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.

Morning.

Okay, so this is the last week of our Spook-a-thon music it's going to be over after this we're going to enter into a christmas themed uh christmas themed um little series leading up to christmas but today and our final message on uh this this topic, this whole thing of monsters in the closet,

I'd like you to turn in your Bibles to the Book of Judges, Old Testament Book of Judges, Chapter 16.

Judges Chapter 16.

Just a little over two years ago, October 7th,

2020,

the terrorist group named Hamas

breached the security border

of the Gaza Strip

and came in jeeps on motorcycles, some in paragliders.

Once they crossed the border, they proceeded to gun down victims, innocent people at a music festival in Israel,

and then raid border towns around the area,

including some of the settlements, the Kibbutzim in the land.

And they managed in the process to kill 1,200 men, women, children, infants, burning families alive in their homes,

killing parents before their children, killing children in front of their parents,

taking the dead bodies, in some cases, chopping them up, desecrating them,

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