“For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is GIVEN (John 3:16); 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.” Isaiah 9:6
And Micah 5:2
says, “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come
forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose
origins are of old, from the days of eternity.”
When
a believer begins to discover something of the awful tyranny of the self-life,
or has been endlessly struggling against that tyranny, he becomes intensely
concerned about the denial of self with the resultant freedom to rest and grow
in Christ. Man has many ways of seeking to escape the thralldom (bondage)
of self; God has but one way. First then, some of these man-centered methods.
John 1:10-14 says, He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own (that which belongs to Himself) and His own people (fellow countrymen) did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the power (authority) to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made 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.
