Question 49
How does Christ's ascension into heaven benefit us?
First, He is our Advocate in heaven before His Father.1 Second, we have our flesh in heaven as a sure pledge that He, our Head, will also take us, His members, up to Himself.2 Third, He sends us His Spirit as a counter-pledge,3 by whose power we seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God, and not the things that are on earth.4