We are spending one more day looking at the biblical worldview of Jesus Christ. We will look at what He is doing right now today. We have already looked at what He has done eternally. He has always been God. We saw the incarnation. He came to the earth at a moment in time and took on human flesh and nature and lived among us a perfect life, nevertheless He lived among us. We saw that He went to the cross and died on our behalf dying for our sins. We have seen that He also resurrected from the dead and death could not hold Him. What is He doing right now?
First, He is ascended. Acts 1:9, “And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. They also said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.’” The first thing we find out is that Jesus is no longer on earth. As a matter of fact, He has never been back to earth since that time in a physical form. He was seen in visions: Paul saw Him in a vision, John saw Him in a vision, but He doesn’t come back and live on earth. He is coming again sometime, we will look at that in the future, but right now He is ascended, and He has gone to be with the Father. He has left this earth and He is gone at this time.
We find that as He has ascended, He has gone to the right hand of the Father. Acts 2:33 says, “Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirt, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear.” When He ascended, He ascended to the Father, and He is at the right hand of the Father. He is on the throne of God and when He went there, He then turned around shortly thereafter, and He and the Father sent the Holy Spirit to earth to indwell His people in the church. We find that happening in Acts 2. At the right hand of God (the position of power and the position of the Throne Room) He ascended, and He sits there today until He comes again.
What is He doing there? In Hebrews 7:25 it says, “Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.” The fact that Jesus Christ is alive. The fact that He has ascended and is at the right hand of the Father does wonderful things for us. He lives now so that those who draw near to God draw near to God through Him. It is not possible for sinful human beings to come directly into the presence of a holy God. They must come through a mediator and that mediator is Jesus Christ. It says that He always lives to make intercession for them. So, Christ is alive. He is alive forever and eternally and He “makes intercession for them”, or us, so that we are able to come into the presence of God because of the ministry of Jesus Christ right now at the right hand of the Father . . .
