For he taught them as one having authority
26 JUNE (Mt 7,21-29)
Jesus is with the heart full of God. From his heart full of God he draws every word of God and gives it to man. The Pharisees of Jesus’ time and the scribes did not have God in their hearts. This is attested by their word, which is not the word of God. Instead it is a man’s word made to be passed as the word of God, his law, his truth, his commandment and his statute.
The crowds feel the difference and manifest it. They recognize in Jesus a person that speaks with authority, that is he speaks with consciousness, intelligence, true knowledge, true wisdom and constant association with God. It is as if Jesus and God lived together, dialogued together and Jesus brought to men the result of a perennial dialogue with his Father. It is as if Jesus uttered his every word drawing it from the heart of God himself. The crowd notices this, says it and cries it out.
Today, one is afraid of the difference in Word. A single way of talking, dialoguing, explaining and arguing is imposed to all. One says a lie and everybody repeats it, without even knowing the meaning of the words that are spoken. Another person says a slogan meant for effect and all like monkeys in the universal theological zoo must make it echo, otherwise they feel crippled, handicapped, deprived of knowledge and intelligence. It is a strange world the one of theology. Almost all are obliged to follow the same method, the same arguments, the same tracks and the same authors. The truth has no longer any value. Is it no longer accepted. It is declared falsehood because it does not suit to the canons of this modern science which bases itself on the nothing of God and man.
Today we live in a sick theology, because the theologian who brings it into being is sick. If you do not heal the theologian, never might you heal theology. This theology does not produce salvation. It does not give the saving truth. It does not stir hearts. It does not upset the minds. It is a pure empty exercise. It is necessary to react. Theology must go back to being knowledge, wisdom, righteous and holy understanding of divine revelation in the Holy Spirit. It is certainly not holy that theology which abolishes the truth of God to put on the lamp stand fumigant embers of falsehood and human stupidity. With these coals no light of truth will ever be made and the home of the knowledge of God will always remain shrouded in a smelly smoke that is a prelude to the eternal smoke.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.’ “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely ruined.” When Jesus finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
The crowds are detached from our vain teaching and they often say it with anger. They feel the need for a healthy food, but are perpetually doomed to feel sterile doctrines of the scribes and Pharisees of our time. It is urgent that all those who are vested with authority to speak of God free themselves from roped parties, methodologies, structures take the Gospel in hand and give voice to it, tune so that it resonates and warms hearts. This Jesus did. He picked up in hand the Word of His Father and gave it voice. He tuned it among the people and soon they realized that they were faced with a real singer. Their scribes and Pharisees were false and off-key singers, with no divine score. Jesus was entirely different. He sang well.
Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us talented singers of the Gospel.