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"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."—Isaiah 9:6
Wonderful is a word that is greatly overused today. We talk about having a wonderful time, meeting a wonderful person, having a wonderful trip. That word gets almost threadbare.
But no place is it ever used more adequately and perhaps very inadequately as when it describes the Lord Jesus Christ: "His name shall be called Wonderful."
Wonderful in the Way He Fulfilled Prophecy
These words written about Jesus were spoken by Isaiah nearly eight hundred years before His birth; yet when Jesus was born, He literally fulfilled dozens and dozens of prophecies about His first coming.
Wonderful in His Birth
Jesus was the earthly Child of a Heavenly Father and the Heavenly Child of an earthly mother. If we could have arranged the birth of Jesus, I'm sure we would have done some things differently.
Jesus became what He was not: sin; that we might become what we are not or were not: saved, righteous people having o the righteousness of Christ. (II Cor. 5:21). The amazing thing to me is that He who was so rich became so poor, and yet we who are so poor often pretend to be so rich. As a Man, He was despised by men; as God, He was worshiped by angels.
Jesus Was Wonderful in His Life
He could talk to multitudes at a time, or He could talk to a man on a rooftop or a woman at the side of a well. He wrote no books, but the presses of this world continue to grind out libraries about Christ.
Jesus Was Wonderful in His Death
He was murdered by unjust men. Even nature revolted when Jesus died. The sun put sackcloth, as it were, across its face and refused to shine. The earth convulsed and belched up the dead that were in it.
Ignorance was there when Jesus died, for they knew not what they did. Insolence passed by and wagged its head. Irreverence was there as they taunted Jesus.
Though the crown that He wore and the cross that He bore were His own, they should have been mine.
Jesus Was Wonderful in His Resurrection
Pilate tried to make the grave sure and set the Roman seal upon the stone, yet up from the grave He arose.
Jesus is Wonderful in His Present Ministry
"Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matt. 18:20).
Jesus is Wonderful in His Power to Save
When a man or woman finds Jesus Christ, he who has been blind can see. All of us can say, "Wonderful Wonderful!" because "his name shall be called Wonderful."
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