Lesson review

Christ is Most Excellent in All Things Part 1

Colossians 1:15-18

This week and next week we are looking at vastly important part of Paul and Timothy’s letter as well as the Bible. We see in four short verses that Jesus Christ is preeminent in ALL THINGS. Paul is developing this idea because the heresies he is dealing with run completely contradictory to this concept.

Last night we examined what apologists/ theologians call the “Cosmological Argument.” Again, it states this:

·         Everything that had a beginning had a cause.

·         The universe had a beginning.

·         Therefore the universe had a cause.

We looked over several different things from science that illustrate what the Bible says, especially in our verses in Colossians! "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence." (Colossians 1:15-18, NKJV)

The sad thing is that we rarely step back to reflect on exactly what is being said in these verses. Christ existed before ALL THINGS and He created ALL THINGS and ALL THINGS were created for Him. There are several reasons we often stray from thinking about the magnitude of these verses. One, it is essentially incomprehensible to think about the fact that absolutely nothing existed before God spoke it into existence. Nothing means no thing. The fact that God did create all things is amazing but even more amazing is the fact that He created it from nothing. He alone is eternally existent, unimaginably powerful and infinitely wise, to be able to make something as complex as the universe out of nothing.

However, it gets better, God could have continued to exist without creation, yet He decided to create the universe, our galaxy planet Earth and you and me. God is inescapable personable. The second problem here is that all too often we forget that He created us for a reason… Himself. Selfishly we go about our existence thinking about what we want to do, how we want to live, watching what we want to watch, saying what we want to say, all the mean while forgetting that very breath we breath the blood that flows through our veins the ability to think say and do is completely contingent on God and His grace.

This week simply meditate on who God is: eternally existent, unimaginably powerful and infinitely wise yet personable enough to create you and me and care enough to take on the likeness of sinful flesh step into time and suffer the full wrath of God on the cross for your sins. Reflect on this and the impact that it should make in your everyday life.