~ Jesus Christ Is The Great
Pre-Eminent One, the Fulfillment of the Old Testament ~
The Bible is about Jesus Christ
~ “Jesus
said to them, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that
the prophets have spoken! Did not the
Christ have to suffer these things
and then enter His glory?’ And beginning
with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the
Scriptures concerning Himself” (Luke 24:25-27).
Jesus Christ in the Book of
Colossians ~
In the Book of Colossians Jesus Christ is part of the Godhead (as part
of the Trinity He has full and complete deity), He is Pre-eminent over all
creation, the Redeemer, and the Head of the Church.
The Old Testament was full
of “shadows” (not the real thing) pointing us to the ultimate coming
Messiah. “Let no one judge you in food
or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the
substance is of Christ. Let no one
cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of
angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast
to the Head, from whom all the body [the
true Church of Jesus Christ], nourished and knit together by joints and
ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God” (Colossians
2:16-19).
Comment
~ We have only touched the
surface of Christ in the book of Colossians.
The Apostle Paul told us in this book that the Old Testament presents
many faint pictures of the future but the reality was fulfilled and is found in
Jesus Christ (Colossians 2:17 above).
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