Celebrating Halloween

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. — read the full passage →

“You shall not allow a sorceress to live. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

“You shall have no other gods before me.

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers. — read the full passage →

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”

“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. — read the full passage →

neither give place to the devil.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus, — read the full passage →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. — read the full passage →

They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one, — read the full passage →

He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

“‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’”

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake. — read the full passage →

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. — read the full passage →

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. — read the full passage →

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!” — read the full passage →

It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.

I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. — read the full passage →

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. — read the full passage →

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. — read the full passage →

These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth. — read the full passage →

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak: they must be carried, because they can’t go. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.” — read the full passage →

King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea. — read the full passage →

know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen. — read the full passage →

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. — read the full passage →

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, — read the full passage →

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ. — read the full passage →

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven. — read the full passage →

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. — read the full passage →

They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. — read the full passage →

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. — read the full passage →

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed. — read the full passage →

The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul. — read the full passage →

For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don’t let your prophets who are in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. — read the full passage →

The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw: — read the full passage →

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge. — read the full passage →

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. — read the full passage →

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. — read the full passage →

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish— vanish like smoke. — read the full passage →

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.” — read the full passage →

Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, — read the full passage →

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” — read the full passage →

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.” — read the full passage →

“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. — read the full passage →

The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion. — read the full passage →