The message of today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is POWERFUL!
His Ascension and Our Access
It came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted
from them and carried up into heaven. —Luke 24:51
We have no experiences in our lives that correspond to the
events in our Lord’s life after the transfiguration. From that moment forward
His life was altogether substitutionary. Up to the time of the transfiguration,
He had exhibited the normal, perfect life of a man. But from the
transfiguration forward— Gethsemane, the Cross, the resurrection— everything is
unfamiliar to us. His Cross is the door by which every member of the human race
can enter into the life of God; by His resurrection He has the right to give
eternal life to anyone, and by His ascension our Lord entered heaven, keeping
the door open for humanity.
The transfiguration was completed on the Mount of Ascension.
If Jesus had gone to heaven directly from the Mount of Transfiguration, He
would have gone alone. He would have been nothing more to us than a glorious
Figure. But He turned His back on the glory, and came down from the mountain to
identify Himself with fallen humanity.
The ascension is the complete fulfillment of the
transfiguration. Our Lord returned to His original glory, but not simply as the
Son of God— He returned to His father as the Son of Man as well.
There is now freedom of access for anyone straight to the very throne of God
because of the ascension of the Son of Man. As the Son of Man, Jesus Christ
deliberately limited His omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. But now
they are His in absolute, full power. As the Son of Man, Jesus Christ now has
all the power at the throne of God. From His ascension forward He is the King
of kings and Lord of lords.
WE have free and complete access to the GOD of the BIBLE because of JESUS! AMEN! Don't ever take that TRUTH lightly! No one before the Church age EVER had the Spirit of God living IN them! We are, of ALL people who have ever lived, MOST BLESSED!!! Here is Hillsong with "Blessed":Shalom in Him!
