Under Pressure- Week 2
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Who wrote Colossians?
To who?
Why? Church under pressure… false teachers…
Pretend you’re in a car driving exercise… the type of person that shows up to save you matters.
In these next verses, Paul is describing the savior that you and I have in the person of Jesus Christ.
Why does this matter?
“What you think about when you think about God is the most important thing about you.” -A.W. Tozer
And Paul is going to give us the most beautiful, accurate picture of the person of Jesus.
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
Jesus is Perfect.
He is the “image of the invisible God”— Gk. word “eikon” (eekon)— where we get the word icon.
Colossian church would’ve been taken back to Genesis 1— that man was created in the image (eikon) of God.
But what happened to you and I is that sin entered the world… you and I sin each and every day and sin shattered that “eikon.”
But Paul is saying that Jesus— having lived a perfect, sinless life— is the exact representation of what God is like in human form.
Jesus Christ is the exact representation of what our lives were supposed to look like from day 1.
You want to know what God is like? Look at Jesus.
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Jesus is Eternal.
He was there when the world was created… In the beginning, the Father, Son, and HS were working together in unison.
Paul wants you and I to know that Jesus Christ is the glue of creation. He is the glue that holds everything together. That if the presence of God was taken away from the world, it would collapse and fall apart.
“He (Jesus) keeps the whole cosmos from becoming a chaos.” -H.C.G. Moule
And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.
Jesus is Personal.
This cosmic, perfect, eternal Jesus was willing to come to earth to associate with humans— like you and I. And he still is…
“Part of the great mystery is that the Agent of creation and its Sustainer can be met in the humble and tiny group of Colossian Christians who form His body.” -David Garland
Jesus is personal and He wants to associate with you and I. He’s not far off. He’s close. He wants to lead a group of people known as the church into becoming like Him. He knows every detail of our life— and he wants to guide you and I in making our lives whole.
Compass Students— Jesus Christ is so personal that if you have decided to follow Him he lives inside of you— so that when someone looks at you and how you live your life— it’s possible that they see Jesus.
And he wants to guide and lead our church.
Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
Christ alone offers the solution to human alienation in the world— that sense of isolation, loneliness, a sense of not belonging— the void that many of us feel in our lives.
And in our moment of need… A Perfect, Eternal, Personal savior has stepped in.
And now we give him the reigns of our lives… B/c
When Christ is in charge of our lives, we don’t have to be.
How freeing…