🙌 Celebrate Jehovah Jireh

The God who sees 👁️ and the God who provides 🕊️.

We celebrate His faithfulness and provision.

2025 Vision: Engage with God + Engage our Faith

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• Detached 🙃
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• Those Who Don’t Know ❓

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📖 Isaiah 9:6 (ESV)

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;

and the government shall be upon his shoulder,

and his name shall be called

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

🌟 THE EVERLASTING FATHER: The Eternal Authority & Compassion of Christ

During the Christmas season, we continue exploring the profound prophecy of the Messiah found in Isaiah.

Israel faced the brutal Assyrian threat—a ruthless, dominating empire.

Isaiah uses the name “Everlasting Father” to lift their hope and overcome discouragement.

This name shifts their view from present distress to a future King who will:

• Deliver
• Govern justly
• Create a divine relationship with His people

🟩 The Hebrew Meaning of “Everlasting Father”

✨ The Hebrew Term

• “Everlasting Father” = "עַד־עֹולָם" (ad-olam) + "אָב" (av)
• Together often written: "אָב עוֹלָם" (Av Olam) = “Father of Eternity” / “Eternal Father”

In Hebrew:

• “Everlasting” = no limits, no end
• “Father” = not only biological but:
• Source
• Protector
• Leader
• One with authority and care

✨ Jesus as the ‘Everlasting Father’

Though Jesus is the Son in the New Testament, Isaiah shows He also carries:

• Divine authority
• Eternal reign
• Compassionate care
• Father-like protection and provision

He rules as King—and shepherds with a Father’s heart.

🟩 The Authority of the Everlasting Father

Sovereignty = the assurance that God is in control.

“Everlasting” declares:

• His rule is eternal
• His authority is unchanging
• His kingship is supreme

📖 John 1:1–5 (ESV)

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life,[a] and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

📖 Hebrews 1:1–4 (ESV)

1Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

📖 Colossians 1:15–20 (ESV)

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

📖 Revelation 22:13 (ESV)

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

🟦 Jesus’ Authority Extends to Salvation

📖 John 10:27–30 (ESV)

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one.

🟩 The Everlasting Father Is a Compassionate Authority

His authority is not distant or domineering—It is tender, caring, redemptive, and ever-present.

📖 Isaiah 63:16 (ESV)

For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.

🟩 How Does the Everlasting Father Take Authority in My Life?

1️⃣ We Have Assurance of His Eternal Presence

📖 Hebrews 13:8–9 (ESV)

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace."

He is unchanging.

His grace is unchanging.

His leadership is unchanging.

2️⃣ He Will Never Abandon Us

📖 Matthew 28:20 (ESV)

“…I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

3️⃣ He Is Our Source of Security & Identity

The world is unstable—but Jesus is unshakeable.

📖 Psalm 102:26–28 (ESV)

26 They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, 27 but you are the same, and your years have no end. 28 The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you.

4️⃣ This Name Inspires Courage

📖 1 Peter 2:9 (ESV)

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

We walk in courage because:

• We belong to Him
• We are chosen
• We are set apart
• We are His possession

🟩 The Everlasting Father Invites Relationship

His Fatherly authority invites us into:

• Comfort during distress
• Grace when we fail
• Correction toward righteousness
• Identity as His children
• A secure, eternal relationship

✨ In the Everlasting Father we find:

• Hope
• Identity
• Security
• Victory
• Compassion
• Eternal love

🎯 FINAL DECLARATION

Jesus is our Everlasting Father—our Eternal Authority and Compassionate King.

We belong to Him.

We are held by Him.

We are secure in Him.

And His rule will never end.