The Ascension

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The Resurrection
  • Jesus taught His disciples that He must suffer many things, be rejected, be killed but on the third day He would rise again! (the gospels)

The Empty Tomb
  • Jesus is alive!
  • He is risen!

Appearances Of Jesus After His Resurrection
  • Jesus appears to the women first! (Mary Magdalene, Mary mother of James, Salome, Joanna and other women not named)
  • Jesus appeared to Peter
  • Jesus appears to His disciples several times
  • Jesus walks with two believers on the Road to Emmaus (Cleopas; the other believer's name not mentioned)
  • Jesus appears to a group of five hundred at one time
  • Jesus appears to James
  • Jesus appears to all the apostles including Paul
The Forty Days Before His Ascension (Acts 1:2-8)
  • Jesus gave commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen
  • Jesus presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs
  • Jesus spoke to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God
  • Jesus commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the Promise of the Father - to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, to receive power to be His witnesses in the earth.
The Ascension
Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven. (Acts 1:9-l1)

The Throne of Grace (Hebrews 4, 7, 8, 12)
  • Jesus is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God
  • Jesus as our High Priest ever lives to make intercession for us
  • Jesus as our High Priest sympathizes with our weakness
  • we can come boldly to the throne of Grace to obtain mercy
  • we can come boldly to find grace to help in time of need

The Love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:34-35, 37-39)
Nothing can separate us from the love of God- we are more than conquerors!
  • not tribulation
  • not sword
  • nor things present
  • not distress
  • neither death
  • nor things to come
  • not persecution
  • nor life
  • nor height
  • not famine
  • nor angels
  • nor depth
  • not nakedness
  • nor principalities
  • not peril
  • nor any other created thing
  • nor powers
Behold, He is coming with clouds and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty. (Revelation 1:7-8)

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