Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faith Forward Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona with another trinity moment proving that the trinity is biblical and
That modalism or oneness is a lie today
We're gonna look at Colossians chapter 1 verse 15 the Bible reads who is the image of the invisible God
The firstborn of every creature for by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth
visible and invisible
Whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created by him and for him
So it's clear that Jesus Christ is God in the beginning was the word
The word was with God and the word was God all things were made by him and without him was not anything made
That was made and so Jesus Christ is the creator
He's God, but we need to understand is that Jesus Christ is not God the Father
There's God the Father then there's Jesus and then there's the Holy Ghost and these three are one God
But there are three persons that make up one God. That's the traditional view of the Trinity, which is correct
So this verse Colossians 1 15 says that Jesus is the image of the invisible
God
The firstborn of every creature now, what does it mean to be the image of the invisible God?
Well invisible means something that cannot be seen
Invisible means it cannot be seen. Well God the Father the Bible says no man shall see his face and live he cannot be seen
He's invisible in that sense. Okay, and the Bible says here that Jesus Christ is the image of
the invisible
God meaning that we can look at Jesus and see what God the Father looks like
Because he is the express image of God the Father's person
So he's the image of the invisible God. So what do we think of when we think of an image?
You know, we use computers a lot
And so we use the word image all the time to refer to a picture, you know a JPEG a PNG whatever
Obviously that technology was not around in Bible days
But that's something that we understand
When we hear the word image and we can look at an image of someone and know exactly what that person looks like
Right, but that image itself is not that person
Okay, so if I pull up an image on my computer screen of someone it's not like that person is literally really there
Okay, you know in the words of Ken Hovind. This is not my wife. This is just a picture of my wife
You know anybody who's heard Ken Hovind has heard that joke a bazillion times
so the point is that there's a difference between the image and
The actual thing itself, okay, so in this case Jesus is the image of the invisible God
Well, the invisible God is God the Father the Bible says no man had seen God at any time
The only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he had declared him
Okay, so the Son is the image of the Father now that makes sense since you know
I have several sons and they are in my image meaning that they look like me
But the difference is that my sons don't look exactly like me because they also look somewhat like their mother
Whereas the Bible says that Jesus is the express
image of his person to the point where he could say if you've seen me you've seen the Father because he is the express image of
God now in the next verse it says actually I'm sorry in the next phrase
It says the firstborn of every creature now
Some people will twist this scripture to try to make Jesus into a created being
Jesus is not a created being Jesus was in the beginning with God and he was God Jesus is
Co-eternal and co-equal with God meaning that Jesus has always been around and he always will be around
He's the same yesterday and today and forever and he is eternal
Let the Bible define itself
the Bible says who is the image of the invisible God the firstborn of every creature and then the
Next verse he says for for means because for by him were all things created
So you say what does it mean when it says he's the firstborn of every creature?
Well the next breath he tells us he's the firstborn of every creature because by him were all things created
So that's what that means when it says he's the firstborn of every creature
It means that by him were all things created. He created everything. Okay, that's how the Bible defines itself here
Christ is not a created being Christ is fully God, but he's not God the Father as
Oneness or modalism teaches here again
the Trinity is shown to be the truth and
Oneness is shown to be a lie because Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God
He is the image of the Father