I am on the exact page as that. Jesus is the King, period. And doing His will is not some religious doctrine, it is a life lived or better given, sort of a living sacrifice, blameless, humble, broken, acceptable to God the Father, honoring to Jesus the Savior, blessing to our fellow men and women. I really don't think about anything I do as a Christian being legal, illegal, political, with the government, opposing the government... just love to love Jesus and please Him. I feel so extremely grateful to know Jesus. I'm mostly overwhelmed by it all.
I love how the Jesus freaks seem to take over all the long religious threads. After all the heathen have moved on to other topics, they're still posting -- and at length. Carry on.
Well they are Jesus freaks. To second MadMax's view in Jesus' time there was no separation of church and state and the norm for most of human history there hasn't been. Ceasar was a god king both the head of religion and the state. The Emperor of China, Pharaoh of Egypt and Caliph of Bagdad all wielded both spiritual and secular power and as far as most human societies there hasn't been a difference. In that sense Jesus' challenge to the religious order was a challenge to the prevailing political order.
