The Son.
“I will proclaim the LORD’s decree: He said to me, ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’” Psalm 2:7. David was a shepherd, a warrior, a musician, a poet, and a king. Many unique experiences marked his life. Yet through it all, he learned that relying on the Lord was the only answer. He also knew that humankind needed a Savior. God loved David and promised that through his descendants the Savior of the world, the Messiah, would come. Accordingly, David used his poetic talent to write about the promised Messiah, the Lord. In the verse above, David refers to the Messiah, the Son of God. In Hebrews 5:5, the Apostle Paul applies Psalm 2:7 to both the Son of God and the Son of Man, Jesus Christ.
Through the prophet Ezekiel, God promised to give fallen humankind a “new spirit,” a new life (Ezekiel 36:26). The human spirit that God placed in humankind at creation sinned in the Garden of Eden and, therefore, had to die an eternal death with no way out. At the incarnation, God gave fallen humankind a new human spirit, the human spirit of Jesus Christ, which comes from God, not from man. “The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.” Luke 1:35. The new human spirit, the new life of humankind, came from God, but Jesus’ body was formed in the womb of Mary, a human being. Because the new human spirit came from God the Creator, Jesus, as the representative of the new humankind God created in him, was the Son of God in the same sense that the first Man, Adam, was the Son of God (Luke 3:37–38).
Adam, the representative of the first humankind, deliberately chose to disobey God’s simple command, and, accordingly, the Objective Moral Law condemned all humankind, in Adam, to eternal death with no way out. “So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.” 1 Corinthians 15:45. The Apostle John agrees, “In him was life, and that life was the light of men.” John 1:4. By taking on a human body, the life-giving new human spirit of Jesus makes all who believe in his name children of God. (John 1:12).
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