He Will Rule Forever

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Friends, we come to the fourth and final Sunday of Advent, falling this year on the very day before Christmas. And today, the Church invites us in our readings to think about David. Jesus is the fulfillment of the Torah, the fulfillment of the temple, the fulfillment of all of the longings of the prophets and patriarchs of Israel. And he is, perhaps above all, the new and definitive David, the King and Priest who will “rule over the house of Jacob forever.”

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated
0:07.3	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.
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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, we come to the fourth and final Sunday of Advent following this year on the very
0:44.6	day before Christmas and the church invites us to think a lot today about David.
0:51.2	Now as I've said many times to you, you can't understand Jesus apart from the Old
0:56.9	Testament. When you try you get a distortion. The church recognized that very early
1:01.7	on. It was back in the second century.
1:04.0	It fought against a man named Marcion who said, let's get rid of the Old Testament.
1:08.0	We have this new revelation. The church said no to that.
1:11.0	When you abstract Jesus from the Old Testament, you get Jesus as
1:15.0	teacher of timeless truths, ethical, exemplar, and all that. But when you ground
1:21.7	him in the Old Testament, then you get this very rich picture of Jesus.
1:28.0	Look how often in the New Testament the reference to David is made.
1:32.0	Beginning of Matthew's Gospel. the reference to David is made.
1:33.0	Beginning of Matthew's Gospel, the genealogy,
1:36.6	divided into three sets of 14 generations.
1:40.3	In Hebrew, every number relates to a letter, every letter to a number.
1:45.6	14 was the number that corresponds to D'Ahiid or to David.
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