Jesus is the center of the life of the Church

Colossians is a wonderful epistle because like no other epistle in the New Testament it focuses us on the person of Jesus Christ and teaches us how important it is for believers to place great importance in our devotional life.

Jesus is the center of the life of the Church. In Him there is power, in Him there is salvation, in Him there is energy for the Christian life, in Him is everything that the believer requires to have a powerful, effective life that bears fruit for the glory of His Name. And so it is very important that we always use Jesus as the basis of all our vitality and of all the things that we aspire to do and to do in the Christian life.

So that is why I believe that the apostle Paul took so much work in writing this epistle to correct some deficiencies and some errors that there were in the community of Colosse regarding the person of Jesus. Although this epistle is very brief, it is a teaching jewel concerning the figure of Jesus Christ himself and it reminds us how important it is to never lose sight of Jesus as the source of all our power and all our identity as Christians.

The apostle Paul begins in one of the key passages that I am going to expose later by saying this, he says about Jesus: "He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation." So we see, that is one of the most powerful passages that we have in all of Scripture regarding the person of Jesus, I am going to expose that in subsequent meditations but the important thing is that we look here how the apostle Paul raises Jesus Christ pointing to him as the very essence of deity, as made of the same substance as the Father and reflecting the very essence of the identity of our heavenly Father. That is an absolutely amazing statement that we will make later.

In this meditation the only thing I want to point out is this, right? that the Bible calls us again and again to fix our eyes on Jesus Christ. I am going to explore that more and more in our future meditations. I want to leave that clearly established at this moment and it is that as never before, God is calling us as a Christian community around the world to once again look at the essentials of the Christian life and right now in these dangerous times in which we live, of so much pressure. For God's children, for His Church we have to refocus in a very desperate way the figure of Jesus Christ.

He is the only hope for humanity. He is the only source of vitality and enthusiasm and vigor for the children of God. In these times of spiritual warfare like never before in the entire history of humanity I believe that the Holy Spirit is calling us and I believe that I speak a prophetic Word at this time. The Holy Spirit is calling us as a worldwide faith Christian community to focus and emphasize the figure, the person of Jesus Christ. Therein lies the hope for a powerful, vital, evangelistically effective Church which is what is desperately required in these times when God wants to do great things throughout the world but requires a powerful Church founded on the person of Jesus Christ.

May God bless us and I hope you will follow me in this next series of messages because I believe that God has something very important to say to all of us. See you soon, I say goodbye to you Pastor Roberto Miranda, God bless you.