People believe that through certain practices, certain forms of meditation,

we are able to manipulate the environment in which we live.

I can't tell you how many ways this intrudes into the church. If you read the Old Testament and look at the

law of the Old Testament, it's a matter of grave importance to God that his people not be involved

in superstition.

Let me just pause here for a second and say that in every age, and in every generation,

and in every religious community, I don't care what denomination it is,

the clear and present danger of the invasion of superstitious elements into faith is pervasive.

There's always been that problem, and we can see how readily, how easy it is to mix up religion and superstition.

I don't know of any religion in this world that is free of superstition.

That we again, even as we have an inclination and propensity towards idolatry,

we also have a certain fascination for magic. You see the bumper stickers visualize world peace,

which is part of this psychokinesis that's integral to New Age thinking.

New Age philosophy, New Age religion, among other things, is an overt revival of ancient magic,

where people believe that through certain practices, certain forms of meditation,

certain incantations, we are able to manipulate the environment in which we live.

If we just concentrate hard enough on world peace, we can make it happen.

And that that power is within us to have power over matter.

It's magic.

I can't tell you how many ways this intrudes into the church, where somehow we think if we

say exactly the right formula in our prayer, that we can make things happen. Sometimes even the name of Jesus is used as a magical incantation,

rather than an expression of honor and of glory to Him. Now, this, when it comes in, doesn't come in in the cross forms where people

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