"The Redeemer Ascends"

Psalm 24:7-10: Lift up your heads, O you gates!  And be lifted up, ou everlasting doors!  And the King of glory shall come in.  Who is this King of glory?  The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.  Lift up your heads, O you gates!  Lift up, you everlasting doors!  And the King of glory shall come in.  Who is this King of glory?  The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.

The Ascension of the True Redeemer, Who Opens Heaven’s Gates for the Entrance of the True Worshippers

A.  The Entry of the King of Glory will be into a Palace of Enduring Splendor (v. 7, 9)

1.    The description is of the welcome of the conquering monarch  as He enters.  Our Lord Jesus Christ could ascend into the hill of the Lord because his hands were clean and his heart was pure, and if we by faith in him are conformed to his image we shall enter too.  We have here a picture of our Lord’s glorious ascent.  We can see him going up from the group on the Mount of Olivet, as the cloud receives him, with angels escorting him to the gates of heaven.

2.    The doors are everlasting because they shall endure for ever, and because they will be the doors to life everlasting (Revelation 21:25).  Doors in Middle Eastern times would often be taken off their hinges, and this would show welcome to a guest.  Here it shows the welcome into heaven and how wide is heaven’s gate at the ascension of our Lord. 

B.   The Entry of the King will be that of a Mighty Conqueror (v. 8-10)

1.    The King is welcomed into heaven as the warrior, as one who was dead, but is alive again.

2.    The King is one who has conquered sorrow and sin, and the grave, and is entering into the coveted joy He has so bravely won.

3.    The question “Who is this King of glory?” is answered by innumerable voices, who shout that it is the Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory!” 

 

Have you truly made Jesus your King, and is your worship acceptable to Him!