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The Christ of Isaiah
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Introduction:
As we continue our study on the Christ of Isaiah, we have already looked at the History of Christ,and we have looked at the characteristics of Christ.
Today we will begin with the titles of Christ.
Now we are only including the titles that we find here in the book of Isaiah.
If we included the other books of the Bible and especially the New Testament books, we would see many many more titles than this.
More than some 150 titles are given to Him throughout scripture.
And there may be more than that.
One of my favorite being the Lamb of God.
So just what is a title?
Webster defines it like this: An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preëminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, such as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc.
Even Dr. or Rev. or son, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, father, etc.
Now, what a title is not, it is not just a nickname.
Thomas Paine, one of the founding fathers of the United States and philosopher once said, “Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.”
The statement is only half true.
I would agree that every nickname is a form of a title.
But every title is not but a nickname.
If I say to you the nickname “shorty”, you really don’t know what I might be saying.
There are many who are short that get the nickname “shorty”, but there are also many who are tall that get the nickname “shorty”.
A nickname does not always explain or designate the character or role of that title.
But if I say to you, “Husband”, you know exactly what I am talking about because the title explains the role.
It is what I am, in that role.
Same with “uncle” or “aunt”, you know the role I am talking about.
Well here are some titles, not mere nicknames, found in Isaiah of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The title explains the role in which He plays within that given title.
Titles
--Immanuel
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, And shall call his name Immanuel.
I wish we had the time to go into the backdrop of this prophecy and explain exactly what was going on during the time of Ahaz, king of Judah, that brought this prophecy about.
Maybe someday we will be able to do that.
But for now we are just interested in the title “Immanuel”.
Immanuel means, God with us.
And we know that this prophecy, although it had some real implications in the day of Ahaz, it was a future prophecy of the coming Davidic Messiah.
We read in Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
We get one of our great fundamental truths out of this text.
Although not from this text only.
That Jesus is God incarnate.
God in the flesh.
Not just the Son of God, although He is that, but co-equal with God and the Holy Spirit.
Very God of very God.
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
His disciples said, Lord, show us the Father and it will suffice us.
Jesus said, Have I been so long with you and yet hast thou not known me? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
The book of Hebrews says, He is the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person.
He is truly God incarnate, Immanuel, God with us.
We just recently in our Wednesday night Bible studies finished up with the book of Joshua.
Who throughout that book and also throughout 4 of the first 5 books of the Bible we read of Moses, who carried the title, the servant of the Lord.
And then at the end of the book of Joshua we see that Joshua is given this great title, the servant of the Lord.
Both of them were types of the Lord Jesus, but they were not the same as Jesus.
Joshua’s name even, it means “God is salvation”.
Now not coincidentally Joshua is the Hebrew form of the same Greek name Iesous or in English, Jesus.
That is Jesus’ name, God is salvation.
But here, They shall call His name Emmanuel, He has the title, God with us.
Then in we have several titles within this one verse.
—Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace
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, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
First, I’d like to make a short comment on the first statement of this verse.
It says, For unto us a child is born, the Lord Jesus was born in the flesh, born of a woman, born in the likeness of man and born under the law.
He was born unto us.
But then it says, unto us a son is given, notice that the Son was not born, but the Son was given.
That is because the Son had no beginning , but He was eternally the Son.
Therefore the Son could not be born, but He had to be given.
But here in this verse He is given the title Wonderful.
Now some see these first two titles, wonderful and counselor as one title, wonderful counselor.
I have no problem with that.
He most certainly is the wonderful counselor.
And in the next titles within this verse they are each given with a descriptive for the noun that follows.
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Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace… So I have no problem if that’s they way you interpret it.
But no doubt that He is in fact Wonderful…
He was wonderful in His birth.
There is no other birth that is like it.
It is full of wonder and amazement.
He was wonderful in His life.
There is no other life that was lived in the way in which Christ lived His life.
He was without sin.
He did not disobey His parents.
No doubt they would have said of Jesus, “He was a wonderful child.”
When He was older the leaders of Israel tried to trip Him up in His words, in His theology, in His doctrine.
But they could not, and He caused great wonder among the people.
They were amazed at His doctrine.
He was wonderful in His death.
There was no other death like His.
Yes there were others that were crucified on a cross as He was.
But His was unique.
First off the centurions broke protocol when they came to Jesus.
They were told to go and brake the legs of those on the crosses so that it would be finished before the Sabbath day started.
They broke the legs of the two thieves, but when they came to Jesus, they seen He was already dead and instead of braking His legs, the soldier thrust a spear in His side.
Fulfilling two scriptures in one move.
That not a bone of His body would be broken and that they would look upon Him whom they pierced.
The soldiers could have easily been killed for disobeying a direct order.
It was unique in the fact that while He was on that cross the earth began to quake and the sun refused to shine for the space of three hours.
I believe in fulfillment of Amos chapter 8 verse 9, where it says, And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, That I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in the clear day:
It was wonderful in the fact that in light of the things he saw, a centurion there declared, truly, this was the Son of God.
Now you might say but Joe, how was His death wonderful.
It was wonderful in that His death was in place of yours, it was in the place of mine.
He took our penalty of death upon Himself.
And then He was Wonderful in His resurrection.
Oh, let me tell you, there was no other like it.
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