Luke: Part 13 – Jesus is the King, Son of David
As we come to Christmas Eve, the celebration of the coming of Jesus Christ, we reflect on all that Luke reports about who Jesus is. He is the Son of God, acknowledged as such, by God the Father, on the day of His baptism. And at time of His conception, the Angel Gabriel told his mother, “behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” Luke gives numerous testimonies that Jesus is indeed, the promised Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed One. Jesus is the hope and the desire of Israel. It is not just his miracles, and it is not just his authoritative preaching, that prove he is the Promised one, Luke is careful to document Christ’s lineage. In Christ’s lineage, Luke writes, David was the son of Jesse. Jesse was the son of Obed, Obed was the son of Boaz, Boaz was the son of Salmon. This Christmas we celebrate the birth of the King who is none other than the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Saint Paul writes, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.