{"id":12338,"date":"2020-11-02T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/luke_20_27-40-copy\/"},"modified":"2020-11-01T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:48:36","slug":"luke_20_41-21_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/luke_20_41-21_4\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of David, Son of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke 20:41-21:4 \u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Luke 20:41-21:4. Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Luke 20:41-44 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n41 \u00a0Then Jesus said to them, “How is it that they say the Christ is the Son of David?
\n42 \u00a0David himself declares in the Book of Psalms: “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand
\n43 \u00a0until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”‘
\n44 \u00a0David calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 41-44:\u00a0After being asked different questions by the chief priests, teachers of the law and the Sadducees, Jesus asks a question of his own. He first points out what seems like a contradiction in the Old Testament Scriptures. On one hand, the Scriptures teach that the Messiah is \u201cthe Son of David\u201d (v41), that is, a descendant of David. On the other hand, in one of David\u2019s most famous written prayers (Psalm 110:1, which Jesus quotes in verse 42-43), David calls the Messiah his \u201cLord\u201d (v42).\u00a0It would be strange for an older person to call one of their distant descendants (i.e. their great-great-great-great-great-great\u2026 grand child) \u201cLord\u201d. So why does David call his own distant descendant, the Messiah, \u201cLord\u201d? That is Jesus\u2019 question.<\/p>\n

In asking this question, Jesus is pointing out the mysterious nature of the Messiah.\u00a0Jesus is teaching that the Messiah is not just a human descendant of David, but he is also someone who somehow existed before David and is greater than David. In other words, the Old Testament teaches that when the Messiah appears,\u00a0the Messiah will be both a human descendant of David as well as the divine son of God, all at once<\/strong>.\u00a0And that is what Jesus is. Jesus is both God and man, both divine and human<\/strong>. Jesus is the Messiah that the Scriptures are pointing to.<\/p>\n

Luke 20:45-47 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n45 \u00a0While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,
\n46 \u00a0“Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of\u00a0<\/em>honor<\/em>\u00a0at banquets.
\n47 \u00a0They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 45-47: The teachers of the law were consumed by their own status in the eyes of people as well as their greed. In Jesus\u2019 eyes, it is detestable to use religion primarily to advance your own status or to exploit the poor.<\/p>\n

Luke 21:1-4 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n1 \u00a0As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.
\n2 \u00a0He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.
\n3 \u00a0“I tell you the truth,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.
\n4 \u00a0All these people gave their gifts out of their\u00a0<\/em>wealth;<\/em>\u00a0but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-4:\u00a0After mentioning how the teachers of the law love to devour widows\u2019 houses, Jesus sees a poor widow put in two small copper coins into the collection box at the temple.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this? One pastor, teaching on this passage, said something that I\u2019ve never forgotten. He said, \u201cThis passage shows that, according to Jesus, your love for God is not measured simply by how much you give to God; it\u2019s measured by how much you keep for yourself.\u201d\u00a0When a person gives everything they have to God, though compared to others it may be very little, that is a more valuable offering to God than if you gave a little bit from the much that you have, even if that little bit is more than the other person\u2019s everything<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

God looks not just at how much we give to Him. He also looks at how much we keep for ourselves<\/strong>.\u00a0Since God gave us His everything, including His only Son Jesus, may we give God our\u00a0<\/strong>everything<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, Son of God and Son of David, fully God and fully man, since You gave me Your everything, may I give You my everything in return. In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Luke 20:41-21:4. Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Luke 20:41-44 (NIV)\u00a0
\n41 \u00a0Then Jesus said to them, “How is it that they say the Christ is the Son of David?\u00a0
\n42 \u00a0David himself declares in the Book of Psalms: “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand\u00a0
\n43 \u00a0until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”‘\u00a0
\n44 \u00a0David calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

On verses 41-44:\u00a0After being asked different questions by the chief priests, teachers of the law and the Sadducees, Jesus asks a question of his own. He first points out what seems like a contradiction in the Old Testament Scriptures. On one hand, the Scriptures teach that the Messiah is \u201cthe Son of David\u201d (v41), that is, a descendant of David. On the other hand, in one of David\u2019s most famous written prayers (Psalm 110:1, which Jesus quotes in verse 42-43), David calls the Messiah his \u201cLord\u201d (v42).\u00a0It would be strange for an older person to call one of their distant descendants (i.e. their great-great-great-great-great-great\u2026 grand child) \u201cLord\u201d. So why does David call his own distant descendant, the Messiah, \u201cLord\u201d? That is Jesus\u2019 question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12339,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions\/12339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}