Here, we see a theme we've seen since our first day together. God the creator, revisited in the gospels and exposed as Jesus the creator. Jesus, after all, is "the image of the invisible God." And "By him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible." There are people even today who would minimize the fullness of Jesus as equal with God, and yet we find here, "In him the fullness of God was pleased to dwell." And again, "In him, the whole fulness of deity dwells in bodily form." Neither will we forget the words of the book of John, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God." And shall we disregard the words of Jesus himself, "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father?" I am not sure what was going on in Colossae in the first century, but Paul felt it was necessary to remind the people there of the person and power of Jesus. And I am glad, for our sake, that he did. I'll end with that for today and tie the rest of Chapter Two into our discussion on Chapter Three tomorrow.