GOING TO HIM

By Rick Mathes

John 16:5 But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘ Where are You going?’

When Jesus turned His back on the “JC & Bros. Construction Co.” he gave Him mom a big good-bye hug and set Him mind like flint on His journey to the Cross. He never wavered because He knew the old world of chaos and underestimation would self-destruct unless He accomplished the atonement of sin on the death state as the final sacrifice for sin. The wake of human depravity and suffering followed Him as His arch enemy Satan declared war and marshaled all his fallen angels against one man, Jesus of Nazareth.

He left the:

• Joy of His creation to return to the fullness of His former glory.
• Power of healing, raising the dead and miracles to His Apostles.
• Fruitfulness of His teaching for the written record of His Word, the Holy Bible.
• Friendship of His followers to be continued in the fellowship of His believers.
• Love of the believers to be further exploded in the proof of His resurrection.
• Suffering in hopefulness to a hope of healing and future glory.
• Tribulation of all religion that claim that Jesus is not the only way.
• Persecution that fades to very little compared to His sacrifice.
• Violence of the devil’s war on the Body of Christ without restraint.
• Death of souls that became transformed into eternal life.
• Eternal death of all to and eternal life in glory or in hell to all.

Oh yes, He left the ground and lifted up into a cloud that transported Him the highest heaven. Five hundred honest souls witnessed this astounding act of God to bring His victorious accomplishment Home. So He left us only to send His Holy Spirit ten days later.

The exchanges of all we are for all He is becomes the evidence of the born again experience. The old leaves and the new come. It is all a matter of returning to our first nature and that is to walk in the holiness of God. This means we must not love the world or that love of the Father will not be in us. The Holy Spirit is right by your side to remind you of this until Jesus returns.