The Bad Plan of the Ascension

White Horse Inn

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🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The ascension seems like a really bad plan. Why would Christ leave his disciples? Is the indwelling Spirit truly better than Christ in the flesh? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland discuss Jesus’s gifts to the church through his intercession and his continuing priestly office in which he acts as our advocate and intercessor.

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0:00.0	He's not piddling around, kind of twiddling, and something's waiting.
0:06.7	He's on his throne.
0:08.0	The kingdom is now.
0:09.7	We're not waiting for his kingdom.
0:12.4	He is on his throne, ruling and rating.
0:14.5	This makes sense of his favorite title for himself, which is Son of Man.
0:19.5	He went around saying Son of Man, Son of Man, Son of Man.
0:23.6	And what Son of Man means is exactly that.
0:26.3	His current ministry is he's ruling and reigning.
0:29.1	And he's the judge of everything.
0:32.4	And as the ascended Lord, he's interceding for us.
0:37.5	He's advocating for us.
0:39.4	And he is our mediator to the Father.
0:41.4	I mean, that's because of his current ministry.
0:43.5	Those are the benefits we have right now.
0:45.2	Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church, this is White Horse's
1:02.2	A weekly roundtable discussion about theology and culture.
1:17.8	Hello and welcome to another edition of White Horse Inn.
1:20.6	We are talking about the ascension of Christ in this program, and you know, when you look
1:25.8	back in the time of Jesus, everybody knew the basic clot was Exodus and Conquest.
1:35.0	So you have the Exodus, everything turned on God bringing his people out of captivity in
1:41.0	Egypt.
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