,“…His name shall be called wonderful, counselor, The Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of peace.”
Jesus is described as “The Mighty God.” I want to share some incidents from the New Testament that show that Jesus is indeed The Mighty God. In John 2, Jesus attended a wedding in Cana of Galilee. During the course of the wedding they ran out of wine. His mother, Mary, suggested that He supply the wine. They filled six water jars with water. (The jars held twenty to thirty gallons.) Jesus made an impossible transition by turning the water into wine. I don’t know a lot about wine, but I know that water cannot be turned into wine. This is something that only God can do. In Mark 4, Jesus was with His disciples on the Sea of Galilee when a ferocious storm came up and the small fisherman’s boat was about to sink. Jesus was asleep on the stern of the boat. The disciples woke Him up and said, “Don’t you care that we are about to perish.” Verse 39 tells us what Jesus did: “And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, peace be still.” Immediately the wind ceased and sea was calm. Afterward His disciples said, “What manner of man is this, that event the wind and the sea obey Him.” This was something that only The Mighty God, promised in Isaiah 9:6, could do. In Matthew 14, Jesus’ disciples were again encountering rough water on the Sea of Galilee. At about three o’clock in the morning Jesus came to them walking on the water. They were afraid so Jesus said to them: “Be of good cheer, it is I do not be afraid.” Simon Peter, ever to one to speak up, asked that Jesus let him walk on the water to Him. Jesus beckoned Peter to walk on the water toward Him. As he did, he noticed the winds and waves and began to sink. He asked Jesus to save Him. Jesus took Peter’s hand and lifted him out of the swirling sea. The point here is that only The Mighty God could walk on water and enable Peter to do the same. In Matthew 14, immediately before the incident mentioned above, Jesus did something that was humanly impossible. There were five-thousand, or more, people who had followed Jesus into the country to be taught by Him. There was no food feed this crowd, so Jesus took what food they had, five small barley loaves and two small fish, and fed the whole crowd. Only Thr Mighty God could multiply this small fare to feed so many people. I trust that these incidents have illustrated what Isaiah prophesied about the coming Messiah as The Mighty God. Bro. Joe
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Neal
12/21/2016 01:40:57 pm
Thank you for the good insight. You always provide some interesting thoughts and good application.
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