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Jesus is Not Just The Son of David

 


The Jewish People were looking for a messiah, a liberator who would help them overthrow the Romans. They were looking for a Son of David to conquer and Make Israel Great Again. Jesus confronted them with the reality that David’s Son in prophecy was not going to be just a Man, but The Lord God Himself Incarnate, “Now while the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them a question, saying, “What do you think of the Messiah?* Whose son is he?” They answered, “[He is the son] of David.” 

Jesus said to them, “How, then, does David, in the Spirit, call him ‘Lord,’ saying: ‘The Lord* said to my Lord, * sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?’*

If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” 

No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on, no one dared to ask him any more questions.” (Matthew 22:41-46). When Christ confronted them with the Scriptures it says they dares not ask him anymore questions. The Jews did not like the answers, they like when Moses said God is going to speak to you said, “And they said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen. But don’t let God speak directly to us, or we will die!” (Exodus 20:19). The Jews prefer God to be distant, to have a Mediator or High Priest in between because then they can live their lives worshipping Mammon (god of money) and keep God in his lane till The Sabbath. Sadly we Christians can do this too with our Sundays, and be satisfied with distance too. 


When we are confronted with the reality that Jesus is not just the Son of David but The Lord Almighty made flesh, we have to face an uncomfortable reality, God is not in that distant and transcendent sphere, he does not stay in our comfortable lane to keep Him where we want Him. Jesus The Lord is here, and we say Hosanna and Hallelujah in our praise songs, but in our lives this becomes a hinderance to us exercising a distant relationship with God where we get to set His limits and terms of involvement in what we do. I better understand now why they wanred to kill Him, it wasn’t dome pious quest to rid themselves of who they deemed a blasphemer, it was to eliminate the reality of Immanuel which means “God WIth Us.” They did not want God with Them, they wanted God to favor a man to liberate them so they could have more control of their lives. 


Jesus is not just the Son of David, “which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.” (Romans 1:2-6). He is The Son of David according to the flesh, but he is The Son of God according to The Spirit; God in a human body! This is the reality that much of Israel rejected, and that they still reject today, because they do not want that kind of messiah, they want to remain in control of their fate, and keep God in his lane. Amen.  


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