Yet even in heaven the Ascended King is still the Crucified Saviour and is described in Holy Scripture, not only as the King of kings and Lord of lords but also as the Lamb as it has been slain, or, in the words of the hymn:

“Crown him with many crowns,
the Lamb upon his throne”. (1)

And it is as Our Ascended Saviour and King that he enters our lives today and makes both our worship of God and our obedience to God truly personal.

Our Blessed Lord said, “No one comes to the Father except through me” (NRSV, John 14:6), or, in other words we cannot make our way into the Presence of God unless Our Saviour brings us there.  And this is a true description of the Eucharist.  For the Eucharist is not something which we just say or sing or attend or watch or listen to.   It is something which Our Lord and we do together.  At the Consecration, in the hidden splendour of his Ascended Body, he escorts us into the very Presence of his Father in heaven, and as the Blessed Sacrament, the Host and Chalice, is raised between heaven and earth, we in turn offer him to our heavenly Father as the Saviour of the world.

Thus the Eucharist, so far from being a routine service which we as Christians are under an obligation to attend every Sunday, is in point of fact a re-enacting of our restoration to God by Our Crucified and Ascended Saviour.