Today’s Sermon in a Nutshell:
Christ expels the demons from a man possessed
With Halloween being yesterday, all last week horror
movies were being shown on TV. Some dealt with mummies and werewolves; some
with vampires and zombies; and others with mad scientists and Frankenstein
monsters. Yet there were also those movies which depicted people possessed by
demonic forces.
Not unlike those gruesome, scary, supernatural movie
characters, we oftentimes categorize Satan and his demonic angels as fictitious
entities as well; never believing that demonic possession can take place.
The sad fact is, demonic possession – or more
appropriately, one’s submission to Satan – takes place quite frequently, if not
regularly, every time we choose to do what is wrong instead of what is right.
For when we choose to sin, we are willfully giving ourselves up to evil;
choosing to follow Satan instead of God.
Perhaps that is not the way we wish to look at it, for
the devil – who is the “father of all lies and deceit” – beguiles us, yet that
is still the sad reality of the fact.
Christ proclaimed that we cannot serve two masters, so
we either serve God or we don’t; and if we don’t, who do you think you’re
serving?
Fr.
John
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