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What does it mean that Jesus calls himself the "Son of Man?" Well, Jesus declared that He is God and

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the Bible also tell us that he became flesh.

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In John 1 it lays out both of those claims in verses 1 to 4, it makes it clear that he is God.

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In verse 14 it tells us "he became flesh." We call that the hypostatic union.

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That God had not previously been flesh, but God took on flesh and God

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became a man and dwelt among us.

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Both fully God and fully man, coming together.

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The kenosis of Christ means he is emptying himself and becoming like a man, so he could die on behalf

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of man for our sins.

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In fact, Ephesians 2:5-8 explains it very clearly, "though being in the form of God, he is

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concerned that nothing to be grasped, but he emptied himself, becoming the form of a man." We call that the kenosis of Christ.

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But being the, "Son of Man", not only does that term relate to us as individuals recognizing that he is a man, but it's also a claim to his his

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deity.

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In Daniel 7:13-14, you see the "Son of Man" reference.

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In fact, the phrase "Son of Man" was Jesus's favorite way to refer to himself.

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If you look as you read within scriptures, Christ never calls himself "Christ." He allows other people to refer to him as the "Anointed King",

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but he himself never uses that term.

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I think the reason is because Israel had a preconceived idea of what the Christ, or the Messiah, would do.

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They are looking for an earthly king and Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world." So Jesus chose to use a phrase to refer to himself

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that didn't have the the preconceived ideas that the phrase "Christ" did.

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Or that God and his kingdom did.

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So he chose the phrase "Son of Man" In phrase in Daniel 7 still was a claim to deity,

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because it tells us that the "Son of Man came on clouds" which is a picture of deity and that his Kingdom, which Jesus came

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to present, was an everlasting Kingdom.

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Which it is because he is eternal God.

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So the phrase, "Son of man", when it is understand within the Old Testament, is the claim to his deity.

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It points to his identity and him coming as a king would reign for eternity.