Colossians

Main Focus

• Old Testament – Christ in Prophecy
• Gospels – Christ in History
• Acts – Christ in the Church
• Epistles – Christ in Experience
• Apocalypse – Christ in coming Glory

Written while Paul was in Prison at Rome: The prison epistles—Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon

Acts 27 

 

Colossians: ""
Written by:Paul
Chapters: 4
Verses:95

 

 

-----Colossians 1-----

 The GLUE

 

 ¹⁷ And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. [ESV]

 ^{Colossians 1:15-17}  

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 

¹⁶ For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.  

¹⁷ And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. [ESV]

^{John 1:1-3}  

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² He was in the beginning with God.  

³ All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. [ESV]

 ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

 The word translated "dissolved" in 2 Peter 3:10 is literally (in Greek) luo, meaning "unloosed." This language suggests that there will come a time in the future when God lets go of the nuclear forces which hold the atom together.

 

Kind of gives new meaning to:  ^"..... and in him all things hold together." [ESV]

Splitting atoms

-----Colossians 2-----

 

-----Colossians 3-----

 

-----Colossians 4-----