Living in the Spirit Daily Devotional
Your guide to a daily walk with God.
Monday, 9 November 2026
Topic: Man or Messiah III
Text: Isaiah 9:6-7
We continue our series on defending the faith today. Having established, with proof from previous days, Jesus' identity as the Messiah, today we will examine his divinity.
Our first line of investigation will take us back to the same prophecies that established him as the coming Messiah, focusing on what they say about whether the Messiah would be human or divine.
Our text comes from the popular Scripture passage in Isaiah chapter 9, which speaks of a child being born and a son being given. The government will be upon his shoulder, and he will sit upon the throne of his father David. This describes a male child who will be born into the lineage of David (Isaiah 9:6-7).
However, there is a detail in the text stating that this child who will be born will be called, among other names, the Mighty God and the Everlasting Father. Those are not human names, which should lead us to look more closely at the nature of the Messiah.
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In Micah 5:2, in the prophecy about his being born in Bethlehem, it is written that the Messiah's goings forth, which denotes his origin in the original language are from eternity. He has eternal origins.
Psalm 45, a psalm about the beauty and glory of the Messiah, speaks of his throne, saying, “Your throne O God is forever”; Jeremiah calls him Yahweh-Tsidkenu, the Lord our righteousness, bestowing on him Yahweh, the sacred name of God (Psalm 45:6; Jeremiah 23:5-6).
From these examples, we see that he is called the Mighty God and Everlasting Father, that he is called Yahweh our righteousness, that his throne is referred to as the throne of God, and that he has eternal origins.
Beloved, the Pharisees were fond of questioning Jesus, hoping to catch him in his words and accuse him. But once, he turned the questions around, asking them whose son the Messiah is.
It was an easy question for them, as it was well documented that he was a descendant of David. But Jesus questioned them further, asking why David then called him Lord, quoting directly from Psalm 110.
“The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”” Psalms 110:1
If we have been able to establish that Jesus was the coming Messiah and that the Messiah is divine in his nature, we can confirm that our Lord Jesus Christ is truly divine in his nature.
God bless you.
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