Momentum December 12, 2025

Nothing strikes my heart quite like seeing God’s magnificent creation. When I’m in creation I can see and marvel at God’s beauty, majesty, and great grandeur. I recall recently standing at a mountain lake that looks out over a vista and I found myself responding emotionally. I was overwhelmed. I sensed God in that place. His immense power. In the presence of his power, I felt safe, loved, and in awe.  

Last week we looked at the first of four titles that the prophet Isaiah gives to God’s coming Messiah. This prophesy was a direct foretelling of Jesus’s arrival. This passage is one of the clearest Old Testament references to the distinct and utterly powerful doctrine of the Christian faith. God himself became a man. Jesus is God!  

 The prophet Isaiah 9:6-7. 

For to us a child is born,     

to us a son is given,     

and the government will be on his shoulders. 

And he will be called     

Wonderful Counselor,  Mighty God,     

Everlasting Father,  Prince of Peace. 

Mighty God 

This child… this son… would not just be a representative of God, he would be God himself! He would carry the title, Mighty God. This is a profound idea. No other major world religion claims that God became human to feel our pain, experience our burdens, humble himself, and suffered and died for humanity. Tim Keller says this in his book, Hidden Christmas: 

It’s almost too limiting to say that we “celebrate” this at Christmas. We stare dumbstruck, lost in wonder, love, and praise… 

The prophet Zephaniah talks about God in this way in Zephaniah 3:17. 

The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” 

The Lord is God. He is a Mighty Warrior. He is mighty to save and delight in his people. Jesus embodies that might and power and love. You see evidence of this in Matthew 8 when Jesus and his disciples are crossing the lake and a storm arises and threatens to sink the boat. The disciples are afraid and wake Jesus begging him to take notice of their peril. Jesus then, rebukes their lack of faith and then calms the sea with just his words.  

²⁷The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!” - Matthew 8:27 

Power! Awe. Jesus saved them from the storm and they were dumbstruck. Whenever Jesus taught or performed miracles before people, they either threw themselves at his feet and worshiped him or they ran away in anger. There was no middle ground. He either was mighty God or something else they had to rid themselves of. No one ever responded to Jesus casually. No one ever heard him preach or watched him do ministry and simply responded, “Thanks for the great sermon. That one really encouraged me or made me think.” That wasn’t an option! He was mighty God and Lord of heaven and earth or he wasn’t. Our over-indulged self-reliant culture has allowed a form of Christianity or apprenticeship to pop up which never existed in the early days of the faith. A safe, risk-averse, and half-hearted belief in Jesus with a loose-to-mid-range tether to his teachings and actions as admirable and inspiring and often worthy of some monicker of obedience.  

Jesus is Mighty God. What will you do with him this Christmas and beyond? Will you celebrate and admire him, only? Or, will you throw yourself at his feet in submission and worship? Allowing all of your life to revolve around him? He is mighty to save. He’s done it. We owe him our love, allegiance, and our lives!  

In Awe, 

Nathan 

Nathan Hinkle

Lead Pastor

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