Jesus Christ is Supreme - Colossians (Part Three)

1.    Jesus is Supreme in His Deity

      v15a “He is the image of the invisible God…”

2.    Jesus is Supreme in His Creation

       i.         Jesus is A____________ Creation

        v15b “…the firstborn over all creation.”

      ii.         Jesus is the A____________ of Creation

              v16a  “For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;

    iii.         Jesus is the O____________ of Creation 

              v16b “all things were created by him and for him.

    iv.         Jesus P______________ Creation

              v17a “He is before all things”

     v.         Jesus P______________ Creation

              v17b “and in him all things hold together.”

3.    Jesus is Supreme in His Church

       i.         Jesus is Preeminent as the H___________ of the Church

              v18a “ And he is the head of the body, the church…”

      ii.         Jesus is preeminent in His R______________  

              v18b “…he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead”

    iii.         Jesus is preeminent in E______________

         v18c “so that in everything he might have the supremacy.”

    iv.         Jesus is preeminent in R______________ 

              v19-20 “For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him and 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.”