“…and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty…” Christ humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even the shameful death of a cross, and God rewarded his faithful obedience by exalting him (Phil. 2:9). His exaltation was powerfully manifest for all the world to see in his resurrection, …

“He ascended into heaven” Generally speaking, the ascension of Jesus Christ is given little attention in the church and in the academy and even when it is treated, it is done as “little more than a dazzling exclamation point for the resurrection rather than as a new event in its own right” (Michael Horton, People …