JESUS IS LORD OF CREATION

Paul selected a word that would best refute heresy, so he did not say “protoktizo” which means ‘first created,’ but instead chose “prototokos”, meaning ‘first born.’ Jesus was born but he was exceptional, something like the eldest child being in a position of pre-eminence over his siblings.
Colossians 1:15-17 the apostle Paul says that Jesus Christ is the firstborn over all creation. The term that Paul used began with the suffix ‘proto’ meaning ‘first,’ or ‘foremost,’ and that could be fitted to a number of Greek terms just as we do in English to indicate precedence or primacy or priority. The English word ‘prototypical’ is the first of its type so it is archetypal, perfect, exemplary. Paul selected a word that would best refute heresy, so he did not say “protoktizo” which means ‘first created,’ but instead chose “prototokos”, meaning ‘first born.’ Jesus was born but he was exceptional, something like the eldest child being in a position of pre-eminence over his siblings.

And then to demonstrate his exceptionality, his preeminence, Paul tells us the astounding truth that the one who came like this, is the one who at the beginning of earth time created everything. Paul calls Jesus ‘the firstborn of all creation’ and says that ‘by him, all things were created.’ And Paul uses this ‘all creation and ‘all things’ theme seven times in vss 15-20 to hammer home that Jesus is absolutely supreme, he’s preeminent. This means that Jesus Created a Christ-centred Universe, Things in heaven and on earth, Visible and invisible, Whether thrones or powers or rules or authorities. All things were created by him and for him.” We shouldn’t rush past this without being hit between the eyes with the marvel, that Jesus, who walked in Palestine in century one is the same person who created the entire earth set within its enormous expanding universe home.