Who Is Jesus?
Notes
Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Theme: The Life of Christ
Hope: To help us draw closer to our God through a study of his life her on earth.
It was a Tuesday of the very week that our Lord and Savior was to be crucified on the cross by his own people.
This day has been often called “A Day of Conflict” because throughout this busy day our Lord debated the Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, and scribes over his authority to…
Cleans the temple (Mark 11:27-33)
Taxation (Mark 12:13-17)
The resurrection of the dead (Mark 12:18-27)
Jesus had even, this day, identified the greatest and next to the greatest commandments to a lawyers question (Mark 12:28-31).
He also gave this day a scathing denouncement of the scribes and Pharisees (Mark 12:38-40) and had most likely given the Olivet discourse about the fall of Jerusalem (Matthew 24; Mark 13).
As we can see it was a busy day for Jesus, this Tuesday before his crucifixion.
It’s during all this that Jesus makes one of the clearest affirmations in his entire earthly ministry concerning “who he is.”
Specifically it is Jesus’ quotation of Psalm 110:1 that should catch our attention and make us look closer at it as it pertains to our Lord and Savior.
Let’s read now this powerful interaction between Jesus and some of the Jewish leadership.
35 And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 36 David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “ ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’ 37 David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.
With this in mind let’s consider a few things this morning as Jesus answer the question “Who Is Jesus?”
First we see that Jesus is…
David’s Lord
David’s Lord
The Promised Messiah.
The Promised Messiah.
Jesus is, without a doubt, the promised one, the Messiah, the Christ.
Jesus explained this Psalm by pointing out…
That David could not have been referring to one of his “later descendants” who would be so excellent of a king that he would be David’s Lord.
No, the Holy Spirit clearly led David to acknowledge that the Messiah was someone “more than David’s descendant.”
Why is that significant, because Jesus uses this psalm to show not only that he is David’s Lord but that “all” prophecies about the Messiah must them point to him.
That he, Jesus of Nazareth, is the “promised Messiah.”
Throughout the Old Testament we read and learn about the promised Messiah.
The Messiah would be born of a woman.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
The Messiah would be born of a virgin woman.
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
The Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.
2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
The Messiah would come from the tribe of Judah.
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
The Messiah’s throne would be anointed and eternal.
6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; 7 you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
The Messiah would be declared the Son of God.
7 I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
The Messiah would be betrayed by a close friend for 30 pieces of silver.
9 Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
12 Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13 Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.
The Messiah would be a sacrifice for our sins.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
The Messiah would be resurrected from the dead.
10 For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
The Messiah would ascend to heaven and be seated at God’s right hand.
18 You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there.
1 The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”
Summary
Summary
Jesus left no doubt that he was the promised Messiah and therefore greater than David.
He was David’s Lord.
We also notice from our text that Jesus is…
The Son Of God
The Son Of God
God’s Right Hand.
God’s Right Hand.
This quote from Psalms clearly points to Jesus being God’s son due to the position given him.
The eternal God, the Father of us all, asked Jesus to come and take a seat at the place of honor and power beside him.
Not only that he asked him to sit there until all God’s enemies had been made his footstool.
The footstool symbolism here is of domination and conquest.
Christ would reign at God’s side, as his son, until complete victory had been accomplished.
27 For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
Summary
Summary
There is no human given the honor the Messiah was given and therefore he had to be “The Son of God” to be seated at the right hand of the Father.
What a beautiful love for each other between the Father and his Son.
We can also find here on our text that Jesus is…
God & Man
God & Man
Jesus Was David’s Son.
Jesus Was David’s Son.
As we mentioned earlier, Jesus boldly proclaimed he was greater than David.
Jesus did not deny his physical ancestry and his ancestry was known by the people as well.
The genealogy of any Jew could be looked up and found prior to 70 AD (Matthew 1: 1-17; Luke 3:23-38).
Jesus being born to the tribe of Judah through Mary and presumed Joseph left no doubt that Jesus of Nazareth was a decedent of king David.
However, as we mentioned earlier Jesus put the Jewish leadership in a bind by reminding them this “son of David” was also more than just a son he was David’s Lord. Therefore…
Jesus Was God’s Son.
Jesus Was God’s Son.
How could the Christ be David’s son and David’s Lord?
Why did the Jewish leadership not have an answer to Jesus’ question?
The answer is simple, they simply could not bring themselves to admit that the one pointing them to this psalm and remarking it was bout him was both God and man.
Yet you and I know this is fact.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Summary
Summary
Jesus clearly points to the fact that he is both God and Man.
5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
All of this should then remind us that Jesus is…
Our Lord & Savior
Our Lord & Savior
Sent To Save.
Sent To Save.
Because Jesus is the one God sent to save us there is no doubt that he was not only the apostles and early Christians’ Savior but all of our Savior as well.
As our Savior he took on our sins and defeated the strangle hold sin had on humanity.
24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Jesus wasn’t just sent to save us but also…
Sent To Lead.
Sent To Lead.
Jesus was sent by the Father to not just save us but to also lead us to eternal life and therefore he is our Lord or Master too.
9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
This is why the great confession before being immersed in the likeness of the gospel is so important.
Romans 10:9 (ESV)
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Summary
Summary
Jesus, through this prophecy in Psalm 110:1, made it clear he is not just our Savior but our Lord.
Lots of people want Jesus as their Savior but few want him as their Lord.
Conclusion
Conclusion
In Mark 12:35-37 Jesus presented an argument of humanity and divinity.
Proving that he was David’s Lord and therefore the promised Messiah.
The argument given by Jesus is without counter and has no flaws and therefore whoever believes his testimony here can too have Jesus as Savior if they are willing to submit to his demands as Lord.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.