Wonderful Power, Authority and Government

UV 3648/10000. Wonderful Government, Power and Authority For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given; And the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9 v 6 This uni-verse is spoken as if Mary and Joseph were saying it many centuries after Isaiah wrote the prophecy. Everything about Jesus is Wonderful- the prophecy nearly a millennium before, the conception by the Holy Spirit of an yet unmarried young woman, the immaculate or virgin birth without human intervention. The prophecy was not that He will be part of the government of the kingdom of God on earth but that the power and the responsibility of government squarely rested on His shoulder. He was named ahead of time. His titles were given ahead of time – Wonderful Counsellor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God, Everlasting Father. No human would ever have such titles. The last title given to Jesus is Lord Amen in the book of Revelation, implying that He had fulfilled the prayer and hope of all people. He is the One who causes all prayers to be heard and answered. To focus on just one word WONDERFUL: Jesus possessed/possesses wonderful wisdom beyond His age and beyond the ages. His attributes or qualities are wonderful. His words were wonderful. His actions were wonderful. His miracles are wonderful. The greatest miracle He did when His body was dead when His Spirit did the impossible of impossible by raising Him from the dead. Each miracle had a meaning and a purpose. He changed water into man- proving the mastery over matter. He is the Master of the Banquet of life and can provide what we need. He healed the royal official’s dying son. He has power over disease. He filled the fishermen’s empty nets with fish. It proved He can provide abundantly. He cast out an unclean spirit, proving His authority over demonic spirits. He healed Peter’s mother-in-law of fever instantly by just holding her hand. It proved His touch could heal even less deadly sickness. He healed a leper, proving He can cure the incurable. He healed the centurion’s servant, proving He could just speak the word and people would be healed. He raised the widow’s son, proving He has authority over death. Jesus did many other wonderful miracles: He stilled the storm, proving He has authority over the fury of nature. He cured the man possessed by many evil spirits, proving He has authority over all spirits and they obey Him. He cured the paralytic after forgiving His sins, proving His authority to forgive sins. He resurrected the synagogue leader’s daughter by taking the girl’s hand proving His touch could resurrect the dead. En route, when a woman with bleeding touched the hem of His robe, she was instantly healed, proving that His touch could heal anyone even secretly. He healed two blind men who called out to Him, proving He could restore sight wonderfully to the blind. He healed a mute man, proving He has authority to restore speech and hearing. He healed a man who was invalid for 38 years, proving He has authority over chronic diseases. He healed a man with a shriveled hand, proving He has authority to heal, restore and make whole any withered part of anybody. Jesus fed five thousand people with five loaves and two fish, proving that He has authority to multiply scarce resources. He healed a Canaanite woman’s daughter of demon possession, proving He had compassion on any human regardless of religious or racial background. He healed a deaf man, proving that He has authority over hearing and can heal by just speaking one word, “Ephphatha” or open. He healed a blind man by just applying a salve of mud and spit, proving that even His saliva has healing power. He healed a boy with epileptic fits due to demonic possession, proving He could set free anyone from physical as well as spiritual ailments. He healed a man born blind, proving that He can heal even the physically challenged who have a handicap from birth. He healed a man of dropsy or physical swelling of his body, proving He can heal any inflammation. He healed ten lepers, proving He can heal people individually or in groups and He can heal the incurable. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead after three days, proving it is never too late for Him to act or heal or resurrect the dead. Jesus’s words to the fig tree caused it to wither to its roots, proving the fierce power of His judgement, too. Jesus healed the high priest’s servant’s severed ear, proving He can restore even dismembered organs miraculously. He forgave the prostitute showing that His mercy and compassion is as wonderful as His power and authority to counsel, heal, restore, judge and resurrect. No one in any human government anywhere has such power, authority, compassion and wisdom. Hence, He is called WONDERFUL.