So Sweet to Trust in Jesus

Last Sunday morning, we looked at what it meant to walk "worthy of our calling." That means
we're to walk in a way that lines up with what we say we believe. Another way to express that
would be to say that we are to "walk the talk." When we do so, we walk in a manner that is
"worthy of our calling."
v.15-19 On Wednesday evening, we centered on two truths: (1) Jesus is the image/ikon
(personal manifestation) of Deity, and (2) He is the "firstborn" (at the supreme position) of all of
creation. We looked at verse 16, which tells us that Jesus was the Divine architect Who
designed it all, created it all, and sustains it all. It was all made for Him.
It was He who created all that we see and cannot see. He was before everything, and we know
from this and other scriptures, such as John 1:1, that He was there "in the beginning." Since
Jesus lived, died, and rose again, people have come along who have tried to attack both the
Deity of Christ and His humanness. The Gnostics claimed He was only a spirit. Others have
claimed He was only a man. Jesus was all God and all man. Most cults we are familiar with
today deny one or the other. I define cults as "a religious group that denies one or more of the
fundamentals of biblical truth." A cult holds views that are unorthodox and spurious. It claims
to be part of a particular religion yet denies essential truths of that religion.1 This would include
Mormonism and the Jehovah's Witnesses.