How Jesus Risks Offense

Jesus came to judge. Those were his words but most of us don’t understand them. The judgment of God is a revelation. Jesus described that he would make the blind to see and those who see blind. Jesus’s judgment is an act of revelation, for in his judgment, Jesus exposes what is true. Jesus exposes our hearts. One of the tools Jesus used to reveal was his words of offense. If we are willing to hear them, offense can be a clarifying word of revelation. For what offends us often reveals what is most important to us.