The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my mind and heart in Colossians 2:9,
"In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form..."
Here is an amazing comment Paul makes about Jesus Christ. He is God the Son, the second person of the Trinity. Paul reveals much about the amazing person of Jesus Christ in this letter.
What do you know of Jesus Christ? Can you list things you know for sure of him? Here are twenty things I have gleaned from Paul's letter to the Colossians. I think we should all be aware of them... after all he is the one we love and have placed our faith in... Next time anyone asks you about Jesus Christ, you have at least twenty things you can say!
1. "For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." 1:13-14. It is in Jesus Christ and only him that we have redemption and forgiveness of sins.
2. "The Son is the image of the invisible God..." 1:15a.
3. "The Son is...the firstborn over all creation." 1:15b. This tells us Jesus Christ is heir of all creation. (And we are his co-heirs! Romans 8:17.)
4. All things have been created in, through and for Jesus Christ, 1:16.
5. "He is before all things..." 1:17a.
6. "...in him all things hold together." 1:17b.
7. He is the head of the church, 1:18a.
8. "...he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy." 1:18b.
9. "God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him..." 1:19.
10. "God was pleased... through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross." 1:20.
11. "[God] has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight..." 1:22.
12. "... the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." 2:2b-3.
13. "...in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form" 2:9
14. "He is the head over every power and authority." 2:10b.
15. "God... raised him from the dead." 2:12b.
16. "God made you alive with Christ." 2:13b.
17. "[God] disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." 2:15.
18. "...where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God." 3:1b.
19. "When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory." 3:4. He is coming for us!
20. "It is the Lord Christ you are serving." 3:24b.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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