The president-bishop of the Evangelical Church of Hungary said that Jesus became king on the cross, through self-sacrificing suffering, and will remain so forever.
He also differed from earthly rulers in that he did not reward the privileged, nor did he look for them as resurrected ones, but rather the despised, those living on the periphery
he added.
Golgotha also stood outside the city, but Jesus did not only visit Jerusalem during his life, he traveled as a pilgrim to the peripheral regions from Galilee to Samaria to Judea, but not as a conqueror, not with the love of power, but
– he emphasized.
According to Tamás Fabiny, the true goal for the faithful, today’s pilgrims of God, is not the earthly Jerusalem, but the heavenly one. If someone dies, you have to trust that he is already on his way, he will be able to stand at the threshold of the city and be led there by the resurrected Jesus, he stated.
The resurrection of Jesus is the hope that dispels all fear, he is the foundation on which the Lord built his church, the cornerstone.
As the 118th psalm, which meant so much to the reformer Márton Luther, says: “this is wonderful in our eyes from the Lord,” the president-bishop emphasized.
Since then, how many people have been able to experience the comfort of these lines and can still proclaim today that God’s church is a community whose members share joys and burdens, testifying that Christ’s love lasts forever – said Tamás Fabinyi.
