LORD’S DAY 17
45. What benefit do we receive from the resurrection of Christ?
First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, that He might make us partakers of the righteousness which He has obtained for us by His death.11 Corinthians 15:15,17,54-55; Romans 4:25; 1 Peter 1:3-4,21 Second, by His power we are also now raised up to a new life.2Romans 6:4; Colossians 3:1-4; Ephesians 2:5 Third, the resurrection of Christ is to us a sure pledge of our blessed resurrection.31 Corinthians 15:12; Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:20-21
46. What do you understand by the words: “He ascended into heaven”?
That Christ, in the sight of His disciples, was taken up from the earth into heaven;4Acts 1:9; Matthew 26:64; Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51 and that he continues there for our interest5Hebrews 4:14; 7:24-25; 9:11; Romans 8:34; Ephesians 4:10 until He comes again to judge the living and the dead.6Acts 1:11; Matthew 24:30; Acts 3:20-21
47. But is Christ then not with us even unto the end of the world, as He has promised?7Matthew 28:20
Christ is true man and true God. According to His human nature, He is now not on earth,8Matthew 26:11; John 16:28; 17:11 but according to His Godhead, majesty, grace, and Spirit, He is at no time absent from us.9John 14:17-18; 16:13; Ephesians 4:8; Matthew 18:20; Hebrews 8:4
48. But if his human nature is not present wherever His Godhead is, are not then these two natures in Christ separated from one another?
Not at all; for since the Godhead is incomprehensible and everywhere present,10Acts 7:49; Jeremiah 23:24 it must follow that the same is not limited with the human nature He assumed, and yet remains personally united to it.11Colossians 2:9; John 3:13; 11:15; Matthew 28:6; John 1:48