For anyone doing a passage guide search on Isaiah 9:6 and wondering why Spurgeon preached on 'Wonderful', 'Counsellor', 'Mighty God' but not 'Everlasting Father' - it's labelled wrongly as v8.
(He doesn't seem to have preached on 'Prince of Peace')
I agree it seems to be tagged wrong. Thanks however, for bringing this sermon to my attention. Surgeon was such a wonderful gifted preacher. When was the last time you heard a sermon begin like this? Absolutely marvelous!
“How complex is the person of our Lord Jesus Christ! Almost in the same breath the prophet calls him a “child,” and a “counsellor,” a “son,” and “the everlasting Father.” This is no contradiction, and to us scarcely a paradox, but it is a mighty marvel that he who was an infant should at the same time be infinite, he who was the Man of Sorrows should also be God over all, blessed forever; and that he who is in the Divine Trinity always called the Son, should nevertheless be correctly called “the everlasting Father.” How forcibly this should remind us of the necessity of carefully studying and rightly understanding the person of our Lord Jesus Christ! We must not suppose that we shall understand him at a glance. A look will save the soul, but patient meditation alone can fill the mind with the knowledge of the Savior. Glorious mysteries are hidden in his person. He speaks to us in plainest language, and he manifests himself openly in our midst, but yet in his person itself there is a height and depth which human intellect fails to measure.”
May God give each of us this desire to dig deep to understand Christ's Wonderful Person!
Merry Christmas to all of you.
