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The Living Waters Podcast

Why Teens Are Turning to Witchcraft Instead of Christ – Highlight Episode 376

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Gen Z is increasingly exploring paganism, astrology, and spiritual experimentation as they search for meaning, identity, and purpose. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar discuss how these practices reflect a God-given hunger for transcendence, but only Christ offers lasting transformation, true healing, and real community. The guys emphasize that the church must respond with discernment, grounded in Scripture, and faithful discipleship to guide young people away from counterfeits and toward the hope, ...

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I would say that we have a rudderless generation.

0:03.0

And a rudderless generation can be blown about by every wind of doctrine.

0:08.0

And we see the wind of doctrine mentioned in 1st Timothy, 4-1-2.

0:13.0

Spirits expressly, in the latter days, some shall depart from the faith

0:17.0

and begin listening to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, as the wizard

0:23.0

would say. Wow. I love that. That's one of the signs at the end of the age that some shall

0:28.8

depart from the faith. And that's why it's so tragic that the modern gospel produces so many

0:36.9

who depart from the faith.

0:39.3

They put their hand of the plower and they go back. They're lots wife.

0:42.3

They look back. And the Bible says the latter end becomes worse than the first.

0:46.3

The pig goes back to wallowing in the mire.

0:49.3

And we know why a pig wallows in the mire. It's not because it's unclean.

0:52.3

It's to call its flesh. And when you have a false conversion, your sinful nature is not crucified mire. It's not because it's unclean. It's to cool its flesh. And when you have a false

0:54.4

conversion, your sinful nature is not crucified with Christ. You're still live after the flesh. And

0:59.6

you have to go back to the world to cool your flesh. And scripture says that you'll be

1:04.7

seduced into doctrines of devils or demons, which is what we see with this generation, a rudderless generation,

1:11.9

have no rudder to direct them into the right path, but the voice of the church.

1:18.0

Yeah. Mark, do you see a Romans 1 dynamic at play in this, the suppressing of truth and

1:22.9

unrighteousness? Yeah, and notice it. It also says there in Romans 1 that they are a thankless

1:27.4

people, and that's really what we have today in Romans 1 that they are a thankless people,

1:28.1

and that's really what we have today. We have a generation people that are thankless. They don't

1:32.2

know who to think, and they've suppressed who they are to think, and they end up thanking themselves

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