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The Pagan Invasion is an explosive new 13-part video series providing a thorough behind-the-scenes
examination of today's New Age movement and neo-pagan revival.
The Pagan Invasion is an explosive new 13-part video series providing a thorough behind-the-scenes
examination of today's New Age movement and neo-pagan revival.
The Pagan Invasion is an explosive new 13-part video series providing a thorough behind-the-scenes
examination of today's New Age movement and neo-pagan revival.
The Pagan Invasion is an explosive new 13-part video series providing a thorough behind-the-scenes
examination of today's New Age movement and neo-pagan revival.
The Pagan Invasion is an explosive new 13-part video series providing a thorough behind-the-scenes
examination of today's New Age movement and neo-pagan revival.
Hello, I'm Chuck Smith.
And I'm Carol Matriciana.
Welcome to this edition of the Pagan Invasion.
Satanism.
It is a subject that can produce a variety of reactions from incredulous disbelief to
paralyzing fear.
Yet even if one were to choose not to believe in the reality of Satanism, one would at least
have to acknowledge its growing entry into mainstream society.
Movies like Exorcist III and Witches fill the theaters and living rooms throughout our
nation.
Sadistic violence floods feature films with the bodies of the dead and maimed.
Music videos have turned increasingly pornographic.
More than 50 major black metal rock groups preach satanic messages and even call for
the worship of the Prince of Darkness.
Occult images of superheroes with magical powers of sorcery fill the hearts and the
minds of children in the cartoons and video games.
Seventy-five years of films, 50 years of TV, and decades of recorded music have brought
Americans to an insatiable lust for sex, violence, witchcraft, perversion, and occultic mysteries.
The dawn of the 21st century has brought this nation to an unbelievable and yet undeniable
obsession with the macabre.
In a word, our society has marched boldly and defiantly through the doorway of Satan.
This fascination with the works of darkness and the occult is seen at every level of our
society.
From the absolutely phenomenal success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Anton LaVey's
First Church of Satan in San Francisco, our culture is being sucked deeper and deeper
into the vortex of satanic influence and domination.
Today, according to our research, multiplied thousands in the free world are involved in
Satanism.
A recent publication from Europe reports that there are up to 100,000 black witches, Satanists,
and chaos magicians in Great Britain alone.
In Germany, an estimated 10,000 people practice black magic.
Law enforcement agencies across North America are inundated with criminal cases involving
satanic activity.
Everything from grave desecrations to child pornography and molestations, ritual abuse,
animal mutilations, human sacrificial murder, cannibalism, rape, sodomy, and defacement
of churches and synagogues.
Leading experts on Satanism and crime in America speculate that there is an international network
of Satanists who are responsible for child pornography.
Satanism is on the rise, and it's not about to go away.
Teenagers across America are playing with a new and frightening game, Satanism.
Their schoolbooks are marked up with satanic symbols, upside-down crosses, pentagrams,
the number 666.
Their fashions glamorize the demonic.
They are seduced by heavy metal heroes, many of whom feature satanic imagery in their songs
and album covers.
For some of these young people, the fixation on violence, evil, and death leads them to
commit abominable crimes, including suicide and human sacrifice.
Joseph Beeson, 18, and Edward Bennett, 19, both raised in Mormon homes, drew blood from
their own veins, and mutilated animals in satanic rituals.
But that wasn't enough, so they eventually killed 18-year-old Michelle Moore.
Sean Sellers, 17, the youngest death row inmate in Oklahoma, brutally murdered his mother
and stepfather because they tried to prevent her satanic rituals.
Scott Waterhouse, 17, tortured and killed a 12-year-old girl in a grisly satanic slaughter.
Pete Rowland, 17, formed a satanic cult with three other boys.
After sacrificing a cat, they turned on Steve Newbury, the fourth member of their group,
and beat him to death with baseball bats while chanting, a sacrifice for Satan.
Richard Ramirez, the night stalker, was convicted of 13 murders and 30 other felonies.
During the summer of 1985, he beat, strangled, raped, sodomized, shot, and slashed his victims
in a rampage of sadistic satanic slains.
In the spring of 89, the dead bodies of 13 victims, one of whom was only 16 years old,
were found mutilated and buried in a common grave near the American-Mexican border in
Matamoros.
This satanic, drug-smuggling cult believed that sacrificing humans in bizarre rituals
would give them magical protection.
The victims had been dealt blows with a hammer, and some suffered horrible mutilations, including
the removal of brains, hearts, and other organs that were then boiled in blood.
For those of us who have been involved in cult and occult research over the years, these
atrocious reports are unfortunately nothing new.
They are only the tip of the iceberg.
What used to be hidden or secret is now arrogantly brandished in public by Satanists who recruit
openly and display macabre graffiti and gruesome mutilations in public places.
Englishman Aleister Crowley, a leading inspiration in today's revival of Satanism, was a bisexual
heroin addict and demonologist who was violently opposed to Christianity.
In his book, Magic, he detailed the proper procedure for performing a child sacrifice.
Crowley's powerful influence is seen in such groups as the OTO, Ordo Templi Orientis, and
Colonel Michael Aquino's Temple of Set, an offshoot from the Church of Satan.
In 1966, Anton Lavey founded the First Church of Satan in San Francisco, which at one point
claimed 10,000 members.
Lavey authored the Satanic Bible and Satanic Rituals, two of Satanism's most important
books.
Astonishingly, when the Satanic Bible was first published, it outsold the Holy Bible
2 to 1 in many parts of America and 10 to 1 on some college campuses.
It teaches tenets that are totally opposed to goodness, purity and selfless behavior.
To the Satanist, good is evil and evil is good.
The truth is a lie and a lie is a truth, sweet is bitter and bitter is sweet.
And everything is twisted around the other way.
The Satanists have merely followed the pantheist way of thought to its logical conclusion.
If there are no absolutes, if God doesn't exist, he hasn't set absolute limits to what
we can do.
So therefore, anything that the self decides at once, the self can go after.
We believe in greed, we believe in selfishness, we believe in all of the lustful thoughts
that motivate man because this is man's natural feeling.
And therefore, Satanists take that to its extreme and say, if I want to be violent,
I can be violent.
If I want to hurt others to gain my way, then I can hurt others to gain my way.
There are generally four different groups of Satanists.
We would like to classify them as the dabbler.
Then you have your religious Satanist, then you have your non-traditional Satanist, and
then your generational Satanist.
The dabbler, we would classify as the teenager.
The teenager would simply learn some things from his friends at school, dabble a little
bit on the Ouija board, go down the library or the local bookstore and pick up a book
and kind of do his own thing.
Not real dangerous, but he can be moved into further areas which could be criminal or dangerous
in nature.
The dabblers are the people who are putting the graffiti up on walls, knocking over tombstones
and making a general nuisance of themselves in the public.
They are the ones also who will do the animal sacrifices, and they're really novices.
They're considered lower-level Satanists by those who are higher up into the Satanic
realm.
The religious Satanists are protected by law.
Anton LaVey's First Church of Satan in San Francisco would be an example of that.
They are religious in their approach, and they try not to violate any man-made laws
because it is not productive for their own self-interest.
Now, the non-traditional Satanist is a gentleman or lady or the group of people who would take
certain ideologies, develop a cult, usually polarized around some central theme, oftentimes
taken from a biblical aspect, and use that to commit crimes.
Or they may not commit any crimes, but for what we're talking about for these purposes,
the non-traditional Satanist is oftentimes the most dangerous.
Now then there are generational Satanists.
These are people who would have Satanism in their family, and it's passed down from generation
to generation just as the name would intimate.
And these Satanists would produce all kinds of horrors secretly.
From infancy they have learned all these things.
They have been molested, forced to drink blood, eat feces, urinated upon, sodomized, and just
from generation to generation it continues.
The main teaching is that Satan had a part in creating the world with God, and he was
wrongfully thrown out of heaven when he asked for equal power along with Jehovah God, and
that one day he would regain his rightful place.
So we have to make his army bigger, so the more recruits there are in Satanism and the
occult on the earth, the quicker his army would grow, and then he would take over and
overthrow Christ and the Christian church.
Worshipping of Satan is not a crime in the United States of America.
It's protected under the First Amendment.
Therefore, if you see a group of people dancing around a fire, they're not committing any
crime.
There's nothing that the United States law enforcement can do.
It's not against the law to be a Satanist or to be a member of a witchcraft group or
to be a doorknob worshiper.
I don't really care what your former religion is.
I don't investigate the religion.
It's the crime I investigate.
There are no statistics to prove anywhere in the United States of America or the world
that this stuff is widespread.
But it's my opinion that it's more widespread than you can shake a stick at.
In Britain, we are beginning to see that Satanism is widespread.
From the contacts we have through social services, voluntary agencies, and the police, we are
beginning to monitor the situation, therefore developing a picture which is showing that
we have a very serious problem.
The police, ministers, doctors, police officers, judges, businessmen, oilmen, teenagers are
all linked together for one purpose, to sacrifice whatever they want to Satan.
It would be a whole lot easier if these people wore horns and a pitchfork and a red suit,
but they just don't.
They could be your next door neighbor.
Glenn Hobbs is an ex-Satanist who was originally initiated into Satanism as a child by his
grandfather.
I recently asked him to reflect on some of his experiences.
My family was, in some senses, royalty in the occult.
We had a real pure bloodline that everybody in my family had been priests or priestesses,
and I was to take over that position.
I had been chosen to take over that position.
Glenn, can you explain the different purposes of ritualistic abuse to children?
This was part of the systematic thing that they were doing.
They were trying to make all my feelings towards blood, towards abuse, towards all these things
seared so that I had no type of emotional response to it whatsoever.
Now when I saw the blood of the animals that were cut, and most of the time they would
hold the animal over me and they'd slit its throat and the blood would drip down over
my body, and I was nude, and then they would force me to do sexual acts, and then we'd
be passed around to the different cult members and they would have sexual relations with
us.
I think at the time that it was happening, I was just so, the thought that was going
through my mind was I was just so happy that it wasn't me that had got my throat slit.
As a teenager, you grew into another category of Satanism.
Can you explain what happened?
I began to pray to Satan, and I began to say, take over my life, you know, make me your
high priest, all these things that somehow I knew that had been ingrained in me as a
child were coming back to me as a teenager, and I made that blood contract with Lucifer.
I had slit my wrist and wrote out a parchment between me and Lucifer, and after that, I
completely changed.
I became more like a priest, more active in my life, very rebellious.
I began to excel academically.
I began to excel in every area of my life.
Most of the rituals I performed as a teenager were animal rituals.
I didn't perform any human sacrifices because the spirit guides and the demons that were
in my life at that time were instructing me that until I initially came into the coven
and took over the position as the high priest, that that was when I would perform human sacrifice.
I was looking forward to it.
I was looking forward to my first human sacrifice.
At the heart of Satanism is a lust for power and pleasure.
Satan has endeavored to invoke spirit beings to tap into a power source beyond the physical
realm.
Many are convinced that it is Satan himself who appears to them while they are in a meditative
state or performing a ritual.
Others speak of the apparitions as gods, goddesses, and even demons.
Channeling, seances, astral projection, mediums, and visualization are all a part of the attempt
to plug into a power source that is controlled by the demonic.
As far as the attraction, I mean, what actually would make somebody become a Satanist?
Well, for some people, in my case at least, it was a gradual infiltration.
It was a move from things like ESP and flying saucers and then just a very gradual many-year
slide into finally regarding Satan as my god.
I got into Satanism simply because of the promise of power and wealth, and by being
invited to some parties which I went to, I was told I could have those things, but it
was a special gift that I couldn't have until I had been initiated.
I think it can be put in one four-letter word, lust, and I don't just mean sexual lust.
There is a lust for power that is part of our sinful nature.
There is a lust, of course, for sexuality, and there is a kind of, C.S. Lewis talks about
it as a spiritual lust, as the kind of spiritual itch to want to somehow reach into the unknown.
We're fascinated by it.
As a young boy of 13, 14, I practiced magic.
When you're that age, there is no limit to the scope of your imagination, and so everything
magical that we'd heard of, we tainted, calling forth the devil, invoking demons.
We tried all these things, and with some effects.
In 1981, Mark's quest to experience the more powerful side of black magic led him to start
his own satanic coven, the Temple of Olympus.
As far as I'm concerned, magic is about getting what you want.
Demons are people who get what they want.
They want the quick, slick answers to life by calling down these forces so they will
be able to manipulate whatever they need.
If you're not popular, you are told that certain rituals, compassion rituals, will gain you
popularity or gain you prestige with the opposite sex, and this is something that is also allure
to the satanists.
These are the basic elemental carnal lusts of the flesh that draw them in.
They taught me how to kill someone a spell, how to kill someone a spell, how to get someone
to lust for me.
From my experience, a child has turned to satanism initially because of an emotional
reason.
We have many more children coming from single-parent families, or where the head of the home, the
father, is not taking the fatherly role.
With teenagers especially, the appeal is to rebellion.
The appeal is to do whatever you can do to drive your parents crazy.
They want to supernaturally get back at their parents, and we have found a lot of teenagers
wanting to do it that way.
The other reason, I believe, is because the church has not met the needs of these teenagers.
They have not seen the supernatural power of God in the church.
They have not really seen the love of Christ amongst the people.
Today, satanism can be seen to be more blatant than ever before.
Satanic graffiti is no longer shocking, while recruiting, which was once hidden and obscure,
is now visibly public, and sadly, youth are the chief targets.
Recruiters will go out there into various high schools and draw kids into the system,
because they're very street-smart, some of these satanists, and they can draw these kids
into it very seductively, where their parents may not even know it.
I have young people calling me regularly, telling me that they have been involved in
some sort of animal mutilation sacrifice, and the reason why they say that they go out
to these animal mutilation sacrifices is because they're provided with vodka, or drugs, cocaine,
or free sex.
And so to cover up what I'd seen and what I'd been taking part in, I started taking
drugs, which they provided.
So that was another reason for staying at the Coven.
They were providing me heroin.
The old proverb, warning against wine, women, and song, has taken on new spiritual momentum.
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is the modern cry of a rebellious youth.
Satanist Aleister Crowley has indirectly influenced many leading rock groups, including The Beatles,
The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Ozzy Osbourne, who even wrote a song about Crowley.
Today's music industry commercializes satanic themes without concern for the souls they
seduce.
Even those bands who promote hardcore Satanism deny that they are Satanists, but admit that
Satanism sells and that they are simply giving their fans what they want to hear.
Many bands get their ideas from horror films and videos, which explicitly depict satanic
rituals, death, murder, and cruel tortures.
Evidence shows music laced with satanic overtones has played an important role in the lives
of many of the teenagers who have been convicted of satanic killings.
Band stalker Richard Ramirez, obsessed with the music of the rock group ACDC, admitted
that their lyrics influenced his mayhem killings.
I see a lot of them that are getting involved in it, and it started out with the music.
Not all rock music, mostly the things like the black metal or speed metal type things,
where they have the heavy satanic type overtones to the music.
Other groups such as Venom, Slayer, Merciful Fate, these are bands that will blatantly
teach these kids of various occultic practices.
One of the more popular bands playing in London is a group called the Devoted Men led by Mark,
High Priest of the Temple of Olympus.
Mark says he receives transmissions from demon gods and goddesses, who give him the music
and lyrics to perform on stage.
Very frequently there's this otherworldliness about the words themselves.
It's almost as if we're not writing the words, but we're just, our hand is performing the
action, but it's not our mind.
The Devoted Men take the music that we write for the Temple of Olympus and perform it in
London at the night spots and venues, before a live young audience, basically present our
message.
The band's main function is to recruit new members into the outer circle of Mark's satanic
cult.
High Priestesses Sarah and Julianne left the cult due to the inner circle's heavy dependence
on black magic and perverted sex rituals.
The idea of the Devoted Men, which was the band that they had, was another way to try
and get world domination.
They thought that by being a successful rock band, that they'd get the money to go to the
States and open up an enormous complex religion over there.
When you first joined the Temple of Olympus, you'd attend an outer circle meeting.
And from going along to that, you wouldn't realise what was really going on in the Temple
of Olympus at all, because that's only witnessed by the inner order.
You'd be offering flowers and wine and reading out poetry and everything would be very sweet
and very lovely.
In Britain, we are seeing from the recruitment programmes that we are watching and from the
contact magazines that we have, that what is being advertised and what is actually happening
in the Covent are two different things.
We were told to use whitewash liberally and to cover up any signs of, any shades of black
magic at all that were in the inner order.
And there are many other orders who put on this front of being fairly innocent, but actually
when the people are involved and initiated, they see that they are being trained into
prostitution, in pornography, as well as into Satanism itself as a religion.
Glenn, how did you get out of Satanism?
I was having some trouble in an English class and they assigned a tutor to me.
It was a little old Christian woman and for the first time in my life, I was confronted
with something that was bigger than me and bigger than Satan.
I walked into that room and that little lady, a little old lady was sitting there and there
was this holy light that was around her.
I could see it and the demons that were in my life that always went with me, they never
left me, they never left, they never let me make a decision by myself.
They instructed me in every area of my life who were always with me 24 hours a day, the
minute I walked into that room, they were gone.
They left.
I was left completely vulnerable to this woman.
I was infuriated.
I was so mad because I was threatened by a Christian and it just shook everything that
I believed in for a moment and she began to share with me Jesus Christ in a new way that
I had never learned before.
She told me that Jesus loved me.
I had no concept of love.
Love to me was something you took.
It was something you used to get what you wanted.
She told me something that has stuck with me all my life.
She said, Glenn, Jesus became a sacrifice for you willingly.
Now as a Satanist, I knew everything about sacrifice.
I knew what it was like to see people be sacrificed and none of them were willing to do it.
I said, okay, Jesus, if you're up there and you really died for me, you sacrificed yourself
for me, you were stupid.
You were stupid to do that.
Why would you do something like that?
If you're God and you're so real, prove it to me.
Prove it.
I clenched my fist and I closed my eyes and I stood there waiting for something to happen.
I thought, you know, if he's God, he's going to move the earth or there's be a bright light
or something, you know, but God threw me a curve ball.
He did something that I wouldn't have never expected.
He moved past all the Satanism.
He moved past all the hurt.
He moved past all those icy walls.
He reached in with his loving hand, reached around my cold heart and poured into me a
love that I had never felt since I was a little boy.
I never knew what it was like to be loved.
I never knew what it was like to be taken in my mother's arms or my father's arms and
to say, I love you.
I'm going to protect you.
Glenn, do you think that Christians are susceptible to being drawn into the occult?
I certainly do.
I know of many Christian people who tamper with the occult, many Christian people who
go to fortune tellers and have their palms read.
There are many Christians who read their horoscopes, many Christians who read occulting books.
And the thing about it is, is many Christians think that just because they've come to Jesus
Christ and He has forgiven them, that somehow that puts a magical protection around them
and they can do whatever they want to do.
They can tamper in the occult.
But the Lord points out really clear that if you open yourself up to Satan, if you give
him a foothold in your life, he will affect you.
He will take that legal right and he will cause your life to be one living mess.
Do you think that heavy metal music can be a tantalization into the occult?
I think of one young boy that his parents were Christians.
The boy began to listen to King Diamond.
Some of these guys who are professed Satanist and have very strong Satanic lyrics in their
music, he began to really concentrate all of his efforts and he'd come home, he'd go
in his room and he began to listen to this music over and over and over and over again.
That kid had built an altar, he was worshiping Satan, and he was doing it from the lyrics
of this music.
And the parents thought that by going into his room, that somehow they were going into
his area, you know, that they didn't have a right to do that.
But if they had just taken a little effort to go in and see what was going on, they could
have saved their child from killing himself, which he did, killing himself in the name
of Satan.
But that was a gradual process, it wasn't something that happened overnight.
I think of one young lady, her name was Patty.
She was the daughter of a minister and this girl felt so alone, she felt so rejected by
her church group, by her parents, she didn't feel like she fit in, she didn't feel like
she belonged.
Well, she had been invited to a party.
Now the people who threw this party were practicing Satanist.
They saw her coming a mile off and they said, Patty, we can see that you are a special person.
Patty, we see you've got a special ability, you've got some kind of a psychic ability.
You know things that other people don't know, right?
And Patty would say, yes, that's right.
They began to show her approval.
They began to have these parties where they had seances, they had these parties where
they would have drugs.
Now it escalated to the point where she was involved in a sexual orgy and they took Polaroid
pictures of her.
They brought the pictures to her and they said, now we're doing this for your good Patty.
You've got to become a part of this coven and if you don't, we're going to show your
parents what you've done.
Of course, what did she do?
She became part of the coven and the minute she did that, she went into rebellion.
A spirit of rebellion fell over her.
She became a high priestess of that coven and totally forsaked all of the Christian
teaching in her life.
And why was that?
Because she didn't feel the love of Jesus Christ in her life from Christian people.
In September 1990 in Washington, D.C., an international gathering of leaders of the
Church of Satan from across America and Europe was held.
The objectives were to plan a strategy and perform rituals designed to launch Satan's
all-out assault on the true Church of Jesus Christ and to work destruction upon Christians,
especially Christian leaders.
It was hoped that this convention would unleash full satanic power around the earth and harvest
additional souls for Satan.
Docs by children reveal how they were forced to participate in atrocious satanic rituals
involving animal and human sacrifice, sometimes even compelled to eat raw meat and drink blood.
Heartbreaking accounts detail how children were deliberately trapped in cages or graves
for hours at a time, sometimes even with snakes, how they were defecated and urinated on, sodomized
and raped by adults in satanic ceremonies.
These adults would wear robes similar to Christian clergy and perform rituals in Christian churches
not only to mock God, but to terrorize the children against a belief in biblical Christianity.
Is the court system able to handle this type of philosophy?
Do they believe in Satanism?
I mean, a lot of people just laugh at it.
Satanists believe that sexual perversions combined with the spilling of innocent blood
conjures up the strongest powers.
Reports show animals, including dogs, cats, goats and horses, being savagely skinned alive,
having their blood drained, organs removed or being split open and nailed to upside down
crosses.
It's believed that if you just kill an animal, that's not much good.
You've got to kill it slowly because, and this will be true of a person too, of course,
that the screams and that the agony of the animal would contribute to the high level
of power.
What results we had after just the first ritual, we were moved to throw every effort into
the successive workings.
The power, the response.
Animal sacrifices is commonplace today.
And in the order that I was involved in years ago, there was even human sacrifice.
These various satanic covens that meet need to have this kind of sacrifice for their high
festival days.
And it's sort of, I hate to say it like this, but it's like supply and demand.
The more satanic covens there are, the more children and babies and teenagers are going
to be brought out and sacrificed.
And again, it is the destruction of innocence that they seek.
From one of the nicer, quieter, more beautiful parts of England, namely the county of Surrey,
where people would find it hard to believe that these things go on, there is a confession
from a woman who said that her baby, when born, was used as a human sacrifice and satanic
rituals.
She said it herself.
She said it in public.
What does one make of that other than a heartbreaking confession to something that's been a guilty
secret for a long time?
You did things just because they were evil, just because you knew they hurt God.
Not because they gave you pleasure, but because you knew that it was a sin against God.
I had a 17-year-old boy call me and tell me that a year prior to his call, he was considering
joining a satanic group.
And he said the only thing that stopped him from joining was that he had to violate every
one of the Ten Commandments.
He said he was willing to do that except they were pushing for him to kill one of his parents,
and that snapped him to reality.
The secularization of our society, the media, schools, churches, and government institutions,
has created a vacuum whereby Satanism has been able to move in and capture the hearts
and souls of a vulnerable generation.
At no time in modern history has occultism in its various forms been so widely practiced
as it is today.
Here are some things that concerned parents can look out for.
You can see warning signs sometimes in a perfectly happy, healthy child who suddenly changes
so dramatically in his behavior.
Or a child who begins to show signs or suspicions of drug abuse.
You will see the same withdrawal symptoms as you would with drug abuse, where there
is a change in personality, aggression, a rebelliousness towards the parents, difficulty
in sleeping, temper tantrums, and wanting to stay in their room so that they can play
with the altar or call upon the gods.
Pay attention to his notebooks, things like that.
What's he really scratching or drawing on his notebooks?
What's he doing at home?
Is he withdrawing into himself?
Is he avoiding the rest of the family?
The greatest protection a parent can do is to keep an open line of communication with
the young people.
That's the central theme that comes up over and over with kids.
Well, I can't talk to my mom.
I can't talk to my father.
Let them know right from the start, it's okay to talk to you.
You're not going to condone them doing things wrong, but you're not going to stop loving
them either.
It's no good shouting and getting mad with the kids.
It is time to put your family in order.
If we don't handle this now properly in our church by teaching our Christian children
how their, where their protection lies, where their faith is, who is Satan, and where he
is in position to the Christian gospel, then we are going to be rendering the next generation
useless in defeating this problem, which is just escalating.
The Bible tells us that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities
and powers and these spirit forces in the high places.
Paul the Apostle also tells that the world system is under the control of Satan, and
that the God of this world has blinded the eyes of many people so that they cannot see.
If you do not yield your life to Jesus Christ and know the power of Jesus in your life,
then your life will come under the influence and the control and the power of Satan.
Jesus said concerning Satan that the enemy has come to rob, to kill, and to destroy.
And yielding your life to the Satanic powers will ultimately destroy you.
In contrast, Jesus said, but I have come that you might have life and that more abundantly.
The Lord offers to you an abundant life today.
Satan offers destruction.
A man must make his choice whether he will yield to the powers of God or to the powers
of darkness.
When you consider the consequences, it really doesn't make a choice, but it is just plain
good sense to yield yourself to God.
In all of us, there is a God-shaped vacuum.
Throughout the ages, man has attempted to fill that void with the things of the world.
But it is only through a relationship with our Creator that we can be truly satisfied.
His Holy Scriptures reveal the way in which we can be reconciled to God, and that is through
the provisions of His Son, Jesus Christ.
I'm Chuck Smith.
And I'm Carol Matriciana.
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