Who is the image of the invisible God

 

Who is the image of the invisible God

 

(Colossians 1:14-15)In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

 

What is the image of God? There are many people who misunderstand the image of God as a character. That is why they think that there are things that are good for people because they have the disposition of God. However, as people live in the world, they say that they have sinned a lot and have lost the disposition of God and need to be restored.

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.” Then comes the saying, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.” The image of God is not the image seen by human eyes. In John 4:24, 『God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.』 The spirit appears as the power of the Holy Spirit in living creatures. This is the image of God. In Colossians 1:15, “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:”

Although God is invisible, Jesus is the one who appeared in "visible form".

In Isaiah 9:6, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah said that the one child (Jesus Christ) was the Almighty God, the everlasting God. That is why he calls him Immanuel, which means “God is with us.” Hebrews 1:3 says, “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high”.

Also in John 1:18, “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. In John 14:9, “Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hat seen me hat seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

It says that God is in Jesus Christ. The invisible God has been revealed as a visible God through Jesus Christ. It means that God had already planned before the foundation of the world that God would appear in this world as a God who looked like this. In Ephesians 1:4, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:”

Jesus is the head of the church. Jesus is above all things, but everything in the world today has not yet obeyed Him. In Hebrews 2:8, “Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.”Why can't people see it yet? In Hebrews 1:13, “But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?”The reason the Lord ascended to heaven was to make all things subject to Him.

In Ephesians 1:23, “Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.” Because of the Lord who is the head of the church over all things, the church in all things fills all things. Because the church is the body of the Lord. All things are filled with heavenly things through the church. Not all churches are like this, but the church of the repentant. Those who repent become the church in all things. Only those who have tasted death on the cross with Jesus become the church. So, each member of the church becomes a church. Through the unity of the saints, all things are filled.

The church that fills all things becomes a church only for those who have tasted death on the cross with Jesus. Those who pray in the name of Jesus are in Christ who sits at the right hand of God. Even those who pray are given authority only if they sit at the right hand of God. We pray in the name of Jesus that we go to church, but if we do not sit with Christ at the right hand of God, we will not be given authority. God has put all things in subjection, but we who are still in all things do not see it. There is a church here. How is the head of the church above all things connected to the church in all things? The church is the ascended Christ. The Bible tells us that in order to be united with Christ, the head of the church, we must become his army. The saints must become overcomers. With whom do we have to fight so that all things obey? it is satan The born-again church has authority.

The Lord is the head of the church over all things, and the church in all things is his feet. Salvation is for each saint to become a church, but power cannot be achieved without the unity of the saints. That church means a born-again church. The church is not the building of the church, but the regenerated saints, and the union of the saints has power. Today, failing to see the subjection of all things is not a church of military service capable of fighting Satan. In the church today, those who are united to Jesus Christ who died on the cross are invisible and speak only the blood of Jesus.