Turn the Other Cheek?

No scripture provides that 

Jesus' People are the world's doormats. 

Christ did not say:

"Be ye therefore doormats

upon which the people of the world walk"

Neither did He say, 

"Be ye therefore the tail and not the head"

nor, 

"You are the geeks of the world, 

and will remain lost and confused inside religious mysteries,

subjected to the abusive manipulation of priest-craft,

bound within the iron walls of dogmatism

which are impervious to truth,

until the day I return-

at which time I will wipe the tears from your eyes,

you poor, poor, powerless victims,

and give you crowns to wear

and thrones upon which to sit

to judge the world."

 

It is written that the Master said to:

'turn the other cheek'
or words to that effect . . .

 

But consider the context!

The overarching circumstances

the day, the time and season

the backdrop

why would someone slap you?

Within what context?

The admonition was written within the context of loving your enemies
and that within the context of being about our Father's business
on Earth as it is in Heaven . . . 
And what is that business
if not being about the Truth?
Engaged in the business of Truth,
the economy of Truth?
Who does not love the Truth?
Whosoever are its enemies,
Whosoever does not love the Truth

And who are the enemies of the Truth?
Those who love position
who love the world
who love popularity
who love acceptance and appreciation
more than truth.

Those who love power and force,
who grow addicted to influence over people
and circumstances;
Who covet privilege,

and who abuse power and privilege

those who in their position of advantage 

take advantage
to the detriment of the less fortunate.

Turning the other cheek

occurs within the context of challenging those 

who abuse their Power, privilege and force,
the advantage

entrusted to them;
Turning the other cheek

occurs within the context of challenging those

who breach their most solemn fiduciary duty to serve,

who usurp power and privilege

 not belonging to them;
It occurs

within the circumstance of standing up to those

and exposing those,

 who will mock and ridicule you
and in some cases,
most likely kill you

for confronting them, 

for revealing them

in their crimes

conducted in the name of government

in the name of religion 

and for reputation sake.

It is within these circumstances of exposure,

when they retaliate
coming after you and wanting to kill you

that we must love them regardless,
and thereby,

"turn the other cheek."

So offended by his confrontations 

were the politicians bureaucrats and lawyers, 

the media 

and the priests of His day, 

those pretentious, so-called, ministers of law, 

the purported shepherds of the people,

Those who sat "in Moses seat"

but betrayed him, 

stabbing him in the back,

Handing him over to a foreign power,

and inciting insurrection against him, 

The De Jure King of Israel!

Those who should bent their knee before him 

in reverence of his power

in honor of his insight

in gratitude of his message

The learned who the people trusted to distinguish 

the Truth

chose rather to

mock, scorn and scourge Him.

The elders of the People

took their King

and treasonously gave him over to be murdered by a foreign bureaucrat,

a Roman puppet,

who, even though manipulated by and fearing the mob,

distinguished his innocence,

 and washed his hands 

of their false accusations and condemnation,

and quashed their indictment and summary judgment. 

The Master's accusers, the day's mass mind manipulators,

broke the very code they accused him of transgressing

impeaching themselves by demonstrating for all to see

the hypocrisy

on which he audaciously called them.

 Regardless, he forgave them,

in his dying hour, when it mattered most,

He asked they be forgiven 

"as they know not what they do."

He harbored no bitterness,

as he had conquered that,

and releasing himself from any bondage,

from any hold within which he may have otherwise been entangled,

He was liberated by his unilateral love.

He knew they were blind, 

that all of them, each and every one, 

without exception,

being hypnotized, deluded and deceived,

was unaware of their blindness

even though they said they could see.