Whose Son is Jesus?

Luke 20:41-47

Jesus: How Can David Call His Descendant Lord?

41 And He said to them, "How can they say that the Christ is the Son of David? 42 Now David himself said in the Book of Psalms:

'The LORD said to my Lord,
"Sit at My right hand,
43 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool."'

44 Therefore David calls Him 'Lord'; how is He then his Son?"

Beware of the Scribes

45 Then, in the hearing of all the people, He said to His disciples, 46 "Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."

Whose Son is Jesus?  Beware imitators who deny His divinity (John 1:1, 14, 10:30, Romans 1:3-4, 1 John 4:2-3) and say He was just a man who descended from king David.  These imitators like the scribes of old will use unregenerate reasoning and knowledge to pick at the words of scripture without understanding and give false conclusions of who Jesus Christ was and is and forever will be.  These still are found among the Christian community as well as the cults outside who claim to be one of us (1 John 2:19-20) but deny the divine nature of Him (1 John 2:22-23) which we who have been reborn and regenerated alone can comprehend.  The scribes looked only at the physical lineage of Jesus and glossed over the fact that the Holy Spirit of God Himself conceived Him in the womb of the virgin Mary (Luke 1:35) so the offspring would be both of man and God.  Whose Son is He?   Both the son of God and Son of Man (Romans 1:3-4) as the union of the two to be divinely able to be the perfect sacrifice for our sins, once for all and forever, and as one of us to stand in our place on the cross of suffering and death to pay the penalty for sin completely.  This means that Jesus Christ is God and walked among us as a man as well.  Therefore the scribes sought the scriptures but missed His identity because they were unwilling and unable (John 5:39-40) without faith in who He is to acknowledge what He was doing and what He would accomplish on the cross after suffering for our sin.  They only took a passage from Psalm 110:1 out of context to prove He was only the son descended from David and did not look at the other scriptures or even further in Psalm 110:4 which pointed to Zechariah 6:13 of His divine reign and work as our eternal High Priest (Hebrews 5:6, 9-10, 7:1, 3, 15-17) who alone is able to save His people from the penalty of our sin (Hebrews 7:25).  Only God has the authority and power of pure righteousness to be both priest and perfect sacrifice to pay the price (Romans 6:23, Colossians 1:13-14)!  Jesus therefore warned us all to beware of those who deny who He is and offer a false gospel without the hope of assured deliverance of salvation from the wrath of God on our sin which is both inherited from Adam and committed daily by us in word and deed.  Outward righteous dress and manners do not work the righteousness of God which only the divine great God and Savior Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13, 2 Peter 1:1, 3:17-18) can do.  All who deny His deity deny His work and have no hope to offer themselves or anyone else.  His identity is what makes Him able to save us as no man or philosophy ever can.  We are therefore to beware those who act out supposed righteousness but offer no truth to deliver such as the cult of Mormonism who suppose that men become gods as Jesus did in their ungodly teachings.  We serve the true God and no idol of man’s philosophy or reasoning apart from the revealed truth in the word of God given us that we might know (John 3:36, 17:3) our great God and Savior Jesus Christ!  We know whose Son Jesus is.