Hebrews 1: 3 “After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.” (NIV)

Christ did not sit down on the job. His task was complete. He had provided the way of salvation. He had provided for humanities cleansing and purification for sins. He had provided a way for us to be reconciled to God. He left nothing undone. Anyone telling us that there is a new revelation, a new prophet or a new way that we must follow is a liar. As it pertains to salvation, the death and resurrection of Christ was the end of it all. There is no way to salvation other than provided by Christ.

Christ did not set down to rest. He did not look at the universe and humanity and decide that he had done enough. He still engages with his creation. In Acts chapter 7, “Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.” It is tradition that a king sits to rule, and stands to judge. In this scene, Jesus is standing to welcome Stephen home, and to pass judgment upon his accusers. Jesus did not sit down to rest, he sat down to rule.

Christ sitting in heaven means that he is not lying in a grave. Many Jews were claiming that the resurrection was a fraud. Some were willing to call Jesus a good man. Some were even willing to consider him a prophet. They stopped short of accepting that he was God incarnate. Christ left the seat at the right hand of his father to come to earth as a man. When Christ sits back down at the right hand of his father, he was not sitting in a new place. Christ sits at the right hand of his father because it is and always has been his seat. I have a seat of power in my life as well. I am working on the discipline to stay out of it. It is Christ’s seat.