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The real issue is not whether all humanity obeys Jesus, but whether anyone does; and if anyone does, who are the obedient ones? The war makers? Or the peace makers?
During the long season "between the times", the followers of Jesus have learned to go along to get along; it was not always like that, and Father Berrigan reminds us that it won't be like that when at last the reign of God is fully established.
I wonder if, when I meet God face to face, I'll be counted among the lukewarm: I don't want to live in a country without an army; I am shamed by that. When the Vietnam war was heating up, I supported it -- but I didn't join the army. After the bombing in Cambodia, and influenced by the Berrigans and others, I came to oppose the war -- but I didn't burn my draft card. Had I been drafted, I'd have gone. I have tried to embrace Christian non-violence, but I have fallen short of it in so many ways.
When Fr. Berrigan met Jesus, he was not found to be "lukewarm."