When Jesus says to Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this kosmos” (John 18:36), his meaning is clear: the sphere of power belonging to God, who created the universe out of nothing (ex nihilo), has invaded the sphere of the Enemy, and in the most inconceivable way possible—the willed self-offering of God the Son to human wickedness in a scene of barbaric execution.32 Therefore, far from escaping the world, the Christian disciple finds his or her vocation precisely here: at the collision of the ages where the struggle of the Enemy against God continues, making a space for the conquering love of God
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