26 DECEMBER (1875)
‘God with us’
‘They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.’ Matthew 1:23
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Luke 1:26–38
Our text speaks of a name of our Lord Jesus. It is said, ‘they shall call his name Emmanuel’. In these days we call children by names which have no particular meaning. They are the names, perhaps, of father or mother or some respected relative, but as a general rule there is no special meaning in our children’s names. It was not so in the olden times. Then names meant something. Scriptural names, as a general rule, contain teaching, and especially is this the case in every name ascribed to the Lord Jesus. With him names indicate things; ‘his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace’, because he really is all these. His name is called Jesus, but not without a reason. By any other name Jesus would not be so sweet, because no other name could fairly describe his great work of saving ‘his people from their sins’. When he is said to be called this or that, it means that he really is so.
I am not aware that anywhere in the New Testament our Lord is afterwards called Emmanuel. I do not find his apostles, or any of his disciples, calling him by that name literally; but we find them all doing so in effect, for they speak of him as ‘God … manifest in the flesh’, and they say, ‘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.’ They do not use the actual word, but they again interpret and give us free and instructive renderings, while they proclaim the sense of the august title and inform us in divers ways what is meant by God being with us in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a glorious fact of the highest importance that, since Christ was born into the world, God is with us.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.256 v.3—Charles Wesley, 1739)
‘Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail the incarnate Deity!
Pleased as man with men to appear,
Jesus our Immanuel here.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 371.
‘God with us’
‘They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.’ Matthew 1:23
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Luke 1:26–38
Our text speaks of a name of our Lord Jesus. It is said, ‘they shall call his name Emmanuel’. In these days we call children by names which have no particular meaning. They are the names, perhaps, of father or mother or some respected relative, but as a general rule there is no special meaning in our children’s names. It was not so in the olden times. Then names meant something. Scriptural names, as a general rule, contain teaching, and especially is this the case in every name ascribed to the Lord Jesus. With him names indicate things; ‘his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace’, because he really is all these. His name is called Jesus, but not without a reason. By any other name Jesus would not be so sweet, because no other name could fairly describe his great work of saving ‘his people from their sins’. When he is said to be called this or that, it means that he really is so.
I am not aware that anywhere in the New Testament our Lord is afterwards called Emmanuel. I do not find his apostles, or any of his disciples, calling him by that name literally; but we find them all doing so in effect, for they speak of him as ‘God … manifest in the flesh’, and they say, ‘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.’ They do not use the actual word, but they again interpret and give us free and instructive renderings, while they proclaim the sense of the august title and inform us in divers ways what is meant by God being with us in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a glorious fact of the highest importance that, since Christ was born into the world, God is with us.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.256 v.3—Charles Wesley, 1739)
‘Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail the incarnate Deity!
Pleased as man with men to appear,
Jesus our Immanuel here.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 371.
26 DECEMBER (1875)
‘God with us’
‘They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.’ Matthew 1:23
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Luke 1:26–38
Our text speaks of a name of our Lord Jesus. It is said, ‘they shall call his name Emmanuel’. In these days we call children by names which have no particular meaning. They are the names, perhaps, of father or mother or some respected relative, but as a general rule there is no special meaning in our children’s names. It was not so in the olden times. Then names meant something. Scriptural names, as a general rule, contain teaching, and especially is this the case in every name ascribed to the Lord Jesus. With him names indicate things; ‘his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace’, because he really is all these. His name is called Jesus, but not without a reason. By any other name Jesus would not be so sweet, because no other name could fairly describe his great work of saving ‘his people from their sins’. When he is said to be called this or that, it means that he really is so.
I am not aware that anywhere in the New Testament our Lord is afterwards called Emmanuel. I do not find his apostles, or any of his disciples, calling him by that name literally; but we find them all doing so in effect, for they speak of him as ‘God … manifest in the flesh’, and they say, ‘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.’ They do not use the actual word, but they again interpret and give us free and instructive renderings, while they proclaim the sense of the august title and inform us in divers ways what is meant by God being with us in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a glorious fact of the highest importance that, since Christ was born into the world, God is with us.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.256 v.3—Charles Wesley, 1739)
‘Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail the incarnate Deity!
Pleased as man with men to appear,
Jesus our Immanuel here.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 371.
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