46.Q. What do you mean by saying, "He ascended to heaven"?
A. That Christ, while His disciples watched, was lifted up from the earth to heave and will be there for our good until He comes again to judge the living and the dead.
47.Q. But isn't Christ with us until the end of the world as he promised us?
A.Christ is truly human and truly God. In His human nature Christ is not now on earth; but in His divinity, majesty, grace and Spirit He is not absent from us for a moment.
48.Q. If His humanity is not present where His divinity is, then aren't the two natures of Christ separated from each other?
A.Certainly not. Since divinity is not limited and is present everywhere, it is eveident that Christ's divinity is surely beyond the bounds of the humanity He has take on, but at the same time His divinity is in and remains personally united to His humanity.
Q49.A. How does Christ's ascension to heaven benefit us?
A. First, He pleads our cause in heaven in the presence of His Father. Second, we have our own flesh in heaven--a guarantee that Christ our head will take us, His members, to Himself in heaven. Third, He sends His Spirit to us on earth as a further guarantee. By the Spirit's power we make the goal of our lives, not earthly things, but the things above where Christ is, sitting at God's right hand.
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Mark 11:7-10
And many spread their garments on the road and others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road.Then those who went before and those who followed cried out saying: "Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD! Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
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Likewise, there is nothing good or desirable, either during this life of the next, in pursuing sin for its own sake.
John Owen--Sin and Temptation
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Pray that the front-line workers will have a real sense of the presence of God.
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