Colossians 1:15-23

Jason VonBehren

Colossians • Sermon • Submitted 3 years ago

Colossians 1:9–18

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Introduction

The bible was not written with the chapter and verse numebers in them

Imagine a letter or email you wrote.

You would’t write that way right?

Paul didn’t either

Actually none of the books of the bible were written to be read that way

The chapter divisions commonly used today were developed by Stephen Langton, an Archbishop of Canterbury in England.

Langton put the modern chapter divisions into place in around A.D. 1227. The Wycliffe English Bible of 1382 was the first Bible to use this chapter pattern.

Since the Wycliffe Bible, nearly all Bible translations have followed Langton’s chapter divisions.

I wish Langton would have zigged where he zagged sometimes and this is one of those spots

Paul meant for this whole thanksgiving to roll like a powerful river building and building as it poured

Before he ever thinks to deal with false teaching or practical matters He is reminding the Colossian Believers of who they are and what Christ has done

And he is doing it in an explosion of language

Langton for all his work can lure us into reading this isolated from the letter as a whole and we can miss the power Paul is thundering in this thanksgiving

We are going to look at

English Standard Version Chapter 1

The Preeminence of Christ

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

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