00:00Hello dear brothers and sisters! We are with you again to get to know and love our [family/community] even more.
00:22Church, our faith, and the word of the Lord. We are responding to an extraordinary
00:31a question, a question posed to us by our brother Juan José from Austin, and well
00:39For those who haven't been following us on this topic in the other two chapters
00:45Previous ones, I invite you to check it out on my YouTube channel so you have all the information
00:50Regarding this interesting topic, we are addressing a question and proposal from our brother Juan.
00:56José wonders if the church should abandon Old Testament legislation.
01:02Or is it possible to salvage something that is good and beneficial for our lives? To conclude
01:10My dear brother, you must consider that the law given by God at Sinai, that is, in the
01:16The Old Testament is something God has intended for us to live by. Otherwise,
01:25It wouldn't be like that. The laws against killing, adultery, and so on, are something that God has established.
01:31So that we can live properly. Why? Because the law serves as a barrier.
01:38of restraint that prevents man's life from spiraling out of control and by putting a limit on his passions
01:44disordered, to his selfishness, which leads him to kill, which leads him to fornicate, which leads him
01:49To adulterate, which leads him to lie, puts a barrier to this selfishness, to these passions
01:56disordered so that his humanity, perverted by sin, does not go further and destroy him.
02:03Could you imagine a society where there were no clear laws and everything was left to subjectivity?
02:10of the people? We would fall into anarchy and total perversion. We cannot let each one
02:17Interpret what best suits you regarding love as the supreme commandment. The love proposed by
02:23Christ is a love that surpasses our strength. It is a love that gives itself completely.
02:29life. This is the way of loving that Jesus showed us and that he asked his disciples to love.
02:35They lived. We cannot think that we can give up our own life, if it is the greatest value.
02:42of our existence, if we cannot avoid sin. That is, if we cannot fulfill the law
02:47from the Old Testament that commands us not to fornicate, not to commit adultery, not to lie, so how can we possibly
02:56So how can we give up our lives? How can we fully fulfill the commandment of
03:02Love? So, these commandments serve as a barrier, and all of this will prevent...
03:11We, through the law of Moses, can go further in our passions and destroy
03:17to others. Jesus, on one occasion when he was approached by a person, this person asked him
03:24What did he need to inherit eternal life? To this question Jesus answered
03:30Clearly and concisely, he fulfills the commandments. That person wants to know what they are.
03:39Jesus answers. You know, don't murder, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't bear false witness,
03:48Honor your father and your mother, and love your neighbor as yourself. So, as you see, it remains
03:56It is perfectly clear that Jesus not only did not abolish them, but he put them as
04:03the first condition for inheriting eternal life. Everything beyond that is identified with
04:10perfection, which he continues to discuss in this chapter 19. That is why the law
04:17It helps man on his path to perfection in love, by preventing him from going astray in the
04:24Selfishness and pride. As you can see, the issue of making changes within the law and what
04:31The Holy Scripture proposes this to us, for it is not debatable or open to opinion as we initially wished.
04:38If one wants to live as a Christian and consider oneself part of the disciples of Jesus, we must obey.
04:44What He Himself has asked of us. To fulfill the law, first of Moses and then, in our longing
04:51to become perfect, as the Father is perfect, the absolute law of love.
04:56The Catechism of the Catholic Church enlightens us on this point when it tells us,
05:01The Old Law is the first stage of revealed law. Its moral prescriptions are
05:10summarized in the Ten Commandments. The precepts of the Decalogue establish the foundations of
05:16Man's vocation, formed in the image of God. They forbid what is contrary to the love of God and
05:23of one's neighbor and prescribe what is essential to him. The Decalogue is a light offered to the conscience
05:31of every man to reveal to him the call and the ways of God and to protect him against
05:37Evil. The new law or the evangelical law is the perfection here below of divine law.
05:44natural and revealed. It is the work of Christ and is expressed particularly in the sermon on the
05:50mountain. It is also the work of the Holy Spirit and through him it becomes the inner law of the
05:56charity. It says,
05:59I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel. I will put my laws in their minds, in their hearts.
06:07I will engrave their hearts on my heart, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. Finally,
06:15Brother, he clearly explains the relationship between both laws when he tells us,
06:22The Gospel law brings the commandments of the law to their fullness. The Sermon on the Mount, far from abolishing
06:30or devalue the moral prescriptions of the old law, extracting from them their hidden potentialities and
06:37It gives rise to new demands. It reveals all its divine and human truth. It adds no precepts.
06:46New exteriors, but it goes so far as to reform the root of actions, the heart where man chooses between
06:53the pure and the impure, where faith, hope, and charity are formed, and with them the works of
07:01virtue. The gospel thus leads the law to its fulfillment through the imitation of perfection
07:08from Heavenly Father, through forgiveness of enemies and prayer for persecutors,
07:15according to the model of divine generosity. I hope, my dear brother, that this has helped.
07:22Especially with these last quotes I've given you from the catechism, I hope it has helped to resolve your
07:27This can be unsettling and make you realize how much we still have to learn and grow. I hope this helps.
07:33to learn more about Sacred Scripture and to live according to what it proposes, both in the
07:40Old Testament as in the New Testament, always seeking to walk in perfection in the
07:47Love. And well, that's all for this topic. May the Lord bless you, keep you in His peace, and if He has...
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08:00Lord, let us read Scripture so that we may love one another more. Blessings to all. Until next time.
08:23Thank you!
