can.” What problems are besetting you today? What times of difficulties will you pass through this coming week? No matter the trial or testing, God can! He who bore our sins in His own body, waits to respond to the inner longings and desires of your very soul. Seven statements in the New Tes tament set forth the absolute deity of Jesus Christ, the Mighty God. In each verse He is designated “God.” 1.) “And they shall call his name, Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us” (Matt. 1:23). 2.) “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). 3.) And Thomas .. •. said unto Him, “My Lord and my God” (John 20:28). Jesus accepted t h a t unequivocally. 4.) “Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God” (Phil. 2:6). 5.) “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). The Greek states it even more clearly, “The great God and Saviour of us, Jesus Christ.” 6.) “But unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, 0 God, is for ever and ever” (Heb. 1:8). 7.) “This is the true God and the eternal life” (I John 5:20). How wonderfully pre cious these statements are! Truly He is everything His name implies, “THE MIGHTY GOD!” Chapter Five I T was about this time of the year that a teacher in a public school asked the children in her room to write down the first thing that came into their minds when they thought of Christmas. The results of the ex periment were rather interesting; unfortunately probably not unusual. She reported that most of the chil dren put down the word, “toy.” Oth ers, however, put down words such as gifts, mistletoe, holly, tree, pres- 16
ents, candles, and so forth. But what was even more amazing and certainly tragic, was the fact that not one of them put down the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! How tragic! In a coun try which is supposedly Christian, a nation which stamps the name of God upon all coins, a land where we cele brate Christmas, even our children have forgotten the real meaning be hind this season of the year. As we come to the majestic and descriptive phrase of the Lord, Ever lasting Father, we realize that He is the ancient of days. From eternity past to eternity future, He has been and is, and always will be. There was never a time when Christ did not exist. Although at the cross He di vested Himself of glory, He was still God, incarnate in the flesh! In the picture which John, under the in spiration of the Holy Spirit, paints in his Patmos vision, he declares of the Saviour that His head and His heirs are as wool, as white as snow. This symbolizes the fact that He is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending. The hymn writer phrases it, “Crown Him the Lord of years, the potentate of time, creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime.” Now if it is true, and it is, that God always was the Father, there follows an important realization. It was not until into our home there came a child, that I could properly be called a father. So if God was and is al ways the Father, it follows that He must have always had a Son. John again reminds us about Christ, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God,” and now listen; “and the Word WAS God.” Through out His life upon this earth, the Lord Jesus never hesitated to give testi mony to the fact that He was very God of very God. Listen to these sim ple and succinct statements: “I and the Father are one” ; “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” If a man, discontented with this life and its miserable frustrations at
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