From the August 8 sermon on Luke 9:37-45: God is good, and Satan is evil. It’s a simple but important distinction. Satan causes suffering, but Jesus, the Son of Man, suffered to defeat Satan, forgive sin, and end suffering. Jesus is annoyed with his disciples because they don’t pray to or listen to or trust him, and people are suffering. Satan is still at work today, deceiving and preaching to people, even through entertainment.

... But I do want you to be discerning when it comes to culture because I believe one of the ways that Satan works in our day, is he will take things out of the category of religion and spirituality, put them into the category of entertainment, and we completely fail to be discerning. We just think, "Oh, that’s not demonic. That’s a movie." A movie is a sermon with pictures. "That’s not demonic, that’s a song." Satan can write music. He can inspire story-telling and filmmaking, music. He sets ideology, and worldview, and he’s at work in the world. … Years later, a woman named Stephenie Meyer, who’s a Mormon, has a dream. She says, "In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately." ... Satan is alive and well. He’s deceiving. He’s lying. He’s preaching sermons through music and film. I’m not against culture. I’m not against music. I’m not against film. I’m not against creativity. I just don’t think it’s good to encourage young women to be in witchcraft, and to want to consult with the dead, and to be spiritual which is to invite demons. I don’t think it’s good when their mothers encourage that, and participate in that, and model that, particularly if they claim to be Christian. Are your eyes open to the darkness of our day, and the deception that surrounds us? I’m gonna pray. Jesus rebuked the disciples for not praying. We need to pray, and some you need to pray for discernment, wisdom, faith, open ears.

Watch the clip "How Annoyed Is Jesus With You?" after the jump: