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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 40
Colossians 1:1-16 - Part 2
"Who (that’s a pronoun, but it refers back to God the Son up there in verse 13. So it’s God the Son, who) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature." Everybody that knows anything about the Bible at all knows the verse that says, "No man hath seen God at anytime and lived." Genesis 32:30
On the one hand it says, "No man can see God and live, and yet Jacob says, "I have seen God face to face." Now it’s not a contradiction, but you have to understand that God, the invisible triune God, no man has ever seen, how could they, He’s invisible! Well the best way I can usually put it, if I can use the blackboard, is that here we have God, the invisible triune Spirit God, but once man filled the scene and would now have to have some way of identifying with his Creator, what did God do? Well one person of the Godhead stepped out and became visible, tangible, over and over, and it’s always God the Son. God the Son is the member of the Trinity that has always been the One to communicate with man, and become the visible manifestation of that invisible God.
So yes, no one has ever looked on the triune, invisible, Spirit God. But when God the Son steps out and becomes visible, and can communicate with man, it’s no problem whatsoever. Let’s look at verse 15 again.
Colossians 1:15a
"Who is the image of the invisible God,…"
God the Son is the image, and what’s an image? All right then God the Son is the visible image of the invisible God. God the Son stepped out of that invisible Triune Godhead and in the person of the Son He became visible, He became tangible, and He walked among men all the way into the Old Testament.
God the Son! I don’t call Him Jesus back in the Old Testament because the Bible doesn’t, but He was God the Son! When God appeared unto Abram in Ur of the Chaldees, who was it? God the Son! God the Son! Now continuing on in verse 15.
Colossians 1:15b
God the Son was just as much from eternity past as God the Father and God the Spirit. Remember that. He did not lay aside a portion of His power or deity, but He was always God! So just because He became visible, and appeared in Bethlehem in the virgin birth, He never stopped being God. Now verse 16. This visible manifestation of the invisible God is the same God of Genesis 1:1. And you know what that verse says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Well this is the same God that we now know as Jesus the Christ.
Colossians 1:16
You’ve always got people who will say, "Well this is Paul who’s teaching Christ was the Creator." John 1:1
If you have someone come to your door and they try to tell you that Jesus was not God, that He was a prophet or something less than God, and was not the Creator God, then this is the best verse I’ve found to confront that. Titus 2:13
See you just can’t get around the fact that Jesus Christ is also the great God. I’ve showed them the verse back in Isaiah chapter 9, and they’ll say, "Yeah, but that’s the mighty God, that’s not the Almighty God." Because we’re looking for the great God, the Creator God, the God of the universe, and who is it? Jesus Christ! Now back to John’s gospel chapter 1.
John 1:2-3
"The same was in the beginning with God. Now who’s the Word? John 1:14a
"And the Word was made flesh,…"
The Holy Spirit never took on flesh, God the Father never took on flesh, but God the Son did, and so here’s the evidence.
John 1:14a
John 1:14b
John says, "The Word became flesh, and nothing was made without Him" Paul says in Colossians "Christ is the visible manifestation of the invisible God, and by Him all things were created." "God, (this God right here as we have it outlined on the blackboard. This whole Triune God in His invisible Triune makeup) who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. (Old Testament) 2. (God) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,…"
Hebrews 1:2
"Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom (speaking of God the Son) he (God) hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;"
Now finishing verse 16 again in Colossians.
Colossians 1:16b
"Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: 23. It was) by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God,…"
God the Son! Because God planned it that way from start to finish. To purchase man’s salvation!

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