First, that he is our advocate in the presence of his Father in heaven; [150] secondly, that we have our flesh in heaven as a sure pledge that he, as the head, will also take up to himself, us, his members; [151] thirdly, that he sends us his Spirit as an earnest, [152] by whose power we "seek the things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God, and not things on earth." [153]

[150] 1 John 2:1; Rom. 8:34.

[151] John 14:2; John 17:24; John 20:17 ; Eph. 2:6.

[152] John 14:16, 7; Acts 2:1-4, 33; 2:Cor. 1:22; 2:Cor. 5:5.

[153] Col. 3:1; Philip. 3:14.