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We've all been hurt. We all have scars. And through a relationship with Jesus Christ,

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we can all overcome and we can all be healed. Welcome to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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Welcome back to the sanctuary everyone. You know, from an early age, everyone is introduced

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to the concept of luck and fortune. I go to work and at least once a week, someone is

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reading fortunes from the newspaper. It's a common question as well. I've had people

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ask me, you know, what my thoughts are on this kind of stuff. And when they're looking

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in the Bible and it says it's a sin, it actually comes up a lot more often than you would think.

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You know, things like four leaf clovers, rabbit's feet, pennies that are facing upwards, certain

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numbers, eating certain things that coincide with birthdays or holidays, you know, and

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then other things like broken mirrors, walking on your ladders, black cats, spilling the

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salt, you know, things happening in threes. In the Marine Corps, I was introduced to the

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superstition that you don't eat the charms candy in your MREs or some great calamity

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would happen not only to you, but to your unit. And boy, if you got caught challenging

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that and sticking one of those in your mouth, you better believe something bad was going

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to happen to you regardless if you were seen. And yet, there are other examples that I really

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need to point out that are daily occurrences as well here as we get started today. You

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know, reading horoscopes, tarot readings, gems, oils, the burning of incense, you know,

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looking at people's auras. Let me make it clear right here, right now. All of these

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things, karma, praying to the universe, good vibes, sending energy, mother nature, good

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luck, so on and so forth, are not biblical. They are not of God. They are not of God's

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nature and they are not to be messed with by the church, period. The Bible tells us.

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Turn with me to Deuteronomy 18 verses 9 through 13 for those of you who follow along in your

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Bible. The Bible says, When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not

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learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you

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who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery,

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interprets omens, engages in witchcraft or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist

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or who consults with the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord.

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Because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations

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before you. You must be blameless before the Lord your God. Wow, that's a lot there.

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Now to start with, human sacrifice, including that of children and other occult practices

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are strictly prohibited by God. These are the things that were common among pagans who

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didn't know God and worshipped ancient religions and false gods such as Molech. You see, it

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was an important part of their religion to appease their very angry God or gods. They

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believed that this was the ultimate sacrifice to appease them by sacrificing their children.

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We can see more on this in Leviticus chapter 20 verses 2 through 5 where the Bible tells

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us that if anyone who lived in Israel made one of these sacrifices, they were to be put

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to death. It's not just the Israelites, anyone in Israel. They didn't go to jail, they didn't

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pass go, they didn't collect $200, they met death. God has no tolerance for these things.

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Other neighboring religions used other supernatural means as well, like trying to contact the

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spirit world for guidance and to foresee the future, trying to read bones and all that

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kind of stuff. These practices are so against God that God would drive these pagan nations

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out and send the Israelites in to introduce proper worship of the one true God instead.

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It's pretty big right there. It's the modern day equivalent of, hey, we're sitting in the

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Marines, something's wrong and we've got to get these fixed. Now of course, doing this,

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the Israelites, like any one of us, they were curious about the land that they were going

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into. We're curious about just going to a new place in town, so who can blame them?

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It's like, hey, have you checked out that new restaurant or whatever? Curiosity is there,

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it's human nature. Of course, part of the curiosity that they had included questions

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about the occult practices of the Canaanite religions and make no mistakes. All of these

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things are exactly that and Satan is behind these practices. God flat out forbid having

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anything to do with this stuff. Today people are still hooked in the horoscopes, witchcraft,

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fortune telling and the like. We have countless stories and shows about them, books, you could

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fill libraries just about this subject alone. And let me tell you, Satan is just as dangerous

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today as he was back then. When we have the Holy Spirit guiding us, we don't need to even

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consider the temptations Satan puts in front of us. Deuteronomy chapter 12, looking at

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verses 29 through 31, so Deuteronomy chapter 12, 29 through 31, the Bible says, the Lord

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your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But

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when you have driven them out and settled in their land and after they have been destroyed

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before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, how

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do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same. You must not worship the Lord

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your God in their way because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable

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things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices

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to their gods. So in other words, this is not one of those when in Rome situations.

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It's okay to be curious, again that's human nature, however this is one of those times

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when we're all like children. The father has said, no, don't touch it, leave it alone.

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Yet people are still gravitating to it like kids looking at that candy in the store. It's

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such a big deal that God, he didn't even want the Israelites to ask about the pagan

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religions. That's how much idolatry was there. When it comes to idolatry, it is so easy to

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get pulled into even the things that seem to be harmless. We see a lot of that today

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still don't we? Those little white lies, those victimless crimes, we do them once and the

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next thing we know we're doing them over and over and they become a habit. Heck, just look

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at how people drive. People know what the speed limit is, people know how to signal

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and to use their headlights, yet none of us can take a trip down the road without seeing

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at least one person out there just doing their own thing, ignoring all of it. And here's

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God saying, don't do it. You better don't. You see, much like the Israelites, we're just

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curious. We're curious too. However, that same curiosity can trip us up. When it comes

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to these practices, we need to be obedient. We need to resist that curiosity. As hard

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as it is, that's what we need to do. Now, if we turn over to Leviticus chapter 19 verse

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31, the Bible says, do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists for you will be defiled

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by them. I am the Lord your God. Before I even go into this, just the word defiled,

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it means stained. Stained. You're going to be hurt by them in some way. Terror reading,

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palm reading, et cetera, all of that stuff, it is all nonsense. They're not talking to

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a guardian angel or a lost relative or any of that kind of stuff. What they're doing

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is they're keying in the things that you say or using certain guiding questions to get

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you to fill in those gaps so that you think that they're giving you the answers that you

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want. And if they are speaking to anyone, it's not an angel and it's not God. Straight

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up, it is a demon. It is a demonic entity, plain and simple. Miss Cleo and Otome Brown

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can't help you. Move along. If we go back just a little further, Leviticus chapter 18,

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Leviticus chapter 18 verse 24, the Bible says, do not defile yourselves in any of these ways

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because this is how the nations that I'm going to drive out before you became defiled. See,

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God's telling us, don't even risk it. It's not worth it. It's not worth it. These nations

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became plagues unto themselves. They were their own downfall, their own undoing. They

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had so much evil within them that God said, you know what, enough is enough and it is

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time for a change. We've all heard, if you play with fire, you're going to get burned.

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And if you play with this fire, that fire that you're playing with, you risk burning

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in hell for eternity. It's that dangerous whether we realize it or not. Mark chapter

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8 verse 37, the Bible says, or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? You see,

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Satan uses these things to get that foot into the door of your heart. And by using them,

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you're allowing the enemy entry. You might as well open the door and have a neon light

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that says, come on in, make yourself comfortable. It's just like those vampire movies. They

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can't come into your home unless you give them permission. Yet once you do, boy, are

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you in trouble. You see, to the enemy, it is a game. And it is a game that they're setting

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up in their own favor. It's like a casino. That's why you see things like Ouija boards

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and eight balls and the like, they're all sold as kids games. That's where you find

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them, in the game section. And where is that? Usually in the kids section or right next

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to it with the toys and stuff. So while they seem harmless, you're gambling with your soul.

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Join me now in Deuteronomy chapter 9. Deuteronomy chapter 9 verse 4, the Bible says, after the

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Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, the Lord has brought

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me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness. No. No. It is on account

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of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is going to drive them out before you.

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The Lord is the one who's doing it. This is a warning. And it actually calls back just

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a little bit further to Deuteronomy 8 because in Deuteronomy 8 verses 17 and 18, the Bible

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says, you may say to yourself, my power and the strength in my hands have produced this

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wealth for me, but remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability

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to produce wealth. And so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors as it is

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today. We get caught up like children. I just said it a little bit ago. We get caught up

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like children. We start running at full speed and soon we get confident to the point of

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arrogance. Instead of remembering that it was the Lord, that it was the father who carried

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us through, we start thinking that it was our own merits that got us so far. So when

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we had these temptations in front of us, we start thinking, hey, you know what? I got

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this. I'm the one in control. It's not going to be a problem. And it becomes an addiction

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just like alcohol, drugs, or anything else that the enemy puts out there. We start to

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dabble and before long we lose control and we're sucked in. And ultimately, like any

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addict, we will end up forfeiting our own lives if we don't turn to the father and ask

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for help and actually follow his guidance. The best way to keep from getting to that

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point, the absolute best way is just to follow his guidance from the start. And it's right

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here in the Bible. It's right here. Proverbs chapter 22 verse 6. So again, Proverbs 22

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verse 6, the Bible says, start your children off on the way they should go and even when

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they are old, they will not turn from it. You see, parents want to be able to control

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every aspect of their children's lives. We do. We want to protect them. We don't want

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them to get hurt. Yet children need to have that freedom to learn and that freedom to

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choose. After all, we're not always going to be here so they have to learn. Otherwise,

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they won't learn and in the long run they're going to be hurt because of it. You know,

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those people who are sheltered and you know, those parents that just keep them in and they

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can try to control what they're watching, it will backfire. It will backfire. Whether

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it's at their friends or wherever. So what we need to do is to teach. Instead of trying

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to control everything, parents teach the children and they teach them how to go about evaluating

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things and how to make that right choice. And that, that is what God is doing with us.

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He's given us the information and he's watching to see if we make the right choice. You know,

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like any parent, he knows we're going to have missteps. We're going to stumble and we're

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going to fall. And he's waiting to see us learn and do the right thing. It's just like

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a toddler learning to walk. You get up, crawl, fall down, get back up, repeat until finally

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you're walking, right? You're moving forward. You see, God has told us to leave these tools

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of Satan alone. But it's on us to gather the information, actually recognize them and to

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make that choice. See, we need to look up to the Father and trust him instead of looking

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down to the pit of fire. Isaiah chapter 65. So in Isaiah 65 verses 11 through 16, the

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Bible says, but as for you who forsake the Lord and forget my holy mountain, who spread

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a table for fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for destiny, I will destine you for the

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sword. And all of you will fall in the slaughter. For I called, but you did not answer. I spoke,

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but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me. Therefore,

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this is what the sovereign Lord says. My servants will eat, but you will go hungry. My servants

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will drink, but you will go thirsty. My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

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My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish

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of heart and wail and brokenness of spirit. You will leave your name for my chosen ones

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to use in their curses. The sovereign Lord will put you to death, but his servants, he

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will give another name. Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the one

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true God. Whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the one true God, for the past

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troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes.

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Wow. You know, today, just like back then, people are indeed worshipping the same gods.

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They may go by different names, but they are the same gods, fortune and destiny. Or depending

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on the translation of your Bible, it may be read as Gad and Nina. They believe that their

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lives and their futures are controlled by some mystical force that they could somehow

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tap into. Their morals can often be questionable because they don't really believe that having

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them matters. They're in denial that we have a God who cares and loves everyone, who wants

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to help us and deeply wants to have a relationship with each of us. The Bible is clearly showing

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that there are two types of people here, especially in verses 13-16. On one hand, you have those

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who trust and follow God. On the other hand, those who don't and instead follow after

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idols. So what happens when you give a foothold to Satan and start worshipping idols? Well,

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turn with me to the end of your Bible. Let's turn straight to Revelation. Revelation chapter

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21 verse 8. So in Revelation 21 verse 8, the Bible says, but the cowardly, the unbelieving,

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the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters

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and all liars, they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the

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second death. Right here, God is telling us one more time that we cannot abandon Christ.

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Just the term cowardly is being used here to define those who would seek the temporary

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safety here on earth of not standing up for what God has told us. Those who bend to the

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ways of the world, those people pleasers with no backbone, no intentional fortitude. See,

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they're so afraid that they're going to offend somebody by saying something is wrong here,

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that this should not be done. They'll read or ask for their fortune and they'll go along

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with the stuff that other people are doing. The palm reading, the horror readings, the

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play with the magic eight ball and so on and so forth. You know, all these things that

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I mentioned and then some. And guess what? It says right here, right here, they are grouped

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in with all these others who have turned from God. And His word tells us they will be condemned

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to the second death. That permanent separation from God that comes with the condemnation

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to hell. The first death is when we pass away here on earth and we go before Jesus for the

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judgment. The second death is when we get to that judgment and if we haven't chosen

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Jesus and we're not Christians, we're not doing the right thing, we've turned from God.

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The second death is when we're permanently separated. See, God has given us all the choice.

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Isaiah chapter two verse six. Isaiah chapter two verse six, the Bible says, you Lord have

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abandoned your people the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the east.

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They practice denomination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs. As much as it hurts

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Him, He will let us walk away. We have the choice. See, and while the scripture here

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reads as though He abandons us, it's actually the other way around. You see, when we choose

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to turn and to walk away, He lets us. As painful as it is for Him, He lets us. And much like

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any father, matter of fact, just like the father in the parable of the prodigal son,

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He waits for us to turn around and come back. You know, that little moment where we have

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a little clarity is like, oh, dude, I messed up. I need to go back. See, we need to choose

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Him. So He waits for us to turn around. He waits for us to go back to Him and to choose

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Him. And there's no doubt about it. We are all prodigals at some point in our life. We

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are all prodigals. And just like the prodigal son, we can all return to the Father. We can

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all return to the Father. We know we can repent and we can return to the Father because the

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Bible tells us so. In Luke chapter 15, verse 10, the Bible says, in the same way I tell

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you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

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We're all precious to Him. We are all of value to Him. Jesus is waiting for us to choose

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Him, to look only to Him. A child's pain hurts the parents. Our pain hurts Him too. Need

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proof? You want proof? I'll give it to you. The shortest verse in the Bible is about His

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pain. Lazarus was dead. His family was in mourning. And what did Jesus do? John chapter

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11, verse 35, the Bible says, Jesus wept. He knew Lazarus was coming back, but the pain

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of His children hurt just the same. So when we repent and we surrender ourselves to Him,

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it's a great thing. Even He rejoices. Angels rejoice. Right there in Luke, it says when

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we repent and we turn to Him, there's a party in heaven. There's a party because of you,

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because of me, for all of us who turn to God. You know, it's just like these videos that

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we see on social media when a service member has been away for a long time and they come

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home and they surprise their family and they sneak up behind them. It brings their family's

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great joy. It's just like that, only bigger. So don't get caught up in what the world calls

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chance. Chance is for the lost. The Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus played a game

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of chance to divide His clothing. With God there, there is no chance. In hell, there's

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no chance. Hence the term, no chance in hell. Everything has a divine purpose. Psalm chapter

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90, verse 17, the Bible says, may the favor of the Lord our God rest on us. Establish

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the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands. There's no such thing

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as luck. The very word luck, it implies that God is not in control. He is. He absolutely

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is. Furthermore, we don't need luck when we have God. God favors His children. We have

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God's favor. While we have questions, some of those questions are better saved for when

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we're in His presence. So until then, we must stay focused on His word and be obedient to

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it. And while we do that, we have the opportunity to turn the table on Satan and his idols.

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Instead of wishing someone luck, instead pray for them in God's favor in their endeavors.

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God is all we need. Thank you for tuning in to Healing Scars with

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Pastor Burton. If you would like to know more about our ministry or how you can support

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us, you can find us on Facebook at Be The Light Sanctuary or you can go to our website

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at BeTheLightSanctuary.org. Thanks again for tuning in and we'll catch you next time.

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God bless.