Colossian 1 Part 2
1. The next 8 verses are some of the most important in all of the book of Colossians because they tell us who
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
2. The word image here doesn’t simply mean the God you can
3. This verse isn’t talking about his
4. Jesus’s entire life and ministry reveal to us that he is God in the
5. In the second part of the verse the word firstborn does not refer to His birth or
6. Firstborn is a symbol of his
Psa 89:20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
Psa 89:27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
7. Paul goes on here to clarify that he is not saying that Jesus is a created being but that he is the
8. Jesus created everything! Everything spiritual and physical has been created for his
9. Noone created Jesus he is
10. Jesus is
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Joh 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Joh 1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
11. In him all things consist, meaning that they are
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
12. Jesus is the
13. Jesus wasn’t the first to ever be resurrected but was the first to be resurrected under his
14. Christ resurrection was also different in that he was the first to receive a
15. Everyone raised before Jesus
Col 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
16. Jesus being God possesses all the
17. All the perfections of God are in Christ, as eternity, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability or he could not claim to be
Joh 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Joh 8:57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
Joh 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Joh 8:59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Col 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Col 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Col 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Col 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
18. In Christ God is reconciling the world to himself through the
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20. God and
21. One day Jesus will present us before God, holy and
22. Continuing in the faith is