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The question is, how is it that they say Christ is David son. How can you say that when David himself says in the book of Psalms the Lord said to my Lord, my right hand until I make the Christ. John MacArthur will help you answer those vital questions in the next 30 minutes today on grace to you as he continues his series how to talk to a heretic before we get to listen though we know there will always be people who teach error and people who are enemies of the truth. But there will also be a remnant to love biblical truth to hunger for it unsupported and John we heard from some people just like that, not long ago. I want you to pass their stories along this is always a fairer time for me and I'm happy to do that, here's a letter from Marlene in Stockton, California. She writes I want to especially thank you for your recent radio series on praying boldly. I have been walking with God.

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So the Lord asks them the pertinent question, but have to take you back to Matthew Matthew 2241. This is where this conversation really starts. Member Matthew Mark and Luke record the same incident and they all give us little details. Matthew 2241.

This is how it began.

Here's what Jesus said first what you think about the Christ, whose son is he what you think about the Christ, whose son is he so you have this very direct and very pertinent and very essential and important question placed before them.

I called it a discerning question because it discerns to the core of where a person is spiritually is followed by a deficient answer, a deficient answer. Their answer was David. Now this is commonly believed by the Jews of Jesus day. It's so obvious in the Old Testament. They all believed it and apparently the people not only knew the Messiah would be a son of David, but they knew Jesus was a son of David is a correct answer is just a deficient answer, not wrong, incomplete, inadequate. So you go from a discerning question through a deficient answer to what I'll call a divine reality, a divine reality. This is marvelous. This again shows us so much. Verse 42. The question is, how is it that they say Christ is David son. How can you say that when David himself says in the book of Psalms the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make thine enemies a footstool for thy feet. David therefore calls him Lord and how is he his son. This is just Macy, Melanie and me tell you what Jesus is doing here is an argument why are you calling Messiah David son only when David himself says in Psalm 110, one. That's the Psalm is quoting Psalm 110, one the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make thine enemies a footstool for thy feet.

Now me me tell you the foundation of our Lord's argument. Everybody. Everybody knew Psalm 110 was messianic everybody that the standard universal Jewish interpretation of Psalm 110 is is speaking of the coming Messiah this coming Messiah is the one who will sit at the right hand of God the position of power and authority and make all Israels, and thus God's enemies a footstool for his feet. He is the conquering hero. He is the conquering hero very reminiscent of Psalm two.

That is how the Jews interpreted Psalm 110 and it was a universal interpretation it's messianic when the Messiah comes, he will wield the right hand of God, he will will be authority and power of God, he will subdue all God's i.e. Israel's enemies put them under his feet. By the way, just as a further explanation of that being placed under the feet of a ruler was not where he wanted to be because it really was a symbol of execution.

Listen to Joshua 10 five kings brought to Joshua. Verse 24 came about when they brought these kings out to Joshua.

Joshua called for all the men of Israel said to the chiefs of the men of war who'd gone with them come near put your feet on the necks of these kings so they came near put their feet on their necks. Verse 26 so Joshua struck them, put them to death. Hang them on five trees. Everybody knew what it meant to make your enemies your footstool to put your feet on your enemies neck.

This is messianic, they knew the Messiah would come and destroy the enemies of God, because that's what the Old Testament prophesied how, then, if this is messianic, and the Messiah is to be David son Ken David call him Lord, because verse one begins in Psalm 110 the Lord said to my Lord, that is Yahweh is talking to the Messiah.

And David says the Messiah is my Lord, how can the Messiah be David son and David Lord only one way he has to be the eternal God, who becomes man has to be the everlasting God, who becomes in time. The creature this stunning to them. In fact, this is so stunning and argument that the Jews scrambled for centuries. Because of this very incident. It wasn't long after the completion of the New Testament in the availability of this that the Jews change their viewpoint of Psalm 110 and they said it refers to Abraham in some strange way, and other said no, it refers to Melchizedek and other said no, it is a reference to Judas Maccabeus who was a ruler from 135 to 143 143 135 BC, and those who come up with the Judas Maccabeus idea took a Hebrew and altered it to create an acrostic of the name of Judas Maccabeus. They were the originators of the Bible codes. They did anything and everything they could do to manipulate the text of Psalm 110 to make it non-messianic because if it is the Messiah, to whom the Lord is speaking and the Messiah surely is David son David also calls him, his Lord the Messiah is both man and God. He is the eternal son of God as well. As man son of David. He is David son and David's Lord if he was just an ancestor to come.

Centuries later, how could David in the present tense referred to him as my Lord, if you don't think Bible exposition down to the personal pronouns is important. Here's some middle correct your view right how important it is. Is it to get the words and phrases and even the prepositions and pronouns right well some liberals came along and said all David was wrong when he said this was just just a crazy moment for David.

He was wrong and if you are reading Luke you, you might conclude that well. David said it, but he shouldn't of said however. Matthew 22 verse 43 says listen this. David said in the spirit, or if you will. Mark 1236 David said in the Holy Spirit is make sure not talk about human spirit. He said it he said it in the spirit he said enough Holy Spirit all the bases are covered there. What David said then was not wrong.

It was right absolutely right absolutely accurate same kind of construction during market you find in acts chapter 4 and verse 25 where it says by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David the same thing.

The spirit of God inspired David to say it. David said the Messiah, who hasn't even come yet is now at this moment, my Lord, Ken reminds me of what Thomas said when he saw Jesus after his resurrection and said, my Lord and my God. I like this could said in permanent panic because he's expositor did the Psalm they all affirm to be messianic.

The Jews have the Middle Ages to now those who still consider the word of God seriously have come back to the fact that this is a messianic Psalm generally, I don't know what they do to escape the fact that the Messiah has to have been alive at the time of David as well as being in the future, the son of David, but if there thinking at all. This same argument is a powerful argument for the Lord Jesus Christ. Then one day in the purposes and in the providence of God and in his perfect plan.

The Messiah will return to reign in the places heel on the neck of his enemies in that great eschatological event of his glorious return and judgment, and kingdom establishment, but until then his heel falls on the neck of his enemies every second of every day. The judgment of Christ on sinners and projectors does not await the final judgment goes on every single day is enemies are always his foot stool when verse 44, sums it up. David therefore calls him Lord and then asks how is he only his son, you have an impossible dilemma.

The Jews were completely stopped and in fact that's what Matthew says Matthew basically says what Luke says before this incident. Matthew says it after this incident. Verse 46, no one was able to answer him a word nor did anyone there. From that day on, to ask him another question after the discussion with the Sadducees.

Luke says it was over. The Pharisee circle back after their little meeting they got one more issue and Jesus confronts them with that issue. They were done, but he came to them and after that they were done for sure Luke says they had nothing else left to say. So Jesus asked the question, they couldn't answer that they are doubly silenced. There's nowhere to go.

If you reject Jesus Christ don't come with any kind of patronizing nonsense about the fact that you think Jesus is a good person in the Bible is a wonderful book. The Bible says Jesus is God. He is David son and David's Lord. He is the God man. If you believe that you affirm Scripture if you do not believe that you deny Scripture to Scripture, then, is to you, a deception, and Jesus is a fraud.

The Bible is full of lies abandon Christianity leave the church get as far away from it as you possibly can.

But if the Bible is true and it is Jesus is God and man, then what he says is true. What he did is the only way of salvation and faith in him alone is the way to heaven we could talk about the deity of Jesus Christ. So many ways he manifested the attributes of God. Omnipotence commanded the elements commanded the demons commanded the physical world commanded death commanded life for gave sin. He had the addict at attribute of omnipresence he was able to be everywhere at all times. If he desired to be.

He was omniscient. He knew everything, including the thoughts of man he was immutable. He never changed. He was wholly true wise sovereign, loving, eternal, glorious, unchanging. We go, he is God he is God in the same way that God is God, no less. And if God became a man, let's just create a hypothesis if God became man. What we expected to be like well I think first of all, we would expect him to be sinless because the God, the true God, the God of Scripture's holy holy holy holy, so if God became a man, he would be sinless Jesus, sinless yet even his own enemies couldn't find any accusation against him was wholly harmless under filed separate from sinners.

If God were a man, we would expect not only there to be no sin, the absence of sin, but we would expect.

Suddenly, the presence of perfect righteousness, he would be the purest of persons who ever lived God were a man, we would expect his words to be the greatest words ever spoken, because he has the greatest intelligence in the greatest wisdom and the greatest command of truth, and the greatest command of the expression of that truth. The words of Jesus would be like no words ever spoken by anyone, anytime, anyplace, and it was said of him, never a man spoke like he spoke, he said, believe me for my works sinless and righteous and powerful. Leave me for my words. If God became a man, we would expect them to display super natural power with ease because it would be a true reflection of his nature. Jesus control nature heal people walk on water, raise the dead, dominated the kingdom of demons avoided those who try to kill and literally didn't miracles in numbers that couldn't even be counted and John ends his gospel by saying that too many to even write. If God were a man, we would expect him to exert a profound influence over humanity. Jesus did like no other in all of human history. Change the world. If God were a man, we would expect them to manifest the love of God, the grace of God the kindness of God.

The compassion of God, and he does would also expect them to display the justice of God. The judgment of God.

The wrath of God, and he does. If you read the Old Testament and get the picture of God. Read the New Testament. Christ is the perfect representation of God in human form. That's Hebrews 1 the Jews wouldn't believe it. No matter what he did, they wouldn't believe it. Look at Luke 22 Luke 22 verse 66. This is after they arrested verse 66 when it was day, the council of elders of the people, the leaders assembled chief priests and scribes. They led him away to their counsel chamber saying this if you are the Christ, tell us. Are you kidding me, you want to know how hardhearted they were. If you are the Christ, tell us what he said to them if I tell you, you will not believe. What's the point if I ask a question, you will not answer. Do you know they never deny the miracles minimum they never denied the wisdom of Jesus.

They never refuted his exposition of Scripture. They never discredited the answers that he gave. They just wouldn't believe that's the sad error of people throughout history and even today and what about you are you with these hardhearted stone cold leaders who see it all and get don't see it, who never deny any of it but will not believe it, or are you with that crowd that is terminally indecisive and can be led around by the nose and one day can cry. Hosanna in the few days later crucified. What is your response to the question, whose son is Jesus Christ.

If he is the son of God than is truly the Messiah of the Lord, the only Savior, and the only way by which a sinner through faith alone can escape hell and enter heaven. Father we see again as we always do the wondrous beauty and majesty of Jesus Christ in the word we see his wondrous use of Scripture to manifest his own deity and glory, we see his compassion when the hardhearted and the indecisive Lord. This is given to us for today is a call as it were, to those who stand in open rejection or indecision to consider again, whose son you really are son of David, yes, but also the eternal son of God the only Savior who came first as an offering for sin, and will come again as a reigning monarch. Father I pray that there will be no heart here turned away, but all will embrace Savior believe repent and receive the gift of eternal life.

It's in his name we ask this is grace to you with John MacArthur. Thanks for being with us today.

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