Spurgeon Saturday
"God with us"
Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
“Never let us for a moment hesitate as to the Godhead of our Lord Jesus Christ, for his Deity is a fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith.
It may be we shall never understand fully how God and man could unite in one person, for who can by searching find out God. These great mysteries of godliness, these ‘deep things of God,’ are beyond our measurement: our little skiff might be lost if we ventured so far out upon this vast, this infinite ocean, as to lose sight of the shore of plainly revealed truth.
But let it remain as a matter of faith that Jesus Christ, even he who lay in Bethlehem’s manger, and was carried in a woman’s arms, and lived a suffering life and died on a malefactor’s cross, was, nevertheless, ‘God over all, blessed for ever,’ and ‘upholding all things by the word of his power.’ He was not an angel, he was no subordinate deity or being elevated to the Godhead, as some have absurdly said—all these things are dreams and falsehoods; he was as surely God as God can be, one with the Father and the ever-blessed Spirit.”
