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Author: Benjamin Dean

6. What He Is Doing From That Throne

Every day the church experiences the fruits and effects of Christ’s session, his heavenly rule. The Leiden professors close their treatment by turning from what the session is to what it does — and to the priestly work that makes all of it effective.
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5. God Has No Hands

What ‘The Right Hand’ Actually Means
The four Leiden professors return once more, offering a summary of the Bible’s teaching on Christ’s heavenly session, an expansion of some points, and corrections to misunderstandings still with us today.
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4. A Chess Game Already Won

Our present historical moment — situated between Jesus’ ascension and return — falls within his current heavenly session. Jesus reigns in heaven right now, seated at the right hand of God. He has reigned thus since his ascension, and will continue to do so until he comes again in glory at the end of history.
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3. Prophet, King and Priest — Still on Duty

Jesus’ work in his ascension can be understood according to the threefold office as prophet, king and priest.
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2. Why Does It Matter That He Sat Down?

There is no conflict between the different postures attributed to Christ.
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1. Where Is He Now, and What Is He Doing?

The Christian good news is not that Jesus was Lord — in the past, some two thousand years ago, during his earthly life, or even through his death, resurrection and ascension into heaven; though all of that is claimed to be the case.
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6. A Real Departure to a Real Place

Did Jesus simply vanish? Did his body merely become glorious? Or did something actually move?
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5. A Human Being Sits on the Throne of God

Having said all this about Jesus’ absolute Divine sovereignty, it’s critical to register where the New Testament actually places its emphasis when speaking of the ascension.
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4. The Clue to History

The one who had been crucified, God ‘made … both Lord and Christ’ (Acts 2:36). The title ‘Lord’ (kurios), deployed more than one hundred times in the New Testament, asserts Jesus’ eternal deity — his nature and status as full and true God, co-equal with the Father.
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3. Eleven Documents, Seven Authors

Together with the resurrection, the ascension constitutes the physical — and visible — exaltation of Jesus. Luke gives us a narrative account of the event itself, first in brief compass at the close of his Gospel, then at greater length as he opens the book of Acts.
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2. He Went Ahead So the Spirit Could Come

When he ascended, returning to God the Father, Jesus took his whole humanity — body and soul — with him into heaven.
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1. Don’t Stop at the Empty Tomb

The resurrection was never the end of the story. Even in the garden, on the morning of his rising, Jesus pointed his disciples beyond the empty tomb to what still lay ahead: ‘Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”’
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