It was fit that as an earthly king should have an earthly palace, our great High Priest should dwell in a temple not made with hands. How could He fittingly bring the church to a happy immortality unless He was first in possession of that heaven to which He was to conduct it? Since He is ordained the Judge of the whole world, must He not sit in the heavenly court and there in majesty execute that solemn charge!

   As Mediator, Christ was and is both God and man, or the Godman, and as such He has been exalted and rewarded. His divine glory is no longer eclipsed, for instead of acting in the form of a servant, He how reigns as King of kings and Lord of lords. His humanity has been elevated to heaven and glorified with a glory that outshines every other creature. Though He is still clothed with flesh, yet his divine glory is not now veiled as it once was. His humanity is now filled with all the divine perfections of which a created nature is possibly capable. It is not deified but glorified.

   John Owen wrote regarding Christ’s humanity: “It is not made omniscient, omnipresent, but is exalted in a fulness of all Divine perfections and infinitely above the glory of angels and men. For the substance of this glory of the human nature of Christ, believers shall be made partakers of it, for when we shall see Him as He is ‘we shall be like Him’; but as unto the degrees and measure of it, His glory is above all that we can be made partakers of.”

Gleanings From Paul - A.W. Pink