Wherever There Is Darkness We Should Provide The Light Series

Paul said, “Abstain from all appearance of evil (1 Thess 5:22).”

Halloween is more than just the appearance of evil. It is evil.

Halloween is a day that honors Satanism, witchcraft, demons, death, fear, idolatry, and immorality; everything God’s Word stands against.

I don’t have any desire to enter into the worship of false gods nor honor the devil.

I hope after considering this message you will agree and decide NOT TO CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN.

Let’s practice Ephesians 5:11, “...have NO fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove (expose) them.”

God is not honored by celebrating Halloween.

The Bible teaches this

We have been given a choice.

We have to choose. We cannot straddle the fence. Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters (Matt 6:24).”

He also said, “A house divided cannot stand (Matt 12:25).”

We have a choice to choose light over darkness.

Wherever there is darkness we should provide the light.

Well, Halloween is full of darkness so we are providing light through worshiping Christ.

Explain to your family why you are not celebrating Halloween.

Tell them Halloween doesn’t glorify God and that you are going to celebrate God.

Halloween is a strategic time for the church to send a clear message to the world.

We don’t have to do what you are doing in order to have fun.

We will not be deceived. Halloween is not innocent.

Since we are given the choice to participate in something that will glorify God why would we still choose to be involved in Halloween?

Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

It’s our job to teach children to have biblical convictions. We are to TEACH them.

Why can’t we go trick or treating?

Because we are Christians and we would rather celebrate Christ.

But all the other kids are going trick or treating...

First of all, not all the other kids are going. Second, that is a bad reason to let your kids go. If you do that they will be following other kids into trouble the rest of their youth.

They will grow up giving in to all kinds of peer pressure.

Our kids should be leading and influencing instead of being influenced.

When the Bible says, “Train up a child” it means to sit and instruct them in what is right.

There is no reason for a Christian to participate in Halloween.

In conclusion: I hope your desire is that of James, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.” (James 4:7-8).

On Halloween we can show we are resisting the devil.

And we can draw near to God.

Make the right choice today and choose to put sin aside and follow Jesus