Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for May 30, 2021

In a Category by Himself

Colossians 1:15-20

1. Introduction

• an ancient heresy with a modern ring
• not supplemental but supreme
• Because true greatness should never go unrecognized, bank all your hope on Jesus and pursue Him passionately.
• concentrated catalog

2. Recognize the greatness of His non-origination

• before all things
• firstborn of all creation (Psa. 89:27)
• before Abraham was… (John 8:58)

3. Recognize the greatness of His exact representation

• image
• head of the body
• fullness

4. Recognize the greatness of His purposeful creation

• agent
• source
• sustainer

5. Recognize the greatness of His amazing reconciliation

• firstborn from the dead
• reconcile…making peace through the blood of the cross
• that in everything He might be preeminent

6. So What?

• Of whom else…?
• “Christ the Son is the stream that brings salvation to every man’s lips. All wants are supplied there. Take it as a piece of the simplest prose, with no rhetorical exaggeration about it, that Christ is everything.” (Maclaren)
• “It’s beautiful when the worth of Jesus and the love of His followers match…when the value of His perfections and the intensity of our affections correspond.” (Piper)