Questions... questions

Questions...When the fullness of the times had come, God sent forth His Son...

Luke, chapter 20 records some of the final conflicts between Israel’s authorities and the Incarnate Son of the Living God. "And the chief priests and the scribes that very hour sought to lay hands on Him, but they feared the people—for they knew He had spoken this parable against them. So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on His words, in order to deliver Him to the power and the authority of the governor." (Luke 20:19-20, NKJV)

The chief priests and scribes sought to either excite government intervention or a popular rejection by laying before Jesus the landmine questions of their day:

~How are we to behave towards the Roman occupation? Pay their taxes or not? Is it religiously lawful? Answer ‘yes’; lose popularity. Answer ‘no’; be arrested.

~Why would any intelligent person believe in a resurrection? It isn’t reasonable; Moses didn’t teach it. With this question they hoped to portray Jesus as a fool before the crowds. Jesus, our Lord, deftly swept away their most clever challenges, exposing their false piety, false intellectualism, and their stubborn disbelief.

Although they were greatly concerned with the questions of politics and intellectual integrity, they were scarcely concerned with the most important question both in their day and in ours—who is the Christ, just a man or Lord of all? Jesus asked them, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “The Son of David.” He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’?" (Matthew 22:42-44, NKJV)

So who is the Christ--just a man or the Lord of all? Answer correctly by faith; inherit eternal life. Fail to answer; spend eternity in hell. Tragically they could not or would not answer that question...WILL YOU?