WEEK 3 — DAY 1
Morning Nourishment
Heb.
2:7 "You have made Him a little inferior to the angels; You have
crowned Him with glory and honor and have set Him over the works of Your
hands."
12:2 "Looking
away unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith,who for the joy
set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame,and has sat down
on the right hand of the throne of God."
The Man-Savior's ascension is His inauguration into His heavenly office
through the process of creation, incarnation, human living,
crucifixion,and resurrection as God and man, as the Creator and the
creature, and as the Redeemer, the Savior, and the life-giving Spirit,
to execute God's administration and to carry out God's New Testament
economy (dispensation).
As the One who passed through the process of creation,
incarnation,human living, crucifixion, and resurrection, the Man-Savior
with His wonderful status has been inaugurated into His heavenly office
to execute God's administration and to carry out God's New Testament
economy. Christ is now on the throne to administrate the entire
universe. He is the unique Administrator, the King of kings and the Lord
of lords. All the rulers of the earth are under Him. He is the
Administrator to execute God's administration and also to carry out
God's New Testament economy. His administrating is related to the
universe, but His carrying out of God's New Testament economy is to
propagate Himself for His reproduction to build up the church, His Body,
which will issue in the New Jerusalem. How wonderful! (Life-study of
Luke, pp. 641,644)
Today's Reading
[In] the objective aspect of Christ's ascension...the Man-Savior was
crowned with glory and honor. Hebrews 2:9 says, "But we see Jesus, who
was made a little inferior to the angels because of the suffering of
death, crowned with glory
and honor." Here glory and honor are considered a crown. Glory is the
splendor related to Jesus' person; honor is the preciousness related to
Jesus' worth (1 Pet. 2:7). Here we may also point out that the Lord's
dignity is related to His
position (2 Pet. 1:17). As the ascended One crowned with glory and
honor, Christ is in a state of glory and has a rank of honor.
Christ is glorious in state and honorable in rank. He is above all
kings and rulers; this is His honor. He has received such a glory and
has entered into such an honor. This glory and honor are the crown with
which He has been crowned.
Another matter related to the objective aspect of Christ's ascension is
that He has been enthroned for God's administration....From [Hebrews
12:2] we may have the impression that next to the throne of God, at His
right hand,is another throne. However, in the book of Revelation we see
that it is only one throne of both God and Christ. In Revelation 3:21
the Lord says that He sat down with His Father on His throne.
Furthermore, ...Revelation 22:1 and 3 do not speak of thrones—one for
God and another for the Lamb—but of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Hence, it is one throne for both God and the Lamb.
[In Revelation 21:23] the Lamb, Christ, as the lamp shines with God as
the light to illumine the city with the glory of God, the expression of
the divine light. Christ, the Lamb, is the lamp, and God is the light
within the lamp.Because
the light is in the lamp, the light cannot be separated from the lamp.We
can see from this how both God and Christ are sitting on one throne.
Just as the light is in the lamp, so God is in Christ. Since God is in
Christ sitting on the throne, both God and Christ sit on one throne in
the heavens.
The fact
that God in Christ is sitting on the throne means that God
administrates the entire universe from within Christ and through Christ,
just as the light shines from within the lamp and through the lamp.
From this we can see that Christ is enthroned with God. God is on the
throne, and this very God is in the enthroned Man-Savior. As we consider
this we see that the enthronement of the Man-Savior involves the Divine
Trinity. (Life-study of Luke, pp. 644-646)
Further Reading: Life-study of Luke, msg. 76
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