1. Works of the Flesh False Gods, False Messages Galatians 5:20 FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken

2. Idolatry (eidololatreia) “The worship of false gods” (Thayer) ; “Image-worship” (Strong’s) – Isa. 44:12- 17, 18-20. Function of the idol…“The worship of false gods” (Thayer) ; “Image-worship” (Strong’s) – Isa. 44:12- 17, 18-20. Function of the idol… –Localize, Exo. 32:4; 1 Kgs. 12:28-29 –Visualize, Deut. 4:15-18 –Eventually, worship focused on the object itself, Num. 21:5-9; 2 Kgs. 18:4 To whom will you liken God? Isa. 40: 18-20; 25-26To whom will you liken God? Isa. 40: 18-20; 25-26 FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 2

3. Idolatry (eidololatreia) Basic error of idol worship, Rom. 1:19- 23 (Worship of created instead of Creator)Basic error of idol worship, Rom. 1:19- 23 (Worship of created instead of Creator) Invisible God…Visible evidenceInvisible God…Visible evidence Known by man…Refused to worship HimKnown by man…Refused to worship Him Foolish…Worshiped images of corruptible thingsFoolish…Worshiped images of corruptible things –Idolatry is a lie: False worship of false god Man’s god: Primary dedication of time, substance & talents – Isa. 44:12Man’s god: Primary dedication of time, substance & talents – Isa. 44:12 FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 3

4. Idolatry (eidololatreia) Forms of idolatryForms of idolatry –Image worship, Acts 17:23, 29 –Nature worship, 2 Kgs. 23:5 (Dt.4:19) –Self-worship, Phil. 3:19 (Rom. 16:18; 2 Tim. 3:4) –Covetousness, Col. 3:5 (Eph. 5:5) Flee from idolatry (1 Cor. 10:14)Flee from idolatry (1 Cor. 10:14) FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 4

5. Sorcery (pharmakeia) “the use or the administering of drugs…magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it…metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry” (Thayer, 649) FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 5

6. Sorcery (pharmakeia) God completely condemns sorcery with its presumed power of imparting knowledge to manGod completely condemns sorcery with its presumed power of imparting knowledge to man –Sorcery v. God’s prophet, Deut. 18: 10-15 (Lev. 19:31) –Rebellion, 1 Sam. 15:23 (Exo. 22:18) –Converts destroyed magic books, Acts 19:19 FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 6

7. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Modern-day SorceryModern-day Sorcery –Astrology (Isaiah 47:13-15) “The study which assumes and professes to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs.” (Random House Dictionary, 92)“The study which assumes and professes to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs.” (Random House Dictionary, 92) Cannot save!Cannot save! FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 7

8. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Nostradamus (1503-1566)Nostradamus (1503-1566) –Tombstone (Salon, France) “Here lie the remains of the most illustrious Michel Nostradamus, the only one to judge all mortals and whose pen, semi divine, wrote the future events to take place in the world, based on the course of the stars….” FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 8

9. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Nostradamus (1503-1566)Nostradamus (1503-1566) –“He is the most pretentious of all prophets: he states blandly in his Preface that his prophecies run until 3797.” (Leoni) –“Many of his prophecies lend themselves to repeated interpretations, so that they never seem to be out of date.” (Leoni) FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 9

10. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Nostradamus (1503-1566)Nostradamus (1503-1566) –“Friend & foe alike agree that his prognostications were very ambiguous! … His foes suggest he wrote of things which happen most ordinarily, and not extraordinarily.” (Leoni, Nostradamus: Life & Literature, 102) FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 10

11. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Nostradamus (1503-1566)Nostradamus (1503-1566) –“In other words, Nostradamus provided an ingenious system of divination in which the misses can never be recorded and only the hits come to the surface. [About 1 in 1000] For the reputation of the would-be prophet, such conditions are naturally ideal.” (Father Herbert Thurston, 1915) FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 11

12. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Modern-day SorceryModern-day Sorcery –Astrology (Isaiah 47:13-15) –White witchcraft; Spiritism FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 12

13. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Modern-day witchcraftModern-day witchcraft –60,000-200,000 witches in USA (20 years ago) –“Redeeming social value in white witchcraft” (Richard Wood, Catholic priest) –Church of Wicca (nature worship) “Bringing magic to the masses”“Bringing magic to the masses” “If it harm none, do what you will”“If it harm none, do what you will” FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 13

14. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Modern-day witchcraftModern-day witchcraft –1963: 441 “Spiritist” churches with membership of 200,000-700,000 in U.S. –4 million practicing Spiritists in South America –3 million in West Germany subscribe to Spiritism, with another 7 million sympathizers FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 14

15. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Modern-day SorceryModern-day Sorcery –Astrology (Isaiah 47:13-15) –White witchcraft; Spiritism –Occultism (Satanism) –Clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc. FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 15

16. Sorcery (pharmakeia) The occult; SatanismThe occult; Satanism –Church of Satan (1966); ~10,000; started in San Francisco, CA –“Satan” is not a supernatural being, but man’s self-gratifying ego (what they really worship!) –The Satanic Bible (Anton LaVey) FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 16

17. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc.Clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc. –James van Praagh Talking to HeavenTalking to Heaven FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 17

18. “I’m clairsentient…I am also clairvoyant … the first is feeling, the second is seeing, very much like Whoopi Goldberg in the movie, Ghost.” http://www.vanpraagh.com/bio.cfm James van Praagh 18

19. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc.Clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc. –For example: James van Praagh Talking to HeavenTalking to Heaven Exposed by Michael Shermer (“How to talk to the dead” at www.holysmoke.org/praagh2.htm)Exposed by Michael Shermer (“How to talk to the dead” at www.holysmoke.org/praagh2.htm) –Cold Reading –Warm Reading –Hot Reading FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 19

20. Sorcery (pharmakeia) Why sorcery is sinWhy sorcery is sin –Divination v. Divine, Acts 8:6, 9- 11, 13 –Pseudo-power v. God’s power, Acts 8:7-11 –Pretense v. prophetic knowledge, Deut. 29:29 (2 Pet. 1:16-21) FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 20

21. False Gods, False Messages Idolatry: Devotion directed away from the Creator to the createdIdolatry: Devotion directed away from the Creator to the created Sorcery: Deceptive messages displayed as the power of GodSorcery: Deceptive messages displayed as the power of God Turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God! (1 Ths. 1:9-10)Turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God! (1 Ths. 1:9-10) FornicationFornication UncleannessUncleanness LewdnessLewdness IdolatryIdolatry SorcerySorcery HatredHatred ContentionsContentions JealousiesJealousies WrathWrath AmbitionsAmbitions DissensionsDissensions HeresiesHeresies EnvyEnvy MurdersMurders DrunkenDrunken 21