When Christ had answered with exceeding wisdom and extreme love all the cunning questions of the Sadducees and Pharisees, he overcame them completely, and no one dared to ask him or tempt him anymore. Then he began to ask his hearers his decisive question about his essence and his truth. He did not ask them to worship to him because of his miracles, but asked them to believe in him on the basis of his knowledge of the biblical promises of God to David.
Since the Babylonian captivity the Jews’ doctrine of monotheism developed into a state of motionlessness that they became deaf to God’s promises to the prophets about the divinity of the coming Christ. They expected a political king sent by God, and at the same time, they regarded Christ’s title "the Son of God" as a great blasphemy, for God is one.
Jesus approached his innermost essence, and asked the all people about the meaning of the promise of the Holy Spirit to David in (Psalms 110:1) where the royal prophet listened in the spirit of prophecy to a conversation within the persons of the Holy Trinity, when the Lord spoke to the Lord. With these words Jesus, once again, declared his divinity, and his birth of the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary, knowing that he would be crucified only because of this divine root.
The hard hearts of the Jews did not open to the drawing of the Holy Spirit, but they became harder and harder. They became enemies of the Son of God. Christ’s mentioning of this verse from the Book of Psalms signifies the severest condemnation on the Jews, and at the same time a prophecy of his death, resurrection, ascension to heaven, and sitting at the right hand of his Father. Jesus used this authoritative word once again before the Sanhedrin as a testimony to himself and condemnation on the Jewish nation: "You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power." The judges considered this declaration as serious blasphemy, for the Prisoner asked them as the Son of God to submit to him immediately, and condemned them. This verse said that after his death the holy God would defeat them, and bind all the enemies of Christ, and make them his footstool.
Christ did not give up any hairbreadth of his complete divinity, for the world’s reconciliation with God, our justification by faith, and the complete salvation to everyone depend on this point. Do you believe that Christ is the Son of the living God, or do you join the enemies of him who was raised from the dead, who sits today at the right hand of God in the throne of his glory, abiding in his Father, and he in him, and reigning with him, one God forever.
If your mind did not recognize these facts, as your Lord for the power of faith, and the illumination of the Holy Spirit, for without this anointment no one can call Christ "Lord."
But whoever denies him who is anointed and born of the Spirit of God, sees God coming on him as a fearful enemy. Why do the people who refuse the Son of God marvel if they were torn by the wrath of the Eternal One who makes all the enemies of Christ his footstool? The characteristic feature of every antichrist spirit is that he denies the divinity of Jesus with rage, and persecutes all those who believe in him who is born of the Spirit of God. Do you worship to your Savior, and thank him for the salvation of your soul, or will you feel shortly his coming and be among his enemies whom he makes his footstool, confessing forcibly, with your teeth gnashing that Jesus is the Lord?