Jesus Christ Is the Creator of Everything That Exists (Part 1)

This wonderful passage from Colossians presents us with an incredible expression of Jesus Christ’s creative character. I believe that in order to understand this passage fully, we have to remember what Genesis chapter 1, verse 1 says: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Notice that, and here the apostle Paul is saying: “In Him all things were created,” and in other passages of Scripture it says that Jesus created and that in Him all existing things hold together. So, if the Old Testament says that God was the one who created all things and the New Testament says that Jesus created all things, then by inescapable logic we are being told that Jesus Christ is God Himself. It is one of the mysteries of Scripture: the fact that Christ is also assigned this creative role, the role of Creator of the Universe, of everything that exists.

We can understand this passage better if we go to the Gospel according to John, another famous and well-known text that I am sure you will remember, where it says: “In the beginning”—there we have an indication, don’t we, that this is the same language being used in the Book of Genesis: “In the beginning God created,” right? Here it says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In verse 2 it says: “He,” meaning Jesus Christ, “was in the beginning with God.”

It says here: “All things were made through Him.” In other words, when John says “through Him,” he is referring to Jesus Christ; he says: “All things were made through Jesus Christ,” when we know that the Old Testament says: “God created all things.” So it says here that all things were made through Jesus Christ, “and without Him nothing was made that has been made.”

These are the kinds of passages that led theologians to reach conclusions about the Trinity—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit—because throughout Scripture we see again and again how these three persons are actually one, because God is not many gods but one God. They concluded that the Trinity is a mysterious reality, a mysterious concept in which God manifests Himself through something like three embodiments, three expressions; but those three expressions are not each separate from the others. Rather, they are one single reality, because God is one, as Scripture says.

So we see that when Paul says here, “In Him all things were created,” he is saying that, well, the creative role that belongs only to the Father is also the creative role that belongs to the Son, and therefore They are one and the same. It is interesting that when John writes that in the beginning was the Word, referring to Jesus, and that this Word was with God but was also God Himself, He was with God yet was God at the same time.

You see there that it is as though human language is being stretched to its utmost to express something that is utterly inexpressible: this mystery of the Trinity and of the deity of Christ, who is man but is also God, who is Son but is also Father at the same time. It is something that human language cannot comprehend, but we are called by faith to believe that this is so.

So I am going to leave it there for a moment, but later we will continue exploring a little more about the deity of Jesus. Let it be clear, then, that Jesus Christ is Creator; Jesus Christ is the Creator of everything that exists, and because He is the Creator of everything that exists, He is above all things. That is why, when we say that His Name is a name above every name, we can understand it, because by right, by identity, and by status, He is certainly above everything; He controls everything and has the power to determine everything, and that is the Christ whom we serve.

God bless you, and we will continue with our meditation in the coming days. Blessings.