Each year at Christmas-time, the “baby Jesus” is the subject of discussion and attention. Indeed, all year long the Babe in its mother’s arms and the dying Sufferer on the cross are kept constantly before the masses, while our Lord’s resurrection, ascension and present glory in heaven are given but scant attention. This is because so few have taken note of the great message of the Apostle Paul about the glorified Lord in heaven. In II Cor. 5:16, the Apostle wrote:

“…yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh (in His human ministry), yet now henceforth know we Him no more.”

It is sad that so many still know only “Christ after the flesh.” They love to discuss the “gospel stories” about the “Man of Galilee,” but find themselves strangers in the great Epistles of “the Apostle to the Gentiles,” Paul.

Paul was The one Apostle for this present “dispensation of the grace of God.” (read Eph. 3:1-5). It is he who presents Christ in His present glory as the great Dispenser of redeeming grace, through the merits He won at Calvary.

In Eph. 1:15-23 we have recorded for us the Apostle’s prayer that we might be given “the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ” that we might come to know and experience…

“What is the exceeding greatness of [God’s] power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power,

“Which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places.

“Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world [age], but also in that which is to come” (Eph. 1:19-21).

Let us thank God that the baby Jesus came and died for our sins and that He became the risen, living Savior at God’s right hand, abundantly “able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him” (Heb. 7:25).