News:

[move]Newbies, Post in Welcome Central to open up the boards[/move]

Main Menu

Supreme from beginning to end.

Started by FineLinen, March 28, 2021, 03:38:15 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

FineLinen

"God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He's set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating. We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see Gods original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. He was supreme in the beginning and leading the resurrection parade he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe people and things, animals and atoms get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross." -MSG

Everything = pas =

Radically means all.

Reconcile = apokatallassō =

To reconcile completely to a former state of harmony.

Back again.

Mystery = mystērion =

Hidden purpose / council.

Confided only to the initiated.
Are our broadest hopes broad enough? Shall there be a nook or abyss, in all the universe of God, finally unlightened by the Cross? Shall there be a sin, or sorrow, or pain unhealed? Is the very universe, is creation in all its extent, a field wide enough for the Son of God?