The Unchanging Christ: The Same
Forever
“When our Savior comes again,”
wrote H. A. Ironside, “God is coming to take control
of things in this world and the Holy Spirit will be
poured out upon all flesh. Father, Son and the Holy
Spirit in council in the past eternity; Father, Son
and Holy Spirit working out our salvation here on
earth; Father, Son and Holy Spirit bringing in the
glory by and by when the long period of man’s trial
is over, when the kingdom is fully established, and
the Lord Jesus Christ abides forever the One in whom
the Father and Spirit as well as the Son are fully
displayed—for He is the image of the invisible God.”
The writer of Hebrews simply
said, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and
forever” (Heb. 13:8).
In His awesome prayer the night
before His death by crucifixion, Jesus prayed, “Now,
Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the
glory which I had with You before the world was”
(Jn. 17:5).
“Jesus Christ is the same . . .
forever.”
He came from glory and He
returned to glory. Here is one of the most profound,
relevant truths in God’s Word. Jesus Christ came
from glory and took upon our flesh, and humbled
Himself to die as our substitute to pay our death
penalty. Now He has gone back to the glory He had
with the Father in eternity, but He remains a man in
that glory.
“This same Jesus.” Oh, praise
God. “This Jesus, who has been taken up from you
into heaven, will come in just the same way as you
have watched Him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11).
He will come back the way He
went—this same Jesus. This same Jesus who was
wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our
iniquities, and with whose stripes we are healed,
who cried, “It is finished,” rose form the dead and
ascended into heaven—this same Jesus will be
unchanged when He returns to this earth in
triumphant glory.
He is our unchanged and
unchangeable Savior. When He comes again He will not
be wearing servants robes, but the robes of the
eternal King of glory. He will be dressed in the
robes of the King of kings and Lord of lords.
“Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday, today and for eternity.” He came the
first time to bear our sin and iniquity and die as
our substitute. Today He lives ever to make
intercession for us as our Mediator. When He comes
every knee will bow and confess Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father.
“This same Jesus” is the “same
yesterday, today and forever.” Jesus is eternally
the same.
We have received the complete
and final revelation of God to man in the person of
Jesus Christ which can never be superceded or
supplemented by something better.
Jesus said, “I am the way, and
the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father
but through Me” (Jn 14:6). The apostle Peter
preached, “And there is salvation in no one else;
for there is no other name under heaven that has
been given among men by which we must be saved”
(Acts 4:12).
In the context of Hebrews
chapter 13, the faithful leaders in the church had
gone to be with the Lord, but the writer reminds the
church members that Jesus remains the same.
Jehovah in the Old Testament is
the Jesus of Nazareth in the New. The unchangeable
One is the Messiah.
For the first readers of the
epistle of Hebrews the Temple had been destroyed,
the ceremonial law was gone, and the Levitical
priesthood was no more. However, Jesus Christ, the
Mediator of the New covenant between God and man
abides unchanged forever.
Selah!
Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006
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Wil is a graduate of William Carey University, B. A.; New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Th. M.; and Azusa Pacific University, M. A. He has pastored in Panama, Ecuador and the U. S, and served for over 20 years as missionary in Ecuador and Honduras. He had a daily expository Bible teaching ministry head in over 100 countries from 1972-2005. He continues to seek opportunities to be personally involved in world missions. Wil and his wife Ann have three grown daughters. He currently serves as a Baptist pastor and teaches seminary extension courses in Ecuador.
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