What's your view of Christ?

Who do you say that he is?

I believe your answer to that question will determine your eternal destiny.

When we look at that title, Son of Man, what we often do mistakenly is say, oh, wait a minute,

we know our Christology that we believe as Christians that Jesus was Vera Home of Veriddeus,

that he was truly man and truly God.

He had a human nature and a divine nature. And so when he calls himself the

son of man, this must be primarily a reference to his human nature. And this is an expression

of Jesus' humility, where he doesn't boast about his divinity, he doesn't boast about being the son of God.

He says, suit them and say that I, the son of man, am.

When we do that, we make a serious error because when Jesus uses the title, Son of Man,

he uses it obviously in light of its connection to Old Testament literature, particularly

the book of Daniel, in which the Son of Man is a heavenly being who descends from the

presence of the ancient of days, from the very presence of God God himself for a season to carry on his ministry,

to which he will later ascend to be restored to the glory that he had with the Father from the beginning.

And if you look every time that Jesus uses the term Son of Man in the New Testament,

you will see it's not an exercise in humility

when he will say, for example, that the son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.

He's not saying that human beings are the Lord of the Sabbath, because the Sabbath is established and instituted by God.

When he says that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,

he's associating with that title a divine prerogative.

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think that the Son of Man

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