Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

Thank you for joining. Let's get started.

Let me start today by asking you a question. Where is Jesus? Right now, relative to wherever you are, whatever's going on in your life, where is Jesus?

Now, I suppose we would get a variety of answers. Some would say, well, Jesus is in heaven. He's

sitting at the right hand of God, just like the Bible teaches. You may even say it's

the picture of Revelation 4 and 5, the throne room scene that we've studied before in a previous

episode, that he is in the courts of glory, standing next to the Father, holding this book of future judgment that only he can open.

And that's great. And I guess I would have a follow-up question, which is, where is that?

Like in terms of distance, if you were going to measure it in miles or light years, where is Jesus? Now, others might say, well, actually, I would say Jesus is right here with me.

I would argue that he is always in the room and that even right now, he's just inches away, standing

next to me, or sitting in the seat beside me.

Jesus is holding my hand, or he has his hand upon my shoulder.

There are all kinds of answers, and in some ways, everyone is right.

Wherever you picture Jesus, that's where he is. You might say, I don't know if

that's doctrinally sound. It sounds pretty subjective to me, but you and I both know that God, God,

the Father and God the Son, and the Spirit are what we call omnipresent. Jesus is everywhere. He is the power of deity,

not bound by space or time. David wrote in Psalm 139, where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I

flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there.

If I make my bed in shield, behold, you are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the

remotest part of the sea, even there, your hand will lead me, and your right hand will lay hold of me. Did you see that?

He's all the way up in heaven. He's down below the grave of death. He is in the most remote part of the sea.

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