Whose Son Is The Messiah? Series

2. Jesus is fully man.

a. Philippians 2:7 (NLT)

Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form,

b. He was born to a woman.

c. He lived most of his life in a small town called Nazareth.

d. He became hungry.

e. He got tired.

f. He felt sorrow.

g. He felt the anguish of separation.

h. He bled.

3. He was fully God.

a. John 1:1 (NLT)

In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

b. You cannot accept one aspect of who Jesus is and not the other.

c. You cannot say that he was simply a good man or a good teacher.

d. You cannot say that he was simply a historical figure from ancient history.

e. He cannot be considered good and not be who he said he was: the Son of the Living God.

4. People today don't want to accept his divinity because they cannot accept his demands.

a. John 1:10-12 (NLT)

10 He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him.

11 He came to his own people, and even they rejected him.

12 But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

b. They don't want to surrender their desires.

c. They don't want to surrender their sins.

d. They don't want to surrender their time.

e. They don't want to surrender their lives.

f. You cannot say you believe in Jesus and do your own thing.

Transition: What we need is...

II. An Encompassing Reply (43-45).

A. The Lord Said to My Lord

1. Jesus now points out to the Pharisees the error of their incomplete thinking.

2. He says, “Then why does David, speaking under the inspiration of the Spirit, call the Messiah ‘my Lord’?"

a. Using a rabbinical technique of asking a counter question, Jesus shows the error of the Pharisees.

b. The answer that the Pharisees give is not completely incorrect it's just incomplete.

c. You see, the Messiah from a human point of view is the Son of David, based on the fact that He is a descendant of David's royal line.

d. However, he is so much more than that, because the Messiah is both fully human but also fully divine.

e. The Pharisees problem is that they only saw Jesus' humanity and overlooked his divinity.

f. In correcting them, Jesus shows that the Messiah cannot be just the Son of David.

g. Jesus points out that when David wrote the Scripture he was about to quote he was under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

h. The Greek phrase behind inspiration of the Spirit is identical to that used by John of his vision on Patmos, when he "was in the Spirit on the Lord's day" It refers to being under the control of the Holy Spirit in a unique and powerful way.

i. The reason that they were wrong is that they were not filled with the Holy Spirit the way David had been.

j. They were depending on their own human reasoning and upon what they had been taught by older rabbis who had depended on their human reasoning.

k. Therefore, all they could see was the human descent of the Messiah.

l. Jesus wasn't saying that the Messiah was not the Son of David, but rather that he was so much more (Horton, 487).