Works of the Flesh

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Works of the Flesh

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• False Gods, False Messages
• Galatians 520

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Idolatry (eidololatreia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• The worship of false gods (Thayer)
  Image-worship (Strongs) Isa. 4412-17,
  18-20. Function of the idol
• Localize, Exo. 324 1 Kgs. 1228-29
• Visualize, Deut. 415-18
• Eventually, worship focused on the object itself,
  Num. 215-9 2 Kgs. 184
• To whom will you liken God? Isa. 40 18-20 25-26

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Idolatry (eidololatreia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Basic error of idol worship, Rom. 119-23
  (Worship of created instead of Creator)
• Invisible GodVisible evidence
• Known by manRefused to worship Him
• FoolishWorshiped images of corruptible things
• Idolatry is a lie False worship of false god
• Mans god Primary dedication of time, substance
  talents Isa. 4412

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Idolatry (eidololatreia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Forms of idolatry
• Image worship, Acts 1723, 29
• Nature worship, 2 Kgs. 235 (Dt.419)
• Self-worship, Phil. 319 (Rom. 1618 2 Tim. 34)
• Covetousness, Col. 35 (Eph. 55)
• Flee from idolatry (1 Cor. 1014)

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• the use or the administering of drugsmagical
  arts, often found in connection with idolatry and
  fostered by itmetaph. the deceptions and
  seductions of idolatry (Thayer, 649)

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• God completely condemns sorcery with its presumed
  power of imparting knowledge to man
• Sorcery v. Gods prophet, Deut. 18 10-15 (Lev.
  1931)
• Rebellion, 1 Sam. 1523 (Exo. 2218)
• Converts destroyed magic books, Acts 1919

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Modern-day Sorcery
• Astrology (Isaiah 4713-15)
• The study which assumes and professes to
  interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on
  human affairs. (Random House Dictionary, 92)
• Cannot save!

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• 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.

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• 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)

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• 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)

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• 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)

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Modern-day Sorcery
• Astrology (Isaiah 4713-15)
• White witchcraft Spiritism

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Modern-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
• If it harm none, do what you will

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Modern-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

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Modern-day Sorcery
• Astrology (Isaiah 4713-15)
• White witchcraft Spiritism
• Occultism (Satanism)
• Clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc.

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• The occult Satanism
• Church of Satan (1966) 10,000 started in San
  Francisco, CA
• Satan is not a supernatural being, but mans
  self-gratifying ego (what they really worship!)
• The Satanic Bible (Anton LaVey)

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc.
• James van Praagh
• Talking to Heaven

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Im clairsentientI 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
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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc.
• For example James van Praagh
• Talking to Heaven
• Exposed by Michael Shermer (How to talk to the
  dead at www.holysmoke.org/praagh2.htm)
• Cold Reading
• Warm Reading
• Hot Reading

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Sorcery (pharmakeia)

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Why sorcery is sin
• Divination v. Divine, Acts 86, 9-11, 13
• Pseudo-power v. Gods power, Acts 87-11
• Pretense v. prophetic knowledge, Deut. 2929 (2
  Pet. 116-21)

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False Gods, False Messages

• Fornication
• Uncleanness
• Lewdness
• Idolatry
• Sorcery
• Hatred
• Contentions
• Jealousies
• Wrath
• Ambitions
• Dissensions
• Heresies
• Envy
• Murders
• Drunken

• Idolatry Devotion directed away from the
  Creator to the created
• Sorcery Deceptive messages displayed as the
  power of God
• Turn to God from idols to serve the living and
  true God! (1 Ths. 19-10)

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