Colossians 1:19-29

1:19 | These words are perhaps the strongest affirmation in Scripture of Christ’s divine nature: all the fullness of God was in Him. Christ was no mere man or teacher, or even an angel or another celestial being. He was, and is, fully God.

1:20-22 | People are born alienated from God and are His enemies until they are reconciled to Him through the blood of Christ (Rom. 5:1; 2 Cor. 5:18). No mere man could accomplish this peace; only the fully human and fully divine God-Man could bring all things together through Himself.

1:24-29 | With his words, Paul had courageously preached the life-changing message among the Gentiles: Christ in you, the hope of glory (Rom. 5:2). Now, from prison, Paul was also preaching the riches of this glory with his life. This is how every Christian can fulfill the word of God. The faithful life speaks as loudly as faithful words.

1:24-25 | Even amid imprisonment and persecution, Paul’s focus was not on himself but on the advance of the gospel. Christians can rejoice in sufferings when they look for what God is doing rather than concentrating on how they are doing (Rom. 8:17; Eph. 3:1,13).