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This was the closing scene of our Lord’s ministrations upon earth. In this His visible Ascension, we learn that He left a blessing on His Apostles and those who through the Apostle-word believe on Him. This blessing of the Lord, is the promise of the Father fulfilled, to send the Holy Ghost, to complete the labour of our Lord in the saving grace to fallen man, for the sending of the Holy Ghost, is the comforter who shall comfort all the faithful ones and prepare them as the elect for our Saviour. It was thus that the Redeemer rose to Heaven, and did leave in the minds of His disciples a most encouraging impression. This blessing of our Lord is to be with His people until He returns in power and glory to take them unto Himself. We may well stand in awe and wonder and cry within ourselves, what a fitting close of the labour of our Redeemer on earth. God had willed not our destruction, but our salvation and to deliver us from sin and eternal death, hence did our Lord devise and execute a plan whereby it is to be accomplished; Our Lord Himself assures us that this was the end of His Ascension. We who believe this great deed of our Lord, it must alter the whole idea of our existence; for it must raise us to a higher order of life. Let us then arise and know our calling to real greatness, our glorious and immortal destiny; let us not prove unworthy of our calling.

Our real life is what we live for, for where ever the main object of our soul is fixed, therein we live and move and have our being. Our zeal should be directed in the first instance, to heavenly things, but we must not let it stop at that, we must be sincerely concerned for the salvation of others.

The Lord’s temple must be built and completed so that our Lord can walk and dwell therein. As stated, the Lord’s temple is built of living stones, these must be found and grooved and placed and shaped to fit therein, so that it is pleasing in the sight of God. It was our Saviour’s wish and His design, that His Church should grow and spread, it should stretch forth its boughs and spread its branches wider over the earth, garnering in souls and shielding them from the temptations of the evil one, and giving them spiritual nourishment, the saving fruit of the Gospel truth. The Lord God gives His blessing to the labour of His servants that blessing given at His ascension will be with His servants to the end of the world.