The Centrality of Christ in Creation — Keith Malcomson

Please turn with me in your Bibles this morning to Colossians chapter 1, Colossians chapter 1. And we're coming to this second message in our series, the centrality of Jesus Christ, the centrality of Christ.

We already began last week looking at the centrality of Christ in eternity past. We'll finish this entire series by looking at the centrality of Christ in eternity future. But in between these two points, we're looking at various things.

You see, most people and most Christians concentrate on the centrality of Christ at the cross, and that's good that they do. Thank God that they do, that they make much of the cross, that they emphasize the work of Christ on the cross.

Others take a broader view and look at the 33 years of the life of Christ on the earth. Others go back further and look at Christ the Creator. But last week, we went back further to look at the eternity of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That in eternity past, that He was there, ordained of the Father. There was nothing done in eternity past that wasn't through Him. So we've looked at Christ, the centrality of Christ in eternity past.

Christ the Creator in Colossians 1

Here this morning, I want to deal with the centrality of Christ in creation. Not just at the cross, not just in His lifetime, not just in His birth, not the cross and the crib, but as the Creator of all things.

Reading from Colossians 1 and verse 9 here this morning. For this cause we also, since the day that we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, unto the patience and the long-suffering with joyfulness, giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.

Listen here as I read this. In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature? For by Him, by Him were all things created that are in heaven, that are in earth, visible and invisible.

Whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning of the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence.

Praise God! For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell, and having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself. By Him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven, that you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your minds, by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unprovable in His sight.

Let's pray together. Father, we thank You for the Lord Jesus Christ. Father, will You show us the centrality of the Lord Jesus Christ in all things, that You don't answer any prayers apart from in Him.

Lord God, that we can't approach You unless it's in Him, that You have done nothing throughout time and eternity unless it was in Him. You placed in Him the covenant, the promises, the provisions, the blessings.

There's not one thing that we could desire from You that we don't find in Christ. We find joy in Him. We find peace in Him. We find forgiveness in Him. We find mercy in Him. We find grace in Him. Lord God, we find all the blessings of God in Him.

If we find the Son, that we have all the blessings, all the blessings, all the promises, our yea and amen in Christ Jesus. Lord God, You choose us in Him. You predestinated us in Him. You forgave us in Him.

Lord God, You desired us and knew us in Him. Lord God, thank You, O God, that from all eternity, Lord God, You only looked upon us in love because of the Lord Jesus Christ. You could never have loved us outside of Him.

You could never have drawn us. You could never have had us. But Lord God, because Christ became the Christ of Calvary, the Christ of the crib, the Christ of creation, the Christ of the covenant, Lord God, You have raised Him up to be all things unto us.

Lord God, save us, sanctify us, set us on fire. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit. My God, I pray that we become a Christ-centered church, Christ-centered Christians. Lord God, that this preacher would be a Christ-centered preacher.

Lord God, not obscuring Christ, but making Him real, revealing Him, preaching Him, making Him known, showing that it's not religion, it's not tradition, it's not churchianity, it's not morality, O God, but it's the bleeding Lamb, it's the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lord God, give us a victory in this meeting. And Lord God, everyone who listens to this message today, Lord God, make them to overcome by the blood of the Lamb. Show them their sin, draw them to Christ.

Make Christ mighty to save them, O God. And Lord God, not only is the Christ of Calvary, but of all of creation, we bow the knee. Nothing was made that wasn't made by Him, and for Him, and through Him.

We love You, Lord Jesus. You are amazing. We love You. We are in awe of You. We are stunned by You. We are astonished by You. We stand in awe of You, Lord Jesus, for all that You've done, for all that You are, for who You are this morning.

In Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. My message, the second part of our series, the centrality of Christ in creation. I had an old friend many years ago, and he's gone to be with the Lord now, David Greenough.

He preached a message once, and he told me many other times about the three greatest miracles that we read of in the Bible. Creation, the incarnation, and the new creation. Well, I'm going to tell you about a great miracle, and a great miracle worker here this morning.

If He hasn't created all things, He sure cannot heal your sicknesses, I want to tell you. But we are preaching in this series the centrality of Christ in creation. We've looked at His centrality before creation, before there was anything physically made.

In eternity past, He was set up as being central between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But we're moving a stage now to the beginning of things. There was a beginning of time, a beginning of creation, a beginning of that which is visible, or physical, or natural.

I've got several points for you here this morning. Listen to my first point as we come to look at Colossians 1. Christ preeminent. Christ preeminent, what a statement. It says in verse 18, and He, that is Jesus, is the head of the body, the church.

Christ's Preeminence Over the Church and All Things

Notice He is writing to the church at Colossae. He is speaking to an actual church, and He is saying, Christ is the head, you the church are the body. The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of the local church.

Listen to what He says, who is the beginning. So this one who is the head of this church, I'm not the head of this church. No preacher is the head of the church. Jesus Christ is the head. He is the authority of the local church.

He is in control of the local church. He is the mind of the local church. That's who the Lord Jesus is. But He is also the beginning. In other words, when you begin to deal with Christ, He takes you right back to the beginning.

He is the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence. So look at this Christ who is the head of the church. He was the beginning of all things. He is the firstborn from the dead.

But He, that He might be in all things, might have the preeminence. Notice the place that Christ is given. First of all, in Colossians 1, the place of preeminence over all things. This word in the Greek preeminence means the first place, the foremost place, the place that is unequaled, a position that is unrivaled.

Jesus Christ, the head of the church, actually has a position that is utterly unrivaled. No religion can rival it. No church leader can rival it. No teaching can rival it. No dogma, no theory, no ideology.

He has a place of utter unequal. He's not in competition with the devil. He is not fighting against all manners of religions. He has an unequal position in the body of Christ. He is in charge of all things.

He is in control of all things. He is supreme over all things. Look what's being written to the Colossians here, that Christ might have the preeminence in all things. Do you know what the Bible teaches in our New Testament?

That Christ is to have the preeminence in your life in this room. Can I ask you here this morning, is Christ preeminent in your life? Is he first? If he's not first, then he doesn't really have a place.

You can't put him in second place. He's not going to compete with all of your loves, all of your ambitions, and all of your desires. Either Christ is first, or he's nothing in your life. Either you give him the place of utter preeminence.

You see, if you don't make him first, you don't know who he is. You don't know who he is. You've got no concept of who this Christ is, if you do not make him preeminent. Colossians chapter 1 is about Christ being preeminent.

Having the first place, the central place, the foundation. He is the head. He is everything. He is the Christ of Calvary, the Christ of eternity. He is the Christ of creation. He's the Christ of individual Christians.

He is the Christ of your salvation. He'll forgive you. He'll save you. He'll change you. He'll radically move in your life. He is Christ preeminent. I ask you again, is Christ preeminent in your personal life?

Is he really preeminent in this church? Not the theology about him. Not a structure in or around him. Is the person of Christ preeminent? I ask those who preach here, is Christ really preeminent in our preaching?

As a young preacher, I'd preach and go to bed at night. And I'd go, oh, did I preach the cross? Did I preach Christ? I couldn't sleep at night. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, going, oh God, did I really preach your son?

Did I really reveal him? For years, years, you may say, you shouldn't have went through that. Oh yes, I should. Because we live in a generation of Christless preachers, Christless churches, of worship teams that don't even point to the Christ anymore.

It's about their style. It's about their sound. It's about the atmosphere of the church. It's about the ministry or the eloquence. What about the Lord Jesus Christ? Is he first in the church? Is he first in the preacher?

You can criticize me about a thousand things. Feel free. Please, I invite you. But if you tell me that I don't preach Christ, that I don't emphasize him, I'm a broken hearted preacher. That would devastate me if I'm not a Christ-centered preacher.

That isn't my ambition and my desire. This first point, the poll reveals in this chapter, Christ is preeminent. He must be preeminent. He ought to be preeminent. He is preeminent from God's perspective.

But is he preeminent in you? Here in this church in Klossie, the church in Klossie that he's writing to here, this short letter, was 100 miles inland in Asia Minor or Turkey today. 100 miles inland from the city of Ephesus.

Ephesus, the church at Ephesus began out of Paul's second missionary journey when revival came to Ephesus. Klossie was later affected as a result of that revival. Klossie is actually found in a small valley called the Valley of Lycos.

There's two other towns or cities in that same area within a 10 mile radius. One of them is Laodicea. The other one is Hierapolis. So Klossie, Laodicea and Hierapolis are all in this small area within the same valley.

All within 10 miles of one another. It was a very small town. It was an unnoticed town. It was an insignificant town. It was actually a town that was going downhill economically, size wise and in a place of influence.

And yet God notices this little town. God actually has a church there. Paul didn't start this church. He never went to Klossie and he only knew two people actually from the church. One of them was called Epaphras and the other one was called Philemon.

Philemon, the letter that got sent there by the apostle Paul. These two men Paul knew personally. Now this man Epaphras was the main preacher or leader in the church at Klossie. Just listen, I'm just laying a foundation here for a moment.

In Colossians chapter one and seven it says that Epaphras was a faithful minister of Christ. He was a preacher. He was a leader. He was a soul winner. He was a pioneer. He actually went into Klossie and began to preach the centrality of Christ.

You must be born again. There is one who died on the cross for you. That's what Epaphras actually done. He also ministered in the other two towns of Laodicea and Hierapolis. He pioneered three churches in these small insignificant towns.

He was a man of God, a man of passion, and a man of fire. It says in chapter four verse 12 and 13 concerning his zealous ministry in these places. The second man is Philemon and there's a letter written to him as well.

It talks about the church that is in your house, Philemon. It was in Klossie. So the church met in a house, in a house. It was a small church within a house. It was an insignificant town but here is the letter to the Kolossians being written to them.

They are real believers. They are genuine born again Christians. It is a real church meeting in a house. They didn't need a great building. They didn't need great numbers but I assure you it was a small church with a big savior.

It was a young church, maybe only five years on the go and yet their savior was eternal. Do you begin to see why Paul wrote such a letter to the small insignificant church? Well, if you put the Bible together, you realize that when Paul was in Rome in prison, a captive, waiting to stand before Caesar, that this man, Epaphras, who had raised up these works, traveled to Rome and went in and seen Paul, chained in his own hard house and you know what?

He came with a message. He came with questions. He said, in Klossie, we've got problems. I mean, we've really got problems. We're a real church. We're a young church. We're a small church. It's a small community but we do have problems.

As a result of him coming to Paul, Paul lifted up the pen and with a chain on his hand, began to write this letter to the small church at Klossie and I assure you, he was preaching about the centrality of Christ.

He majored on the preeminence of Christ. This entire letter is about Christ. Everything is in Christ. Everything is by Christ. Everything is for Christ. Everything is through Christ. You can't read Colossians without looking to the one that's called the Lord Jesus Christ.

False Teachings Challenging the Colossian Church

What was the problem this church was facing? Klossie and its position was the meeting point of east and west. Roads pass through there. It was a place where everybody traveled past and traveled through and you know what the problem was?

False teachers and teachings had reached the church at Klossie. In fact, there was a combination. It was such a remarkable smelting pot of teachings and ideologies that this little tiny church was being overwhelmed by a thousand different ideologies but there were three main ones.

The first one was eastern oriental philosophy which is basic paganism that goes all the way back to Nimrod and Babylonianism. It was eastern religions were hitting this little church and this little community.

Second of all, there was Jewish legalism. There were those from the Jewish faith or Jewish families who were trying to bring into the church various Jewish teachings. They said circumcision makes you more spiritual.

Might make you more clean but certainly not more spiritual. There were dietary laws that you ought to keep. If you eat right, you'll be closer to God. You ought to keep holy days, special months. You ought to study the moon cycle and begin to keep the ancient feasts of Israel.

You ought to keep various Jewish laws and regulation. In fact, this little tiny young church was being bombarded by these Jewish half-breeds. That's what they were. They were claiming to know Christ, claiming to be in the church but they were coming into the church and saying, what about the new moons?

What about Leviticus? What about the feasts of Israel? These young Christians were there saying, I just met Christ. I know he's forgiven me but where do I go from here? There was a third area of teaching which was early Gnosticism.

If you know anything about the Gnostics, it was a remarkable teaching that swept through the world after the early church arose. It was a mixture of mysticism, secret knowledge, hidden knowledge that only they could give to you.

As you begin to study Colossians, you see that they worshipped angels or they copied the worship of angels. In other words, they say, we've got special awareness of angels. We're aware of the angels and there ought to be a teaching in the church to worship like the angels, to worship with the angels or to worship the actual angels.

These false teachers coming in talked about humility. Have you ever met people? Candace heard one of the bishops, our Cardinals of Limerick. He was on the radio a few years ago and he come on, he got angry on the radio.

I still didn't think these cert were around, but he got angry on the radio and he says, I don't like these people who say they know their sins are forgiven or who have the assurance. He was mad, he was raging that anyone would say, I know Christ has forgiven me.

He was angry. And do you know what? He sounded very humble. I'm so humble, I don't know Christ has forgiven me. I'm so humble and I'm so educated that I would never say I've got eternal life. What did John do when he wrote his letter?

I write on to you that you may know that you have eternal life. You know what? That can sound like humility, but it is rank heresy. It is antichrist. It is against scripture to say that you can't know your sins are forgiven.

You see, there's some people educated beyond truth. They know so much that they neglect the truth for it. As you read this letter, you realize all the problems that even in this small church, certain Christians weren't getting on with each other.

Paul had a deal with that. There were those saying, don't touch, don't eat, be careful what you eat or you'll be less spiritual. What a remarkable thing. Do you know what Paul's answer? I'm talking about an answer here.

This little church Colossae is like a 21st century church. Do you know what? We're being bombarded by East and West. We are being bombarded by half baked Judaism, by Eastern mysticism and philosophy and also by new age Gnosticism.

We live in an hour where astrology is all around us. A fascination with angels. Talk about disciplining the body to be more spiritual. Being caught up in visions and dreams and spiritual ideologies. Oh, how dangerous.

You know what Paul preaches? Listen, this is my first point, that Christ might have the preeminence. What's the cure for all of this? That Christ might have the first place. Don't listen to all these theories.

Don't listen to all these ideologies. Find Christ. Make sure that He is first. Make sure He's absolutely supreme. Listen, in relation to the universe, in relation to society, in relation to the church and in relation to religion.

You see, I believe that when we come to Christ the creator in Genesis 1 and Colossians chapter 1 and Hebrews chapter 1 and Revelation chapter 1 and all of these chapters in the Bible, do you know what I believe it destroys?

All the heresies and false teachings of this hour. If Christ isn't first, then He's nothing to you this morning. You see, I believe when you see Christ as the creator, it destroys atheism. In the beginning, God created.

You see, when you go back to the Bible and see who Christ is, that Christ created all things. If you believe this Bible, if you don't believe this Bible, you're not a Christian. You can't be a Christian and not believe the Bible.

You can't choose what to believe. That is a man-made religion. If you're molding your picture of Christ according to your thoughts, that is not the real Christ. You say, I like that bit and I don't like this bit.

I'll keep that bit and I'll leave that aside. Well, I accept this part of the Bible and I don't accept the other. You know what? That is a man-made religion. If this God is the God of the Bible, He created all things.

Do you know what coming and seeing Christ as the creator does? It destroys atheism. There was a God and it was Christ Jesus. It destroys pantheism. What's pantheism? Everything is God. God is everything.

He's in everything. We're all one. That's what pantheism is. But do you know what the Bible says? God created all things. It destroys pantheism. You cannot believe in Christ and believe in pantheism. Christ annihilates pantheism.

Christ isn't in all things. He's not in all persons. He created all persons. He died for all persons. He wants to come to live in all persons. But do you know what? We're not all the same merging into one mass of divinity.

No way. You're a sinner. God help us. The people I've met who thought that they had the divine in them. If that's divine, I want nothing of it. I assure you. You see, Christ created all things. It destroys polytheism.

You say, what's that? Polytheism is all of these religions because He is revealed as the one true God. You can't say all religions are the same. Mahatma Gandhi, he said, Islam, Hindu, Buddhism, Christianity, they're all different ways to the same God.

Really, they all contradict each other. They all challenge one another. They teach opposite things. That's schizophrenia at its very best. You cannot believe the same things and get to the same God or the same destination.

If I give you all different maps to all different times and say we'll all get there in the same way, if I give you different transport and different directions, I assure you we will not end up the same place.

We'll end up everywhere. It destroys materialism. God created the earth. Why would you live and stake your eternity on this world, the physical world, if there's a God who created all things? How would you make a God out of mammon, possessions, sacrifice to it, live for it, and yet you deny God?

If Christ is preeminent, it'll destroy materialism. It'll also destroy humanism. What is humanism? Man is the center. You know you get it in the church as well. It's all about me. No, it's not. No, it's not.

This church is all about meeting the needs of people. No, it's not. This Christianity is about making me happy. No, it is not. You know, preeminently, the gospel is all about God. God getting his way.

Humanism puts man at the center. It can be in religion, in society, or in the church. But if you see Christ preeminent, high above all else, it destroys it. What about evolution? It blows it out of the water.

God created. He manufactured. He made all things. Oh, I think we can merge evolution with creation. No, you cannot. You need to throw the Bible out. You need to deny Colossians 1. You see, Colossians 1 shows that Christ, the creator, is preeminent and must be central.

Christ as Creator of the Universe and Humanity

If Christ did not create all things, then how could he die for your sins? How could he be God? How do you know you can trust any of his words that he says, I forgive you? If you don't believe he created all things, you can't believe he shed his blood for you or that he loves you.

What sort of God do we believe in? You see, there's those in the church of our day who believe in theistic evolution. Oh, science has proved Genesis 1 to 3 wrong, that it's not true. You say, I'd never fall for that.

Yeah, but you listen to the people who preach it. Pat Robison, the 700 Club, in recent days has got angry with those who believe in creation or in a 6 ,000 year history of man. He gets angry, angry over it.

He says, you can merge evolution with creation. No, you can't. And a real Christian believes that Christ is a creator. John Stott of England wrote his books, very famous, come into loggerheads with Lloyd-Jones.

You know why? He believed in evolution, that in Genesis, God just evolved, chose out an ape and made him a man. I want to tell you, that's a denial of Christ the creator. Now, you can go and believe evolution.

You can go and believe polytheism. You can go and believe anything you want, but it's a denial of Christ the creator as preeminent. My second point, Christ the creator. You say, you've already preached that.

Oh no, I'm only getting going here. Christ preeminent, Christ preeminent. Second of all, Christ the creator. Look at verse 16. For by him, speaking about Christ, for by him were all things created. Either this is true or it's false, but you can't separate it.

If you deny this, you deny Christ of Calvary. You deny Christ the healer, Christ the savior, Christ the deliverer, Christ the eternal one that will accept you into heaven. For by him were all things created.

Do you see that everything that was created was by the Lord Jesus Christ that are in heaven? It's talking about the cosmos. Go to Genesis 1, the heavens, the planets, the cosmos, the universe, the entire creation.

That is the heavens, not God's heaven. That isn't created, but the heavens is the whole realm and dimension of the physical creation. Who created the universe, the galaxies, those areas and dimensions that man's eye has never yet seen?

Saints, do you realize the entire universe was created by him and it was created for him? You say, we haven't even reached those areas yet. Oh, we will one day. Do you know that this entire universe is gonna be filled with the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ?

Do you realize it was created by him? He knows every star, he knows every galaxy, he knows every planet. That's why in Job there's information there written 4 ,000 years ago, exact information about planets, about stars that they've only recently discovered.

They couldn't have seen with human eye and yet Job could write by the Holy Spirit. How did he do that? Well, the same Christ who created all things, showed Job how the planets and the stars moved and gave him that information.

For by him were all things created in heaven and on earth. Everything on earth was created by him. The trees, the mountains, the hills, the waters, the seas, the land mass, man, animals, the elephant, the giraffe, all of these, even beagle dogs.

Well, I think someone messed with them along the way, but the original dog, before they started all the breeding and leaving her with certain problems that if they left the thing alone it wouldn't have happened.

It said he created all things. Get off her quickly. But he created all things, visible and invisible, visible and invisible. Do you know there's invisible things created by God? The angels, the cherubims, the seraphims, all of this was created by God.

The visible world and the invisible world was created by Christ. Do you see when you only start at the cross, you can go wrong. When you only see the crib and Christ being born in the crib, you can go wrong.

This is far bigger. I'm showing you the one that was born of Mary's virgin womb. I'm showing you the one that stretched out his hands and died at Calvary. Do you know who he is? He's the one that stretched out his hand and created the planets, created this earth.

He is the very same Christ. Don't tell me he doesn't have power. You see, do you restrict him or do you see his sovereignty, his absolute power? It says, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created by him and for him.

You know, all of creation was created for the Lord Jesus Christ. Men don't worship him today. Men don't bow before him. Men don't give him glory and honor. One day they will. The Bible actually says all nations one day are going to come and worship him.

They're going to come and bow down before him. In fact, every single person one day is going to bow their knee and call him Lord, eternal God. That's what they're going to do one of these days. It says in verse 17, and he is before all things.

Jesus Christ didn't begin in the virgin birth. He was eternal. He is God. He is the creator. He is before all things. There's nothing you can point to that he wasn't before. And by him, all things consist.

They're in their place. They're in their situation. They're held in position. All of these things are held by Christ. Listen for a second. You know it well. If you talk to a JW or a Mormon, they will deny.

They don't believe the same Christ as us. Neither do the religions out there. They don't believe in the same Christ. A man might say, I believe in your Christ. I'm reading a remarkable testimony right at the minute of a man called Bank Singh, an Indian.

He grew up in a Hindu family. He was radical. He was high caste. A very devout man. And his parents as well. Very, very devout. Very upright. And they prayed for him fervently. But do you know what? There was an hour he met with the Lord Jesus Christ.

No one preached to him. No one witnessed to him. He never read the Bible. In fact, he got given the Bible. He pulled all the pages out. He hated the Bible. He hated Christianity. He didn't believe it at all.

But in one second, when you read his testimony, he got utterly transformed on his knees. He fell in love with Jesus Christ. And he'd become one of India's greatest preacher's evangelists. He went everywhere preaching.

Seeing miracles. Seeing the sick healed. Seeing tens of thousands turn to Christ wherever he went. You see, I believe this Christ, he's not only the Christ of the cross. He's the Christ of all things.

But do you know what? When you talk to a JW Mormon, they'll say he's not God. He was a created being. Listen very carefully. John chapter 1. Revelation chapter 1. And Hebrews chapter 1. If you read them, you cannot separate divinity from Christ.

You cannot deny that Christ created all things. It says it very clearly. Listen to what it says in John chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning, there was a beginning. You see, last week we dealt with Christ in eternity.

Before the beginning. Before the world. You see, you know, how many sinners have I met in the street that said, so who created God? They think they've caught you out. If he is created, he's not God. You cannot be God.

The Mormons believe we're all gonna become gods. They believe that their God was a man once who evolved into God. That's what they believe. All these cults always take Christ and make him something little.

But I tell you, the Bible says he's preeminent. He is the creator of all things. The entire physical world, my Christ created it. The one who died on the cross created it. The one who I worship this morning, he created all things.

No one created him. What does it say? In the beginning was the word. That was his name. That was Jesus' name at the beginning. He's called the word of God or the logos. In the beginning was the word. And the word was with God.

And the word was God. The word is a name for the Lord Jesus Christ. The same was in the beginning with God. Listen, all things were made by him. And without him was not anything made that was made. The word logos means the thought of God, the mind of God, the expression of God.

Jesus Christ was the entire expression of God. He is eternal. He is all powerful. He is all knowing. He is divine. He is God. If he was a man, I wouldn't worship him. Hebrews 1 says all of the angels worship him.

Angels don't worship a man, a created being. They only worship the sovereign Lord. No angel will worship a man. And I can tell you the man Christ Jesus, he didn't begin at the crib or the cross. He began there at the very beginning.

He was the creator of all things physical. All things revealed. It says in Ephesians 3 in verse 9, concerning Christ, he said, who created all things by Christ. Everything was created by him. Hebrews 1 in verse 2, it's speaking about Christ again.

It says, by whom also he made the worlds. It then goes on to say he is the express image of his person, upholding all things by the word of his power. Do you know everything, the planets, the universe, is upheld, held in its place, by the word of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He holds all things. Christ is the creator. Since if you aren't gripped by the reality that Christ created the physical universe, if you think you can compromise and sacrifice on a literal creation in Genesis 1 of six days, literal 24 hour days, of God's sovereignly, supernaturally created man, you will slowly or quickly fall into terrible error that will lead you away from salvation in Christ.