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The Everlasting Father
by Miles McKee
by Miles McKee
Jesus Christ is the Eternal God. Just in case you missed it in Micah, the great prophet Isaiah further establishes this point saying in Isa. 9:6-7,
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
This scripture is one of the clearest declarations of the dual nature of Christ (His humanity and deity). The child who was born is both the Mighty God and the Everlasting Father. It doesn’t get much plainer than that. You have to change the text (as indeed some have) to avoid the grand conclusion that Christ is both God and man. You may not understand how he can be both at the same time, but Isaiah plainly states the facts of the matter.
Do you see how the text declares His eternity? He is the Everlasting Father. Some have rendered this as the Father of Eternity others say it should be translated Author of Eternity. Call it any way you like, Christ Jesus is the Everlasting Father, the Father and author of eternity. Any way you look at it His Godhead is proved. We may not understand how this truth can be so, but the Bible plainly states it and thus we should believe. It is no wonderful then that He is also called wonderful in this passage. We can only worship and bow down in the face of this great an awesome truth.
Spurgeon throws some excellent light on the eternity of Christ on his sermon on this passage saying,
Do you see how the text declares His eternity? He is the Everlasting Father. Some have rendered this as the Father of Eternity others say it should be translated Author of Eternity. Call it any way you like, Christ Jesus is the Everlasting Father, the Father and author of eternity. Any way you look at it His Godhead is proved. We may not understand how this truth can be so, but the Bible plainly states it and thus we should believe. It is no wonderful then that He is also called wonderful in this passage. We can only worship and bow down in the face of this great an awesome truth.
Spurgeon throws some excellent light on the eternity of Christ on his sermon on this passage saying,
“‘Father of eternity,’ implies that Jesus is preeminently eternal; that to him, beyond and above all others, eternity may be ascribed. No language can more forcibly convey to our minds the eternity of our Lord Jesus. Indeed, without straining the language, I may say that not only is eternity ascribed to Christ, but he is here declared to be the parent of it. Imagination cannot grasp this, for eternity is a thing beyond us; yet if eternity should seem to be a thing which can have no parent., be it remembered that Jesus is so surely and essentially eternal, that he is here pictured as the source and Father of eternity. Jesus is not the child of eternity but the Father of it. Eternity did not bring him forth from its mighty bowels, but he brought forth eternity. Independent, self-sustained, uncreated, eternal existence is with Jesus our Lord and God.
“In the highest possible sense, then, Jesus Christ is ‘the everlasting Father.’ I will only pause one minute to draw a practical inference from this doctrine. If our Immanuel be indeed then eternal and ever living, let us never think of him as of one dead, whom we have lost, who has ceased to be. What could be a greater sorrow than the thought of a dead Christ? He lives, and lives to care for us. He lives in all the attributes, which adorned him upon earth, as gentle and kind and gracious now, as he was then.
“Come to him, Christian, rest upon him now, just as if he were visible in this place, and you could tell into his ear your troubles, and confess your sins at his feet. He is here spiritually; your eyes cannot see him, but faith will be better evidence to you than eyesight. Trust him now with your cares! Rest upon him in your present difficulties! And you, poor sinner, if Christ were on this platform would you not come and touch the hem of his garment, and cry, ‘Jesus, let your pitying eye look on me and change my heart’? Well, dear friend, Jesus lives; He is the same to-day as he was in the streets of Jerusalem; and though your feet cannot bear you to him, yet your desires shall serve you instead of feet; and though your finger cannot touch him, your confidence shall be instead of a hand to you. Trust him now! He whose love made him die, lives on. His precious blood can never lose its power. Come now, humbly come, and confide in ‘the everlasting Father.’ ”
(CHS: His Name The Everlasting Father: Sermon #724)
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