Elijah, You're Fired!

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 27 June 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In the stories of the prophets Elijah and Elisha we clearly see the great Biblical theme of vocation and election. Our lives our not about us; it is not finally our autonomy that matters. Rather, we are claimed and chosen and sent by God, and only in the measure that we accept this divine mission do we find true joy. When he resisted God's will and sought to justify himself, Elijah was summarily fired; when Elijah put his mantle over the shoulders of Elisha, Elisha dropped everything and followed the will of God. If you want your whole world turned upside down, read the 18th and 19th chapters of the first book of Kings!

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0:26.0	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
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0:41.6	the Word on Fire.
0:43.6	Peace be with you.
0:45.6	Friends, we live in a culture that puts a huge premium on freedom and self-determination.
0:54.9	I have my rights, my privileges, my prerogatives, the government exists to protect those rights.
1:02.8	In the popular culture, we emphasize self-creation, self-determination.
1:08.5	No one tells me who to be or what to do, but I set my own agenda.
1:14.2	From the highest and lowest levels of our culture, this principle seems to be operative.
1:20.5	And of course, we're exporting this idea and this culture all over the world.
1:24.7	It's kind of the American way.
1:27.7	The roots of this attitude are very old and very deep.
1:31.1	They go back at least to the early modern period, philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and
1:37.7	John Locke, who had a very big influence on Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers.
1:43.3	The philosopher like Immanuel Kant puts a great stress on freedom.
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