When Christ rode into Jerusalem upon a lowly colt, He was showing that the way He would bring salvation was not by the usual kingly might, but rather by His meekly submitting Himself to the judgment of God in our place.
But many classes of men will rebel against Christ's lowliness. Some demand a warrior savior, and they reject their need for a lowly savior who dies for them.
His disciples resisted His lowliness. Peter said "Not So, Lord" when Christ told of His death at Calvary. His disciples urged Him to authorize violence against those who refused Him, but He would have none of that.
Rebellion against Christ's lowliness took over after Constantine's so-called conversion. Now the institution that styled itself "the Church" had the power of the state behind it, and quickly desired to use it to coerce what it called heretics and schismatics.
Augustine crafted an outrageous, open defense of violence to coerce those who disagreed with "the Church's" views.
The tragic result of overthrowing Christ's lowliness in proclaiming the Gospel had disastrous results: persecution, martyrdom, the Inquisition, the bloody rampage of the Roman Catholic system against the saints of God.
Many now hold that warfare and Western armies help propagate Christianity. Charles Haddon Spurgeon rebuked this falsehood, pointing out that the British Empire harmed the Gospel's spread.
Some even justify the evil oppression of slavery because it brought the slaves to the Gospel! But how much hardness of heart did that great evil engender in the hearts of its African victims!
Our Lord's Table celebrates, not a military victory, but the death of our Lord Jesus, lowly to save us!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...