In all these scriptures below, Jesus is identified as the first born Son. That doesn’t mean He was created. It means that in ancient Israeli understanding, positionally He ranked as first place and most important in the family of God.
There is no One like Jesus.
Jesus is King above all kings.
(Psalms 89:27
I will also make him my firstborn,
greatest of the kings of the earth.)
Jesus is the preeminent head, beginning and firstborn, surpassing all others, of the body of His people.
(Colossians 1:18
He is also the head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
so that he might come to have
first place in everything.)
Jesus is truly God and truly man, Vera Deus and Vera Homo, the image of the invisible God. Knowing Jesus and His character, is knowing God.
(Colossians 1:15
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.)
Jesus is the express image of the Father God. And God is conforming His people to the image of His Son Jesus.
(Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Romans 8:29
For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.)
Jesus is our appointed and anointed leader. Hebrews 2:10
(Hebrews 2:10
For in bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was entirely appropriate that God — for whom and through whom all things exist — should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.)
Jesus is the uncreated One and the reason everything in and of creation doesn’t immediately fall apart into chaos and destruction. (Colossians 1:17
He is before all things,
and by him all things hold together.)
~ George Dunn
