Jesus has Preeminence HoodieJesus is first in everything. If we say that Jesus is our Lord, then He must hold first place in our lives. He gave everything for us; He left His seat in Heaven to come down to this fallen world and suffer a painful death. He experienced separation from His Father, rejection from His creation and humiliation from those He cared enough to die for. Then He experienced the full punishment for our sins and paid for the debt that we were supposed to pay;