The Gospel of Luke | The Ascension - Luke 24:50-53

Jonathan Suggs wraps up our series in The Gospel of Luke and preaches from Luke 24:50-53.

In Luke 24:50-53, we will see how, forty days after the resurrection, the time has come for Jesus to say farewell to his disciples and ascend into heaven. While Christians often talk about his death and resurrection, we usually don’t have much to say about his ascension. So what’s it all about? What’s so significant about this moment that the disciples walk away with breathless joy? For the eleven disciples and us, the ascension shows that Christ isn’t actually so far away and that heaven has a lot more to say about our lives than we tend to think.