Day 7: The Everlasting Father

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Merizo

3 min readDec 20, 2018

If there is anything I’m sure of about the scriptures, it is that there is no word being used carelessly. God carefully chose many of the words used to describe his intentions. Names of people and places gave more insight into circumstances and between-the-lines perspective to all the things that happen. There is no one name without a hidden message in the scriptures. As a matter of fact, an interesting approach to Bible study is to go name by name.

Names aren’t just words that distinguish one person from the other. Especially in the scriptures, a name is a revelation of nature and destiny. The names of God reveal to us who God is, they are not just words to fill up our worship.

One of such many names that hold a lot of message and power for us is the Everlasting Father. That was one of the only 4 names revealed by the most popular prophesy about the coming of Jesus. How come we walk past so quickly whenever we come across it? I honestly cannot remember any sermon particularly zooming in into the purpose and intent of God for this appellation.

Here are three lessons I can draw from the name Everlasting Father:

Jesus Begins a New Race
One of the very first people that God called father was Abraham. God called him father of many nations because He was about to start a brand new race of humanity from him on. Jesus is the Everlasting Father because by Him God will bring many sons to glory. Just as by one man sin came into the world, by one man also, righteousness will overcome the world.

Like Father Like Son
This race will bear God’s identity. Whoever is born of flesh is flesh. Whoever of born of Spirit is spirit. Jesus as the Everlasting Father means for us that we bear His identity. We have the same bloodline and shares His genes — His divine nature. We bear His name, we bear his nature and his blood flows through our veins. This is one remarkable thing that Christmas should remind us of.

Another Clue to Eternal Life
Boldly spelt out in this name, is the intention of God for man to be immortal! If the first is an Everlasting Father, the rest would be immortal sons. It tells us that God’s purpose transcends time and when we begin to think that the totality of God’s purpose will be expressed and interpreted only in our mortal life, we surely have deviated from one of Christianity’s core beliefs.

The most popular scripture is “For God so love the world that He gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” John 3:16. In summary, I strongly believe that that passage talks about “Everyone born of the water and spirit; in the lineage of Christ will enjoy the same quality of life that Jesus has — Everlasting.”

This is another truth Christmas brings…

Day 7: The Everlasting Father

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Written by Femi Senjobi