2016-10-23: Luke-The Investigative Gospel – Whose Son Is The Christ?

Sermon Audio: Whose Son Is The Christ?
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 20:41-44
Duration: 20:44
Size: 9.49 MB

Luke-The Investigative Gospel
Whose Son Is The Christ?
Luke 20:41-44

Wright goes on to say that some people struggle with the nature of Jesus’ identity.

The problem for the people in Jesus’ day is that the kind of Christ that they were expecting was very different than the one God sent.

I. Jesus Is David’s Son, Therefore Affirming His Human Nature

In Jesus’ day the people all agreed that the Christ would be a descendant of King David. So that is where Jesus started.

Meticulous records were kept in the temple, and no one accused Jesus of not being a physical descendant of King David.

II. Jesus Is David’s Lord, Therefore Affirming His Divine Nature

Psalm 110 is a messianic psalm – a psalm that makes explicit prophecies about the coming of the Christ.

Most English translations print this Lord with a capital letter to show that it refers to God himself.

Psalm 110 then is a dialogue between the LORD God (Jehovah) and the Lord Christ.

Yet, here is King David giving honor to the Christ, acknowledging the superiority of his descendant.

Jesus wanted to help his listeners understand that his resurrection from the dead would be crucial to understanding his identity, particularly his divine nature.

So, Jesus is David’s son, therefore affirming his human nature. And Jesus is also David’s Lord, therefore affirming his divine nature.