<p>2:28 <i>You made known to me the ways of life, you shall make me full of gladness with Your countenance</i><i>- </i>&ldquo;The Kingdom of God&rdquo; was a title used of Jesus. He &lsquo;was&rsquo; the Kingdom because He lived the Kingdom life. Who He would be, was who He was in His life. At the prospect of being made &ldquo;full of joy&rdquo; at the resurrection, &ldquo;therefore did my heart rejoice&rdquo; (Acts 2:26,28). His joy during His mortal life was related to the joy He now experiences in His immortal life. And this is just one of the many continuities between the moral and the immortal Jesus.</p><p>Acts 2:28 quotes Psalm 16 concerning Christ's resurrection and ascension: &quot;Thou shalt make me full of joy with Thy countenance&quot;. So Christ's fullness of joy was to see God's face, and He has left us His joy (John 15). This was &quot;the joy set before Him&quot;, and it is ours too. This is our fullness of joy, to see God's face, spiritually in this life, and physically in the future. After asking us to let His Words abide in us, Jesus said He had told us that so that our joy might be full (Jn. 15:7,11). So the effect of the Word and of true repentance and turning to God is the same as seeing God's face- it should bring that same fullness of joy. Other passages make the same connection between the Word and God's face shining upon us- e.g. Ps. 119:135 &quot;Make Thy face to shine upon Thy servant, and teach me Thy statutes&quot;.</p>