Isaiah 9:6-7 | NKJV (6) For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (7) Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Notice the phrase “Unto Us”.
This was spoken 500 years before the Cross but yet the people in Isaiah’s day could say just as we can, “God is for us!”.
Note: Child, Son, Born, Given
The Child is born, and Son is given.
The Child is the humanity of Jesus, and the Son is the Deity of Jesus. Jesus’s Deity has always existed and is eternal. We are everlasting in that we are born and will live forever, but God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit have never had a beginning thus making them eternal.
Jesus is the only One who can satisfy the claims of God because He is God and He is the only One who can satisfy the claims of man because He is a man.
John 1:1 | NKJV (1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 | NKJV (14) And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Romans 6:23 | NKJV (23) For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The price required by sin was not a monetary one, but death was required to pay the price for sin. God had to pay that debt. Satan thought there was no way God could pay that debt because He is eternal and cannot die. He thought mankind belonged to him forever.
The only way God could pay the price was to become a man.
As a human being He could be nailed to the Cross. But He had to be a “God man.”
No one was qualified to be our Redeemer except for God Himself.
Jesus went to the Cross to redeem people from their sins, past, present, and future.
Four Things Jesus has Become to Us in His Birth:
- Jesus has become our Mediator.
Job 9:1-4 | NKJV (1) Then Job answered and said: (2) “Truly I know it is so, But how can a man be righteous before God? (3) If one wished to contend with Him, He could not answer Him one time out of a thousand. (4) God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and prospered?
Job 9:32-33 | NKJV (32) “For He is not a man, as I am, That I may answer Him, And that we should go to court together. (33) Nor is there any mediator between us, Who may lay his hand on us both.
Some translations say “umpire”. An umpire is one that gets involved in the game and does not just watch the game from afar.
A mediator brings two warring parties together.
1 Timothy 2:5 | NKJV (5) For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,
Hebrews 8:6 | NKJV (6) But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
Hebrews 9:15 | NLT (15) That is why He is the One who mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them. For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.
- He has become our Propitiation.
Romans 3:25 | NKJV (25) whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
A propitiation is someone that does not just bring people together as a Mediator but does what is necessary to settle the agreement by satisfying both parties.
God is satisfied by what Jesus did for us.
1 John 2:2 | NKJV (2) And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
1 John 4:10 | NKJV (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.
- He came to be our Intercessor.
This is the prayer ministry of the Lord Jesus.
Romans 8:34 | NKJV (34) Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Jesus is praying for us as believers.
Hebrews 7:25 | NKJV (25) Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
Isaiah 59:16 | NKJV (16) He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.
- He has become our Advocate.
The others are for saints and sinners but He is our attorney before God to deal with our sins as believers.
1 John 2:1 | NKJV (1) My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Jesus is our defense Attorney. When we sin, Satan comes to bring the accusation before God, but Jesus is there to plead our case. (Rev. 12:10)
If we confess our sins before the Father according to 1 John 1:9, the case gets thrown out because the Blood of Jesus is more powerful than our sin.
He was one of us and knows what it is like to live here.
Because Heaven Came Down, Jesus has become our Mediator, our Propitiation, our Intercessor, and our Advocate.
With Jesus doing all of this, legally in Heaven everything has been settled, and God is fully satisfied.