We Are The Reason For His Season

We Are The Reason For His Season

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
John 3:16-17

His Royal Titles

• Wonderful Counselor
  
• Mighty God
  
• Everlasting Father
  
• Prince of Peace

Immanuel

• Jesus, our model, clothed Himself with humility by clothing Himself in humanity!
  
• Matthew 1:23
  
  • "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which translated means, "God with us."

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
Philippians 2:5-7

• “Good is the flesh that the Word has become” by Brian Wren
  
• Good is the pleasure of God in our flesh,
  longing in all, as in Jesus, to dwell,
  glad of embracing, and tasting, and smell,
  good is the body, for good and for God,
  Good is the flesh that the Word has become.
  
• I am born into eternity as Jesus was born into time!

Wonderful Counselor

• Acts 2:22 NLT
  
  • "People of Israel, listen! God publicly endorsed Jesus of Nazareth by doing wonderful miracles, wonders, and signs through him, as you well know.”
• John 14:26 NLT
  
  • “But when the Father sends the Counselor as my representative—and by the Counselor I mean the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I myself have told you.”

Mighty God

• John 20:28 NLT
  
  • “My Lord and my God!” Thomas exclaimed.
• Matthew 28:18-20 NLT
  
  • Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given complete authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Everlasting Father

• John 10:30 NLT
  
  • “The Father and I are one.”
• Revelation 1:18 NLT
  
  • “I am the living one who died. Look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.”
• “The same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations. --- St. Francis de Sales

Prince of Peace

• Romans 1:3 NLT
  
  • “It is the Good News about his Son, Jesus, who came as a man, born into King David's royal family line.”
• Ephesians 2:14 NLT
  
  • “For Christ himself has made peace between us Jews and you Gentiles by making us all one people. He has broken down the wall of hostility that used to separate us.”
• Revelation 1:5 NLT
  
  • “and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness to these things, the first to rise from the dead, and the commander of all the rulers of the world. All praise to him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by shedding his blood for us.”

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
--- C.S. Lewis

“That's My King” by Dr. S.M. Lockridge

Isaiah 9:6-7

• To the weary --- He is wonderful
  
• To the confused --- He is Counselor
  
• To the weak --- He is Mighty God
  
• To the orphaned --- He is Everlasting Father
  
• To the troubled --- He is Prince of Peace