Preach His Blasphemy

[Mr. M]

Acts 9:20 At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.

How much significance should be placed on this point that Paul immediately began

to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God? 

First, consider the evidence that came out at the trial of Jesus Christ.

John 19:5-7 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe.

And Pilate said unto them, Behold the man! When the chief priests therefore and officers

aw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, you take him,

and crucify him: for I find no fault in him. The Jews answered him, We have a law,

and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

At a public trial, the testimony of His accusers was that Jesus must die for claiming to be the Son of God.

Now the man who was previously persecuting the church, one of high esteem among the religious

leadership, was preaching this very thing! This is an extraordinary turn of events, that the one

who was identified and accepted by the original disciples as the "apostle to the gentiles",

would first boldly preach in the synagogues of every place he visited.

For many have come before and after claiming to be a messiah, a fact of which has often been attested.

For messianic Jews to simply proclaim Yeshua haMashiach in Israel or anywhere in the world is nothing

new under the sun. If you want to stir up the status quo, preach the Son of God. 

Before appearing at the judgment seat of Pilate, Jesus was examined by the High Priest,

along with the scribes and elders. Many false witnesses came forward to accuse Jesus,

but none of the charges held. Then the High Priest played his trump card:

Matthew 26:63-66 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him,

I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. 

Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see

the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further

need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy. What think ye?

They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

And so the religious authorities found Jesus guilty of blasphemy and worthy of death

for claiming to be the Son of God. Then Saul, upon his conversion immediately preached

this in the synagogues, thereby, bringing the same charge against himself. Then he gave

this testimony of himself before his conversion.

1 Timothy 1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy,

because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

This is his conversion, to embrace what was called blasphemy, and reject what was before:
Acts 22:3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up

in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law

of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

The Lord Jesus Christ expects us to preach His Blasphemy,

for this is the most excellent glory that He received:

2 Peter 1:17 For he received from God the Father, honor and glory, when there came such a voice

to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

John 10:36 Do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world,

‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Edited January 1, 2023 by Mr. M
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[Mr. M]

Hebrews 1:

1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.