Son of God and King of Israel are magnificent titles of the Messiah filled

overflowing by Jesus to the point where they got him killed.

Son of man did not get him killed but he took the name Son of Man and made it

the designation of the picture of himself killed for us.

When it comes to our salvation, what is the significance of the titles

Son of God and Son of Man? That's the question John Piper explores in John 143 to 51

in this episode of Light and Truth. This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist

Church on December 7th, 2008.

So Jesus tells Nathaniel that before he was even there, he saw him under a fig tree

and he told him what was in his heart. And Nathaniel is so blown away by Jesus' knowledge of what

is not in his presence that he bursts out in verse 49, Rabbi, you are the Son of God,

you are the King of Israel. Now Nathaniel obviously meant something very great by that

but probably not as great as they would come to mean.

In Jesus' thinking and in this gospel and in Jesus' mouth.

So we want to see both. We want to see what Nathaniel meant as a Jew who would rise to that

level of insight and what this gospel makes of these names. Nathaniel was an Israelite in

whom there was no guile. He said it like he saw it and probably knew his Old Testament because

there were prominent verses in the Old Testament about the coming one, the Messiah and the one

that puts together King and Son and there are many three that I can think of right off the

bat. Probably the most prominent one was 2nd Samuel chapter 7. I'm going to look at Old Testament

texts that you may not have time to look up. So jot them down and check it out later.

2nd Samuel 7, 12 to 14 go like this. This is God speaking to David. I will raise up from your

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