Advent Gem #14

Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe

Isaiah 9: 6: “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

The Child, the Son, is also the Everlasting Father. God is truth, God is infinite. God is also a paradox. A paradox is a statement or action that seems to contradict itself, yet is true. How can the Son be the Father?

Jesus Himself declared the He and the Father are one. In the context , John 10: 30-33,37-38, was presenting a defense of His authority to Jewish leadership.

“ I and my Father are one. “Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

“The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

Jesus responded, “Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.''

Hebrews 1: 1-8: God, who at various times and in different ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets. has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For to which of the angels did He ever say: "You are My Son, today I have begotten You''? And again: "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son''? But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says: "Let all the angels of God worship Him.'' And of the angels He says: "Who makes His angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire.'' But to the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your Kingdom.”

Jesus is God in the beginning; He is God in the present; He is God in eternity. “I am” is always in present tense. Hebrews 13:8. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”