UNDERSTANDING JESUS
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“Who do you say I am”?
15 “But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
People says John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah or one of the prophets
Peter knew who He was because he sent more time with Him.
The Colossians church was struggling with false teaching.
Paul has not yet told them what the false teaching is he is going to start with Jesus.
Counterfeit Money
Counterfeit Christianity
Paul is going to tell them about Jesus to help them test the teachings.
Let me show you the real and the fake with stand out like a sore thumb.
Paul took the time to write them even though he never visited them.
A church that Paul didn’t start.
They had become distracted from the real reason they where there.
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15 He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.
16 For everything was created by him,
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through him and for him.
17 He is before all things,
and by him all things hold together.
18 He is also the head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
so that he might come to have
first place in everything.
19 For God was pleased to have
all his fullness dwell in him,
20 and through him to reconcile
everything to himself,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace
through his blood, shed on the cross.
JESUS IS LORD
15 He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.
The word used for image is were we get are word icon.
The word mean exactly the same.
There were other words Paul could of used to similar but he used this one. Why?
Because Jesus is the image of GOD.
God is fully revealed in Jesus Christ.
Jesus talked about it in the book of John.
8 “Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time and you do not know me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who lives in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.
“first born over all creation”
John 8:58 “58 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.””
16 For everything was created by him,
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through him and for him.
Jesus was at Creation!
He created it all and it is for Him.
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
How is the us?
17 He is before all things,
and by him all things hold together.
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2. JESUS RULES OVER THE CHURCH
18 He is also the head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
so that he might come to have
first place in everything.
Firstborn is not saying Jesus has a start. It show HIS rank.
Before all things and higher than all things.
Matthew 28:18 “18 Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.”
Jesus is the authority in the Church and outside the church as well.
3. JESUS THE REDEEMER
19 For God was pleased to have
all his fullness dwell in him,
20 and through him to reconcile
everything to himself,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace
through his blood, shed on the cross.
“all HIS fullness”
The word used for dwell means a permanently dwelling.
What does it mean to reconcile?
HE made peace between GOD and man. HOW?
“Through HIS blood, shed on the cross”
Invitation
Have you been distracted by other things.
Maybe you need to just get back to understanding who Jesus is in your life.
It is easy to get pulled in all different directions just as the church in Colossians had been.
Today is a good day to straighten your path.
