Sunday service sermon from 13th March 2016 by Pastor Ray Pountney. The message speaks about the person of Jesus Christ, His Godhood and the mention of Him in East Hill Baptist Church’s updated Statement of Faith.

• Colossians 1:15-23

  Colossians 1:15-23

  The Supremacy of the Son of God

  15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
  16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
  17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
  18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.
  19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
  20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
  21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour.
  22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
  23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

  New International Version

• Statement of Faith

  4. Jesus Christ

  We believe that Jesus Christ is God’s eternal Son, and has precisely the same nature, attributes and perfections as God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. He is not only true God, but true man conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. We believe in His sinless life, His substitutionary atonement, His bodily resurrection from the dead, His ascension into heaven, His priestly intercession on behalf of His people, and His personal, visible return from heaven. We believe that Jesus Christ died at Calvary to affect propitiation, reconciliation, redemption and atonement for His elect people.