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The Preeminence of Christ in New Creation Colossians The Preeminence of Jesus Christ in New Creation Prayer from the new Anglican Prayer Book Last week • 1: 2-14, Thanksgiving and Prayers • To the Christian family (adelphoi) in Colossae: • Remember your spiritual roots, “the word of truth, the gospel” delivered to you by Epaphras. • You are already “filled” by God with right knowledge, so “walk” in it, with joy. • Undercurrent: You know the truth, it is not the “gospel of supplements”. You are already filled; nothing else is needed. Last week • 1:15-17, Christological “Big Bang” • Paul “wants to stun the Colossians” so he “pitches them into the deep end of Christology” (JIP) • Cosmological Christ rules over “cosmological speculations” (Lightfoot). • Christ is preeminent in creation • “ALL THINGS …created through … and for …him • God’s goal in creation: the glory of Jesus Christ which is God’s glory. J.I. Packer: Paul “wants to stun the Colossians” so he “pitches them into the deep end of Christology.” J.B. Lightfoot: in response to the “cosmological speculations” of the false teachers, Paul speaks of the cosmological Christ. Heaven, earth, visible, invisible; “Heaven and earth”, the created order, all that flowed from the big bang = universe. “Visible and invisible” as a pairing appears only here in Scripture • v. 17, “he is before all things” and “in him all things hold together“ • Christ preexisted all that was created through him and is supreme over it, e.g., v. 15, “firstborn” • “all things” = the totality • “In him all things hold together” (cohere), synestiken, perfect tense • The universe is continuously held together by Jesus Christ • JIP: “cannot conceive of what that means in its effect” Left off here last week just getting our feet wet. This is where Paul is concluding the explosion of Christ “in him all things were created” transitioning to Jesus preeminence in the New Creation. What has been brought into being through him is maintained in being by him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. For me the second half of v. 17 is the most fascinating part of the universality of Jesus Christ. J. B. Lightfoot writes that Christ "is the principle of cohesion in the Universe. He impresses upon creation that unity and solidarity which makes it a cosmos instead of a chaos. Perfect tense: everything has held together in him and continues to do so. The physical, the spiritual, the visible, the invisible, all are held together by Jesus Christ. The invisible: Strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, the visible: electromagnetic force and gravity all in search of a grand unified theory (GUT). The whole created order, in time and space, owes its existence to Christ. He is its origin. He sustains it. Without him, meaning does not exist. Genesis 1 And God said….uttered 8 times John 1, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. Packer cannot conceive of what that means in its effect. “In him all things were created”…“hold together” • Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Math, Oxford University, an atheist: “Extraordinarily precise tuning was inherent in the Big Bang.” • Not really a “bang”, an “absurdly low entropy” universe at its beginning • The “Creator’s aim”: accurate to 10 to the 10th to the power of 123 to achieve the universe’s beginning entropy! 5 The mysteries of the universe’s creation: from a specific point in pre space and only from that point, a singularity, a controlled rapid expansion begins that is flat, spherical and with a very low entropy. There was a unification of forces before Planck time but after that what is it that underlies all these different forces and unifies them? The deeper science “sees” the more it becomes apparent that faith is the bridge to seeing any deeper. 1 followed by 10 to the 123 zeroes. Odds of 1 in 10 to the 50th is zero probability. Therefore the coincidental or accidental creation of our universe is impossible. Roger Penrose, The requirement of infinite precision: “The Creator’s pin has to find a tiny box just 10 to the 10th to the 123rd of the entire phase-space volume in order to create a universe withers special a Big Bang as that we actually find.” –William Henry Bragg British physicist won 1915 Nobel Prize for use of X-rays to discover crystalline features in structures “Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and the fingers of my hand are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.” Christ is Preeminent in New Creation 1:18-20 • v. 18, “he is also head of the body, the church” • Church is the body, Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:12-27, Eph. 1:22 • Acts 9:4-5, “Saul, Saul why are you persecuting me?” • “the beginning, the firstborn from the dead” • “beginning”, arche, first cause, source • “Firstborn from the dead” • Jewish theology: resurrection signals the coming of God in final kingdom power. READ: 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. Rom. 12: 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 1 Cor. 12: 27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. Christ not referenced as head in Romans and Corinthians as he is in Colossians and Ephesians. There is the stress is Christians being fellow members of the body of Christ and our interdependencies. Ephesians 1:22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. The church is the body of Christ, but he is its head. Acts 9:4-5, Damascus road: And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” 5 And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.” There is an organic relationship between Christ and his church that is different than the creation. It is a new creation. God is beginning to make all things new again that beginning of the new creation is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the firstborn from the dead. Christ is held up as the true and only source of life and direction for the church, as its head, as opposed to the false teaching which finds its direction in things that are extra to Christ. Jesus is the firstborn from the dead. The resurrection of the dead has begun, already/not yet Mt of Olives covered with 70,000 graves. Jews will pay upwards of $100,000 for a grave site here. Why? The Mount of Olives is mentioned in the visions of the prophet Ezekiel and the prophecies of Zechariah, and has a special sanctity and qualities attributed to it that exempts those buried there on the day of the resurrection of the dead from the “separation of the soul at the grave” and “migration via underground passages.” Jewish tradition relates that the beginning of the resurrection process will take place on the mount at the end of days, as prophesied by the Jewish prophets. Many Jews believe that those buried on the mount will be the first to arise for everlasting life. The Jews of Jerusalem customarily sent soil from the Mount of Olives in bags to Jewish communities in the diaspora, and Jews outside of Israel would spread this soil on the graves of their beloved. Saul was taught about the resurrection of the dead when Messiah comes at the end of the age. Here he impresses that with Christian truth. Messiah has come and he is the first to be resurrected. The Eighth Day • New Creation: The Eighth Day • “Firstborn from the dead”: Christ initiates the eschatological resurrection • Midnight: Jesus’ resurrection, on the first day of the week, begins the 8th day: recreation, restoration, rebirth • Church is conceived; begins growing at Pentecost; we live in Church’s “gestation” period; birth pains, Matt. 24:8 • Dawn of the 8th day: Second Coming of Christ, Birth of the Church, fully formed. • New Creation realized: Church is complete, earth is restored, “heaven on earth”, Marriage of the Lamb to the Bride, the Church, “all things” now reconciled and reunified, physical and spiritual. • Eighth Day never ends as time gives way to eternity. Paul: in Jesus, firstborn from the dead, it has already begun. The spiritual big bang, the growth and expansion of the church culminating in the dawn of the 8th day with eternal life and eternal unity. Genesis 1: 31- 2:3 And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
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