Jesus is Everything | Firm Foundation Week 2 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

Jesus is Everything | Firm Foundation Week 2 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

2 Timothy 2:19 NLT: But God’s truth stands firm like a foundation stone…

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Jesus is Everything

1 Corinthians 3:11 TLB: And no one can ever lay any other real foundation than that one we already have — Jesus Christ.

Jesus is Supreme

Colossians 1:17-18 ESV: And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

1. Jesus is  (John 1:1-3).

   John 1:1-3 ESV: 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 anything made that was made.

2. Jesus is the that holds everything (Colossians 1:15-17)

   Colossians 1:15-17 ESV: 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.

3. Jesus is the (Philippians 2:9-11)

   Philippians 2:9-11 ESV: 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Matthew 10:34-36 ESV: 34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.

Jesus is Unique

Colossians 1:19 ESV: For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell…

1. Jesus is fully (Philippians 2:6-7).

   Philippians 2:6-7 ESV: 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

2. Jesus is fully (John 8:58).

   John 8:58 ESV: Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

3. Jesus is fully (2 Corinthians 5:21).

   2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV: For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

4. Jesus is fully (John 5:19).

   John 5:19 ESV: 19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

Jesus is the Solution

Colossians 1:20-22 ESV: and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him…

1. Jesus identified the as central to the human condition (Matthew 15:18-19).

   Matthew 15:18-19 ESV: 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

2. Jesus identified His as the essential solution to the human condition.

   John 3:17 ESV: For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

3. Jesus identified the as essential empowerment to victorious living (John 14:16).

John 14:16 ESV: And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever…