is dark it's of Satan it's not the same at all well remember what we've talked about on this podcast is that there's no such thing as neutral ground there's no such thing as neutral ground so Ephesians 2 says that Satan is the Prince of the power of the air he has real power here on earth and even though we as Christians know that he who is in us is greater than it then he who is in the world Satan does have real power and so there's no such thing Satan would like us to believe that there is neutral ground that okay some of the things that aren't biblical that the world says they're not necessarily wrong they're not necessarily sinful they're not necessarily bad they're just neutral we can just take them it I think self-love falls into that it might not be biblical the Bible might not tell us to love ourselves but no it's not satanic it's from hell it's not demonic it's not that it's just neutral well again like the frog in the pot of boiling water we just start to accept all the neutral stuff until we are full blown into the world and we sound exactly like every non-christian friend that you've got talking about how much we love ourselves and how we can save ourselves and all of that absolute madness and here you get witchcraft okay so if you don't think that witchcraft has become trendy if you think I'm exaggerating I'll give you some examples so it's big it's become really cool to call yourself a witch so creating altars burning sage astrology yes that is part of this casting spells they've all become something that young girls have gravitated toward as a form of rebellion as a form of self empowerment it is very intertwined with feminism the history of witchcraft you can read that anywhere is very intertwined with female rebellion Cosmo published an article a couple years ago titled influencer which is of Instagram these are women on Instagram who have hundreds of thousands of followers teaching people to be which is commercializing witchcraft and so offering their services for some sort of payment young women who young women on Instagram they they claim that they can help you cast spells manifest your intentions now that's something that you've probably heard from people who don't claim to be witches a read your future help you understand your zodiac signs your birth charts how to cleanse your space it sounds like witchcraft is identical to all the New Age stuff that your friend from spin classes into that's because it is so here are three recent articles published by Teen Vogue love spells and the basics of love magic how to do magic in other questions you might have about being a witch a witches guide to the new year practical magic 2020 here's one in Cosmo how to date a witch now interestingly all of these articles that I just listed and I just kind of went through looking for recent witch in witchcraft articles all of these articles are written by the same person her name is Lisa Stardust I'm going to go out on a lens it's probably not her real name but that is what she goes by here's what she says in her Cosmo article my parents were New Age junkies and our bookshelves were filled with bright and glossy iridescent tomes about astrology meditation crystals and ways to use spices to boost magical vibes with titles like the Complete Book of magic and witchcraft crystals and healing in astral projection I don't even know what that is but before this sentence she says I guess I was born which she and the reason why she believes that she was born which she and born into a witchy family is for the reasons that she lists so from a witch she is saying that there is a connection between witchcraft and New Age meditation astrology crystals the using of spices to boost magical vibes okay and so this is not just me saying that there's a connection between all the new-age self empowered self centered self focused stuff that we see in witchcraft this is coming from a self-proclaimed witch herself so I just wanted to I just want you to hear the words of witch making that connection the episode that I did with Doreen Virtue a couple weeks ago about the dangers of the New Age it's extremely pertinent to the conversation that we're having today if you have not listened to that I highly recommend that you do it's actually the most listened to episode totally been out a couple weeks the most listened to episode of relatable dangers at the new way too with Doreen Virtue the reason why it's the most listened to is because it is so relevant to everything that's going on in the lives of young women everything that's going on in social media and pop culture I highly recommend you go listen to that whether you're young woman yourself or whether you've got a daughter a sister a friend that you think that it would be relevant to I really recommend it I came across the article like I said in the Atlantic which really made me start thinking about all of this why is witchcraft on the rise and I found it fascinating so we're gonna go through that now and why it matters to us and what the Bible has to tell us about all of it so this article is by Bianca Bhaskar so she's talking to this witch influencer and someone who makes hundreds of thousands of dollars apparently selling her which he services this is what the article says Diaz cells and we need oils an intention infused body products in her online store instructs more than eighty nine hundred witches enrolled in her online school leads witchy workshops that promise to leave attendees feeling magical AF in 2018 Diaz the author of the best-selling book witchery embraced the witch within earned more than half a million dollars from her magic work so what does that tell us that tells us that witchcraft is lucrative but for but over the past few years witchcraft is what the article says long viewed with suspicion and even hostility it's so funny the attitude of this article like all the people that are angry at witchcraft are in the wrong has transmuted into mainstream phenomenon so what we see here is that is it is pervasive witchcraft is not just lucrative but it's also pervasive 2014 Pew Research Center report suggested that the United States adult population of pigment and Wiccans was about 730,000 on par with the number of Unitarians I wonder if there's any crossover there these days Diaz told me everyone calls themself a witch which is so true there are so many young women who think it's cool to call themselves a witch so not only is it lucrative not only is it pervasive it's also popular and it that's a little bit different than pervasive so it's trendy in that all of the cool people nowadays are calling themselves a witch she said being a witch this Diaz person said being a witch is listen to this an embodiment of her truth in all its power that's how this self-proclaimed which describes what being a witch is so that's the second witch that we have heard reiterate a phrase from this world of self-help and self-love in self focus that is we wouldn't automatically identify as being witchcraft but this is what she says being a witch is an embodiment of her truth in all its power how many well-meaning fitness gurus lifestyle bloggers motivational authors even Christian teachers do you hear saying things that reflect directly what this witch is saying being a witch is she said among other magic practitioners which might embody a religious affiliation a political act a wellness regimen hot new loop or some combination of the above the instagrams raining which influenced her this article says Bri Luna has more than forty to fifty thousand followers has collaborated with coach with her finery twenty nine in Smashbox for which she recently introduced a line of cosmetics inspired by the transformative quality of crystals now something that Doreen Virtue na said and we pointed out the same thing as essential oils Christos oils God made both there is nothing inherently wrong with crystals there's nothing inherently wrong with oils oils might have some kind of calming effect on your life and you know that's all good you might like the smell of it whatever that's fine God made these things they're not impure in and of themselves but using them for some kind of healing power of course we know that is paganism that is idolatry that's some sort of pantheism thinking that God is in everything and everyone that of course is not a biblical perspective you can go to Sephora by the way there is a witch like startup kit where you can buy I don't even know what it is sage crystals oils different kinds of things to manifest your intention so this stuff is very commercialized it is lucrative it is pervasive it is popular it is commercialized all of those things kind of ties together so just in case you doubted that this is mainstream doubt no more it is if you are a mother and you your daughter is on social media she's in the age where she could be influenced by this stuff just make sure that you're paying attention and just be aware of the fact that the stores that you go to that the accounts that you follow that the celebrities that you like or that she likes they are going to try to one in one way or another whether it's through the elevation of the self or outright witchcraft they are going to try to influence her influence her in this way the the article also talks about the wick of faith and I think it's interesting that it refers to it as a faith this is something that does require an amount of faith an amount of belief in absolute lunacy the belief in witchcraft is so widespread and so enduring that one historian speculates it's innate to being human that's what this article says and I would say that's true I would say our fallen nature seeks to distort what God has made a desire for him so he God made us to need something higher than our self to need a power that's higher than our self to be and not enough inherently to desire help to desire salvation to desire some kind of power to desire some kind of refuge and we can only find that reliably in him we can only find that ultimately in him but when we reject God because we hate God that's what enemies of God do everyone who is not in Christ is an enemy of God and whether they say it or not they hate God because they are in enmity with God which is what the Bible says then they are going to look towards another power in order to help them that is what we are created to do so this article is correct this historian is correct it is an eighth witchcraft isn't a it's just a distortion of god-given desire for something higher than ourselves this is also important for us to note that this includes so the latest witch Renaissance coincides with a growing fascination with astrology with crystals with tarot cards which like magic practitioners consider ways to tap into unseen unconditional unconventional sources of power which of course that is exactly what it's about what we just said to tap into unseen sources of power astrology guys is not something that Christians should ever be a part of like you don't need to know your zodiac sign I'm sure we all do know our zodiac signs I remember when I was little I didn't know you know the Immy if this stuff was bad and I was like oh I'm an Aquarius it's so exciting but I remember my mom telling me at some point that that's not something that we that we care about that's not something that we've read about that's not something that we're fascinated by Christianity and astrology does not go hand in hand they cannot coincide their completely perfect perpendicular to one another if we see this in an article about witchcraft over and over again that astrology your birth chart all of that stuff your zodiac sign which I guess is within all of that if we see that perpetually as being claimed by witches it should at least make us take a step back and say hmm maybe this isn't something that I should be a part of any time you go to anything other than God for power for self understanding for healing now that's not to say that God can't give us medicine or God hasn't allowed medicine to be invented of course these things can be gifts of common grace but when we go to something outside of biblical Christianity when we go to something outside of God and the things that are he has given us for their intended purpose we end up with idolatry that's exactly what astrology is you're looking for some kind of power you're looking for some kind of direction you're looking for some kind of wisdom some kind of insight some kind of self understanding that is meant to be found in God all of the things that we truly seek ultimately underneath them all as a desire for God a desire for true salvation for true wisdom for true Direction for true purpose for true meaning to truly be filled we are going to false idols like astrology to find those things and you'll notice that people who are obsessed with astrology they're very unsatisfied like they're constantly looking at new Australia posts like they're constantly looking at new insights they're constantly trying to find a way to fit this zodiac reading that really doesn't align with their personality at all like really doesn't align with their life at all they're trying to constantly find a way to make it fit in to their life so they can keep putting their faith in it because again we are made to put our faith in something and it feels more tangible to them if you more like they're able to control it and astrology is all about you it's all about why you're special it's all about your life this is another reason why witchcraft is so popular because it's about you empowering you freeing you and the Bible Christianity is not about that it is about denying yourself taking up your cross and following Christ as flow pians too says it is looking at others as more important than we look at ourselves honoring others more than we honor ourselves the helping others at our own expense and that is the opposite of what something like witchcraft is for witchcraft is all about what can how can you reign the powers of darkness in to help you to manifest the successes that you want and if you are thinking wow that kind of sounds a lot like the prosperity gospel that's because it is there was a really interesting article in in out Lee called the American interest and it talked about AOC and AOC releasing her birth chart so let me read this more importantly however ALCS gambit taps into the way so she tweeted out her birth chart that's the context taps into the way in which progressive Millennials have appropriated the rhetoric imagery and rituals of what was once called the New Age from astrology to witchcraft so again we see a strategy associated with witchcraft as both a political and spiritual statement of identity for an increasing number of left-leaning Millennials more and more of whom do not belong to any organized religion occult spirituality isn't just a form of personal practice self-care with more sage rather it's a metaphysical canvas for the American culture wars in the post trump era pitting the self-identified Davids of seemingly secular progressivism against the goliath of nationalist evangelical christianity so this really creates an intersection of all of the things that we talk about now this is not to say that everyone on the left everyone who's a Democrat everyone who is anti Trump is engaged in witchcraft I'm not saying that but this is why it matters for Christians to care about politics this is why it for Christians to have a holistic worldview why it matters for us to care about what's going on in culture and why we should allow the Bible to inform all of these things because they are connected they're always connected our worldview how we view God how we view the self it affects everything we believe including politics so let me let me read that again so for an increasing number of left-leaning Millennials many of whom do not belong to any organized religion a cult spirituality a cult spirituality isn't just a form of personal practice self care with more sage it is a metaphysical campus for the American culture wars in the post trump era pitting the David of secular progressivism against the Goliath of nationalist evangelical Christianity as an aesthetic as a spiritual practice this article says and as a communal ideology contemporary millennial which culture defines itself as the cosmic counterbalance to trumpian evangelicalism isn't that interesting progressive occultism the language of witches and demons of spells and sage of cleansing and bad energy of stars and signs has become the de-facto religion of millennial progresses the metaphysical simple set threaded through the worldly ethos of modern social justice activism I mean this is just everything we talked about in this podcast it's rise parallels the rise of religious nun sets in O in ES which we've also discussed on this podcast and with them a model of spiritual religious practice that's at once instant in intuitional and atomized Marie Claire's this is how real-life resistance which is say they're taking down the patriarchy and broadly is how the socialist feminist of which use magic to fight capitalism proving proves exactly what this article in American interest is talking about this stuff is connected to politics it's connected to the godlessness that we see rising among Millennials it's connected to the SJW movement that we see that is so prevalent in Millennials it is this glorification of self it has to do with the entitlement that a lot of young millennia see it has to do with the trust in the government rather than God that we see among Millennials this is whether you want to call it witchcraft or not it's just the effect of godlessness that we are always looking to put our faith in something and people feel that they can put their faith in magic and that it's going to help them manifest the successes in their lives this is also something that we see with Jennifer Aniston she talked to the New York Times about a goddess circled that she's been doing for thirty years that it's some kind of spiritual routine that she'll probably see across your Instagram with a lot of celebrity influencers that you know you sit in a goddess circle and you're supposed to manifest some sort of magic you've got sage burning you've got all these kinds of rituals that are supposed to manifest the success in your life and of course Jen Aniston might say that this has been very effective for her she obviously has a lot of success a lot of money but it doesn't matter whether or not the stuff is effective which by the way it might actually work because Satan is real and demons are real and the power of Darkness is real and so people might get the things that they are manifesting people might get the things that they have set intentions for they might get the things that they did a candle service for or read tarot cards for I mean Satan is very real and he very much works and he might give people the things that they cast spells for or whatever or used witchcraft for in order to get them to keep following him but guess what all the stuff leads to help it leads to help forever and so yes it might attract some people it might give you some success for a little bit it might be effective for a little bit but the place where it leads is not a place where any of us want to go and so this is not neutral ground this is not something that Christians ignore this is not something that we say is just harmless we say this is a path that leads to eternity in Hell in a place where no one wants to go a place where we don't want any of our friends to go the people that we love to go it doesn't matter if people are happy with it now people say well it's happy it makes me happy or it works or I've been successful I've manifested these things it doesn't matter whether it's done these things the fact of the matter is is that it can't save you and in fact damn zeal it's not that this in particular dams you it's that your lack of faith in Christ which has led to these things condemns all of us this is what the Bible has to say about witchcraft Deuteronomy 18 9 through 12 says when you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nation's there let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire so against child sacrifice that's good by the way let me just say in Uganda where witchcraft unfortunately is very pervasive they have had a terrible academic of child sacrifice they there's been a very stark uptick a very sharp uptick and child sacrifice in Uganda over the past 10 to 20 years because of these witch doctors that come through in villages and say you know we'll pay you X amount if you sacrifice your child to us and so they literally take these children they kill them rip their hearts out well maybe I shouldn't get too graphic sorry if you need to turn this off you've got kids in the car but it's probably too late for that cut their limbs off cut their genitalia off and they offer it to whatever gods they think they're worshiping as a form of witchcraft because they think it's going to give them good luck or power and that's obviously not working out very well for them but working out very well for these evil witch doctors who are making money off of all of this so this is the god of the universe telling his people thousands of years ago we're not supposed to do that stuff that's still going on right now so no one should sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire and there should be no one who practices divination or sorcery no one who interprets omens no one who engages in witchcraft or cast spells or who is a medium or a spiritus or who consults the dead anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord so even though Christians don't fall follow all of the cleansing laws that God has in the Old Testament we still follow his moral laws we can still look at the principles that heal that he put forth for his people in the Old Testament and say that's the same God that's the same desire that he has it's the same principle today as it's ever been God doesn't want us to have anything to do with witchcraft Exodus 22 18 you shall not permit a sorceress to live so is a death penalty for people who practice witchcraft Leviticus 20 27 a man or a woman who was a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death they shall be stoned with stones their blood shall be upon them 1st chronicles 10:13 so Saul died for his breach of faith he broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord and also consulted a medium seeking guidance so Colossians 5:16 24 says this so this is the New Testament now talking about all the things that God has that God has been saying since the beginning that we should have no part in the unfruitful works of darkness the New Testament reiterates this Colossians 5 16 through 24 but I say walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh for the desires of the flesh are against the spirit and the desires of the spirit are against the flesh for these are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things you want to do but if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law now the works of the flesh here we go now the works of the flesh are evident sexual immorality impurity sensuality idolatry sorcery enmity strife jealousy fits of anger rivalries dissensions divisions Envy drunkenness orgies and things like these I warn you as I learned you before that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God but the fruit of the Spirit and this is the verse that most of us know the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control against such things there is no law and those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires so typically we just extricate verses 22 through 23 say these are the fruit of the Spirit and we don't pay any attention to the stuff around it equally as important maybe not equally it's important but very comparably important as important to the fruit of the Spirit are the fruit of the flesh the fruits of darkness which is idolatry sorcery enmity strife jealous fits of anger all of these things and witchcraft being sorcery is included in all of that and so if you are of the flesh Paul is saying the Holy Spirit through Paul you are going to have an affinity for the works of darkness you are going to have an affinity for things like sorcery an affinity for things like witchcraft so if you are a Christian who is taking part of any of this stuff you need to ask God to give you the power to repent and you need to have nothing to do with it nothing to do with astrology nothing to do with mediums nothing to do with tarot cards nothing to do with ascribing power to crystals ascribing power to oils that are not inherently there that God did not intend and any other thing any of us may be doing and I'm evaluating my own life anything that we are doing that is giving power to things are giving power to the self in a way that God did not intend the through line through the New Age through the self empowerment self-love stuff that we are hearing by people who do not purport to be witches the through line between witchcraft new-age self-help self-love self-care that's not to say that getting your nails done is bad people always ask me about that but the empowerment of the self the focus on the self the similarity between witchcraft in that and the New Age the way that all comes together the through line is the self anything that empowers the self that tries to elevate the self to the place of God whether it's through sorcery and witchcraft and mediums and tarot cards and these intention setting candle ceremonies whatever they are or any kind of motivational mantra that tells you to believe in yourself to save yourself to discover yourself to fulfill yourself the through line is the self in that is Satan's lie and it has been the lie since the very beginning that is the same lie that he gave to Eve in the Garden of Eden don't submit to God submit to yourself and you will be like God and he was partially right Satan is always partially right by the way Satan it's always partially telling you the truth Eve did become like God and knowing good and evil but the consequence of her sin was suffering and physical death and in elevating the self whether through a traditional self-help or female empowerment or out great witchcraft you might find success you might lose weight you may get in a relationship but that way is the wide gate that leads to a place that none of us want to go so Satan saying the same lie that he always had since the very beginning shows that he is coming but he's not creative he is insistent but he is not innovative he has the same lie rest up in a million different ways some seeming more neutral and some seeming darker than others that we as Christians are obligated through the wisdom of God to be able to point out and to resist with all of the strength the Holy Spirit can give us read Ephesians pick the six and see the armour of God he gives us through Christ to be able to fight these battles again there is no neutral ground the time has come and gone for Christians to be able to accept mainstream messages as having any sort of redeeming value and then and the time has come and gone for us to be able to not pay attention the time is come and gone for us to be apathetic we have to care we have to pay attention we have to know our Bibles and we have to be able to confront these cultural messages with the truth of God so I don't think that we should constantly be looking at the world of witchcraft and we should constantly be observing the works of darkness that are happening in the rest of the world I think frankly all we need to do is to know our Bibles to pray hard to be aware of these things to be as innocent as doves to be as a cunning as a serpent in that to be as knowledgeable or to be as knowing to be as perceptive as what the Bible says a serpent is like so that's our responsibility as Christians to know that this stuff is going on to not worry about it because like I said earlier he who was in us is greater than he who is in the world and we know that Jesus is going to defeat Satan once and for all that he is going to rule a perfect peace forever that we don't have anxiety about any of this stuff we don't need to have fear about any of this stuff because we have the power of Christ within us and because of that we are enslaved to righteousness we are empowered to do righteousness we are ambassadors of Christ we are the aroma of Christ we are givers of light so we don't need to worry about this stuff but we do need to be aware that it's happening we do need to fight darkness with the light that Christ has given us and we need to make sure that we are not being apathetic and we are not being complacent and we are not the frog in the boiling water accepting the messages of self-empowerment not realizing that it's just a witchcraft like lie from the pits of hell so that was a really long podcast I should have just done the witchcraft stuff but you just never know how long I'm gonna go okay that's all I have today I'll be back here on Wednesday I'll see you guys then [Music]

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Length: 54min 29sec (3269 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 24 2020