Walking on the Water

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 7 August 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Often in the Bible, water functions as a symbol of chaos and sin: the waters at the beginning of creation, the waters of the Red Sea, the waters of Noah's flood, etc. Just as the Spirit of God hovered over the abyss in the beginning, so the Son of God walks on the waves. This signals God's lordship over all of the forces of destruction that confront us. As long as we look to Jesus, we can walk on those same waters with him.

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0:11.0	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on fire.
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0:21.9	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.2	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, clearly might speak with
0:29.2	love about the one who is love.
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0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:39.9	Peace be with you.
0:41.7	Friends, throughout the Scripture, water is a powerful symbol.
0:45.7	Symbolizes lots of things, life, God's renewal of the earth.
0:51.1	But one of the things that water symbolizes is danger and chaos.
0:58.0	Remember at the very beginning, in the book of Genesis, we hear that it was a formless
1:03.1	waste, and God's Spirit hovered over the surface of the waters.
1:10.1	The water symbolizes this primal chaos that is opposed to God's purposes.
1:16.6	But there is God's Spirit hovering confidently and powerfully over those waters.
1:25.0	Later in the book of Genesis, we hear that human sin became so profound on the earth that
1:31.0	God sent a great rain which caused the flood that covered the whole world, only Noah and
1:38.3	his family in the great ark managed to escape.
1:42.8	Same symbol, the waters of chaos, the waters of sin, of disorder.
1:49.0	Yet, through God's grace, Noah and his family are able to survive.
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