We are told that Christ is always the same, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8). In a world of perpetual change, our One Hope and God does not change. As social norms are eroding and people are compromising values for what is politically “expedient,” we hold fast to our Lord Jesus who remains the same, “You, Lord (Jesus, Philippians 2:4-11, Romans 10:9), in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain;
And they will all grow old like a garment;
Like a cloak You will fold them up,
And they will be changed. But You are the same.” (Hebrews 1:10-12 NKJV). The heavens will pass away in the fire of God’s Wrath (2 Peter 3:10-11) and this world too shall be remade (Revelation 21:1-4), but our God and Savior shall always be, He reigns from Age to age, “to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.” (Jude 1:25).
Christ is ever constant. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end, “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8). This world tries to exasperate people with the constant changes. It seems more than ever, every institution, social issue, store design, and etc is in a state of constant change. Restaurants and chain stores keeping changing logos at the rate that seeks to match the uncertainty in morals and ethics in the world. As the climate of this world’s inferno burns with rage and outrage, Christ is always there unchanging and Almighty. As the forces of this temporal world and this present darkness wage war to confuse and conform people to pagan customs (Romans 1:1-27), even enlisting the Eastern religions, Jesus still reigns as Sovereign of the Universe and His return is imminent.
God the Trinity does not change, “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed,” (Malachi 3:6), “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” (James 1:17), and “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and for all ages.” (Hebrews 13:8). There is no variance in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, they do not bend to the times but are the timeless Triune God! That is why I believe the spirit of antichrist (1 John 4:3) is moving strong to persecute the church at this time. The world is falling into chaos on gender, sexual orientation, race, prejudices, pluralism, liberalism, communism, paganism, and more. Those who champion these causes war against Christ because He does not as God conform to the whims and flawed morality of man who can never be good, for only God is good (Mark 10:18); so God became a man, Jesus, and died on the cross to be good for us so that He takes our sins and we His righteousness, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him: For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.” (2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV, NLT). Morality can only come from the Holy Trinity, and what He says is moral and true is contained in the Holy Bible. In those Scriptures the changeless God has written His Commands (Matthew 22:36-41, John 13:34-36, John 15:12-15), His Compassion (Romans 5:8-11), and His Coming Wrath (Revelation 19:11-21) to the wicked. All revelation is confined to 66 books of Old and New Testaments. Any further revelation and visions must conform and agree completely with the Scriptures (Holy Bible) which are changeless as Christ is changeless.
Christ is our constant in an age of change and chaos. We can depend on the Lord who is everlasting and eternal! He shall see us through all trials and tribulations. For the unseen is more real than the seen, “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18).
Our Lord Jesus Christ is constant. He is always with us even to the end, “Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (Matthew 28:20). Our God and Savior will never abandon us, but holds on to us tightly, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[a]; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” (John 10:27-30). May we hold fast for our anchor Jesus Christ who is the same today and forever. Amen.
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