When He Is Come - Media Sabda Org

(Acts 1:22). He did not ascend in His own power, but in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit
carried Him back into the bosom of the Father in the very same body He constructed in the
incarnation, which He filled in the anointing, which He empowered for His ministry, and quickened
in the resurrection. He now presented Him to the Father, not only in His Deity, but in His Deity and
humanity, as the victorious Christ.
No man can ascend into heaven on his own merits, goodness, and power. We need the Spirit to
dwell in us, to carry us up into heaven, and present us to Christ when He comes to meet us in the air.
Christ came forth from the grave in a resurrected body, but it seems that He was not glorified until
after His ascension. Following the ascension, the blessed and holy Trinity spent ten days together
in heaven before the Spirit descended. These certainly were ten gracious and glorious days for the
Trinity. Christ was glorified before the Spirit was released from His Person. It was essential for the
Spirit to remain in Christ until He was glorified. We read, "But this spake he of the Spirit, which they
that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not
yet glorified" (John 7:39; Acts 2:33).
Little is written concerning glorification. Christ prayed, "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son
... glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was"
(John 17:1-5). Glorification must take place in the presence of the Father and be wrought by the
Father. He is the One Who glorified Christ (Acts 3:13). He was crowned with glory and honor (Heb.
2:9). Revelation, chapter one, is a graphic picture of the glorified Christ. The effect on John to
behold the glorified Christ was vastly different than the last time he had seen the resurrected Christ,
which was about sixty years before the Patmos vision.
The process of the glorification of Christ took place in heaven. The Father in all of His essence
and glory may have covered, or overshadowed His Son. The glory of Deity (the Father) charged and
penetrated the humanity of Christ and made contact with Deity (the Spirit) Who indwelt Christ.
Deity on the outside made contact with Deity in the Person of Christ and the indwelling Spirit
completed the circuit by discharging that glory which set Christ ablaze with the glory of God. Christ
became ablaze with the glory of Deity which outshines the sun. The Holy Spirit is called "the Spirit
of grace" (Heb. 10:29), and also, "the spirit of glory" (I Peter 4:14). These names bring out the fact
that the work of the Holy Spirit is to administer and apply the grace of God and also to administer
glory. In regard to man, He must first administer the grace of Christ before He can administer the
glory of Christ.
The Spirit Who indwelt the humanity of Christ from His anointing to Pentecost, prepared Him
to impart His own virtues and qualities to all believers. The Holy Spirit is called "the Spirit of Jesus."
This does not mean that the spirit of Jesus was the Holy Spirit or that the Holy Spirit was the spirit
of Jesus. Christ said He would send the Holy Spirit in His name, that means, in His very nature. The
Holy Spirit comes robed in the nature of Christ, bringing His life, benefits, virtues, and graces to the
believers which make them like Christ. There is a wealth of heavenly riches and Christlike graces
to equip everyone. When this truth enlightens any believer, it will be enough to break down every
barrier, or resistance, make him hungry for the baptism with the Spirit, and willing to give the Spirit
a welcome, even as he would if Christ came to him in Person. This truth is very clearly illustrated