1 Corinthians 10:21 “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.“
Last night I was at my son’s and his family for the evening at Saffron Walden. A beautiful little town between Cambridge and Stansted airport. I didn’t leave until about 1230 am. My time was limited and I wouldn’t see them for a while now. I had a choice as I left, park up for the night and travel to the next stop tomorrow during the day or seems as I was awake, just carry on. There was certain benefits to carrying straight on, traffic would be clear, I wouldn’t have to pay the toll for the Dartford bridge and I would get tomorrow off.
Easy choice. I had been used to driving long distances so much at night, its a different skill. That I didn’t need a lot of as not far down the M 11 it was shut. Solid traffic, didn’t move at all for nearly an hour. It was a broken down car in the middle of roadworks .
It had been a few years since I had been “down the smoke“ (London ) and now I was only going to skirt around it on the M 25. I had spent many years working in and around London in my career as a construction engineer and I used to dislike it with a passion. Dirty, ignorant people. Busy, busy, busy, except for once when I was there as a tourist in and around Covent Garden. When I didn’t have to compete the pace was really pleasant.
I passed my old companies headquarters. A multi billion construction company based at Dartford and headed South East for Maidstone. A little village called Barming.
We got there with ease and went straight to sleep.
Today is the 500 year anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses on the Wittenberg Cathedral in Germany. A mighty stand against the power and pomp of the Catholic church. It was the commencement of the protestant reformation. An enormous day in modern church history.
Today is also Halloween. An alarmingly influential time, where adults and children dress up in “fancy dress“ as witches, ghosts and anything else demonic. Diluted with the big companies turning it into a mega money making opportunity and covered in sticky sweets.
How this has exploded into the monster that it is, is completely beyond me. Some may say that its harmless fun. The Holy Bible says to walk as children of light and Ephesians 5:11 says “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them“.
Christians need to make a stand and be separated from these type of events. Jesus said in Matthew 5:14 “ You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.“
The Holy word of God in 1 Corinthians 10:22 says “Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He? “
God bless