The Obedience of the Son of God
Fr. Campbell
“In
the beginning,” says Sacred Scripture, “God created the heavens and the
earth; the earth was waste and void; darkness covered the abyss, and
the spirit of God was stirring above the waters. God said, ‘Let there be
light,’ and there was light” (Gn.1:1-3). In the beginning, God created
an ordered world out of the original nothingness.
The
devil, whose constant desire it is to return to chaos the beautiful
world God created, so as to impose his own world order, persuaded our
First Parents, Adam and Eve, to disobey God’s commands, thus creating
disorder between them and their Creator. After their fall from Grace,
disorder reigned in human affairs. Grace being withdrawn, fallen human
nature could not avoid the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, envy, anger,
lust, gluttony and sloth.
Recently
we celebrated the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Although without sin of any kind, Mary chose to make her way to the
Temple with her husband, Joseph, to fulfill the requirements of the Law,
forty days after the birth of the Child Jesus. Mary and Joseph offered
two young turtledoves, the offering of the poor. As the Spirit of God
hovered over the waters in the beginning, and as the same Spirit
overshadowed the Ark of the Covenant in the Sinai desert, so the same
Holy Ghost had overshadowed Mary, and she had conceived the Son of God.
Though needing no purification, Mary submitted herself to the ritual of
purification in obedience to the Law, to atone for the disobedience of
the sinful Eve.
This
should help us to make sense of the present chaotic state of the world.
Grace is again withdrawn, and mankind still cannot avoid the seven
deadly sins. The devil is still at work in our time, creating havoc and
disorder, so as to impose his own Godless New World Order. In fact, a
key motto of the Masonic globalists is “Ordo ab Chao” – “Order from
Chaos.” Their plan is to make things so bad, so chaotic, that the people
of the world will accept anyone who will lead them out of the chaos –
even if he should be the Antichrist.
Jesus speaks to the Pharisees of His obedience to His Father’s will:
“When
you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and
that of myself I do nothing: but that I preach only what the Father has
taught me. And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone,
because I do always the things that are pleasing to him” (Jn.8:28,29).
Where
does that leave us? We must obey as Jesus did. We must live our lives
in perfect obedience to our Divine Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy
Church He founded, the Catholic Church. We must also obey those who have
lawful authority over us, as our parents do. And when Scripture says
that wives should be obedient to their husbands, this should not be
taken lightly. But today power-seeking women have separated themselves
from obedience to their husbands, and therefore from obedience to God.
You can’t break one of the links in the chain and still remain in
obedience to God. We should soon see them demonstrating at the Vatican,
demanding equal rights for women, such as ordination to the priesthood.
Children
are united with God through obedience to their parents. If they are
disobedient, they disobey not only their parents, but God Himself. If
they separate themselves from their mother or their father by
disobedience, they are separating themselves from God at the same time.
We
live in a disobedient world. The world at large is in extreme disorder,
chaos, because of disobedience to God and His holy Commandments. And
those who belong to the world couldn’t care less. But God is about to
punish the world if it does not return to Him. Just listen to God
telling the ancient Israelites what would happen to them if they were
disobedient:
“But
if you do not heed me and keep all these my commandments, if you reject
my precepts and spurn my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments
and breaking my covenant, then… I will punish you with terrible woes –
with wasting and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow
your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop. I will turn
against you, till you are beaten down before your enemies and lorded
over by your foes. You will take to flight though no one pursues you”
(Lev.26:14-16b;17).
Meanwhile,
the contemporary church takes little heed of the flames threatening our
children as it dances to the tune of the secular culture that controls
it. It fails to point out the terrible consequences of sin. Most of its
preaching is vain, and its sacraments void. Since it has no remedy for
the falling away of its children, it celebrates their funerals, and
announces their arrival in Heaven. Purgatory and Hell are no longer
preached.
God’s
plan for us is that we should become saints; the devil’s plan is that
we should become failures. Look at the failures all around us, sliding
further down that slippery slope as each day passes, on their way to
Hell where they will be punished for their unbelief, their disobedience
and their immoral behavior. The greatest scandal for us is that we
continue to stand by and allow the devil and his cohorts to carry out
their plans for ruining our children. We are willing and passive
cooperators in our own destruction. Are we to accept the base moral
standards our secular humanist masters impose on us? Will we drink the
poison cup they have mixed for us? Heaven forbid! And may God have mercy
on us and wake us up before it is too late!
“This,
therefore, I say and testify in the Lord,” says St. Paul, “that
henceforward you are not to walk as the Gentiles walk in the futility of
their mind, having their understanding clouded in darkness, estranged
from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of
the blindness of their heart. For they have given themselves up in
despair to sensuality, greedily practicing every kind of uncleanness.
But you have not so learned Christ… But be renewed in the spirit of your
mind, and put on the new man, which has been created according to God
in justice and holiness of truth” (Eph.4:17-20;23,24).
