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Daily Service: Jesus is the Creator
Daily Service: Jesus is the Supreme Creator
Twenty Fifth in the series “Jesus is” – I will include scriptures, references,
graphics, and songs also.
If you are dyed in the wool Trinitarian, I challenge you to open up to the idea that Jesus and God are the same. Above all, you need to keep in mind that God is God, and you are not. We may never fully understand, and I will have a lot of questions when I arrive.
Supreme Creator Over All – “By Him, all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities– all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him, all things hold together.…” Col. 1:16-17
John 1:3 NKJV All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made.[1]
Ephesians 1:20-21 NKJV which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.[2]
[1] The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), Jn 1:3.
[2] The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), Eph 1:20–21.
Eleventh in the series “Jesus is” – I will include scriptures, references, graphics, and songs also.
“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.” (Colossians 1:16)
Before one can really know Jesus Christ as Savior or Lord, he must acknowledge Him as offended and rejected Creator, because He was our Creator first of all. This is such an important doctrine of the New Testament that it is remarkable how rarely it is emphasized in modern evangelicalism.
Creation by Jesus Christ is the doctrine with which John begins his great gospel of salvation: “In the beginning was the Word,…All things were made by him;…and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not” (John 1:1, 3, 10). It is the foundational message of the book of Hebrews: “God .…hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds” (Hebrews 1:1-2).
The apostle Paul said that he had been called specifically to preach “the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 3:8-9). When a person becomes a believer in Christ, receiving His very life by the new birth, he is said to be “renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him” (Colossians 3:10).
In the final book of the Bible, Jesus Christ is called “the beginning of the creation of God” (Revelation 3:14). But of all the biblical passages identifying Jesus Christ as Creator, the most definitive of all is our text for today. Everything in heaven and Earth was created by Him and for Him! “For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen” (Romans 11:36).
THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2020