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  1. Mar 19, 2019 · Paul’s goal in this passage is to give the Colossian church an accurate picture of who Jesus is and what he accomplished on the cross and to encourage them to remain faithful to Jesus in spite of the pressures they are facing. In verses 15-20, Paul writes the Colossian church a poem about Jesus.

  2. Nov 19, 2017 · It makes perfect sense why Paul moves into a poem that is all about—can you guess?—the power and love of Jesus. Like a symphony, the music of the poem and its main themes fall into two movements, depicting Jesus first as the human embodiment of the Creator (Col 1:15-17), and second as the head of the New Creation (Col 1:18-20) that is ...

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  3. Apr 16, 2020 · From the very beginning of the poem, Paul makes a startling claim. He claims that Jesus is the image of the invisible God (vs. 15). This claim is echoed in the fourth part of the poem when Paul says in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell (vs. 19).

  4. Mar 2, 2020 · Paul certainly thought Jesus was God in a certain sense – but he does not think that he was the Father. He was an angelic, divine being before coming into the world; he was the Angel of the Lord; he was eventually exalted to be equal with God and worthy of all of God’s honor and worship.

  5. Oct 24, 2018 · We need to understand what Paul is saying here. The first thing we see is that he uses three different terms for the same thing. He calls it the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our being gathered to him, and then, later on, he calls it the day of the Lord.

  6. Feb 24, 2020 · How is it that Paul can relegate such an earth-shattering Revelation of Jesus Christ – the *fact* that he was an Angel – the *basis* for Paul’s Whole Christology – on this one, singular phrase, and NEVER again discuss this profoundly important “Truth” anywhere else, in any of his writings?

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  8. Oct 13, 2020 · In last week’s post we examined what Jesus taught about his second coming and the events leading up to it, so we now turn to what Paul said in his writings. 1 Corinthians 15 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11 are two key places where Paul describes the return of Jesus.

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