CHAPTER TWO

Jesus the Model Son

Before the Father created His human son and daughter, He had a blueprint, His own Son who was designated to become the Son from the beginning of creation.

But when did Jesus become the Son? As the second person of the Trinity before His incarnation, He was equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Intrinsic to God’s plan was the voluntary self-emptying of the second person of the Trinity in order to become the Son. He had to be a perfect model of the son that Adam failed to be in order to be a perfect substitute for mankind when He sacrificed His life on the cross to pay man’s debt of sin.

It was He who interacted with His people before His incarnation, revealing Himself first to Abraham and the patriarchs, and to Moses. It was He who led them through the wilderness and spoke to His people through the prophets. He finally came in person to represent and reveal the Father so that His people would know who the Father really was.

Through the dynamic language of the ancient Hebrew people, which was expressed through action rather than abstract thoughts, He revealed Himself as the one who had strength and authority and who nourished them as a nanny goat would nourish her kid. As the Son of God, He would “continue the house’, and teach those who followed Him to do the same.

As a true Son, He lived in perfect union, submission and obedience to the Father even to His death on the cross.

It was this model that the Father chose for the human beings He created to follow because He designed the human race to live in union with Him and in harmony with one another as a family, and in harmony with the created world over which we were to rule in obedience to Him.

God had already made provision for Adam’s failure before the creation of the universe He would sent the second person of the Trinity, who would become the Son to rescue mankind from destruction and restore us to fellowship with Himself through the life and death of the Son.