Halloween offers something to the world. That's why it's so popular. That's why so many people get so super excited about it. It offers a spiritual experience where by spiritual things are celebrated death, ghosts, demons, witches, and witchcraft and all things like this. It's a worldly institution set up as an alternative to biblical celebrations, biblical culture, and biblical feasts. Halloween is a counterfeit spiritual experience, and those most drawn into it are those who are hungry for something. There is definitely something inside of them that's seeking out more, something supernatural, something spiritual. See, brothers and sisters. But I want to submit to you that if we get this, we'll understand where all of this is coming from and what the solution is. See, I want to submit that when the Holy Spirit is quenched in our lives and there's a hunger that's created for the Holy Spirit in every human being because we were made to have relationship and intimacy and to be empowered by the Holy Spirit. And so when that's not there, we seek that spiritual satisfaction in other supernatural things, including experiencing Halloween. Today, many churches quench the Holy Spirit of spiritual things through the doctrine of cessationism. We have taught that the Holy Spirit may not prophesy through his children, may not give them dreams, may not give them visions. These are things that are are strange. And yet in Acts 2:17, that's the exact thing that God says he has given his children in the last days. In Acts 2:17, we read, in the last days, God declares, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young man see visions and old men dream dreams. How amazing that God is saying, even the youth, even the sons and the daughters, they're gonna have my spirit work in and through. They're not going to be hungry for spiritual things because they're going to be fulfilled by my Holy Spirit doing authentic, powerful kingdom works of God to proclaim the gospel and to bring salvation to many through the children. Hallelujah. How can we want any other spiritual experience? Isn't that enough for us? But see, when that's not in the life of us or our children, Halloween becomes our children's outlet for spiritual things. Our children desire it, for they were made for spiritual gifts. And where else will they find it except on the streets on a dark night like Halloween? Because we didn't teach them what the Bible says God has for them. I mean, just ask yourself how many cessationist churches who do not believe in the power of the Spirit anymore will be doing various forms of trick or treat tomorrow night. See, they'll tell me, pd, we can't stop. What about the children? Yes, I'll say, what about the children? Will you entertain them with evil once again? Yes. What about the children? How long will we rob our children of their authentic spiritual gifts? From 1 Corinthians 12, God wants to heal the sick through them, to use them as his mouthpiece with fiery preaching of the gospel in their mouths. He wants to give them dreams and visions, a gift of discernment, for they need it, a gift of miracles so they can be assigned to their friends. See, when we walk in authentic spiritual gifts, there just is no more desire. Instead, there is an abhorrence for that which is the counterfeit. It's like asking someone if they want junk food right after they've had a healthy and fulfilling meal. It's like, no thanks, I don't want McDonald's. I just had like this wonderful bowl of healthy food. See, we've been giving our kids spiritual junk food counterfeits. And then we wonder why they don't stick. Why the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. See, God has called us to not trick or treat, but spirit and truth. But many of us are feasting on the wrong treats. Halloween has come at the cost of the biblical feasts, feasts that God has given us in the Bible by which he wants to feast with us. Instead, we're feasting on treats on a night like Halloween when we have the biblical feast of Passover, unleavened bread, first fruits, Pentecost, trumpets, the day of Atonement, the feast of Tabernacles, these beautiful feasts which Paul kept. He said, I must by all means keep this feast coming. In Jerusalem, he talked to the church as well, and he said, hey, get rid of the leaven. Let you be unleavened. That's in reference to the feast of Unleavened Bread. We know that the feast of Trumpets is in our Bibles, it say that Yeshua Jesus will come back with the blowing of a trumpet. That's the Feast of Trumpets, the day of Atonement, the feast of Tabernacles, where he will tabernacle with us. We will be restored back to him. These things aren't fulfilled. They're still in our future. They're still worth celebrating. They're not just these Jewish irrelevant things. They're the things that the disciples kept and that our Messiah kept. I want to walk like Jesus. I don't want to walk like a goblin after the likeness of Satan and a witch. Join Me in that we know in our heart of hearts there is a feast to be kept. Indeed, he has biblical feasts for us. But when we don't know them, we don't have them, we don't keep them, we inevitably will replace them with counterfeit feasts of this world. And now you may say to me, well pd, pd, you just don't understand. That's not the history of Halloween, that's not the origins of Halloween. Halloween is from the Catholic tradition, the Catholic Church. I'll say to you simply this. Just because something is tradition, even a tradition of a church, just because something is old, it doesn't make it true or biblical. God, through the Messiah, Jesus has warned us of unbiblical traditions that are in contrast to the desires of God. Just think about what Jesus said to the pharisees in Mark 7:6. And he said to them, well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, this people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. You will leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men. And he said to them, you have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition. If we abandon the biblical feast that God has given us in order to establish a tradition like Halloween, which has so many dark connotations, have we not done exactly what Jesus warned us about? Abandoning his commandments for our made up traditions and feasts. So what's the conclusion this year? Don't trick or treat. Worship him in spirit and truth. How is that done? Yeshua would not go out and esteem the day, but rather he would minister freedom upon it. Just as with all days, that is what he did with his disciples. No matter what day it was, no matter what time it was, he always was on the same objective. And that is to proclaim the Gospel, to set the captives free. And that's what we would do. We will, just as on any day, use the opportunity to set the captives free by the power of the Spirit in us. So practically, what does that look like? There's many things we can do to be creative about that. You know, you can brainstorm some of those, but I'll give you some ideas. Think about setting up a table and just praying for people. Think about going out with friends to pray for people and see God work his authentic supernatural wonders through you. Touching others. Think about playing worship music. Outside worship is warfare. Imagine the lyrics, Jesus, you make the darkness tremble whilst people are trying to celebrate darkness outside. Above all, however you do it, remember that the children who are celebrating Halloween and the parents who are celebrating Halloween, they don't know what they're doing. Don't treat them with disgust. Treat them with the mercy that God has treated you with. When you partook in the things of this world and when you were a celebrator of evil or even a partaker with those who do evil, God had mercy and compassion on you. He told you and showed you. He opened your eyes to the truth, but nevertheless he did so with compassion. As Yeshua said on the cross, father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.