... we’re going to look at the title of Son of Man. If you read through the gospels, you’ll find that Jesus preferred to use this title for himself. It is used 85 times referring to Jesus in the New Testament. And it says specifically ‘the Son of Man’, not just ‘son of man’, ‘the Son of Man. That’s important.
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00:00Okay, we looked at that last week, so now we're going to look at the title of Son of Man.
00:06If you read through the Gospels, you'll find that Jesus preferred to use this title for himself.
00:1185 times it's used of Jesus in the New Testament.
00:15And specifically it says the Son of Man.
00:17Not just Son of Man, the Son of Man. That's important, we're going to tell you why in a moment.
00:22And there are certain implications of the title Son of Man.
00:26One, Jesus is fully human, means he is a real human being.
00:31He can experience the things which you and I experience.
00:34He is able to experience tiredness, hunger, all of those things, pain.
00:40He can experience those things because he is a real human being.
00:45It's also a title of humility because it means that he humbled himself, he took upon human flesh in order
00:51to redeem us.
00:52He left the glories of heaven to become man amongst us.
00:56It is also the title of deity.
00:58And we're going to show that when Jesus uses the phrase the Son of Man,
01:02he is actually using it to affirm the fact that he is also Son of God, that he is God
01:09himself.
01:11And in one particular prophecy, which is very important, which we'll look at in the book of Daniel,
01:17the coming of the Son of Man is a fulfillment of prophecy,
01:20which is going to be fulfilled at the second coming of Jesus, and which also points to his deity.
01:26Okay, so let's look at the Son of Man title.
01:29So on the basic level, it is a focus on his humanity.
01:34It's a phrase which is used in the Old Testament as well, particularly in the book of Ezekiel.
01:39Son of Man, then Adam.
01:42Adam means man in the sense of human being, so that obviously includes women as well.
01:48So when you hear the word Adam, meaning man in the Bible, we're not being discriminated against the ladies.
01:54We're just saying that that is a title used in the Bible for humanity.
02:00Adam as the first man, then Adam.
02:03Interesting, we look in the book of Ezekiel.
02:05Ezekiel in the first chapter has a vision of God, and he sees this amazing vision.
02:13He sees also a man above the firmament, and it includes in verse 28 of Ezekiel 1.
02:28So in that sense, Son of Man is in contrast to what he's just seen, which is the glory of
02:42God.
02:43So he's seen the glory of God, he's seen the power of God, he's seen, actually has seen a man
02:48raised up in this vision of glory.
02:51It doesn't define who that man is, but he sees him in some kind of human form, and then the
02:56voice speaks to him as Son of Man.
02:58So he's speaking to him as a human being, he's in contrast to the great God, which you've just seen.
03:05So on the most basic level, you could say that Son of Man is a title speaking to a human
03:11being, someone in human form.
03:13Now people in error, and there are many of them, say, well that means that Jesus was just a man.
03:18I remember before I became a Christian, actually, there was a film which came on the telly which had the
03:23title Son of Man.
03:25And I watched it, and it showed this person who was supposed to be Jesus, and he was kind of
03:28a conflicted man who had all sorts of doubts and fears,
03:31and he was kind of not the Jesus which you'd read in the Bible, it really was just a man.
03:38And although I wasn't a Christian, I said, this film is wrong, there's something wrong with this film, I don't.
03:42I think this is the right Jesus.
03:45I was a bit perplexed when the vicar who my parents went to the church went to, and he said
03:49he thought it was a good film.
03:50I thought, hang on.
03:52That vicar was later when I became a real Christian, was to actually sort of try and put me down
03:56and say I was in the wrong position.
03:58So he was a right modernist, if you like, liberal.
04:01And you get a lot of that in the Christian church today, just putting Jesus down as a man.
04:06Now that's what we've got in Islam.
04:07They just say that Jesus was a prophet, but not son of God.
04:11It's totally wrong.
04:12And the fact that he was son of man doesn't mean he was not all those other things.
04:17But it does mean he was literally a man.
04:20And as we read in John chapter 1, verse 4, 14,
04:25The Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us.
04:27We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
04:32So John has already defined who the Word is.
04:34He said the Word was with God, the Word was God, all things were made through him.
04:38When he speaks about the Word, he's speaking about God who was there in creation.
04:41He's saying here that the Word became flesh, the Word became a man,
04:44and we saw him, he beheld his glory, and he dwelt amongst us.
04:49So when we saw Jesus, we saw a man, but we also saw a man who embodied the glory of
04:55God.
04:57And as in 1 John, verse 4, it says,
05:01Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God.
05:05Every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.
05:09This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming and is now already in the world.
05:16So a sign of the spirit of God is it's going to confess that Jesus has come in the flesh,
05:20that he is literally a man, but he is also Son of God with us.
05:25If you don't confess that, you're not of God.
05:28And he says that this spirit of Antichrist is already in the world,
05:32and it's been manifested in many ways in the times to come.
05:36If you know anything about history, you know that there was a group of people
05:39who emerged in the first century after the beginning of Christianity called the Gnostics.
05:45They wrote various Gospels, which were discovered not so long ago,
05:49and they gave their philosophy.
05:51When you looked into their philosophy, it was heretical.
05:53It wasn't true.
05:54It was the kind of thing one John was actually warning you against.
05:57One of the things they said was that when Jesus appeared as a man,
06:00one, sometimes you could touch him and you felt him really there,
06:04other times your hand went straight through him as though he was not really there.
06:08One of the other Gospels says that Jesus didn't die on the cross, literally,
06:13but somebody who was like him was put on the cross,
06:15and the real Jesus was in the spirit laughing at the one dying on the cross.
06:20Totally heretical, totally wrong teaching.
06:22And what it's denying is that Jesus Christ came in the flesh.
06:26Do you have any other group of people who took on that idea?
06:29The Muslims.
06:30It goes straight into the Koran, which tells me one of the origins of Islam
06:34actually is not from Muhammad going into a cave and getting a message from God.
06:38It's actually a combination of all kinds of false teachings
06:41which were put together much later than Muhammad
06:44and is basically of the spirit of Antichrist.
06:48We also have it in New Age ideas.
06:50The New Age idea is that the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of Christ,
06:54the Christ spirit came upon a man called Jesus at his baptism,
06:59anointed him for his ministry,
07:01and then when he died on the cross it left him.
07:04And it could come on other people at other times.
07:06So you have the Hindu idea of avatars,
07:08which is that you can have a Messiah for your time,
07:11a Messiah for other times.
07:13And some of the New Ages are looking for a Messiah to come to our time,
07:16that the spirit of Christ will come upon him,
07:17and he'll be the Christ who will be the one who will bring the world to rights.
07:23Again, that's false teaching.
07:24It's false Christ, false prophets, which Jesus warned about.
07:28The spirit of Christ, the spirit of Messiah,
07:30was upon Jesus from the moment of his conception,
07:33right through to his death on the cross,
07:35when he surrendered his spirit to the Father,
07:38and then the spirit came back into the body on the third day
07:42and he rose again from the dead.
07:45It's false teaching to say that things which I've just told you from the New Age.
07:51So we have to understand, first of all, that Jesus was fully man
07:54and God came, he was God from the beginning,
07:58but he was literally a man,
08:00a man who appeared in that form and who lived amongst us.
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