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<div class="SSN_title">"THE OCCULTIC REVOLUTION"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: This week a young man in his graduate studies for his Ph.D.. In Orange County boys and girls in grade school and Junior High call for spirit of Mary Worth in seances. A favorite party stunt is to conduct a seance.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. WE SEE A GROWING INTEREST IN THE OCCULT.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The history of the occult is almost as old as the history of man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Ancient Egyptian writings still source books for present day witchcraft.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God was warning against practices of the Canaanites.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. In primitive cultures today the witch doctor still most respected and feared in community.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Through the centuries man has tried to reach beyond the realm of the material.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Has desired to learn hidden mysteries.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Sought to cast spells.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Desired to possess uncanny powers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Desired to continue a tie with a dead loved one.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The emergence of the age of science almost sounded the death knell for occultism.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The idea of witchcraft was scoffed at.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The fact of God's existence challenged.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The whole area of the supernatural was relegated to ignorance and superstition.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. But we now see a renewed interest in the occult.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Science has sought to make a serious study of Psychic phenomena.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. High school and colleges are offering courses of study in witchcraft.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Several TV series have occultic powers introduced into the stories, in humor.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Millions of ouija boards are being sold.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. The church of Satan has been founded.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. We laughed at first thinking it was a giant put on, a big joke.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. We have found they weren't joking.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHY THE SUDDEN REVIVAL IN OCCULTIC POWER?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Some blame the TV programs.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. One prominent psychiatrist blames the church.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He claims that man basically wants to believe in the supernatural.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. When the theologians began proclaiming that God was dead.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. And sought to rationalize the miracles of Christ and the Bible.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Jesus had excellent vision, saw fish jumping.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">>b. 5,OOO fed by common practice of carrying lunch up their sleeves.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. This theology created spiritual void and people began turning to the occult to fulfill the need of believing in the supernatural.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. It seems to me it is related to the massive drug abuse.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Drugs have always been related to witchcraft</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In Galatians word witchcraft is Greek word "pharmakeia".</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Many young people through drugs were introduced to the reality of the spirit world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They became ripe candidates for either Christianity or occultism.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Those churches proclaiming the possibility of a dynamic relationship with a living God reaped a harvest of souls, and on the other side the occultic revival was on.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT ARE THE DANGERS OF OCCULTISM?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. To those not in it, to deny its reality.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. To consider the ouija board a harmless toy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. To think of a seance as a parlor game.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. To think that this is just a passing fad.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. To those that are in it, the danger of becoming possessed by demons.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When you open the doors to the spirit world and seek its powers the point comes when you are required to yield to those powers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. What they promise you of power to begin with ends in slavery.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. No longer in control of your own body you are in a living hell.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Possession is always the end purpose when Satan lures you into the occult.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. WHAT IS YOUR PROPER ATTITUDE TOWARD IT?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Shun it, don't dabble, don't even study it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Many are first drawn by curiosity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. <a onClick="return mV('Rom',16,19);">Romans 16:19</a> "Simple concerning evil."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. God commanded "don't learn to do..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Don't even read your horoscope.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Don't visit a fortune teller.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. If you have a ouija board, destroy it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. If in your past you have delved into any of these areas repent and ask God's forgiveness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. If you have friends that are involved pray for them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is a spiritual battle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The weapons of our warfare...</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">G. Realize our great advantage and victory through Jesus Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The prince of darkness grim, we tremble...</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus has spoiled these principalities and powers.</div>
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