HE CAME TO FULFILL - COMMISSIONING AND MINISTRY: EVERLASTING FATHER

Petra Hadžidaova
Jan 20
2 min read

Messiah will be called the Everlasting Father. Father means the originator of all things. Everlasting means eternal. Thus, Everlasting Father means the originator, from eternity, of all things. Yeshua was One with God as He claimed in John 17: 21.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon taught on the complexity of Yeshua in His sermon His Name—the Everlasting Father.

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 for ever; and that he who is in the Divine Trinity always called the Son, should nevertheless be correctly called “the everlasting Father.” (1)

Jesus is not God the Father of the Holy Trinity. He is His own person, as are the Holy Spirit and the Father. But together they are one being and share the same essence, nature, and character. In purpose, they are in unity. The Father initiates creation and redemption, the Son accomplishes it, and the Holy Spirit applies it to believers, working in perfect harmony. (2) In so Messiah was given the title Everlasting Father.

God the Father is the originator of all creation, the maintainer of the universe, and the source of wisdom and justice. (2) He alone knows who He created us to be. When confused, attacked, or insulted, let us run to Him through our Mediator, Yeshua. Run to Him for truth regarding who we are. So he can remove the lies and replace them with truth. So that we will walk in our true identity and fulfill our calling.

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