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What does true kingship look like when the king hangs on a cross? This powerful message challenges everything we think we know about power, authority, and salvation. Drawing from Luke's gospel account of the crucifixion, we're confronted with a radical paradox: Jesus doesn't look like a king at all. He's mocked, humiliated, and dying between two criminals. Yet it's precisely in this moment of apparent defeat that His true kingship is revealed. When one criminal hurls insults demanding Jesus save himself, the other simply asks to be remembered—and receives the promise of paradise. This is the heart of the gospel: grace that reaches the guilty, mercy that transforms the condemned, and a kingdom that operates by completely different rules than the world's systems of domination and revenge. In our polarized times, when we're tempted to seek a savior who will defeat our enemies and confirm our tribes, we're invited instead to embrace a crucified king who prays 'Father, forgive them.' The question pressed into our hearts is profound: Do we really want a king who forgives those we want punished? Who welcomes those we'd rather exclude? This isn't just ancient history—it's a daily invitation to live under a different kind of power, where love is stronger than death and grace gets the final word.