They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
John [19:15] (ESV)
Let that last statement reverberate in your mind for a minute. A few verses up we see that Pilate “sought to release Jesus”(v.12), but the priests, that will later shout that they have no king but Caesar, remind Pilate, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”
I can think of a number of conversations that I’ve witnessed, or experienced, with self proclaimed Christians, calling the Christian Anarchist position treasonous because they dare defy the State, it’s authority, and it’s symbols. However, we must make it clear; if a Christian is truly making Christ their King, then that will bring us into conflict with Caesar. If the King opposes Caesar, then the followers of that King will too.
Throughout the Bible, kings are installed and deposed by God. 1 Samuel 8 is a clear announcement of what happens when an earthly king is enthroned over other men, instead of God. Opposition to that king then becomes a sticky subject as we reconcile “submitting” ourselves, with “obeying God rather than men“.
The problem being that Christians have largely associated any verbal pushback with condoning the most violent actions. We oppose Caesar by simply claiming there is no king but Christ. And there’s the rub: making that statement, “No king but Christ,” either enrages Christians, or they can’t follow you to the conclusion. They can’t follow you to the conclusion that they oppose Caesar. They can’t follow you to the conclusion that they oppose whatever person, or persons, is set up as Caesar. The apotheosis of our government should not be an argument, once you present the rituals and artwork in comparison to our own, yet it is.
It is likely that “no king but Caesar” was a vicious term proclaimed only to guilt Pilate into the execution, but as Christ said, “for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” We should take note: if we are to merely defend, or take issue just in our mind, without having spoken, what is it that is in our heart? This happens first, before we speak, and it happened first in the priests’ hearts before they spoke.
Opposition is merely being unashamed to say, “no king but Christ.”
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