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Colossians 1:18

The pre-eminence of Christ (VII)

Read Revelation 20:1-15

The Lord Jesus Christ is everything to his Father. “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand’ (John 3:35). And his reason for doing so is that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him’ (John 5:23). The Father loves, delights in, honors, exalts and magnifies the Son, having determined in all things to make the Son pre-eminent. Christ is to his Father what Benjamin was to Jacob, the Son of his love. His great love for his Son is seen in the place of preeminence over all things which the Son enjoys by the gift of his Father.

In his essential deity, as the second person of the holy trinity, the Father gives nothing to the Son, because the Son is in every way equal to the Father and possesses all things equally as God with the Father and the Spirit. But in his mediatorial character and office, he is the Representative of his people and as the reward of his covenant engagements, the Son was given all things by his Father (John 17:2) and has been given pre-eminence in all things. Christ is the pre-eminent object of his Father’s affection (Proverbs 8:30-31). Nothing is so dear to the Father as the Son. God delights in and is pleased only with his Son (Matthew 3:17). God is pleased with the righteousness of his Son and with the sacrifice of his Son, and he is pleased with believers in his Son and for the sake of his Son. Christ is the pre-eminent object of his Father’s trust, too. The Father has entrusted everything to the hands of his Son for his people as a Surety (Ephesians 1:12), his creation as a King (Psalms 2:7-8), his glory as the ultimate end of his work (1 Corinthians 15:28). The Father has made Christ pre-eminent by giving him the place of highest honor, majesty, power and dominion (Philippians 2:9-11; Hebrews 1:3-9; Hebrews 10:12-13). And God the Father has made Christ pre-eminent, giving the Son everything he asks of the Father (John 11:22). God the Father has devoted himself, his heart, his creation, his very being to the glory and honor of his Son, because he is determined that in all things Christ might have the pre-eminence’.

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