November 3, 2024

 

 

 

 

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Jesus is the greatest because....

• Many battle over who is the greatest among us, who is the most important. We strive to be the best we can be, for our own sake.

• But Jesus is the greatest because He is the only one who is worthy. He is the image of God. He is the first born of all creation. He is the connection to God for us.

• Even the disciples argued a bit about who was the greatest among them. But it all pales in comparison to what God, in the form of Jesus, has done for us.

• The great thing about that fact is that it is not too late to benefit from what Jesus has done for us.

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Colossians 1:15-23

He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.
16 For everything was created by him,
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through him and for him.
17 He is before all things,
and by him all things hold together.
18 He is also the head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
so that he might come to have
first place in everything.
19 For God was pleased to have
all his fullness dwell in him,
20 and through him to reconcile
everything to himself,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace
through his blood, shed on the cross.[a]

21 Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds as expressed in your evil actions. 22 But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him— 23 if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.

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