Thus our Lord “ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty.”  This Article expresses the honour and dignity of His Person and character.  To sit on the right hand is an honour reserved for the most favoured.[146] When the Scriptures speak of the right hand of God, it is meant that, as the right hand among men is the place of honour, power, and happiness, so to sit on the right hand of God is to obtain the place of highest glory, power, and satisfaction.

At God’s right hand our Lord entered into everlasting and perfect glory and dominion.  Being one with the Father, all that is the Father’s is His.  He is exalted a Prince and a Saviour, having an eternal life and all the fulness of the Godhead dwelling in Him bodily.  The Father Himself gave Him the place at His right hand, having highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name.  None can dethrone Him or successfully plot against His kingdom.  No weapon, carnal or spiritual, can ever prevail against Him.  It is this that gives to Christianity its stability and power, for Christianity is Christ Himself sitting at the right hand of God.  The ascended Christ exercises absolute authority and unlimited dominion.  The Father on whose right hand the Son sits is, in this clause, as in that which stands at the beginning of the Creed, termed the “Father Almighty.”  Though the distinction is not apparent in the English version of the Creed, “Almighty” in the original Greek is in these clauses expressed by two different words.  In the earlier clause, the word so rendered signifies God’s supreme, universal dominion, while here the word employed denotes the fact that His power and operation are always efficacious and irresistible, and that all things are under His absolute control.  This word “Almighty” warrants the belief which the clause declares, that the Son, sitting on the right hand of the Father, possesses absolute and universal power, and that in executing His office as Mediator none can resist or oppose Him.

The word “sitteth” is expressive not so much of the attitude as of the settled and continuous character of Christ’s exaltation.  At God’s right hand in heaven He executes the offices of Prophet, Priest, and King, as He did on earth.  The prophet, as teacher of the revealed truth, held office in Old Testament times; and when Jesus entered on His public ministry, it was as a Divinely-accredited teacher that He claimed to be received.  He brought out of His treasury things new and old, and exhorted men to hear, believe, and obey Him.  By His words and His life, He made known the will of God for man’s salvation; and when He was lifted up upon the cross, it was to the end that, by the sacrifice He offered and the truth He taught, He might draw all men unto Him.  He brought life and immortality to light, and since His departure He has not ceased to be the Teacher and the Guide of all who receive Him.  His word abides with us, and His first gift to the