In Jesus’ day, Jews anticipated the arrival of a militant, conquering hero, aka Messiah, to restore the political entity, aka kingdom, to Israel. Jesus, the true Messiah, came to guide his people in unlearning their faulty views, accumulated like barnacles on a boat, over Centuries. His was a kingdom, not of military power with weapons and armies, but the unseen kingdom ‘of the spirit’ entered by faith. His was a kingdom not of liberation from physical oppression but of liberation from the oppression of sin and the grave.

Mark 4:1-41
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