Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry Sorcery Hatred Contentions Jealousies

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions

James van Praagh “I’m clairsentient…I am also clairvoyant … the first is feeling, the

• Fornication • Uncleanness • Lewdness • Idolatry • Sorcery • • •

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• • • • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry Sorcery Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Works of the Flesh False Gods, False Messages Galatians 5: 20

• Fornication • Uncleanness • Lewdness • Idolatry • • • Sorcery Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Idolatry (eidololatreia) • “The worship of false gods” (Thayer); “Image-worship” (Strong’s) – Isa. 44: 1217, 18 -20. Function of the idol… – Localize, Exo. 32: 4; 1 Kgs. 12: 28 -29 – Visualize, Deut. 4: 15 -18 – Eventually, worship focused on the object itself, Num. 21: 5 -9; 2 Kgs. 18: 4 • To whom will you liken God? Isa. 40: 18 -20; 25 -26 2

• Fornication • Uncleanness • Lewdness • Idolatry • • • Sorcery Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Idolatry (eidololatreia) • Basic error of idol worship, Rom. 1: 1923 (Worship of created instead of Creator) • Invisible God…Visible evidence • Known by man…Refused to worship Him • Foolish…Worshiped images of corruptible things – Idolatry is a lie: False worship of false god • Man’s god: Primary dedication of time, substance & talents – Isa. 44: 12 3

• Fornication • Uncleanness • Lewdness • Idolatry • • • Sorcery Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Idolatry (eidololatreia) • Forms of idolatry – Image worship, Acts 17: 23, 29 – Nature worship, 2 Kgs. 23: 5 (Dt. 4: 19) – Self-worship, Phil. 3: 19 (Rom. 16: 18; 2 Tim. 3: 4) – Covetousness, Col. 3: 5 (Eph. 5: 5) • Flee from idolatry (1 Cor. 10: 14) 4

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) “the use or the administering of drugs…magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it…metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry” (Thayer, 649) 5

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • God completely condemns sorcery with its presumed power of imparting knowledge to man – Sorcery v. God’s prophet, Deut. 18: 10 -15 (Lev. 19: 31) – Rebellion, 1 Sam. 15: 23 (Exo. 22: 18) – Converts destroyed magic books, Acts 19: 19 6

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • Modern-day Sorcery – Astrology (Isaiah 47: 13 -15) • “The study which assumes and professes to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs. ” (Random House Dictionary, 92) • Cannot save! 7

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • Nostradamus (1503 -1566) –Tombstone (Salon, France) “Here lie the remains of the most illustrious Michel Nostradamus, the only one to judge all mortals and whose pen, semi divine, wrote the future events to take place in the world, based on the course of the stars…. ” 8

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • Nostradamus (1503 -1566) –“He is the most pretentious of all prophets: he states blandly in his Preface that his prophecies run until 3797. ” (Leoni) –“Many of his prophecies lend themselves to repeated interpretations, so that they never seem to be out of date. ” (Leoni) 9

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • Nostradamus (1503 -1566) –“Friend & foe alike agree that his prognostications were very ambiguous! … His foes suggest he wrote of things which happen most ordinarily, and not extraordinarily. ” (Leoni, Nostradamus: Life & Literature, 102) 10

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • Nostradamus (1503 -1566) – “In other words, Nostradamus provided an ingenious system of divination in which the misses can never be recorded and only the hits come to the surface. [About 1 in 1000] For the reputation of the would-be prophet, such conditions are naturally ideal. ” (Father Herbert Thurston, 1915) 11

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • Modern-day witchcraft – 60, 000 -200, 000 witches in USA (20 years ago) – “Redeeming social value in white witchcraft” (Richard Wood, Catholic priest) – Church of Wicca (nature worship) • “Bringing magic to the masses” • “If it harm none, do what you will” 13

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • Modern-day witchcraft – 1963: 441 “Spiritist” churches with membership of 200, 000 -700, 000 in U. S. – 4 million practicing Spiritists in South America – 3 million in West Germany subscribe to Spiritism, with another 7 million sympathizers 14

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • Modern-day Sorcery – Astrology (Isaiah 47: 13 -15) – White witchcraft; Spiritism – Occultism (Satanism) – Clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc. 15

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • The occult; Satanism – Church of Satan (1966); ~10, 000; started in San Francisco, CA – “Satan” is not a supernatural being, but man’s self-gratifying ego (what they really worship!) – The Satanic Bible (Anton La. Vey) 16

James van Praagh “I’m clairsentient…I am also clairvoyant … the first is feeling, the second is seeing, very much like Whoopi Goldberg in the movie, Ghost. ” http: //www. vanpraagh. com/bio. cfm 18

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • Clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc. – For example: James van Praagh • Talking to Heaven • Exposed by Michael Shermer (“How to talk to the dead” at www. holysmoke. org/praagh 2. htm) – Cold Reading – Warm Reading – Hot Reading 19

• • Fornication Uncleanness Lewdness Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken Sorcery (pharmakeia) • Why sorcery is sin – Divination v. Divine, Acts 8: 6, 911, 13 – Pseudo-power v. God’s power, Acts 8: 7 -11 – Pretense v. prophetic knowledge, Deut. 29: 29 (2 Pet. 1: 16 -21) 20

• Fornication • Uncleanness • Lewdness • Idolatry • Sorcery • • • Hatred Contentions Jealousies Wrath Ambitions Dissensions Heresies Envy Murders Drunken False Gods, False Messages • Idolatry: Devotion directed away from the Creator to the created • Sorcery: Deceptive messages displayed as the power of God • Turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God! (1 Ths. 1: 9 -10) 21