How does Christ’s ascension into heaven benefit us?

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First, He is our Advocate in heaven before His Father. Second, we have our flesh in heaven as a sure pledge that He, our Head, will also take us, His members, up to Himself. Third, He sends us His Spirit as a counter-pledge, by whose power we seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God, and not the things that are on earth.

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  • First, He is our Advocate in heaven before His Father. (Romans 8:34; 1 John 2:1)
  • Second, we have our flesh in heaven as a sure pledge that He, our Head, will also take us, His members, up to Himself. (John 14:2; John 17:24; Ephesians 2:4–6)
  • Third, He sends us His Spirit as a counter-pledge, (John 14:16; Acts 2:33; 2 Corinthians 1:21–22; 2 Corinthians 5:5)
  • by whose power we seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God, and not the things that are on earth. (Colossians 3:1–4)
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