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A Man After Gods Own Heart: King David

David Wright

01 The Nobody Nobody Noticed

02 God’s Heart, God’s Man, God’s Ways

03 Giant Lessons Worth Remembering

04 Aftermath of a Giant Killing

05 Every Crutch Removed

06 How to Lie to Your Pastor

07 I Hate To Wait

08 Is This God’s Will or Mine?

09 Living Above Retaliation

10 Lying Appearances

11 When Seeing is not Believing

12 When Your Enemy Falls

14 Pulling Down Strongholds

13 Power Grab And Civil War

16 When God Says No

17 When Grace Calls You By Name

18 A Perilous Thing to Lose Dependence On God

19 Restore To Me The Joy

15 But God Knows My Heart

Spiritualism, occultism, witchcraft is on the rise in America and I think we could even say around the globe.

In fact this article here says witch talk, the rise of the occult on social media has eerie parallels with the 16th century and this talks about all kinds of things But this individual gets on at 1 30 in the morning 1 is a D Demonolator a word I've never heard before someone who claims to worship demons and can petition them in return for knowledge or power.

The other describes themselves as a Solomonic magician and claims to be able to command demons to do his bidding.

And this goes on back and forth in social media and you get to just follow along.

And it's not just in verbiage, but it's in video clips.

And TikTok is set up to have 15 second video clips.

So we wanna just take you straight to the punch and punch and punch.

And you can put up to, what, 4 of those together in a 60-second total.

But all of this is helping people to understand in a subcategory called Witch Talk, How to cast spells using candles, bottles, crystals, herbs, make for snappy and succinct tutorials for the viewer and so on.

And it's not just on TikTok, it's on plenty of social media platforms.

1 of the other areas, or, you know, there's many we could look at here, this website called Common Sense media.

They are recommending scary movies for children.

Starters for younger kids as well as truly chilling classics for older tweens and teens.

And so you can find, well, I skipped over this, modern occultism, this just came out in 2023, history, theory, and practice.

And this is on Amazon, there's plenty of these things on Amazon, It's a little bit creepy.

In fact, I prayed Lord protect me as I was looking through the art of occultism.

But it's not just for adults, it's for children too.

Perhaps that 1 was a little more innocent.

But then they have to remake it again in 2022.

And so, of course, LEGO sponsors this, and then there's Hocus Pocus cards.

You can get all these types of things too, wherever you want to go.

Some of these are the movies that are also recommended at this Common Sense Media.

The Addams Family, Goosebumps 1 and 2, Hotel Transylvania, and it says Transformania below it.

I believe there is somebody trying to transform our children.

Coco is 1 where, you know, here this girl is having a good time with this skeleton, celebrating the holiday of the dead and so on.

Monster House and Caroline and it just goes on and on.

The reason I'm showing you these children ones is I can't show you the adult ones.

In fact, I don't even really like to show you these.

The Haunted Mansion, Scooby-Doo or Scoob.

I was looking at the most popular movies right now.

Number 3 is Ghostbusters, the Frozen Empire.

And 1 of the things said, this is the darkest Ghostbusters they've made yet.

Number 3, is something happening to put together, is there an agenda that's being Pushed in this country and around the world and I failed to mention all those most all of those children's movies are PG and You go to some of the the parental guides For those that want to let their kids watch these movies and it will tell you the things to watch for but they'll also tell you there's some good role models, there's some good ethics promoted in these, and you gotta be kidding me.

This is number 5 on the list, Late Night with the Devil.

I don't truly know what it's about and don't want to.

And of course we have to mention The Lord of the Rings.

This has netted out, let's see, The Lord of the Rings is widely regarded as 1 of the greatest and most influential film series ever made.

It's a major financial success and is among the highest grossing film series of all time having grossed over 2.9 billion worldwide.

Those are people that have voted with their pocketbooks.

Harry Potter is another 1, but with all the paraphernalia and all the movies, they've hauled in $25 billion in revenue.

And you know, I don't have to tell you, it's filled with witches and sorcery and all these types of things Pastor pass me it doesn't affect me Does it not you can watch that over and over and it doesn't impact you in any way?

How about Halloween last year in this country?

12.2 billion Surpassing the the mountain in 2022.

In fact every year it keeps ratcheting up according to the National Retail Federation.

And you say, oh, you're just trying to make it scary.

I just Googled Halloween and those are the first 2 pictures that came up.

I don't know if you're aware of this, North American Division Report.

Now this was, it says underneath, Global Church member survey 2017-2018.

You can just Google that and you can look up and find statistics on all kinds of questions.

It'll give you the question, it'll give you the answer that came back.

Just trying to find out what Seventh-day Adventists believe and this is the breakdown that I'm looking at here for North America where we are.

NAD respondents are mostly unified on the topic of marriage and majority, 92% agree strongly that marriage is a union between a man and a woman according to the Bible.

It says 4% division wide disagree, which of course is not good.

But we could say there's 9% unclear on this issue.

And that would involve, I would imagine, all the transgender, LGBT, how it's just muddied the water.

But if we look at this stay the dead issue, the dead have powers to communicate with the living, notice it's not as good.

Still 70% strongly disagree with their statement that the dead have power to communicate with the living, but then, and 13 disagree, but then you have 5% I'm not sure, and then agree and strongly agree.

So you have 17% in this unclear category.

Within Seventh-day Adventism in North America, can the dead have, do they have power to communicate with the living and 17% say I don't know or absolutely yes.

In fact, I would have thought those 2 would have been reversed with this LGBT push.

But no, we're clear on marriage between man and a woman, or clearer, 9%, 17%.

I'm not so sure about this state of the dead.

And so, I can't help but think of this quotation, great controversy 588, through 2 great errors, and what are they?

Immortality of the soul, and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions.

But 17% say, I don't know, I'm just not too sure.

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A Man After Gods Own Heart: King David

11 When Seeing is not Believing

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Parent Series

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Deadly Delusions

44m

Messenger of the Covenant, Part 2

53m

Final Events

07 Satan’s Last Resort

1h 12m

Jesus and the Bible, and Traditions

48m

You’re Being Conditioned for a Lie

31m

Plenary

The First Postmodern

1h 10m

God’s Big Surprise

1h 3m

Righteousness by Faith

Righteousness by Faith and the Three Angels Messages

58m

Our Daily Bread

1h

Surprise Attacks, Part 1

1h 3m

Last Day Events

The Loud Cry and the Latter Rain

1h 5m

Purging the Filth in the Remnant

1h

Sound Doctrine