Every warm day makes me
look forward to the spring time, but its still a little too cold at this point.
We are all fighting colds at this point, Holly Avery and myself. So please pray
for us. Keep us always in your prayers. Thank you for that and I hope you are
doing well.
David
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He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
Colossians 1:18
When we really stop and think about it, what is there to live for in this world if there was no hope in Christ’s return? The main argument of our relationship with Jesus by most people as they deny He was raised back to life and conquered death. We do not worship a dead king, or a good teacher of old who had said some wise things. Our Christ is alive and reigns as the head of the church.
Firstborn in this passage is a position and ranking, not an order of birth. Jesus already was long before the incarnation (where he became a man). We praise our Lord for doing something no what was impossible for anyone else; bring life from death. By this He brings us hope for life. Christ is the head of the church, and the people including the Pope and other church leaders are all His servants. We were created for Him, where the world thinks we created him for us.
A problem comes when we become so used to the way we have always known Him and forget who He really is. The church body has spent a lot of time trying to create its own version of Jesus as if he needed an upgrade. Leaders start teaching principles apart from the cross and miss the life and hope that it brings to us. Without that cross, and without the empty grave what is the point in teaching anything. It is He who is first above all and who has the power over death to bring life.
David
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He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
Colossians 1:18
When we really stop and think about it, what is there to live for in this world if there was no hope in Christ’s return? The main argument of our relationship with Jesus by most people as they deny He was raised back to life and conquered death. We do not worship a dead king, or a good teacher of old who had said some wise things. Our Christ is alive and reigns as the head of the church.
Firstborn in this passage is a position and ranking, not an order of birth. Jesus already was long before the incarnation (where he became a man). We praise our Lord for doing something no what was impossible for anyone else; bring life from death. By this He brings us hope for life. Christ is the head of the church, and the people including the Pope and other church leaders are all His servants. We were created for Him, where the world thinks we created him for us.
A problem comes when we become so used to the way we have always known Him and forget who He really is. The church body has spent a lot of time trying to create its own version of Jesus as if he needed an upgrade. Leaders start teaching principles apart from the cross and miss the life and hope that it brings to us. Without that cross, and without the empty grave what is the point in teaching anything. It is He who is first above all and who has the power over death to bring life.
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