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The Universal Law
4 min
Gospel
Mt 5:17-19
“Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Readings are taken from Dynamic Catholic’s Bible: RSV Catholic Edition.
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Transcript
The Universal Law
So, what is it that jumps out at you? Jesus has come, some people recognized him, some people didn't.
Those that recognized him, they all had expectations of him, and just as you have expectations of everybody you encounter, and everybody you encounter has expectations of you.
And sometimes we live up to them. And very often we don't. Sometimes only because we don't know what the expectations are. In the case of Jesus, people had these expectations around the Messiah.
And they were not just individual expectations.
They were multi-generational expectations. And not just multi-generational expectations, but expectations that had been building for thousands of years.
So the Messiah shows up. Those that recognized him had massive expectations of Jesus. And I think some of them must have had the expectation that Jesus was going throw out the old stuff and bring in everything new. And what is he saying here today? He's saying, no. He's not come to abolish the law and the prophets. And so th this this would have created confusion among people who had the expectation that he was going to throw the old stuff out. We of course live in a disposable culture. Um we throw so much away. Um something stops working. Uh do we fix it? In most cases, we don't. We throw it away and get a new one, or we send it back and get a new one. And this disposable attitude has implications far beyond our consumption of material goods. It affects our relationships. Lots of people, right? Relationship gets broken. Do they fix it? No, they throw it away. This mentality, it seeps into every aspect of our lives. And Jesus is talking about this here.
The tendency for us is to have expectations that this should be thrown away, or that should be thrown away, or this is too old-fashioned, or that is too old-fashioned, or this isn't relevant anymore, or that isn't relevant anymore. And most of the time, what Jesus is saying is, it isn't that these things aren't relevant anymore. It is that our lives have become irrelevant to these things.
And these things are the most relevant things. So if our lives are irrelevant to the most relevant things, we need to step back, we need to take another look, we need to make adjustments. Have a great day. Remember, be bold.
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