Greetings everyone! Thank you all for reading about what I have learned this past semester at Sunset. All of my classes were really interesting. This next class is about Colossians and Ephesians. These letters are written by the apostle Paul. They are both the same in a lot of ways. They both talk about the supremacy of Jesus over everything. They both talk about Jesus being the head over everything. They stake the claim we must trust in Jesus, because He has the supremacy over all things. There is no force, human or spiritual, that can force us or make us do anything. Our hope is in Jesus. Our only authority is in Jesus.
In Colossians, Paul says Jesus is the image of the invisible God. In Him all things were created by Him and for Him. He is the ruler over all things physical and spiritual. Therefore, there is no force that can do anything to us, as long as we trust in Jesus. So we must keep our eyes and ears open and make sure we don’t fall for any cleverly articulated ideas that clearly go against God’s word. We must remember we are to trust in Jesus not in the old covenant law that only saved by perfection.
In Ephesians Paul states even clearer that Jesus head over all things FOR the church. The church is the bride of Christ. If we hope in Him we will gain the victory in this life and in the new life to come. We are saved by grace and nothing else. It doesn’t matter how bad you were or how “good” you were, because we are all in need of that grace that can only come from God through His Son, Jesus Christ. Throughout the Old Testament since time began, God had a plan to save mankind. But in the Old Testament that plan was a mystery. That mystery was hidden until God revealed it in Jesus. And even then it was revealed to the disciples and apostles who followed Jesus. And even then none of them actually got it. But they knew Jesus was something special and someone worth following. They got when they all got the Holy Spirit, and He guided the writtings of the entire word of God from Genesis through Revelation. We can trust that this is God’s holy inspiried word. We can trust that Jesus is the whole fulfillment of God’s mystery that He planed to save mankind from their sins, if they will trust in Him. God can and will do much more then any man can think of. We must trust in Him to unify all those who trust in Him for salvation. We must imitate Him as best we can. The best example we can see of how Jesus loves and cares for the church is to look at marriage. A husband caring for and loving on his wife; just like Jesus loves and gave His life for the church, His bride; and the wife submitting to her husband; just like the church, the bride of Christ, submits to Him and His desires for her. We can trust in His mighty power, His strength to make us strong in Him.
This was another great class! Learned so much! I hope and pray I passed! 
Tomorrow I’ll write about the Sacrificial System, my last class of this past semester. And Saturday, I’ll write about my classes that start on Monday. From then on, I’ll do my best to write at least one blog post every week.
Thank you all so much for your attention. God bless. Grace and Peace.
