Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1914 — Christ at the Right Hand of God [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Christ at the Right Hand of God

By REV. L. W. GOSNELL

Awatent to Deu Moody Bibia Intitule. Chicoao

TEXT—“He was received up Into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.” Mark 16:19.

These wor d ■ ,-glve us a vision of our enthroned brother. Our Lord Jesus Christ will have forever a human body and soul and when we see him 1 In glory it will be “this same Jesus” who was received up from earth to heaven. His enthronement suggests the gloriflcation possible for humanity. Our

bodies are now in humiliation and grow weary and ill; but they shall be made like unto the-body of hte glory —wondrous thought! The vision assures us of Christ’* sympathy. He is touched with a feeling of our Infirmities, having been in all points tempted as we are, apart from sin.

Though now ascended up on high He bends on earth a brother’s eye; Partaker of the human name He knows the frailty of our frame. Our entrance to heaven is secured. Joseph’s rude brothers were out of place In the palace of Pharaoh, but because Joseph was on the throne they were soon set at ease. Christ is not ashamed to call us brethren and we shajl be “at home” with the Lord. Our Resting Savior. Christ “sat” on the right hand of God, for the work of atonement was done. Other men die feeling their vcork is incomplete, but he could cry “It is finished.” Mr. J. Hudson Taylor, when a boy, picked up a tract In which he noted the words, “the finished work of .Christ.” He saw that he had nothing to do but accept the gift of salvation and praise God; and In a moment he was saved. Will you not do likewise?

Bishop Moule and a party of friends stood one night in the Coliseum and thought of the countless martyrs whq there had died for Christ. By the light of the moon he read the closing words of Romans 8: "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who Is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Our Mighty Helper. 1 The verse following the text reads, "And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.” Christ does not sit idly on his throne; but, as Stephen saw him "standing” on the right hand of God, he risfes to help his people. The Gospels tell us what Jesuß “began to do and teach,” and he is still doing and teaching. If tempted to doubt whether the Lord is among us, let us recall how he shook Christendom by a miner’s son, Martin Luther; and launched the modem missionary movement through a shoemaker, William Carey. ' • “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool” (Hebrews 10:12, 13). He shall come to reign at last. In that day, the church will shire his glories as his own bride. Israel will be restored and be a channel or blessing to all nations. Wars and oppression will cease “and the streetß of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.” "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole - of the asp,' and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. They shall hot hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the seas” (Isaiah 11:6-9). A blind girl said she loved the Book of Revelation the best, and especially the last three chapters, since the twentieth shows Satan bound, the twenty-first shows the Lamb married and the twenty-second shows Christ, reigning. And hear this wondrous word: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as 1; also overcome, and am set down with my father in his throne” (Rev. 3:21), ' \ & , ’‘ *