Jesus is the visible image of the invisible God - therefore: he who has seen the Son has seen the Father

What matters most to me is focusing on the person of Jesus. The epistle to the Colossians is an epistle that focuses like no other on the deity of Jesus Christ, His Lordship, His Power, His equality with the Father. It gives us a revelation of the glory of Jesus like no other epistle in the New Testament.

Although it is a very short epistle, it contains some revelations about the person and the total glory of Jesus. And it seems that in part the apostle Paul was writing this epistle because in Colosse where these believers were, that is why the epistle is actually called the Epistle to the Colossians, a kind of erroneous doctrine was growing, a heresy that has in fact been called the Colossian heresy that tended to diminish the stature of Jesus Christ and then to include other gods and putting as a condition for salvation also the keeping of certain feast days, and spoke of demigods who were part of creation, and a number of other rituals and things that they took away believers' sights from the person of Jesus Christ and from the fact that He is the foundation of all salvation and that without Him nothing can be done simply and that with Him we are totally complete.

So the apostle Paul writes this letter showing the Glory of Jesus and His great Power and Lordship. So that's why he says after talking about all these benefits that the children of God have in Jesus Christ, that he prays so that they obtain all these qualities that we pointed out previously, he already focuses directly on the person of Jesus in verse 15 of Colossians chapter 1 and says here: "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation."

I'm going to read it again, it says that: "Jesus is the image of the invisible God" and that he also "is the firstborn of all creation." The word that is translated into Spanish from the original Greek is the word "icon" from which the word icon comes from, which means: the projection, it is the photograph of the invisible God. The Jews, and the Greeks and the Romans when they stamped for example the image of Caesar on a coin that image of Caesar that represented Caesar because it had no photos or photocopiers but at least they rendered an image as exact as possible of Caesar for example .

That image that was embodied there on that coin was as faithful a representation as possible. Today we have photographs and a number of things that represent the images much better. If Paul were writing this letter today he would say that Jesus is: the exact projection of the God who cannot be seen. That is to say: Jesus is the visible image of the invisible God, therefore he who has seen the Son has seen the Father.

Do you remember that He said the same to Philip when Philip said to him: show us the Father and it is enough for us? and the Lord said to him: why do you ask me to show you the Father? he who has seen Me has seen the Father. He who has seen Jesus in His person, in His perfect character, His perfect Power, His Glory, His perfect Word, His teachings without comparison has already seen the Father. Jesus in His physical form here on Earth did not represent the Father because the Father is invisible but His person, His very essence was the essence of the Father.

So when Paul says that He is the image of the invisible God he is saying precisely that, whoever has seen Jesus in all the characteristics and in all the dimensions in which the Word presents him has seen the Father, Jesus is the image itself, the very projection, the very reproduction, the very photocopy of the Father. A precious teaching that encourages us to have faith in Him and to believe in Him and ask Him for everything we need, and trust that He is able to give us according to our needs and above all to give us eternal salvation. God bless you and we will continue our meditation later.