4th Sunday of Lent (Year B) - John 3: 14-21

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🗓️ 9 March 2024

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John 3: 14-21 - 'God sent his Son so that through him the world might be saved.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2130 (in 'You shall not make for yourself a graven image') - Nevertheless, already in the Old Testament, God ordained or permitted the making of images that pointed symbolically toward salvation by the incarnate Word: so it was with the bronze serpent, the ark of the covenant, and the cherubim.

- 219 (in 'God is love') - God's love for Israel is compared to a father's love for his son. His love for his people is stronger than a mother's for her children. God loves his people more than a bridegroom his beloved; his love will be victorious over even the worst infidelities and will extend to his most precious gift: "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son."

- 444 (in 'The Only Son of God') - Jesus calls himself the "only Son of God", and by this title affirms his eternal pre-existence. He asks for faith in "the name of the only Son of God" (abbreviated).

- 458 (in 'Why did the Word become Flesh'?) - The Word became flesh so that thus we might know God's love: "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him." "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

- 678-679 (in 'To Judge the Living and the Dead') - Following in the steps of the prophets and John the Baptist, Jesus announced the judgement of the Last Day in his preaching. Then will the conduct of each one and the secrets of hearts be brought to light. Then will the culpable unbelief that counted the offer of God's grace as nothing be condemned...Christ is Lord of eternal life. Full right to pass definitive judgement on the works and hearts of men belongs to him as redeemer of the world. He "acquired" this right by his cross. the Father has given "all judgement to the Son". Yet the Son did not come to judge, but to save and to give the life he has in himself. By rejecting grace in this life, one already judges oneself, receives according to one's works, and can even condemn oneself for all eternity by rejecting the Spirit of love (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. We're looking today at a text which is read a lot in the
0:17.1	lectionary. It's very well known amongst Christians and this whole area of text
0:22.1	appears quite a few times on the liturgical calendar. So as always, our goal is to help you
0:28.2	understand the text of scripture. And today's passage, if you go to Mass, is John
0:34.6	chapter 3 versus 14 to 21.
0:40.3	Jesus said to Nicodemus,
0:42.3	the son of man must be lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness
0:48.3	so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
0:53.3	God loved the world so much that he gave
0:57.0	his only son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost, but may have eternal life.
1:05.5	For God sent his son into the world not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.
1:13.3	No one who believes in him will be condemned, but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already.
1:20.7	Because he has refused to believe in the name of God's only son.
1:25.7	On these grounds is sentence pronounced, That though the light has come into the
1:30.9	world, men have shown that they prefer darkness to the light because their deeds were evil.
1:37.7	And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it. For fear his actions should be exposed. But the man who lives
1:47.8	by the truth comes out into the light so that it may be plainly seen that what he does is done in God.
1:56.6	So as always, we want to start by thinking about the context. What's happened just before this?
2:01.9	So Jesus has just started the conversation with Nicodemus, that famous conversation.
2:07.3	Nicodemus is one of the leading Jews, and Jesus has just told Nicodemus in the previous passage,
2:13.7	unless you are born from above, you cannot see the kingdom of God. Now, at that point, Nicodemus was
2:20.5	very surprised, and so Jesus said to him, the wind blows wherever it pleases. And Nicodemus is still
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