“Only God’s Word and people last forever.” Nope! Here’s proof.
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in [Christ], 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. (Colossians 1:19-20)
Today, we’re starting a new four-week series looking at wisdom for our work from the book of Colossians.Â
I want to begin by addressing a common lie you’ve likely heard that sounds something like this: “The only two things that last for eternity are God’s Word and people.”
Whenever I hear well-intentioned pastors utter this phrase, it’s almost always surrounded by subtext that implies that God’s plan is to evacuate the souls of his people from the earth into an eternal disembodied retirement home in the clouds—the rest of the earth and the work of your hands be damned.Â
But that is not at all what Scripture says.Â
In today’s passage, Paul says that Christ came “to reconcile to himself all things” broken in Genesis 3. Theologian Albert Wolters writes...
