by As we enter that time of year, I want to see what the Bible says about Celebrating Halloween. Since the beginning of the Church Age, society has had a major influence on Christianity. So, a first thought must be to consider the day we live in relation to the Word of God.
We live in a day where the mask of wickedness has blended smoothly with the righteousness of men, shading the line drawn between good and evil. (Isaiah 5:20-21)
We live in a day where what is etched in stone as God’s precepts is debated as gray areas and excused as Christian liberties. (Romans 6:1-2)
We live in a day where, regardless of the constant, all-out onslaught of Satan (Ephesians 6:12), God has not changed His line of demarcation with sin. (Psalm 119:89)
We live in a day where Christians have lost their blush over sin. (Jeremiah 6:15-16)
We live in a day where Christians are not so much confused as deceived by the father of lies. (John 8:44)
We live in a day where false teachers have been prophesied to be on the rise, deceiving many into denying sound doctrines of God’s Word. (2 Timothy 3:13)
We live in a day where we are witnessing the result of generations of deception, where anemic Christians are hard pressed to find the simple truth to, “Does the Bible leave any room for a Christian to celebrate Halloween?” Yet, the simplest answer should require ZERO research. Knowing the fact that we have been saved from darkness to walk in light should be enough to guide our spirit by the Spirit that now indwells us. (1 Corinthians 2:10-13)
We live in a day where regardless of how formal, fanciful or even cartoonish CELEBRATING HALLOWEEN has become, it’s still celebrating the darkness we were saved to war against. (Ephesians 6:12)
We live in a day where society’s influence on Christianity has deeply infiltrated the church. Halloween is just one of many issues that the church has taken “liberty for an occasion of the flesh” (Galatians 5:13).
liberty is our liberation from the bondage of sin (Galatians 5:1), yet the 21st Century church is using it as a license to sin. (Galatians 2:4; 2 Peter 2:19) liberty never abolishes the law but allows us to go to the limit of the law, and not beyond. So, the Law is where we should look next week to understand Halloween and Christians’ response to it.
