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Break Away
There’s Something
Out There
CALLING young people to SHARE the riches of Christ,
to VALUE God and EQUIP themselves to SERVE others
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Introduction
Ephesians 6:12
Are there things that go bump in the night? A question that has been asked for
12 For we wrestle thousands of years. Many people shy away from this question, but we, as
not against flesh and blood,
Christians, have the answers. God has not left us in the dark. He makes it
but against principalities,
against powers, against the clear that in our world there are two forces at work; good and evil. Our
rulers of the darkness of this perception of evil, however, is very different from the reality. Evil is considered
world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
to be grotesque, devil horned and, well, just plain evil. The reality of evil is very
different. In our world evil is portrayed very differently. The line between good
1 Peter 5:8
and evil is blurred.
8 Be alert, be on
watch! Your enemy, the The devils greatest trick is to make the world believe he does not exist, so
Devil, roams around like a
roaring lion, looking for
much so that when he is spoken of it seems preposterous to even consider that
someone to devour. he could be real.
Our aim is to present the Truth of the Bible on this subject and for us as young
Christians to become aware of the spiritual battle taking place. We don’t
believe the devil is hiding under every rock, song or movie. However we do
believe he has a plan that we need to be aware of and protect ourselves
against his methods.
Many young people are going through challenges that are very difficult to deal
with. We know Christ is the answer and God wants to be our source of comfort
and strength. However young people are finding solace in movies and books,
where the source is questionable. We are not saying that we cannot watch
movies for entertainment, but we need to be careful that our entertainment does
not become an entrapment. Our Christian faith should not just be a part of life;
it is what makes life worth living. Movies entice us into thinking that life would
be different if we were in the position of the main character. We need to see life
from a Christian perspective and spend most of our reading time in God’s Word
so that we can discover and follow His will.
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Our Battle
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
What is the Battle?
4 For the weapons
It is not physical – It is a spiritual battle
of our warfare are not carnal
but mighty in God for pulling For the MIND & SOUL
down strongholds,
5 casting down
arguments and every high Who is the enemy?
thing that exalts itself Satan
against the knowledge of
God, bringing every thought
into captivity to the What is his plan?
obedience of Christ,
Build strongholds
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The Supernatural – Reality
Exodus 22:18
The battle-ground of the supernatural seems far-fetched, but is the REAL
18 Thou shalt not
reality!
suffer a witch to live.
God should be our only link with anything supernatural. Any other involvement
with the supernatural is dangerous, misleading and forbidden.
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The Supernatural – Fiction
John 15:5
Super heroes: (John 15:1-6)
5 “I am the vine,
and you are the branches.
Powers beyond the natural
Those who remain in Me,
and I in them, will bear
Mutants:
much fruit; for you can do
nothing without Me.”
Abnormal differences are good
John 6:53-54
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The Problem
1 Thessalonians 5:19-22
We want to be realistic and not extreme - trying to find the devil behind every
19 Do not quench the
bush, song or movie. The world we live in is losing touch with Christianity and
Spirit.
20 Do not despise reality.
prophecies.
21 Test all things; hold
fast what is good.
What are the main sources of information young people are exposed to:
22 Abstain from every Movies
form of evil.
Music
1 Corinthians 10:31 Television
Magazines
31 Therefore, whether
you eat or drink, or Internet
whatever you do, do all to
the glory of God.
These are some of the real problems movies present:
The director, scriptwriters and actors want us to hand over our emotions
to them. They will then build our concepts and ideas about life, reality,
love, etc and give birth to our fantasies.
The line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred because although
the characters / story, etc are fictional, the love and challenges
presented are portrayed as real.
Movies are written to relate otherwise they would not be watched. The
characters are made to be “real’, which makes it very difficult not to be
sucked into believing that there might be a spin off in reality.
Movies distort our emotions and create emotional fantasies. This has
been likened to emotional pornography.
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Our Defense
1 Corinthians 10:23 God has given us armour to protect ourselves with for this battle. Having the
armour available and USING the armour are 2 different things though!
23 All things are
lawful for me, but not all
things are helpful; all things
The Armour of God: (Ephesians 6:10-17)
are lawful for me, but not all
things build up. Belt of Truth
Breastplate of Righteousness
2 Timothy 1:7
Feet fitted with the Gospel of Peace
7 For God has not Shield of Faith
given us a spirit of fear, but
of power and of love and of Helmet of Salvation
a sound mind. Sword of the Spirit
Ephesians 4:14-15
We need to be careful of things that consume our thinking and lives that will
14 that we should no
lead us away from the Lord. As Christians we must be wary of exposing
longer be children, tossed to
and fro and carried about ourselves to things that will distract us and cause us to lose sight of who God is.
with every wind of doctrine, This is especially important in our teenage years, which is a time in our lives
by the trickery of men, in the
when we are most vulnerable to experimentation and anything that tickles our
cunning craftiness of
deceitful plotting, fancy. We need to put structures in place that will help us to grow spiritually
and sometimes that means that we have to make sacrifices with what we watch
15 but, speaking the
truth in love, may grow up in
and listen to.
all things into Him who is These sacrifices must be made with the right mindset; not because we have to
the head - Christ.
or because God will punish us if we don’t, but because we know it is the right
thing to do – for our own protection and for God’s glory.
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Glossary of Terms
1 Thessalonians 4:16
Angel ............... a "messenger," any agent God sends forth to execute his purpose.
Antichrist ........ultimate world leader that will arise in the end times. Political leader
16 For the Lord
from the European union. He will demand that the world worship him
Himself will descend from
heaven with a shout, with as god.
the voice of an archangel, Apocalypse .....the Greek name of the Book of Revelation.
and with the trumpet of
Archangel .......the prince of the angels, (1 Thessalonians 4:16; Jude 1:9).
God. And the dead in Christ
will rise first. Demon ............an evil spirit without a body, most likely the spirits of the offspring of
fallen angels and people in Genesis 6.
Jude 1:9
Enchanter .......someone who casts spells.
9 Yet Michael the Fallen angel ....part of the third of the angels that fell from heaven with Satan.
archangel, in contending
Familiar spirit .a demon that impersonates someone who has died to mislead people
with the devil, when he
into believing they can communicate with their loved ones who have
disputed about the body of
Moses, dared not bring passed away.
against him a reviling Hell ..................a place of eternal separation from God, Hell was created for the devil
accusation, but said, "The
and his angels. Hell was never intended for people, however those
Lord rebuke you!"
who reject Christ will go to hell. The devil is not in hell yet, he will be
Leviticus 19:31 there when God establishes His Kingdom.
Magic ..............the art of drawing on occult powers by using spirit forces - magic is
31 'Give no regard to
mediums and familiar strictly forbidden by God.
spirits; do not seek after Necromancer ..a medium that speaks to impersonating spirits (deceased people).
them, to be defiled by them:
Nephilim..........the offspring of fallen angels and woman. They were unnatural giants
I am the LORD your God.
and the cause of the flood.
Acts 19:19 Satan ...............the word Satan means adversary or one who lies and waits. Satan
was Lucifer (carrier of light) an archangel. He became proud and
19 Also, many of
those who had practiced thought he could take God’s throne. God threw him out of heaven and
magic brought their books he became Satan. At the moment he is in the spirit world and not in
together and burned them in hell.
the sight of all.
Witchcraft .......using potions and drugs to make people see things and believe things
that are of the spirit world.
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Bible References:
Isaiah 47:10-13
New King James Bible (Unless otherwise stated)
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