May 17, 2012

His Ascension and Our Access

It came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven —Luke 24:51

We have no experiences in our lives that correspond to the events in our Lord’s life after the transfiguration. From that moment forward His life was altogether substitutionary. Up to the time of the transfiguration, He had exhibited the normal, perfect life of a man. But from the transfiguration forward— Gethsemane, the Cross, the resurrection— everything is unfamiliar to us. His Cross is the door by which every member of the human race can enter into the life of God; by His resurrection He has the right to give eternal life to anyone, and by His ascension our Lord entered heaven, keeping the door open for humanity.

The transfiguration was completed on the Mount of Ascension. If Jesus had gone to heaven directly from the Mount of Transfiguration, He would have gone alone. He would have been nothing more to us than a glorious Figure. But He turned His back on the glory, and came down from the mountain to identify Himself with fallen humanity.

The ascension is the complete fulfillment of the transfiguration. Our Lord returned to His original glory, but not simply as the Son of God— He returned to His father as the Son of Man as well. There is now freedom of access for anyone straight to the very throne of God because of the ascension of the Son of Man. As the Son of Man, Jesus Christ deliberately limited His omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. But now they are His in absolute, full power. As the Son of Man, Jesus Christ now has all the power at the throne of God. From His ascension forward He is the King of kings and Lord of lords.


他的升天與我們的合一

正祝福的時候,他就離開他們,被帶到天上去了。 (路二十四51)

主登山變像之後的經歷​​,是我們沒法體驗的。從那時起,主的生命完全是為了代贖。登山之前,他過的是正常人的生活;登山之後,經過客西馬尼、十字架,以至復活,都不是我們所熟悉的。他的十字架,是人類進入神生命的門;他的複活,使他有賜人永生的權柄;他的升天,使天門為人敞開。

在升天的山上,登山變像的意義就明顯了。耶穌若在登山變像時升了天,他就是獨自而去,對我們只是一個榮耀的形像而已。可是,他紆尊降貴,從山上來,與墮落的人類等量齊觀。

升天是登山變像的實現,我們的主這時回到他原有的榮耀裡去;可是他不單是以神兒子的身分回去,也以人子的身分回到神那裡去。因為人子升天,人就有自由的通道直接去到神寶座前。

作為人子,耶穌故意限制了他的權能、全知,以及無所不在的自由;升天后卻全部在他掌管之中了。耶穌基督為人子,有著神寶座的一切權能,從他升天之日起直到今天,他是萬王之王,萬主之主。

祈禱◆主啊,我的每一方面,都徹底、完全和絕對需要你。我是一個等待你注滿的龐大潭穴,以你的榮耀和美善注滿我,直至湧流不息。

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