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Colossians 1:15-2:8
Let’s pray…Father, you are holy, above all.
You are righteous, mighty, and yet you are love.
Speak this morning through Your Word, teach us more and more about Jesus, His work for us, in us, and what it is You desire for Him to do through us, we pray in Jesus name, amen.
We ended last week with taking a peek at verse 15, Col 1:15
And for those of you that were here, I explained the word image here is similar to Icon, but yet it is more than just a stamp or a picture baring resemblance.
IF you’ve ever wondered what God was really like, God is fully revealed in the Jesus the Son.
He is the firstborn over all of creation.
The word firstborn here can be used a couple of different ways, the first being a designation of order, as in the first in a series…Like Adam was the first of mankind.
The second is a designation of authority or rank, preeminence.
Jesus is first in authority over all of creation.
Some religions or cults really mess this up.
If you’ve ever seen a Watch Tower publication, or maybe had a Jehovah Witness pull in your driveway and knock on your door, this is a passage that we strongly disagree on.
They teach that Jesus was the firstborn of creation, and in that He is a creation being, not God.
The heresy carries further to say that He being a created being was the brother of Lucifer before he fell.
Again that is why we must examine all of the Scriptures to have a full understanding…we don’t have to go far for clarity here, next verse, verse 16.
Now this is a verse that I could easily spend the rest of our time on this morning, and was tempted too, but instead decided to let you dig into it a bit deeper in your Growth Groups.
Concerning the first part of the verse, if all things in both Heaven and Earth, visible and invisible were created by Him, then He wasn’t one of those things.
Make sense?
He had to be here first, He is the eternal God, always was and always will be.
This idea of thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, is the whole angelic beings or spirit beings, fallen angels, so whatever ranking of authorities or powers that may exist there, they are all in all ways subject to Jesus Christ.
The last part of this verse is so powerful.
All things were created through Him, and check it out....for Him.
Gang, I believe this is one of the most important passages in the entire Scriptures, it should be shouted from the rooftops, it should be hanging over the door of ever counselor, guidance counselor, psychologist, psychiatrist, life coach, and included on the cover of every self help book ever published.
You and I were created for Christ.
I want you to consider that this morning, I exhort you to consider it every day for the rest of your life.
As human beings we all seek purpose and meaning in our lives, and what this is telling us is that is only found in Jesus.
You were made for one purpose, you were made for Him.
He wasn’t made for you, He has always been.
He is not your good luck charm to help you through life, you were made for Him, that is your intended purpose.
Now, how much you yield to that, live in that, walk in that, seek to bring Him pleasure in your life is the ONLY thing that is in direct correlation to fulfillment of life for you.
There are highlights and potholes in life that impact us of course, but concerning our lives having purpose and meaning, and making them matter, let me save you a lifetime of wasted time and painful scars…you were made, designed, and given life, gifts, talents and abilities, that were intended by your Creator, the One through whom all things were created, for His good pleasure and His purpose.
If you are lacking meaning and purpose in your life, surrender it fully, in all ways to Him and discover, not just the purpose of life, but the purpose of your life!
That is both amazing and so exciting.
You and me matter!
You matter to Jesus.
He saw to it to create you... and He had a purpose for it, discover it in HIM!
You weren't an accident!
Yes...
He knows you exist, you were created with intent, on purpose, for Him.
Verse 17
Notice He is, not He was, Jesus is eternal…He is without beginning and without end.
Before all things, and in Him,... all things consist.
Pastor Jim explored some of the subatomic particles of creation, the proton, neutron, and electrons.
Sadly, I am no where near smart enough to do what he did, but I am smart enough not to try.
I have studied electricity.
And there is a law in electricity called Coulomb's Law of Electricity.
It is actually pretty complex, and again, I won’t try to explain what I don’t understand, but a derivative that we get from that law…is that like charges repel and opposites attract.
In school sometimes that is demonstrated with magnates.
In real life we see it in marriage.
There is a verse in the beginning of chapter two that I hope to make it to today that tells us that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Him.
That includes the stuff that baffles our scientists.
In the center of an atom we have what?
Protons…like charges together.
How is that possible?
In Him all things consist or are held together.
What keeps the negative charges out of there?
In Him all things consist…Pastor Jim explained some of the scientific theory.... atomic glue and what not....listen....in Him all things consist....K.I.S.S. Keep it simple.....Saints.
You’re not stupid, the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Him.
Learn the Word of God.
What happens if He lets go?
What happens if He lets the like charges in a nucleus go?
Devastation…atomic explosion.
I think Peter writes about this very thing…let me read something to you from 2 Peter.
After the Great Tribulation period, and then the 1,000 year millennial reign of Christ, the Bible says there with be a new Heaven and a new earth…Jesus lets go of the old ones…and that is a fascinating study of eschatology or end times stuff, but...
LET me tell you something perhaps more significant to some of you here this morning, on October 16, 2022.
Because what Peter just described is at least 1007 years away....So for today.
Beyond the physical....Col 1:17
Beyond the atomic particles and protons and neurons....Mentally, emotionally, psychologically, you need to know that all of that also consists, is held together,... in Him.
You may feel like you’re loosing it.
Like you don’t know how much longer you can hold on, and even worse, you may not even know why you’re feeling that way.
Let me encourage you with the Scriptures...
There may be some relevance to the second part of that verse....Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
I don’t say that this morning with a heart of condemnation, or even one of conviction, as your pastor, it really is more of an intent of loving education.
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you, that is always His desire, remember you were created for His good pleasure, and when we forget that, or ignore that, or allow other things to become more important than that, we start to fall apart.
It is the Lord that holds me together.
Draw near to Him, turn to Him, or maybe turn back to Him, and spend time with Him.
Psalm 55:22
You want to fall apart?
Hold your own burdens... and they will destroy you.
You weren’t made to do that.
It is in Him that all things consist.
Verse 18 Col 1:18
He is the head of the church, no man, no pastor, priest, or Pope can ever hold that role, it belongs to Jesus.
He is the firstborn from the dead, not the first to be revived, the the first of the resurrection to never die again.
He is above all things.
Verse 19 takes us all the way back to verse 15, reminding us that if we want to know what God like, look at Jesus.
In fact, it takes us back farther than verse 15, to the very first verse in the Bible…Gen 1:1
Genesis one tells us, "In the beginning, God created."
The word God there in Hebrew is Elohiym, which is plural.
The Hebrew singular for God is El.
The dual tense is Eloi.
And Elohiym is the plural tense for God.
"In the beginning God," Elohiym, plural.
SO in verse 19, Col 1:19
all the fullness, the plērōma (play'-ro-mah) The pleroma, the full fullness of God, dwells in Him.
That word, as used here is one of the most important in this entire letter.
Understand Paul is saying all of the fullness of God, meaning 100 percent.
As I said last week, and Pastor Jim has said as he is picking his way through Philippians, Jesus wasn’t part God, part man, He was and remains to be the God-man.
Fully God and fully man.
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