The writer of Hebrews simply said, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).
He is just as faithful now as He has ever been. Jesus Christ is the same for all eternity. He is changeless, immutable! He has not changed, and He will never change.
The same one who was the source and object of triumphant faith yesterday is also the one who is all-sufficient and all-powerful today to save, sustain and guide us into the eternal future. He will continue to be our Savior forever.
He steadily says to us, “I will never fail you nor forsake you.”
In His awesome prayer the night before His death by crucifixion, Jesus prayed, “Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was” (John 17:5).
“Jesus Christ is the same . . . forever.”
“Jesus Christ,” the personal name and His title is used in this great affirmation of faith. The name Jesus speaks of His coming to save His people from their sins. The title Christ is His official title declaring His deity as the Son of God. The double name is found only three times in Hebrews (Heb. 10:10; 13:8, 21). Because He is God He is changeless.
The Psalmist declared of Him, “But You are the same, and Your years will not come to an end” (Psalm 102:27).
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday because He was active in creation.
Jesus Christ is the same today offering salvation to everyone who calls upon His name. “He again fixes a certain day, ‘Today,’ saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, ‘Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts'” (Hebrews 4:7).
Jesus Christ is the same forever reigning in glory at the right hand of the Father in heaven. “But He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God” (Hebrews 10:12).