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Colossians 1:18 · BSB
1:18 And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
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…screen, I apologize for that. Those of you who have your Bibles, it's still worth your while to either bring your Bible or click your Bible open.Colossians 1, verses 15 to 20. We'll probably say this text almost every week in the sermon because it's so foundational. Colossians 1, chapter 15 for 20. If, in fact, Jesus…
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…Creed. It's well worth reflection. So I don't know how many of you are listening very carefully. It's not a test, not a quiz. It's, as Shane read,Colossians chapter 1, verses 15 to 20. But if you did, then for Canadians living today, when you hear this text, it is a very hard passage for Canadians. It's a hard passage for some…
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…He's not gonna do that right now. When we say Jesus is the answer, what we mean is that Jesus is going to work through his body, the church.Colossians chapter 1, verse 18. Says Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead. He is first in…
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…He's not gonna do that right now. When we say Jesus is the answer, what we mean is that Jesus is going to work through his body, the church.Colossians chapter 1, verse 18. Says Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead. He is first in…
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…Galatians 3 and 26 for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ, have put on ChristColossians 1:18and he is the head of the body, the church who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in all things, he may have the preeminence again…
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…against it. Ephesians. 1:22 says, that God put everything under Jesus feet and made him head to be over all things to the church, which is his bodyColossians 1:18 through 24, makes that claim. The church is his body Ephesians 5:24 says Jesus is the savior of the body. You think you can be saved outside of the church?…
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…attention to the vision statement of our church, and Gary prayed the very text we're going to look at this morning. So, our text this morning isColossians chapter 1, verse 15 through 20. And my prayer for this morning is that our time will be informative for you if you are new to our fellowship. It's our great desire to connect you…
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…I guess, four different elements of Him. The first two is that Jesus is this as the Son of God, our creator and our redeemer. We're gonna turn toColossians 1:15-20. You may do so in your Bible. We are going to flick through the verses on the screen as well, but it is helpful to have the whole passage there…
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…when you consider that to be in Christ, is to be in the church because to be in the body of Christ is to be in the Church of Christ. According toColossians 1, verse 18, Ephesians 1 and verse 3. Also Ephesians 1 verses 22 and 23. So to be in Christ is to be in the church. And why is it so important to be in the…
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…here. In Christ, I'm enlightened to know six things. In Christ, I'm enlightened to know first one, what God is like. Incredible that we know this.Colossians 1, verse 15 to 20is uh is an amazing passage, and in there, I won't read all of it, but in there it says this, he referring to Jesus is the image of the invisible…
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…things are vital for us. The Bible teaches that Jesus existed eternally as the Son with the Father in heaven. In fact, Scripture says of Jesus inColossians chapter 1, verses 15 through 20. Let me read this to you. Things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or authorities, all things were created…
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…and likeness of God perfectly because he lives a life of righteous obedience to the father. So why does this matter to us? Let me keep reading inColossians 1 verse 18. And he, we're still talking about Jesus, and he is the head of the body, the church, he's the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so…
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…the beginning of God's creation. The Greek word is the word arche. A-R-C-H-E with a little thing over the E. Arche. We see this word shown up inColossians chapter 1 verse 18where Paul writing to the Colossians says that Jesus is the beginning. And when you hear those words, the beginning of God's creation, you may be…
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…us to our passage this morning, the book of Colossians. If you want to turn with me there, it's 983 in your pew Bibles. We're going to look atColossians 1 verses 15 through 23. The last couple of weeks what we have heard is an apostle writing to this church that he's never been to but that he loves. He's writing to them…
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…to our fellowship, but it's a way to speak about why it is that we are called together as a people for God's praise. And it is based largely fromColossians chapter 1, verses 15 through 20, which we're going to read together now. Before I read the text, beloved, let me remind you that this is God's word to us. It was written for His…
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…those questions. And so in light of that, we get to our passage this morning. Who is God and what is he doing in the world? And so let's look atColossians chapter 1 verses 15 to 23this morning. Now, I've got three points as always. Every good sermon has only got three points. I promised Edwin yesterday I'd have two points.…
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…overly simplistic, the answer is actually Jesus. That He is the answer to that question. And the Bible speaks of this in so many powerful ways inColossians chapter 1, verses 15 through 20. The word says, Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created, and he is supreme over all creation. For…
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…overly simplistic, the answer is actually Jesus. That He is the answer to that question. And the Bible speaks of this in so many powerful ways inColossians chapter 1, verses 15 through 20. The word says, Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created, and he is supreme over all creation. For…
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…about this Jesus as he discloses himself. We know that specifically from a couple different places in particular. One of them would be the book ofColossians chapter 1 verses 15 to 20. We naturally jump to those verses because the letter that Paul wrote to the church in Colossae was meant, as you can read right there in the…
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…to describe you and I. Now, if you want to jot this down, this is a great verse to help you kind of understand how all this works. It's uh uhColossians 1, verse 18. Colossians 1, 18. In that it says that that Jesus, he is the head of the body, his church. Jesus is the head. So he is, this is the way we want to…
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