December 23, 2007: For Us and Everyone Else (4 of 4) – Michael Hidalgo

When someone is called a Savior, we are forced to ask the question what is he or she saving us from? Both Augustus and Jesus were called Saviors - yet both of them were saving mankind from two different things. As a matter of fact Jesus was saving humanity from the evil of people like Augustus and cultures like Rome. Jesus was calling his people to simple way. A way that was not oppressive but freeing. A way that was not focused on the Kingdoms of this earth, but the Kingdom of Heaven. The way of Jesus proved to be an alternative to the prevailing culture of Rome. So what if Jesus came today? Exactly what would he be saving us from?