"His Name Shall Be Called
Wonderful!"
Isaiah 9:6
Our Savior is called
what he is - WONDERFUL! The Lord Jesus Christ is WONDERFUL IN HIS PERSON. Who
can describe the beauty and the glory of Immanuel? He is God.But he is also Man,as much God as though he were not man, yet as much man as
though he were not God. Christ is the GODMAN, the only Mediator between God and
men.
He is WONDERFUL IN THE
QUALITY OF HIS CHARACTER. Christ's love for his people is indescribable. His
voluntary humiliation, meekness, and patience throughout the days of his
earthly visitation, set before us an example of true holiness by which the
lives of all men should be governed. His sympathy with his people is such that,
even now, he is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. And the earthly
life of the Lord Jesus was a constant series of wonders.
1. He was born of a virgin.
2. Wise men were directed
to him by a special star.
3. He was miraculously
preserved from Herod's slaughter of
the infants.
4. When he was only eight
days old, Simeon and Anna
worshipped Christ in the
5. When he was twelve years
old, the boy Jesus, who is God
all-wise, taught the doctors in the
6. When he came to be
baptized by John,the Father spoke from heaven, the Spirit descended visibly
upon him, and the Son of God
condescended to fulfil all
righteousness.
7. After forty days and
nights of fasting and prayer, the
Man Christ met satan in the wilderness of temp- tation and triumphed where the first man,
Adam,fell.
8. The doctrines he taught
were heavenly, spiritual truths
that only God himself could reveal, yet in perfect fulfilment of the Old Testament
Scriptures.
9. The miracles performed
by this Man, upon his own
authority, were manifestly the works of God alone.
10. And upon the mount of transfiguration the Son of man was revealed in his glory as the Son of
God.
Here is a Man, the only
Man, who can properly wear this name, WONDERFUL. And this man is God our
Savior. The wonders of his earthly life demonstrate the fact of his eternal
deity. The Lord Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, is the Son of God. And he is
Wonderful!
Don Fortner