Son of God / Son of Man



Son of God / Son of Man

 

Why do you suppose Christ rarely called Himself “The Son of God”… and usually only in response to a direct question of who He was.  He mostly referred to Himself as “son of man"?

 

Usually,  after hearing about all of the miracles, healings, deliverances, and raising the dead that Christ did, people respond to it merely as a matter of course for “The Son of God".  He can do all things since He, after all,  is The Messiah…. Is God come in the flesh to Earth.  Through Him and by Him were all things created… and He upholds all things by the Word of His power.

 

BUT… He was very careful to remind us that He was “Son of Man.”

 

Do you suppose that He repeatedly said that to let us know that He didn’t do all that as just the Son of God, but rather worked all the works of His Father, demonstrating His Kingdom…

as a SON OF MAN… 

a human… 

as one walking this Earth as flesh and blood… 

so He could ultimately say, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father” (Jn 14:12)

 

We do all that He does here on this Earth,  demonstrating the Kingdom of God is at hand -present-  as son of God AND son of man…. Just as Christ… the firstborn of many brethren. (Rom 8:29)

 

He became “son of man" so we could be a “son of God.”

 

1 John 3:1–2  “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, NOW are we the SONS OF GOD, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

 

1 John 4:17…because “as he IS,

SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD!”

 

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