Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered.3 A lot of the things God wants us to do don’t make sense in a spiritually hostile environment. They seem counterproductive. Consider some of his most basic and well-known commands: love your enemies, submit to authority, and forgive as we’ve been forgiven. All of these things are easy to pontificate about when our Christian values dominate the culture. But they aren’t so easy to defend when our enemies are powerful, those in authority