1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,720 This is City Post Church. We're about three things. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,160 Build equipped and send. All under the Lordship of Jesus 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,240 Christ. A small church plant in Fort 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,400 Worth, TX. Who decided to do things a 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:16,880 little differently? Adoramos Ajesu Cristo I love 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,480 City Post because of the people. It's where I belong. 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,000 We truly preach the. Word. 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,680 I love City Post because of the community we've been able to 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:25,840 build. To do ministry. 10 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,720 Like Jesus? For light to push back darkness. 11 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:40,170 This is City Post podcast. They've done, I mean, even when 12 00:00:40,370 --> 00:00:42,650 Jesus walked on the road to Emmaus. 13 00:00:42,850 --> 00:00:46,170 It says that he proved that he was who he said he was. 14 00:00:46,570 --> 00:00:48,730 So just a little recap as we dive. 15 00:00:48,730 --> 00:00:51,610 Into verse 15, remember. Like they had some. 16 00:00:51,650 --> 00:00:53,890 Isms that were bleeding through the church. 17 00:00:54,130 --> 00:00:56,330 Some some. Jacked up theologies. 18 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,600 And one of. Those big jacked up theologies 19 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,480 was this whole idea that Jesus. Is not God. 20 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,000 Jesus is not deity. Many people believe that. 21 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,560 Jesus was a great teacher. He was a prophet. 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:12,960 He was a miracle. Worker. 23 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,640 But once you start saying that Jesus is. 24 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,480 God it it. It kind of pulls up the window 25 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,760 on a lot. Of these theologies. 26 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,520 And then people start pushing back and they're like, hold on a 27 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,880 second. Like that's not, that's not what 28 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:31,080 we that that's not proven and what Paul's going to teach us. 29 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,840 Today in this passage, is that Jesus? 30 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,840 Is not only God. He's the only God. 31 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:38,880 And he's the God. That we. 32 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,760 Serve and my prayer for you. Guys, is that as we walk through 33 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,160 this text? You see the beauty and the. 34 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:49,720 Glory of Christ. And that it opens your eyes to 35 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,080 something that is so much greater than religion, something 36 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,280 that is so much greater than a than a feeling. 37 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,200 And that you surrender your hearts and your. 38 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,080 Lives to the. King of Kings and his name is 39 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:06,960 Jesus. All right, so we're kicking off 40 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,440 in. Verse. 15 Now this is a monster 41 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,840 of a passage. Like we could spend all year. 42 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,600 Going through 15 to 23, right? So we're going to have to skim a 43 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:20,320 few, cross a few things and what we're going to see. 44 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,760 Here is that Paul? Is going to. 45 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,720 Address all of these false. Teachings and all of these. 46 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,320 Heresies with the supremacy of Christ His. 47 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,920 Eminence, like everything that he, everything that he is he. 48 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,200 Is the greatness of who Jesus is. 49 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,480 And we're going to point out five things that Paul is going 50 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,400 to prove. That Christ is all. 51 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,240 Supreme through creation and his deity. 52 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,480 And then we're going to look. At a few. 53 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,720 Things how he. Shows that he's all. 54 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:54,200 Supreme through the Church. Because that's exactly what 55 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:55,320 Paul's read. Writing. 56 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:56,800 To. So let's go. 57 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,720 Ahead and look at verse one. I mean verse 15 and verse 15 58 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,680 says this. We're going to read and talk. 59 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,560 All right. So so we can digest this so 60 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,040 verse 15. And 16 it says the Son so as 61 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,000 Jesus. Jesus is the. 62 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,280 Image of the invisible God, the first born over all creation, 63 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,960 for in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on 64 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,640 earth, visible and invisible. Where their? 65 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:25,760 Thrones or powers or dominions or authorities? 66 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:29,600 Or rulers all. Things have been created through 67 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,400 him and for him. So you know what? 68 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:34,840 Before we dive in, let's just get to point number one. 69 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:39,400 Point #1 is. This Jesus Christ is God. 70 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,920 Period. That's what we believe. 71 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,920 That's what we worship here at City Post Church. 72 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,480 Jesus Christ is God. And there's nothing going to 73 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,480 change our mind about it. Because it it says. 74 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,960 It in the scriptures. Jesus Christ is. 75 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:03,440 God, in verse 15, Paul begins. With that Jesus Christ. 76 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,400 Is the image of the invisible God. 77 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,640 So there's two. There's some Greek words. 78 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,480 That we have to look at. All right, so some of this stuff 79 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,960 I'm going to geek out on and some of it we might just kind of 80 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:20,120 take a take a summary over. So look at the first two Greek. 81 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,200 Words in the text. All right, the word. 82 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:28,520 Image is a word called econ, so it'll be on the screen. 83 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:33,040 So econ means copy or likeness of it. 84 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:40,040 And what what he's saying is that is that the sun is an econ 85 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,840 of the invisible God. So what Econ. 86 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,720 We also see a word called karactel. 87 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,600 So karactel means that. He reflects the son. 88 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:55,880 So what Paul is? Saying is that Jesus is not just 89 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:01,160 an image of the invisible. God, He is the exact. 90 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:04,240 Likeness of the invisible. God. 91 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,960 So he's not just a representation of who God is, 92 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:11,960 He's the manifestation of. Who God is and God. 93 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:17,080 Is everything in Jesus Christ? For now, humans are like, well, 94 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,360 Ricky, aren't we made in God's image as well? 95 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:23,200 And we see that in Genesis 126 and 27. 96 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,920 For we've been made and it uses the same word. 97 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,600 We've been made in the econ. We've been made in the image. 98 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,480 Of God, but the. Problem with. 99 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:34,800 Us is that. We do not. 100 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:39,240 Hold God's characteristics also. The problem is that God is. 101 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,440 Holy, and we're not. So even though we're made in the 102 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,720 image of God, we don't. Bear his characteristics. 103 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,560 We're not, I'm depressed. We're not immutable. 104 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,480 We're not. We don't have any of that stuff, 105 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:53,280 so. Easier way to. 106 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:54,920 Say it. We're human, but we're not 107 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:59,240 divine. Now, some of you guys are like, 108 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,000 I'm human, but I might be a little fine. 109 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:04,840 Oh, you're awake. Cool. 110 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,480 All right. See how I? 111 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,080 Looked at my wife when I said that, right, Ronnie points. 112 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,120 But we're we're human beings. So even though we're made in 113 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:21,920 God's image, we don't carry. His characteristics we're still. 114 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,000 Broken a better. Way to describe this. 115 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,880 Is Hebrews 1/3. It says the. 116 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,600 Sun is the radiance. Of God's. 117 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,520 Glory and the exact representation of His being, 118 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,880 sustaining all things by his powerful. 119 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:42,760 Word after he had provided. Purification for sins He sat 120 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,680 down at the right hand of the. Majesty of Heaven. 121 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,400 So in Hebrews 1. That word. 122 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,960 Exact representation is the. Greek word karaktev. 123 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,760 Karaktev. Means it's like a stamp. 124 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,960 It's like an engraving tool. So even in Hebrews. 125 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,920 It says that Jesus. Is the exact stamp. 126 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:10,400 Of who God is, he reflects cried the same way that. 127 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,680 Light reflects the Son. Jesus reflects the Father. 128 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,360 Even Jesus said this in the New Testament, where his. 129 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,840 Disciples were like. Man, we want to see the Father 130 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:21,680 we. Want to see God? 131 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,880 You always talk. About him and Jesus says, if you 132 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,640 want to see God, you look at me. Everything I say comes from the 133 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,320 Father. I say nothing that is not. 134 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:34,120 From the father they're. Connected Jesus is God in the 135 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,440 flesh. John 114 The Word became flesh 136 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,160 and made its dwelling among us. We have seen his. 137 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,960 Glory, the glory. Of the one and only son who came 138 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:47,320 from the father. Full. 139 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,640 Of grace and truth we have seen the Son. 140 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,920 Jesus is God. In the flesh. 141 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,960 And what he? Does is that he makes the 142 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,640 invisible? God visible to us. 143 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,760 So if Jesus is God, then we're able to. 144 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,360 Touch him and they were able to talk with him and they were able 145 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,440 to see him and listen. If you want to know what. 146 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,160 God's like you look at Jesus. If you want to know what God 147 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:17,880 cares. About you look at Jesus. 148 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:19,440 If you want to know how God treats. 149 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,360 People, you look at Jesus. Everything that you want to know 150 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:24,560 about. God, you look at Jesus because? 151 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,080 Jesus is the manifestation. Of God. 152 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,520 He's made in his icon, but he also. 153 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:35,559 Has the corrected to show us that He is the stamp of who God 154 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:36,679 is? All right, we got to keep going. 155 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:38,559 We could just stay. Here all day all right so the. 156 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,880 Son, Jesus is the image of the invisible. 157 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,200 God, but here it gets a little bit crazy, too. 158 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:49,160 He's also the first. Born of all creation now. 159 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,600 There's a lot of cults. Out there and other religions 160 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,040 that see this verse and they're like, we got them. 161 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:58,400 Jesus was created by God. That means that when Jesus was 162 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,160 born. But here here's the problem with 163 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,880 that that verse. If Jesus was created by. 164 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,920 God, then that means that he's not eternal, and if he's not 165 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,160 eternal, then that means he can't claim to be God. 166 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,640 So what what Paul does here is that Paul uses a very specific 167 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,520 Greek word so that. 1 You could put up. 168 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:19,360 So there's these two Greek words that that Paul. 169 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,640 Uses. Here 1 is called protoctos. 170 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:27,200 The other one is Protoctos, right? 171 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,040 So there's two, there's two separate. 172 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,520 Ones OK, that's the other. One got flip it all right there 173 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,280 you go right so so there's. Two separate ones. 174 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:40,840 So protuptos. Pretty much means that he has 175 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:45,800 been first born. So anybody that's been the first 176 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:47,520 born here? That's the word that would be 177 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:52,520 used to to talk about it. But then the other one is first. 178 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,160 Created. So the other word is 179 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:00,000 protoctistos OK. So if he's talking. 180 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,880 About Jesus. Being first born Paul. 181 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:08,760 Should have used protoctistos. But here's the problem. 182 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:15,360 Because Jesus was not created. So what Paul does is Paul uses 183 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,600 the. Other Greek term protoctos, 184 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,840 which means chronologically. So what he's saying is that 185 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,200 Jesus was not created. He wasn't born like God did not 186 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,440 create him. Because he always existed. 187 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,920 So what Paul does is he uses that Greek word to talk about 188 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,640 the order. That means that Jesus was first. 189 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,360 First born of what? He's giving Jesus a position. 190 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,800 He's saying Jesus. Was always first. 191 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,400 And here's the thing, in Greek and in Jewish culture, the first 192 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,040 born son had the right to the inheritance. 193 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,440 Always, everybody always did that. 194 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,040 Like we see that, but the. Problem here is that he's not 195 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,240 necessarily saying that he's first born in that. 196 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:05,120 Way he's saying chronologically that Jesus is first born because 197 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:06,480 he receives. The inheritance. 198 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,200 It's like for an example in the Old Testament, Esau was first 199 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,040 born. But Jacob had the right to the. 200 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,960 Inheritance so that word would change. 201 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:22,600 Jesus wasn't created. First Jesus was always first. 202 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,640 His ranking was always 1st and he has the right to the 203 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:27,880 inheritance. To all creation. 204 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,240 It all belongs to him, so he's saying that he's not. 205 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:36,720 Only God, but. Everything under the earth and 206 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,240 the sun, everything visible and invisible, everything that 207 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:45,680 inheritance all belongs to. Christ, it's all His. 208 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,800 Give you an example. So let's say that if I'm. 209 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,880 Talking with. Let's say like if. 210 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,880 Gavino is coaching his son's baseball team. 211 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,840 He says. Hey Gavino is the coach of his 212 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:05,240 son's 8 and under baseball team. If I take that phrase and I 213 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:06,160 think. About it. 214 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:08,840 It's like, well, like. If Gavino is the coach of his 215 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,600 son's baseball team, does that mean that? 216 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,040 Gavino is 8 years. Old No. 217 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,640 Does that mean that Gavino. Plays baseball with his. 218 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:20,320 Kids. No. 219 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,920 Does he wear the same uniform? No. 220 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,960 I mean in likeness and likeness. Chill. 221 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,880 Does like like so if I say that? Term. 222 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,160 None of us think of that. Why? 223 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,960 Because we know Gavino. We know that he's an adult, but 224 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,560 we also know. That the word coach. 225 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:45,560 What the word coach means? So it means that Gavino runs the 226 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:48,200 team it. Means that he guides their 227 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,080 steps. It means that he's the one that 228 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,800 organizes the games. He calls the buses. 229 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:54,920 He tells the players what to do. He. 230 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:58,440 Orders them the uniforms. He does all that management, 231 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,480 it's the same thing. With Christ, Christ being. 232 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,400 First born of all creation? No, like Christ runs the game. 233 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,600 He's the one that puts everything in order. 234 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:10,880 He's the one that tells everything what to do. 235 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,160 He's the one that makes it all happen. 236 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:15,800 And that's where. These Greek words are. 237 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,800 So important to us. Christ is the first. 238 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,560 Born of all creation doesn't mean that. 239 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:23,000 He was created. He wasn't. 240 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,480 Created Christ has always. Been eternal, he's always. 241 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,640 Existed. So let's get into. 242 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,760 So what we? See in point #2 point number. 2 243 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,120 is that Jesus is before all. Things. 244 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,400 So Jesus has always been before all things. 245 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,160 So if he wasn't created, that means that. 246 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,160 He's always existed. He was there when God created 247 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,480 the heavens and the earth. He was there when God. 248 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,480 Flooded the world. He was there. 249 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:53,400 In Sodom and Gomorrah, he was there in the walls of Jericho 250 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,080 fell down. He was there when he saw David 251 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:00,600 knock down Goliath. Jesus was always there, He 252 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,480 didn't just show. Up in the New Testament, he's 253 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,280 the eternal God. But also we see. 254 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,840 Point number. Three, Jesus created all. 255 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,160 That is not God. That means that. 256 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,880 Jesus is the creator of. Everything in this world that is 257 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,480 not God. Look at verse 16. 258 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,880 For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on 259 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,680 earth, visible and invisible. Where their? 260 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,160 Thrones or powers? Or rulers or authorities. 261 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,400 All things have been created through him and for him. 262 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:39,560 See what the false teachers in Colossae they view Jesus as just 263 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:44,280 the. 1st and and maybe most important emanation, which means 264 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:49,480 like a spirit or another being just one of many and they were 265 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,000 convinced that there might have been a. 266 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,600 A lesser God. Down the line, who created all 267 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:59,880 materialistic things so when all of these emanations would 268 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:03,520 combined and that that's when. God would be worshipped. 269 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,320 And used and. Jesus was just a piece of the 270 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:10,480 puzzle, which Paul is like, absolutely. 271 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:15,560 Not because Jesus is not just a percentage. 272 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,320 Guys, this doesn't. Work like Captain Planet. 273 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,440 You know what I'm talking about. Shows my age. 274 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,400 Captain Planet, Everybody had the rings, water, all that. 275 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:25,640 But when? All all. 276 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:29,480 Powers combined, I am Captain Planet and then the guy. 277 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:34,400 Goes crazy and what the the church in Colossae believed it 278 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,760 was like that like there were all these. 279 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:38,080 Separate types of emanate and then. 280 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,880 But when all powers combined then God was able to. 281 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,480 No, that's not the way. It works. 282 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,360 And what Paul is saying is like, no Jesus. 283 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:50,120 Is the creator of. Everything in heaven and on 284 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:51,600 earth. But watch this the. 285 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:56,160 Visible and the invisible. I like how we. 286 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,880 Think we're? Creators, and if this is the 287 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:00,280 truth. Listen, none of us. 288 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,960 Are creators. All of us are just. 289 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,520 Rearrangers We are great managers of. 290 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,200 Stuff. Jesus is the creator. 291 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,440 All we did was. Rearrange atoms to create an 292 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,600 atom bomb. All I did. 293 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,920 I didn't write anything down. I just took paper that he 294 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:21,760 created. And ink. 295 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:25,320 That he created. Into a pen with the materials 296 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,120 that man used. To create it. 297 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,320 And for me, all I did was manage the stuff that he gave me. 298 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,360 Jesus is the one that. Creates everything he created. 299 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,280 All of the molecules he created, the gases and the metals. 300 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,720 And like if you. Look at science, the only reason 301 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,520 that science exists. Is because Jesus created. 302 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:49,120 Everything that science needs to prove things, Jesus creates all 303 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:54,720 things, but not just everything tangible and materialistically. 304 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,640 It says that he created things. Invisible. 305 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,880 So here goes a little bit deeper, because also there was 306 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,760 a. Teaching in that church. 307 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:06,040 That they would worship. Angels. 308 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,599 So what does Paul? Do here, Paul says. 309 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:15,119 Hold on A. Second, because Jesus does not 310 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,400 need angels help, He's the one that created them. 311 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,839 What does it say? Thrones or. 312 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:28,280 Powers or rulers or authorities? Jesus was the one that put them. 313 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,160 So what does Paul do? Paul ranks them and he's like 314 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:36,320 no, no, no, like, line them all. Up Jesus is the creator of all 315 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,400 of that. Don't worship angels. 316 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,800 You worship the one that created the angels. 317 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:44,640 Look at this. Revelation 22. 318 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:46,200 Like Ricky, where's that in the Bible? 319 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,800 I'm so glad you asked me. Revelation 22 verses 8 and 9 is 320 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,000 This is the. This is John as he's seen a 321 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,680 vision. Of of Christ, he just saw the 322 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,720 the seals. In heaven John 22 verses 8-9 it 323 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:04,800 says I, John am the one who heard and saw these things, and 324 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,920 when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to. 325 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,600 Worship at the feet. Of the Angel who had been shown 326 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,640 them to me. But he said to me, don't do 327 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:21,400 that. I am a fellow servant with you 328 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,120 and with your. Fellow prophets and with all who 329 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:30,760 keep the words of the scroll, worship God. 330 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,800 That's. Coming from an Angel, even the 331 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,680 angels in heaven understand that. 332 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,880 Jesus is. Supreme over the Mall. 333 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,600 And Paul is saying Jesus is. Supreme, not just over the 334 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,520 angels that are. Holy, but also. 335 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,520 The angels that are demonic. Jesus rules them all. 336 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,280 Do you know what that means for us? 337 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,480 That if Jesus is. Supreme over everything that is 338 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,120 all evil. That means that they must ask 339 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:00,560 for His permission to do something to you. 340 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,000 That's how he rolls. Man, that's how he. 341 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:12,280 Rules Jesus created all the. Angels and listen, Paul ranks 342 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:14,960 them up there and lines them up and knocks it all down. 343 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,240 All of that stuff. Rulers, powers, all that. 344 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,880 Listen, Jesus. Creates all of that. 345 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,000 Which we see number. Four that we. 346 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:28,120 Have got to understand Jesus Christ created everything for. 347 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,440 Jesus Christ, where do we? Get that from keep reading that 348 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,280 verse. All things have been created. 349 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:35,640 Through. Him and for what? 350 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,960 For him, and I know for some of us, that kind of feels a little 351 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:42,720 bit. Weird to say like. 352 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,760 What? It's not for me, no. 353 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:49,600 He. Created everything for him. 354 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:55,720 Because he loves us as God. All the material, all spiritual, 355 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,960 the universe, it's. All for His pleasure and it's 356 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,440 all for His glory. Here's the thing about. 357 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:06,240 Jesus, because Jesus is. God, he doesn't need sleep, He 358 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,440 doesn't need rest, He doesn't need this. 359 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,880 He's in heaven, ruling and reigning for all eternity. 360 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,120 And the Bible says that the enemies are under. 361 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:21,720 His footstool Jesus. Is God and he demonstrates that. 362 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,720 And. Everything that he creates is 363 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,720 for his reign and renown and for. 364 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,080 His glory. Why did God create us? 365 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:36,960 It's for His glory. And even as God created us and 366 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:41,760 we rebel against our Creator instead of just wiping us out 367 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,720 like little ants, you know what? He. 368 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,640 Does he looks at us? He's like, man, I love you 369 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:53,480 enough that I'm going to reconcile you back to me, so I'm 370 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,360 going to send. God, who's Jesus? 371 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:57,360 To come down to earth to take on. 372 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:59,680 Flesh and he's. Going to live. 373 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,560 A perfect life. And he's going to become the 374 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,240 payment that's going to bring you back to me, my creation, 375 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,880 back to me. So Jesus. 376 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:14,320 Created everything for Jesus and in point number. 5 Jesus holds 377 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:18,920 it all together, So Jesus. Doesn't just create everything 378 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,120 tangible the. Stuff that you can. 379 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:23,400 See visible, invisible everything. 380 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,320 Is held together because. Of him the reason that you do 381 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,160 not self combust. Is because Jesus is. 382 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,560 Holding us together. The reason why these these? 383 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,880 Wires do not just blow. Up is because Jesus is holding 384 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,680 it all together. Jesus is the. 385 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:43,960 One that is keeping everything moving and working the way it 386 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,080 should and in motion. So because Christ already 387 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,320 existed, he's he's. The one that created it all. 388 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:56,200 But he's also the one that sustains everything Jesus 389 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,760 maintains. Power and. 390 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:01,320 Balance necessary so that. Way we could exist. 391 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,560 And that life could continue. Watch this. 392 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,680 Everybody take a deep breath. Now blow it out. 393 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,360 That's because Jesus allowed you to do that. 394 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,520 Do you understand, and I think some of us don't understand the 395 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,200 magnitude. Of Christ. 396 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,920 And how how great he is in the creation of the world and that 397 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,800 everything. Is held together because. 398 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,560 Of him so Jesus. Has it all together because 399 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,000 he's. The one that is doing it now, 400 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,560 we're going to take a quick transition. 401 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:37,360 So, Paul? Just walked through. 402 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,520 Hey, like through. Creation, the supremacy of. 403 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,880 Christ. This is who Christ is. 404 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:44,920 But now we're going to take a little. 405 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,240 Bit of a. A slide and we're. 406 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,000 Going to look at the church so he's. 407 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:54,400 He's going to talk to them about Christ being part of the church 408 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:59,040 and how he ends up, how he ends up being with the church. 409 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:04,080 So look at verse 18. Verse 18 says this and he is the 410 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,520 head of the body. The church. 411 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,520 He is the. Beginning and the first born 412 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:15,120 from among the dead so then everything he might have the 413 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:19,920 supremacy so we're going to see three things in verse 18 and 414 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,720 it's not going to be on the screen but. 415 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,520 Christ is the head of the Church. 416 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,720 That's what it says in 18. He is the head of the body. 417 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,600 And listen, anything without a head is dead, but anything with 418 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,520 two heads, it's a monster. So if. 419 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,400 Christ is not the. Head of the church. 420 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:43,520 It's not a church. But if Christ and the pastor are 421 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,880 the head of. The church, it's a monster and 422 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,240 it hurts people. That's. 423 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,720 Why we always say? Jesus is the one that runs this 424 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,840 thing, not, not me, not anybody in here. 425 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,360 That's why on that sign it says. Under the Lordship of Jesus 426 00:23:57,360 --> 00:24:00,000 Christ, because this church is His. 427 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,360 So Christ is the the head of the. 428 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:06,280 Church, and I like how Paul uses this metaphor. 429 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,200 Because the head. Holds the brain. 430 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,000 The head is the one that that. Controls the body and without 431 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,360 the head it doesn't work. So Christ controls every. 432 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,600 Part of the church and it gives it. 433 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,120 Life and direction every. Detail the discussion. 434 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:27,800 And all this shows the pre eminence of Jesus when it comes. 435 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,880 To our church. So then Paul says he is the. 436 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,680 Beginning. There's that rank again. 437 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,120 He's the beginning of the Church and the first born among the 438 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:42,680 dead, so that in everything he might have supremacy, the Church 439 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,160 was birthed only. Because Christ is the. 440 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,000 Beginning He's the first one to come out of the grave. 441 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,960 But then some of y'all are. Like, well, Ricky, like, didn't 442 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,840 others get resurrected too? What about? 443 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,960 Them. Yeah, but they they were. 444 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,320 Born they lived they. Died. 445 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,720 They were resurrected. But then they died again. 446 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:06,920 End story, Jesus. Always existed, was born, lived 447 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:11,600 a life, died, buried, resurrected, and he'll never die 448 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,720 again. That's the first born. 449 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,640 Nobody else in the in the world is. 450 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:17,760 Ever. Going to do that? 451 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,440 And because. He did that. 452 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:25,120 All of us are following as well. You know there's a saying a. 453 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,800 Lot of rappers use. They're like, man, if one of us 454 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:28,800 makes it. Out the hood. 455 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:34,240 We all make it out the hood. But with Christ. 456 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,400 It's because I conquer. Death we all. 457 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,360 Get to conquer death. If you follow me, he's the. 1st 458 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,040 it's that. Order again. 459 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,320 It's the source. Of pre eminence. 460 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,880 He gave his life for the church so that. 461 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,080 Way we're able to become the. Church so he. 462 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,720 Has supremacy and it's all done. It's that chronological, that 463 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,280 word again. And then look at verse 9 for. 464 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:04,240 God was pleased to have all his. Fullness well in him and through 465 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:09,760 Him to reconcile all to himself, all things, whether things on 466 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,720 earth or things in heaven, by making peace. 467 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,120 Through his blood shed. On the cross. 468 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,800 So this is really interesting because now he's addressing how. 469 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,360 Jesus because he's God, how he's able. 470 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:31,880 To make things. Right with God the Father, so he 471 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,360 has the. Fullness in him. 472 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,160 I love this word. Fullness here, because fullness 473 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,280 means like an exchange. There's a, There's a. 474 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,520 A Greek word. Called Pluroma and we see this 475 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,960 all through the News Testament. Pluroma it means like the 476 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,480 fullness of something, like something was filled. 477 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:56,160 All the way to the top. And what Paul is saying is that 478 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:01,240 God was pleased to have his. Pluroma all in Christ, and then 479 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,080 it says. Dwell in Christ so. 480 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,520 That means it ain't going nowhere. 481 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:10,400 It means that he's camping out, so his Pluroma abides in. 482 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,920 Christ, that means that it is set forever. 483 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,480 Here's. Why that's so important? 484 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:18,960 Because others. Are going to come and claim to 485 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:24,520 be God, but they're not going to be around forever and they're 486 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,680 going to mess up and they're going to sin and they're going 487 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,800 to bleed and they're going to fall off and they're going to 488 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,560 do. Ridiculous things and people. 489 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:36,400 Are going to worship them and honor them, but it does not 490 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,400 dwell in them and that's. Where that's where Paul is 491 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:44,120 saying is that Christ has. The fullness now, because Jesus. 492 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:47,680 Now follow me here. Because Jesus has the. 493 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,680 Fullness. Of who God is. 494 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:55,560 Now through him he's able to reconcile to himself all things. 495 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:01,000 So because we sin, we have been separated from a holy and 496 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,920 righteous. God so. 497 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,120 God is going to require some sort of payment for us. 498 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,360 To go back. To him and have a relationship 499 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:13,760 with him. What's that payment look like? 500 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,560 There's got to be a set of, there's got. 501 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,720 To be some kind of standard that. 502 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,840 A holy and righteous God requires. 503 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,720 And that standard is perfection. But none of us will ever attain 504 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:25,560 perfection. It's. 505 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,680 Impossible. So if the. 506 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,080 Standard is perfection. Then that means that there's got 507 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,840 to. Be a life for a life there's. 508 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,440 Got to be blood involved. That's why in the. 509 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,960 Old Testament the priest would. Go and the priest would would 510 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,440 look at the sacrificial. Lambs and and the animals and 511 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,760 examine them and then give. A go ahead in order to sacrifice 512 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,080 that to a holy and righteous God, but because. 513 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,960 Jesus has the fullness of God, his all, His Holiness, his 514 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,240 character that means. That Jesus is the perfect 515 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,000 sacrifice. In. 516 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,400 Order for God's wrath to be satisfied, that's called. 517 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,400 Propitiation. We get that payment. 518 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,560 So whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making 519 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,160 peace. Through the blood shed. 520 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,440 On the cross. Why does Paul say peace? 521 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,400 Because the truth is, is that before. 522 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,920 We were reconciled to God. We were enemies. 523 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:30,360 Of God, you're like what, Rick? That's kind of cold, no? 524 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,000 You hate. God, unless you're founding. 525 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,720 Christ, how can you say I? Hate God because you don't want 526 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,840 his things. The alienation goes both ways. 527 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,440 Look at verse 21. Once we were alienated from God 528 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:50,400 and we're enemies in the minds. Because of your evil behavior, 529 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,560 you know a better word for this? Is instead of enemies. 530 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,360 Is hateful y'all? Y'all were like hateful toward 531 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,640 God, so we were. Alienated. 532 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,480 Alienated from God because of our sin. 533 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,960 A holy, unrighteous God cannot be in the presence of sin. 534 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,240 Light cannot be in the presence of darkness. 535 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,040 It's impossible. But at the same time, we 536 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,240 alienate. Ourselves from God because we 537 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,440 love. Our sin and we want to do what 538 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:24,040 we want to do, and because we love our sin and God is a holy 539 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,960 and righteous God, I can't be near him. 540 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,200 And at the same time I don't want to be near him because I 541 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,760 don't want to follow Him. So something's got to give. 542 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,720 How do we? How do we fix this? 543 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,520 Jesus, Jesus. Being God, all eternal, stepped 544 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,960 out of heaven. He put on flesh. 545 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,360 And he goes to the cross. And he? 546 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,320 Gives his life. Like they didn't kill him. 547 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,240 No, he gave. His life, it was all part of the 548 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:57,320 Father's will. Oh, that way, through the blood 549 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,160 of Christ we could have peace with. 550 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,680 A holy and righteous God. Without. 551 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,600 Jesus, there's no peace. With God, so that hate goes. 552 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:13,920 Away and now love enters so because now I have. 553 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,480 God's. Love for my life and because 554 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,880 love has entered my life, I'm able to go to a holy and. 555 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,800 Righteous God and God. Does not see Ricky the Sinner or 556 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,560 Ricky the one that. Hates God. 557 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:31,560 God sees Ricky. The Son now I see he sees Christ 558 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,640 in me, so I'm able to go to a holy and righteous God and call 559 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:39,240 him ABBA Father, I am adopted into the family of God and all 560 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,120 of. This is because of Jesus Christ. 561 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:44,680 He's the one that made this work. 562 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,320 And just to wrap this thing up, verse 22. 563 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:54,920 But now he has reconciled you. By Christ's physical body 564 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,240 through. Death to present you wholly in 565 00:31:58,240 --> 00:31:59,840 his. Sight which talked about that 566 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,560 without. Blemish and free from 567 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,640 accusation. Did you all catch that word? 568 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:11,160 Accusation, You know the the the biggest thing that pulls us. 569 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,720 Away. From doing what God want is 570 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,280 people accusing you of something. 571 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,360 Whether it is spiritual? Or in person, somebody's going 572 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,840 to accuse you of something and you're going to get. 573 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,320 All in your fields and. You're going to kind of crawl up 574 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,560 and you're going to go. Away but you're. 575 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,720 Saying man no like you have been bought. 576 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,240 By the blood of. Christ, there is no accusation 577 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,160 in you. I like in Romans this is for 578 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,840 there is no condemnation for all of those who are found in 579 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,760 Christ. We are free. 580 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,360 Say whatever. You want about me? 581 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:49,120 Who cares? I am found in Christ make. 582 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,120 Fun of me, who cares? I am found in Christ. 583 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,120 I have freedom in Christ. There's nothing you could say 584 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,840 that's going to embarrass me or there's nothing you're going to 585 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,520 say that's going to take me away from my faith 'cause I 586 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,800 understand I'm found in. Christ give all the. 587 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,560 Accusations you want, I might feel. 588 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,560 Bad for a little bit. But there ain't nothing that's 589 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,520 going to say I don't believe in this anymore. 590 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:17,320 No, we are free from accusation. And if you can and then look at 591 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:18,640 20. Three, this is key. 592 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,880 Look how Paul wraps this thing up if you continue in your 593 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:30,120 faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held 594 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,040 out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you 595 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,600 heard. And that has been proclaimed to 596 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:41,760 every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a 597 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:46,520 servant to. Paul is saying because of 598 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,520 everything Jesus. Christ is God. 599 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,040 He stepped out of heaven. He. 600 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,760 Became that payment for us. And because of all of that? 601 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:59,560 Because he reconciled us, Paul is saying, listen to me, stand 602 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:04,640 firm, continue in the faith established. 603 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,920 Hold on, do not move from the hope. 604 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,960 Who's the hope, Christ? Our hope is that one day he's 605 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:17,440 going to come back again, so I'm going to live my life knowing 606 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,760 that he's coming. It's not time to chill, it's 607 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,520 time to get after it. Jesus is coming back. 608 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,960 So I'm going to. Live like he is, don't fall out 609 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,199 of your faith. Stand firm and listen. 610 00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:36,960 Many of us have questions, or some of us feel like. 611 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:41,520 Wishy washy. Some of us can be a little bit, 612 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:45,040 just be honest. We have our little spiritual. 613 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,400 Temper tantrums where things don't go our way. 614 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,600 Like Jesus forgot. And now I'm a mad at God. 615 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,320 But that's not the. Supremacy of Christ. 616 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,080 If you understand how. Jesus works. 617 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,000 That means every. Single thing is controlled by 618 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,240 him. I don't know if you all noticed 619 00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:07,600 this morning we played some music. 620 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:12,160 Out of this speaker. Because our CPU decided not to 621 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,240 blast the music out of it. And I remember sitting back 622 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:17,400 there just thinking, you know what? 623 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,560 Maybe just because Jesus wanted it this way. 624 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,240 Maybe it's because Jesus. Allowed it. 625 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,840 Yes, maybe because our CPU needs an update. 626 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,160 But also if Christ. Wanted it to work. 627 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,080 It would have worked. And guys, listen, I know that 628 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:36,520 sounds like Ricky. That's a little. 629 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,200 No, it's not because. God. 630 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,800 Jesus is God. And if we start living our lives 631 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,520 a little bit more that way, like when things don't, I didn't get 632 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,480 that job, man. I, I was, I was the most 633 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,080 qualified person that didn't give me that. 634 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,840 Job. Well, maybe because Christ 635 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,320 didn't want you to have it. Maybe because that's something 636 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:53,000 better for you. Oh. 637 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,120 That relationship didn't. Work in my life. 638 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,720 I don't know what I did wrong. You did nothing wrong. 639 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,960 Maybe Jesus just. Doesn't want you to have that. 640 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,960 There's so many things in our world, in our lives, that we 641 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,040 need to. Take a step back. 642 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,600 And think of the supremacy of Christ, and instead of thinking 643 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,480 about other things, filling those gaps. 644 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:14,800 Think of Jesus. Jesus will fill those gaps. 645 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,120 Jesus is all supreme, and Jesus rules everything. 646 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,040 So what? I want to do today is I want to 647 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,000 end with five questions and then we're going to worship. 648 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,440 I want you to ponder 5 questions and these are the five points, 649 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:28,480 but I'm going to flip them on us. 650 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,400 Is. Jesus, my God. 651 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,800 You need to ask. Yourself that question. 652 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,680 Is Jesus your God? Is Jesus the God that you 653 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,440 worship? And if he's not? 654 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:46,720 Today's a great day for you. To surrender to him. 655 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:54,920 Is Jesus Christ before? All of my things, everything in 656 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,720 my. Life do I? 657 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,120 Bring Jesus around it. Or is Jesus the. 658 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,480 Center of it and everything else comes around. 659 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,600 It there's a big. Difference there. 660 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:13,760 Is Jesus before? All of my things do I understand 661 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,680 and do I believe that Jesus is my creator? 662 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,720 Because if Jesus. Is my creator. 663 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,640 That means that Jesus does not make mistakes, And if Jesus does 664 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,640 not make mistakes, that means that he created me perfectly. 665 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,560 The way and purposely. That he needed me to be created. 666 00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:35,800 Regardless. Of how I got here on this earth. 667 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,520 I'm not a mistake. Jesus is my Creator. 668 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,480 Does Jesus? Hold everything in my. 669 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,120 Life together. Do you understand that does? 670 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,440 Does he hold it all together? Everything that I've gone. 671 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,160 Through everything that like. Sin has crept in and almost 672 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,680 destroyed. If it wasn't for Christ. 673 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:57,360 I don't know where I would be right now. 674 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,200 Jesus holds my life together. And then lastly is whose? 675 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,000 Glory am I pursuing. Whose? 676 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,040 Glory Are you pursuing? Are you pursuing your glory, or 677 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,280 are you pursuing the glory of? Jesus. 678 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,880 Jesus Christ created everything. For the glory of Jesus Christ. 679 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,440 Jesus is Lord. Jesus is God. 680 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,760 And he is who we're going to worship here. 681 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,040 At City Post Church. We don't worship any other 682 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,440 entities, we don't worship angels, we don't worship 683 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:31,360 anything that's not Christ and my. 684 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,880 Prayer, is that you? Surrender your heart to Him. 685 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,320 Because He's God and He is Lord of our lives and He is God 686 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:39,680 alone. We'll pray for us.