Light in the Darkness
Supremacy of Christ
Part 1
Quintessential passages for the Doctrine of Christ are: Col. 1: 15-17; Matt. 16: 13-16; Jn.1:1.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones,
or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and
for him: And he is before all things,
and by him all things consist; Col. 1: 15-17.
Bishop Lightfoot, a
noted Greek scholar, on the use of both eikon (image) and prototokos (firstborn): “As the Person of Christ was the Divine
response alike to the philosophical questionings of the Alexandrian Jew and to
the patriotic hopes of the Palestinian, these two currents of thought meet in
the term prototokos as applied to our Lord, who is both the
true Logos and the true Messiah.” (Lightfoot)[1]
Think about this! (Rough
estimates)
Comets have vapor trails up to 10,000 miles long; and if
we could capture all that vapor, and put it in a bottle, the amount of vapor
actually present in the bottle would take up less than a cubic inch of space.
Saturn’s rings are around 500,000 miles
in circumference and almost a foot in thickness. If the sun were the size of a beachball and put
on top of the Empire State Building, the nearest group of stars would be as far
away as Australia is to the Empire State Building.
There are more insects
in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire
earth.
Look at the number of stars in the sky;
can we count them? Like a diamond in the ring, it was over the child King, 2000
years ago in Bethlehem. Those who believe in Him, are His delight, and worth
more than this; and He holds us in His hands.
And now the script below about human:
A single human chromosome contains
twenty billion bits of information. How much information is that? If written in
ordinary books, in ordinary language, it would take about four thousand
volumes. According to Greek scholar A.T. Robertson, all things were created has the idea of “stand created” or
“remain created.” Robertson adds: “The permanence of the universe rests, then,
on Christ far more than on gravity. It is a Christ-centric universe.”[2]
Gospels affirm this! That Christ is the Supreme Being!
Greek word
Strong's Greek: 5242. ὑπερέχω (huperechó) -- To surpass,
to …
From huper and echo; to hold oneself above, i.e. (figuratively) to excel; participle (as adjective, or neuter as noun) superior, superiority -- better, excellency, higher, pass, supreme.[3]
SUPREME Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SUPREME is highest in rank or authority; especially : in a position of unquestioned authority, dominance, or influence. How to use supreme in a sentence.[4]
Both God and Man
Hypostatic Union: is the unique
combination of true humanity and
undiminished deity that has existed since the incarnation. The most important
pieces and valuable for the Doctrine of Christ.
There are 2 natures (Divine and man).
This existed without the loss of separate identities, and confusion. They were
inseparably united without transfer of attributes. Although Jesus Christ has
the two distinct natures of deity, and humanity, Christ is One Person.
hypostatic, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford
English …
The effect of one gene, the epistatic gene, is
superimposed on the effect of another, the hypostatic gene, either by obscuring
the phenotypic effect of the hypostatic gene, or by …[5]
Jesus was fully God and fully man.
Kenosis:
What does kenosis mean in Christian theology? - Bible Hub
What does kenosis mean in Christian theology? The term “kenosis” comes from the Greek word κένωσις (kenōsis), which literally means “emptying.” This concept appears in Philippians 2:7, and in many other passages.
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Phil. 2: 7.
Some develop the kenotic theory of the incarnation to the point where they insist that Jesus divested Himself of many of the attributes of deity – such as omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and even suffered the elimination of His own divine self-consciousness. Yet Jesus did not (and could not) become “less God” in the incarnation. No deity was subtracted (though Jesus did renounce some of the privileges of deity); rather humanity was added to His nature.[6]
Atonement
and substitution
Pivotal
Piece: Jesus was the substitutionary sacrifice for the sins of humanity,
for each one of us. His holy wrath against the sinners and sins are satisfied, and justified and mercy
triumphed over justice. God’s wrath is heavy and no human being can deal with
that. So, Christ the God man, because of great love did this on the cross
for you and me! He died in our place; Can anyone imagine this?
When we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and
Saviour we have, salvation, eternal life, and we become His heir as the adopted
ones. This is the huge privilege, and is free and available to all. But those
who come to Him only; if we come to Him, He will not despise us. We are His true
delight. Can we wrap our mind around this?
This privilege is priceless, cannot be
compared with the discomforts we go through: the trials, the storms, the valley
experiences, the losses, and pain and much more! This irreplaceable, exquisite,
immeasurable worth has to be extremely
highly valued, treasured as very precious, cherished, rare, and must be prized
and held dear!
We should be thanking Jesus Christ,
everyday for this substitutionary sacrifice in our place!
[1]
https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/colossians-1/
[2]
https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/colossians-1/
[3]https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=I657DF&PC=I657&q=supreme+Gr
[4]https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=I657DF&PC=I657&q=supreme+w
[5] Oxford English Dictionary https://www.oed.com
› dictionary › hypostatic_adj
https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=I657DF&PC=I657&q=hypostatic+m
[6] https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/philippians-2/
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