Jase Robertson
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I mean, his throne is one that serves, and he was down on his knees.
And I look at it even in my own life as Lisa and I have gotten older, and doing this movie project really made us think about it.
I mean, like your grandkids, they think you're great, but only because you love them and you serve them and you do anything.
And it's like it totally flips.
It's not like you're the boss of people.
It's like you want to, you know, it just kind of naturally fits.
Have you noticed that?
It was so opposite.
We did in our Hillsdale course on ancient Christianity,
I learned something I didn't know.
I always learn stuff I didn't know.
But I didn't know that Caesar Augustus, who was the emperor during the same era, they were making him to be a son of God because he was the first emperor to be declared.
And there's all these similarities.
Well, that was all done by triumph.
And because, you know, Rome ruled the world.
And so, again, for such a time as this, God would send his son during this time where all of known humanity was calling this guy a son of God because he was the emperor, that he would then say that was going to be what the emperor is going to be for the next 300 years.
They're a god.
And so here Jesus comes out of this completely humble situation, unknown,
Nobody, I mean, even the Jewish leadership didn't know who he was.
Remember, they were confused over where he was from.