And His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful - Study Two
STUDY TWO - continued
Christ was also Wonderful in His speech: “Never man spake like this Man” (John 7:46). Christ spoke with authority and not like any other human teacher (Matt. 7:29); for He was the AUTHORITY. He spoke with originality, because “He is before all things” as well as “the beginning” of all things (Col. 1:17,18); and for that reason He could authoritatively say, “But I say unto you.” Jesus spoke with power. The wind and waves were hushed at His “Peace, be still!” Water was turned into the best wine at His bidding. Leprosy fled at His rebuke; paralysis loosed its grip at His command, and fever vanished at His word. Publicans left their lucrative business at His suggestion, and harlots forsook their sin at His entreaty. Demons tremblingly released their victims at His saying, and the grip of death was broken at His demand, while the tomb admitted abject defeat when He spoke. No funeral procession ever passed our Lord Jesus that reached the cemetery. He always broke it up and by His word of power made the erstwhile dead walk on his own feet back to his home and loved ones to their joy, to the amazement of all and to the chagrin of the devil. Jesus spoke with grace, for He was the embodiment and incarnation of it. He spoke with wisdom, for in Him “are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:3). He spoke with tenderness and tactfulness: in tenderness, to the woman taken in adultery; in tactfulness, to the Samaritan woman.
Our Lord was Wonderful in His acts: never did any man act like Him. “This man hath done nothing amiss” (Luke 23:41); He did “always those things that please” God (John 8:29); and He always “went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil” (Acts 10:38).
Jesus was moreover Wonderful in His love: never did any man love like Him. His was an incomparable love (Rom. 5:6,8). His was a compassionate love (Matt. 8:18). His was an inexplicable love (Eph. 3:19). His was a sacrificial love (1 John 3:16).
Then we find that our Lord Jesus was Wonderful in His suffering: never did anyone ever suffer like Him. He suffered innocently (1 Peter 2:22). Our Lord’s innocence was absolute. Our Lord also suffered exemplarily (1 Peter 2:21). Then he also suffered substitutionally and sacrificially (1 Peter 3:18). Jesus suffered punitively and expiatorily (Isa. 53:4-6). He also suffered superlatively (Heb. 2:10,18; 4:15; 5:9).
Then our Lord was very Wonderful in His silence: never did any man keep silence like Him. His was an amazing, searching and majestic silence (Matt. 27:13,14). His was also a victorious silence (1 Peter 2:23). His was most of all a redemptive silence (Isa 53:7,8). He kept silent so that we might have the answer.
The day when Jesus stood alone
And felt the hearts of men like stone,
And knew He came but to atone—
That day “He held His peace.”
They witnessed falsely to His word,
They bound Him with a cruel cord,
They mockingly proclaimed Him Lord;
“But Jesus held His peace.”
They spat upon Him in the face,
They dragged Him on from place to place,
They heaped upon Him all disgrace;
“But Jesus held His peace.”
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