When Jesus made His declaration before the high priest and His colleagues, He did so in response to the question: "Are You the Christ the Son of the Blessed?" - Mark 14:61 - He replied, "I am" - Mark 14:62 - 'The words are your own, answered Jesus, - Matt. 26:64 -

The Christ was the MESSIAH, the Son of David. Jesus belonged to the family of David. He was proclaimed as the Messiah of David's line both before His birth and after His resurrection but He was slow to make messianic claims. The reason for this is that the ideas associated with the Messiah in the minds of the Jewish people were quite different from the character and purpose of His ministry. Thus, He refused to give them any encouragement.

When at Caesarea, Philippi, Peter confessed Jesus to be the Messiah, Jesus directed him and his fellow disciples to tell no one that He was the Christ. After His death and resurrection, however, the concept of Messiah-ship among His followers was transformed by what He was and did. Then He could safely be proclaimed as Messiah, God's Anointed King, resurrected in glory to occupy the throne of the universe.

Jesus was acclaimed as the Son of God at His baptism. - Mark 1:11 - He was also given this title by the angel Gabriel at the annunciation: "That Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God". - Luke 1:35 - The Gospel of John especially makes it clear that the Father-Son relationship belongs to eternity-that the Son is supremely qualified to reveal the Father because He has His eternal being "in the bosom of the Father". - John 1:18 - At one level the title Son of God belonged officially to the Messiah who personified the nation of Israel. "Israel is My Son, My firstborn", said God to Pharaoh. - Ex. 4:22 - Of the promised prince of the house of David, God declared, "I will make him MY firstborn". - Ps. 89:27 -

As the Son of God in special sense, Jesus made Himself known to the apostle Paul on the Damascus Road. Paul said, "It pleased God...to reveal His son in me".
Then God who had specially chosen me while I was still in my mother's womb called me through his grace and chose to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach the Good News about him to the pagans. I did not stop to discuss this with any human being nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were already apostles before me but I went off to Arabia at once and later went straight back from there to Damascus. - Gal. 1:15-17 - The proclamation of Jesus as the Son of God was central to Paul's preaching. - Acts 9:20; 2Cor. 1:19 -

When Jesus is presented as the Son of God in the New Testament: His eternal relation to God as His Father, and His perfect revelation of the Father to the human race and His person are emphasized.

Jesus' perfect revelation of the Father is also expressed when He is described as the Word (logos) of God. The Word is the self-expression of God; that self-expression has personal status, existing eternally with God. The Word by which God created the world and by which He spoke through the prophets "became flesh" in the fullness of time, living among men and women as Jesus of Nazareth. - John 1:1-18 -

Much that is said in the Old Testament about the Word of God is paralleled by what is said of the Wisdom of God: "The Lord by wisdom founded the earth". - Prov. 3:19 - In the New Testament Christ is portrayed as the personal Wisdom of God, the one through whom all things were created. - 1Cor. 1:24, 30; 8:6; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -