King's Business - 1962-12

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"HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL"

"For unto us a Child is born . . . and His name shall be called Wonderful . . .” Isaiah uttered these words seven hundred years before the birth o f Christ actually occurred. O f course the Gentile world knew nothing about this prophecy and the Jewish nation paid no attention whatever to it. That marvelous statement was lost in the great book o f Isaiah. The people o f those centuries between the time o f its utterance and the fulfillment little realized that one day these words would stand out in bold relief as one o f the magnificent pronouncements concerning the person and work o f the coming Messiah o f the Jews and the Redeemer o f the world. "H is name shall be called Wonderful.” This phrase, as it is used in connection with the Lord Jesus Christ, must be understood in the absolute sense. N o one could be truly wonderful. In what ways is our Lord wonderful? First, He was wonderful in His birth. It is impossible to explain the strange interweaving o f Deity and humanity into the one Person o f our Wonderful Lord. N o one can explain how it is that the in­ finite God could become incarnate in human flesh and at the same time be very God o f very God and very man o f very man. W e cannot understand it because our minds are finite and we are deal­ ing with an infinite subject. It is enough to know that it is true because God’s W ord says that it is true. When the Babe o f Bethlehem was born on that Christmas Day so many centuries ago, there came into the world in human flesh the Second Person o f the Trinity, to live with men as a man, to experience all o f the sinless infirmities and frailties o f the human race and to be even tempted in all points "like as we are” without, o f course, sinning Himself. Again, He was wonderful in His life. He went about doing good. A t the conclusion o f thirty-three years o f life on this earth, no fault could be found in H im by either foe or friend. He pre­ sented to the world the only perfect life — a life so perfect that the

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