BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH – THE LAMB

BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH – THE LAMB

Historical Truth

Matthew 1:18-25

Biblical Prophecy

Isaiah 7:14 @ 750 BC Isaiah gives us prophecy about the virgin birth of Messiah/Jesus and Matthew 1:23-25 reveals to his readers that the angel (probably Gabriel) quoted this prophesy to Joseph that the BABY in Mary’s was and is the Messiah and that His name would be JESUS.

Isaiah 9:6 Explains that the Name of Jesus has five Characteristics with one goal but duel purposes

As MESSIAH, the KING, His Name is:

WONDERFUL – The Messiah, although expected is a mystery of revelation that is WONDROUS to all who believe God through faith.

COUNSELOR – The Messiah is POWERFUL, He is coming again to DESTROY and to SAVE

THE MIGHTY GOD – The Messiah is ABOVE ALL gods, He is THE ALL POWERFUL ONE

EVERLASTING FATHER – The Messiah is the ETERNAL and ONLY GOD

THE PRINCE OF PEACE – The Messiah is the CAPTAIN, THE KEEPER OF PEACE.

Luke 2:1-7 and John 1:29 Explains that the Name of Jesus has five Characteristics with one goal but duel purposes

As JESUS, the LAMB, His Name is;

WONDERFUL – Jesus – The WONDROUS revealing of the BABE in a manger (a feeding trough for animals and to keep Him warm He was wrapped in narrow bands of cloth.

COUNCILOR – Jesus – all who will seek The LAMB by FAITH. He saves them to the UTTERMOST – Hebrews 7:25

MIGHTY GOD – Jesus – He is the Champion sacrifice (Author) of our Salvation; Acts 4:12 and Heb 12:1-2

EVERLASTING FATHER – Jesus – is The Father and the Son who are ONE; John 10:25-30 and Jhn 14:1-6.

PRINCE OF PEACE – Jesus – is the KEEPER OF PEACE, and to all who believe in Him by FAITH and He shares that PEACE with them – John 14:25-31 and Romans 5:1-5.

A Daily Devotional – The Wisdom of God – The Eternal Word (24)

A Daily Devotional – The Wisdom of God – The Eternal Word

Comment: Today it is convenient, that if we are on the road and thirsty, to stop at the local ‘convenient’ store and purchase a bottle of water. Once there we may add to the water, candy, chips or any other item that tickles our palate at that moment. This temporal condition in life may be avoided, even ignored and in the case of water, could turn out to be life threatening by becoming dehydrated. This is critical if you are traveling long distances and need to stay alert. Life for most of us is a long distance. Moses explains that God has provided for man to live seventy years and by reason of physical strength to the age of eighty, see Psalm 90:10. This temporal life has blessing, but it is also filled with labor and sorrow.

Devotional: The LORD God who created us, created us to live forever; in other words, it was not God’s original purpose for man to live but seventy or eighty years. Notice in Genesis 1:26 that God said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness” (God’s likeness and image is eternal). As you know, man failed the image and likeness of God by SIN, now all die just as Adam, see Genesis 5:1-5.

By contrast we can maintain a temporal human life for seventy or eight years by treating our human life with good physical exercise and proper eating and drinking habits, but against the backdrop of eternity what can you or I do to obtain and maintain eternal life? Can we; like our physical needs, buy eternal life? How much is the water of eternal life? Where is the store that sells eternal life, is that store convenient to you and me? What is the expense, can we as temporal humans afford to buy life eternal? Even the most naïve know the answer. But see Isaiah 55:1-3 and 6-13.

1 "Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.

2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance.

3 Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you-- The sure mercies of David.

6 Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord.

9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

10 "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater,

11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it

A Daily Devotional – The Power of God – The Eternal Word (23)

A Daily Devotional – The Power of God – The Eternal Word

Comment: God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth! Say that with me again. “GOD THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH!” and you can add this. “He is a very present help in times of need.” If needed, God will remove the stranger from our midst, or He will remove us from the stranger. He can and does change the direction of water, in an earthquake He causes mountains to shake and hills to bounce. In His immediate presents the earth trembles and if there is any need for water, God alone turns a rock into a pool of water and a flint rock into a fountain of water. Like Israel, we as a nation we have forgotten that God is REAL and that He is MAJESTIC in POWER and GLORY!

Devotional: The burden of evidence of the above statement is not on God to prove Himself. He already has. The burden is on His created peoples to believe Him; by FAITH. Notice Psalm 114.

1 When Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

2 Judah became His sanctuary, And Israel His dominion.

3 The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back.

4 The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.

5 What ails you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back?

6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams? O little hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,

8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.

You can find God’s Power everywhere, you only need to look with faith. The history of God’s existence is seen every day as Creation declares it. The Holy Bible declares His Power as LOVE. This love is not understood by the fallen world of mankind and as one song writer explains; “The LOVE of God is measureless and strong, it is the REDEEMING GRACE for Adam’s race.” 

“God is Love” His Power is revealed to us through His Love. We cannot KNOW God in any other way; notice! 1 John 4:7-11.

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

May your days be blessed with the LOVE of God, through Jesus Christ who is the propitiation for our sins.