(Listen to this homily here).
There was a very important word used in our Gospel this
morning—fulfill. Jesus said to his audience, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the
law and the prophets. I have come
not to abolish but to fulfill.”
So
what does fulfill mean? Finish. Complete. Yes. Jesus finished, or completed, everything in the Old
Testament (referring to the law and the prophets means the OT).
Now
I’ve often quizzed you. Here is
your chance to quiz me. I would
like you to tell me of a story or person in the Old Testament, and I will tell
you this points to Jesus.
Adam and Eve. Good example.
Did you know that both Adam and Jesus were born without sin? Jesus is known as the new Adam because
he chose to be obedient to God, where Adam was disobedient. And Jesus did this in a garden!
Next? Noah. Hmm…Noah. Well for starters, Noah was saved on a what? An
ark. And what was the ark made
of? Wood. And how are we
saved? Jesus was crucified on a
piece of wood for our sins—the cross. Also, Noah and the great flood points
to being saved through Baptism.
What
else? David and Goliath.
There’s another good one.
Well what was David? What
did he do? He was a shepherd. And
who did Jesus say he was—the Good Shepherd. Jesus took on Goliath in the spiritual world—not a giant of
a man but sin and death itself.
And Jesus, like David, won.
One
more. Jonah and the whale.
Jesus himself spoke about Jonah.
He said, “Just as Jonah was three
days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so too will the son of man be
three days and three nights in the earth.”
Everything
in the Old Testament points to Jesus.
Jesus came to fulfill—to complete—every
person and event that came before him.
This is who we come to in Mass this morning.
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