          Spiritualism, Sorcery, and Witchcraft
           (Did you know what the Bible Says?)
 
 
1. Do you know that God commanded Israel that those who practise
sorcery or witchcraft should not be permitted to live?
 
 Exodus  22
  18  Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
 
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2.  Do you know that to seek to communicate with spirits or with
the dead is to become defiled and unfit to appear before God
to worship Him?
 
 Leviticus  19
  31  Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither
 seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD
 your God.
 
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3.  Do you know that God cuts off from among His people ALL who
turn to mediums for help?
 
 Leviticus  20
  6  And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar
 spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I
 will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him
 off from among his people.
 
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4.  Do you know that capital punishment by stoning was God's
sentence on any man or woman who calls up spirits?
 
 Leviticus  20
  27  A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or
 that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall
 stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.
 
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5.  Do you know that witchcraft, fortune-telling, crystal reading
necromancy, and palmistry are related to spiritism and are
strongly condemned by God?
 
 Deuteronomy  18
  10  There shall not be found among you [any one] that
 maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,
 [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an
 enchanter, or a witch,
  11  Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or
 a wizard, or a necromancer.
  12  For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto
 the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God
 doth drive them out from before thee.
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6.  Do you know that it was because of their black magic and
related practices that God destroyed the Canaanites?
 
 Deuteronomy 18
  12  For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto
 the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God
 doth drive them out from before thee.
 
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7.  Do you know that Samuel's most effective way of impressing upon
Saul the enormity of the sin of disobedience was by likening it
to witchcraft?
 
 1 Samuel  15
   23  For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and
 stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou
 hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected
 thee from [being] king.
 
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8.  Do you know that King Saul of Israel, when he was faithful to
God, cleared all the spiritistic mediums out of the land?
 
 1 Samuel  28
   3  Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him,
 and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had
 put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards,
 out of the land.
 
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9.  Do you know that when King Saul later consulted a medium, it
was only after his sins had made communication with God impossible?
 
 1 Samuel  28
   6  And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered
 him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
  7. Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that
 hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of
 her. And his servants said to him, Behold, [there is] a
 woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
 
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10.  Do you know that Saul's loss of his crown and his untimely
death were the direct judgment of God on him for his dealings
in spiritism?
 
 1 Chronicles  10
   13  So Saul died for his transgression which he committed
 against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which
 he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had]
 a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it];
 
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11.  Do you know that the list of wicked King Manasseh's sins
includes consulting with spirit-mediums, fortune-tellers, and
sorcerers?
 
 2 Chronicles  33
   6  And he caused his children to pass through the fire in
 the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and
 used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a
 familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in
 the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
 
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12.  Do you know that one of the reasons God rejected Israel was
because they practised magic and communicated with evil spirits?
 
 Isaiah   2
   6. Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of
 Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are]
 soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves
 in the children of strangers.
 
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13.  Do you know that it is insulting to God to consult the dead
when you can inquire of Him?
 
Isaiah   8
 19  And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have
familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
 
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14.  Did you know that a fortune-teller may be demon-possessed,
like the girl in Philippi out of whom Paul cast an unclean
spirit in the name of Jesus?
 
 Acts  16
  16. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain
 damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which
 brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
  17  The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These
 men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto
 us the way of salvation.
  18  And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved,
 turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of
 Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same
 hour.
 
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15.  Do you know that true Christians, like those at Ephesus,
have nothing to do with black magic and its related practices?
 
 Acts  19
  19  Many of them also which used curious arts brought their
 books together, and burned them before all [men]: and they
 counted the price of them, and found [it] fifty thousand
 [pieces] of silver.
 
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16.  Did you know that sorcery is included in the works of the
flesh listed in the Bible, and that those who practice it
cannot enter the kingdom of God?
 
 Galatians   5
  19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
 [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,
 wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
  21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such
 like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told
 [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not
 inherit the kingdom of God.
 
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17.  Do you know that the teaching of spiritism are doctrines
of demons?
 
 1 Timothy   4
  1. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter
 times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
 seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
 
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18.  Do you know that demons are subject to God's greater power
and tremble before Him?
 
 James   2
  19  Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:
 the devils also believe, and tremble.
 
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19.  Do you know that those who engage in sorcery will be shut out
of Heaven and banished forever from God?
 
 Revelation  21
  8  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable,
 and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and
 idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake
 which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second
 death.
 
 Revelation  22
  15  For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and
 whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever
 loveth and maketh a lie.
 
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         Why be deceived by the devil with the occult?
         Why not turn to God through the Lord Jesus Christ?
 
                   HERE'S HOW!
 
 
        The simple plan of Biblical Salvation
 
  REPENTANCE is necessary:  'Let the wicked forsake his way, and the
   unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord,
   for he will abundantly pardon.' Isaiah 55:7
   'Repent ye therefore, and be converted that your sins may be
   blotted out...' Acts 3:19
 
  ALL HAVE SINNED: 'For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
   of God.' Romans 3:23
 
  SIN HAS A PENALTY: 'The soul that sinneth, it shall die...'
   Ezekiel 18:20 '....except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
   perish.' Luke 13:3
 
  THE LORD JESUS PAID THE PENALTY: 'But God commendeth his love toward
   us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.' Rom 5:8
 
  YOU MUST RECEIVE THE LORD JESUS: 'But as many as received him, to
   them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that
   believe on his name.' John 1:12
 
                    SINNERS PRAYER
 
     Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner.  I ask You to come
into my life to forgive and save me.  I now receive You as my
Saviour (trusting in You ALONE to save me) and my Lord (making
You my Master and committing my life to You).   AMEN!
 
 
 
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