Expressed more deeply, these are the questions: What difference does the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ make for me today? Are they just ancient historical events that are meaningful only because others say so? Or have I grasped and begun to lay hold of what Jesus has done for me? Now this leads us to a question: What happened when the Son of God died and rose for me? This question is not posed in order to receive merely the answer from the catechism. This glory will make available for us a whole new life. The Son of Man will suffer but, in the end, will be glorified. Everything is unfolding exactly as foretold. Judas’ going forth has started a process that is now underway and will, by God’s grace, result in liberation and glorification for Jesus and for us. The aorist tense of the verb (used in the Greek translation) indicates something that has begun and is underway. Note how the text speaks in the present tense: the Son of Man is glorified. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and God will glorify him at once.
The Provision and Pivot of the Passion – The text says, When Judas had left them, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. Let’s look at today’s Gospel in three stages and discover what the Lord has done for us and has left us by way of a legacy. If we will but lay hold of it, there is a kind of legacy, a deposit of riches from which we can draw. If we tap into it and draw from its riches, we are able to live differently. It is in this sense that we explore today’s Gospel, wherein our Lord sets forth for us a new power: the power of love. In other words, a legacy can completely change the way I live and open up new possibilities.
I can start enjoying things I thought I could never afford in the past. My bills, which now seem overwhelming, can be paid with just the interest earned from my newfound wealth. If I receive 100 million dollars from a dying relative, I can the money to start living differently. Perhaps the most accessible image of this is money. The title of this sermon uses the word legacy, which refers to something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor.
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