For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross. Colossians 1:19-20

If you think that Jesus Christ came to save you, think again.

The gospel is the story of the man who was both fully God and fully man. It’s the story of his life, death and resurrection. Yes, Jesus Christ gave Himself to be offered as a payment for your sin so that you can have peace with God and hope forever. But the gospel is even bigger than just you or me.

“We’ve minimized and narrowed what is big and comprehensive,” writes Glenn Paauw.  Yes, “he came to save me” but He also “came to defeat sin and death and reclaim…creation – which includes me.”

We are saved, creation is renewed, and an end is set for evil in Jesus. “Again and again in the stories about Jesus we find confrontation with evil and with evil ones,” says Paauw, “Jesus announces and is advancing a kingdom, a reign, a new authority.”[1]

Scripture explains, “For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross” (Colossians 1:19-20).

Death and decay that we see in our physical world, all that is vile and wicked in humanity and the evil operating in the spiritual world that we can’t see, are all defeated by Jesus and reconciled to God the Father.

Think today about the absolute power of Jesus! When you follow Him, you have the assurance that all that is wrong will be made right, in Him.

[1] Paauw, Glenn. Jesus’ Victory over the Powers (Powers and Principalities Pt. 5). Institute For Bible Reading, 6 September 2022, instituteforbiblereading.org/jesus-victory-over-the-powers-powers-and-principalities-5/.