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Two very different kingdoms.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I don&#8217;t think Jesus&#8217; parade was a coincidence. I think Jesus&#8217; parade was a very clear declaration that He was Lord, not Rome\u2019s emperor and that His Kingdom was something entirely different. \u00a0Instead of a kingdom of fear, intimidation, <\/span>and<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> violence, Jesus came in the opposite spirit as a humble King with a message of love, truth and peace. \u00a0He recognized that the real enemy was not the Roman occupiers, rather the darkness of death and sin which has plagued humankind since the Fall. \u00a0He understood that death and sin are overcome <\/span>with divine<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">, perfect love. \u00a0He understood that part-and-parcel of the salvation He came preaching and demonstrating, was the power of the God-who-loves to transform us into new creations thereby producing transformed communities and a transformed world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We need to allow this Jesus to shape the way we read and interpret scriptures and direct how we live in everyday situations; in peace and conflict alike. \u00a0Jesus empowers us by His Spirit to live in the opposite spirit of violence, intimidation, and revenge. \u00a0 He calls us out of the practice of sacred violence and into lives of radical love, peacemaking, and nonviolence. 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