Christ's Ascension | Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 18

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Rev. Gary Zekveld is the pastor of New Westminster United Reformed Church in British Columbia

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Q&A's

Question 46
What do you mean by saying, “He ascended to heaven”?

Answer
That Christ, while his disciples watched, was taken up from the earth into heaven and remains there on our behalf until he comes again to judge the living and the dead.

Question 47
But isn’t Christ with us until the end of the world as he promised us?

Answer
Christ is true man and true God. In his human nature Christ is not now on earth; but in his divinity, majesty, grace, and Spirit he is never absent from us.

Question 48
If his humanity is not present wherever his divinity is, then aren’t the two natures of Christ separated from each other?

Answer
Certainly not. Since divinity is not limited and is present everywhere, it is evident that Christ’s divinity is surely beyond the bounds of the humanity that has been taken on, but at the same time his divinity is in and remains personally united to his humanity.

Question 49
How does Christ’s ascension to heaven benefit us?

Answer
First, he is our advocate in heaven in the presence of his Father. Second, we have our own flesh in heaven as a sure pledge that Christ our head will also take us, his members, up to himself. Third, he sends his Spirit to us on earth as a corresponding pledge. By the Spirit’s power we seek not earthly things but the things above, where Christ is, sitting at God’s right hand.