Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet,from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet.
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We are positionally in Christ holy and we are practically being sanctified as we work out our holy identity into holy living. been made and being made right in the same gospel miracle. And that's what's true of you. And that's what's true of me. The way that Peter writes it in his letter, he says, therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. And I want us to think about this. We're going to end on this idea in just a minute. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do. For it is written, be holy because I am holy. That's the standard. That's the goal. That's what we're aiming for. We're aiming for holy lives, for holiness. We are coming to a holy God made holy in Christ to live out our holiness in holy lives. This is what God has in mind. It's the coat, right? Everybody is kind of getting the coat now. Okay, Louie's new coat he got. Yeah. And every time I put it on, I think about Ephesians 4.23, to be made new in the attitude of your minds. …
… he sat down at the right hand of God. And since that time, he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by one sacrifice, he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. That scarlet thread that was woven into the garment of the priest who would enter into the Holy of Holies to make the sacrifice on the Day of Atonement on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant. That same thread that was there and was woven into the tapestries in the tabernacle itself now takes us to the high priest of all high priest, Jesus, who is going to enter into the heavens. And through not that curtain, but by his body is going to make a way for you and I to enter into the very presence of God. God is making a way even in Exodus and even in Leviticus. He's showing us the scarlet thread of the grace of God that is moving from eternity past to eternity future. …
Then could He say, "I live." His body, instinct with life, rose from its slumber and began at once to put off the grave clothes. He unwound the winding-sheets and the fine white linen and laid them carefully down. And He left them there for you and me, that we might have our bed well sheeted when we come to lie in it at the last. As for the napkin, He unwound it and laid it by itself, as though that were for us who are living, to wipe our eyes when our dear ones are taken away—since we have no cause to sorrow as they do who have no hope. And when this was done, an angel rolled away the stone and forth came the Savior—glorious, no doubt, but so much like other men that Mary "supposed Him to have been the gardener," so that there could have been no very supernatural splendor surrounding His Person! He revealed Himself to many of His disciples—sometimes to as many as 500 at once. He ate with them. He drank with them. He was a Man among men with them, till, when 40 days had passed, He gathered them all at Olivet, the mountain from which He had so often addressed them, and took His final leave. While He was blessing them, His hands outstretched in benediction, a cloud received Him out of their sight. And since then He has sat down at the right hand of God, expecting till His enemies be made His footstool. He is tarrying there yet a little while longer. When the fullness of time shall come—if I may go on with His biography—He will come again. "This same Jesus," said the angels, "which is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come in a like manner as you have seen Him go into Heaven." He will, therefore, come in proper Person a second time, without a sin-offering unto salvation. Then will He gather His saints together who have made a Covenant with Him by sacrifice. Then shall they reign with Him. Then shall the earth be covered with His Glory. All nations shall bow before Him and all people shall call Him blessed! And then shall come the end, when He shall deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, and God shall be All-in-All. But Christ shall still live, for He has received a priesthood after the order of Melchisedec, without beginning of days, or end of years—a priest forever. When suns and moons shall grow dim with age and the round world shall all dissolve like the morning hoar-frost, and time shall be rolled up like a vesture, and all the ages shall have been trodden out like sparks beneath the foot of the Eternal God, then shall Jesus Christ still live on, world without end! Thus have we spoken concerning Christ as living. But now, in the next place— …