Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1257 ｜ Demonic or Christian？ How Believers Should Approach Halloween

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00:01:53.320 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.

00:02:03.680 Happy Wednesday.

00:02:05.020 Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.

00:02:07.720 Today, we are going to talk about Halloween.

00:02:10.060 This is a question that I get all the time, every year.

00:02:13.280 How should Christians think about Halloween?

00:02:15.160 There are a lot of competing opinions and narratives about whether Halloween is a pagan ritual

00:02:22.100 that Christians should have no part of, or if there is a way to redeem Halloween, or is

00:02:29.400 Halloween actually Christian in origin?

00:02:32.060 And we have talked about this, I think, every year probably that Relatable has been around.

00:02:37.400 It was last year, I believe, that we talked to the guys from Cultish, and they study this

00:02:43.420 kind of thing, talk about it a lot.

00:02:45.240 And so we talked about these different competing narratives, and I just want to give you a summary

00:02:50.160 of not only the history of Halloween, but also my perspective on it and what the Bible

00:02:56.060 says about it.

00:02:56.960 Also, we're going to talk about satanic ritual abuse, how Satanists view this day, and how

00:03:02.680 this might inform the Christian perspective on Halloween.

00:03:05.860 So let me play you some of the conversations going on on TikTok, some opinions that are

00:03:11.500 out there that might have even informed your opinion on Halloween.

00:03:15.340 Here's top one.

00:03:16.560 Don't stop supporting Halloween.

00:03:18.400 Like, I shouldn't even have to say this as a Christian or a follower of Christ, but that

00:03:23.260 just shows how many people are not in their word and can't recognize witchcraft for what

00:03:27.380 it is.

00:03:28.000 So I challenge you guys to get in your word and ask the Lord to reveal to you what Halloween

00:03:32.980 truly is and how it's demonic, because y'all see these angels of death and all these skeletons

00:03:37.500 and all this, and y'all just think it's for fall.

00:03:39.840 That's not, no, fall is pumpkins and leaves, and no, that's not fall.

00:03:46.400 It's witchcraft.

00:03:48.000 Well, she's absolutely right that the Bible prohibits witchcraft.

00:03:51.480 I've actually talked to people who identify as Christians who tell me that they can be a

00:03:55.480 Christian witch.

00:03:56.980 Well, that's like saying you can be a Christian atheist.

00:03:59.320 Practicing witchcraft and sorcery was punishable by death in the Old Testament, and that's

00:04:04.840 not to say that we have to have the same punishment today here in the United States, but Jesus Christ

00:04:10.260 is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13, 8.

00:04:13.460 So how God felt about sin in the Old Testament is the same way that he feels about sin today,

00:04:19.520 and the severity of trying to channel power through demonic forces and through the dead,

00:04:28.440 using mediums to communicate to the dead.

00:04:32.240 God still prohibits that for Christians today.

00:04:34.800 That is a form of idolatry, and it is massing with a very real power that we don't want to

00:04:40.280 mess with today.

00:04:41.280 So I agree with her that Christians should have nothing to do with witchcraft.

00:04:44.760 I agree with a lot of what she says there, that Deuteronomy passage that you saw there

00:04:48.800 on the screen, if you're watching this, references the evils of witchcraft and that kind of demonic

00:04:55.720 activity.

00:04:58.060 However, the debate still stands of whether Halloween always and perpetually represents

00:05:04.480 those things and whether or not Christians can play any part in it at all.

00:05:09.320 Here is another TikToker articulating this position, Sot2.

00:05:13.000 I don't know why people still celebrate Halloween.

00:05:15.840 It's widely known that it has demonic origins.

00:05:18.280 Why are you dressing your little children up as demons and devils and thinking that's

00:05:21.920 okay?

00:05:22.680 Then on top of that, you teach children in schools to stay away from strangers who try

00:05:26.280 to give you candy.

00:05:27.260 But on Halloween, you let them go door to door to strangers' house to get candy.

00:05:30.980 You are confusing your kids.

00:05:32.880 Honestly, we should throw away the concept of Halloween.

00:05:35.520 Nothing about it is holy, and nothing about it is meant for children.

00:05:38.240 Don't blame me.

00:05:39.080 It's science.

00:05:39.540 So on that confusion piece, because I think that's a fair thing to explore, we've got another

00:05:45.300 mom who is like, you know, I think that this kind of gives conflicting messages to our kids,

00:05:50.080 and this probably represents maybe what a lot of you feel.

00:05:53.300 Sot3.

00:05:53.620 All right, I think I'm finally on board with thinking Halloween is demonic, and we're done

00:06:00.860 celebrating.

00:06:02.560 After enough prayer and research, and I've heard enough, okay, we're not celebrating, okay?

00:06:10.400 That being said, I do feel like there is a place for like, trunk or treats, or like, letting

00:06:18.880 them dress up, or have treats, but for fun, I don't, I don't know what that looks like yet.

00:06:29.020 But I feel like there's a place probably for something like that.

00:06:32.460 I'm sure that that is how a lot of you feel, and I think that that is kind of a fair feeling

00:06:39.100 to have, that tension of, I want my kids to be able to have fun, but I don't want to

00:06:43.300 celebrate a day that is demonic.

00:06:45.480 So here's the question.

00:06:47.040 Is Halloween demonic?

00:06:48.240 Does it have exclusively pagan and demonic origins?

00:06:52.140 So as I said, there are varying narratives and opinions on this.

00:06:55.460 I thought Desiring God, John Piper's ministry did a good job of summarizing what is believed

00:07:01.580 to be the history of Halloween.

00:07:04.120 So here's what this article says.

00:07:05.800 The origin of Halloween is a bit murky, but it likely has its oldest roots in ancient pagan

00:07:10.800 Celtic festival of Samhain.

00:07:12.820 So that's spelled Samhain, but in Celtic, it's pronounced Samhain when the Celts of Ireland,

00:07:18.460 Britain, and Northern France celebrated the end of harvest at the beginning of their new

00:07:22.400 year on November 1st.

00:07:24.120 They believed that on the last night of the year, of their harvest year, October 31st,

00:07:29.820 the spirits of the dead would haunt the living.

00:07:32.200 So they would leave food and wine on their doorsteps to appease and ward off spirits.

00:07:36.940 If they had to leave the house, they would wear masks to fool the ghouls.

00:07:41.040 In the 9th century, Pope Gregory moved All Saints Day, this was a Catholic holiday, from May 13th

00:07:48.160 to November 1st.

00:07:49.600 We don't know why, but it is believed that maybe his purpose was to subsume the Celts'

00:07:55.600 Samhain festival.

00:07:57.740 And this, of course, it's believed that it succeeded in doing that.

00:08:02.920 In the Middle Ages, vigils were commonly held the night before high church feast days.

00:08:07.220 So it was natural that one be held on the eve of All Saints Day, which would be, of course,

00:08:12.800 October 31st.

00:08:14.000 And this became known as All Hallows' Eve.

00:08:17.520 Hallowsis or hellosis in Old English.

00:08:20.780 That is the Old English word for saints.

00:08:24.180 Or as the Scots pronounced it, Halloween.

00:08:26.880 So young people dressed up in costumes for fun on Halloween that emerged in the 16th century

00:08:33.280 Britain.

00:08:33.980 That was also called guising, kind of like disguising.

00:08:38.920 These, it says this article said, these fun lovers would go house to house singing, reciting

00:08:43.560 poems or telling jokes in exchange for treats.

00:08:46.720 The tradition of trick or treating, as we know it, began essentially as a revival of guising

00:08:51.780 among Irish and Scottish immigrants in late 19th century North America and was fully embraced

00:08:57.520 by American pop culture by the end of 1940s.

00:09:01.020 So it's actually like pretty recent that we have been celebrating Halloween in this way.

00:09:05.540 So from this perspective of the origins of Halloween, how we practice Halloween today is certainly

00:09:11.140 a convergence of the ancient Catholic, or not ancient, but I guess you could call it ancient

00:09:18.960 many centuries ago, the Catholic practice of holding vigils and going house to house and

00:09:25.460 the pagan practice of putting treats out on your front porch to ward off spirits.

00:09:31.640 And then it has, of course, evolved into what it is today.

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00:11:47.060 So there is a kind of like a modernization of Halloween that has happened over the past

00:11:55.440 couple centuries.

00:11:56.920 And it varies a little bit depending on what continent you're on.

00:12:02.200 But if you look at, for example, early 16th century Britain, there was a practice known

00:12:07.200 as souling, which was kind of a medieval tradition where poor people and later children went door

00:12:13.000 to door on All Saints Day begging for soul cakes in exchange for praying for the souls

00:12:17.920 of their deceased relatives that they believed were stuck in purgatory.

00:12:23.840 And so there's been like a lot of superstition and a lot of varying beliefs that have been

00:12:29.360 intertwined with Halloween over the years.

00:12:33.200 You have some sources saying that Halloween in the U.S. traces back to something called

00:12:38.280 Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th, imported by immigrants celebrating the 1500s gunpowder plot with bonfires,

00:12:45.740 masks, pranks that blended with arriving, souling and guising customs that we already talked about.

00:12:52.180 By mid-century, so this is the, you know, the kind of the 1940s that we talked about, 1950s,

00:12:59.060 Halloween in America became this like wholesome Norman Rockwell style kids holiday.

00:13:05.320 For example, we know the classic cartoon, it's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown.

00:13:10.600 And then, of course, America's love for capitalism kind of amplified the commercialization

00:13:17.260 of Halloween, the entertainment attached to it.

00:13:20.940 And then, of course, the selling of candy.

00:13:23.340 And we love any good reason to have fun and celebrate.

00:13:26.980 But certainly over the past several decades, it has become darker and darker.

00:13:30.980 As evil and horror movies, they make a lot of money.

00:13:35.000 And people have really kind of adopted this like personality, I think, of trying to be as scary

00:13:41.960 and haunting as possible.

00:13:43.720 There's also kind of like a sexualization that has been intertwined with Halloween, it seems,

00:13:50.100 over the years.

00:13:50.960 Certainly the sexual revolutions of the 60s and the 70s, the new sexual revolution of the

00:13:59.080 of the probably, I would say, 2010s until now, there has been an increased intertwining of

00:14:06.820 not just very like promiscuous promoting costumes, but there's also an aspect of gender bending,

00:14:15.660 an aspect of subversion of gender norms.

00:14:18.680 There is, I would say, a big intertwining of pride and LGBTQ pride with Halloween as, again,

00:14:28.720 people are kind of pushing back against sexual norms through their costumes and through their

00:14:34.500 celebrations.

00:14:36.080 And so it does seem that Halloween is particularly vulnerable to the societal sins of the day

00:14:43.860 and like the spiritual state of the day.

00:14:46.940 It just kind of takes on the form of society's ills and those end up being amplified and celebrated.

00:14:54.440 There is also this aspect of true Satanism, which really does exist, and there's not really

00:15:01.560 one definition of what Satanism means, but it does exist today.

00:15:05.860 It's existed in many forms for at least decades, if not centuries.

00:15:10.240 Of course, witchcraft has existed for many millennia.

00:15:14.720 But this Satanism as an organized religion, it looks like, I guess you could say, just a

00:15:23.660 group of people who they might actually worship Satan as a deity.

00:15:30.480 They might worship multiple pagan gods, or they might be atheists who just like to be a part

00:15:37.540 of something or who believe in whatever values Satanism has.

00:15:42.200 They might be witches, they might be Wiccan people.

00:15:45.160 I think it describes people with all kinds of anti-God, anti-truth, anti-goodness, anti-love

00:15:52.460 ideas that, again, want to be part of something kind of coherent.

00:15:57.320 And there is such thing as satanic rituals.

00:16:00.200 There is such thing as satanic ritual abuse.

00:16:02.640 In fact, you should go back and you should watch my episode with Jack Marino, and we will

00:16:08.700 put the link in the description so you can go back and watch that.

00:16:12.300 With the rise of the New Age movement and the commercialization of things like psychics

00:16:18.560 and mediums, tarot cards, all of that.

00:16:22.920 And by commercialization, I mean people like Taylor Swift making light of that, glorifying

00:16:27.580 that, singing about some of that kind of stuff.

00:16:30.160 We have seen a desensitization to the evils of that kind of sorcery, and that has real not

00:16:37.420 only spiritual and mental and emotional consequences, but physical consequences, as we saw with the

00:16:43.060 testimony of Jack Marino.

00:16:44.460 And it was amazing.

00:16:45.280 Christ rescued her so dramatically out of that.

00:16:48.340 But we need to understand that Halloween can actually amplify some of the psychiatric disturbances

00:16:57.580 of people who were either victims of satanic ritual abuse or who were just traumatized by

00:17:04.340 the fear and the just depravity that some people like to showcase on Halloween.

00:17:13.260 And I found this article from 1991.

00:17:15.860 This is a Washington Post article about psychiatrists observing their patients with multiple personality

00:17:22.420 disorder on Halloween specifically.

00:17:25.740 Okay, so here's what the article says.

00:17:27.780 Patients with multiple personality disorder, MPD, exhibit bizarre behavior in which personalities

00:17:33.440 with distinct histories and voices called alters emerge from a host personality under

00:17:39.580 the influence of severe stresses.

00:17:41.300 The illness is believed to arise most often as a defense against child abuse that is typically

00:17:47.200 sexual and physically painful.

00:17:49.260 So this is not typically something that someone is born with.

00:17:52.920 This is a defense mechanism that the mind is using to try to forget about the trauma of

00:17:59.260 being abused as a child.

00:18:00.280 So very, very sad.

00:18:01.840 The article goes on to explain the victim often develops an alter that is immune to pain, which

00:18:06.920 emerges under such circumstances, affording the host a form of protection.

00:18:10.740 MPD is part of the family of dissociative disorders, which PTSD of which PTSD is seen in many combat

00:18:18.220 veterans is the most notable example of the 12 patients in the hospital today.

00:18:23.480 This article says this is according to Bruce Leonard, a psychiatrist who treats child abuse

00:18:29.480 victims in the Columbine Psychiatric Center.

00:18:31.740 He says all of the 12 patients in the hospital today, six are having trouble with memories

00:18:35.900 related to Halloween.

00:18:37.720 He added that a former patient was flying to Colorado from her home in Michigan yesterday

00:18:41.920 to spend Halloween in the hospital.

00:18:44.060 Although she has had problems around Halloween before in recent weeks, she has been physically

00:18:48.040 threatening her psychiatrist in Michigan as they get closer and closer to Halloween.

00:18:53.680 Bennett G. Braun, another psychiatrist in this particular field at Rush North Shore Medical

00:18:59.900 Center outside Chicago, said patients become increasingly suicidal, increasingly agitated.

00:19:06.060 We're in the phase for it right now as they approach Halloween.

00:19:09.560 Five of his hospitalized patients are reliving Halloween trauma.

00:19:13.220 He is keeping another patient with a history of satanic cult abuse in the hospital until the

00:19:17.580 holiday is over.

00:19:19.360 Braun said that he also hospitalized a patient this week.

00:19:22.960 Of course, this is back in 1991, largely as as a preventive measure.

00:19:27.920 A middle-aged woman who claims childhood participation in rights involving human sacrifice last year,

00:19:34.140 last year she attempted, I think I might have left out a word when I copy and pasted this,

00:19:40.120 but last year attempted suicide on Halloween.

00:19:43.420 He said about 20% of MPD patients, this article says, claimed that their childhood abuse involved

00:19:50.880 organized satanic rights.

00:19:52.720 Although few psychiatrists treating these patients today deny their patients have a history of

00:19:57.820 child abuse, there's great debate about whether the satanic event actually occurred or are fantasy

00:20:03.320 grafted onto recollections of more conventional abuse.

00:20:06.520 So we don't actually know if this, if they actually endured satanic ritual abuse or if it

00:20:12.580 had something directly to do with Halloween, although some of them seem to be able to cite specifically

00:20:17.880 what happened to them on Halloween or if this is a symptom of their psychiatric problems.

00:20:24.140 But I think it's an interesting phenomenon.

00:20:26.520 And I do think that we should give more weight to presenting very scary, gruesome, morbid things

00:20:35.540 to children before they have the ability to be able to understand it.

00:20:40.000 I think we need to understand that their brains are extremely malleable, that they can be very

00:20:46.500 affected by things.

00:20:47.720 And I'm not saying that seeing a skeleton is going to make them land in a psychiatric hospital,

00:20:52.980 but I simply don't think it's funny.

00:20:55.920 And I don't think it's lighthearted to scare children and to present them with things that

00:21:01.100 celebrate death and darkness and fear.

00:21:04.680 I do think that you are setting them up for some kind of trauma, and I don't think that

00:21:10.720 you're making them tougher.

00:21:12.020 I don't think you're making them immune to fear.

00:21:15.060 I actually think that you are building a paranoia and anxiety in them from an early age.

00:21:20.700 And I think we do need to take that seriously, like no matter what your view is on Halloween,

00:21:27.420 we need to take that really seriously.

00:21:29.380 I saw a couple of years ago, we were trick-or-treating and, well, I kind of just gave away how I feel

00:21:34.960 about that, but we'll talk about that more in a second.

00:21:38.300 But we avoid all the houses with the scary stuff.

00:21:44.280 And I saw at one house, there was like this teenager and he was in a coffin and he was

00:21:49.540 popping out of the coffin and scaring the little kids that were coming to the front door.

00:21:54.140 And I saw that happen and I literally said something to the person that opened the door

00:22:00.060 because this teenager pops out, he's dressed up all scary and he's in this coffin.

00:22:05.620 And this little three-year-old boy dressed up in his little PAW Patrol costume starts

00:22:10.760 screaming, crying, and they're laughing.

00:22:13.340 And I'm like, dude, that's not cool.

00:22:15.100 That's all he said.

00:22:15.760 I said, that's not cool because it's not.

00:22:17.480 But also it's the parent's responsibility to protect your kids from that kind of evil.

00:22:21.460 I'm just saying it has a real effect.

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00:23:36.760 So this is a former satanic priest talking about the demonic reverence for the day that

00:23:48.620 he used to have when he was in satanism, Sot6.

00:23:51.400 Halloween is the highest day on the satanic calendar.

00:23:55.540 It is also the night of the year where there is the most human sacrifice on the whole planet.

00:24:02.900 If we look at it in a, let's call it the popular culture aspect first,

00:24:08.520 many people think Halloween is about candy and it's about dress up,

00:24:12.460 but they don't question the meaning behind it.

00:24:15.180 In a neighborhood or an area, there's houses, there's homes that celebrate Halloween.

00:24:21.480 That whole perimeter becomes one big satanic ritual for that whole neighborhood.

00:24:28.100 Okay, so I appreciate his perspective and obviously he has a personal experience on that,

00:24:37.000 but I just want to give us the Christian perspective on all of that.

00:24:40.560 Because while I obviously believe that evil is real, that satanic power is real,

00:24:46.520 Ephesians 2 calls Satan the prince of the power of the air,

00:24:49.940 the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

00:24:53.620 among whom we all once walked according to the passions of our flesh and were by nature children of wrath.

00:24:59.100 So that exists. That is happening right now.

00:25:01.320 There is a domain of darkness that exists.

00:25:03.900 Ephesians 6 tells us that there is a spiritual war waging right now in every moment

00:25:09.240 that is not primarily political or cultural, but is spiritual.

00:25:13.600 There are evil spiritual principalities at work and we should acknowledge that

00:25:20.020 and we shouldn't minimize that at all.

00:25:21.580 But I also kind of want to push back against this idea that as Christians,

00:25:27.120 we are inviting Satan into our neighborhoods or into our homes or into our children's lives

00:25:34.640 by living next to someone that celebrates Halloween or decorates for Halloween,

00:25:41.200 giving our children candy,

00:25:45.860 or allowing them to walk by any kind of Halloween decoration.

00:25:52.280 And I'm not even saying that that's exactly what that guy was saying in that particular video,

00:25:56.920 although I do think there are some implications of that there.

00:26:00.380 But I have seen that before.

00:26:02.500 I have seen different content creators saying that by participating in any kind of celebration on this day,

00:26:11.240 you are inviting the demonic into your life.

00:26:13.900 And I just want to encourage you that as a Christian, you are protected from that.

00:26:19.900 That you cannot be possessed by a demon.

00:26:23.140 That demons are not going to come into your home.

00:26:26.360 That you don't have to sprinkle holy water or anoint your house with oil

00:26:30.780 in order to protect yourself from demonic activity.

00:26:34.000 Because you as a Christian have the Holy Spirit living in you.

00:26:38.940 And I just want to read you this.

00:26:40.620 Galatians 3, 13 through 14.

00:26:42.820 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.

00:26:46.920 For it is written,

00:26:47.580 Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree so that in Christ Jesus,

00:26:51.680 the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles

00:26:54.180 so that we might receive the promised spirit through faith.

00:26:58.200 And so that curse of darkness, that curse of sin was laid upon Jesus

00:27:03.320 and we can trust that if by grace through faith,

00:27:08.120 we have been saved in Christ, that we are protected from that curse,

00:27:12.120 that we are indwelled with the Holy Spirit.

00:27:14.580 Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit

00:27:17.540 and we have the power of God within us

00:27:20.920 and we are protected from that darkness.

00:27:23.200 Colossians 1, 13 through 14.

00:27:25.300 He has delivered us.

00:27:27.060 This is Jesus.

00:27:27.860 Has delivered us from the domain of darkness

00:27:29.840 and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved son

00:27:33.580 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

00:27:37.800 So we are in the kingdom right now, not in a future time,

00:27:41.900 but we are in the kingdom of his beloved son.

00:27:44.180 That doesn't mean there is no effect of sin in our lives.

00:27:46.840 That doesn't mean we don't live in a fallen world.

00:27:48.700 That doesn't mean that we don't get sick.

00:27:49.960 That doesn't mean that we don't sin ourselves.

00:27:51.400 Doesn't mean that nothing bad can happen to us.

00:27:54.320 But spiritually, we are protected by Christ.

00:27:57.120 1 John 1, 7.

00:27:59.060 But if we walk in the light as he is in the light,

00:28:01.300 we have fellowship with one another

00:28:02.820 and the blood of Jesus, his son, cleanses us from all sin.

00:28:06.620 So we are cleansed and we are protected.

00:28:11.020 And also, again, James 5,

00:28:13.220 the prayer of a righteous person has great power

00:28:15.940 as it is working.

00:28:17.540 And we cannot assign too much power

00:28:20.800 and too much authority to the demonic realm

00:28:24.160 and to material objects.

00:28:26.820 I think that there is a lot of superstition,

00:28:29.460 even among Christians,

00:28:30.780 surrounding Halloween

00:28:33.280 and surrounding all sorts of material objects.

00:28:36.960 And the irony is,

00:28:38.340 I actually do think that there is

00:28:40.320 a witchcraft-esque mentality

00:28:44.140 among a lot of Christians

00:28:45.800 when it comes to the rituals

00:28:47.900 that they try to employ

00:28:49.680 to protect themselves

00:28:51.180 from the evils of Halloween

00:28:52.520 and the evils of demonic activity.

00:28:54.480 We should be able to discern

00:28:57.320 between light and darkness,

00:28:58.980 evil and goodness,

00:28:59.820 and also understand that we as Christians

00:29:02.380 who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit

00:29:04.220 are protected, okay?

00:29:06.620 And that we walk in victory

00:29:09.220 and in strength with Christ

00:29:11.180 because we have been saved.

00:29:13.540 And we just don't need to assign

00:29:15.680 too much meaning

00:29:17.640 and too much power to the demonic,

00:29:19.500 even as we recognize that it is real.

00:29:22.340 So, how do we, in my opinion,

00:29:27.200 approach Halloween?

00:29:28.680 So, the first thing I would say

00:29:31.100 is that we take no part

00:29:34.100 in the unfruitful works of darkness,

00:29:36.760 but we instead expose them.

00:29:40.420 Ephesians 5, 7.

00:29:41.840 Therefore, do not become partners with them,

00:29:45.280 the sons of disobedience,

00:29:46.760 as verse 6 says,

00:29:48.040 for at one time you were darkness,

00:29:49.800 but now you are light in the Lord.

00:29:51.800 Walk as children of light,

00:29:53.260 for the fruit of light is found

00:29:54.880 in all that is good and right and true,

00:29:57.000 and try to discern

00:29:58.080 what is pleasing to the Lord.

00:30:00.120 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness,

00:30:02.500 but instead expose them,

00:30:03.800 for it is shameful even to speak

00:30:05.320 of the things they do in secret.

00:30:08.000 And then the rest of the chapter is great too.

00:30:10.400 You should continue to read it.

00:30:11.800 One part says,

00:30:12.460 look carefully then how you walk,

00:30:14.160 not as unwise, but as wise,

00:30:15.660 making the best use of the time

00:30:17.400 because the days are evil.

00:30:19.680 Therefore, do not be foolish,

00:30:20.680 but understand what the will of the Lord is.

00:30:24.420 Don't take part in debauchery.

00:30:26.660 Be filled with the Holy Spirit,

00:30:28.700 making melody to the Lord in your heart.

00:30:31.120 Philippians 4 talks about dwelling on only that

00:30:34.080 which is worthy of praise,

00:30:36.120 only that which is righteous and good

00:30:38.640 and holy and lovely

00:30:40.380 and reminds you of Christ.

00:30:41.920 So I think that no matter

00:30:43.560 where you land on Halloween,

00:30:45.120 this is true,

00:30:46.320 not only on October 31st,

00:30:48.360 but on every single day,

00:30:51.060 that we are to take no part

00:30:53.320 in the unfruitful works of darkness.

00:30:55.840 We should not glorify evil.

00:30:57.820 We should not be entertained by evil.

00:30:59.980 We should not allow our children

00:31:01.560 to be entertained by evil.

00:31:03.480 So our children,

00:31:05.600 they have seen the Halloween decorations

00:31:09.120 in different parts of our neighborhood

00:31:12.080 and they have started

00:31:14.480 some really good conversations.

00:31:16.480 At least our older two are at the age

00:31:18.620 where we can have those conversations

00:31:20.240 and they're asking,

00:31:21.320 why does this person have a fake cemetery?

00:31:23.860 Why does this person have

00:31:25.460 like a stabbed zombie in their yard?

00:31:28.900 Why do some people have skeletons?

00:31:30.460 Why do we not do those things?

00:31:32.040 And we get to have the opportunity

00:31:34.280 to say, we don't celebrate death.

00:31:36.840 We don't celebrate darkness.

00:31:38.520 We don't celebrate people getting hurt.

00:31:40.780 We don't celebrate dying.

00:31:43.680 We want love and we want light

00:31:46.040 and we want goodness.

00:31:47.400 And our oldest is asked,

00:31:48.660 do those people not know God?

00:31:50.800 And we don't necessarily know the answer

00:31:54.000 to what is going on

00:31:55.160 in the hearts of people

00:31:56.200 that are celebrating that kind of morbidity,

00:31:59.140 but we can pray for them

00:32:00.900 and we can talk about

00:32:02.160 why we as Christians live differently

00:32:05.300 and why we don't glorify that kind of evil.

00:32:09.080 Deuteronomy 18, 10 through 12 says,

00:32:11.140 there shall not be found among you

00:32:12.300 anyone who burns his son

00:32:13.440 or his daughter as an offering,

00:32:15.100 anyone who practices divination

00:32:16.740 or tells fortunes

00:32:17.700 or interprets omens.

00:32:19.400 So divination,

00:32:20.500 like going to psychics,

00:32:22.060 was put on the same level

00:32:23.340 as burning your child

00:32:24.640 at a child's sacrifice

00:32:25.720 or a sorcerer or a charmer

00:32:27.520 or a medium or a necromancer.

00:32:29.220 So that's someone

00:32:29.800 who inquires of the dead

00:32:31.500 for whoever does these things

00:32:33.120 is an abomination to the Lord.

00:32:35.360 And because of these abominations

00:32:36.720 to the Lord your God,

00:32:38.040 the Lord your God

00:32:39.280 is driving them out before you.

00:32:41.000 It's so important for God's people

00:32:42.500 to be holy,

00:32:43.280 to be sanctified,

00:32:44.140 to be set apart.

00:32:45.680 And God knew that idolatry

00:32:47.100 and witchcraft

00:32:47.820 and messing around

00:32:49.140 with the satanic things

00:32:50.840 are so bad for our bodies

00:32:52.280 and our hearts

00:32:53.000 that he shows us

00:32:54.400 in the Old Testament,

00:32:55.220 this is not going to be something

00:32:56.240 that's among my people.

00:32:58.460 Different verses in Leviticus

00:33:00.060 and the rest of the law books

00:33:02.560 repeat the same things.

00:33:04.820 And then in the New Testament,

00:33:06.100 1 Thessalonians 5.22,

00:33:07.740 abstain from every form of evil.

00:33:09.880 Ephesians,

00:33:11.020 actually we just read Ephesians 5.7-11,

00:33:14.780 take no part in unfruitful works

00:33:17.280 of darkness.

00:33:19.120 Now, the question is,

00:33:20.840 is there a way to celebrate

00:33:22.980 what is considered

00:33:24.500 the Christian origins of Halloween?

00:33:26.740 And is there a way

00:33:28.560 to celebrate it today

00:33:31.960 in a way that glorifies God,

00:33:33.860 in a way that does not expose

00:33:35.860 our children to darkness intentionally?

00:33:39.140 And, you know,

00:33:40.100 some people,

00:33:41.080 especially Catholics,

00:33:42.180 would say you should be celebrating

00:33:43.740 All Saints Day.

00:33:44.760 I think a lot of Catholics,

00:33:46.100 not all,

00:33:46.700 would probably also say that

00:33:48.140 like celebrating

00:33:49.480 some parts of Halloween

00:33:50.960 is okay,

00:33:51.760 but our focus should be

00:33:53.340 on the saints

00:33:54.000 and the martyrs

00:33:54.780 that had been celebrated

00:33:55.760 throughout Catholic history.

00:33:58.980 And then others,

00:34:00.340 of course,

00:34:00.700 would say,

00:34:01.200 both Protestant and Catholic,

00:34:02.780 that you shouldn't celebrate it at all.

00:34:04.760 That there should be

00:34:05.900 no trick-or-treating,

00:34:06.940 there should be no candy,

00:34:08.980 and that all of that

00:34:10.360 is partnership with darkness.

00:34:13.160 And my perspective

00:34:14.980 is that

00:34:16.640 you

00:34:17.840 can totally not celebrate Halloween.

00:34:20.960 Like,

00:34:21.180 I think that

00:34:21.760 that is

00:34:22.480 a legitimate

00:34:23.920 stance to take.

00:34:26.860 And I think

00:34:28.340 that if that is

00:34:29.240 the decision

00:34:29.720 that you want to make

00:34:30.700 as a family,

00:34:31.400 and if you have

00:34:32.220 godly reasons

00:34:33.040 for doing that,

00:34:33.920 not paranoid reasons

00:34:35.120 for doing that,

00:34:36.340 as in like,

00:34:37.520 you think that

00:34:38.340 doing that

00:34:38.840 is going to like

00:34:39.560 possess your child

00:34:41.100 or possess your home

00:34:42.240 with some kind of demon,

00:34:43.780 but you're just like,

00:34:44.640 you know what,

00:34:45.100 I just don't even want

00:34:46.220 my kids to see

00:34:46.980 that kind of thing,

00:34:48.100 and candy is bad for them.

00:34:49.560 I think that's

00:34:50.240 totally fine.

00:34:51.580 I do think

00:34:52.820 that there is a way

00:34:53.880 for Christians

00:34:56.280 to do parts

00:34:58.200 of Halloween

00:34:58.840 in a way

00:34:59.980 that glorifies God

00:35:01.480 and does not

00:35:03.340 celebrate darkness,

00:35:04.720 and I'll get into that

00:35:05.820 in just a second.

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00:36:26.000 who is a real person.

00:36:26.960 He was the founder

00:36:27.580 of like the modern-day

00:36:28.620 Church of Satan.

00:36:29.760 And the quote says,

00:36:30.540 I want to thank

00:36:30.960 every Christian parent

00:36:31.700 who's allowed their children

00:36:32.560 to celebrate Halloween

00:36:33.460 once a year.

00:36:34.380 But that's entirely fabricated.

00:36:36.340 There is no evidence

00:36:37.220 whatsoever

00:36:37.780 that Anton LaVey

00:36:38.960 actually said that.

00:36:41.000 And a lot of people

00:36:41.700 use this as the basis

00:36:43.100 for not celebrating

00:36:45.140 Halloween at all.

00:36:47.120 But that's just not true.

00:36:48.400 You may have other reasons

00:36:49.660 not to celebrate Halloween,

00:36:51.760 but I don't think

00:36:53.440 that that is one of them.

00:36:54.780 And just remember this,

00:36:56.920 that cultural authorities,

00:36:58.600 that satanic authorities

00:36:59.700 do not have any power

00:37:01.060 over the Christian.

00:37:02.420 Their opinion

00:37:03.240 and their experiences,

00:37:05.940 their perspective on things,

00:37:07.400 their practices,

00:37:08.240 they don't have to determine

00:37:10.020 what Christians do.

00:37:11.560 Christians are in the business

00:37:12.580 of redemption.

00:37:13.940 Christians are in the business

00:37:14.900 of bringing glory to God.

00:37:16.780 For the Christian,

00:37:18.180 there is no day

00:37:19.420 that's off limits.

00:37:20.360 There is no day

00:37:21.260 that is not holy.

00:37:22.600 There is no day

00:37:23.420 that is even holier

00:37:24.560 than another day.

00:37:26.060 For the Christian,

00:37:27.680 every day is the Lord's.

00:37:29.400 This is the day

00:37:30.440 that the Lord has made.

00:37:31.640 Let us rejoice

00:37:32.600 and be glad in it.

00:37:34.040 That is not just true

00:37:35.900 of November 1st

00:37:37.220 or December 25th

00:37:38.560 or Easter.

00:37:39.420 It is just as true

00:37:40.720 on October 31st

00:37:43.220 as it is on any day.

00:37:44.640 Every single day

00:37:45.700 is the Lord's.

00:37:46.900 There is no superstition

00:37:48.180 or more demonic authority

00:37:51.560 on one day

00:37:53.200 over another day.

00:37:54.620 So Christians

00:37:55.280 should not operate

00:37:56.620 out of,

00:37:57.660 well,

00:37:57.760 what does this Satanist

00:37:58.900 want me to do

00:37:59.580 or not do?

00:38:00.560 What does this pagan guy

00:38:02.240 say about

00:38:03.600 the significance

00:38:04.460 of this day?

00:38:05.860 Christians use

00:38:06.720 every opportunity

00:38:08.140 to glorify God

00:38:09.520 and to advance

00:38:10.520 his gospel

00:38:11.280 and disciple

00:38:12.240 his children.

00:38:13.400 And I believe

00:38:14.340 that there is a way

00:38:15.880 to do that on Halloween.

00:38:17.620 Here's my perspective.

00:38:18.760 This is what I grew up with

00:38:20.120 and this is what

00:38:21.120 we are now passing down

00:38:22.540 to our kids.

00:38:24.320 So my mom

00:38:25.180 would not let us

00:38:26.140 celebrate anything scary.

00:38:27.580 She wouldn't let us

00:38:28.400 dress up as anything

00:38:29.700 evil.

00:38:31.520 I wasn't allowed

00:38:33.020 to dress up

00:38:33.680 like a witch

00:38:34.460 or dress up

00:38:35.240 like anything scary.

00:38:36.780 We weren't even allowed

00:38:37.700 to put like spider webs

00:38:39.540 in the windows.

00:38:40.240 I always wanted

00:38:40.800 to decorate more

00:38:42.480 in like,

00:38:43.180 I don't know,

00:38:43.700 some kind of,

00:38:44.860 not seriously ghoulish way,

00:38:46.880 but just,

00:38:47.720 I don't know,

00:38:48.240 some kind of way

00:38:49.040 for Halloween growing up

00:38:50.140 because I thought

00:38:50.620 it was fun

00:38:51.080 and she just always said,

00:38:51.920 no,

00:38:52.160 like we're just going

00:38:53.080 to celebrate fall

00:38:54.720 and we'll put pumpkins

00:38:55.700 on the porch

00:38:56.680 and all of that,

00:38:57.360 but we're not going

00:38:57.960 to do anything scary.

00:38:59.580 But then she would

00:39:01.200 also use the opportunity

00:39:02.420 and she still does

00:39:03.460 this today

00:39:04.220 to share the gospel

00:39:05.580 with our neighbors.

00:39:06.900 It is such a rare opportunity

00:39:09.520 that we have

00:39:10.380 to get all of these people,

00:39:12.320 many of them

00:39:12.980 not Christians,

00:39:13.880 showing up to our front door

00:39:15.580 and taking something from us

00:39:18.000 and they're going to,

00:39:19.940 they're going to take

00:39:21.160 the candy that we give them.

00:39:22.600 So it is an opportunity,

00:39:24.020 my mom has shown me,

00:39:25.220 to redeem

00:39:25.820 what could be a day

00:39:27.540 that celebrates darkness,

00:39:28.680 could be a day

00:39:29.660 that's dominated

00:39:30.700 by people

00:39:31.760 with dark and evil intentions

00:39:33.420 and bring the light

00:39:35.060 of the Lord into it.

00:39:36.820 Bring the gospel message

00:39:38.100 into it.

00:39:39.060 You can tie a gospel message

00:39:41.960 around the Snickers bar

00:39:43.420 or whatever healthy alternative

00:39:45.540 that you want to give people.

00:39:47.060 You can put it

00:39:47.680 in a little bag.

00:39:48.880 My mom basically

00:39:50.160 puts a little gospel tract

00:39:51.780 like with her candy

00:39:53.540 and she sits on the porch

00:39:54.840 and she hands out the candy

00:39:56.960 and sometimes she talks

00:39:58.640 to the parents,

00:39:59.580 shares the gospel

00:40:00.500 and we've kind of like

00:40:01.520 joined her in that effort.

00:40:03.220 She also makes

00:40:04.020 these really cute signs.

00:40:05.320 She, I've always told her

00:40:06.140 she needs to sell these signs.

00:40:07.740 She doesn't.

00:40:08.640 But these really cute signs

00:40:10.360 that have like

00:40:11.980 little Halloween characters

00:40:13.540 on them,

00:40:14.680 but she'll use a Bible verse

00:40:16.040 like whoever calls,

00:40:18.500 like whoever calls upon

00:40:20.740 the name of the Lord

00:40:21.620 will be saved.

00:40:22.540 And she has all these

00:40:23.700 little puns like that

00:40:26.460 using scripture

00:40:27.480 and using like cute fall

00:40:29.320 or maybe little Halloween

00:40:31.100 costume characters.

00:40:32.820 And she puts these banners

00:40:34.520 in her front yard.

00:40:35.880 And I think that's

00:40:36.960 a really cute way

00:40:38.100 to say,

00:40:38.560 okay, whatever Satan

00:40:39.580 means for evil,

00:40:40.680 God is going to use it

00:40:41.860 for good.

00:40:42.540 And we are agents

00:40:44.040 of his goodness.

00:40:44.920 We are agents

00:40:46.200 of his beauty.

00:40:47.140 We are the aroma

00:40:48.000 of Christ.

00:40:49.100 So how can we use

00:40:50.600 trick-or-treating

00:40:51.260 to our advantage?

00:40:53.180 Like how can we use

00:40:54.640 this day to advance

00:40:55.780 the gospel of Christ?

00:40:57.040 I actually don't think,

00:40:58.460 even though I do think

00:40:59.460 that it's a legitimate

00:41:00.420 choice for you

00:41:01.140 to just opt out

00:41:02.020 of the day entirely,

00:41:03.760 I'm not sure

00:41:04.340 if that's the best choice.

00:41:05.480 From my opinion,

00:41:06.460 it's not.

00:41:07.260 I don't know

00:41:08.400 if the Benedict option

00:41:09.760 when it comes to Halloween

00:41:11.140 is actually the best choice.

00:41:14.320 I wonder if

00:41:16.040 retreating

00:41:17.320 and allowing

00:41:19.180 the darkness

00:41:19.820 to dominate

00:41:20.580 in our neighborhoods

00:41:21.640 is the best option

00:41:23.260 for the Christian.

00:41:24.120 Like what if

00:41:24.880 we pushed back

00:41:25.780 against the darkness

00:41:26.660 with as much light

00:41:27.820 and truth

00:41:28.220 as we possibly could?

00:41:29.640 That is the option

00:41:30.540 that I take.

00:41:31.680 And yes,

00:41:32.240 we do allow our kids

00:41:33.300 to dress up

00:41:33.980 in fun costumes.

00:41:35.720 We do allow them

00:41:37.000 to go to

00:41:37.680 like a select few houses

00:41:39.300 and get some candy.

00:41:40.440 We don't do anything crazy.

00:41:41.660 We don't do scary movies.

00:41:44.480 We don't do

00:41:45.100 anything like that.

00:41:47.200 And like I said,

00:41:48.020 it's an opportunity

00:41:48.840 to have conversations

00:41:50.060 about how Christians

00:41:51.220 live differently.

00:41:52.440 And there are even

00:41:53.140 going to be people

00:41:54.000 who call themselves

00:41:54.800 Christians

00:41:55.340 who indulge

00:41:56.540 in that kind of stuff

00:41:57.700 and we'll talk

00:41:58.680 about that too.

00:42:00.220 And it's a good

00:42:01.700 opportunity

00:42:02.260 to show your kids

00:42:03.680 that it is okay

00:42:05.140 and expected

00:42:06.080 for Christians

00:42:06.780 to be weird

00:42:07.700 in the secular world,

00:42:10.240 for us to be different

00:42:11.880 for the right reasons.

00:42:14.220 But also

00:42:15.140 to not be scared.

00:42:16.740 I don't want them

00:42:17.880 to be scared

00:42:18.580 of Satan.

00:42:19.520 I don't want them

00:42:20.200 to be scared

00:42:21.180 of like demonic powers

00:42:23.980 and paranoid

00:42:24.740 in that way.

00:42:25.480 I think that there

00:42:26.040 is a healthy fear

00:42:27.180 of that,

00:42:28.440 but there should also

00:42:29.260 just be like

00:42:29.900 a repudiation

00:42:30.620 of that.

00:42:31.460 And like an authority,

00:42:33.060 a Christian authority

00:42:34.000 that we give

00:42:34.840 our children

00:42:35.460 when Christ lives

00:42:36.760 in you,

00:42:37.540 that he who is

00:42:38.440 in you

00:42:39.020 is more powerful

00:42:41.080 and has already

00:42:41.920 overcome

00:42:42.820 he who is

00:42:43.760 in the world.

00:42:44.320 So like we want

00:42:45.680 our children

00:42:46.060 to walk in light

00:42:47.100 and hope

00:42:48.000 and victory

00:42:49.060 and truth

00:42:50.060 and that even

00:42:51.020 goes for

00:42:51.840 October 31st.

00:42:53.960 So again,

00:42:54.860 I think there's

00:42:55.560 a way to do it.

00:42:56.520 I think there's

00:42:57.140 a way to redeem it.

00:42:58.260 I think there is

00:42:58.900 a way to push back

00:42:59.880 against darkness

00:43:00.660 without opting out

00:43:01.780 entirely.

00:43:03.420 And while still

00:43:04.980 acknowledging

00:43:05.500 that the demonic

00:43:06.260 does exist

00:43:07.400 and that maybe

00:43:08.960 this is a high

00:43:09.720 holiday for the

00:43:10.740 satanic church,

00:43:11.760 but like we don't

00:43:13.260 have we don't

00:43:13.980 have anything

00:43:14.480 truly as Christians

00:43:15.620 like to fear

00:43:16.700 for that.

00:43:17.380 So there is

00:43:18.220 a lot of nuance

00:43:19.000 here.

00:43:20.080 There is certainly

00:43:20.780 a level of

00:43:21.540 Christian liberty

00:43:22.320 here and I'm

00:43:24.020 sure that this

00:43:24.500 will make some

00:43:24.980 people mad,

00:43:26.080 but this is how

00:43:27.300 we have chosen

00:43:28.080 to approach it

00:43:28.860 and I just really

00:43:29.500 appreciate how my

00:43:30.440 mom approached

00:43:31.000 it growing up

00:43:31.780 and that is

00:43:32.600 what I hope

00:43:33.060 to adopt.

00:43:34.060 Now something

00:43:34.500 that we didn't

00:43:35.320 do growing up

00:43:36.220 that we do

00:43:37.320 now at least

00:43:38.580 to an extent

00:43:39.200 some years

00:43:39.820 have been more

00:43:40.540 all out than

00:43:41.340 others.

00:43:41.940 I'm going to

00:43:42.280 try to do

00:43:42.840 more this year

00:43:43.640 than I did

00:43:44.100 last year

00:43:44.780 and that is

00:43:45.680 celebrate the

00:43:46.240 Reformation.

00:43:47.180 Now my Catholic

00:43:48.000 friends who are

00:43:48.660 listening to this

00:43:49.440 you do not

00:43:50.100 you will not

00:43:51.400 agree with our

00:43:52.500 celebration of the

00:43:53.360 Reformation and

00:43:54.200 we won't get into

00:43:55.120 all of it today

00:43:55.900 but we're going to

00:43:56.600 get into some

00:43:57.220 of it.

00:43:57.640 What the

00:43:58.140 Reformation is

00:43:59.020 on October 31st

00:44:00.520 and why we

00:44:01.880 celebrate the

00:44:03.120 Reformation,

00:44:03.680 why we teach

00:44:04.120 our kids about

00:44:04.720 the Reformation

00:44:05.440 in the car

00:44:06.540 this morning.

00:44:07.120 I was talking

00:44:07.760 to our oldest

00:44:09.720 about the

00:44:10.360 Reformation

00:44:10.780 and she

00:44:11.860 already knows

00:44:12.580 but so

00:44:13.060 asking her

00:44:13.580 some questions

00:44:14.060 who was

00:44:14.420 Martin Luther

00:44:14.920 what did

00:44:15.700 he do

00:44:16.160 what was

00:44:17.020 going on

00:44:17.700 that was

00:44:18.080 wrong

00:44:18.440 does money

00:44:19.260 get you

00:44:19.880 into heaven

00:44:21.020 do good

00:44:21.620 works get

00:44:22.260 you into

00:44:22.640 heaven

00:44:22.920 no

00:44:23.420 no

00:44:24.020 and so

00:44:24.960 it's a

00:44:25.280 good like

00:44:25.720 back and

00:44:26.160 forth

00:44:26.320 it's a

00:44:26.600 good opportunity

00:44:27.200 to talk

00:44:27.920 about like

00:44:28.380 what the

00:44:28.720 gospel really

00:44:29.340 is when we

00:44:29.800 celebrate

00:44:30.120 the Reformation

00:44:30.620 so I'll

00:44:31.240 get into

00:44:31.600 that

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00:45:47.580 okay so

00:45:53.460 what is

00:45:53.940 the

00:45:54.080 Reformation

00:45:54.480 why do

00:45:55.040 we celebrate

00:45:55.540 it in

00:45:55.980 the

00:45:56.100 Stuckey

00:45:56.400 home

00:45:56.640 why do

00:45:56.960 so many

00:45:57.420 Christians

00:45:57.940 around the

00:45:58.500 world

00:45:58.700 celebrate

00:45:59.200 the

00:45:59.420 Reformation

00:45:59.940 well if

00:46:00.560 you don't

00:46:00.800 know

00:46:01.020 and I

00:46:01.400 was not

00:46:02.180 raised

00:46:02.460 learning

00:46:02.780 about this

00:46:03.580 at all

00:46:03.960 I think

00:46:04.340 maybe even

00:46:05.340 Catholics

00:46:05.680 probably learn

00:46:06.220 more about

00:46:06.900 the Reformation

00:46:07.600 and Martin

00:46:08.600 Luther not

00:46:09.120 from a

00:46:09.440 positive

00:46:09.700 perspective

00:46:10.220 negative

00:46:10.680 perspective

00:46:11.180 growing up

00:46:11.820 than a lot

00:46:12.860 of Protestants

00:46:13.480 do I was

00:46:13.920 raised Southern

00:46:14.380 Baptist very

00:46:15.020 thankful for

00:46:15.700 that upbringing

00:46:16.200 learned so much

00:46:17.280 about the Bible

00:46:18.020 and Bible

00:46:18.420 memorization and

00:46:19.520 apologetics but

00:46:20.420 I didn't know

00:46:21.500 anything about the

00:46:22.340 Reformation not

00:46:23.440 until college and I

00:46:24.480 started reading my

00:46:25.140 ESV study Bible and

00:46:26.760 I learned what like

00:46:27.740 reformed theology is

00:46:29.340 it was when I

00:46:30.460 was an adult

00:46:31.340 that I learned

00:46:32.580 how important the

00:46:33.440 Reformation is

00:46:34.340 this recovery of

00:46:35.260 the gospel

00:46:35.840 so Martin Luther

00:46:37.280 nailed his

00:46:38.260 famous 95

00:46:39.100 theses to the

00:46:39.960 Wittenberg church

00:46:40.880 door in Germany

00:46:41.680 on October

00:46:42.440 31st

00:46:43.720 1517

00:46:44.580 he was not

00:46:45.300 trying to start

00:46:45.800 a revolution

00:46:46.360 he wasn't even

00:46:47.040 really trying to

00:46:48.680 start or thinking

00:46:49.360 he was going to

00:46:49.980 start this

00:46:50.400 widespread

00:46:51.440 reformation

00:46:52.760 but he posted

00:46:53.480 the 95

00:46:54.940 problems he had

00:46:56.200 with current

00:46:57.120 practices in the

00:46:58.220 Catholic Church

00:46:58.920 at the time

00:46:59.660 and he wanted

00:47:00.600 to stay a

00:47:01.140 Catholic

00:47:01.380 he believed a

00:47:02.520 lot of things

00:47:02.940 that Protestants

00:47:03.500 today don't

00:47:04.080 believe about

00:47:05.020 Mary and the

00:47:05.800 Pope and so

00:47:06.580 he was a

00:47:08.200 good Catholic

00:47:09.760 monk but he

00:47:11.420 had a problem

00:47:11.980 with a lot of

00:47:12.520 things that were

00:47:12.960 going on one of

00:47:13.860 the problems that

00:47:14.460 he had was

00:47:15.860 the practice of

00:47:17.500 indulgences it

00:47:18.860 was popular at

00:47:19.800 the time because

00:47:20.640 the population

00:47:21.300 could not read

00:47:22.120 they didn't know

00:47:22.860 what the Bible

00:47:23.360 says many of

00:47:24.300 them couldn't

00:47:24.760 understand Latin

00:47:25.540 so they didn't

00:47:26.120 even understand

00:47:26.940 what was going

00:47:27.960 on

00:47:28.340 in the mass

00:47:29.560 at the time

00:47:30.220 and so the

00:47:31.440 religious leaders

00:47:32.200 in that era

00:47:33.380 had full authority

00:47:34.400 to be able to

00:47:34.960 tell them yeah

00:47:35.480 this is how you

00:47:36.080 get to heaven

00:47:36.540 and this is what

00:47:38.080 the Christian

00:47:38.460 message is all

00:47:39.120 about and if

00:47:39.800 you pay us

00:47:40.380 some money

00:47:40.940 then we will

00:47:41.920 spring the

00:47:42.900 souls of your

00:47:43.400 relatives from

00:47:44.080 purgatory and

00:47:44.940 that will give

00:47:45.340 them some credit

00:47:45.920 to get into

00:47:46.420 heaven which of

00:47:47.320 course is horrible

00:47:49.080 spiritual and

00:47:50.160 monetary extortion

00:47:51.400 and so not true

00:47:52.520 it has no basis

00:47:53.680 in Christian reality

00:47:54.640 no basis in the

00:47:55.400 Bible at all

00:47:56.080 and Martin

00:47:56.940 Luther saw

00:47:57.380 this and he

00:47:58.220 was like well

00:47:58.840 this is not

00:48:00.180 good and this

00:48:00.980 is not what

00:48:01.360 the Bible

00:48:01.700 says and

00:48:02.700 then the

00:48:03.140 rallying cry

00:48:04.240 of the

00:48:04.820 Reformation

00:48:05.340 became really

00:48:07.080 kind of at

00:48:08.320 the start

00:48:08.720 unbeknownst to

00:48:10.100 Martin Luther

00:48:10.780 was sola fide

00:48:12.220 or by faith

00:48:13.860 alone that we

00:48:15.100 cannot earn

00:48:16.080 our way to

00:48:16.680 heaven we

00:48:17.080 cannot pay

00:48:17.840 our way to

00:48:18.480 heaven it's

00:48:18.900 not through

00:48:19.280 good works

00:48:19.760 it's not

00:48:20.200 through our

00:48:20.540 donations it's

00:48:21.720 not through

00:48:22.080 our mass

00:48:22.600 attendance it's

00:48:23.280 not through

00:48:23.580 anything we

00:48:24.180 do but

00:48:25.040 Ephesians 2

00:48:25.740 says by grace

00:48:26.800 through faith

00:48:27.440 you have been

00:48:27.940 saved and this

00:48:28.820 is not your

00:48:29.500 own doing not

00:48:30.760 a result of

00:48:31.600 works so that

00:48:32.660 no one can

00:48:33.380 boast over and

00:48:34.320 over again in

00:48:34.900 that passage it

00:48:35.680 reiterates that of

00:48:36.820 course we see

00:48:37.400 that in Colossians

00:48:38.280 we see that in

00:48:39.260 Galatians we see

00:48:40.800 that over and

00:48:41.500 over again in the

00:48:42.240 New Testament and

00:48:43.500 even in the book

00:48:44.580 of James when it

00:48:45.200 says what it

00:48:47.380 says faith without

00:48:48.180 works is dead that

00:48:50.060 is not a repudiation

00:48:51.260 of by grace through

00:48:52.100 faith that is

00:48:53.000 saying that your

00:48:54.780 works are activated

00:48:55.820 by your faith and

00:48:57.320 that your faith is a

00:48:58.640 prerequisite for your

00:49:00.220 works your works are

00:49:01.120 not a prerequisite for

00:49:02.480 your salvation in

00:49:04.080 fact in Ephesians 2

00:49:05.520 10 we read that

00:49:07.420 after that passage by

00:49:09.200 grace through faith you

00:49:09.920 have been saved that

00:49:11.480 you may walk in the

00:49:12.960 good works that God

00:49:14.800 prepared for you

00:49:15.940 beforehand and so

00:49:17.560 the good works are

00:49:18.380 actually a product of

00:49:20.120 our faith again not

00:49:21.940 a prerequisite for it

00:49:23.120 and so that was

00:49:24.860 Luther's rallying cry

00:49:27.100 and it was so

00:49:28.240 important for him

00:49:29.140 that Christians were

00:49:30.060 actually able to

00:49:30.980 understand the gospel

00:49:31.780 for themselves and to

00:49:33.400 do that they needed to

00:49:34.360 be able to read the

00:49:35.320 Bible and so he

00:49:36.640 worked very hard he

00:49:37.840 had to run for his

00:49:38.880 life from the

00:49:39.580 Catholic Church

00:49:40.340 excommunicated him

00:49:42.420 and of course wanted

00:49:45.000 his life in many ways

00:49:46.780 and he worked very

00:49:48.340 hard in hiding to

00:49:49.840 translate the Bible

00:49:51.240 translate the Bible

00:49:52.880 from the original

00:49:54.040 Hebrew and Greek

00:49:55.080 into German and

00:49:57.100 when that happened

00:49:58.120 that was the that was

00:50:01.240 the wild fire of the

00:50:02.600 Reformation once people

00:50:04.260 could read the Bible

00:50:05.000 for themselves once

00:50:06.280 people understood the

00:50:07.620 gospel once people

00:50:09.340 understood like what it

00:50:10.800 means to actually be

00:50:12.300 saved it went so far

00:50:14.500 beyond Martin Luther

00:50:15.700 and a lot of people

00:50:17.040 will say well it's

00:50:18.120 caused all this

00:50:18.660 division you've got

00:50:19.460 all of these

00:50:20.000 denominations now

00:50:21.340 well first of all

00:50:22.220 that 32,000 number

00:50:23.760 for the denominations

00:50:24.740 that's not even true

00:50:25.700 that's like every

00:50:26.660 single tiny iteration

00:50:27.940 of every denomination

00:50:29.100 there's really like

00:50:29.960 12 different

00:50:31.060 denominations and

00:50:32.000 by the way there are

00:50:32.760 a lot of disagreements

00:50:33.920 in different parts

00:50:35.380 of the Roman

00:50:36.060 Catholic Church as

00:50:37.040 well even if they

00:50:37.840 are not officially

00:50:38.820 different denominations

00:50:40.680 but division that is

00:50:43.840 for the sake of truth

00:50:45.800 is not necessarily

00:50:47.180 bad it is the nature

00:50:49.220 of liberty like the

00:50:50.900 fact that we have

00:50:52.880 all of these varying

00:50:53.880 states who have

00:50:55.380 different state

00:50:56.340 constitutions and

00:50:57.260 different state laws

00:50:59.380 and different different

00:51:01.460 ways of doing things

00:51:03.580 that is a product of

00:51:05.020 the liberty of America

00:51:06.940 separating from England

00:51:09.060 and yet it has been

00:51:10.800 a huge net positive

00:51:12.120 because in our

00:51:13.480 pursuit of liberty

00:51:14.420 we have also

00:51:15.780 recovered the goodness

00:51:17.320 of inherent rights

00:51:18.340 that have been given

00:51:19.000 to us by God

00:51:20.060 and so division

00:51:21.840 might be the product

00:51:22.880 of liberty

00:51:23.500 but the truth

00:51:25.220 that comes from

00:51:26.180 the freedom

00:51:26.740 that individuals

00:51:27.560 have had to seek

00:51:28.720 the scriptures

00:51:29.300 for themselves

00:51:30.200 it is worth it

00:51:31.300 every single day

00:51:32.560 of the week

00:51:33.100 and I would say

00:51:33.820 that even the

00:51:34.460 Roman Catholic Church

00:51:35.460 has benefited

00:51:36.320 from the products

00:51:37.740 of the Reformation

00:51:38.440 which has been

00:51:39.540 the study of scripture

00:51:40.740 I don't think

00:51:41.760 any Roman Catholic

00:51:42.460 can deny

00:51:43.200 that today

00:51:44.180 Roman Catholics

00:51:45.360 know more about

00:51:46.360 the Bible

00:51:46.760 than they used to

00:51:47.560 that there are

00:51:48.940 more Bible studies

00:51:49.920 and more seriousness

00:51:51.580 of studying scripture

00:51:53.180 than there used to be

00:51:55.100 in the Roman Catholic Church

00:51:56.380 you should go listen

00:51:57.280 to my episode

00:51:58.080 on with Stage Steel

00:51:59.680 on her show

00:52:00.580 about that

00:52:01.900 she was raised Catholic

00:52:02.700 and she would say

00:52:03.560 today she knows

00:52:04.240 nothing about the Bible

00:52:05.940 she would say that

00:52:07.040 those are her words

00:52:08.140 and that she wishes

00:52:10.700 that she was raised

00:52:12.160 reading scripture

00:52:12.960 and it's totally different

00:52:14.320 from the evangelical experience

00:52:15.860 it's like

00:52:16.500 I mean it is

00:52:17.200 Bible, Bible, Bible

00:52:18.160 from preschool

00:52:19.180 Awana

00:52:20.720 every single kind

00:52:22.080 of like

00:52:22.400 Bible blast

00:52:24.040 what was

00:52:24.420 what was the

00:52:25.300 competition

00:52:26.160 that we used to have

00:52:27.380 oh I thought

00:52:28.140 Chief Related Bro

00:52:28.840 was in here

00:52:29.500 was it called

00:52:30.920 Sword Drills

00:52:31.780 did someone say

00:52:33.180 Sword Drills

00:52:33.760 Sword Drills

00:52:35.100 oh yeah Sword Drills

00:52:36.120 where we would like

00:52:36.980 have to have competitions

00:52:38.980 for who could find

00:52:39.980 the book of the Bible

00:52:40.720 fasted

00:52:41.120 so so different

00:52:42.020 than the evangelical upbringing

00:52:43.140 and a lot of that

00:52:44.000 is the product

00:52:44.620 of the Reformation

00:52:45.480 this emphasis

00:52:46.700 on knowing scripture

00:52:48.180 and the authority

00:52:49.480 of scripture

00:52:50.020 it's not that we don't

00:52:50.900 believe in the authority

00:52:51.780 of the local church

00:52:52.720 or that theologians

00:52:53.620 can teach us nothing

00:52:54.480 it's not that we don't

00:52:55.320 care about unity at all

00:52:56.660 it's just that God's

00:52:58.240 God's word

00:52:59.000 is the only infallible

00:53:00.460 and inerrant source

00:53:01.540 that we have

00:53:02.160 and even though

00:53:02.880 we're fallible

00:53:03.620 and we won't always

00:53:04.740 get every interpretation

00:53:06.220 right

00:53:06.900 again that liberty

00:53:07.840 to seek the truth

00:53:08.940 by reading the Bible

00:53:09.800 for ourselves

00:53:10.580 has been an incredible

00:53:12.260 positive because

00:53:13.080 it's showed people

00:53:13.840 what the gospel

00:53:14.600 really is

00:53:16.340 and this is

00:53:17.760 Luther's desire

00:53:19.300 to refocus the church

00:53:20.740 on salvation

00:53:21.740 by grace

00:53:22.300 through faith alone

00:53:23.100 he said

00:53:23.780 God receives none

00:53:24.800 but those who are forsaken

00:53:26.000 restores health

00:53:26.800 to none

00:53:27.220 but those who are sick

00:53:28.080 gives sight

00:53:28.900 to none

00:53:29.420 but the blind

00:53:30.020 and life

00:53:30.600 to none

00:53:30.980 but the dead

00:53:31.540 he does not give

00:53:32.540 saintliness

00:53:33.080 to any but sinners

00:53:34.020 nor wisdom

00:53:34.580 to any but fools

00:53:35.420 in short

00:53:35.920 he has mercy

00:53:36.840 on none

00:53:37.320 but the wretched

00:53:37.880 and gives grace

00:53:38.680 to none

00:53:39.240 but those who are

00:53:40.340 in disgrace

00:53:41.060 therefore no arrogant

00:53:42.500 saint

00:53:42.960 or just

00:53:43.720 or wise man

00:53:44.540 can be material

00:53:45.260 for God

00:53:45.820 neither can he do

00:53:46.620 the work of God

00:53:47.440 but he remains

00:53:48.360 confined within

00:53:49.280 his own work

00:53:50.020 and makes of himself

00:53:51.220 a fictitious

00:53:51.940 ostensible

00:53:52.840 false

00:53:53.540 deceitful saint

00:53:54.540 that is a hypocrite

00:53:55.860 in other words

00:53:57.040 you don't earn

00:53:58.460 your salvation

00:53:59.080 God is not

00:54:00.600 proud of you

00:54:01.400 because you've done

00:54:02.280 all of these good things

00:54:03.640 to merit his love

00:54:04.620 that is actually

00:54:05.260 the distinction

00:54:05.860 of Christianity

00:54:06.540 versus every other

00:54:07.620 religion in the world

00:54:08.540 every other religion

00:54:09.840 in the world

00:54:10.340 tells you how to get to God

00:54:11.440 Christianity is distinct

00:54:13.080 because it says

00:54:14.600 you can't make your way

00:54:15.680 to God

00:54:16.020 you can't climb up

00:54:17.020 this mountain

00:54:17.420 that is why

00:54:18.000 God

00:54:18.740 embodied

00:54:20.120 human form

00:54:21.240 came down to earth

00:54:22.180 to save us

00:54:22.900 that is why we read

00:54:23.880 that we are dead

00:54:24.560 in our sin

00:54:25.220 can a dead person

00:54:26.320 save himself

00:54:27.060 can a dead person

00:54:28.180 give an indulgence

00:54:29.080 to spring

00:54:30.340 a sinner

00:54:31.900 out of purgatory

00:54:32.840 can a dead person

00:54:34.040 clean himself off

00:54:35.380 and make himself

00:54:36.220 acceptable

00:54:37.040 no of course not

00:54:38.860 we are made alive

00:54:40.040 by grace

00:54:40.640 through faith

00:54:41.140 that is the gospel

00:54:42.340 that was recovered

00:54:43.120 through the reformation

00:54:44.200 and we are still

00:54:45.860 living

00:54:46.800 in the light

00:54:48.280 of the reformation

00:54:49.200 today

00:54:49.460 and I am so

00:54:50.340 incredibly thankful

00:54:51.240 for that

00:54:51.740 so yes

00:54:52.380 absolutely

00:54:53.200 we celebrate that

00:54:54.560 in our homes

00:54:55.280 and I

00:54:56.280 there are lots

00:54:56.860 of like kids books

00:54:57.720 about the reformation

00:54:58.740 and Martin Luther

00:54:59.440 on Amazon

00:55:00.020 I can't vouch

00:55:00.740 for all of them

00:55:01.600 we have a couple

00:55:02.340 I think

00:55:02.680 one is the ABCs

00:55:03.640 of the reformation

00:55:04.540 which are really good

00:55:07.120 and I just encourage you

00:55:08.200 if you're like me

00:55:09.000 and you were not raised

00:55:10.000 learning about the reformation

00:55:12.260 I think that it's really

00:55:13.280 important for we as Christians

00:55:14.700 to know church history

00:55:16.300 and that's not where

00:55:17.440 church history starts

00:55:18.460 I think it's really important

00:55:19.500 to read the church fathers

00:55:21.300 and to understand

00:55:22.100 the whole history

00:55:22.960 of the church

00:55:24.140 but certainly as Protestants

00:55:25.740 like we need to know

00:55:26.560 why we believe

00:55:27.240 what we believe

00:55:28.040 I actually have

00:55:29.020 on my necklace

00:55:29.940 right here

00:55:30.340 I've got the five solas

00:55:31.720 which was really

00:55:33.800 like the motto

00:55:34.640 of the reformation

00:55:36.120 sola scriptura

00:55:37.040 that's scripture alone

00:55:38.380 sola fide

00:55:39.080 faith alone

00:55:39.780 sola gratia

00:55:40.560 grace alone

00:55:41.160 solus Christus

00:55:42.160 Christ alone

00:55:42.900 and soli deo gloria

00:55:44.120 to God's glory alone

00:55:45.220 sometimes you'll see me say

00:55:46.220 SDG

00:55:47.320 and that's what I mean

00:55:48.580 soli deo gloria

00:55:49.780 for God's glory alone

00:55:51.300 and it was said like this

00:55:52.640 by grace alone

00:55:53.440 through faith alone

00:55:54.320 in Christ alone

00:55:55.180 according to scripture alone

00:55:56.600 for God's glory alone

00:55:58.440 and that's what I have

00:56:00.000 on my necklace

00:56:00.700 along with the cross

00:56:01.620 and the heart

00:56:02.140 in the middle

00:56:03.520 and that should still be

00:56:05.620 our rallying cry

00:56:06.640 I believe as Christians today

00:56:07.900 so there's so many ways

00:56:09.580 to redeem

00:56:10.840 this day of October 31st

00:56:12.700 without fear

00:56:13.440 without paranoia

00:56:14.620 without superstition

00:56:16.240 that can actually like

00:56:17.340 look closer to witchcraft

00:56:19.220 than someone who is

00:56:20.800 sharing the gospel

00:56:21.920 with their neighbors

00:56:23.580 on Halloween

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00:57:51.220 so here are just

00:57:52.180 a few things

00:57:52.740 to kind of close us out

00:57:53.820 Christians can create

00:57:55.260 more quote unquote

00:57:56.440 holy days

00:57:57.240 celebrating Christ's victory

00:57:58.420 reclaiming calendar time

00:58:00.000 rather than ceding it

00:58:01.600 to pagans

00:58:02.520 this is such

00:58:03.220 an important point

00:58:04.560 we don't have to cede

00:58:05.560 anything to the demonic

00:58:06.640 we don't have to cede

00:58:07.760 anything to pagans

00:58:09.340 and remember

00:58:10.360 every day

00:58:11.360 for the Christian

00:58:11.980 is holy

00:58:12.500 because we have the Holy Spirit

00:58:13.800 living in us

00:58:14.580 Hebrews 11 talks about

00:58:16.120 all the people of God

00:58:17.280 in the Old Testament

00:58:18.380 who lived by faith

00:58:19.620 and what they accomplished

00:58:20.780 through God

00:58:21.840 because of their faith

00:58:23.380 and so he lists several heroes

00:58:24.740 and then in verse 33

00:58:25.960 who through faith

00:58:27.020 conquered kingdoms

00:58:27.800 enforced justice

00:58:28.760 obtained promises

00:58:29.700 stopped the mouths of lions

00:58:31.020 quenched the power of fire

00:58:32.580 escaped the edge of the sword

00:58:33.900 were made strong

00:58:34.860 out of weakness

00:58:35.440 became mighty in war

00:58:36.680 put foreign armies to flight

00:58:38.100 women received back

00:58:39.380 their dead by resurrection

00:58:40.620 some were tortured

00:58:41.820 refusing to accept

00:58:42.740 their lease

00:58:43.100 so that they might rise again

00:58:44.480 to a better life

00:58:45.840 and then others

00:58:46.880 endured persecution

00:58:48.340 by faith

00:58:49.400 this is what Christians

00:58:50.360 can accomplish

00:58:51.040 by faith

00:58:51.840 not because

00:58:52.540 we are strong

00:58:53.500 but because God is strong

00:58:54.720 that is the power

00:58:55.600 that is within us

00:58:56.460 every day

00:58:57.600 because the Holy Spirit

00:58:58.600 living in us

00:58:59.360 we don't want to fall

00:59:01.560 into fearful

00:59:02.600 avoidance

00:59:04.020 and therefore

00:59:04.840 refuse to push back

00:59:07.000 against darkness

00:59:08.240 Matthew 28

00:59:09.060 19 through 20

00:59:10.660 go therefore

00:59:11.520 and make disciples

00:59:12.260 of all nations

00:59:13.000 baptizing them

00:59:13.740 in the name of the Father

00:59:14.500 the Son

00:59:14.980 and the Holy Spirit

00:59:15.700 teaching them to observe

00:59:16.720 all that I have commanded you

00:59:18.160 also we need to prioritize

00:59:20.440 family discipleship

00:59:21.700 and family worship

00:59:23.560 we need to explain

00:59:24.560 to our kids

00:59:25.420 Christ's supremacy

00:59:27.160 over evil

00:59:27.980 choosing

00:59:28.420 non-occult costumes

00:59:30.340 non-demonic costumes

00:59:31.540 and obviously

00:59:32.820 avoiding all kinds

00:59:34.140 of demonic activity

00:59:35.100 and remembering

00:59:36.920 that he has transferred us

00:59:38.440 from the domain of darkness

00:59:39.700 into the kingdom of light

00:59:41.860 1 John 4 4 says

00:59:43.740 little children

00:59:44.320 you are from God

00:59:45.020 and have overcome them

00:59:46.300 for he who is in you

00:59:47.460 is greater

00:59:48.080 than he who is in the world

00:59:49.780 we should also disciple

00:59:51.480 our kids

00:59:52.140 when it comes

00:59:52.940 to the reality

00:59:54.200 of darkness

00:59:54.920 and evil

00:59:55.700 Proverbs 22 6

00:59:57.060 tells us

00:59:57.560 train up a child

00:59:58.220 in the way he should go

00:59:59.200 even when he is old

01:00:00.420 he will not depart

01:00:01.440 from it

01:00:02.080 and we should also realize

01:00:04.580 that the trauma

01:00:05.200 that comes from Halloween

01:00:06.680 for some people

01:00:08.600 is real

01:00:10.340 decisions surrounding this

01:00:12.540 they require humility

01:00:13.620 they require wisdom

01:00:14.820 and they do

01:00:16.400 as I said

01:00:16.920 have a level

01:00:17.640 of liberty

01:00:18.920 James 1 5

01:00:20.540 if any of you

01:00:21.080 lacks wisdom

01:00:21.680 let him ask God

01:00:22.640 who gives generously

01:00:23.660 to all without reproach

01:00:25.080 and it will be

01:00:25.980 given to him

01:00:28.180 let convictions

01:00:29.280 form through the Holy Spirit

01:00:31.060 not just your impulses

01:00:32.340 not what you're seeing

01:00:33.120 on TikTok

01:00:33.600 not what I'm saying

01:00:34.500 or what anyone else

01:00:35.460 is saying

01:00:36.160 we should be engaging

01:00:37.240 culture to glorify God

01:00:38.940 and reclaiming it

01:00:39.900 Romans 14

01:00:40.920 5 through 6

01:00:42.500 one person esteems

01:00:43.440 one day is better

01:00:44.220 than another

01:00:44.720 while another

01:00:45.260 esteems all days alike

01:00:46.400 each one should be

01:00:47.920 fully convinced

01:00:48.500 in his own mind

01:00:49.180 the one who observes

01:00:49.920 the day

01:00:50.240 observes it

01:00:51.180 in honor of

01:00:53.220 the Lord

01:00:54.000 so every day

01:00:55.420 should be observed

01:00:56.400 in honor of the Lord

01:00:57.380 to glorify him

01:00:58.320 in everything we do

01:00:59.480 and in many ways

01:01:01.000 that will look the same

01:01:01.940 no matter who you are

01:01:03.040 but in some ways

01:01:04.460 depending on where God

01:01:05.740 has placed us

01:01:06.640 and our own convictions

01:01:09.720 that may look different

01:01:11.320 to a degree

01:01:12.780 that's not to say

01:01:13.740 everyone is right

01:01:14.600 or every choice

01:01:15.460 is equally right

01:01:16.760 we don't believe

01:01:17.600 in relativism

01:01:19.080 but we do believe

01:01:21.000 that where the Bible

01:01:22.580 is not explicit

01:01:24.060 that there could be

01:01:25.460 good faith disagreements

01:01:26.640 among Christians

01:01:27.320 but we should unite

01:01:28.500 that we do not fear Satan

01:01:29.980 we only fear God

01:01:31.380 and that we walk

01:01:33.000 in holiness with him

01:01:34.120 in uprightness with him

01:01:35.500 and seek to evangelize

01:01:37.680 and to glorify God

01:01:38.760 in everything we do

01:01:40.040 both inside our homes

01:01:41.060 and how we teach our kids

01:01:42.120 and also how we

01:01:43.800 engage our neighbors

01:01:45.420 all right

01:01:46.300 that's all we got time

01:01:47.460 for today

01:01:47.880 we will be back here

01:01:48.660 on Friday

01:01:49.100 we will be back here

01:01:52.700 we will be back here

01:01:52.760 and we will see you

01:01:53.080 as next Question

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 22, 2025

Ep 1257 ｜ Demonic or Christian？ How Believers Should Approach Halloween

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