Christ Above All

I. Christ is God who took on flesh

Coeternal, Coequal, and coexistent with the Father

John 1:1 ESV

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Basic Bible Sermons on John Christ’s Relation to God

He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9).

They worshipped ideas and philosophies. They sought to obtain a measure of righteousness through personal works or sacrifice. Paul points them to the eternal God, the God-Man Jesus Christ. He was not just a figment of man’s imagination. He was not just a legend passed down through time. He came to this earth robed in a body of flesh. He came as the embodiment of holiness, revealing God for all to see!

II. Christ is Lord in creation, His Church, and eternity

Jews looked to the Sanhedrin or the priests.

Greeks worshipped Ceasar or great philosophers and imagined gods.

Paul reminds the church that they are to place their faith and hope in Christ.

III. Christ is Lord and preeminent in salvation.

a. He provides the only way to redemption and eternal life.

b. He desires and provides for reconciliation.

Redemption is to buy back;release from bondage.

Reconciliation is restoration of friendship and resolution of conflict.

It Christ you have both, outside of Christ you have neither.

Basic Bible Sermons on John Christ’s Relation to God

For “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself” (2 Cor. 5:19).

Are you pushing back against the Salvation of the Lord?

Christ came to save!!

John 6:28,29

What must we do to be doing the works of God? Jesus answered them, “this is the work of God, that you believe in Him who He has sent.”

If you believe on Jesus you are called to follow Jesus and submit to His plan and purpose out of love and obedience.

Chris Benfield, “The Preeminent Christ # 4 (Colossians 1:15–20),” in Pulpit Pages: New Testament Sermons (Mount Airy, NC: Chris Benfield, 2015), 1073.