Acts 9:20-31 | It's All About God's SonSýnishorn

Who is Jesus? To a man we’ll come to know as Paul, Jesus was a heretic. A traitor and blasphemer. Someone representative and responsible for Israel’s idolatry. And therefore, a threat. A threat to Israel’s future, and a threat to God’s blessings and vindication of the nation. For a man like Paul, people like Jesus were the very reason why God’s judgment continued against Israel and why the nation was still in spiritual exile.

Which makes this next part of Acts all the more surprising. Here we find Paul preaching in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God, and proving he is the Messiah.

That’s what happens when you meet Jesus face-to-face. It changes you.

The question, “Who is Jesus,” stands at the center of Christianity. And since Christianity is about life, there is no single more important question a person can ask. Jesus once asked his disciples: “Who do you say that I am?” The answer to that question determined everything.

After Paul’s face-to-face encounter with Jesus, Acts tells us: “At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God” (Acts 9:20). At once. Saul didn’t waste any time telling others what he came to discover about Jesus. Paul knew. This means everything. In the very place where he was headed to arrest followers of Jesus, now he was proclaiming Jesus as the Son of God with the same burning urgency we’ve seen in the apostles.

Today, read what happens after Paul’s face-to-face encounter with Jesus, and then what he faced. And as you do, ask yourself: “Who do you say Jesus is?”