The Father pierced the kingdom of darkness; found you, chose to pick you up; and through the womb of death carried you out of the kingdom of darkness and into glorious kingdom of light to become a new creation.
Think about it?
Set your wandering eyes beyond the stratosphere of false accusations and limited assumptions and see the supreme and sovereignty of Jesus Christ. Look at the blue-collard carpenter of Nazarene and discover God in totality. To know the suffering of the Galilean peasant is to know the Almighty, the one true Creator who was and is and is to come.
But that’s not all.
Jesus Christ is the firstborn of the entire cosmos, the first person to appear in creation, and He is preeminent in all of it. All things visible and invisible were created by Him, through Him, to Him, and for Him. He is the Originator as well as the Goal- the Creator as well as the Consummator.
But that’s not all.
Jesus Christ existed before time as the eternal Son. He is above time and outside of time. He is the beginning and He was before the beginning. He lives in eternity where there are no ticking clocks. Space and time are His servants. He is not governed by time, but governs time.
But that’s not all.
Jesus Christ is not only before all things, but the entire universe is held together by Him. He is the cohesive force the glue and gravitational pull that holds all created elements together. He is creation’s hinge that the whole cosmos turns on. Remove Christ, and the entire universe comes apart from the seams. Remove Christ, and creation’s wheel comes off and becomes purposeless. Jesus Christ is the very meaning of creation. Eliminate Him, and the universe looses its reason for existence. Remove Christ, and everything looses its meaning.
But more then all of this,
the One who created the universe watched it fall. He saw the cosmic revolt in heaven when Satan and his demons betrayed their Creator, and He saw the wreckage of earth as we through Adam and Eve sinned against God, and under the caring eye of the Father, the Lord Jesus looked upon His very own creation as it morphed into an enemy- His own enemy. We became the enemies of God by our choice and nature to rebel against Him. But even though we betrayed Christ the Creator, even though we were enemies of Him, He did the unthinkable;
He came into this fallen world.
Jesus Christ, the Creator, the eternal Son of God, pierced the veil of time and space. He became incarnated and took upon human flesh. He was touched with the same temptations, the same infirmities, and the weaknesses, only He never yielded. Christ entered His own creation to rescue and reconcile it back to Himself and to His Father. The Creator became the creature to make peace with an alienated creation.
How?
By a wooden stake on a hill near Jerusalem, where His very own blood was spilled. Jesus Christ, the Jewish craftsman from Nazareth, was slaughtered outside the city gates. He was beaten, bloodied, mutilated, humiliated, decimated, and died, and by His horrible death, He reconciled a fallen cosmos to God.
The incarnated Son became the incarnation of our sins and corruption. Every vile, foul, wretched, dark, hideous, horrendous, evil vestige of the fall was laid upon His sinless, spotless, blameless, righteous, holy body like a monstrous mantle of wickedness. And He who knew no sin became sin. The overwhelming wrath of God for His enemies was poured out upon Him.
But by His death, He slew all negatives things. He brought the old creation to a complete end, killing it and making peace with its Creator. And by His resurrection He put death in its grave and brought forth the new creation- of which you and I can be a part of.
So where there was hostility, there is now peace. Where there was separation, He brought unity. Where there was certain death, He brought eternal life.
But here’s the mindblower; because of that hill near Jerusalem, because His blood was shed, because of the Cross, you who are in Christ stand holy, spotless, and blameless, without reproach and accusation in the sight of God.
Yet that’s not all.
Jesus Christ created a new humanity, a new creation, a new race like Him. The new humanity is His own very body, a multi-member creature that He called the church, the family of faith, the Disciples of Christ. He is the head and we are the body, appointed and entrusted to go into the world and bring about the good news of the Gospel and the love He has for the world.
But that’s not all.
Jesus Christ triumphed over the greatest enemy that God faced- death, the offspring of our sin. He conquered the grace, extinguished its sting, and dismantled the fear that was attached to it, so that we may know that as His body, as His church, with His strength, we are untouchable. The glorious Jesus Christ defeated death, the grave, the curse, the entire system of the world. He defeated sin, Satan, and all condemnation. He casted out our shame, He conquered guilt, and He shared His everlasting victory and towering triumph with you and I. Here is Jesus that is more grand and glorious beyond our human comprehension.
All things are in this Christ.
All things are through this Christ.
All things are for this Christ.
He is first in everything.
He is Creator
the Redeemer
the Forgiver
the Conqueror
the Savior
the Kings of kings
the Lord of lords.
He is Christ.
