St. Paul in the second reading about the Trespass of Adam. Why is it called the trespass of Adam?
We all know the story of how in the garden with Adam and Eve, where Eve spied the fruit, took the fruit, ate the fruit, and gave the fruit.
We all know it was eve's doing, but it turned out to be Adam's undoing.
Why is Adam to blame. Because he knew better. He heard God pass judgement about the fruit on the garden, how all should be eaten but the fruit of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.
So when Eve offered the fruit, Adam in that moment valued her judgment to greater than the judgment of God.
Adam valued his judgment to be greater than the judgment of God.
This is the heart of all sin. We sin, when we value our judgment to be greater than the judgment of God.
Jesus, as the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world seeks to correct this anomaly in our life. He comes to take away sin, an din doing so, he takes away our dependence on our own judgement.
Jesus gives us a judgement that is reliable. By his words and action he passes judgment on what is to be valued, in doing so he reveals to us what our true value is; we are truly worth more than these, as the gospel relates.
So, as the gospel poses, how do we acknowledge Jesus before others, so that he will acknowledge us before his father.
We simply have to trust His judgment and the judgment of His Church.
We can value our judgement to be greater than Christ and his church and thus deny him or we can let Christ and His church reveal to us what is of true value, then follow where He leads, then all will know that we acknowledge him as Lord.
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