Sermon - Ascension Day 2024 - Mark 16:14-20
The Alpha and Omega, Mosaic, Church of St Alphonsus Liguori, Rome, 1908 King Jesus Sits and Reigns Over All Jesus sits upon His throne All His enemies are beneath His feet Jesus is Head over His church If I were to sum up the feast of Ascension in two words, I might say: God Sits. Afterall, we heard that “ The Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down. ” Or in the Introit from Psalm 47 it says “ God sits. ” Or in an additional Psalm appointed for today, Psalm 110, God the Father told God the Son to “ Sit. ” Upon first hearing, that sounds pretty lame. Why would we have a feast to celebrate that God sits down? Wouldn’t we want the opposite? Considering the state of things today, we’d rather have Jesus stand up and do something! We’d like to see some of those accompanying signs: casting out demons, speaking in tongues, handling serpents, drinking deadly poison and being unharmed, healing the sick. But instead we complain that God is silent, that He