Because Jesus never wavered from choosing love and obedience to the Father as the driving force in His life, He was a threat to both individuals and systems of His day, a holy dissident with a disruptive presence and disruptive words.
His character threatened Rome’s powerful ways—warfare, conquering, bloodshed, and oppression. It also threatened the religious system, which exercised power & fostered rigidity, empty ritual, exclusion & judgment. He who was the foundation of that system looked nothing like it.
He opposed all that was contrary to the purposes and character of the Father in individual, social, national, ethnic, and religious life. He sat apart from those who stood together, and in doing so, His faithfulness to the Father led to His extermination . . . or so they thought.
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