THE SUPREMACY OF CHRIST (4)
by Tim Melton
Scripture: Colossians 1:15-20
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The Supremacy of Christ (4)
Series: Colossians
Tim Melton
Colossians 1:15-20
The Supremacy of Christ is an over-arching theme in scripture. The word ''Supremacy'' in the Oxford Dictionary is defined as ''The state or condition of being superior to all others in authority, power, or status.'' Put simply, none can compare. Jesus Christ is supreme over all things and all persons in both the earthly and heavenly realms. In reality, He is God and He is like no other. This truth is essential as one seeks to understand the truths of the Bible.
The Bible is a story of how mankind sinned and broke its relationship with God. How when mankind had no hope for restoration, God reconciled mankind to Himself through Jesus Christ. Because of this, the central point of the scripture is the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. All of the Old Testament points forward towards Christ and all of the New Testament points back to Christ. Because of the centrality of Christ in scripture and salvation, the identity and character of Jesus Christ is the goal of Satan's greatest deceptions. Satan tries to convince us that possessions, power and pleasure are of utmost importance. Satan seeks to confuse the definition of gender, erase the fact of creation, undo the sanctity of life, but he saves his greatest efforts for the deception that Jesus of Nazareth was not God, was not the Christ, was not resurrected and is not sufficient to save.
2 Corinthians 4:4 talks of Satan, the god of this age, who has blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.''
Satan was continuing this same strategy through the false teachers in the church in Colossae. News of this had been carried by Epaphras, one of the Colossae church leaders, all the way to Paul who was a prisoner in Rome. In response to this news Paul wrote the book of Colossians which was a letter seeking to explain clearly the gos ...
Series: Colossians
Tim Melton
Colossians 1:15-20
The Supremacy of Christ is an over-arching theme in scripture. The word ''Supremacy'' in the Oxford Dictionary is defined as ''The state or condition of being superior to all others in authority, power, or status.'' Put simply, none can compare. Jesus Christ is supreme over all things and all persons in both the earthly and heavenly realms. In reality, He is God and He is like no other. This truth is essential as one seeks to understand the truths of the Bible.
The Bible is a story of how mankind sinned and broke its relationship with God. How when mankind had no hope for restoration, God reconciled mankind to Himself through Jesus Christ. Because of this, the central point of the scripture is the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. All of the Old Testament points forward towards Christ and all of the New Testament points back to Christ. Because of the centrality of Christ in scripture and salvation, the identity and character of Jesus Christ is the goal of Satan's greatest deceptions. Satan tries to convince us that possessions, power and pleasure are of utmost importance. Satan seeks to confuse the definition of gender, erase the fact of creation, undo the sanctity of life, but he saves his greatest efforts for the deception that Jesus of Nazareth was not God, was not the Christ, was not resurrected and is not sufficient to save.
2 Corinthians 4:4 talks of Satan, the god of this age, who has blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.''
Satan was continuing this same strategy through the false teachers in the church in Colossae. News of this had been carried by Epaphras, one of the Colossae church leaders, all the way to Paul who was a prisoner in Rome. In response to this news Paul wrote the book of Colossians which was a letter seeking to explain clearly the gos ...
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