Faith: Living and Learning in the Faithful One The Foundation of The Faith: Jesus Christ, Colossians 1:15-23

He is __Creator__ 15-16 15He is the image of the invisible God,   15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.

He is __Sustainer__ 17 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

He is __Sustainer__ 17 When Jesus looks at his universe from his exalted throne at the right hand of the Father, and he sees the great galaxies whirling in space, the planets and the people upon this planet, and all the minute details of life here including the details of our individual lives, there is nothing that he sees anywhere of which he cannot say, "Mine!" Abraham Kuyper

He is __The Head of the Church__ 18a 18And he is the head of the body, the church;

He is __Supreme__ 18b he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

He is __Redemption__ 19-20 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, Colossians 2: 9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Philippians 2 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

We were __Alienated__ 21 21Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.

We are __Reconciled__ 22 22But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death Romans 5:1 since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—

If we __Continue__ 23a 23if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel.

This is __The Gospel___ 23b This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Revelation 5:11-13  11Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. 12In a loud voice they sang:     "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength    and honor and glory and praise!"  13Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing:    "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power,          for ever and ever!"

Revelation 5:8 Hebrews 1:8 John 9:38 Matthew 1:23 John 8:12 Isaiah 9:6 Hebrews 13:8 John 14:9 2 Timothy 4:1 Matthew 14:33 Jude 25 Matthew 2:10-11 Philippians 2:10-11 Hebrews 1:2-3 John 10:30 Luke 24:51-52 2 Corinthians 5:10 1 John 5:20 Matthew 26:63-64 Matthew 18:20 Revelation 2:26-27 John 10:7,9 John 20:28 John 5:18 Mark 2:5 Titus 2:13 John 21:17 Revelation 21:6 John 14:6 Matthew 3:11 Romans 2:16 Mark 5:6 John 8:58 John 1:2-3 John 1:3 Matthew 25:31 John 11:25 Hebrews 1:6 Colossians 2:10 Revelation 1:8 Matthew 16:16 John 10:33 John 15:1 John 6:35 Luke 2:11 Matthew 11:27 Matthew 28:9 John 15:26