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“… but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:31

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.” (v. 15)

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a‘Ος εστιν ’εικων του Θεου του ’αορατου

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘icon’

Genesis 1:26-27“Then God said, ‘Let us make Man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, an over all the creatures that move along the ground.So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a‘Ος εστιν ’εικων του Θεου του ’αορατου

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 15b-18“ … the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created … He is created before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy.”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17• Firstborn – ‘o πρωτοτοκος

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17• Firstborn – ‘o πρωτοτοκος

– IN Him all things were created, v. 16a

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17• Firstborn – ‘o πρωτοτοκος

– IN Him all things were created, v. 16a– FOR Him all things were created, v. 16b“All things were created by Him and for Him …”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17• Firstborn – ‘o πρωτοτοκος

– IN Him all things were created, v. 16a– FOR Him all things were created, v. 16b– He is BEFORE Creation, v. 17a “He is before all things …”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17• Firstborn – ‘o πρωτοτοκος

– IN Him all things were created, v. 16a– FOR Him all things were created, v. 16b– He is BEFORE Creation, v. 17a– He sustains creation, v. 17b

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17• Firstborn – ‘o πρωτοτοκος

– IN Him all things were created, v. 16a– FOR Him all things were created, v. 16b– He is BEFORE Creation, v. 17a– He sustains creation, v. 17b “… in him all things hold together”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17– New creation, v. 18“And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy.”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17– New creation, v. 18

• Head of the Church, v. 18 a “And he is the head of the body, the church”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17– New creation, v. 18

• Head of the Church, v. 18 a• Firstborn from the dead, v. 18b “he is the beginning and the

firstborn from among the dead”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18– Old creation, vv. 16-17– New creation, v. 18

• Head of the Church, v. 18 a• Firstborn from the dead, v. 18b

– SUPREME, v. 18c “so that in everything he might have the supremacy”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18• Incarnation, vv. 19-20

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18• Incarnation, vv. 19-20– God’s PERSON is made visible in Him, v. 19“For God was pleased to have all His fulness dwell in Him.”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18• Incarnation, vv. 19-20– God’s PERSON is made visible in Him, v. 19 – God’s WORK is made visible in Him, v. 20“… 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.”

Colossians 1:15-20

• Introduction– God’s is invisible, v. 15– Jesus is God’s ‘image’, v. 15a

• Creation, vv. 16-18• Incarnation, vv. 19-20– God’s PERSON is made visible in Him, v. 19 – God’s WORK is made visible in Him, v. 20

• Conclusion