He Is Before All Things

Colossians 1: 16 - 17 "For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. (17) And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist."

John 15: 7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you."

You understand that “man” is a spirit, who lives in a body, and has a soul (mind, will, emotions). When “man” is born again, his spirit is “re-created” by God, and he becomes a “new creature” in Christ Jesus. It is a gift from God. It was not earned. It was the great and majestic love of God that caused this secret to manifest in the earth.

When Jesus died on the cross and was raised from the dead, He became the firstborn out of death; He conquered death, hell, and Hades so that we might have eternal life. Satan has been eternally defeated. Before this happened, man could not help but to sin. Now, through Jesus, man has power over sin. He does not have to sin any more. He has a choice; he has the re-created spirit; he has Jesus on His side. He has the Holy Spirit to rely on for the power to resist temptation. The old sinful nature has been put away forever; God has wiped his sins away. He paved the way for him to have eternal life, and again be reconciled with the Father. Otherwise, mankind is without God, destined to eternal separation from the creator.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!

              

Most of us who study the Word have read and mused on the scriptures above. And, in some far "corner" of our mind, wonder what type of being is our God. There aren't enough words or any words in the languages of the world that can offer an actual description satisfactory of our comprehension. For what created thing  can describe his creator? Can a car describe its manufacturer? The factory? The engineering? The metals and electronics? The computers? The combustion engine? Of course not. Neither can we describe our creator. For His ways and thoughts are far above ours (mankind), no matter what the "world" tries to tell us!

So who is this Jesus? Did He really exist in ancient times? What is the proof? Can anyone believe the Bible? Why did He come? What does history say? All these questions are those that have been asked for hundreds of years.

(The Encyclopedia of Biblical History, by F.F Bruce is one place to start when searching for the truth of the Bible, especially the New Testament. Other historians include Tacitus & Suetonius, Roman historians, and then Flavius Josephus the Jewish Historian. Henrietta Mears, wrote a book titled “What the Bible is All About”, which offers clear and concise accounts most all of the events in both the Old and New Testaments.)

John 1:1-4

IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (^[a]Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ^[b]Himself.^(A)

2) He was present originally with God.

3) All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.

4) In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.

For all things were created through Jesus by God's power.....we believe this by faith. We believe the words of the Holy Spirit through the written words by the apostle Paul and all the disciples by faith. Yet we fall short on understanding when it comes to Jesus coming to live in or abide in us personally. We do not verbalize it because we do not want to appear doubtful, but the question has crossed our minds. How can this be? How can the creator of all things come and live in me? My body? My soul? How can it be that I can ask what I desire and it will be done for me? It is by faith in God! Faith is the key to all the things of God.

The truth of God in your spirit agrees with God. When you hear or read that truth, you KNOW it, and your spirit agrees. That is the real you. Your spirit is certain of God and is certain of self. So then how can all these questions or doubts arise? Indeed through the soul which is the window to the world. Nothing the world believes is true.

What you really are is certain, and true. It is set forever in the Mind of God, and in your own (spiritual) mind. It is far beyond all doubt and questions. Jesus came and provided the Way to reconnect us with that certainty. He came to assure us that if we abide in Him, He and the Father would come and make their home with us and in us. We depend on God for life itself. He directs our paths; He thinks and moves through us when we give Him freedom in us. He is perfect, and makes no mistakes!

In that relationship, we ask and receive from the Father. Period! We do what He says to do; We live in the realm of Jesus’ statement to the disciples, “come, follow me”. Faith says so, and there is no room for doubt. The Father and Creator said so, and it must be. It is certain!

Faith is the key that unlocks that universe that says "all things are possible, only believe."