I've got a name
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By my best count I have eight names. Each one of them carries meaning.
Todd Wesley Nelson
Dad
Son
Pastor T
Pop
Stuff
How you refer to yourself is important.
We will see how Jesus refers to himself.
35 Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,
36 and he looked at Jesus as He walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
38 And Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?”
39 He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they came and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.
40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
41 He found first his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ).
42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).
43 The next day He purposed to go into Galilee, and He found Philip. And Jesus said to him, “Follow Me.”
44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”
48 Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49 Nathanael answered Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel.”
50 Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
51 And He said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
Jesus’ Disciples
Andrew and Simon
Matthew and Mark’s account says that Jesus was walking by the sea of Galilee and sees Andrew and Peter in the boat and calls them to follow him.
They followed him Immediately
Luke says that he told Peter to drop the nets on the side of the boat and caught a bunch of fish and that James and John were there.
Peter calls Jesus Master
Philip
Nathanael
The Chosen scene
51 And He said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
Chosen - Like Jacob.....
10 Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
11 He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place.
12 He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
Fellowship with God.
Angels carrying down God’s word
Angels carrying up man’s petition.
The Son of Man
The Son of Man
1 Then He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet that I may speak with you!”
90 times
Son of man as a descriptor simply means Man. (Human)
Daniel 7 is a prophetic dream.
4 beasts.
Lion with eagles wings - Babylon
Bear - Medo-Persian
Leopard with four wings - Grecian (Alexander the great)
Forth Beast, dreadful and terrifying - Roman Empire.
Ancient of Days - God
13 “I kept looking in the night visions,
And behold, with the clouds of heaven
One like a Son of Man was coming,
And He came up to the Ancient of Days
And was presented before Him.
14 “And to Him was given dominion,
Glory and a kingdom,
That all the peoples, nations and men of every language
Might serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion
Which will not pass away;
And His kingdom is one
Which will not be destroyed.
Jesus was turned this into a Title.
It is a common attack on Christianity that Jesus never claimed to be God.
This is the first place I would take people to refute that assertion.
The Son of Man is a claim to be God.
13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”
15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
The most important question that anyone can answer is Who is Jesus?