{"id":770,"date":"2025-07-08T20:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2025-07-08T20:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:25:27","slug":"different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Different"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little different way of looking at it.
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Jesus seems to have lived in a very religious time and place. Those who did not practice the culturally embedded religious activities were often ostracized from \u201cpolite \u201csociety.
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Religion had expected norms for behavior that were accepted by most of society.\u00a0 Your place in society was heavily influenced by your place in religion.
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Politics and religion were intertwined. The Messiah, the expected religious leader, was expected to make Israel great again and a world leader. The swamp of foreign-influenced government was to be drained by force if needed.
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Religious leadership was to be returned to those it belonged to who would use it to keep everyone in line and enforce the rules even making them the law of the land.\u00a0 Holy Scripture would become the law of the land. Religious leaders would again influence government. Government leaders would influence religion.
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The Kingdom would rule society, politics, culture and religion. That was the popular view of The Messiah. The view most in that society accepted.
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However Jesus, The Messiah, came with a different approach. Just read The Sermon on the Mount. He said the Kingdom was within you. It was to be a Spiritual Kingdom. He rejected the Devil’s offers that coincided with the popular view and societies offer when they wanted to make him King.
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Jesus did not take \u201cThe Broad Way, the popular way, the expected way, the religious way, the political way,\u201d rather he took the Narrow Way of suffering and servant-hood.
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Sadly his people, while proclaiming that they walk His narrow way seem to keep trying to get back on the Broad Way. Christianity, the Church and churches keep trying to pick up the way Jesus rejected and refuse the narrow way of suffering and servant-hood. he accepted and proclaimed to his followers.
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The Broad Way may be the way of culture even the way of Church subculture.
\nIf you are walking the Broadway, are you following Jesus? Only the way of suffering and servant-hood\u00a0 is the path of Jesus. It is the Narrow Way. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little different way of looking at it. Jesus seems to have lived in a very religious time and place. Those who did not practice the culturally embedded religious activities were often ostracized from \u201cpolite \u201csociety. 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