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LUKE - Christ, the Savior of the World
A Bible Study Course on the Gospel of Christ according to Luke
PART 5 - CHRIST'S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM (Luke 19:28 - 21:38)
7. Christ Confutes the Jews About his Sonship to David and to God (Luke 20:41-44)
LUKE 20:41-44
41 And He said to them, “How can they say that the Christ is the Son of David? 42 Now David himself said in the Book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to My Lord, “Sit at My right hand,
43 till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”’ 44 Therefore David calls Him ‘Lord’; how is He then his Son?”
When Christ had answered with great wisdom and love all the cunning questions of the Sadducees and Pharisees, he overcame them completely, and no one dared ask him or tempt him anymore. Then he began to ask his hearers decisive questions about his essence and truth. He did not ask them to worship him because of his miracles, but asked them to believe in him on the basis of his knowledge of the biblical promises of God to David.
Since the Babylonian captivity the Jews’ doctrine of monotheism made them deaf to God’s promises to the prophets about the divinity of the coming Christ. They expected a political king sent by God, and at the same time, they regarded Christ’s title “the Son of God” as blasphemy, for God is one.
Jesus approached his innermost nature, and asked the people about the meaning of the promise of the Holy Spirit to David in (Psalms 110:1) where the royal prophet listened in the spirit of prophecy to the persons of the Holy Trinity, when the Lord spoke to the Lord. With these words Jesus once again declared his divinity, and his birth by the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary, knowing that he would be crucified only because of this divine origin.
The hard hearts of the Jews did not open to the drawing of the Holy Spirit, but became harder. They became enemies of the Son of God. Christ’s mention of this verse from the Book of Psalms signifies the severest condemnation of the Jews, and at the same time a prophecy of his death, resurrection, ascension to heaven, to sit at the right hand of his Father. Jesus used this authoritative word once again before the Sanhedrin as a testimony to himself and condemnation on the Jewish nation: “You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power.” The judges considered this declaration as serious blasphemy, for the Prisoner asked them as the Son of God to submit to him, and condemned them. This verse said that after his death the holy God would defeat them, bind all the enemies of Christ, and make them his footstool.
Christ did not give up any renunciation of his complete divinity, for the world’s reconciliation with God, our justification by faith, and the complete salvation to everyone depend on this point. Do you believe that Christ is the Son of the living God, or do you join the enemies of him who was raised from the dead? He sits today at the right hand of God enthroned in glory, abiding in his Father, and he in him, and reigning with him, one God forever.
If your mind does not recognize these facts, ask your Lord for the power of faith, and the illumination of the Holy Spirit, for without this anointment no one can call Christ “Lord.”
But whoever denies him who is anointed and born of the Spirit of God, sees God coming as a fearful enemy. Why do the people who refuse the Son of God marvel if they are subject to the wrath of the Eternal One, who makes all the enemies of Christ his footstool? The characteristic feature of every antichrist spirit is that he denies the divinity of Jesus with rage, and persecutes all those who believe in him who is born of the Spirit of God. Do you worship your Savior, and thank him for the salvation of your soul, or will you soon feel his coming and be among his enemies whom he makes his footstool, confessing forcibly, with teeth gnashing, that Jesus is the Lord?
PRAYER: O Lord, You sit at the right hand of God in glory, after you gave yourself for us. We worship and thank you because you lift us to you through our faith, fill us with your love, and give us a living hope. Help us to obey the faith completely, and save our enemies that they may not feel your rage and punishment.
QUESTION 123: How is Christ the Son of David and the Son of God at one time?