Jesus is first at the beginning and first also at the end

Jesus Christ is the beginning of everything that is created, that is, of all life. With regard to life He is the first. But now Paul says that with regard to death and resurrection He is also the first.

He is the firstborn not only of the first creation that is the physical creation of everything that exists but he is the firstborn of the second creation that is the spiritual creation, the new life, the new order, the new world, the new system. that God creates through the death of Jesus Christ and His resurrection and that He is a new creation in a sense, that creation now redeemed by the blood, sacrifice, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

And in that case in that new creation that is given through Jesus Christ He is also the firstborn, He is the first to rise from that new race, let's say redeemed. And it is what the apostle Paul says also in First Corinthians chapter 15 in his famous passage about the resurrection where he says in verse 20, First Corinthians chapter 15: "But now Christ has risen from the dead, firstfruits" there he is. the word is, primcias. That is to say, of the first, the first product as the first harvest of the grape like the vintage, that first wine that comes out of the first harvest.

"He is the first fruit of those who slept" that is, he is the first to rise from all the dead; "Inasmuch as death entered through a man also through a man the resurrection of the dead, because just as in Adam all also die in Christ all will be made alive. He says:" But each one in his due order. Christ, the firstfruits and then those who are Christ's at His Coming. "

So in Colossians 1:18 Paul is holding those ideas together when he speaks that Jesus Christ is the head of the body and is the firstborn from the dead, he is the first because God wants that in everything Jesus Christ is like the first, the most important , the one that stands out because the Father wants to give glory to Jesus and He wants that in everything beautiful, everything great, everything beautiful Jesus Christ is the firstborn and the first, the one who takes the glory. So Jesus is first at the beginning, first in the middle, and first also at the end.

That is why it is important that we understand that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. If someone denies that Jesus Christ was physically resurrected, he cannot actually call himself a Christian from the dead. Today there are many evangelical liberal groups that supposedly speak of the physical resurrection of Jesus as something rather symbolic as meaning that God has certainly given creation that ability to maintain itself, they try to poetize and make the resurrection of Jesus Christ something metaphorical and poetic, symbolic but they certainly do not believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

And then those people cannot truly call themselves Christians. Anyone who denies that actual physical Jesus Christ actually rose from the dead is denying the most fundamental truth of Christian theology and faith. We can't call brother.

But imagine that if Christ truly rose from the dead He is unique in the entire pantheon of gods and so-called religions because no other religion dares to say that its founder actually rose from the dead, died, and rose again. Neither Buddhism does that with its founder Buddha nor Hinduism does that either with its gods that it has created there, nor does Islam with Muhammad or Confusianism in China with Confucius the founder of its religion, no other religion says that its creator or originator actually rose from the dead and is still alive.

Only Christianity says that about Jesus and that is why our faith is something so wonderful, so strange that it requires acceptance simply because, because God says so. Jesus Christ is the firstborn from the dead, he is the first that God raised and as He rose again He is also powerful to resurrect us and we have to have that faith that the same Jesus who was raised from the dead will also resurrect us and He will take us together with Him.

That is why death for the son of God does not have that terror and that threat that it has for those who do not believe in God, do not believe in God because our founder has already broken that inevitable, unappealable lordship of death and now through that membrane that He opens we too can enter into eternal life. He is the first-born from the dead, the first-born of all creation so that in everything he has pre-eminence. God bless us and I hope this is as encouraging for you as it is for us.