Jesus: THE Son of Man

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For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. John 5:26-27  #jesus #Messiah #salvation #TheSonOfMan #TheSonOfGod   https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/christians-issues/jesus-the-son-of-man/

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00:00Third point is that the Son of Man title enforces Jesus' status as a divine person.

00:07Going back to that passage I read to you from Ezekiel.

00:11Ezekiel may have been a Son of Man, but Jesus is the Son of Man.

00:16And you read when you look in the New Testament, you find that it's always the Son of Man.

00:20He's not a Son of Man. He defines himself as the Son of Man.

00:24And as such, the Son of Man means that he is the supreme example of all that God intended humanity to be.

00:32The embodiment of truth and grace.

00:35What human beings should have been before the fall.

00:39In communication with God.

00:41In total obedience and submission to God while here on the earth.

00:50And that was what Jesus was. He was totally in obedience and submission to God.

00:54He was totally in communication with God all the time that he was here on the earth.

01:00And he was the supreme example of all that God intended the human race to be.

01:05He was the embodiment of God's truth, God's truth.

01:09And a couple of scriptures will tell you about this.

01:11One we've already read.

01:12The Word became flesh.

01:13John chapter 1.

01:15The Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us.

01:17We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father.

01:20Full of grace and truth.

01:24Colossians chapter 2.

01:25In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead in bodily form.

01:29That's an absolutely clear statement.

01:32It means that when Jesus appeared in bodily form, all the fullness of God was in him.

01:37He was fully God all the time that he was appearing in human form.

01:41We looked last week at the passage in Mark's Gospel where it says,

01:46The Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins.

01:50Remember that story where they bring a paralytic into Jesus and he says to the paralytic,

01:57Man, Son, your sins are forgiven.

02:02And the scribes who were sitting there said in their hearts,

02:04Why does this man speak blasphemies?

02:06Who can forgive sins but God alone?

02:08They're correcting that.

02:10Who can forgive sins but God alone?

02:12Only God can forgive sins.

02:13So Jesus says, Your sins are forgiven you.

02:17Either he's telling the truth or he's ascribing to himself something which is untrue.

02:22So Jesus perceived in his spirit their reason thus within themselves.

02:27And he said to them, Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?

02:30Which is easier to say to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven you?

02:34Or to say, Arise and take up your bed and walk?

02:38So which is the easier thing to say?

02:40To say, not to do.

02:41To say.

02:42Which one's the easier thing to say?

02:45The easier thing to say is, Your sins are forgiven you.

02:48Because if your sins are not forgiven you, you don't know any of the difference, do you?

02:52The harder thing to say is to the paralytic, Rise up and walk.

02:56If he doesn't rise up and walk, then you know that the other one is not true either.

03:01Okay?

03:02So Jesus says the harder thing to the paralytic, he says, Rise up and walk.

03:06So he says that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins.

03:10He said to the paralytic, I say to you, Take up your bed, go to your house.

03:14Immediately he rose, took up his bed, and went out in the presence of them all,

03:19so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, We never saw anything like this.

03:24So you see, the second thing there, the harder thing to say, Rise up and walk,

03:28confirms the first thing, Your sins are forgiven you.

03:31If your sins are not forgiven you, then the paralytic's going to lie there on the ground.

03:36So Jesus demonstrates clearly that he has the power of God to forgive sins.

03:44Notice he says, The Son of Man has the power of God to forgive sins.

03:48So he's using there the Son of Man title, but he's using it in a way which affirms his divinity.

03:54And if you look through many of the use of the word Son of Man by the Lord Jesus,

03:59it's actually somehow affirming his divinity.

04:01It says he's the Lord of the Sabbath.

04:04According to Judaism, God gave the Sabbath, so if he's the Lord of the Sabbath,

04:07he's God who gave the Sabbath.

04:10He came to save lives, not to destroy them.

04:13The Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

04:16How can he save them?

04:18Only if he has the power of God to save them.

04:25And in John chapter 5, verse 27, we read,

04:31I say to you, the hour is now coming, now is when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God.

04:36Those who hear will live.

04:39For the Father has life in himself,

04:41so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.

04:47He's given him authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of Man.

04:51Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice.

04:57Come forth, those who have done good to the resurrection of life,

05:00those who have done evil to the resurrection of damnation.

05:03Can you see in that scripture it uses the two phrases, the Son of God and the Son of Man.

05:07First of all, the dead are going to hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.

05:13In other words, there's going to be a general resurrection.

05:16And there will be a general resurrection of both the wicked and the saved.

05:20The wicked will go to the wrong place, the hell, the righteous will go to the right place.

05:25But there will be a general resurrection and they will hear the voice of the Son of God.

05:28So everyone's going to hear the voice of the Son of God and live.

05:32At that point, there will be no more atheists.

05:37But he says that the Father has given the Son the right to execute judgment because he is the Son of Man.

05:45Okay, so you've got the two phrases there, Son of God, Son of Man.

05:48And he executes judgment, which only God can do in his role as the Son of Man.

05:54So why has he got the right to do that?

05:57He's got the right to do that because he has lived as a man on the earth.

06:00He's faced all the temptations, all the difficulties which we've faced and overcome them.

06:05And he has laid down his life as a sacrifice for the sin of the world and risen from the dead.

06:09Therefore, he has the right now to judge people on the basis of truth of the Word of God

06:16and to cause those who are saved to go to the right place, those who are not saved to go to the wrong place.

06:23That's why we have to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and he's the only one who can open up the door of heaven to us.

06:28So this scripture, particularly this one in John, is the absolute proof that the Son of Man title is equal to the Son of God.

06:38It's not saying he's lesser, he's just some kind of glorified human being.

06:42It's saying that the Son of Man is also the same person as the Son of God.

06:47In other words, Jesus is both Son of Man and Son of God and they are both divine titles.

06:52The Son of Man just emphasizes his humanity, but it doesn't take away from his divinity.

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