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Life is with living with Archbishop Fulton Sheen this 50 part series was recorded on phonograph records in the 1960 s. And the some of these sometimes compromised the Word of God spoken by Archbishop. And timeless here now. Speak to you you remember that in your previous instruction we said that our message board called himself both Son of God. And Son of Man. He was God and. This is indeed a great mystery it is what is actually. In this carnation. That the word incarnation. Carney. In the flesh. It means that God assumed the human nature that he was in flesh as it were. St John is a very beautiful description of it he says the word became flesh. The word means of course God The 2nd Person of the place the Trinity. This is a difficult Mistry and we are going to try to explain it with a number of examples when we say that God became man. We do not mean to say that heaven was empty that would be to think of heaven as a kind of a space like a room that was 20 by 30 feet when God came to this world He did not leave Heaven empty and when he came to this world he was not changed down he was not written down to human proportions it was rather Christ was the life of God welling in human flesh. St Thomas Aquinas has a very beautiful description of this and one of his him. He said to have a new word proceeding forth yet leaving not the father's side Our lives begin that answering the question. Why did God become it. We limit ourselves to the historical order in which we live the answer is he became man in order to redeem us from season ever we have to describe why it was necessary for God to become man to completely tone for our city. Well the answer is whenever we see in we contract an infinite debt. But we cannot pay an infinite debt because we are finite and limited. Here is the reason we were stated in the form of a kind of a principle and then we will give examples. On or is in the one honoree for example. Suppose a citizen of the United States of America city. The governor of the state and the president of the United States paid a visit to the holy father who pays the Holy Father the greater honor our citizen or the president is not the president on our is in the one honoring Now the other prophecy and the other side of it is this guilt or sin is always measured by the one sinned against If for example a citizen. A mere. Commits a felony or a crime or a tyranny. Which is the greater sin. You are seen in is all is measured by the one sinned against If therefore the sin of the guilt was again say the president of the United States obviously the mayor the governor would be guilty of the greater sin would he not Alytus apply this to man we have seen against whom have we seen. Against God All right sin is measured by the one sinned against we sinned against God He is infinite therefore our guilt our sin is infinite Now let's take the other proposition on our is in the one on we are going to try to pay that debt who is honoring God. But man is finite and limited is he not. Finite unlimited He cannot paint and infinite. Therefore it is possible for a man to contract an infinite debt and still never be able to pay it in strict justice after all that should not surprise it's very easy for all of us to run a greater depth and we can pretty alright then we have an infinite debt against God which we cannot pay now could God forgive us could he say forget it it's nothing. I say forget it but he could not say it is nothing suppose he did forgive us. Indeed would be merciful but he would not satisfy justice we owe somebody $20.00 the debt can be forgiven but justice is not satisfied unless we completely paid I can remember when I was a boy are often used to break the window of the next door neighbor and the next door neighbor sometime would say forget it but somehow or other I never just wanted to be let off so I would go to my piggy bank and I would take out. My savings in order to paper the broken window so man does not just want to be let off by God there's a sense of his own dignity too and he once in some way to pay the debt which he owes to God though he's unable to pay it now how it is to be paid we have yet to answer. If justice as well as mercy. Are to be satisfied then God had to become made. Of all why did he have to become a. Will unless he became man he could not be our representative. It could not stand for us men would not be paying the debt just suppose that I were arrested for speeding. Could you walk into the courtroom the moment that I was on trial and say judge let him go I'll take it over the judge would say to you stay out of this one of you've got to do this you're not involved heres so in as much as men isn't involved and then as much as men is seen in some way God has to share our nature which sinned and then furthermore sin demands some kind of suffering an expansion. If you ever became a man he could suffer as men suffer in our name but not only would he have to be man but of course he would also have to be God It would have to be a man in order to act in our name he would have to be God in all areas that but infinite debt could be paid by someone who is infinite every action there for God would have an infinite value therefore the outrage against caught could be a tell him for Furthermore you would have to be God in order to be sinless. Afterall if he were full of sin he too would need redemption no man can atone for his own sins in conclusion therefore if both justice and mercy are to be satisfied God would have to become a man to be one of us God in order that he could be viewed. We can explain this in other terms perhaps in the terms of the old nursery rhyme remembers. The dunk he sat on the wall. He had a great fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men could never put Humpty Dumpty together again. Now that rhyme pretty well expresses the condition of man as a result of scene. Since the fall of man man is very much like a broken AIG he can't put himself. There's some kind of a disorder inside of him self and that is the reason why the mere arrangement of wealth in the social order outside of him is not going to change man himself he needs God to put him together again or another example the example of a clock whose main spring is broken we have the works that somehow I just do not go but 2 conditions have to be fulfilled to make that clock work erst. The mainspring must be supplied from the outside to the mainspring must be placed inside of the clock. Man cannot redeem himself any more than the top can fix itself if man is ever to be redeemed there are a division must come from without and must be done from within. It must come from without. Simply because we cannot for example if we are blind never restore our vision if we broke continuing with God by sin we cannot we store it if you were taken and rose petal into your fingers and pressed and squeeze rose petals Did you notice if you could every story stint you could not lift did you drop from a leaf you can never replace it. In even a like manner is just a little bit too deep seated to be righted I little bit of kindness here and there and a little reason. And a little tolerance. Might just as well tell a man who is suffering from consumption that only needs to do is play 6 sets of tennis. Mainspring is broken cannot repair itself. Salvation therefore has to come from without our human will is too weak to conquer its own evil Yes is this sick need medicine not side of themselves we need a teacher for our minds we need a physician for our bodies and we need to redeem or far are supposed redeemer from outside humanity outside of humanity with all its weakness it's seen and it's really bad. Now let's take the other side. He said that if the mainspring is broken a new mainspring has to be supplied from without but be put inside of the clock and so to salvation must come from without humanity but it has to be done in some way with in the humanity. So God therefore had to become man. In order that man would be redeemed from within. God did not become man he would have no relation to us. And as I said Does does not want just to have the sins forgiven he wants to tone for them. So God became man. Now you put these 2 conditions together. And you have the reason why the Redeemer should be both God and. God from without. Man in order that he might be. With humanity. That is the entire. God becoming man. In the Person of Christ. In order that he might save us from ours. Here we come to something just a little more difficult and we're going to use a word. Which you may not often hear. We have to spend about 6 months when we are studying for the priesthood just studying the meaning of these words hyper static Union. The hypostatic union means that there are in price. 2 natures and one person. That's something you must always remember. It in your memory. Your mind. Christ has. 2 Natures. One human undivided. They are both united in the person of God. Was God therefore a human person now. He was a divine person. Did he have a human nature Yes Did he have a divine nature yes. And they were united in the divine person of God. Obviously I am not using the word nature in person in the same sense and I. Perhaps we can make this clearer if you will take a pencil in your hand and. I will wait for a minute until you get it into your fingers. Now that pencil has a nature has it not. In other words it's the nature of the thing that writes a nature is a seeing. Something that operates. For example. Collars the nature he has a nature. Carpet has a nature. A pigeon has nature. Your finger has an age. It is a collar person. If your cow comes over into my pasture and eats all of my grass. I can assume the cow I could sue you therefore must be some difference between the nature of a person and this is the difference a person is the source of response. The dog is not responsible for his actions. That man is now that is a very simple definition of the nature of the person but perhaps it will suffice us for the moment. Now using the pencil that you have in your head. You notice that there are before you 2 natures. One on the nature of the pencil. The other the nature of your hand. Is your hand a person no. Because you could lose your hand and still be yourself would you not. Therefore we have in. The hand now combined with the pencil 2 natures are they united. In you are one person. So it is possible to have a union of 2 natures in one person. You have a body you have a soul. They're very different in nature one is material and the other is spiritual. And yet you're only one person. That 2 is a very incomplete an imperfect analogy of what happens Returning now to our pencil . The pencil of an by itself cannot write you put it down on a chair or a table before you. That pencil cannot write can it. Now you bring your hand down to that pencil. You have the union of 2 natures in one person now the pencil can write can it not. You can do something that you could not do before. And let it right you see the pencil rights are all right you can not say my eye sees you you say I see you you do not say my ear hears you do I hear you you do not say my stomach to jest I jest food. Noticed that we are always a treat u.t. . The actions of a nature to a person. Is why if you sign a check. There is responsibility. And neither the hand or the pencil are the sources of that response. Now to supply the analogy. With on the pencil again on the table. That pencil Loven by itself cannot write. A pencil is like made. You cannot pay the debt he owes to God. Now put your hand in the air. Bring it down slowly that pencil because and. Here you have a union of the nature of the hand. Which is united with your person. And the nature of the pencil. Now the pencil can do something which by it itself it could not do so the hand with your personality coming down to that pencil represents the person of God in the divine nature coming down to human nature. And when God comes down and takes upon himself a human nature. Unites it with his divine nature in divine person you have the union of 2 natures name to the nature of God the nature of man in the unity of the person of God and know just as that potential could do something which often by itself it could not do so human nature united with the person of God cannot begin to do something which of and by itself it could not do before. The pencil is the instrument of my personality and so when God with his divine nature came down to this world and took upon himself a human nature from the womb of his present mother he took upon himself an instrument. And Scott upon himself by me. He could act an army. And every one of the actions of that human nature. Would have an infinite. Number so high. A one as. A stick. That human nature. Was inseparable from the person. That is why one breath. Of God made man. Would have been enough to what we did. Why. Cost us the breath of God. And therefore I had infinite value. Why then did god suffer so much. When he took upon Himself our human nature. Rather more grains of sand in this world are necessary. And so love knows no limits. And the only way to prove perfect love this is by a surrender of all that one has to so. God took upon Himself our human nature and he said he loved us such as he. Even today. How you see the beauty in the majesty to you not of Christ. Why when he became a man that he took upon Himself the form of a baby what did we have. Right he was born without a mother in heaven is born without a father or. Even made the wire or. Made of the sun under the sun. No mother of the earth. In an effort why. A little. Feeling a while. Lying in the me. Rolling the stop. Now spies in. The midst of heaven weep. God becomes. Divinity in. Eternity try no hard. Power bound with ropes. Crowded with thought. And if you were the only person in the world who ever lived to see. He would have been down to this earth and die and suffer just for you and all. That is how much you. Got. This has been life is worth living with Archbishop Fulton Sheen for more information about the series contact of communications at 180-526-2151 you can visit them on the Internet at w w w dot St Joe dot com That's w w w dot St Joe s a n t j e dot com Please join us next time for life is worth living e.w.t.n. Global Catholic Radio Network. E.w.t.n. Club a Catholic Radio Network in cooperation with St choice of communications probably presents life is worth living with Archbishop Fulton Sheen this 50 part series was recorded on phonograph records in the 1960 s. And the sound quality is sometimes compromised but the Word of God spoken by Archbishop Sheen is solid and timeless Here now is Archbishop Fulton Sheen Peace be to you we have emphasized to a great extent the divinity of Christ rightly so but it often happens that we forget the humanity of Christ and it is of that that we speak there are 2 verses in the scripture one from Isaiah as the other this. Which seem to be contradictory. Says that our best that Lord was reckoned with to transgress ours are sinners. And he was separate. One with them and at the same time not with them it was with them reckon with sinners. In as much as in His human nature e took upon himself of the penalties of see he was separated simply because he was God and also because even in his human nature he was like to us in all things save sin now we will penetrate rather deeply into the meaning of this human nature that Christ assumed remember it had no human personality in a certain sense therefore the human nature of our blessid large was unlimited It was almost as if for example we had a. Playground in which there were no fences or wallers then all children could come into this playground now the Human nature of Christ simply because it was not kept it was not limited or confined by human personality could embrace within itself all the human natures of the world in other words that human nature of Christ represented to a great extent the Human nature of every single person that has ever lived your readers genealogy in the Gospel of Matthew and in the genealogy of you you will find saints which you will also find sinners it was a bar sinister in is the Scotch we find gentile women like you find a public sinner like Rob. Knees were typical of the humanity of Christ assumed into him self and he became incarnate but also every single human being that would ever be born until the end of time was incorporated into the humanity and there is not a Buddhist there is not a Confucianist there is not a Communist there is not a sinner there is not a saint that is not in some way in this Human nature of Christ you are not in it your neighbor next door is in it every persecutor of the church is it when therefore we are puzzled about how other people are saying. We need only to realize that here is implicitly all salvation all man in Christ they may not recognize their incorporation of Christ and in a certain sense every person in the world is implicitly Christian implicitly is in that human nature yes go back and think of all of the repercussions of the sin of Adam there isn't an Arab There isn't a no merit come there isn't a European and there is an uneasy attic on the word who does not feel within himself something of the complexes the contradictions the contra riot is the civil wars the rebellions inside of his human nature which he has inherited from Adam we all struggle against him Taishan and why simply because our human nature was disordered in the beginning let me tell you there is a terrific monotony about human nature you must not think that you are the only one in the world was a tortured soul now if the sin of Adam had so many repercussions in every human being that has ever lived. Shall we deny that the incarnation of our blessed Lord has had a greater repercussion can it be that the sin of one man she loves greater effects and disordering human nature and the incarnation of the Son of God as in ordering all humanity that is why I say that everybody in the world is implicitly Christian they may not make themselves explicitly Christian that is not the fault of Christ he took their humanity upon himself yes suppose that there was a great plea. Which affectation to a wide area of the world. And some doctor in his laboratory found the remedy for this pain. And made it available to everyone there would be some who would seek the remedy it would be others who would not. They might say I don't know I know he has the remedy Why should I bother. I will cure myself I think not all potentially save. You certainly not the fault of the scientist they are not cured. It is the fault of people themselves and so it is with the person of Christ he brought salvation to all man. And it is up to us. To find that salvation in him. That is one of the reasons why our breasted Lord was so hopeful about humanity he always saw a man the way he originally designed the saw through the surface. And attacked. The real man under. In never identified a person with see. It's our sin that something alien and for. Something that did not belong to him. Something that mastered him but from which he could be freed in order to be as real self. Just as every mother sees beneath the dirt on the face of her child her own image and likeness. So God always saw the divine image and likeness beneath us. He looked on us very much the same way that the Gride looks on the Bridegroom the day of the marriage and is a bride who looks on the bride. Each and every one of them are at their best. Later on in life they may fall away from this ideal are perhaps it will forget the height. When a woman came to me and told me that she could never love her husband again. And I told her to try and think back of our MacI love him the day of the marriage and they stood side by side with the author for that is the way he really was. What the woman had to do is to see beneath the distorted image the real person to whom she committed her life. And this is precisely what our Lord doesn't come into this earth even when men raged and started beneath his cross he saw them as homeless and on happy children the father in heaven for them the greed for me die this is the vision our organs of humanity now we want to bring this home in a little more intimate way and here we're going to take a term. Called transference. And try to make clear what the a manatee of our blessid Lord did in relationship to our sins in our suffering there are 3 kinds of crimes far and in the life of Christ there is physical transference. There is such transference and there is Marla Krantz for us if our breasted Lord did not come to this earth to undergo every single kind of agony and torture paid that we ourselves suffer and we could say Does God know what it is to suffer if he ever go without food was he ever betrayed. Was he ever blind. Let me tell you the best way to describe our blessid large humanity is that he is a God who took his own medicine. You made man free man abuse that freedom and brought upon him self. Of the ellipse that is they are 2. And God came down and took upon himself a human nature in order that he might feel every kind of torture of the human soul. In every twisty pain the human body. That is what I mean by transference 1st of all physical transfers we read about this in the Gospel namely that our blessedly are took upon Himself our sicknesses and our illnesses. I was always very much disturbed about this particular passage because there seems to be no record that our Lord was ever sick in must of had a very perfect human nature after all it was conceived. By the divine spirit of love. Also born of a woman. Was immaculately can see air for his physical arc. Must have been a perfect specimen of manhood. It seems also to be indicated by the mere fact that I suppose every woman wants to be the mother of a great son and one day when our dog was preaching some woman shouted out in the crowd. The less it is the womb that party. And the breasts that nursed. She would love to have been a matter of that. And then too when we find these soldiers in the enemy's. Crowning you must sell arms beating scourging buffeting him spitting in his face ridiculing him what did all this mean but an attempt to drag this lovely human nature of Christ down to their level they could not bear the majesty of his being as they would rob a man of his reputation selloffs how they would rob him of the nobility of his character so our God must have had a perfect human nature but this passage it took upon Himself our sicknesses and our realness what the sacred scripture means by that I think for about 2 years I have been pondering over in my mind that passage. And the answer came in reading the work of a famous with psychiatrist he tells the story of 2 doctors. Both of whom had healing hands one of the doctor stated. That whenever he healed anyone something of the sickness of that other person passed to sell. The other doctor stated that he often cured patients of angina. He had to give up hearing because he suffered so many attacks in India. Is not the sticky. Out it is going to some of the cures are hard we often read in the Gospels that when he cured the deaf and dumb. That he said. He really that when he rose Lazarus from that did he call it. I believe that at that moment. Our blessid lard took upon Himself the ills and the sicknesses of ours when he cured a blind man I think that he felt inside of himself not just the blindness of that one man but all the plain or some men that have ever lived so there's not a blind man on the world in that deep cavern of senses where there is no light who would ever say Did Christ know what it was to be blind Yes. And the time the mongoloids he feel that yes he is a word the a turn of the word. Telfair Thomas not just of that one done person to me. But of every single tempers. And when he rose the dead and brought them back to newness of life I think he felt the agony of tears he went into that fear. As we know he actually did in the dark it gets. So it all tells us that he died for all man in other words the debt that each and every one of us would have to wonder culled Christ himself felt knows what death is now is what your fear of death yours this is the Christ that comes to you that is why we say he is the only one that can ever understand your illnesses and your sickness and why simply because he has that sickness that illness inside of instead of he bore it for you and whistle in order that you may have strength and patience as heat and there was not only. Physical transference. He also suffered. Psychic transfer its. Eyesight he transference I mean that he took upon himself. All the loneliness of people. There mentally ill. The tragic affects of their psychosis and Euro cities. He felt all of the doctors of the S.E.'s. You knew what it was to be a skeptic. Doctor in you what went on in the heart of any man who raises that clinched fist of all those who hate so much that their mouths are creatures of hate. Volcanoes a blasphemy After all if our best ignored was to redeem the atheist in the coming years he had to know how it felt to be used not how it felt to be a communist. He had to feel to their god forsaken a says is all one and that is why on the cross as darkness crept into his soul he confessed to his father in any human nature his after and act. So he uttered that mysterious shriek I call. My God. I asked how I panted. Eerie traversed the darkest valleys and deserts of mystery with all human brothers we might almost say. That this is the moment when God was lost and atheist it was a moment when he almost went into hell but with this difference. That in that terrible torment of loneliness. He cried to God. And so from that moment on. When anyone says he is forsaken by God or even eyes God you must realize that he has a brother who endured the bitterness of separation to the very last extremity of Gaga. And if he showed the way. And we can find the way out to for. This was the loneliness of Christ in the garden. In the loneliness on the cross. Like a sponge which. The silence of our Lord soaked up all the evil . Because he soaked it up. Evo lost all of its strength. After all when an atheist complains about the ugliness and evil of the world. As he not knowing as inmost heart that this is not the way the world was intended to be. Is affirming the very existence of God by the intensity of his complaint without God there would be no one to complain to and in his complicate Yes Christ story. Finally. It was a moral transference moral crimes for and. Sacred Scripture says that our blessed adored was made sin by that is meant that he took upon himself all of the sins of the world as if it were his own every blasphemy was put upon Israel it says if he himself would spoken the blasphemy every theft was in his hand as if he himself had committed the theft. Is flesh hanging from him was in token of all the rebellion of the flesh of the world. He knew it seems like. Perhaps I can make this clear to you by telling you that some years ago a girl wrote to me from a large city of this country telling me that at the age of 18 she went to her 1st dance. She went in company with her cousin. Her house was some distance from the gate a cousin dropped her at the gate. And in that distance between the gate and the front porch she was attacked by a stranger. In due time she found herself with child. The only ones who would believe her. Were mother. And the past. Neighbor women said Oh isn't it terrible the poor woman has won back after. Some girls in the choir were got a large a saint because she was weak. And she told me a lot of this torture that she endured and she said what's the answer. I wrote back to her and I said My dear girl all of this suffering has come upon you simply because you bore the sin of one man. I therefore assumed that if you ever bore the sins of 10 men you probably would have suffered 10 times more. If you ever took upon yourself sins of. 100 men. Sufferings would have been a 100 times worse. And if you ever took upon yourself the sins of all the world. You might have had. A bloody sweat. That's where you are seen live. And die. In that bloody sweat. On cafe. In this human nature that soul left us. That we caught. The sacred ott. Communications.