We Are Risen and Ascended with Him
If professing Christians talk of the Lord at all, it usually is in terms of His earthly life as Jesus of Nazareth, not recognizing that Jesus Himself said His purpose in coming was only to minister to “the Circumcision [Israel]” (Rom. 15:8, Matt. 15:24), not us Gentiles of “the body of Christ” [cf. Matt.