Horror Movies
Psalm 10
17 O LORD, thou
wilt hear the desire of the meek; thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt
incline thy ear 18 to do justice to the fatherless and the
oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more. KJV
Teaching Aid - A Cross-and a Wooden Stake
Do you know what these are? (Show the cross and the wooden stake) They are the weapons of a vampire hunter.
I remember as a Junior High student watching horror movies then having to walk home along the highway at night to get home from the theater. My senses seemed to be magnified. Every little sound seemed to make my hair stand right on end.
To me the all time scary movie was Bram Stoker’s Dracula. One time I watched that movie and was so scared I slept with a Bible and a Cross. I would have used garlic, if I could have slipped some out the kitchen without my mother knowing about it. Of course you are right, I would have been better off to read the Bible and eat the garlic.
In this movie Dracula was the most vicious and scary of all the blood-sucking vampires. He was in league with the powers of darkness and lived forever. However he had weaknesses.
Dracula could not be out in daylight and could not tolerate anything Holy like the Cross. The Archenemy of Dracula was Van Helsing the vampire hunter. Van Helsing tracked the vampire with a Cross-and a wooden stake that he intended to drive through the heart of this evil one to once and for all destroy him. Eventually Van Helsing did succeed.
These stories are not real life. And as I said before my time could have been better spent doing things more wholesome and reading the Bible rather that sleeping with it. However we can learn from this.
God has called us to stand in the gap against evil. And the Cross-does have tremendous power. The Cross was the source of our salvation and is a symbol of hope to a lost world. And as Christians, God has called us to hold up the Cross-in defense of the oppressed of this world. Not the cross as some magic implement, an icon, or a religious relic, but as a symbol of Christ’s love. Jesus loved those oppressed by the world and by Satan. We are required to show the same love. We are expected to stand for the weak and defend those oppressed. We are to hold up Christ’s love between those under attack and their tormentors.
Prayer: Father give us the courage to be your warriors, to stand in the gap in defense of the oppressed. May we have a loving heart like Jesus and be a blessing for those under attack in a sinful world. Amen
