Today we cover the Ascension of Christ into heaven leaving His disciples to carry out the great commission. The work of our forgiveness and the accomplishment of overcoming sin, death, and evil is all finished.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
– Acts 1:8-9

The Ascension reminds us that God is ruling over all things but yet is present with us. It is the point in which he gives us the great mission and the certainty of his return. We respond to all this with praise, obedience, service, and thanksgiving. The ascension of Jesus is the Gospel of our salvation and for the world.