Jesus ruffles everyone’s feathers because He confronts sin (“Forgive us our trespasses”), claims Lordship (“Why do you call me ‘Lord’, ‘Lord’, and not do what I say?”), and demands surrender (“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me”).
The Bible warned that He would be like this.
Isaiah said Christ would be “a rock to stumble over” (Is. 8:14). At His birth, Simeon told Mary and Joseph that Jesus would be “a sign to be opposed” (Luke 2:34). Jesus Himself said, “Blessed is he who does not take offense at Me” (Luke 7:23).Nails in the heart and rough words are found throughout Jesus’ biographies, and anyone who pays close attention when reading them will
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---or become enraged to the point where they want to throw Him off a cliff (Luke 4:29).
Nick Vujicic warns that “’Jesus’ is the most offensive word in anyone's life. When we mention Jesus, He is the only one who says ‘I am God. I am holy. I am the only way to a truthful life.’ No one — not Mohammad, not Buddha, not anyone says that they were holy, not anyone says that they were God, not anyone says that they faced the devil face to face and won.”
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