A CHRISTMAS QUESTION. NO. 291 DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, DECEMBER 25TH, 1859, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND.
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.” — Isaiah 9:6.
UPON other occasions I have explained the main part of this verse — “the government shall be upon his shoulders, his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God.” If God shall spare me, on some future occasion I hope to take the other titles, “The Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.” But now this morning the portion which will engage our attention is this, “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given.” The sentence is a double one, but it has in it no tautology. The careful reader will soon discover a distinction; and it is not a distinction without a difference. “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given.” As Jesus Christ is a child in his human nature, he is born, begotten of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary. He is as truly-born, as certainly a child, as any other man that ever lived upon the face of the earth. He is thus in his humanity a child born. But as Jesus Christ is God's Son, he is not born; but given, begotten of his Father from before all worlds, begotten — not made, being of the same substance with the Father. |