"My kingdom," said Jesus, "doesn't consist of what you see around you. If it did, my followers would fight so that I wouldn't be handed over to the Jews.
But I'm not that kind of king, not the world's kind of king."
John 18:36 MSG
Today we "celebrate" the actions of a man who wanted to violently overthrow the government for religious reasons, Guido Fawkes. Actually its his failure to carry out his plan we celebrate.
But we worship today, one who did succeed in his plan, and it was the opposite...to submit to violence, to receive the worst that people could throw at him, because his kingdom is not like the world's, and neither is he like the powerful.
He came to usher in a new kingdom, but a new kingdom based in love.
Love God
Love others
And we celebrate this kingdom not with fireworks, but with bread, with wine, with a cross.
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