Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzel. Thank you for joining us today. As we walk through life, we begin to realize that not every monster lurks under the bed. For centuries, demons, and dark spiritual forces have been downplayed as entertaining mythical figures, while insidious and destructive sins have been disguised as fun and freedom.

This message with Pastor Skip will expose the hidden idols and dangers of our culture

and reveal the true freedom that is found in Christ alone.

Welcome to our scary series.

Monsters in the closet.

Would you turn in your Bibles this morning to the First Kings in your Old Testament,

First Kings chapter 18?

First Kings chapter 18.

Now I realize as we are doing this message this morning on bail and the love of money, power, and prosperity, that this probably

has little to do with the congregation like you that is so generous over the years, have given

to so many projects we have done to reach out to this community, and we do thank you

for that.

But we are in this series, and I wanted to point something out in First King's Chapter 18.

To begin, I just want to show you an album that I brought.

This is Bob Dylan.

This is his second of three Christian albums that he produced. This one was in

1980. It's called Saved. That's the name of the album, Saved, S-A-V-E-D. He wanted to announce to the

world that he was saved. And there's the title song, the title cut, is called A Satisfied Mind.

I always thought Dylan wrote it.

And then I found out it was written back in the 1950s by two authors, Red Hayes and Jack Rhodes.

And so Dylan did a copy of it. He did a cover of it. It's his opening song, as I said. It's not really much of a song. It's just sort of a chant, but on his album. But here's some of the lyrics, satisfied mine. How many times have you heard someone say, if I had his money, I could do things

my way? But little they know that it's so hard to find one rich man in 10 with a satisfied mind.

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