Archidiaconus
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 42
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...(see ch. xvi. 19) that " He was received into Heaven, and sat on the right hand of God." St. Luke tells us that " He was carried up into Heaven." The angels spoke of "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into Heaven " (Acts i. Ii). St. Peter writes, " Who is gone into Heaven and is on the right hand of God" (i Pet. iii. 22). St. Paul tells us, that He "ascended far above all heavens " (Eph. iv. 10): and again (ch. i. 20, 21) that He, "the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory" (v. 17) " raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places." Also He is " set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens" (Heb. viii. i): and that He is not entered into the holy places made with hands... but into heaven itself" (ix. 24). All this is matter of revelation, by means of inspiration. It is well to insist upon these points, in view of the fact that our Lord's actual and literal ascension into heaven is denied by the rationalists of the present day. Revelation further makes known to us the purposes for which our Lord ascended into heaven. L--That He might bestow upon His Church the gift of the Holy Ghost. "If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.. but if 1 depart, I will send him unto you" (John xvi. 7). "Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear" (Acts ii. 33). II.--To prepare a place for His people. "I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where...