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Acts 8 37And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.acts 9:20And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.jn 20 31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.Jesus christ is the Son of God means some very special things. It means first of all that He was born in Heaven out of God..and is Gods only begotten Son, who was brought forth out of Gods very Essence of Being.The disciples confess jn 16:27For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I [As a Man] came out from God.30Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou [As a Man] camest forth from God. It also means that He as the Son of God, had a seed in Him..Just like Gods earthly son adam, when he was created, had a seed within him..So both of these truths are present with the Title Son of God..Jn 10:36Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? Now notice what Jesus says here..That the Father first sanctified Him and then sent him into the world..Now we know sent had to do with the incarnation, but before the incarnation He was sanctified by the Father ! Now was this His Deity that was sanctified ? No..God the Father would not sanctify Deity and send it into the world..but it was the Humananity of Jesus christ, that which was begotten, that was sanctified by the Father and sent..But also we have another scripture about the Father sanctifying..jude 1:1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: So we have those who are called in time, having been sanctified by God the Father and the Lord Jesus christ being sanctified by God the Father..This is True because the elect were the chosen members [seed] of the Lord Jesus christ, and so both, the Head and the members were sanctified by God the Father..the writer of hebrews says it like this:heb 2:11For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, This oneness of the Head and His members is vitally important in understanding why Jesus christ was preached as the Son of God..Remember Adam was the first earthly Son of God lk 3:38Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.Amen, all the natural lives of the elect, in which the natural line of Jesus sprung..all these lives were in their Head Adam as He was the Son of God..Remember in gen chpt 6:4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God [springing fromadam] came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. When God created adam as Man, He said let them [plural] the Sons of God, have dominion over the earth..gen 1:26And God said, Let us make man[singular] in our image, after our likeness: and let them [plural] have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. So when God made adam, He had a them in Him..And so He was the Son of God lk 3 38So when God brought forth his only begotten Son, The Son of God, He to brought forth them..because He as earthly adam, He had a the spiritual lives of the elect in Him..This is important in understanding what the apostles preached, when they preached Jesus as the Son of God..He was in Union with a seed, His members..He was as adam was a represenative head..and this before creation col 1:15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.__________________