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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called...Mighty God.
Isaiah 9:6
This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
Well before Jesus was born in a lowly Bethlehem manger and heralded by a company of the heavenly host to a group of lowly shepherds tending to their flocks that night, God gave advance notice of what was to come through the prophet Isaiah.
The Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and will call him Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14
God’s only Son would bear the name Immanuel which simply means “God with us” and this is a perfect lead in to this second of four messages based on other titles attributed to Jesus as found in the sixth verse of Isaiah 9 as the prophet shares this from his Lord:
For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
In yesterday’s opening message, we looked at Jesus as our Wonderful Counselor, the caring and compassionate Savior who knows our needs and perfectly advises all who seek His guidance.
Today, we move onto Jesus being our Mighty God and as we have already seen through the name God gave His Son, Jesus would indeed be God with us. He would go on to affirm this Himself when He said this in John’s Gospel:
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30
In the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke, we read how Mary conceived supernaturally by way of the Holy Spirit and then gave birth to a son who at His very essence was God incarnate, which simply means God personified or God in the flesh. Through Jesus, God became like any one of us, fully human and yet fully Himself, as mighty and unrivaled on earth as He was in Heaven.
As we look at Jesus’ life, we see the mightiness of God on full display and our Savior gave a summation of this power as He spoke to John’s disciples, giving them this to report back to their leader:
“Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of Me.” Matthew 11:4-6
Through His three years of ministry, Jesus did things that no ordinary man could. Only one with the very power of God Himself would be able to restore sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and grant the ability for the lame to walk once again. And if that wasn’t enough on its own, Jesus cleansed and purified lepers, drove out demons, and resurrected people from the dead.
Indeed, He showed over and over that He was, without question, the Almighty God in the flesh.
Today, Jesus, who remains Immanuel, rules and reigns over everything in Heaven and earth with all authority (Matthew 28:18), and there is a day yet to come when He will return to earth and display His God-based might by judging all mankind, bringing the saved to dwell with Him forever in the new Jerusalem while casting the unsaved into an eternity in Hell where they will dwell with Satan, the evil one.
Friends, today’s message reminds us of how blessed we are as Christian believers to serve a mighty God through which all things are possible. He is a Lord who can and does produce powerful miracles, a Lord who easily makes the seemingly improbable probable, which includes saving wretched sinners like you and me so to bring us into the promise of eternal glory.
As we continue to prepare our hearts for Christmas, oh come let us behold Him, Christ the Lord, and be glad in Him today.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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