Thursday 2021.12.16
Today's Passages:
Genesis 4:1 - 11:32 NIV (219 verses)
Colossians 1:1 - 4:18 NIV (95 verses)
Today I have finished reading the epistle of Paul to the Colossians. Tomorrow I will begin reading First Thessalonians.
In Colossians chapter 1, from my New Testament reading today, I am reminded of a detailed description of the Anointed One by the Apostle. Our Lord Iesou is described as the "firstborn" in at least three ways:
- He is firstborn over all creation (verse 15)
- He is before all things (verse 17), and
- He is firstborn from among the dead (verse 18)
- Colossians 1:15 - 20 NIV New International Version
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The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all
creation.
For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers 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.
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.
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and 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.
Brothers and Sisters in the Anointed One, let us remember that our Lord is the firstborn of all creation, that he existed before all things, and that in the assembly he is the firstborn from the dead, having been raised by God on the Third day and be seated at the right hand of God in Heaven.
