The Wednesday Word ~ 18 June, 2025 A.D.

The Unchangeable Christ

by D.G. Miles McKee

 

The one true and living God is immutable. In other words, He is unchangeable and unchanging. He is neither capable of nor susceptible to change.  The Psalmist declares that, although everything is in a state of change, “Thou art the same” (Psalm 102:25-27).

 

God remains the same throughout all eternity.  He has the same will, character, knowledge and wisdom as He has always had and always will have. 

He has never remembered anything for there is nothing He has ever forgotten (except our sins). 

He cannot be taught, for He knows all things.

He is forever constant and unchanging.

He wants nothing, loses nothing and has no new thoughts.

He is perfection and completion in all its unchangeable glory.  We may change and say, “I am not what I used to be” but God says, “I am that I am” (Exodus 3:14).

 

God, of a necessity, must be unchangeable otherwise He cannot be God.  For example, if He can gain in power then He is not omnipotent.  If He can gain knowledge and understanding, He is not omniscient.  In short, one of the essential features of God is His immutability --His unchangeableness.  If it can be shown, therefore, that the Bible also attributes immutability to Christ Jesus then, once more, His deity is proven.

 

So, let´s ask, Did the writers of the New Testament know what they were talking about?  Were they writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit or were they just making it up as they went along?  Take note on how the Bible says in Psalm 102:25-27 that God is unchanging.  How intriguing to notice that the writer to Hebrews quotes the same passage, but attributes it to Christ.  He says,

 

“…And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands: They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment; and as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail" (Hebrews 1:10-12).

 

The same, immutable God, who is unchanging in the Old Testament, is declared, in the New Testament, to be none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.  The only way, therefore, to avoid believing that Jesus is God is to believe that the Bible is not the Word of God.

 

“But surely God did change when He became human?” No, He didn’t!  Remember this; Jesus has two natures, one human and the other divine.  His divine nature could not change.  His deity did not become human, nor did His humanity become divine. Both His natures preserved their distinctive properties. He became a servant, but did not cease to be God. He made Himself of no reputation and veiled His deity: but at no time did He ever cease to be God. 

 

Jesus Himself declared His immutability when He said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My words shall not pass away" (Luke 21:33). For His words not to pass away, they must be unchanging.  Likewise, Christ Jesus will never change His mind about their truth.  He will not amend, revise or update His words.  His word is unchangeable and full. Only an immutable person can speak words which will not develop or change throughout eternity. We worship the One who never changes: He is Jesus Christ—the same yesterday today and forever (Hebrews 13:8).

 

And that´s the Gospel Truth!