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UPON EXAMINING OURSELVES
Here’s an interesting statement I found by C. S. Lewis that was helpful in making a sermon on the Gerasene demoniac very practical (Mark 5:1-20). I was telling the congregation that though we may not experience the demonic invasion that this man did, we can, however, be possessed by harmful and destructive character traits, unclean attitudes and thought patterns can take up residence within us. C. S. Lewis described his self- examination “with a seriously practical purpose,” on coming to Christ. He says that he “found what appalled me: a zoo of lust, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was Legion.” And like the demoniac, the cure for us is to run to Jesus, bow down before Him and allow Him to cast out whatever may possess us.