A Last Word (Paragraph) on Casting Out the Unclean Spirit

 I've been thinking about Sunday's sermon--no, not this Sunday's sermon, but last Sunday's, on Jesus and the unclean spirit that he cast out.  I'm pleased with how I ended the sermon:

Jesus gives us a new commandment to love each other, and he shows us that one of the surest ways to do that is to actively invite one and all to the table to share a meal together. In this time that seems full of devils that try to drive us all apart, let this be the year that fight the forces of evil in all the ways that we can. We may not be able to cast out demons as decisively as Jesus did, but we have power in our possession, power by being possessed by Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit, a power so simple that it can’t be taken away from us, a power that miraculously moves beyond what human knowledge can understand, a power that prevails.