What Is Jesus Doing Right Now?
Ask a Christian what Jesus did, and you will hear about the cross and the empty tomb. Ask what Jesus is doing today, and the room often goes quiet. Many believers picture a Saviour who finished His work long ago and then went somewhere very far away.
Scripture tells a better story. Forty days after He rose, Jesus was carried up into heaven (Luke 24:51). There He sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high (Hebrews 1:3). He is not absent, and He is not retired. He ever liveth to make intercession for those who come to God by Him (Hebrews 7:25).
This truth belongs to your ordinary days. When you pray, Someone has opened the door. When you sin, Someone speaks for you. When a church is weak, its Head is not. When you stand at a grave, the One who went ahead of you has a place ready. Your hope rests not only on what Jesus did but on where He is right now.
We believe that Jesus ascended bodily into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father, waiting for the day He receives His church at the Rapture. We believe He is still a man, the one Mediator between God and men, and that no priest, saint, or angel shares that place.
What the risen Lord Jesus is doing now, in heaven and in His human body: interceding for His people, standing as their Advocate when they sin, giving them access to the Father, ruling as Head of His church, upholding all things, and preparing a place for those who are His.
When you have failed again, what do you imagine is being said about you in heaven, and who is saying it?
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For Deeper Study
- The Ascension of Christ: Recovering a Neglected DoctrineAmazon Patrick SchreinerA Baptist seminary professor's short, readable study of why the ascension matters for Christ as prophet, priest, and king. He does not write from a dispensational position, so weigh his kingdom material against Scripture.
- Faith That Endures: A Practical Commentary on the Book of HebrewsAmazon J. Dwight PentecostDispensational. A verse-by-verse walk through Hebrews by a longtime Dallas Theological Seminary teacher, with Christ's priesthood at the center.
- The Two Natures in ChristAmazon Martin ChemnitzLutheran. The sixteenth-century classic behind the Formula of Concord; read it to understand the view of Christ's presence this article answers.
- Foxe's Book of MartyrsAmazon John FoxeThe classic Protestant record of those who died for the faith, from the early church to the English Reformation.
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The Bodily Resurrection
Jesus rose bodily from the dead on the third day. Without the resurrection, the apostle says, our faith is vain.
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