Oct. 29, 2025

Halloween Wake-Up Call in the End Times

Halloween Wake-Up Call in the End Times

Send us a text The doorbell rings, the porch glows orange, and culture says “lighten up.” We refuse to rename darkness. Rick and Lauren take us straight into the tension many believers feel around Halloween: warm memories and social pressure on one side, the clarity of Scripture on the other. With Ephesians 5:11 as our anchor, we trace the roots of Samhain, the attempted religious rebrand, and why labels can’t sanctify practices God calls detestable. We move from history to the heart, exposi...

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The doorbell rings, the porch glows orange, and culture says “lighten up.” We refuse to rename darkness. Rick and Lauren take us straight into the tension many believers feel around Halloween: warm memories and social pressure on one side, the clarity of Scripture on the other. With Ephesians 5:11 as our anchor, we trace the roots of Samhain, the attempted religious rebrand, and why labels can’t sanctify practices God calls detestable.

We move from history to the heart, exposing how fear, death, and the occult get normalized through billion-dollar industries and “harmless fun.” From haunted houses to horror films, from crystals to sage and astrology, the enemy exploits curiosity and comfort. You’ll hear honest testimonies of desensitization, the quiet cost of compromise, and the liberating difference between apology and repentance. Acts 19 gives a blueprint for freedom: don’t store the darkness for special occasions—burn it, close the doors, and make room for the presence of God.

This is a wake-up call, not a pile-on. We offer practical steps to lead your home with courage: cancel the party, remove the decor, teach your children why, and choose holiness over nostalgia. A corporate prayer of renunciation and a powerful Scripture reading help you reclaim spiritual ground and stand under the authority of Jesus, the One who exposes darkness and destroys the works of the devil. If you’re ready to trade cultural permission for kingdom conviction, this conversation will steady your mind and strengthen your resolve.

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Be An Encourager...Not A Discourager!

Chapters

02:31 - Opening

04:15 - Origins of Halloween

06:39 - Scriptural Breakdown

08:17 - Cultural Deception in the Last Days

09:39 - The Occult in Modern Diguise

11:10 - The Enemies Strategy Against Believers

13:38 - Light vs Darkness

14:34 - Repentance and Spiritual Warfare Challenge

17:23 - Scripture References

19:38 - Message from Rick

Transcript
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Imagine this.

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A believer stands inside his home.

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He's praying for God to transform his life.

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He's been sensing a tug from the Holy Spirit, a deeper hunger for righteousness.

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It's been stirring inside him.

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Yet he feels spiritual pressure all around him tonight.

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Something heavy, something cold.

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The world outside has chosen this night to glorify darkness, to laugh at death, to find pleasure in the things that God hates.

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It feels like a joke to them.

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It is certainly not a joke to the devil.

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Demons do not need full permission.

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They only need access.

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On this night, access is everywhere.

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Fear is celebrated.

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The occult is normalized.

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Spiritual guards are lowered.

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Curiosity is allowed to roam unchecked.

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What he cannot see is what's gathering around his home.

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The enemy doesn't play fair.

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Demonic spirits are watching, waiting, hoping someone inside the home opens a door.

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They are legalists.

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If they find the smallest agreement with their kingdom, they can lay claim to influence.

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Heaven and hell are paying attention tonight.

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As the doorbell rings, the believer hesitates.

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Something in his spirit says, be careful.

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Do not let darkness in.

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Even wrapped in cuteness and candy.

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But the enemy whispers that resisting makes him strange, dramatic, legalistic.

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The world says lighten up.

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God says wake up.

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This is warfare, not imagination, not superstition.

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Spiritual warfare is the reality believers step into every day.

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Today is no exception.

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It is a highlight.

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Let's go, boys.

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Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets.

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I'm Rick, and I'm so glad you're here.

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Thank you for joining me for a very important episode.

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This content matters because your spiritual life matters, your household matters, your children's future matters.

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Your witness in these last days matters.

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Halloween is a cultural celebration boldly rooted in the kingdom of darkness.

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With me is Lauren King, who has her own insight into this night, well, this season of evil.

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We're not softening that truth.

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We're confronting it with scripture and with spiritual clarity.

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Hey, I'm Lauren, and I'm very glad to be here with y'all today.

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We are co-teaching this because believers need two voices of boldness right now.

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We want to guide you through this topic with compassion for people and absolute intolerance for darkness.

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All through scripture, God draws a line between what belongs to him and what belongs to Satan.

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The devil constantly works to blur that line.

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Right.

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So our anchored text today speaks to that.

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It's Ephesians 5 11.

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Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness.

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Instead, expose them.

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Did you hear that?

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Not tolerate them, not sanitize them, not rename them, but expose them.

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Exactly.

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And if God calls something darkness, his people cannot call it harmless.

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So Halloween didn't originate in America.

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Did you know that, Lauren?

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I didn't.

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You didn't?

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Well, it didn't.

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It did not come from candy companies.

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It didn't begin as children dressing like firemen or a princess.

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The roots go back to ancient Celtic paganism, centered around the festival called Sawin.

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Now it's spelled Sam Hain S-A-M-H-I-N, but it's pronounced Sawin in case you want to look it up.

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Now they believed on this night the dead roamed the earth.

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Spirits wandered freely, and they did it to keep spirits away.

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People carved frightening images into vegetables.

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That sentence sounds really weird.

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They carved images into vegetables, but that practice the practice later became known as the jack-o'-lantern.

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And they also believed demons could take any human form.

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Like they wore animal skins and masks to confuse these spirits.

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This tradition evolved into costumes, like the ones you see, witches and little devils, stuff like that.

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Fairies.

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Fairies, yes.

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And fires were lit to ward off evil, and offerings were made to appease the ghosts.

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Crazy.

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Divination practices such as communicating with spirits and telling fortunes were actually very common and still are.

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Now, none of this is spiritually neutral.

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It was rooted in fear and superstition, not God.

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Right.

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When the Roman Catholic Church attempted to Christianize pagan practices, they just attached new names to it.

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They called it All Hollows Eve, All Saints Day, All Souls Day.

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This was not a cleansing, it was a blending.

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And whenever the church blends with the world, the church loses.

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Yes, it does.

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And a new label does not sanctify a dark root.

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God never called his people to the Say that again.

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Okay.

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A new label does not sanctify a dark root.

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That's good.

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And God never called his people to redeem pagan rituals, he called them to absolutely destroy them.

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All right, now the word of God is not vague about spiritual practices tied to death and the occult.

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Scripture actually repeatedly warns against everything Halloween stands for.

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Like in Deuteronomy 18, 9 through 12, God specifically prohibits fortune telling, witchcraft, interpreting omens, casting spells, mediumship, and speaking to the dead.

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So your Ouija boards and all that.

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God does not say these things are pretend.

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He does not say they are harmless.

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He calls them detestable.

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Detestable.

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Yes.

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The Bible teaches us that the dead do not roam the earth.

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If a supernatural manifestation appears to you, claiming to be a dead person, scripture identifies that as a demon.

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Halloween is built entirely upon honoring and entertaining that very deception.

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Isaiah 8.19 says that when people tell you to consult mediums and spirits, you should not listen because they whisper lies.

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Now most of us, most of us really have fun memories of Halloween from our childhood.

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That's true.

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But God has spoken clearly.

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Darkness does not become safe by calling it nostalgia.

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That's exactly right.

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And Romans 12 2 commands believers to stop conforming to the patterns of this world.

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Halloween is one of the strongest patterns of darkness that the world celebrates annually.

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Holiness requires a choice.

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The enemy's greatest weapon is not violence, it's deception.

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He deceives through normalization, through comfort, through tradition, through the phrase, well, I don't see the harm in it.

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If Satan can get Christians to stop noticing darkness, he's already won half the battle.

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Yes.

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And today, Halloween is a multi-billion dollar industry.

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The darker the imagery, the more popular it becomes.

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It's like people weirdly find comfort in evil.

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Yeah, that should not be dark.

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Haunted houses depict torture and human suffering.

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Movies glorify demonic possession, and children learn horror as entertainment and fun.

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That's actually very sick.

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Satan uses the imagination as a gateway.

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Terror becomes a thrill.

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Like people really get a fun thrill out of being scared.

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Some people love to be scared.

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I don't.

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Sin becomes a joke, and the demonic becomes entertainment.

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That's the deception.

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When darkness becomes fun, righteousness becomes boring.

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So this would be your new age mess.

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Like young people are drawn to crystals, sage cleansing, astrology, like all the zodiac signs, and rituals that the Bible condemns.

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Wicca is one of the fastest growing religions in the West.

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And people proudly identify as witches.

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Entire stores profit from spells and spirit contracts.

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Halloween emboldens this culture.

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Yeah, you know, I know a woman that I mean, I've known her for years.

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And if you go to her Facebook page, she's constantly singing gospel songs and talking about Jesus.

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And then the next post later, she's talking about how she got home and felt a little uneasy and burned some sage, and now everything's good.

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And I'm like, I don't even know what to say to her at this point, you know?

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Mm-hmm.

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Well, Acts 19 describes new believers burning their occult materials in a public bonfire after they encountered the power of Jesus.

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Now they didn't store them in a closet and bring them out once a year, they burned them and got rid of them.

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If believers today kept that same fire, Halloween would collapse.

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Exactly.

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And in 2 Corinthians 6 17, it says, Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord.

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Separation is a command.

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It's not an option, and it's definitely not a lifestyle suggestion.

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The enemy specializes in entry points.

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Exposure to darkness trains the mind to accept the darkness later.

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A playful fascination with horror can become a lifelong struggle with anxiety, sleep paralysis, demonic oppression, intrusive thoughts.

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Satan knows that if he can plant seeds in childhood, he can harvest them in adulthood.

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And I can speak from experience on that, Rick.

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Um my younger years were filled with watching scary movies and liking horror stuff, and it definitely opens up doors to a lot of things, and people don't realize it until it's sometimes too late.

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I didn't watch scary movies when I was a kid because I was too scared.

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But when I got to be a young adult, I really started watching them.

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Maybe young adult, maybe 16.

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I think that was when Nightmare in Elm Street came out when I was 16, and that kind of started a whole new thing that lasted probably 15 or 20 years.

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What's weird is pushing 60 now, I can sit down and watch a scary movie if it was on.

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I can't spiritually watch it anymore.

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Because it doesn't feel right, but I'd been so conditioned for so long that it I have to force myself into think into knowing that it's not right because it's so normal, it became such a normal thing.

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And going to haunted houses, I I took my my daughter to haunted houses, took her friends to haunted houses.

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This isn't that long ago.

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I was peer pressured into going to a haunted house.

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I did not want to go, but what's crazy is I was allowed to watch scary movies as a kid because I had a mother who liked them.

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I know.

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So every compromise sends a message to the next generation.

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Children learn what we celebrate.

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If Christians celebrate the culture of death one night a year, they are unintentionally discipling their children to make peace with the devil's favorite weapons.

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Fear, death, witchcraft, spirits, these are not decorations.

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They are an agenda.

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Yes, they are.

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They were called strange and they were hated, they were persecuted, yet their loyalty to Jesus is what made Christianity unstoppable.

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Holiness has always been costly, but it has never been optional.

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Wow.

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Ephesians 5 says, We were once darkness, but now we are light in the Lord.

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Our identity must shape our behavior, not the season.

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Yes.

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Now I want you to really hear me here.

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If you have participated in Halloween, do not hide in shame.

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God is patient and merciful.

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He reveals truth so we can walk in freedom.

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Repentance is a gift and it is the doorway to power.

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Repentance is not saying sorry.

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Repentance is choosing a new allegiance.

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Yeah, Revelation 8, um, eight, I think it's 18.

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Sorry, Revelation 18, 4 says, Come out of Babylon, my people, so you will not share in her sins.

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Now that's a command for today's church.

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The closer we get to the return of Christ, the more urgent separation becomes.

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Now, tonight or today, or whenever you're listening to it, it's a turning point.

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It's the moment to reclaim spiritual ground and shut every door to the devil.

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Faith without action is only opinion.

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Yeah, cancel the party.

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Remove the decor, teach your children why, and give the devil nothing to exploit.

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A cleansed home hosts the presence of God.

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Pray with us.

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Father God, we choose your kingdom over every shadow.

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We renounce every compromise with darkness.

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We reject the lies of the enemy.

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Father, cleanse us from every influence that has worked against your will.

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Lord, purify our homes, purify our imagination, purify our traditions.

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We make a stand tonight, not because we're perfect, but because you're holy.

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Lord, open our spiritual eyes, give us courage to be set apart, give us discernment to recognize the schemes of the enemy, and let your light expose every hidden work of darkness.

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We stand under the authority of Jesus Christ, the only one with the power to defeat death and destroy the works of the devil.

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Amen.

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Tonight we declare our homes belong to Jesus.

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Our families belong to Jesus.

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Our hearts belong to Jesus.

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Our future belongs to Jesus.

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Darkness has no place here.

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We will take no part.

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We will expose it.

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Thank you for joining us for this Halloween wake-up call.

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Stay awake, stay holy, stay ready.

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The king is coming soon.

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Before we close today, I want the word of God to wash over our hearts and anchor everything we've discussed in truth.

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Ephesians 5 11 says, take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness, instead expose them.

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Romans 12.2 is do not copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

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2 Corinthians 6.14.

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How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness?

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How can light live with darkness?

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James 4 7.

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So humble yourselves before God.

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Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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Galatians 5 19 through 21.

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The acts of the sinful nature are obvious.

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Sorcery is listed among them.

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Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

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1 Thessalonians 5, 5 through 6.

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For you are all children of the light and of the day.

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So be on your guard, not asleep like the others.

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Isaiah 5.20.

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Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.

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Deuteronomy 18, 10 through 12.

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God forbids any form of witchcraft, fortune telling, or contact with spirits of the dead, calling these practices detestable.

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2 Corinthians 10, 4 through 5.

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The weapons we fight with are not carnal.

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They have divine power to demolish strongholds.

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We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

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Now these scriptures are not suggestions, they are invitations into freedom and holiness.

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God is calling his people to stand apart from the darkness of the world.

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He's calling us to shine.

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Remember who you are, remember who you represent, walk as children of the light.

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Thank you for listening to this bonus reading.

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Rick and I love you so much.

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We are praying for you and keep your mind renewed in the Word of God.

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Jesus is coming soon.

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One last thing for you today.

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I want to thank you for listening.

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None of this that's been shared was done to spoil anybody's fun or to act like the moral police.

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It's been spoken in love.

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These are the days of our lives.

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No, sorry.

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It took me back to summers watching soap operas with my grandmother.

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These are the days when darkness is celebrated without a second thought, and holiness is mocked as old fashioned.

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We don't have the luxury of treating even one night like the spiritual realm is a joke.

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This is life and death.

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These are the end times.

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Renewed minds have to stay awake while the world sleeps.

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Followers of Jesus must choose the narrow way when the broad road looks exciting and harmless.

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Now, my prayer for you is that today, tonight, and every night we stand on the side of the one who defeated death itself.

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Let your home be a place of light.

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Let your choices reflect loyalty to the kingdom that cannot be shaken.

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Thank you for walking this journey with us.

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Stay alert, stay grounded in the truth, and stay renewed in your mind.

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The executive producer of Renewed Mindsets is Christy McCurry.

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That's all for today, but I'll be back with more unfiltered biblical truth and undeniable prophecy.

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The time to wake up is now.

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If today's episode challenged you, don't keep it to yourself.

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Tell someone, please, text them a link, share the truth while there's still time.

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Visit renewedmindsets.com to stay connected and to listen to past episodes.

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And check out our merch at renewedmindsets.store.

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Jesus is coming soon.

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Stay watchful.

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Stay holy.

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Stay renewed.

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Until next week, I'm Rick.

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Be an encourager, not a discourager.

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I love you.

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See ya.

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From the album Are You Ready?

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Copyright 2002 Offbeat Ministries Incorporated.

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