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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to "Try Jesus!" If this is your first time joining us, it’s great to have you with us. I would like to thank all the new members for joining "Try Jesus."

I would also like to welcome those in Neveda, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, South Dakota, and New York. It is a pleasure to have you with us today. The Lord continues to expand his word!

"I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD."  (Psalm 122:1 KJV). The Lord is indescribable and uncontainable. We gather to seek him above all today. He is an amazing God!

Our Lord continues to pave the way for the righteous. Authentic born-again believers shall not be moved from his mighty guiding hand! The Lord is our rock and our salvation this morning! He is our defense against ungodliness.

How many of you responded to last week's message and have traded in those things that had weighed you down for that light load of liberty in following Jesus as Lord? Jesus makes the heart feel light as a beautiful feather.

Those who do not know Jesus carry hearts that are filled with the world's gunk. It reminds me of an engine that is clogged with sludge. These destructive contaminants and high heat cause severe engine damage.

Whenever people are unaware of what the devil is doing to their lives, he is applying this same type of lengthy spiritual demonic heat against your soul. Cars have warning gage lights that warn of friction and overheating.

God sent his Son, (your spiritual mechanic) to warn you about this sinful sludge in your life and he's here today to clean your heart and soul from facing a heat that no one can recover from. (Revelation 20:10-15; 21:8).

Today you can live as that new spiritual vehicle (body) that has just come off the assembly line with that Holy Spirit filled new you smell. Let's welcome our only source of making us brand new this morning.

"Heavenly Father, we thank you this morning for making us new creatures in Christ Jesus! We thank you for being our only source of living with love, joy, and peace that the world cannot grasp. Thank you for being our true abundance.

We thank you Lord for giving us life in the womb of your choosing and knitting our lives together with all the gifts and talents that would glorify you. Your plan and purpose was already laid out for us. (Jeremiah 29:11).

Lord, as many acknowledge the celebration of mother's and ladies everywhere this morning, please help us to remember to honor them as wonderful blessings you gave for us. May we do as John did. (John 19:26).

Lord, many of these mothers are praying for their sons and daughters involved in warring conflicts. Lord, we ask for your hedge of protection over these brave soldiers in Israel and our soldiers all over the world.

As was last week, we sit before our screens and ask that you remove distractions from our homes and our minds. Open our hearts to your truth and strengthen our fellowship, even through this virtual space, in Jesus’ name, Amen."

How many of you love board games? Is this regular pass time fun for you or your family? What about Bible games that generate oneness in your family. As "Try Jesus" members know, there are new Bibles quizzes every three months.

There are different types of games that bring Unity and togetherness in the home. There are also games that can be unsettling for children and adults that seem to invite emotional derailment and darkness into the home.

As an adolescent, my parents would try to stay away from games that invited fear and instability into the home. We're they perfect at it, not really. I recall coming home one day and seeing a new game that was sitting on the dining table.

It had these weird looking numbers with an arrowhead shaped piece with a looking glass on it. I thought to myself, I hope my parents and siblings can show me how to play it. That is, until one of my aunts told me about some dangers associated with it.

You see, my aunt was a Christian woman who would visit us on occasion and sometimes babysit us when my parents were visiting friends. She would bring some book called the Bible with her every time she would visit.

It seems my older siblings would try to evade her coming by going over their friend’s house or just staying in their room with the door closed. But she would always pray over the house and tell us about Jesus every chance she could.

I didn't know it at the time, but it would later change my life forever. The information she shared about this Ouija board game made me want to steer clear away from it.

Things didn't help also when my mother took me to see some terrible movie called The Exorcist with her friend when I was very young. I experienced some terrible emotional issues for a number of years after viewing it.

But Jesus (Praise God!), took care of the demonic tentacles the enemy had over me around my 22nd birthday following the death of my precious niece. You can hear my testimony on the drop-down page. Jesus came to defeat all darkness.

Since my family grew up on comic books, encyclopedias, and board games, it was easy for me to do some reading on this game called Ouija. I found out that the Ouija board game is a game drenched in occultism.

It is a device ostensibly used for obtaining messages from the spirit world, at times employed by some medium individuals during a séance. The name comes from sources defined as meaning "yes or good luck."

All family members desire to have wholesome family entertainment during the day to build bonding fulfilled relationships. But some things that we allow to enter the home can bring tremendous emotional pain over time.

Much of this pain comes from outward addictions like alcohol, drugs, abusive outburst, and abuse of pharmaceuticals. Of course, simple things like isolation can grow into hopelessness and silence throughout the family structure.

But there are also spiritual inward dangers that come to do damage to the spirit and soul. You see beloved, we will always be made up of flesh and spirit. Whether you believe or not, like it or not, or dismiss it as nonsense.

You can't change what the creator has fashioned. The potter has "say so" over the clay. You can read it for yourself. (Genesis 1:27-28; 2:7-8; Isaiah 29:15-16; 45:9-12; 64:8; Jeremiah 18:6; Romans 9:20-21). But God gave instructions also.

Just as parents will have certain rules and boundaries under the roof for their children to abide by, which keeps them from harm, because they love them, our loving creator also placed rules over his creation to keep them from hurt.

Most humans don't like unnecessary pain and discomfort. You see beloved, we may not see the oncoming dangerous spiritual crash that is about to happen when we bring things into the home and dabble (play games) with it.

But God can see into the future and see outcomes of our sometimes foolish and blind mistakes we make before they happen. Playing with fire can get your fingers burned. Many times, it's a slow overtime burn that affects your spirit.

Introducing board games without doing homework for your family is like trying to bring an outdoor grill with charcoal inside your home to cook. Here are some simmering dangerous games that may make you think twice before you buy.

Mushroom Shaman, The Horror: Possession, Dark Deeds, Final Girl, Cryptic Explorers, Resident Evil 2, Castle Ravenloft, Mansions of Madness, The Night Cage, Ghost Stories, Vagrantsong, Cthulhu: Death May Die, and Mysterium.

Obviously, even the titles alone suggest that these games are not promoting glorious holy light fun under the family roof. I get it. Some see this as innocent fun. Nobody gets hurt. It's just a game, right? Yes, to the unseen eye.

But God can see between the body and soul. His Spirit can discern between bone and marrow. He is a discerner of thoughts and can see every intent of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12). He knows our beginning and ending.

Let's open the Bible and begin reading these knowing living word God speaks over us. Please read these words into your spirit, family, or study group. Allow you reading to be an act of worship this morning.

1} "O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2} Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

3} Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4} For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

5} Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6} Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

7} Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8} If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." (Psalm 139:1-8 KJV).

Since God knows us better than we know ourselves (Proverbs 16:9), he loves us enough to dictate those things that are harmful to our soul and spirit. He only wants the best for us and to enjoy richly enjoy things that are safe.

God has already revealed to us that we have an unseen enemy, and it's not each other. Satan has and always will be the enemy of the human race. It doesn't matter about skin color, language, or whether your rich or poor.

The devil is the culprit behind all the chaos in our nation and world today. Satan uses those who are spiritually blind to bring great division in society and throughout households. And he even uses fun games to enslave us.

Here's what the Bible says about dabbling into dark things concerning communicating with the dead and other demonic possession practices. There are many people who believe in angels but scoff at there being devils.

God's creation (humans) are told not to engage in practicing divination or seek omens. Please read aloud into your own spiritual hearing God's abundantly clear instructions on what we are to abstain from participating in.

26} "Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. 27} Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

28} Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. 31} Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:26-28,31 KJV).

If you’re going to follow Jesus, then you should want nothing to do with occult practices, consulting spirits, mediums, or trying to engage the dead. Saul was troubled and tried to engage in this with a witch. (1 Samuel 28:7-12).

In that story, don't be misled that God broke his own law and allows divination. Saul knew it was forbidden to do this because he himself knew that anyone practicing this was in serious trouble.

The female medium knew about Saul’s cleansing Israel of spiritism and suspected the king of setting a trap for her. Saul knew what God had said. (Leviticus 20:6).

God's reaction to Saul’s sin was to let him know what his discipline would be. He is taken off the earth in 1 Samuel chapter 31. God's cautionary words are very stern concerning fooling around with dark unholy games.

When families engage in such practices, it opens the door for all kinds of demonic defilement to enter the home and spread throughout communities. But just as Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it, he made it even more stringent. (Matthew 5:17).

It seems God also takes dabbling in the spirit world of darkness with an even more serious heavy-handed approach in (Deuteronomy 18:9-13). Please read the following verses aloud into your spirit. Jesus loves you and wants to free you.

9} "When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

10} There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

11} Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12} For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

13} Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14} For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do." (Deuteronomy 18:9-14 KJV).

You see beloved, God is a Holy God who treasured Israel as his own above all other evil nations. You can read this in (Exodus 19:5; and Deuteronomy 7:6). Was Israel perfect, without sin? Of course not.

God chose Israel through his promise to Abraham. (Genesis 12:1-3). God still chose through his abounding love and mercy. Just as we are saved, through the blood of Jesus, not through works. (Ephesians 2:8-10).

When God chooses us, he certainly doesn't want us dabbling in anything unholy because he is Holy. What the other nations were doing were an abomination to him. God was enforcing his laws and instruction with stern words and actions (Leviticus 20:27).

The word abomination in the Hebrew language (tô‛êbah tô‛êbah), means to loathe something. To find something