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Into the Wild, 3 - Escaping the Rabbit Hole of Depravity Jim Ladd, Jan 16, 2022 Romans 1:24-32 The Big Idea: The universal pathway of depravity must be intercepted, interrupted, and overcome. People who want no god “enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded, and are therefore self-enslaved.”  - C. S. Lewis This depravity spiral is a universal problem! Romans 3:9-20 "The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronizing and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred. For there are two things inside me, competing with the human self which I must try to become. They are the Animal self, and the Diabolical self. The Diabolical self is the worse of the two. That is why a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither."  - Mere Christianit