Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us. Peace be with you. Friends, we've

had the privilege now reading from the sermon on the mount and we'll continue

for the next couple of weeks. We're an extraordinary experience it is just to

hear from Jesus himself as he lays out his basic teaching. What we find today is

Jesus as the new Moses. So like Moses he goes up on a mountain and he receives

and then gives a new law and he also says something extraordinary to me throughout

the sermon we hear today. You've heard it said but I say and we might let that

just slip through our minds but we shouldn't because that would have taken

their breath away in the first century. You've heard it said in the Torah that's

what he means which was the highest possible authority for a Jew of that time.

The law given to Moses. You know you might appeal to your rabbi who was

taught by another rabbi by another all the way back to Moses who received the

Torah from God and so to say the Torah was to say the ultimate law. Therefore when

Jesus kind of blithely comments well you've heard it said there but I say that's

an affirmation of his divinity. You know St. John will say it very explicitly you

know in the beginning was the word and the word was made flesh but within this

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