Son of the Father
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth…No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him” (John 1:14,18).
As man, Jesus is the Son of David and the Son of Abraham, but He is eternally the Son of God, the Son of the Father. As Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan River, God the Father announced that Jesus was His beloved Son. “And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17).
Jesus was ever the Son of the Father’s love (John 17:24). He had come from God the Father (John 13:3; 16:27-28). He did not become the Son at some point in a past eternity, nor at Jordan, nor at His incarnation; He is eternally the Son which is in the bosom of the Father (John 1:18). As the Father eternally delighted in His Son, so He would have us to delight in Him as well, and contemplate Him in every way in which He is presented to us in Scripture.
