Luke 24:50-53 · The Ascension

50 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. 51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. 52 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. 53 And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.

A Friend in High Places
Luke 24:50-53
Sermon
by Robert Noblett
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What we want to talk about is not, I am extremely sure, a theme that dominated your breakfast conversation this morning. It is not, I am equally confident, a theme that came up in any church conversation around here in the last little while. It is not even, I am still confident, something that you have ever thought much about at all. And I am sure it is not something you have heard homiletically addressed more than once, if at all. I am talking about the ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven. If by chance it rings a theological bell within your memory, chances are that bell was rung by the creedal line that runs: "... and the third day he rose again according to the scriptures: And ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father...." 

Before you zone off, thinking that t…

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