The Epiphany of the Lord, Jan. 6, 2013
(Notes from sermon) In the 1800’s Victor Hugo wrote a novel about a man who stole a loaf of bread and for the next twenty years he was chased by the government for the crime. This easily happens in our modern, liberal atheist state. There is no mercy from the all-powerful state.
In this situation, values are turned upside down; justice tempered by mercy doesn’t exist. Disorder and chaos reigns. With this kind of government, lives spin out of control.
The message of the three kings is that of a little baby. He creates order where there is no order. When they get rid of Jesus, it only brings disaster, such as drone bombing, homosexual marriage. It is Herod’s dream – life without God.
The path to peace, to virtue, to happy family life is the path to the crib of Jesus, where we will find the only ruler in the world that helps this world to give order, to make sense, and to give life. In fact this ruler gives eternal life.