Oh yes, we know how many disasters people have endured at all times, in all countries, under all governments, for this very reason.

And you may ask why our Lord Jesus Christ did not pay attention to these calamities, why in His earthly activity there was nothing similar to the deeds of the great reformers, the great legislators, who strove to eradicate social injustice, to put an end to the sufferings of people who depend on this untruth.

I will answer this question to you.

You know that immediately after His baptism in the Jordan, the Lord Jesus Christ was led by the spirit into the wilderness and there He spent forty days without food or drink, preparing for His greatest ministry.

And there, when on the fortieth day He hungered, Satan took advantage of it. He knew that a person who has been starving for a long time loses his willpower, loses the ability to resist, and therefore he waited until the fortieth day, and when the Lord Jesus Christ hungered, then he approached Him with his devilish temptation.

I will not talk about all three temptations, I will dwell only on the last and most powerful one.

"Again the devil takes Him up to a very high mountain, and shews Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, and saith unto Him, All these things I will give unto Thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me" (Matt. 4:8-9).

Do you understand the nature of this temptation, its power and danger? Satan offered Him power, indivisible, absolute, complete power over all the kingdoms of the earth, if only He would worship him. Of course, the Lord rejected this temptation as well.

Why did he reject it? Because Satan offered the power that any government has. And no state power can in any case do without coercion, without violence. By its laws it compels obedience, punishes non-obedience to them, punishes them severely, forces them, coerces them, and without coercion no authority, even the best and most perfect one, can act. Coercion is a necessary attribute of state power.

And how could the Lord, did He want to act by coercion? Oh no, oh no! He did not want, He rejected all power connected with coercion.

One day a man of the people came to Him and said to Him: "Teacher! tell my brother to share the inheritance with me. And he said unto the man, Who hath appointed me to judge or divide you?" (Luke 12:13-14).

He needed another power: He sought another power, He wanted to rule over the free hearts of men.

People are created with free will, they can choose their own path in life as they like: either the path of truth and suffering for the sake of truth, the path of mercy, the path of love, or the path of rejection of all truth and service to their lusts and passions, they can choose the path of sin.

God does not force anyone to choose one path or another, for He has given us free will. And precisely because we are created with free will, Christ does not want to influence us by coercion, to act in the way that the state power does.