THREE FIRSTS OF JESUS: THE FIRST PLACE IN EVERYTHING

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Three Firsts Of Jesus

a) In Colossians 1:18, Paul proclaims three ways in which Jesus is first... "He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead... the first place in everything."

Colossians 1:18
18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

2.  The First Place In Everything

"...the first place in everything..." (Colossians 1:18). He is your Lord and God.

a) Some versions of the Bible use a big word for "first place". They call it "preeminence". But "first place" is what preeminence means. Jesus because of the other two firsts, deserves the first place in everything. Paul puts it another way in the verse following our key verse. "It pleased the Father that in him (Christ) all the fullness should dwell" (Colossians 1:19). Later Paul says, "In him dwells all the fullness of the deity bodily" (Colossians 2:9). Jesus has equality with God. That is the sense in which he has first place.

b) Let us worship Jesus and give him first place in our hearts and lives — he who is the first cause of all creation, who showed his power over all creation by becoming the firstborn from the dead.

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