Recently, I listened to a sermon in which the preacher had three main points.

Point 1.  ”God, the Father.”  2. “God, the Son.”  3. “God, the Holy Spirit.”

Having studied these thoughts for many years, I naturally was quite interested in what he had to say about “God, the Son.”  To begin with, this wording does not appear in Scripture.  What one does find is “Son of God.”

Mary, his mother, was told by the angel  ”the holy  one to be born will be called the Son of  God” (Luke 1:35).

The Jews declared to Pilot that “he must die because he claimed to be the Son of God”  (John 19:7).

The apostle Paul began his ministry preaching “Jesus is the Son of God”  (Acts 9:20).

That Jesus was Son of God while living upon the earth is crystal clear in John 20:17 where he says to Mary: “Go instead to my brothers and tell them ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”  Indeed, while living in a  body of human flesh, God was his Father.  As such, he was divine because he was conceived by the Holy Spirit.  He was also human, because Mary, a human being, brought him into this world.  Consequently, he frequently referred to himself as “Son of  man.”

God sent him into the world, (John 3:17).  God anointed him with the Holy Spirit, (Acts 10:38). God raised him from the dead, (Acts 10:4).  God called him home, (Acts 1:10,11).  Thank you Father.