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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

MATT229 - What Does "Son of Man" Mean?

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

Education, Reading, Morning, Bible, Christianity, History, Prayer, Devotion, Scripture, Study, Faith, Men's, Women's, Plan, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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MATTHEW 10:16-25 On this podcast we pick books of the Bible and work through them from beginning to end, bit by bit every day. This show exists because of listener support. If you'd like to consider supporting, you can learn more at thetmbh.com/support or check out the Patreon support page at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Music written (or covered) and performed by Jeff Foo...

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0:00.0

Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. You guys remember Disney's Tarzan, right?

0:14.0

It came out around the same time as Hercules and Mulan,

0:18.0

mid-90s, and Phil Collins did the music on it.

0:20.0

And Phil Collins, he's a wizard. There's a reason that he's got a great

0:24.8

reputation as a thoughtful musician. He's one of the few people I've seen who can

0:29.5

really do the percussion thing and the singing thing well at once he was a part of Genesis a

0:34.8

very thoughtful band I think Peter Gabriel was the guy that fronted that band

0:39.0

before but everybody associates Phil Collins with Genesis He wrote probing thoughtful material when I was in high school and I knew

0:48.0

that he had this reputation or at least he did in my brain and so when I watched Disney's Tarzan and the song called

0:54.7

the Son of Man came on my little youthful Christian brain was like ah you're

0:59.7

too smart that's not an accident Phil Collins you're doing something there you're making

1:03.6

some kind of artistic point and the song goes like this oh the power to be

1:08.2

strong and the wisdom to be wise all these things will come to you in time on this

1:12.3

journey that you're making there'll be answers that you seek, and it's you who will climb the mountain. It's you who will reach the peak.

1:18.0

Son of man, look to the sky, lift your spirit, set it free. Som someday you'll walk tall with pride,

1:24.0

son of man, a man in time you'll be.

1:26.0

Well, son of man, if you've poked around the Bible at all,

1:30.0

you know is an expression that has two meanings between the Old Testament and New Testament,

1:36.0

but one meaning that Jesus really leans into in the New Testament.

1:40.0

In the Old Testament, most notably in the book of Ezekiel, God keeps calling Ezekiel son of man.

1:46.7

And it seems like that language is about reminding Ezekiel that he's just some dude,

1:51.1

that he's a human, that he's a normal guy and in contrast to the

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