There's the name our parents give us, and then there are the names we give ourselves.

Movie star Dwayne Johnson calls himself The Rock because he's six foot five with very big muscles.

Frank Sinatra called himself old blue eyes because he had blue eyes and was at least later in life old.

And then there's David Howell Evans from the band You Two

who calls himself the edge

because of course he does what kind of rock stars called Dave Evans.

However, if you do give yourself a name, you'd better make sure you live up to it.

If you call yourself the edge, you'd better make sure you're always doing really edgy things.

Oh who's that over there filing his tax return? Oh that's that's the edge isn't it?

Yeah it's not really going to cut it. Call yourself the greatest like

Mohammed Ali or the King of Pop like Michael Jackson and you'd better be sure you can

back it up. I say all this to make a serious point because Jesus used a name that is

very hard to live up to. He used it very deliberately and very often.

The name Jesus Christ most commonly applied to himself was the son of man.

To give just a few examples, Jesus said,

we are going up to Jerusalem,

and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes,

and they will condemn him to death.

The Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his

father and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. Be

ready for the son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

I read a book recently in which a very popular author claimed that when Jesus called himself

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