Today makes week 5 we have been on this one verse. We have spent one week on the idea of a government that rests on His shoulders, and then a week each on these different titles, and what they say about Jesus and mean for us. And today we come to Prince of Peace.

Today makes week 5 we have been on this one verse. We have spent one week on the idea of a government that rests on His shoulders, and then a week each on these different titles, and what they say about Jesus and mean for us. And today we come to Prince of Peace.

We have taken a Sunday and looked at what it means to our world that the government will rest on this Child’s shoulder. We have spent a Sunday each on Wonderful Counselor and Mighty God, so today Everlasting Father. I have made the comment that I wonder if Isaiah fully grasped what he was writing, saying about this Child. What he is describing is so much more than special, more than a great hero, more than a prophecy of a great one to come. He’s describing God, but as a child that has been born, but not born like in beginning because He’s everlasting.

We have taken a Sunday and looked at what it means to our world that the government will rest on this Child’s shoulder. We have spent a Sunday each on Wonderful Counselor and Mighty God, so today Everlasting Father. I have made the comment that I wonder if Isaiah fully grasped what he was writing, saying about this Child. What he is describing is so much more than special, more than a great hero, more than a prophecy of a great one to come. He’s describing God, but as a child that has been born, but not born like in beginning because He’s everlasting.

We continue this week in our study of Isaiah 9:6 as we look at Mighty God.

We continue this week in our study of Isaiah 9:6 as we look at Mighty God.

Isaiah 9:6 describes this Child in a way that we can only understand as very unique and special. More than unique and special, the Child is being described as God Himself. It was not unusual for ancient cultures to see their King, Emperor, Caesar, hero as a god; but the Hebrew culture was not one those. The Jewish faith did not see their kings or heroes as gods. I need, you need, everything that all four of these titles contain, and we will see that through this Christmas season, but one that is so personal to me is this first one, Wonderful Counselor.

Isaiah 9:6 describes this Child in a way that we can only understand as very unique and special. More than unique and special, the Child is being described as God Himself. It was not unusual for ancient cultures to see their King, Emperor, Caesar, hero as a god; but the Hebrew culture was not one those. The Jewish faith did not see their kings or heroes as gods. I need, you need, everything that all four of these titles contain, and we will see that through this Christmas season, but one that is so personal to me is this first one, Wonderful Counselor.

We’re going to spend this Christmas season with this introduction of the Child in the manger, an introduction that came some 700 years before the manger, the Child, the Virgin. The ideas, the names in this verse not only wonderfully introduce us to the Child that is given to us, but in this we meet the Child who holds all the solutions to 2020, all the solutions to your life. I have five messages: one on each of the names and one on the idea that the government will rest on this Child, and that is where we will begin today.

We’re going to spend this Christmas season with this introduction of the Child in the manger, an introduction that came some 700 years before the manger, the Child, the Virgin. The ideas, the names in this verse not only wonderfully introduce us to the Child that is given to us, but in this we meet the Child who holds all the solutions to 2020, all the solutions to your life. I have five messages: one on each of the names and one on the idea that the government will rest on this Child, and that is where we will begin today.