This past Sunday was a significant day of Christian observance…a day to be celebrated as much as Christmas, Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday.  It is called Ascension Sunday. So much was accomplished in God’s “Plan of the Ages” on that amazing day, when the resurrected Jesus, visibly and gloriously, ascended into Heaven as His disciples watched…ascended to be seated at the powerful right hand of His Father. Not only is Jesus risen, indeed…Jesus has ascended, indeed!

1 Timothy 3:16

By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness: He, [Jesus], who was revealed in the flesh, Was vindicated in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Proclaimed among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory!

Hebrews 4:14-16

Therefore, since we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

“When Jesus died, He died as my representative, and I died in Him; when He arose, He rose as my representative, and I arose in Him; when He ascended up on high and took His place at the right hand of the Father in the glory, He ascended as my representative and I ascended in Him, and today I am seated in Christ with God in the heavenlies.  I look at the cross of Christ, and I know that atonement has been made for my sins; I look at the open sepulcher and the risen and ascended Lord, and I know the atonement has been accepted.  There no longer remains a single sin on me, no matter how many or how great my sins may have been.” ~ R.A. Torrey

Blessings,

Pastor Dave