Luke 20: 44
"David therefore calleth him Lord,
how is he then his son?"
It is worth while for us to take this little passage by itself, for it is very difficult to understand. The most popular title of the Messiah was Son of David. That is what the blind man at Jericho called Jesus (Luke 18:38-39), and that is how the crowds addressed Him at his entry into Jerusalem (Matt. 21:9). Here Jesus seems to cast doubts on the validity of that title. The quotation is from Ps. 110:1. In Jesus' time all the Psalms were attributed to David and this one was taken to refer to the Messiah. In it David says that he heard God speak to his Anointed One and tell him to sit at his right hand until his enemies became his footstool; and in it David calls the Messiah My Lord. How can the Messiah be both, David's son and David's Lord?
Jesus was doing here what He so often tried to do, trying to correct the popular idea of the Messiah. What Jesus was saying here was, "You think of the coming Messiah as Son of David; so he is; but he is far more. He is Lord." He was telling men that they must revise their ideas of what Son of David meant. They must abandon these fantastic dreams of world power and visualize the Messiah as Lord of the hearts and lives of men. He was implicitly blaming them for having too little an idea of God. It is always man's tendency to make God in his own image, and thereby to miss his full majesty. My Friend, let us not make that same mistake!
Amen
Reading: (Luke 20:41-44)
(Matt. 22 41-46)
(Mark 12:35-37)
May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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