Amen.Ī lot has been written about the resurrection of Christ, and appropriately so. Our Lord and our God, we ask that by Your Spirit, You enable us to understand what the ascension is and what it means for us, and then by Your Spirit, apply that truth to our heart in such a way that we would embrace it by faith and walk in it by obedience. Thus ends this reading of God's Holy Word. And they also said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.’” Amen. And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was departing, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. “And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and the cloud received Him out of their sight. So today, we are going to look at this truth and we could look at many places in the New Testament, but a beautiful synopsis of the teaching in the New Testament on the ascension of Christ is found right here in Acts 1 beginning with verse 9. He is the humiliated and exalted Lord, and each of these phases of exaltation are essential to God's witness about Jesus Christ and about His work–God's witness to us to remind us of just who His Son really was and just what His work really accomplished. We are going to see in just a few moments that just as He came into this world and took on our flesh, and lived and died on our behalf, and experienced humiliation on our behalf, it was also necessary that He would be exalted. That Jesus was raised again on the third day, ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand are the three phases in the exaltation of Christ. We started last week with the resurrection we’ll look at the ascension this week and next week, Lord willing, we’ll look at that heavenly session and we will examine each of those clauses of the Apostles’ Creed. You will notice in those three stages the references that we are studying. Now, the wise old Reformed theologians of the 17 th Century used to speak of Jesus’ exaltation in three stages: His resurrection, His ascension, and His session that is, His sitting at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
We are continuing our study through the Apostles’ Creed and today we come to the phrase in which we confess that “we believe in Jesus Christ who ascended into heaven.”
If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Acts, chapter 1.
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