Agreed that Christ came to set the sinners, slaves, lost, broken, hurting, sick, orphaned, widow all free, however Jesus said. Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. Matthew 10:34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”

Explanation and Commentary of Matthew 10:34

This at first is a rather enigmatic statement for the one who is described as the Prince of Peace, and who said, “blessed are peacemakers” (Mt 5:9). It is not that Jesus’s ultimate goal is not to bring peace on the earth at the very end of the current age, but that peace will only be achieved by a short-term tribulation and conflict between good and evil. Even right before the very end, Jesus is described in Revelation 19 as a conquering rider, covered in blood, waging war with justice, and, “Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. ‘He will rule them with an iron scepter.’ He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty” (Rev 19:15).

Jesus tells his disciples that there will be conflict in his name. It would be nice if everyone would have loved Jesus and everything he had to say, just as it would be nice for the Church to be loved by the world, but Jesus indicated that approval from the world was a sure sign that the Church, or the Christian, is not standing for truth and for Christ. Next, he will say that “a man’s enemies will be that of his own household” (Mt 10:36). Before this, he had said that he was sending them out like “sheep among wolves” (Mt 10:16).

Jesus’ ministry was a sign that the “year of the Lord’s favor” (Lk 4:19) was upon them, but it was also a sign that the judgment was close at hand. Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man” (Lk 6:22).