Isaiah 9:6 Part Four

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." - Isaiah 9:6

In the Garden of Eden, man had communion with God. Because Adam disobeyed God, communion with God was broken, and sin entered into the world. Man no longer had peace with God.

God looked for a man that was without sin that could restore the communion that was lost in the garden, but there was no man without sin. Only the Father Himself, robed in a sinless human body, could pay the price to restore the peace that was lost.

This child that would be born, the body of the Mighty God, would be called the Prince of Peace, for God would make peace between Himself and man by the blood of His cross. God would reconcile us back to Himself. He would pay the price of sin that separated us, so that we could receive the gift of His Spirit, and have communion with Him again, as Adam and Eve had with Him in the Garden of Eden.

"And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:" - Colossians 1:20-22

The next verse says we are reconciled back to God IF we continue in the faith and are not moved away (backslidden) from the hope of the gospel.

"If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" - Colossians 1:23

What is the hope of the gospel? By repenting of wicked works we have done, being baptized in Jesus name for the remission of our sins, and being filled with His Holy Ghost, we will have eternal life with Jesus in heaven.

"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." - Acts 2:38-39