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While the Pharisees were still there, Jesus asked them,
“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose family will he come from?”
They answered, “He will be a son of King David.”
Jesus replied, “How then could the Spirit lead David to call the Messiah his Lord? David said,
‘The Lord said to my Lord:
Sit at my right side
until I make your enemies
into a footstool for you.’
If David called the Messiah his Lord, how can the Messiah be a son of King David?”
No one was able to give Jesus an answer, and from that day on, no one dared ask him any more questions.
Matthew 22:41-46
The first question Jesus asked the Pharisees was easy to answer. It was the second question that stumped them.
Even today when you come to Jesus and ask Him a question He sometimes answers the question with another question. The questions that Jesus asks us are convicting and probing and go right to the heart of our lost condition. When Jesus asks a question it exposes my secret sin and reveals my desperate need of a Savior!
In every courtroom in the land lawyers ask questions designed to make the witness look foolish. Jesus doesn't try to make me look foolish, but He does expose my foolishness.
I believe for every one of us there is a question that Jesus would ask that we cannot answer. When Jesus stops you short with the unanswerable question what do you do? The Pharisees simply cut short the conversation and wiggled out of the situation. But if you would be His disciple then ask Jesus to give you the answer to His question! That will be a point of coming to understand more of the depth of God Himself and of your walk with Jesus.
Finally, we must be reminded once again that Jesus not only knows the answer to the question He asks, but He Himself is the answer to every question! Amen.
“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose family will he come from?”
They answered, “He will be a son of King David.”
Jesus replied, “How then could the Spirit lead David to call the Messiah his Lord? David said,
‘The Lord said to my Lord:
Sit at my right side
until I make your enemies
into a footstool for you.’
If David called the Messiah his Lord, how can the Messiah be a son of King David?”
No one was able to give Jesus an answer, and from that day on, no one dared ask him any more questions.
Matthew 22:41-46
The first question Jesus asked the Pharisees was easy to answer. It was the second question that stumped them.
Even today when you come to Jesus and ask Him a question He sometimes answers the question with another question. The questions that Jesus asks us are convicting and probing and go right to the heart of our lost condition. When Jesus asks a question it exposes my secret sin and reveals my desperate need of a Savior!
In every courtroom in the land lawyers ask questions designed to make the witness look foolish. Jesus doesn't try to make me look foolish, but He does expose my foolishness.
I believe for every one of us there is a question that Jesus would ask that we cannot answer. When Jesus stops you short with the unanswerable question what do you do? The Pharisees simply cut short the conversation and wiggled out of the situation. But if you would be His disciple then ask Jesus to give you the answer to His question! That will be a point of coming to understand more of the depth of God Himself and of your walk with Jesus.
Finally, we must be reminded once again that Jesus not only knows the answer to the question He asks, but He Himself is the answer to every question! Amen.
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