Describe yeah Jesus Christ and who he is and what he has done for us that's the difference if you sometimes you go to church often you go to church and you hear people preach a message on this is how to have a happy family happy marriage this is how to write succeed in business is how to do this how to do that and yet maybe there's going to be this one day that they're just going to teach on the glory of she's just the glory of Jesus I mean look at verse 15 he is the image of the invisible God the image mostly of the verse born over all creation that doesn't mean that he was created the 1st one to be created being the firstborn means that he has the position of 1st born right has the rights of the 1st born all over everything over every He is preeminent and everything and you know Jesus told His disciples He says here's says and in verse 15 the image he is the image of the end is what God He told His disciples when you've seen me you see the father. Oh how exciting I mean he is the express image of God and what Paul is saying and he's making a point here and we want to kind of back up here just a little bit and look at the book of collages as a whole and the book of cautions is same what Paul is writing to the church is saying we are complete in him right at in him we have all things there is not another thing we need apart from Jesus Christ and so here he is making his case and he's building this case starting with 1st 15 describing our completeness and him that he is complete he is the v. Image of the invisible God the position of a firstborn over all you know he's trying to show them do not be distracted by this world and all the things in this world take a look at Jesus and see how see his greatness see that he is worthy of all worship and all adoration and furthermore don't get caught up in the religious. Works that are throughout this world mankind has a religious bent to him and expressed in various different ways we don't need to abide by those because we're complete in Him Yeah so going to burst 16 is poor by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth visible and as invisible you know people. Have a tendency think that God the Father created all things yes but it's not so it's not so Jesus Himself and He Jesus is so much more then you know we think oh jesus Yeah I remember I know who he is he's like a thin and tall thin and dusty guy with sandals and you know he's teaching him. And he's getting pushed around by the Roman soldiers Oh my gosh that is so is so much greater that he created the world so when you walk out your door and you look at the blue sky Jews created it and it was all created that are in heaven and earth visible and invisible he's really putting a point yeah everything never again it I mean invisible is what he meant anything any kind of visions any kind of after worldly things all things and then he says Thrones dominions principalities powers in other words there is no power no authority aside from Him He created everything so he has preeminence and says here's a so interesting all things were created through Him Ok now I see that yes and for him yes for him oh my gosh this whole creation was created for Jesus. So that is why in Haven't we were get there it'll be such a time of worship because this is all created for him for his glory and you know what that means were created for him mostly you and I and the listening audience are created for him what are we doing for him how are we honoring him a member of a Charles Spurgeon wrote this thing about they took up this verse is says To God Be The Glory he said man's main goal in life should be to give glory to God Yes that's it you know when I look at some of on t.v. Some of the marvelous creation shows that they have about you know the planet Earth yeah all the wonderful creation and below the season everything and you look at some remarkable thing on earth and I think to myself that was created for the beauty of Jesus Christ for his enjoyment and we get to share in that and the the sad thing though on the other programs is they never give God the glory you know they never give Jesus the credit but the show that they show the creation by love the creation but here Paul is am Paul is saying he is be or believe but before all things and in Him all things consist. Per 17 and he is before all things and in Him all things consist and verse 18 and he has the head of the Body the Church who is the beginning the firstborn from the dead that and all things he may have the eminent I think that's the key point that's the point all things that go right he's he has preeminent eminence He's the he is above above and and in front of everything he is just I don't you know I don't have the words to describe what it means to be preeminent but it is to be the absolute best everything is centered on the son mostly when the son was born when Jesus was born on earth the stars. Evidence to his birth everything centers on the sun and that is the point of knowing the will of God in a fusion It says We know the will of God and that is everything subsists in Jesus Christ and He is the person the one and boy to have that attitude to walk in that attitude lightens our load mostly it respect words are hard to get heals our mind it it it it rejuvenates our flesh I mean everything is positive with us when we focus on him and you know I just hear some good news my listeners my dear listeners hear some very good news in verse 18 that Jesus is the firstborn from the dead there will be more in other words Jesus was raised from the dead what that means for us is we are going to be raised also. We are not going to just die but we are going to be with him in paradise but tell you what I think this means. I think this means he is the 1st one to to be raptured I think this means I think this means he was the 1st born from the dead he was the 1st one to receive a body and the 1st one to go into heaven right that that as Jesus said with a parable that there is Abraham's bosom when the Met when the rich man died member and I went into hell and there was Abraham and there was a great gulf between him I don't know if that was have that's kind of a place of departed spirits that was there a good place and a bad place but Jesus is the 1st born the 1st one to be raptured meaning he received his body after the 3rd day and and and he is the 1st one into heaven and lead everybody into heaven that in the words The point is that he has preeminence and everything yeah was it's you know the idea that there is life after death this huge I'm 64 years old when we record this right now and you know I'm just not. As athletic as I was you know and I can see and I don't look like I used to look when I was 19 I can see that my life is going to come to an end every one of us is going to face yes death and the Bible says that we were all our lives and slay by the fear of death until Jesus. And the only thing that frees us from that fear of death is to know that Jesus is the firstborn from the dead and the 1st more means that we are all going to be go with him who love him yes so it's just wonderful wonderful message is the most actually eternal life is the most amazing and wonderful message that you could receive it's kind of in comprehensible at least think it's also wonderful as it's like what you know but it's real feet on the ground real that when we get to heaven we'll look and talk and recognize one another and live forever in him a little bit So 100 of us person a team where it please The Father that in him that is Jesus all the fullness should do well Jesus is so much more my listener than you think I have thought he is yes he is a man I'm just done I've got 3 little school verses if I could depart from caution for a minute yet to share with our audience about how great Jesus is 1st of all the one we're familiar with then John chapter one in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God He was in the beginning with God and all things were made through him without him nothing was made that was made in Him was life and the light was life of the light of man so John starts off talking about how in the beginning the word which became Placid which became Jesus Christ the Word was with God The Word was God So that's how great he is then you remember the then Matthew Chapter 17 ways to study are our. Matthew study course that you devised Yes 40 years ago that Transfiguration. He says now in Matthew 171 and they were talking about the greatness of Jesus yes after 6 days Jesus took Peter and James and John his brother led them up on a high mountain by themselves and he that is Jesus was transfigured before them his face shone like the sun and his clothes became as white as the light. So you can't look at the sun so he had of his face was so bright that if you looked at it it would burn your retina Yes The state has his kilt and it's being us the strength of the sun you know and then the 3rd one I'll share about your We're studying this verse that about how it please The Father that in him all posts should do well yeah I'll just share this last one is out of Revelations it talks about who Jesus is and he says in verse 11 of Chapter 19 I saw Heaven's open behold a white horse and he who sat on him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he judges and makes war in his eyes are like flames of fire on his head are many crowns and he had a name written on him that no one knew except himself his clothes were he was clothed with a robe dipped in blood and his name was called the Word of God and the armies of armies in heaven closed in fine linen white and clean followed him in white horses and out of his mouth goes a sharp sword and with it he says should strike the nations and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron and he himself treads the wine press of the fierceness and rack up all mighty God and he has on his robe and on his thigh and name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords That's Jesus that's Jesus. There's just he's so much greater than we than we imagine him to be for it please The Father that in him all fullness should do well all fullness of God everything about God is dwelling in him This is Paul's point is that we are complete if we have him there is no more that we need one name something that is absent from Jesus Christ because everything else has things absent for us and if we have him we have everything and if we don't have him we have nothing we have nothing without me you can do nothing and you are nothing and you are nothing there's no there's no other foundation that can be laid except that which is laid which is where his eyes she says all right verse 20 of this section and by him in the words God the Father by Jesus yes to reconcile all things to himself by him whether things on earth are things in heaven having made peace through the blood of his cross so here God is wanting to reconcile I lost and simple world to himself and he's chosen and given Jesus as the means to do that. To reconcile all things that let me emphasize the word all things. He is preeminent and all things are reconciled to Him and by him. He made peace by the blood the work that he has done on the cross the blood of the cross and that is where we are complete and here is 2nd Corinthians 519 dom on my favorite one of my favorite verses that God was in Christ Christ reconciling the world to Himself not imputing their trespasses to them and has committed to us the word of reconciliation now then we are on Vassar's to Christ as though God were pleading through you through us we implore you on Christ behalf be reconciled to God God loves reconciliation he's a god of reconciliation so what do we say Don to people who have strayed away from the Lord. God wants you back you have to be reconciled with God God wants you back my listeners if you've if you've strayed away if you're not living the life you're supposed to live God wants you back and Jesus died to reconcile your to God Why don't you read vs 21 to 23 because that's exactly what he's talking about here thank you 21 and you who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works yet now has he reconciled in the body of his flash through death to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight if indeed you continue in the faith grounded in steadfast and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard which was preached to every creature under have been of which I Paul became a minister you're absolutely right Don is that I wasn't even thinking about those verses but the Holy Spirit just in me was saying the same thing you were you were actually saying these verses so. I couldn't stand it I said started to read it. Yeah that's the that is such the good the so good news then you know he has forgiven much of lives much look we were really unaided and enemies in your mind by wicked works yet now he reconciled us look at that I mean how do we treat those people who are evil we don't think all that let's go do some reconciliation with them now we don't think that but that's what he did he reconciled the and not just a few people everybody it's just that people don't respond to his call yet all people have that reconciliation available and it says to present you holy blameless and a barrage of Republican approach isn't that amazing you know there's a lot of reproach in this world and sometimes we get an even as Christians we get under condemnation but if we. Surrender our lives to Jesus if we let Jesus work and live through us will be holy and blameless and a bobber approach in the sight of God that that's astonishing because I look at my life mostly And I say I'm not wholly right I'm not blameless right I'm not above reproach but what does he say with the blood of Jesus Christ in my life what's his declaration he calls you that he calls me that Abraham believed God and God counted it for righteousness Yes So if we believe what we are reading here God will count it provides just a solicitor and I don't it's just it's a mystery to me but mostly you are counted as above reproach that you are holy and blameless my listeners I'm a tell you something the greatest joy you will ever experience will be to be standing before God on Judgement Day Yes and you have him turn to you you know I have the holy Son of God Look at you and say to you I count you as righteous come with me you know. That it's just I speak it will be the joy of joys and you will be sorrow of of sorrows for the people who hear the other yes and he will say because of my work on the cross Yes I have reconciled you through the blood of the cross and I have reconciled you and you are an enemy to me but I am now declaring you through my righteousness and the righteousness that you have joined in with faith you're on my side you have my righteousness you have my holiness You have my blamelessness you have my beyond reproach and I declare that to you and here's the one caveat that he gives in verse 23 if indeed you have been here you have grounded in steadfast and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel So here's the hope of the Gospel that if you receive Jesus. He will give you the right to become a child of God That's what John 112 says so my listener if you're if you're worried about this I'm going to pray with you right now so pray what Don and I if you're worried about this if you're worried about whether or not you're right with God let's just pray Lord Jesus prayed give me a my sense come into my heart I receive you as my Lord and Savior Amen Amen Lord I come back to you I have known you and I want to get reacquainted with you and I want to love you as we hear Don and mostly loving you and loving your scriptures I want to join with that and walk in that same spirit in Jesus name Amen Amen Amen Yes All right so we're now down to. Verse 24 you know these are just amazing verses so here we go with I not I now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the positions of Christ for the sake of his body which is the church of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which is given to me for you to fill the Word of God The mystery which has been hidden from ages and print generations but now has been revealed to his saints to them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in you the hope of glory Yes Him we preach warning every man and teaching every man and all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus to this and I also labor striving according to his working which works in me mightily and that's the end of chapter one. But that is the huge verse here Don is verse 27 they're all wonderful but Christ in you the hope of glory yes to them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles and what is this mystery what is the big mystery of Jesus Christ I mean what is his Knesset that he has for us I mean the over all over in compassing message that he has for us and it's this it's it's like it's a hidden Mosely It's right here in person 47 it says Christ in you and he's the hope of glory Yes Oh my gosh Christ in you Christ in you my dear listeners what a privilege of privilege to have Christ come and live in us what a privilege and. This is the end of real Christianity is to have Christ in you. Which is the hope of glory. Don and I pray that what you've heard here today will help you live a life agreeable Christian. 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