At one level the title Son of God belonged officially to the Messiah who personified the nation of Israel. - Ex. 4:22; Ps. 89:27 - There was nothing merely official about Jesus' consciousness of being the Son of God. He taught His disciples to think of God and to speak to Him as their Father. But He did not link them with Himself in this relationship and speak to them of 'our Father'-yours and mine. The truth expressed in His words in John 20:17 is implied throughout His teaching: Jesus said to Mary, 'Do not cling to me because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and find the brothers and tell them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God'.
As the Son of God in a special sense, Jesus made Himself known to the apostle Paul on the Damascus Road. Paul said, 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. - Gal. 1:15-16 - The proclamation of Jesus as the Son of God was central to Paul's preaching.
After he had spent only a few days with the disciples in Damascus, he began preaching in the synagogues, "Jesus is the Son of God". - Acts 9:20 -
Do you really think that when I am making my plans, my motives are ordinary human ones and that I say Yes, yes and No, no, at the same time? I swear by God's truth, there is no Yes and No about what we say to you. The Son of God, the Christ Jesus that we proclaimed among you - I mean Silvanus and Timothy and I - was never Yes and No: with him it was always Yes, and however many the promises God made, the Yes to them all is in him. That is why it is 'through him' that we answer Amen to the praise of God. Remember it is God himself who assures us all, and you, of our standing in Christ, and has anointed us, marking us with his seal and giving us the pledge, the Spirit, that we carry in our hearts. - 2Cor. 1:17-22 -
When Jesus is presented as the Son of God in the New Testament, two aspects of His person are emphasized: His eternal relation to God as His Father and His perfect revelation of the Father to the human race. Jesus' perfect revelation of the Father is expressed when He is described as the Word of God. - 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. - Prov. 3:19 - In the New Testament, Christ is portrayed as the personal Wisdom of God - 1Cor. 1:24,30 - the one through whom all things were created.
Still for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things come and for whom we exist; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come and through whom we exist. - 1Cor. 8:6 -
He is the image of the unseen God
and the first-born of all creation,
for in him were created
all things in heaven and on earth:
everything visible and everything invisible,
Thrones, Dominions, Sovereignty, Powers-
all things were created through him and for him. - Col. 1:15-16 -
At various times in the past and in various different ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but in our own time, the last days, he has spoken to us through his Son, the Son that he has appointed to inherit everything and through whom he made everything there is. - Heb. 1:1-2 -
The Holy One of God title was given to Jesus by Peter - John 6:69 - and remarkably, by a demon possessed man. - Mark 1;24 - And in their preaching, the apostles called Jesus "the Holy One and the Just" - Acts 3:14 - This was a name belonging to Him as the Messiah, indicating He was especially set apart for God. This title also emphasized His positive goodness and His complete dedication to the doing of His Father's will. Mere, 'sinlessness' in the sense of the absence of any fault, is a pale quality in comparison to the unsurpassed power for righteousness which filled His life and teaching.
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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 -
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