{"id":4827,"date":"2013-12-12T00:05:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T08:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2013-12-11T22:57:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T06:57:57","slug":"whos-your-daddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2013\/12\/12\/whos-your-daddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Your Daddy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the teachers of the law responded, \u201cWell said, teacher!\u201d And no one dared to ask him any more questions.<\/p>\n

Then Jesus said to them, \u201cHow is it that they say the Christ is the Son of David? David himself declares in the Book of Psalms:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The Lord said to my Lord:
\n\u201cSit at my right hand until I make your enemies
\na footstool for your feet.\u201d \u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid calls him \u2018Lord.\u2019 How then can he be his son?\u201d<\/p>\n

While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, \u201cBeware 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 honor at banquets. They devour widows\u2019 houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely.\u201d (Luke 20:39-47)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tPeople don\u2019t like inconvenient questions. That didn\u2019t stop Jesus from asking them. Jesus loved to ask questions that made the people around him uncomfortable. Why? Because the hard questions forced them look in places that they\u2019d rather not look, to think about what they\u2019d rather not think about, and to see what they thought they believed in wholly new ways.<\/p>\n

\tSo Jesus presented an uncomfortable bit of the book of Psalms that the religious establishment mostly tried to ignore. Jesus pointed out that David, the great king of Israel, referred to the Messiah as his Lord. If the Messiah was David\u2019s son, how could he call him that, Jesus wanted to know? In normal royal father-son relationships, the son might call his father lord, but never, ever the other way around. What could the Psalmist be thinking? What was going on? Jesus wanted the teachers of the law to puzzle over the problem, to face its implications. <\/p>\n

\tJesus was attempting to tweak the leaders\u2019 understanding of authority and relationships. They were all about being high and mighty. They wanted to be coddled and looked up to. Suddenly Jesus was casting their justification for that in doubt. Being the boss is not what mattered. Such attitudes were not how relationships worked in Heaven and it shouldn\u2019t be how they worked on Earth, either.<\/p>\n

\tIf you want to be transformed, then when you face a hard or inconvenient question in the Bible, don\u2019t shy away from it. Embrace it. <\/p>\n

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