Who is Jesus? - Part 3

Robby Pollard, Lead Pastor

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Who is Jesus?

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Colossians 1:15-20

¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. ¹⁶For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. ¹⁷And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. ¹⁹For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, ²⁰and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

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Jesus is the revealer of God

Colossians 1:15, 19

¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God…¹⁹in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell

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Jesus is the Creator of all things

Colossians 1:15-16

¹⁵…the firstborn of all creation.¹⁶For by him all things were created…through him and for him.

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Colossians 1:18a

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church…

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Luke 12:32

³²“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

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2 Corinthians 6:16

¹⁶What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

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Colossians 1:18a

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church…

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1 Corinthians 12:27

²⁷Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

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Colossians 1:18a

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church…

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Colossians 1:18b

¹⁸ …He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead

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Colossians 1:18

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

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Without Christ, there is no church.

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Matthew 16:18

¹⁸And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

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Ephesians 1:4

⁴even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

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Ephesians 4:15-16

¹⁵Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ¹⁶from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. ¹⁵For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, ¹⁶I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, ¹⁷that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, ¹⁸having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might ²⁰that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. ²²And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, ²³which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

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Colossians 2:18-19

¹⁸Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, ¹⁹and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

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Without Christ, there is no church.

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Colossians 1:18

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

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Jesus is first

Colossians 1:18

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

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Colossians 1:19-20

¹⁹For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, ²⁰and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

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.Colossians 1:21

²¹And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

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Colossians 1:22

²²he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

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Romans 8:1

¹There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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Colossians 1:23

²³if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

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Jesus is first.

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Who is Jesus?

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Jesus is revealer of God.

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Jesus is the Creator of all things.

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Jesus is first.