{"id":7235,"date":"2016-08-16T23:31:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/ascension\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:31:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:31:40","slug":"ascension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/ascension\/","title":{"rendered":"ASCENSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, Acts 1:9<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>As sign and wonder this exaltation is a pointer to the revelation that occurred in His resurrection, of Jesus Christ as the heart of all powers in heaven and earth.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Karl Barth<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>When Christ returned to heaven, he withdrew his physical presence from our sight. He didn\u2019t stop being with the disciples but by the ascension fulfilled his promise to be with us to the end of the world. As his body was raised to heaven, so his power and reign have spread to the uttermost parts.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Calvin<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>In the Christian story God descends to re-ascend.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Hail the day that sees him rise<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>To his throne above the skies;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Christ, a while to mortals given,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Re-ascends his native heaven.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Charles Wesley<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. The Bible, Acts 1:9 As sign and wonder this exaltation is a pointer to the revelation that occurred in His resurrection, of Jesus Christ as the heart of all powers in heaven and earth. Karl &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/ascension\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ASCENSION&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}