What does that mean, You are The Son of God ?

“Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him, for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him. And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.”

Identity.  I have been told that there are two extremely important questions :  Who is God and who am I ?  Jesus sends Peter to the lake.. to ponder these profound questions.

Matthew 17:24-27  : "When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?”  He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?”  And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free.  However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”

As people, we pay very close attention to how we are greeted and introduced when we meet someone new to us. If someone remembers your name it makes us feel known and happy.  If they stammer or even worse call you by the wrong name, everybody is embarrassed.  In this text, Jesus says something that startles everyone in the room.  Jesus meets and greets a total stranger in the most peculiar way,  He calls him, Son.  This podcast is about Mark chapter 2 verses 1 through 12.  Four ambitious friends lower a paralytic man through a roof in an attempt to get him healed.  He gets a lot more than he bargained for and we get a clearer picture of who God really is.