The Paralysis of Sin

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 23 February 2003

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

God wants nothing more than for us to be fully alive. Sin cramps us, paralyzes us, prevents us from flourishing. Jesus' whole life and being is God's "yes" to human beings. So he forgives the sin of the paralytic and then invites him to walk. The glory of God is a human being fully alive.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to reflect
0:04.8	with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Father Barron will
0:11.3	challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us.
0:17.2	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with love
0:22.8	about the one who is love. The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart
0:28.4	Parish in Winetka now presents the Word on Fire. Please be with you. Friends, the readings for today
0:38.2	need to be shouted from the house tops. They need to be proclaimed at the top of our lungs,
0:46.1	because they are almost impossibly good news, and they cut right to the heart of what it means to be
0:55.5	a Christian. Listen first now, a little excerpt from the book of the prophet Isaiah. It's our first
1:02.4	reading for today. Thus says the Lord, remember not the things of the past, the things of long ago
1:13.6	consider not. See, I am doing something new. Christians, our God is a God of the future.
1:25.9	Our God is a God of the new. You have that famous divine self-definition in the book of Exodus,
1:34.3	when Moses says, well, when the Israelites asked me, who sent me, what should I tell them, what's
1:40.0	your name? And God says, in that lovely Hebrew, a yay, a share, a yay, rendered sometimes as I
1:49.7	am who I am. But scholars now say a much better rendering of that, much more accurate, is I will be
1:57.8	who I will be. It's a future tense. God says to Moses, I am the one who is always out ahead of you,
2:09.1	luring you to deeper life. How often in the Bible, this is the way God has depicted,
2:15.4	the one who is ahead of us, in front of us, saying, come on, much like a parent luring her child
2:25.5	to take her first steps. Come on, come on. The parent ahead of the child, inviting him or her
2:33.2	to deeper, richer life. I will be who I will be. See, I'm doing something new. That's what I'm
2:39.6	interested in. Not the things of the past. We do not have a God who broods on the past.
2:47.8	We do, by the way, we brood on it. But Isaiah is saying, that's not God's way. How about this clue,
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