Can I be honest with you? I had a friend who said he was a male witch. There was no secret about it – he told everyone. He didn’t even dress in black or look mean. In fact, he owned a Chihuahua. To me, he always seemed rather pleasant and apart from the odd, weird jewellery, you couldn’t tell he was into anything dark. Surely it can’t be all that bad to be of a different religion, even witchcraft? Can’t people just be left to choose what they want to do with their lives? I don’t know what happened to him because we lost touch, but I never saw anything in the papers about him attacking anybody or having done anything sinister. Aren’t you over-reacting a bit about the importance of sticking with Jesus?
Some Satanists paint their faces white and blacken their eyes to look fierce. Despicable evil takes place in their covens, including sacrificing humans and drinking their blood. They are told that this wicked practice gives them more satanic power and it does. The wrong power.
Others are people who joined because they were curious, forced to or too gullible to realise what they were getting into. It is not surprising that your friend seemed like an ordinary citizen. All religions promise false rewards. The devil doesn’t just own satanism but is the master behind every ‘faith’ that contradicts God and denies the power and sovereignty of Jesus. Even gentle, sweet old ladies can be travelling down a path to Hell because of misdirected devotions. I’m sure they serve tea and coffee in spiritualist churches in the same way they are held in mine. But chatting over a beverage and cake in the wrong place can be as deadly as unclipping your seat belt on a roller coaster ride.
Coming back to those hungry for evil power: They earn themselves the wrong kind of respect. The devil is not proud of them like a daddy is when his son rides a bike for the first time without stabilizers.
The devil hates everyone, even those who have given up their lives to serve him. He deceives them into thinking that they will inherit their own kingdom when they die.
But the devil is a master deceiver. He is no loving daddy. He hates you. Cute babies, fluffy kittens, cheeky puppies – anything and everything. He is 100% hate and wants to destroy you. He doesn’t play fair and knows no good.
You will not inherit anything lovely if you choose to follow the devil. If you worship his associates, you will not earn yourself anything but an eternity of physical torment that you cannot faint from to escape the pain.
The devil is the Master of Selfishness and Lies. You may gain the power to put curses on people who are not protected by the blood of Jesus. But nobody is applauding you, not God in Heaven, not the god you are serving so faithfully.
Is it worth it? For being able to scare some humans for a few moments on earth?
Is it worth having a good natter around a coffee table with people who are going to be screaming as loudly as you in the stinking pit next to yours? Forever? And ever and ever and ever?
God is Love Personified. He does not want anybody to suffer eternally. But he has given that choice over to us. Accept Jesus or be damned. Reject truth at your own expense.
Nobody who enters Hell can blame anybody for their destination. You are being given the chance right now to know the truth. Remember it is the truth that will set you free from deception.
You are serving the one who’s goal is to destroy you no matter what ‘jobs’ you accomplished for him.
Keep allowing yourself to be deceived into thinking you are dabbling in harmless fun and you will definitely fall into his trap.
I hope your friend discovered this before it was too late for him.
The Lord approves those who are good but condemns those who plan wickedness. (Proverbs 12:2)
Okay, I understand that dabbling with evil is wrong and harmful to the one involved. But some of my other buddies do actually participate in church activities. I have a friend who thinks you are being too intense about all this. I was telling him about stuff you were going on about, and he says you’re wrong.
He goes to a church that sing hymns and talk about Jesus, but they’re not hung-up on him being the same as God. He says you are getting your ‘unmentionables in a twist’ over nothing. I think what he means is, your insistence that Jesus is part of a godly threesome is a bit unbalanced and that you should leave others to believe what they want. From what I hear of his church, it’s all basically the same thing anyway.
Please don’t misunderstand – there are many religions out there that think they are in love with God the Creator, and they acknowledge the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But they do not acknowledge the most important truth – a truth that separates them from real Christianity:
The deity of Jesus.
Like I explained in Chapter 4, Jesus is one with God the Father. He is king of all creation.
Well Lassie, that just highlights your arrogance and the arrogance of Christianity! Why, out of all the beliefs in the world, do you Christians claim to be the only ones who know the real truth? Why would you be so proud as to claim you’re the only ones to be right?
If that’s not the heart of conceitedness, I don’t know what is!
I understand why comments like this stir up anger. But God has stated plainly that if we say we know him and love him but refuse to acknowledge the deity of his son, then we don’t really love him at all.
**Those who have embraced Jesus have embraced God. We cannot have a relationship with the father if we reject the son.
So, dear friend, this truth does not highlight an arrogance in Christians – it highlights the subtlety of deception.
The devil doesn’t care what you believe about Jesus, so long as you stop short of believing he is the Master of the Universe. You can sing praise to God all you want. You can deliver leaflets in your local neighbourhood, inviting people to your church and end up with a congregation of thousands. Serve up as many bowls of soup to the homeless as you like; that’s a noble cause, but if you reject Jesus as being the Lord of all the earth, the state of your soul is no better than the paedophile who is regularly wrecking the lives of hundreds of innocent children.
How dare you compare me to a paedophile! You’ve gone too far this time. They are the scum of the earth! You…
Okay, I did not mean to offend – I’m just trying to show you how deluded we all are when we try to satisfy our consciences by thinking we are out of the danger zone, when in reality, we’re right in the middle.
If you thought you had house insurance while living in a tornado-prone district, would your satisfaction of the fact that you are covered make a difference when your precious dwelling, together with all your belongings, were destroyed?
The insurance company would look through your paperwork and shake their heads in sympathy. You were deluded and that delusion has cost you everything you’ve worked for. The physical evidence of your past has gone forever.
Sympathy will not get your possessions back. In the same way, ignorance of the truth of who Jesus really is will not insure you against an eternity in Hell.
Haven’t you suffered enough on earth already?
Don’t let stubbornness lead you to the worst kind of suffering imaginable. Ask God to soften your heart and to open your spiritual eyes. Your future depends on it, Bro’.
** “Anyone who has seen me has seen the father.” (John 14:9)
** “No-one can come to the father except through me.” (John 14:6)
