•Jesus is Supreme Because He is God (Colossians 1:15a)

•Jesus is Supreme Because He Is The Creator (Colossians 1:15b-17)

 

Jesus Is The Supreme Lord and Savior

 

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. 

 

Jesus Is Supreme Because He Is Head of the Church (Colossians 1:18)

 

12 For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. 

 

1 Corinthians 12:12-13

 

13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

 

1 Corinthians 12:12-13

 

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. 

 

Colossians 1:18

 

9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;… 

 

Romans 10:9

 

“They said (in boast), ‘We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Apostle of God;’ but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them,…

 

Sura: 4:157

 

…and those who different therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety, they killed him not.”  

 

Sura: 4:157

 

19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him…

 

Jesus Is Supreme Because He Is Absolute Deity (Colossians 1:19)

 

19 ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ εὐδόκησεν πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα κατοικῆσαι 

 

Jesus Is Supreme Because He Is Absolute Deity (Colossians 1:19)

 

9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form…

 

9 ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ κατοικεῖ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος σωματικῶς . . . 

 

Colossians 2:9

 

20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

 

Jesus Is Supreme Because He Alone Is

The Reconciler (Colossians 1:20-22)

 

21 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,

 

Jesus Is Supreme Because He Alone Is

The Reconciler (Colossians 1:20-22)

 

22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach — 

 

Jesus Is Supreme Because He Alone Is

The Reconciler (Colossians 1:20-22)

 

καταλλάσσω (s. prec. entry and διαλλάσσω) 1 aor. κατήλλαξα; aor. mid. 3 aor. pl. κατηλλάξαντο (TestAbr A 8 p. 85, 30 [Stone p. 18]). Pass.: fut. 3 sg…

 

BAG

 

καταλλαγήσεται 2 Macc 7:33; 2 aor. κατηλλάγην; ptc. καταλλαγείς; gener. ‘exchange’ one thing for another (TestJob 25:3 τρίχα … ἀντὶ ἄρτων);…

 

BAG

 

… in our lit. only the exchange of hostility for a friendly relationship, reconcile (so Hdt. et al.; 2 Macc). Act. τινά (Hdt. 5, 29; 6, 108; Aristot., Oec. 2, 15) someone τινί to someone. 

 

BAG

 

23 if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard,…

 

Colossians 1:23

 

23 …which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister. 

 

Colossians 1:23