Don't make him stand up!

In context this phrase makes me shutter with every fiber of my being. My teacher and mentor Casey Hearn had us study a wonderful passage Hebrews 10. It deals with sacrifices in the Old Testament being repetitive and only a temporary. Then as Christ comes as a perfect sacrifice, He does it once and for all. No longer is there a need for a sacrifice. The step that happens next is what I want to talk about. In verse 12 "But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God" (ESV) Read it for your self....he sat down! I realize that seems a bit odd that I'm excited about Christ sitting down at the right hand of God. My reasons for being excited are as follows: He is done with his work as far as the payment for sin, That is where he currently is, He is waiting. Waiting? For what? Wrath and Judgement is what he is waiting for. What we see in scripture is that when Christ returns it is going to be for his Church and to deal with sin once and for all. Now that we know what his is going to do, lets take a look at the Current place of Christ. As we see in Hebrews 10:12 he is seated at the right hand of God. For us that is great news! Here is why. Christ being currently seated is a act of Grace! That's right I said it Grace. It is Grace because Christ has not come yet to judge sin once and for all. It is Grace because that means there is still time for us to share the Gospel. Many times we consider Grace this thing you get one time at the point that you accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. The truth is that it is so much more. God pours out Grace and Mercy for us every day, it is like a fountain that never ends. Yet there remains a reality that God, in his Sovereign Good Pleasure has a day appointed that Christ will return to take home his bride and judge sin. As I shared this idea of Christ being seated as a act of Grace, Casey said during our discussion "Don't make him stand up!"( As if anything I did would ever make Christ stand up. I do realize that in Acts 7:55 Jesus was standing to receive Steven as he was being Martyred. )The only thing I could think of is the Theological implications of Christ standing up and stepping down preparing for battle. It will be with Power and Wrath in Righteousness. There is no running, no hiding, no escape from the Judgement of God. I can only approach such a thought with Fear and Trembling. In the mist of the thought there is also hope and triumph for those that have trusted him. The hope in the end of suffering and sins reign in this mortal body. Possibly the only word to sum up what this thought really means is intense. That includes both the intense love of God and the intense wrath of God.