Hour of Power & Word Alive – Wednesday – December 21^st 2011

UGW Discipleship – Lesson #3

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What does it mean that Jesus is the Son of Man – John 5:22-30

• A first meaning of the phrase “Son of Man” is as a reference to the prophecy of Daniel 7:13-14.

• The description “Son of Man” was a Messianic title. Jesus is the One who was given dominion and glory and a kingdom. Jesus was proclaiming Himself as the Messiah.

• A second meaning of the phrase “Son of Man” is that Jesus was truly a human being. God called the prophet Ezekiel “son of man” 93 times. God was simply calling Ezekiel a human being. A son of a man is a man.

• Jesus is referred to as the “Son of Man” 88 times in the New Testament.

• Jesus was fully God (John 1:1), but He was also a human being (John 1:14).

• Jesus was the Son of God—He was in His essence God. Jesus was also the Son of Man—He was in His essence a human being. In summary, the phrase “Son of Man” indicates that Jesus is the Messiah and that He is truly a human being.

What does it mean that Jesus is the Son of God – Luke 1:34-38 & John 1:43-51

• Jesus is not God’s Son in the sense of a human father and a son. God did not get married and have a son. God did not mate with Mary and, together with her, produce a son. Jesus is God’s Son in the sense that He is God made manifest in human form (John 1:1, 14).

• Jesus is God’s Son in that He was conceived in Mary by the Holy Spirit. Luke 1:35 declares, “The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.’”

• Hebrews 1:3 states – “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being”

• The Son of God represents equality with God. He is God in the Flesh.

• Christ was the Son of God before his incarnation, and that his claim to this title is a claim of equality with God – Rom. 1:3; Gal. 4:4; John 1:1–14; John 5:18–25; John 10:30–38