The dangers of practicing and being involved in Santeria. Now in a Supreme Court case in 1993,
Justice Kennedy in his decision said the following and I quote. "The santeria faith
teaches that every individual has a destiny from God. A destiny fulfilled with the aid
and the energy of the orishas. The basic of the century of religion is the nurture of a
personal relationship with the orishas and one of the principal forms of devotion is an animal
sacrifice. According to santeria teaching the orishas are powerful but not immortal. They
depend for survival on the sacrifice. End of quote. Now, when it comes to Santeria,
the word 'Santeria' is translated the way of the saints. It's a religion that combines the African
and Catholic beliefs and practices and it originated in Cuba among the descendants
of the enslaved Africans. African slaves were brought West and their belief system was made
illegal by the people who enslaved them. So forming Santeria was their way of reconciling
now their criminalized belief system with the religion that they were enforced to embrace.
Santeria does not follow a central creed code or a book. It doesn't have like a Bible but
it's founded on rituals and ceremonies that have been passed down by the oral traditions. Religious
practices take place in their temples. Now, one of the things that Santeria believes is in these
orishas and I might not probably be pronouncing this correctly but you get the point. In Santeria,
it's the religion that focuses on building a personal relationship between human beings
and the powerful spirits called orishas. These powerful spirits are connected with Catholic
saints and these orishas as I mentioned already, they're not eternal, powerful but not eternal
according to their belief meaning, that they depend on us humans to give them something. So
that they could be alive to help the humans. So they depend on the humans requiring their worship
in order to survive. So these are rich need you to worship them so that they can survive. And
if they survive they mutually benefit those that worship them and those that provide also animal
sacrifices. So one of the things that Santeria has is the use of charms, herbs, symbols, potions and
rituals. Animal sacrifices is one of those big rituals. Specially sacrificing of chickens and
it's employed to gain favor with the orishas. So that they can be alive not die and then of course,
they'll in return bring you good fortune and the forgiveness of sins. Now, why am I doing
this video? Because we've dealt with quite a few people that come from a Catholic background who
actually need demons cast out of them because of their involvement with Santeria. The Roman
Catholic element in Santeria is most obvious in the way that orishas are associated with Catholic
saints such as Saint Barbara, Our Lady of Charity and Saint Lazarus. The followers of Santeria are
often nominal Roman Catholics and Catholic symbols are sometimes used in Santeria rituals. That's
where a lot of Catholics, they actually embrace Santeria thinking because it has a little sparkle
of Catholic symbols and Catholic names, it makes the rest of this witchcraft and ideology that's
purely demonic is okay but it's not okay. Christians should avoid anything that has
to do with Santeria. It's an occult and Christians should run away from it. Everything the Santeria
believes is not in line with the fundamental biblical truths of Christian faith. They rely on
animal sacrifices and appeasing these deities and these demons. That's who they are. They're demons
and the Bible clearly teaches us not to offer these things to other gods and other demons.
We rely on the sacrifice of Christ and the saving grace of God. In Luke Chapter 4 verses 6 through
8, actually I was reading that yesterday in my devotions and the devil said to Him, to Jesus,
All the authority I will give you and their glory. For this has been delivered to me and I give it to
whomever I wish. Therefore if You will worship me all this will be Yours. But Jesus answered
and said to him, Get behind me Satan. For it is written, You shall worship the Lord your
God and Him only you shall serve. So Satan offers Jesus an opportunity to get the glory and to get
all the recognition. He can get the world only if He worships Satan and Jesus rejects that offer. So
today do not buy into the lie of Satan repackaged for our generation in the form of Santeria with
the sparkle and with a little cherry of Catholic saints and other Catholic rituals and symbols as
a way to get favor and to get promotion and to get blessings from these deities if we could only
appease them by killing chickens and by worshiping them. That is nothing but repackaged witchcraft.
That is nothing but repackaged occult and idolatry and we should run away from that. If you have
Santeria items in your house, get rid of them. Burn them. If you have practiced Santeria, repent
of it, renounce it and give your life to Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only One who can give you
true power. He is the only one who has your best interest in mind. He says, I come to give life
and more abundantly and Jesus does not need you to worship Him so He can be Jesus. We worship Jesus
because He is worthy of our worship. We don't worship Jesus because He will not live and survive
without our worship. God is self-existent. He doesn't need us but He loves us and we need Him.
So if you're looking for breakthrough and the devil offers you a shortcut like he tried to offer
to our Savior, renounce, reject or run away from that shortcut and take the path of righteousness.
Take the journey of sanctification. Take the path of, 'Not my will but Your will be done' and you
will see not only God will give you His blessing but His blessing, it makes rich but it adds no
sorrow with it. God gives power to get wealth. God is the One that can prosper you. God is the One
that can meet your needs according to His riches and His glory. God is the One that can make your
way prosperous and give you good success according to Joshua 1:8. He is the one that can make you be
prosperous and be in good health as your soul prospers. Our God is a good God and He wants to
help us but His ways sometimes are not our ways and the devil will offer you a shortcut. But it's
honestly a shortcut into being demonized, demon oppressed and then to be destroyed by demons. So
say 'No' to Santeria and say 'Yes' to the Holy Spirit. Thank you for watching this video. If
you know somebody who needs to watch this, please share this with them. Hit like to this video. Let
me know in the comments of what you learned and if you have a testimony of deliverance from Santeria,
be kind to share this below in the comments. Thank you until next time.