Nicodemus Came at Night

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Friends, our Gospel for today contains one of the most important lines in the entire Bible: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” To “believe” here means much more than to accept the truth of an idea; it is to enter into the space opened up by the death of the Son of God. When you do that, you are born again; when you do that, you have eternal life.

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an
0:05.7	apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and
0:11.8	new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with
0:17.0	Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring
0:22.2	the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite
0:28.3	you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the
0:32.8	warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.
0:38.6	Peace be with you. Friends, our gospel for this fourth Sunday of land contains
0:43.3	one of the most important lines in the entire Bible and I'll get there but
0:48.6	first I want to provide a little context. Our reading is taken from that marvelous
0:53.1	third chapter of the gospel of John. Get your Bibles out when you have a chance
0:57.4	today and look at John chapter three. The first half of which is devoted to a
1:03.4	nighttime conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus. Watch by the way in the new
1:11.1	series that chose them. They handle this beautifully I think. The two of them
1:14.9	Jesus and Nicodemus up on the roof of the place where Jesus is staying and they
1:19.3	have this intense nighttime conversation. Now who is Nicodemus? He's described as a
1:25.4	Pharisee so someone who's taking the law of Israel with great seriousness. He's
1:30.9	also described as a leader of the Jews so he's someone of standing. He's an
1:37.5	important figure within the Israelite tradition. He knows the prophets and the
1:42.4	Psalms and the Torah. He's obviously intrigued by Jesus. We find out why. He
1:48.8	says no one could be doing the signs that you're doing unless God were with
1:53.3	him. But at the same time he must have been puzzled. Who is this man? What's he
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