Mark the vital link. Seize the all-important connection. The self-same One who hung upon the cross, charged with all our offenses, is now on the throne without them. How did He get there? Was it in virtue of His eternal Godhead? No; for on that ground He was always there. He was God over all blessed for ever. Was it in virtue of His eternal Sonship? Nay; for He was ever there on that ground also.

Hence, therefore, it could, in no wise, meet our need as guilty sinners, charged with innumerable offenses, to be told that the eternal Son of the Father had taken His seat at the right hand of the majesty in the heavens, inasmuch as that place ever belonged to Him, yea, the very deepest and tenderest place in the bosom of the Father.

But, further, we may inquire, was it as the spotless, sinless, perfect Man that our adorable Lord took His seat on the throne? Nay; as such, He could, at any moment, between the manger and the cross, have taken His place there.

To what conclusion, then, are we absolutely shut up, in this matter? To that most precious, that tranquilizing conclusion, that the self-same One who was delivered for our offenses, bruised for our iniquities, judged in our stead, is now in heaven; that the One who represented us on the cross is now on the throne; that the One who stood charged with all our guilt is now crowned with glory and honor; that, so perfectly, so absolutely and completely, has He disposed of the entire question of our sins, that infinite justice has raised Him from the dead, and placed a diadem of glory upon His sacred brow.