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====== The Ascension ... ====== | ====== The Ascension ... ====== | ||
- | Wednesday, April 26, 2019. | + | Friday, April 26, 2019. The biblical story of the resurrection of Jesus is challenging. It superseeds |
+ | our standard experience. It is difficult to judge if we wanted to put it into a framework as we usually | ||
+ | do with news about events. In modern language we would say: singularities in space and time are | ||
+ | characterized by being single, and it is very hard to get a general understanding of such events. | ||
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+ | But there is more in the New Testament. After Jesus is risen, he is taken into heaven. This is another | ||
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+ | does not happen. But let us look into more details of what people have said about what happened. | ||
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** Jesus gone again ... ** | ** Jesus gone again ... ** | ||
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+ | Jesus is taken away out of their sight. That is the basic point of this story. It is, of course, an | ||
+ | important point for our treatment of Jesus and his role until today. If it is true, that he lives, and | ||
+ | that he is God, and that he was taken away since God wants to be with us in a different form, through | ||
+ | the Holy Spirit rather than as a human person, it is an important building block of life! | ||
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- | ** ... ** | + | ** Why? ... ** |
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+ | God wants to be with everyone. God wants to be in our life in a very intense and intimate way. | ||
+ | That is not possible if he is with us as a person. As a human, as the son Jesus, he is just human. | ||
+ | But as God, he is spirit. He is with billions of people at the same time. He is close to them | ||
+ | at each and every minute of their life. All that would not be possible as a human. | ||
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+ | Our conclusion has to be: Jesus has to go. He has to be taken away. Only when the spirit with his | ||
+ | universial global presence and power comes, God can be God as he has been before the beginning of | ||
+ | time. | ||
+ | The resurrection was never meant to be something which delivers us Jesus as a human only. Yes, he | ||
+ | rose bodily. Yes, he walked and talked and took food. But this is only a transition! It is to clarify | ||
+ | that he lives, that the same Jesus, who lived with mankind, is now going to God. The same Jesus is | ||
+ | there with and in his spirit. | ||
+ | And here we leave the area of singularity. Living with the spirit is something which all dedicated | ||
+ | Christians can experience. Become a disciple of Jesus, and receive the Holy Spirit as power of | ||
+ | truth, peace, love, humility and joy in your life. He will come and start to walk with you, that is | ||
+ | the promise of discipleship. He will change you, step by step, day by day. He is the spirit of the | ||
+ | living God! The Ascension is an important interface for our life, such that the spirit comes, and | ||
+ | he is there yesterday, today and tomorrow! | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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