In His ascension Christ is the High Priest – He is the kingly High Priest for His ministry and He is the divine High Priest for saving us. As the divine High Priest, Christ is full of life, living, and able to continue His priesthood perpetually; as such a One, He is saving us to the uttermost (Heb. 7:24-25).
As the divine High Priest with an indestructible life, the ascended Christ is able to save us to the uttermost. How much we need His daily salvation from our weaknesses, sins, mistakes, problems, and all the issues that we have! We daily have our challenges, discouragement, weaknesses, and problems, and Christ as the divine High Priest is saving us of all these.
However, there’s much more: He is saving us to the uttermost, which means that He’s saving us completely, entirely, perfectly, for all time and eternity, and to the end! As the divine High Priest, Christ doesn’t just save us from our problems but He saves us to the uttermost – He saves us to the same point and situation that He is!
He became the Captain of our salvation by bringing God into man through incarnation and by bringing man into God through resurrection and ascension, and now He is saving us to the uttermost so that we may be brought into His perfection and glorification.
Wow, we will be saved not only from sin, death, and by-products of death but to the uttermost – we will be saved until we’re brought into Christ’s perfection until we become the same as He is!
All we have to do to cooperate with His daily salvation is to enjoy His divine transmission into our spirit by exercising our spirit throughout the day. Through regeneration God was brought into us and our spirit was joined to the heavens; now in our spirit there’s a heavenly ladder joining earth to heaven and bringing heaven to earth.
Whenever we exercise our spirit, the fourfold power of Christ (the resurrecting power, the transcending power, the subduing power, and the heading up power – see Eph. 1:20-22) is being transmitted to us to make us the Body of Christ, the fullness of the One who fills all and in all!
The Ascended Christ as our Divine High Priest is Able to Save us to the Uttermost
The ascended Christ as our divine High Priest is able to save us to the uttermost since He lives always to intercede for us (Heb. 7:25). Christ brought God into man and man into God, and as the divine High Priest in His ascension He saves us not only from our weaknesses and sins but to the uttermost.
He is the Author (the initiator, source) and Perfecter (the One who saves us and perfects us daily) of our salvation, and He is also the Prototype. By passing through the process of incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, Christ became the prototype, the firstborn Son of God to be the patter for all believers in Christ to be conformed to.
Because He became a man and brought God into man and man into God, Christ opened the way for our salvation; He is the source of our eternal salvation, and He is now saving us to the uttermost for us to be the same as He is.
What does it mean to be “saved to the uttermost”? “To the uttermost” means to the fullest extent, completely, entirely, perfectly, to the end, and for eternity. Christ as our High Priest is able to save us to the fullest extent, completely, perfectly, entirely, to the end, and for eternity.
No matter our disposition, situation, and condition, Christ as the divine High Priest is able to save us to the uttermost. He is the Forerunner and entered into glory and perfection, and now He is saving us to the uttermost to bring us also into His glory and perfection, where there’s no vanity, corruption, bondage, groaning, decay, or sighing. Hallelujah!
He is the firstborn Son of God as the Prototype for us to be conformed to, and He is the One who saves us to the uttermost so that He may make us the same as He is! Christ is able to save us to the uttermost because He is living forever and because His life is indestructible. Our life can be destroyed, but Christ’s life is indestructible.
Regardless of our situation or condition, the divine priesthood cares for us and saves us by virtue of an indestructible life. Because Christ as the divine High Priest is constituted with an indestructible life, He is able to save us to the uttermost from all the by-products of death into Christ’s perfection. He doesn’t save us only from sin but He saves us into His perfection and glorification (Heb. 5:9; 7:28).
Hallelujah, we can be assured that we will be saved to the uttermost since He always lives to intercede for us, and He is the divine High Priest with an eternal salvation! This is what He is doing today in His ascension: He is the divine High Priest to save us to the end and for eternity.
Lord Jesus, we come forward to God through You so that we may be saved to the uttermost! Hallelujah, Christ always lives to intercede for us, and we can be assured that we will be saved completely, perfectly, entirely, to the end, and for eternity! Lord, You are the High Priest with an indestructible life, and You are daily saving us into Your life until we are brought into Your complete perfection. Keep us in the process of being saved to the uttermost from all the by-products of death into Christ’s perfection and glory, until we are just like Christ, our Elder Brother!
Christ can Save us to the Uttermost because He Lives in Us and Transmits Himself into us
How can the ascended Christ in the heavens save us to the uttermost on the earth? Many Christians know an objective Christ, a Christ that lived 2000 years ago, died on the cross, resurrected, was ascended to the throne, and is now in heavens. It is true that Christ is objective: He has passed through a long process and is now at the right hand of God in the heavens on the throne, and all things are under His feet.
However, we don’t need to “go to heaven” to experience Him; He is in our spirit today! Through regeneration, we received Christ as the Spirit into our spirit, and today our spirit is the gate of heaven: there’s a heavenly ladder in our spirit, and the objective Christ in the heavens is being transmitted to us in our spirit.
The electrical power plant is connected by many wires to the many electrical devices and appliances, and the light bulbs receive the flow of electricity to function in a normal way. We cannot and should not touch the electricity, but we know there’s a flow of electricity that supplies the lamps, sockets, and appliances.
Christ Himself in ascension in the heavens is the heavenly power plant, and He is connected to our spirit; we can subjectively experience the objective Christ as our daily and moment-by-moment salvation. How wonderful it is that day by day we can experience the divine priesthood of our ascended Christ in a subjective way by exercising our spirit to contact the Lord!
The ascended Christ can save us to the uttermost because He is living not only in the heavens but also in us; while He is living in the heavens, He is transmitting Himself into us (Col. 3:1; 1:27; Eph. 1:20-22; 3:17). Hallelujah!
Right now there’s a universal divine transmission going on; the heavenly power plant is composed of four kinds of power: the resurrection power, the transcending power, the subduing power, and the heading up power – this fourfold power is to the church, being constantly transmitted over to the church (Eph. 1:20-22)!
The result of enjoying this transmission of all that Christ is and has accomplished is the Body of Christ, the fullness of the One who fills all in all. Christ is now living in the heavens interceding for us and taking care of our case, and the reality of this is being transmitted into our spirit by His Spirit.
Lord, thank You for our mingled spirit, the place where we enjoy the constant divine transmission of Christ with all He is and has accomplished. Keep us exercising our spirit to contact You and receive the divine transmission of the resurrecting power, the transcending power, the subduing power, and the heading up power for the producing and building up of the Body of Christ! Oh Lord, may we see this heavenly vision and enjoy Your daily salvation to the uttermost!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my Christian experience, bro. Andrew Yu’s sharing in the message for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 372-373 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Vision and Experience of Christ in His Resurrection and Ascension, week 5 / msg 5, The Vision and Experience of Christ in His Ascension (2) – Christ as the Divine High Priest Interceding for Us.
- All verses are taken from, Recovery Version Bible.
- Hymns on this topic to strengthen this burden:
# He saves us to the uttermost / By His life-giving power; / Transfusing Himself into us, / He saves us hour by hour. / He saved the lost by coming in, / He’s saving now from more than sin: / He’s saving us to glory! (Hymns #1130)
# So great the extent of salvation to us— / We’re partners of Christ in His plan glorious. / He’ll bring us to glory and we’ll rule with Him, / To the uttermost saved by His working within. (Hymns #1129)
# In heaven for us He’s the glorified man, / The Forerunner entered, fulfilling God’s plan; / Man into God bringing and making him one / With God in the heav’nlies, in Him as the Son. / In us all the fulness of God dwells in Him; / As Spirit He brings God Himself thus within, / Revealing and making God real unto us, / God one with us building in life glorious. (Hymns #536)
About aGodMan
Is Christ objective to us? Yes, He is, in fact, objective. Nevertheless, in experience, He is subjectively objective to us. In fact, He is objective because He is there in heaven. But we do not need to go to heaven in order to experience Him. While we are on earth today, we may experience in our spirit the Christ who is in heaven. Christ is objective, but our experience of Christ is subjective. We have the subjective experience of the objective Christ. How can the objective Christ be transmitted into our subjective experience? By the heavenly ladder that joins us to heaven and brings heaven to us. How can the objective electricity far away in the power plant become the subjective application of electricity in our homes? By the wires that carry the current of electricity from the power plant to our homes. In fact, the electricity is objectively in the power plant, but in application, it is subjectively present in our homes. In like manner, we can subjectively experience the objective Christ. While we are on earth, we can experience the Christ who is in heaven. This is wonderful. Day by day, I experience the very Christ who is in heaven. Though He is objective, in my experience He is subjective. (Witness Lee, Life-study of Hebrews, pp. 358-359)