The Son of Man is born in Bethlehem! 12/10/16

No video from Trey this week or the next two weeks.

I post some thoughts and ideas on Thursdays and Fridays. 

The Central Truth is Jesus was born to save people like us.

Look at your Christmas tree different.
http://www.paultripp.com/articles/posts/look-at-your-christmas-tree-differently

Look at your Christmas manger scene differently.
http://www.emmanuelbaptist.com/why-christmas-happened-1252016/
Tomorrow's (12.09.16) advent reading ties the memory verse and this lesson include the title together.
Here is the reading.

December 9th 

Why the Son of Man?  

Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man. JOHN 1: 51  

Why is Jesus called the Son of Man in verse 51 and elsewhere in the Gospels?  It has everything to do with Advent.
It’s not simply because he is human. It’s because the figure of a “son of man” in Daniel 7: 13 is both human and far more than human. This was Jesus’s favorite designation for himself— Son of Man. It’s used over eighty times in the Gospels, and only Jesus uses it to refer to himself.  

He got the title “Son of Man” from Daniel 7: 13– 14:  

I saw in the night visions,
and behold, with the clouds of heaven
there came one like a son of man,
and he came to the Ancient of Days
and was presented before him.
And to him was given dominion
and glory and a kingdom,
that all peoples, nations, and languages
should serve him;
his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom one
that shall not be destroyed.  

This is the language of kingship and glory and sovereignty (John 3: 13; 5: 27; 6: 62).
But it has a different ring than the titles Son of God and King of Israel. It sounds more lowly and ordinary. So when he used it, his claims to kingship and glory and sovereignty didn’t sound so overt. Only those who had ears to hear broke through to the exalted meaning of the term Son of Man when Jesus used it.  

So this time it was not the Jewish leaders who used the title to bring him to the cross. Jesus himself used it that way. The key verse is John 3: 14– 15: “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.”  

So you could say that the greatest glory Nathanael, or you and I, would ever see is the glory of the Son of Man, the Lord of heaven, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, lifted up on a cross to die for sinners.  

So when you see him this Advent season as Son of God and as King of Israel and as Son of Man, make sure that you see him dying to give you eternal life and, therefore, see him as glorious.

HERE IS THE KID SUMMARY OF THIS READING TAKEN FROM THE READING ITSELF:

Make sure you see Jesus dying to give you eternal life and therefore, see him as glorious. 

Here is this week's verse

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  1 John 1:8

Christmas is not because we are such good little boys and girls and we all deserve gifts.
Jesus came because because all are such sinful, undeserving children.

God sent Jesus because we needed a savior from our sin.