49. What benefit do we receive from Christ's ascension into heaven?
First, that He is our Advocate in the presence of His Father in heaven.[1] Second, that we have our flesh in heaven as a sure pledge, that He as the Head, will also take us, His members, up to Himself.[2] Third, that He sends us His Spirit as an earnest,[3] by whose power we seek those things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God, and not things on the earth.[4]
[1]I Jn. 2:1; Rom. 8:34. [2]Jn. 14:2; 20:17; Eph. 2:6. [3]Jn. 14:16; Acts 2:33; II Cor. 5:5. [4]Col. 3:1; *Jn. 14:3; *Heb. 9:24.
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50. Why is it added: “And sitteth at the right hand of God?”
Because Christ ascended into heaven for this end, that He might there appear as the Head of His Church,[1] by whom the Father governs all things.[2]
[1]Eph. 1:20-23; Col. 1:18. [2] Jn. 5:22; *I Pet. 3:22; *Ps. 110:1.
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