Gospels In Harmony – Whose Son Is the Christ?

Mat 22:41-46, Mar 12:35-37, Luk 20:41-44

[Study Aired July 29, 2021]

Mat 22:41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
Mat 22:42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.
Mat 22:43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
Mat 22:44 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
Mat 22:45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
Mat 22:46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

Mar 12:35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?
Mar 12:36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Mar 12:37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.

Luk 20:41 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David’s son?
Luk 20:42 And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Luk 20:43 Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Luk 20:44 David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?

This part of the Gospel is a transitional point. Up to now Christ has been answering the questions presented by the Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes, and others trying to catch Christ in His words. In His typical form, Christ asks them a question they are unable to answer. Below is the Psalm Christ is quoting.

Psa 110:1-7 A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

Tony has a study on this Psalm, and here is the link: Psa 110:1-7 Sit at my Right Hand   If you have not heard this study, I suggest you do. Here is part of the study covering Christ’s question.

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As we have seen, unless we are granted to “Sit thou at my right hand” there will be no true overcoming in this age, or said another way, “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”

The words “The LORD said unto my Lord” in this verse represents those who have this high calling in the LORD (1Pe 2:9) that is on the backs of those who are not the weak of the world (Luk 10:24, Mat 11:11, 1Co 1:26). They are not given to see what the LORD has prepared for those who love him, those who will be lords of our great LORD (1Co 2:9, Rom 8:28, Rev 19:16).

1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Luk 10:24 For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Mat 11:11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

1Co 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Rev 19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

We are being prepared by Christ to see God the Father. In order to do this, we must have our enemies be made our footstool. Following are two FAQ’s from the website which explain the answer of Christ’s question.

Who Did King David Call Lord?

God bless you, Mike!

I have just read what you have written about no man having seen the Father in O.T. In Luk 1:32 Jesus is called the Son of the Highest or Most High! HYPSISTOU in Greek, which in Septuagint translates ELYON in Hebrew. Melchizedek was priest of ELYON (Gen 14:18-24). In Daniel 7:17-27 we find that the saints of ELYON shall take the Kingdom and possess the Kingdom for OLAMA. WAED OLAM OLAMIA, which I believe is for the age and beyond to the age of ages. Are these saints the Melchizedek priesthood? In Mat 11:27 “NEITHER KNOWETH ANY MAN THE FATHER, SAVE THE SON, AND HE TO WHOMSOEVER THE SON WILL REVEAL HIM”!!! Does this mean that the Father’s Name is MOST HIGH in English, ELYON in Hebrew and HYPSISTOS in Greek and a lot of revelation about our Father is hidden in the Scriptures about the Most High or Highest?

Thanks,
G____

Hi G____,

Thank you for your encouraging words. You ask:

Does this mean that the Father’s Name is MOST HIGH in English, ELYON in Hebrew and HYPSISTOS in Greek and a lot of revelation about our Father is hidden in the scriptures about the Most High or Highest?

The answer to that question is, “no” because the Father is revealed only through Jesus. This really is clearly stated in this verse:

Php 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Php 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Php 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

“Of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, Christ has been given a name that is above every name.”

No one can come to God but by Jesus.

Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Those words are true. No one can, ever has or ever will, come to the Father but by Christ. He is called “the mighty God”, the everlasting Father, and He is also called “the Almighty”. However, these names are all Christ, and He came to reveal to us who the Father is. No one was aware that God had a son, or that it was really the Son with whom they had been dealing in the Old Testament, calling Him Yahweh, and thinking that Yahweh was Christ’s Father, instead of realizing that ‘Yahweh was really Christ Himself. This has to be so because, “No man comes to the Father but by Christ”, and Christ is our ‘Father’.

Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Rev 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

This “Almighty” is not speaking of the heavenly Father of Christ. It is speaking of the same ‘I am’ of Revelation 1:18:

Rev 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

When Christ quoted Psalm 110:1, “The Yahweh said unto my Adon, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool”, Christ is telling us that ‘Adon’ is King David, and King David is calling Christ, Yahweh.

Psa 110:1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Mat 22:41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
Mat 22:42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, [The Son] of David.
Mat 22:43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
Mat 22:44 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
Mat 22:45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
Mat 22:46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any [man] from that day forth ask him any more.

In the New Testament Greek, both times the word ‘lord’ is used it is the Greek word ‘kurios’ translated variously in the King James as Lord, God, master and sir. However, in Psalms the first ‘Lord’ is Yahweh, and ‘Yahweh’ is always translated in all capitals in the King James Version, while the second ‘Lord’ is Adon.

Christ tells us that one of these is King David speaking, and it is evident that King David is not Yahweh. So Adon is King David, and King David is calling Christ, ‘Yahweh’.

That accords with the fact that Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses and many others in the Old Testament, either heard Yahweh’s voice, and several, like Abraham and Moses, even saw Yahweh’s form.

Gen 18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Gen 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
Gen 18:13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

Here we have “the LORD”, the Hebrew in both of these verses is ‘Yahweh’, both “appearing to Abraham” and “speaking unto Abraham”. The same thing is true of Moses many years later:

Exo 6:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exo 6:11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Exo 33:18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
Exo 33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
Exo 33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face [in His glory]: for there shall no man see me [“in My glory], and live.
Exo 33:21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
Exo 33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
Exo 33:23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen [in my glory].

So both Abraham and Moses, and others, saw Yahweh and heard His voice. But concerning His Father Christ tells us this:

Joh 5:37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

It is obvious that the ‘Yahweh’ of the Old Testament was not the father but was Christ all along, speaking for and appearing for His Father whom Christ came to reveal only to those He chose to do so.

Mat 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

It is only through Christ that anyone can hope to ever see the Father. That is what Christ Himself taught.

Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

No one before Christ had ever heard the voice of the Father or seen His form. Here is the really good news! Here is life eternal. It is in the very next verse:

Joh 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Joh 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Joh 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Shew us the Father?

“Seeing the Father” is now no longer a physical matter. It is now a spiritual matter, and our ‘eyes and ears’ are both now a spiritual matter. I hope this all helps you to see that Christ is the Yahweh of the Old Testament who King David called Lord.

Your brother in Christ,
Mike

In What Way is Christ God?

Hi Mike,

This was posted by a person on [a bible forum], what do you make of it? It seems the person replying to the quote believes the kingdom will never be given back to the Father.

“The Kingdom will be handed over to God when our spiritual husband and brother and king, subjects all enemies to it so that they might be subjects OF it.”
WRONG

The LORD said to My Lord, set thee at my Right hand till I make thy enemies thy footstool.
Who is The LORD and who is My Lord (That David spoke of in Psalms)??
Can anyone find a second witness to the Corinthian verse that implies Jesus Christ is subduing all things and then handing it over to the Father???
Can’t be done, because the Corinthian verse is the only witness that gives this convoluted conclusion. Think on the Psalms verse, and God willing it will open your eyes.

Thanks brother,
D____

Hi D____,

Thank you for your question.

If one thinks the word of God is convoluted, then why study it? If on the other hand, one thinks that people’s understanding of God’s Word is “convoluted” and without a “second witness” then that one needs to give the proper understanding of the verse in question or else just confess what they are making obvious; that they do not think God’s Word is infallible. A post like this would not be given the light of day on iswasandwillbe.com. If this man were seeking to know what 1Corinthians 15:20 is saying, or if he were even trying to explain it, then such an attitude would be honored. Speaking of God’s word as if the apostle Paul himself was speaking “convoluted” doctrine contrary to Psalms tells me that this writer does not believe that “the sum or thy word is truth,” which also happens to be in Psalms:

Psa 119:160 The sum of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting. (ISV)

The need for a second witness is a good point. If you don’t even believe that the apostle Paul is an inspired writer and don’t even see the need to explain 1Corinthians 15:20, then you will not be given time or space on IWWB.

One ‘second witness’ for 1 Corinthians 15:20 is the very scripture this man quotes to show it has no second witness:

Psa 110:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

This is way over the head of ‘Peacetroll,’ but there is something in the New Testament which is called “the Christ” of Christ. Look at these few verses:

Act 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

The apostle Peter spoke these words to the Jews in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. Now consider this verse, just a couple of chapters later after the chief priests had begun persecuting the church at Jerusalem:

Act 4:26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

This word ‘Christ’ means simply ‘anointed.’ All priests are ‘anointed’ to be of service for God to His people. Now here is what Christ tells us about who we are to Him:

Joh 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

“As My Father hath sent me SO send I you.” What did the Father send Christ to do? He sent Him to die for His own children. And what has Christ sent us to do? He sent us to lay down our lives for our brothers:

Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

This is not speaking of taking a bullet for a friend. It could well include that, but it is far broader in its application than that. We must “present [our] bodies a living sacrifice…”

Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Like Christ, we, too, as the christ of Christ, are sent “AS His Father hath sent Him” to present our bodies a living sacrifice…” for our brothers. Here now is how we do that, and this is what ‘Peacetroll’ is totally unaware of as he teaches that Christ is both the Son and the Father:

Col 1:24 Now, am I rejoicing in the sufferings on your behalf, and am filling up the things that lack of the tribulations of the Christ, in my flesh, in behalf of his body, which is the assembly, (REV)

‘The tribulations which are lacking of THE Christ’ are fulfilled in us as we present our bodies to God as a living sacrifice by laying down our lives for our friends. Those are the tribulations of THE christ of our Lord Jesus Christ, but THE christ will rule and reign the kingdoms of this world with our Lord Jesus Christ:

Rev 11:15 And, the seventh messenger, sounded; and there came to be loud voices in heaven, saying – The kingdom of the world, hath become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign unto the ages of ages. (REV)

So it takes Christ to fill His Father just as we fill Christ:

Eph 1:3 Blessed, be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing, in the heavenlies, in Christ,

Eph 1:9 making known to us the sacred secret of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him,
Eph 1:10 For an administration of the fulness of the seasons, to reunite for himself (under one head) the all things in the Christ, the things upon the heavens, and the things upon the earth, in him: (REV)

This is probably not for the eyes of ‘Peacetroll,’ but verse ten is definitely another ‘second witness’ to the so-called ‘convoluted’ words of 1 Corinthians 15:28:

1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him [the Lord and His Christ], then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God [the Father] may be all in all.

Both verses are saying virtually the same thing for those with eyes to see and ears to hear. Here again is another verse which makes this same point just a few verses later in Ephesians 1:

Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Christ’s “inheritance… [is] in the saints.”

Eph 1:22 And [the Father] hath put all [things] under his [Christ’s] feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

The church, Christ’s body, is “the fulness of Him [Christ] that fills all in all [His Father].” Here is how Christ put all of this at an earlier time:

Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Joh 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

I hope this gives you a better idea of who is “His christ… THE christ” of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of His Father:

1Co 8:6 But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and [besides this “one God, the Father” there is also] one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

The story of Eve coming out from Adam is the story of Christ coming out from His creator, the Father of Jesus Christ.

Mat 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

According to Christ Himself, He is God in the same sense that “ye are gods.”

Joh 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Joh 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
Joh 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Joh 10:36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

Christ would have had no point to be made if He were saying that He Himself were the Father. That would be like saying ‘Ye are the Father,’ and neither we nor He is the Father, but we are gods, just as Christ was pointing out that He is a God.

So “the Lord says unto my lord sit thou at my right hand until I have made thy enemies thy footstool” applies to “THE Christ” who has been sent by Christ just as His Father sent Him. Besides this, too, is another witness to that Truth:

1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

Mike

[The next study in the Gospels in Harmony series is here.]