My Lord

September 7

(Luke 20:41-47 NIV) ““Then Jesus said to them, “How is it that they say the Christ is the Son of David? {42} David himself declares in the Book of Psalms: “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand {43} until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’ {44} David calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?”

(Matthew 22:41-46 NIV) ““While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, {42} “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” “The son of David,” they replied. {43} He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says, {44} “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”’ {45} If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” {46} No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.””

(Psalm 110:1 NIV) ““The Lord says to my lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.””

Jesus was continually dueling with the Bible experts of His day. He had no degree from any seminary, nor had He studied under any of the famous rabbis of the day. He had no formal education and so the spiritual intellectuals saw Him as an inferior upstart. But more than once, Jesus simply took them to their Bible, and corrected them from the very Scriptures where they claimed to be experts. He took them to Psalm 110 and made a case for a different type of Christ than they were expecting. They thought that the Christ/Messiah would be the son of David. This would make Him a mere human being. But Jesus contended that if David called Him “my Lord”, He couldn’t be the son of David. His human bloodline may trace back to David, but to be “Lord”, the Christ must be the Son of God. Jesus was that Son, and when you are the Son of God, that’s all the credentials you need. -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day