Classic Sunday Sermons: You Must Rethink Your Spiritual Life

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Friends, there’s a great temptation for us to turn the Lord into a distant spiritual entity or a difficult moral taskmaster. We incorrectly believe that we have to crawl our way to the divine by our own heroism, merit, and effort. But this is not the case. In actuality, God, in his wisdom, hastens to make himself known. He reveals himself to us, even before we’ve begun to see. In fact, our seeking is predicated upon the fact that we’ve already been found. To understand this is to understand the Bible as the story of God’s quest for us.

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0:00.0	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
0:16.1	encounter with Christ and his church.
0:19.1	The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's word where it is most needed.
0:27.0	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.
0:37.0	Peace be with you.
0:40.0	Friends, our first reading for this weekend is from the marvelous book of wisdom and the problem
0:44.8	is it might easily slip past our minds but gosh it shouldn't because it articulates what
0:52.1	is arguably the principle of biblical revelation.
0:58.3	What I mean is the primacy of grace. Let me say that again, the central principle of the whole Bible is the
1:06.6	primacy of grace. As I've said before, the Bible is not the story of our quest for God.
1:13.6	Go to any bookstore.
1:15.3	Go on the spirituality shelves,
1:16.8	you'll find 100 books about the human quest for gone.
1:21.5	Bible isn't that story. It's the story of God's
1:25.0	is in that story. It's the story of God's quest for us. It is God who always takes the
1:31.2	initiative in the spiritual order.
1:33.6	It's God who sets the tone.
1:36.2	It's God who's always the master of the conversation.
1:41.0	You know, there's a great temptation in all of us sinners to turn God into a distant spiritual
1:46.4	force or principle, and then we're striving to find our way to that God.
1:54.6	Or we turn God into a difficult moral taskmaster,
2:00.0	and only through heroic effort can we sufficiently impress him?
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