The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
David spoke by the Spirit of inspiration when he called the Messiah his Lord, even though the Messiah was also his son. The title son of David was given to the Messiah in prophecy, yet that title alone does not express his full identity. He is both David's son by human descent and David's Lord, for in his divine character he is the Son of God and not merely a human descendant.
The command to sit at God's right hand gives him the place of honor and shows his authority and divine status. With it comes the promise that his enemies will be subdued beneath him as a footstool until that work is complete. David prophetically saw Christ enter heaven and take his place at God's right hand. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost showed that the crucified Jesus had received authority in heaven and on earth as priest and king, the Anointed One over his people.
Jesus used David's words to confront his hearers with the need to recognize the Messiah as more than a human descendant of David, exposing the insufficiency of that title alone, and they could not answer him. The enthroned Christ will be the Judge in the judgment, and his coming in the clouds will reveal his authority and triumph, for the one who stood before his judges will then judge. The verse belongs to Jesus' warnings about rejecting the Son of God, which apply in every age, so that whoever refuses to receive Christ as Redeemer faces the doom foreshadowed by the examples Jesus gave unless he repents.
David spoke by the Spirit of inspiration when he called the Messiah his Lord, even though the Messiah was also his son. The title son of David was given to the Messiah in prophecy, yet that title alone does not express his full identity. He is both David's son by human descent and David's Lord, for in his divine character he is the Son of God and not merely a human descendant.
The command to sit at God's right hand gives him the place of honor and shows his authority and divine status. With it comes the promise that his enemies will be subdued beneath him as a footstool until that work is complete. David prophetically saw Christ enter heaven and take his place at God's right hand. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost showed that the crucified Jesus had received authority in heaven and on earth as priest and king, the Anointed One over his people.
Jesus used David's words to confront his hearers with the need to recognize the Messiah as more than a human descendant of David, exposing the insufficiency of that title alone, and they could not answer him. The enthroned Christ will be the Judge in the judgment, and his coming in the clouds will reveal his authority and triumph, for the one who stood before his judges will then judge. The verse belongs to Jesus' warnings about rejecting the Son of God, which apply in every age, so that whoever refuses to receive Christ as Redeemer faces the doom foreshadowed by the examples Jesus gave unless he repents.