Seize the Moment – Day 1430
Beware of Real Danger!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, February 15.
Witchcraft and magic are real. The danger of dabbling with spells and sorceries is like playing with fire. You are going to get burned because the powers and principalities you are seeking to manipulate have their own agenda, and there is nothing innocent about any of it! We saw Pharoah’s magicians matching some of Moses’ miraculous signs in Exodus 7, and we watched Saul consult a medium in 1 Samuel 28. As God cast His judgment upon Babylon, He referenced their wicked use of witchcraft in Isaiah 47:9b-11:
In spite of your many sorceries, in spite of the great power of your spells. You felt secure in your wickedness and said, “No one sees me,” your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; for you have said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” But evil will come on you which you will not know how to charm away; and disaster will fall on you for which you cannot atone; and destruction about which you do not know will come on you suddenly.
Yahweh continued, saying that such supernatural means would not save Babylon from destruction; in fact, they would become like stubble burned in the fire. The use of spiritism and magic, commonly practiced by the ancients to manipulate their gods, was specifically forbidden for the Israelites (Deuteronomy 18:9-14). The same is true for followers of Jesus; we are to turn away from all forms of evil (Galatians 5:19-21; 1 Peter 3:11; Revelation 21:8). Remove such things from your life because evil only wants “to steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10). Don’t seek wisdom or power from below, but from God (James 3:15-17).
Seize the moment and stop seeking power through forbidden means – “You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
God bless you!
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