The Power of Jesus' Names: Son of God and Son of Man | Tony Evans Sermon

I am what I was I was not what I am now but now I am called both I am what I was I was not what I am now but now I am called both I am what I was the son of God I was not what I am now the son of man but now I'm called both the Son of God and the Son of man in that simple syllogism we have summarized two names of Jesus that we find in Scripture the son of God and the Son of Man in our study we've been looking at the names of Jesus and what they mean and why they matter and these two names given to Jesus Christ are staggering in their meaning and in their impact and relevance to our lives when we talk about Jesus being the Son of God and the Son of Man we are talking about him equally partaking of two natures the word son does not refer to the fact of origin from a previous source although that is true of his humanity the word son refers to the sharing of the same nature and the fulfilling of a particular task or role the Bible declares that Jesus Christ is both the Son of God and the Son of Man equally that is he has a divine nature son of God and he has a human nature son of man and both nature's are resident in one person the person of Jesus Christ to be the son of God means he has divine nature to have divine nature means to have divine attributes so all the attributes that make God God Jesus possesses so all that is true of God is true of Jesus because Jesus has God's nature God is omnipotent omnipresent omniscient veracity grace mercy justice wrath all of those things are true of God but since Jesus has his nature Jesus possesses all of those attributes one of the other aspects of God's nature is his eternality there has never been a time when God has not been since Jesus bears his nature then Jesus Christ is as eternal as God is which is why when we looked at Jesus the word it could say in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God and the word became flesh so all that makes God God is resident in Jesus but not only is Jesus the Son of God he is the son of man so all that makes human beings human beings is resident in Jesus apart from sin he got tired like any human being gets tired he had sleep like any human being has to go to sleep he had to eat like any human being has to get nutrition from their food he had to weep because people cried he had to be tempted by the devil because temptation is what the devil does to human beings all the things that make people people Jesus possessed in his humanity but he possessed it apart from sin how could Jesus be fully God bearing all the attributes of deity and fully man bearing all the attributes of humanity how could both be side by side in one person the answer to that is the virgin birth the Bible says that the seed of a woman married was fertilized by the sperm of the Holy Spirit that Joseph was not a part of the process but Mary being a virgin found herself pregnant it says by the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit is the third member of the Trinity He is God so God impregnated a woman by fertilizing her egg but a woman is human so how humanity and God's deity came together to create the most unique person ever to enter into human history and that is the person of Jesus Christ so that he can be called son of God and Son of Man because both nature's were resident in one person made possible by the virgin birth now there is a question since Mary is a sinner and since Jesus is human bearing human DNA how did sin keep from getting to Jesus since Mary is human like every other sinful person well it was the role of the Holy Spirit to not only fertilize Mary's egg but to protect the human nature of Mary from transferring Mary sin nature over to Jesus Christ so the Holy Spirit's job was not only to provide the divine substance for Jesus's human birth but to provide the divine protection so when the birth took place the sin nature didn't transfer with it there's an aside here the reason why you can trust that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God that is it was recorded and inspired without human error even though men were involved in the writing of it is because the Bible says that the Holy Spirit oversaw those who are writing the words to make sure that while he covered their writing nothing got in that shouldn't be in there nothing was left out that should have been included so just as the Holy Spirit protected Jesus from having sin in his humanity the same Holy Spirit protected the Bible from any errors transferring to it and that is why we can have confidence in both the living and written word of God so what we have now is Jesus being the Son of God and the son of man he is called the only begotten Son for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son only begotten means uniquely one-of-a-kind class by himself nobody like him there is only one of him that's why you can't have multiple messiahs that's why you can't have multiple deities because Jesus only had God only has one of a kind son and that one is the one who is both Son of God and Son of Man we saw in the verse that I read in John chapter 5 verse 18 that the Jewish leaders clearly understood what he was saying when he called God his father says they sought to kill him because he made himself equal with God they understood that when he said God was his father he was calling he was saying I have God's nature and you can't have God's nature and not be God but there is another concept of the word son son is sourced in the nature from which it derives Jesus has divine nature Jesus has human nature they are unmixed walking side by side in one person that's why I could say last week one moment he could be hungry the next moment he could feed 5,000 one moment he could be thirsty the next moment he could walk on water one moment he could die then he could rise from the dead because you got to nature's operating side-by-side in one person now in addition to the two natures the word son indicates a function a function for example we have coming out of our ministry what we call sons of the ministry they're not biological children but they have been ordained by our church to be able to go authorized by us and minister to another location to another church in another ministry and we call them sons of the Ministry not because there is a biological attachment but because there is a ministry function and because of that ministry function they are viewed as sons of the Ministry Paul called Timothy his son in the ministry he wasn't Paul's biological son but he was his minister cereal son designed to fulfill a ministerial responsibility when we refer to Jesus as the Son of God and the son of man he not only possesses the nature of both but he is carrying out a responsibility for both he is fulfilling a job description on behalf of God and on behalf of us so as son of God he is fulfilling what the father says and as son of man he is fulfilling what you and I need and as a result he can do both in one person cuz the one person has both operating inside of him so when we talk about Jesus we talk about a whole lot more than a name we're talking about two natures and two ministerial responsibilities residing in one person now that I finished the introduction remember Philip Phillipa in John chapter 14 verses 7 through 11 develop comes to Jesus and and and Philips been walking with Jesus and Philip says well well we've been walking with you and all that's nice but when we gonna see the Father we wanna see the big Maha's let me go see the main guy and Jesus says to him have I been with you so long you still don't get it when you have seen me you have seen the father see they still didn't get it that Jesus Christ was not merely a mere man he was God in the flesh so to see Jesus is to look in the face of God and so so what you have to relate you have to understand this for where we're getting ready to take you so that you understand what is going on in this whole concept now the Bible says in Hebrews 1:3 that Jesus is the exact replica of God but Jesus is God taking a selfie he's God selfie when God wanted to take a picture of himself that we could see Jesus came into the world Hey so he's God's selfie so that we can get a visual of God now the question on the floor is why why these two names in this one person now I'm going to take about 20 hours and condense it to a few moments but hopefully you will watch more God had a plan God has only one plan the whole Bible is about one plan and that is his kingdom that's his plan God has a kingdom up there it's called the kingdom of heaven there's a kingdom up there where he rules there was a rebellion against the kingdom up there by Lucifer who became Satan he rebelled against God and God decided to have a plan of creating a lesser creature an inferior creature Psalm 8 says he made man a little lower than the Angels constitutionally inferior we don't fly like angels can fly we don't disappear like angels can disappear we don't have the mentality of angels we are lowered that is inferior to angels and God decided that he would create a lesser creature and call him man and he we create this lesser creature to demonstrate what he could do with less when less was dependent upon him that he could do with more when more was in rebellion against him so he created an inferior being called man and he placed him on the third planet from the Sun third rock he place it on the third planet from the Sun and he says I want you man to establish my kingdom on earth like it is in heaven you remember the Lord's Prayer thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven now here's the kicker the way my kingdom will work down here like it works up there I will only do through man I will not do it apart from man so God restricted himself not because he couldn't do it but he chose not to do it he only would work through man so he tells Adam okay every tree in the garden before you eat tree in the mistletoe god no eat it because if he did you gonna die Satan dupes Adam and Eve they eat of the fruit so Adam and Eve who's been handed the earth turns the earth over to the devil that's why the Bible says this world lies in the hands of the wicked one Satan owns this world but he only owns the world because Adam handed it to him so God wants his world back but to get his world back he can't do it directly because he restricted himself to only do it through a man so in restricting himself that means he had to find the man to whom he can do it but every man born says Adam failed every man born says Adam did not meet the righteous standard to be the one through whom God could reclaim the earth and bring the kingdom up there and manifest it down here but he has to have a land because he's doing it among men so God gave a prophecy in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 he says that the seed of the woman would the head of the devil the seed of the woman could think it's got to be a human being but it's an interesting prophecy because when it comes to birth it's the man that has the seed and the woman that has the egg but since God knew in advance that the one he was talking about would not have a human father he gives the woman the name of the seed so he says the seed of the woman not the man is going to crush the head of the devil because it's got to come through a human being the problem is where we go find this man who's the seed of a woman who has no sin that's qualifies to bring God's kingdom from heaven to earth so what God decided to do was become a man so he became a man the deity of heaven entered the egg of a woman so now we've got a man without sin because he's the god man so that's why you got a dual name he's the son of God and he's the son of man and he has come to reclaim what the devil stole but he didn't only come to reclaim what the devil stole from the Adam who sinned he came to reclaim what the devil is stealing from you as the god man because the devil has been ripping us off all of us in every category of life he is the thief who comes to steal kill and destroy he is the rip-off artist and this is why I love Hebrews chapter two which says these words they are writer to the to the Saints in Hebrew says in Hebrews 2:14 therefore since the children share in flesh and blood human he himself likewise also partook the same lesson blood that through death he might render powerless him who had the power of death that is the devil and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all of their lives God took on the form of a man because only a man can die you can't kill a spirit so he took the form of a man so man could die but the verse says the reason he died was to render powerless the authority of the devil and the free people love to fulfill the purpose for him putting man here in the first place so Jesus died so that the devil would help no more claims on you me or any other person which means if he if the devil still has claim on you either you are not saying or you don't understand what it means to be saying cuz the reason Jesus died was to take handcuffs off of you by taking the key away from the devil who holds you hostage he says it is to set you free from the power of the devil in fact the only way Christians can be incarcerated by the devil is by trickery he has to make you think you are not free so that you don't function like you are free because he has kept you from understanding what the death of Christ was designed to accomplish say most of us have a limited view of the death of Christ we believe that God became a man son of God son of man to take us to heaven yes he knows yes he died to take you to heaven but he also died and rose to bring heaven to you and to render powerless the authority of the devil oh you are you ought to be excited right that all the devil can do is trick you he can't own you anymore so Jesus is son of God and Son of Man this is why Isaiah 9:6 says unto us a son is given and unto us a child is born the son wasn't born the son was given because the son existed before the child was born the child had to be born and when the child was born he entered into time but the son didn't have to be born because he existed before time so the son could only be given because the son was eternal in nature so the child was born not the son the son was just handed over in the birth process for the birth of a child and when you understand this then you come to understand that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the expectation of human history that there would be a man a human who would bring God's kingdom to earth and that's why Paul's calls him the last Adam cuz the first Adam messed us up but the last Adam brought us back into God's kingdom so here it is you are not just saved to go to heaven you are saved to live out God's kingdom see he saved you for a kingdom purpose in time and an eternal Kingdom purpose forever but it is you salvation only got you into the kingdom door but now you're supposed to be living in the kingdom atmosphere see we're so excited to go to heaven we brag about how nice the door is oh I didn't go on through the door Jesus is the way Jesus says I am the door we got through the door but come on there's a booth there's more to the house than the door okay when you go through the door you enter once you enter there's a living room dining room bedroom closets garage there's a whole lot of stuff to this Kingdom then just getting in it I'm saying okay you made it through the door but there but to make it through the door is just the start we brag about I'm saying on my way to heaven praise God you got a door but you were brought into something bigger than the door you were brought into his house his kingdom his rule his authority his Dominion that's where you're supposed to operating now as son of God and Son of Man now watch this when you accepted Christ Christ came in you and the person of the work of the Holy Spirit he came in you so what came in you he's the son of God in the son of man so that means you got two realities operating inside of you in one person because you have the Son of God in you that means deity is operating within you but you also had the Son of man without sin so you have in you somebody who can tell you how humanity is supposed to be operating within you so he will not only tell you how to get God activated but how to get you activated because he's human and he's human to the max no word you haven't been more human than his humanity because this was perfect humanity ah humanity is flawed so he can tell you how to be a better you than you could ever come up with you for yourself cuz you have already been messed up by the presence of sin since his humanity has no sin he can tell you how to be the you that you were created to be because you got the god man in you as well a lot of people notice so let me let me tell you Jesus Jesus always referred to his father as father okay you don't read Jesus referring to his father as God okay watch this Jesus doesn't refer to his father as God he's always talking about my father my father my father my father my father my father my father he told us when we pray pray our Father well we men but we know we talking about God he's got my God the Father but he won't call God God he will only call God his father except on the cross my God my God why hast thou forsaken me so doe one time Jesus calls God his face his father God is when sin is taking over he's dying on the cross for all sin sin is taking over and all of a sudden he's not saying daddy no more he's saying my God my God why has thou forsaken me I can't find you the relationship is gone the relationship is broken we're not in fellowship with one another because the sin of the world are in bearing so I can't call you daddy I can only call you God you're this big of you this big universal deity up there that I'm not in relationship with the point is clear the closer you get to Jesus the more you feel daddy the further you get from Jesus you just left with God you just got this high view of God but not this intimate sense of father God wants you to have the same intimacy with his daddy that he had but he couldn't have it as long as sin was in the picture once sin got in the picture he was just a big maja in the sky he was just our God who created the heavens and earth and all of the - oh he wants to be your daddy because he says when my daddy works I work when my daddy rolls I roll when my daddy does this thing I do my thing cuz we got this thing so tight he not just God He is God but he's my father and that's why Philippians 3 says when we're in fellowship with him we cry Abba Father not just God see the reason why many of us are not experiencing more of God is he's just God he and become daddy yet there's the work of the god man and so God's goal God's goal God's goal is to replicate Jesus Romans 8:28 and 29 says all things work together for good to them who love God and are called according to his purpose and then it says and who are conformed to the image of his son galatians chapter 4 verses 4 and 5 says and at the right time Jesus Christ came into the world for the adoption of many sons God does not want Jesus to be an only child he's a unique child unique son but he's not to be an only child he is to replicate himself over and over and over and over and over and over again every time a person gets saved that is accept Jesus Christ as Savior and are therefore born again they have begun the process of hanging out as Jesus's brother or sister to be conformed to the image of Christ so that what Christ was to his father we are to him as well deity operating within us because we already have humanity already there so God in US but Jesus is humanity and for me our humanity so that we are experiencing the life of God through the life of his son by the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer okay so okay so what would we do with this what do we do with the fact that he's called son of God son of man and what difference should it make why does it matter turn your Bibles to John chapter one let's turn back a few pages from John five to John one now watch this stay with me here I'm going somewhere I'm going somewhere I just want to take you with me verse 45 watch this Philip found Nathanael and said to him we have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote because the whole Old Testament was writing about this one who was to come Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph he's Joseph's stepson Nathanael said to him can any good thing come out of Nazareth Nazareth had a bad reputation Philip said come and see come see for yourself Jesus Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said to him behold an Israelite indeed in whom there is no deceit so the fan is coming to Jesus and Jesus identifies him you an Israelite you got great character Nathanael says to Jesus how do you know me you act like you know me why we've never met how do you know me Jesus then answers and says to him before Philip called you you were under the fig tree and I saw you okay so this is stay with me in number one he says behold an Israelite and whom there is no guile the thing says you're talking to me we never met how you know me how do I know you before Philip even went to you are you under the tree and I saw you in other words I have knowledge about you I not only know your character I know what you were where you were sitting underneath the tree and I knew that before Philip ever found you so I got inside information on you I know all about you mate I know you okay and you were under the fig tree and I saw you then when the fan you here's Jesus tell them all this information about himself that he shouldn't have known Nathanael says rabbi you are the son of God you are the king of Israel you are God in the flesh and you are the Prophet prophesied king that the Old Testament promised it promised it in Daniel chapter 7 verses 13 and 14 that the Ancient of Days the father that would be a son of man who would come and reign as king or in Dominion so they knew this prophecy was out there but now he says you're in you are the son of God I declare you are the son of God now stay with me here Jesus now answers him after Nathanael has declared who he is that's very important he says because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree you do believe watch this because you believe me based on what I said I didn't show you anything yet I've just talked but you believe my word you believe what I said you will see greater things than these translation - you ain't seen nothing yet because you believe what I said because I show that I have information and was trustworthy because you believe what I said watch this and what I said not only told you where you were it told you what you were thinking wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute how do I know Jesus is telling him what he was thinking he says behold an Israelite who is no girl who has no guile or no deceit and then he says in verse 51 truly truly I say to you you will see the heavens open and the angels ascending and descending on the Son of man well wait a minute that goes all the way back to Genesis chapter 28 when when Jacob is under a tree and he sees a ladder come down from heaven and their angels are going up and down the ladder bringing heaven to earth and taking earth to heaven and and and Jacob was a man full of deceit his name means deceiver his name means guile so let me tell you what Jesus is telling him he says you are the depict tree and you are in the fig tree having devotions and you were having devotions going through Genesis 28 because in Genesis 28 it talked about a deceitful man who saw heaven open and saw angels going up and down the ladder and you were reading that passage and you were thinking about that I saw you on that fig tree I not only know who you are I know what you were reading and I know what you were thinking because you were thinking about Jacob's Ladder so since you're thinking about Jacob's Ladder let me tell you a little something something about Jacob so I'm telling you who you are and what's your I'm telling you the whole deal because you confessed that I am the son of God because you have accepted my beginning you will see watch this the son of me okay don't miss that Jesus doesn't take his friends Jesus switches it you called me the son of God and now I'm going to show you what man can do okay because you recognize my deity you will watch my humanity go to work because verse 51 says I say unto you truly truly show no sho'nuff you will see heaven open and angels of God descending and ascending not on Jacob's Ladder in the Old Testament but on the Son of Man in the New Testament who is Jacob's Ladder you're gonna see watch this have it open I know we got so funky and waiting for heaven to open you want to see something from up there come down here and show you a little something something you want to see God I know you're real up there but I need you to be real down here I need heaven open and I need to see some angels let me tell you about the Angels the angels are God's post-office I know you can't see them but they're God's delivery service Hebrews chapter 1 verse 14 says every believer has been assigned an angel so you have an angel who has been personally assigned and deputized and delegated to cover your life in the will of God the job of the messenger service called angels your your your uber driver is designed to take you in the will of God so that you get to see heaven open up and heaven deliver something to earn that you are needing to see in your life experience so you have an angel and that angel picks up requests from earth delivers them to heaven picks up the answer from heaven and delivers them from Earth but the ladder that they only climb on is the Son of Man so if you've got Jesus way up there but you don't relate to Jesus day-to-day way down here you got the son of God but you're not benefiting from the son of man you're not getting in history what heaven is designed to deliver you through the angel now let me give you a little Greek lesson right quick because in verse 51 it says truly truly I say to you you will see heaven open the Greek lesson is the word in verse 51 pronounced you somebody say you is in the Greek plural not singular he's only talking to Nathan on the fan you he says Nathaniel because you declared what you just declared y'all will see so he moves from you to y'all in other words you and I just showed up in the passage it's not just related to that one man it's related to any Christian where Jesus Christ is the connecting point from your history to God's heaven and when Jesus Christ son of God son of man you'll see the Son of God work as son of man ok let's close this thing up what did they see they saw a chapter two okay what happened in Chapter two remember when the Bible was written there were no chapter divisions those were put there by men help us find places real quick but we gotta just flow like there's no chapter divisions so in Chapter two he takes the same disciples who were there in chapter 1 to a wedding he takes him to a wedding and while they're at a wedding because Jesus was a social creature why the other wedding they run out of wine all right now I know enough we all know how it feels to run out of wine they run out of wine now wine in the Bible was used on celebration alright alright so wine was used of celebratory things when it's used positively we use we do that today y'all do that today you know people be hidden glasses making toasts and all that and weddings and all that so so so why would you the celebration so when there was no one there was no celebration because the wine is with joy and celebration sighs using scripture but they've run out Jesus's mother comes over to him in Chapter two and since they don't have anyone and Jesus know where she met show them who you is sure come on son I know who you are but I want you stretch your stuff Oh son of God show them show them you you you - I mean sure you're the man God Jesus says woman my time it's not yet done in other words it's not time for me to go public at any time yet so so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go public but I am gonna do something okay watch this that he tells the sermon the servants to go get barrels of water 120 hundred thirty gallons in the six barrels of water and and bring them so so so they get the water while they are walking with the water it turns in the wine watch this man Jesus doesn't just show up and go hocus pocus no it says while they are walking it's all they doing is walking but watch this they are walking based on the word cuz Jesus says fill it with water see the lot of reasons why we don't experience the Son of Man is we won't even go get the water we won't even go get the water we tryna we try to well what you want water for why we need water I want some wine I need someone Jesus said shut up go get the water so they go get the water and when they get the water he's walking the water and the water starts turning right there they haven't even got back to Jesus so we got a miracle when Jesus is nowhere to be found the head waiter says to the bridegroom just a minute in every wedding I'm a part of we put the good wine out first and then we save the bad wine to last but you have brought the good one last because this is better than any other wine we've ever had before see when you get right with Jesus your best time can be your last time even though you've run out of things this time even though it may not be working some of you here today you're drained there is no celebration there is no joy there is no peace there is no victory there is no deliverance why cuz you have either not going to get the water done what he said you or you trying to wait for this miracle and you're not just following the Lord where he is he wants to sometimes show you greater things when you can't even find where he's located he just just changing things as you move as you walk so what he says is as the son of man you'll see me open up heaven and do things that only happen can explain and you can't even find me in the vicinity because I am the son of man so let me close with this sometimes sometimes with nobody looking I'm going through McDonald's sometimes I got to go through McDonald's with nobody's looking alright now when I go through McDonald's when nobody's looking I got three stops I gotta make the first stop is a voice the voice simply comes on I can't see nobody I just hear a voice and the voice says may I take your what the voices are simply asking me is what do you want and what do you need I can't see who I'm talking to but I've heard their word and that word just wants to know what am I here for after I give my order for number nine after I've told them what I want then I Drive to window number one now window number one they want me to pay they want me to pay for what I said when I didn't see anybody they want me to pay the price for what I asked for so I pay the money so that I can get what I requested when I didn't see anybody but now I got a drive the winner number two now in win the number two they hand me what I paid for and win the number one that I requested when I didn't see anybody so happy I made three stops through McDonald's I finally get what I've asked for I can't stop it win the number three go haven't paid for that win the number two and winner number two can't help me I haven't asked for it in the volume of number one but when I've gone the number one and made my request when I paid for that win the number two I'm guaranteed they're gonna show up and win the number three what God says Nathanael into every believer what do you need me to do what do you want me to do as the son of God and Son of Man what on earth are you needing for helping to open up and do in your life but now that you've made your prayer request you can't stop there you gotta go to win the number one cause of winner number one they gonna ask you a question they gonna say where is the money where is the payment for what you requested back there oh but at winner number one that's when you can tell them the price has already been paid Jesus paid at all and all to him I owe sin had left it stained he's washed me white as snow but then you can move forward to win the number three comes with a number three is when the Holy Spirit just delivers just delivers it why because you've seen heaven open up and down because he is the son of God and the son of man connecting heaven with earth all you are to get on your feet and give him some good [Applause] you

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Published: Fri Apr 13 2018