You Must Rethink Your Spiritual Life - Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon
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- Friends, there’s a great temptation for us to turn the Lord into a distant spiritual entity or a difficult moral taskmaster. We incorrectly believe that we have to crawl our way to the divine by our own heroism, merit, and effort. But this is not the case. In actuality, God, in his wisdom, hastens to make himself known. He reveals himself to us, even before we’ve begun to see. In fact, our seeking is predicated upon the fact that we’ve already been found. To understand this is to understand the Bible as the story of God’s quest for us.
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Me nodding non-stop. Thank God for Bishop Barron and I live at the same time and era.
The Holy Spirit is the one who prays inside us. Everything which is good comes from the Father!
Yes that's true... How are you doing?
Yes, everything comes from our Holy Trinity. Our Father!
@@inesulsh9866 hey do you mind if we get to know each other better?
*"Every religion is the result of man's search for God; Christianity alone is the result of God's search for man."*
I love that quote. I feel chosen. We are all chosen people. If we can embrace this message and have a relationship with God, living in the spirit that we are chosen, then we have the fulness of His love and grace. Every moment is a miracle as we live in His love.
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God bless you heaps☆
So beautiful!!!!
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Stay blessed☆
Well said
"It is not you who have chosen Me; it is I who have chosen you." I will listen to this one over and over again. Thank you, Bishop.
I love these sermons :)
I am blown away by this homily!! So grateful for bishop Barron!!!
Thank you Bishop. God Bless you and your Family
I am grateful that God is searching for me. I am unworthy, and yet God has chosen me. Thank you Bishop Barron for reminding me of this. God bless you.
Unworthy?
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Hi Bishop Robert Barron, what a wonderful presentation! I love it! It is so humbling to know that it is God who is in constant search of us human beings. Thank you very much for giving me this realization that in spite of my sins and weaknesses, Jesus continues to knock at the door of my heart. My prayer is that I give up my sinful life and surrender to Him one hundred percent. May God continue to bless you dear Bishop and your mission on Word on Fire.
There is no better way to teach this truth but the way you are explaining it to us. Thank you Bishop Barron. God bless you.🙏
Thank you Bishop as always let's be thankfull for the gifts we already have because that's all we need through christ our lord
bishop you are really a blessing for so many people, teaching people the faith and explaining many things.
Thank you, Bishop Barron ! You put me in my place !
"In fact, our seeking is predicated upon the fact that we've already been found."
Thank you for this reminder Bp. Barron.
My brother Bishop Barron. Your words are powerful...God has never left my life...i will not allow it...smile..without the good lord there's no me....praise God from whom all blessings flow....peace
May God bless you Father, iam guided spiritually, My God takes all the initiatives in me, it is his grace that lead me on .
The Primacy of Grace and Choice has been so well explained by Bishop Baron. God is the ‘forerunner ‘ we are followers of God ….. as God Jesus and the Holy Spirit are at our ‘disposal’
Jesus continues to knock at our doors 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Being generous is another good one. God repays in abundance.
Thank you so much Bishop Barron, for your clarity of explanations and illuminating my realisation that Our Lord has chosen us and is ready and waiting for us to invite Him in even though we are sinners.
Great is God's mercy and forgiveness.
Thank you Lord Jesus..🙏🙏💓💓
Blessings to you and your team. 🙏🙏💖💖
Thank you. Waves of relief come from your words. My self awareness shouts to me - He is calling. I am trying to open the door from a crack to full wideness and dine with my Lover.
Brilliant
Lord, thanks for being God and for the grace of putting in our hearts the desire to becoming your instruments of Love
Very profound.
This sermon moved me to tears. It was so beautiful to see such a gifted intellect as Bishop Barron humbly surrendering to God, and using his wonderful preaching gift to teach us to do so.
AMEN:)
Hello greetings... How are you doing?
This realization made me cry.
..with all the clarity & substance....thank you Bishop...
Just awesome Bishop Barron, thank you so much. You are a great teacher.............
Thank you M. BISHOP R.B. for your evangelization and for transmiting us the Holy Spirit.
Wow, I am astounded and challenged by the sermons of bishop Barron.
Thanks bishop barron for all your advice and helpful suggestions I like to listen to TH-cam video ok God bless you bishop barron
First forgiveness changed me. Then gratitude changed me. Yes, I still long for some of the clutter, but those two God given gifts forgiveness and gratitude have shown me what in my 82 years of life is important. Thank you Bishop Barron for your Sermon today.
Thank you, Bishop Barron for sharing your gift of Scriptural knowledge with all of us. Often, I don't always understand what I read. God Bless
It's so true . Allow to be found 🙏
God bless you Bishop Barron :) I'm 21 and I must say listening to you speaking about God, opens my mind and heart for faith. ♡
Brilliant sermon. The Holy Spirit is truly with Bishop Barron with this one. God bless, and may He continue to use the good Bishop.
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It was the very image of Jesus knocking on the door, and a reflection on same, which I heard at a retreat, over 20 years ago, that brought me back to the Church and in turn led me on the path to the (Permanent) Diaconate, here in the Archdiocese of Armagh, Ireland.
I have been ordained seven years now and I sometimes get to tell my story about when, I eventually heard Our Lord Jesus knocking on the door of my heart and my initial response was that I opened the door so hard that I took the door clean off it hinges!!
I did, in time, through pray, spiritually re-hang the door as I found I had left myself venerable, by leaving the door wide open because the evil one and his minions, do not knock, they just come in, and wreck havoc, with out any invitation!!
Whereas, Our Lord, Jesus, is courteous, kind and He gently knocks and waits, patiently for us to open the door, so that we may invite Him into our hearts, our homes and our lives.
My dear brothers and sisters, heed Bishop Barron homily today. I pray that you will stop, go somewhere quite, sit and listen out for, Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, is knocking on the door of your heart, it is such a gentle knock that you will only hear it in the silence.
May God bless you and have a blessed Sunday, I have just realised this is on older video for 27th of Oct, but thats okay too.
Deacon David.
Deacon David, this is not al older video. BTW, that other reply is not from Bishop Barron. It is so obvious!
@@NellieB100 I knew that. Thank you.
@@peroercegovac1973 I will, do further research, thank you for your response.
Discouraged with my church recently during the virus, I feel someone is knocking on my door to reignite my spiritual life. I miss the love of Jesus and my love for him. How patient he is with me.
God bless you David.
I am always amazed how well you explain the homilies, Bishop Barrón, with simple words but full of meaning and easy yo understand
Thank you for doing these videos, Bishop.
Thank you again, Bishop. Imo God is easy to understand and not unreasonable at all. Following His commandments is incredibly easy with the help of the grace He imparts to us through the 7 Sacraments He instituted within His wonderful Church!
I read somewhere in the Bible, that God knows me, and have called me by my name. 27 years ago God called me by my name.
Great sermon.
I will need to listen a few more times to remember it properly
Blessings Bishop!
I find myself listening to this sermon over and over and over and over again. And when i finish, i start all over and over and over and over again. This one, to me, is one of the deepest I've heard from you Bishop. Praise be to GOD.
Really insightful. It's about time we thought this way, and preached it !
We lost a Priest in our church to a horrible event of his past. And our parish was suffering greatly because of this. An older Priest was sent to minister to us in the interim. He taught us a simple prayer that we said at the beginning of every mass and when we felt the pain of that event. "Come Holy Spirit, Come Holy Spirit, Come Holy Spirit." It is simple enough to say in you're deepest sorrows and hurts. When no other words come. And it is exactly how to turn that doorknob you speak of. Thank you Bishop for the reminder!
He loved us First , Bishop ,thank you and God bless you...
Thank you, Father. I listened to this on a study break and it made my day and made a difference. God bless you.
Bishop Barron. We love your homilies. We are very disappointed in your endorsing Fr James Martin's book on Prayer. It sounds like you're endorsing James Martin
@@kathysheridan1899 I am not aware of this debate more than a simple google search, and Google is, well, Google. But I wonder who we think will win in a person's mind when God becomes an opposing force, not just an opposing idea. Nowadays, all we see around us are ideas or ideology, not even real sinners or the reality of sin. We have to point back to scripture but not beat people with it. We have to get close again. People are sinners who beat themselves up with sin already. These are all just my humble opinions and I need to read scripture and pray more. But I am sure of this: God bless you and thank you for caring.
I want to thank you for using the mental imagery of Jesus being a helicopter pilot looking for a landing zone (LZ). I am a Marine and have been trained to set up an LZ, give a brief to the pilot, and provide guidance on their approach. This has given me something to meditate on. What are the obstacles on my spiritual LZ? What do I need to clear and prepare? A very useful tool for someone like me to conduct an examination of conscience. Thank you, God bless, and happy Marine Corps Birthday!
Thank you so much for your service for our country's lands and especially its people.
LOVE this…. Thank you, love you.
Amazing. So wise yet so simple. Thank you!
An added value, in addition to the beautiful truth contained within these wonderful videos, is that a person can easily share them! So thank you sincerely, Bishop Barron, for being a mouthpiece to all believers who long to evangelize our neighbors!
Always love Bishop
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Thank YOU !+
Thank you! I’m always looking forward to listening to your Sunday sermons.
me too!
Thank you Bishop Barron!
This is one of your best Bishop.
I agree. They get better and better and this one is wonderful.
Interesting...your sermon turns our spiritual quest upside down!!! Your statement I've heard, "that it isn't @ me, but rather GOD: not self-centered but Theo-centric...'It is not you who've chosen me, but I who have chosen you.'..the Primacy of GRACE". Jesus, knocking at the door...the helicopter trying to land...such awesome metaphors...not wasted!
Beautiful sermon, Bishop. God bless you all at Word on Fire.
Hello greetings... How are you doing?
Do think we are less than a dot that God made me because of his love for us. Then he died so we could be with him forever. We must therefore follow his road. Yes it can be difficult but the reward is being with our savior forever.
Beautiful
Thank you my Lord Jesus Christ, that you made me worthy to be chosen one . I am blessed with you grace and unconditional love ❤ 😍 💖
Amen!
Thanks for this Bishop- holds great significance for me, raised a Protestant and have been drawn to the Catholic Faith, and desire to convert- started visiting Mass recently and am looking to God to unfold this journey
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Awesome
So beautifully said!
Wonderful
Amen
Thank you ,.
Amen, PRAISE THE LORD. Thank you father i was never think that before i love it. I,ll try with your teaching o help me take off that glutter from the door of my heart. This is a good lesson
Outstanding homily, as usual. I read the following somewhere but I failed to write its source, “ God doesn’t love us because we are worthy. We’re worthy because He loves us.” Bishop Barron is so correct, we are the ones who fail to open our hearts to Him. We are the ones who reject Him. May God always help me to see Him next to me, all the time.
Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit; love your neighbor as yourself...Amen
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” - CS Lewis
It is well presented in the parable of the PRODIGAL SON....
Thank you Rev.Bishop! Need to listen to it again n again from time to time...So true!!
Thank you Bishop Barron for always inspiring us. God bless you.
Gives new meaning to "get to tha chappa!"
Really good message, and very well spoken.
💯 It’s not our efforts, but God’s; not our practices, but his power; not our achievements, but his grace.
Blessed Bishop Barron, Jesus' words through you are like extraordinary fine art !!! Thank you, Lord!!!
"You are indeed Holy, O Lord, and all you have created rightly gives you praise, for through your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, by the power and working of the Holy Spirit, you give life to all things and make them holy . . . " - Prex Eucharistica III
Thanks for reminding me that God always initiates, He always makes the first move. It's us who are closed, filled with worldly concerns that we forget what is essential, important.
Thank you Bishop Barron. I am practicing the Ignatian Spirituality exercises right now and your homily is so timely, a reinforcement of what I have been experiencing but what I need to remind myself so that I can clear the landing strip of my heart and embrace God and the graces He continues to bless me with now and for my future. God bless you.
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Word.
I have heard the same message expressed as trust God, clean house, help others. Those 6 words put me in right relation to God, my responsibility to clean up, with Gods help, the obstacles in his way. That process of trusting and cleaning is ongoing and now all I am asked for is to pass it on by helping others do the same. We are all here to help each other get home. May God bless you all, now and forever.
Ditto
Oh my Bishop Barron, as ever so beautiful, good and true, I'm going to focus on clearing the ground, all the junk that is getting in the way of my heart and my Lord. God bless ❤️🙏❤️
Humbly seek the TRUTH
When a well packaged Web of lies has been so gradually poured to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly pre postrace, and its speaker a raving lunatic. We live in the backwards world. Everything you were ever taught is a lie. Everyone on this plane existence grows up under Government. Govern = rule Ment= mental or mind. They have been ruling our mind since birth. The only thing we ever learn in life, is what we are taught by our parents, who were raised under Govern- ment. Then you go to a school, A govern- ment school. I mean you really have to, or your parents go to Jail. You have to be programmed. Next you watch public TV, In which they tell you it is programming, we will return to the programming after these messages. Then you grow up and go to A501 C3 church, a division of the federal government. And no matter what Denomination. They teach you to pray to JESUS. A fake made a name by the Catholic Church, That didn't even exist until the early 1800s. I mean the letter J wasn't invented until 1524. Scriptures clear acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby me must be saved. So by whose authority? Do they get to change the name above all names? And now we have those who know the name, who find out the name, and reject the name, and still use JESUS. When facts, absolute truths are spoken, and the receiving person cannot hear( the truth );they cannot hear his voice. His voice, is the voice of Truth. To deny Yahusha, and call him by a defiled name, when they know his correct name, is Rebellion.1st Samuel 15:23 for Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity, and idolatry, because thou Hast rejected the word of Yahuah, why he has also rejected the. Seek him with all your might, not what your told, or what is easily picked up. Not just the Traditions of men.
Now let's touch on a few more lies about the world you live in. A church, is the last place, you want to go to, you will be indoctrinated into one of the Satanic cult's, Christianity being the biggest. There's only one preacher, or priest if you will. His Name is Yahusha Ha' Machiach. "Little children, let no man deceive you: He that does righteousness is righteous, even as he (Messiah) is righteous."1st John 3:7 He's the only one you go to, for everything. Scripture is clear, Beware the teachings of men. All wisdom comes from the Ruach Ha' Kodesh. Anything that comes from MEN is. James 3:15 This wisdom Descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.
Next Let's take the education system before you even get into school your taught things through subliminal messages. Cartoons are the worst. All controlled by CIA. But let's take school, your taught that you evolved from a monkey, and that you live on a roundball flying through space. School, Public television, and your parents taught you we live on a round ball, flying through space at 666 million miles an hour, while you're flying around the sun at 550,000 miles per hour, while your spinning at 1069 miles per hour, that's a lot of movements for you to not feel one thing. The Bible is a flat earth book. Their are over 400 places in the King James 66 book cannon bible, that states somehow that the Earth is stationary, and does not move. The Sun and moon were made on the fourth day, what did earth revolve around until then!! Come on! You don't believe Genesis!!! Scripture is the only truth, in this plane of existence. We do not believe our own eyes, and our own senses, or the holy scriptures, we believe what somebody tells us. Nobody can prove curvature, because there isn't any!!
A simple Lighthouse proves there is no curvature, NASA says 66 feet of curvature at 10 miles, 6666 feet of curvature at a hundred miles, how can a 70 foot Lighthouse be seen for 30 or 40 miles, Google it. The stature Liberty is 300 ft tall and it can be seen for 60 to 70 miles at 60 miles it would be under over 2,000 feet of curvature. Water is always level, it doesn't bend. It can't be round guys, no matter how much you want it to be, because you've been taught that. It's a LIE, and if they can make you believe a lie that big, what else do you believe. Again we see rejection without investigation is the epitome of ignorance. But when we present Truth. We are ridiculed. So when you mention, The firmament, or the flat Earth, your instantly A nutcase, when in actuality, they have the disorder of Cognitive Dissonance. And most everyone suffers from cognitive dissonance. Please look it up.
Now let's take the cross, he wasn't hung a cross, The cross is a 4000 year old death symbol, for the sun god Tammuz. He was hung on an almond tree ,on the mount of olives. A sacrifice, is not a sacrifice, unless it's done on an altar, a Roman cross is not a alter.
How about the Rapture, You cannot read scripture, and believe there's a rapture, one verse kills the whole thing. 2nd Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be destroyed with intense heat, and the Earth, and its works there in Shall be burned up. I mean on his 2nd return, the heavens and the Earth are destroyed, where do all the Left Behind people live? Again the wheat and the tares grow together, until the end, read scripture for yourself. The rapture doctrine was invented in 1831 by a man named John Nelson Darby, look it up. The enemy doesn't want you prepared for what's coming.
I could go on for days, because everything in this existence is upside down, And backwards. Stop and return to your childhood, and reprogram yourself, with your own knowledge.
Remember!
The Earth is not for the pleasure of men, but it is a place of instruction for his soul, a man more readily feels the strings of his spirit in the face of disaster, then in the lap of luxury. The tuition of the soul is a long, and arduous course of instruction, and in training, humility is the key to unlocking the door to the kingdom. Obedience unto death allows you to enter in. Also, Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear YAH and keep his Commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes 12:13.
Father paid for everything, so none would have to suffer if, they only truly believed his word of Truth. But just as we have witnessed ourselves, it was suffering that open our eyes, we all have our Breaking Point, and will eventually see the truth, the longer they deny the truth, only exposes them to discomforts, they hold by stepping on others toes. If a man has nothing to die for, then what does he love, a man is his word, and we either represent his image by walking what we talk, and being true and just, that he controls everything around you, He only needs witnesses to his word of Truth. Everything has already been said none of us can do any better than HE did. No matter how many times anyone misrepresents, if the father did not call them by name, they are not one of his. There are so many demons hiding behind the Flesh, and calling themselves Godly. I only Say what I know to be the Truth. By witnessing to it myself. What I've seen and Experienced. Mankind has been seeking shortcuts since the beginning , but only by death to self, can anyone come to the truth. As Above, So Below, the mind in the heart must become one with the truth, and only fire can refine. This is why only those who love the truth more than anything, can stand in this fire, No matter how hot it gets. This is exactly how we show his love, by sharing knowledge we have witnessed. Not the teachings of men. I know from experience, that this letter will get rejected by 95 to 98% of the people who read it, if they even take time to read it. But if anything in this strikes you, and you have a question. kdwarner5@gmail.com
Thank you!
I loved this. I will use it. Thank you and God Bless!
We search for God but even in our sinfulness God searches for us and like with Adam after his fall asks: Where are you?
We must give God the joy of finding us! Fr. Alex Rebello
Again, I'm so content and pleased to hear your homily on this reading. This entire section of the Bible has always been so attractive for me, I guess because it is poetic and it reflects my nature but it also cuts deeply into my soul to reveal the Power of the Word of God. The personification of Wisdom as She is another aspect that makes it easily personal and approachable. To be honest, all that's good for me within the Bible lies within the pages of The Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus and Isaiah, because it is so prescient, much like the words of Bishop Barron, because I have heard it all before, in the flash of the thought that God had for me as he knitted me in my mother's womb. I could read these books and read again and again and never be bored or left empty in an ending because it is always a beginning. Perhaps that is why I love God, and even more so that he gave us his Son. No Greater Love than to give your life for another, and imagine all the people that have lived and all those to come, that will pass, that Jesus dies for every moment. This book of Wisdom gives us hints of beautiful, sweet alluring glances to encourage us, and rewards us truly beyond whatever we expected, and that for me is the message of God. God Bless You and Keep You, Bishop Barron. The Holy Spirit truly courses through you like a mountain stream in Autumn of my life!
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"Not my will....but thine"
Truly grateful to God for all that he gives me, 🙏🙏🙏 for priests and you Bishop, your words are right from the Spirit of life. Thank you for your steadfast love.
It ALL Flows from our creator - every good thing and for that we should be Thankful every day of our lives! Thank You Bishop for reminding us how 'Finding God' actually works!
Hello greetings, how are you doing?
What i loved about this sermon is that Bishop Barron points out how people get things backward regarding us seeking God vs God seeking us. He is so right. So called “Super market” Christianity is all about people defining the terms of their relationship with God themselves so we end up with super market Catholics and 40 thousand Protestant denominations deciding for themselves what they think is the truth. I remember John Paul the great saying “let Christ find you.”
Thank you Bishop Barron for the Spanish subtitles.
Absolutly Bishop Barron! Thank you Mommy Mary! Thank you Bishop Barron! 😇😇😇👼🔥☄️🕊️💐💗
That was beautiful. Thank you, Bishop.
Bello sermon, gracias por sus palabras tan llenas de sabiduria señor Obispo. Beautiful sermon :)
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I have been listening to your sermon's the last few months. I have really enjoyed your in-depth resourcefulness and background on philosophy. Particularly your focus on having your audience read the Bible for themselves.I will share with my friends. Thank U
Understand that God has chosen me, ask for help to control the suppressive thoughts of perfection and receive Christ ‘coming in’ with gratefulness...thank you ❤️🙏🏾
Thank you Bishop Barron. In Inferno Canto 8, Virgil (who represents human reason) is initially not admitted into the city of Dis. Only with God’s help he and Dante can go forth and prevail over evil. From what you explained, it sounds like this is a fundamental and ancient biblical principle.
Wow!
Thanks be to God for such gift! This is God's precious gift that I look forward to listen to. God bless, Your Grace & thank you. Praying for you.🙏🙏🙏
Praise God
Could we say? that the encounter is an analogous drive where, effectively, it is God who takes the initiative and expects us to love him freely. that is to say that we decide to be with HIM. He has already decided to give us everything, including our free will
Thank you Bishop Barron for explaining that the Bible is God seeking us. It's not like the secular books of the world. I loved tour beautiful imageries and the words of the saints and theologians that further explains the wonder of God. Insightful homily. God bless you.