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The Glories of The Transfiguration | Mark 9:1-13 | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  I have to confess that there was a unique struggle in preparing
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  this message, not for the reasons that you might think.
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  The challenge of studying and meditating on this particular
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  portion of Scripture was solely due to the overwhelming glory
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  that this passage presents. I felt as though whenever I
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  reached a ceiling of understanding, that ceiling was
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  removed and there were greater heights, greater levels of
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  Revelation awaiting to be climbed.
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  And when those levels were reached, there were even more
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  levels to discover. There, I felt as though when
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  this chapter was opened, a Volt was opened and a wave of gold,
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  silver, and precious stones just spilled out.
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  And particularly last night, standing there before this text
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  looking around me, I thought to myself, what am I to do with all
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  of this? Where am I to go with all of
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  this? This scripture rightfully
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  demands many parts, and we're not going to do that because
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  I've been comforted by the realization that this particular
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  moment is shared in Matthew, shared in Luke.
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  And if the Lord Terry's, and we do at some point as a church,
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  arrive to another gospel account down the road, then when we do
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  come to this particular miraculous occurrence, we will
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  have much to work with. There will still be much
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  available at this banquet, and so we will attempt to come
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  together and bring these things in a manner that we can
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  understand while also honoring the absolute majesty of this
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  portrait of Christ. And we will do so by organizing
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  our thoughts in the following way.
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  We will look first at the timing, the timing of this
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  miracle. We will also look at the
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  companions of this miracle. And lastly, we will look at the
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  response to this miracle and as simple as that format might be.
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  The way we are going to most benefit from this is if we have
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  Mark open before us with Luke and with Matthew at the same
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  time, so that we can do somewhat of a comparative analysis and we
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  can take these different threads and see a more complete picture
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  of what is happening here on this holy mountain.
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  And with that, may I encourage you from the beginning to give
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  yourself over to these next few moments without distraction,
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  Because this is a very meaty passage and it requires our
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  efforts to chew if we are going to digest and benefit from the
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  glorious flavors and nourishment that comes from what the Holy
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  Spirit has inscribed here. What I am speaking to you of
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  today is the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ.
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  It was an event of glory, but upon meditation and thinking
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  about because the sound team and the media team often asks in
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  advance what is the the message of the what is the the title of
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  the message today? And you would probably say the
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  glory of the Transfiguration. But there's too many glories,
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  the glories of the Transfiguration.
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  So many glorious things happen in this one moment, and I want
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  you to see it with me. I want you to travel with me in
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  these passages, and I want your heart to come alive again as you
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  see just how amazing God is and just how supernatural that Bible
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  you have in your hands really is.
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  Let's go to mark Chapter 9 and let's begin together in verse
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  one. May the Lord Jesus help us and
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  empower us by His Holy Spirit to understand all that He has
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  desire to speak, and may He receive maximum glory and praise
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  and recognition for this authorship.
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  And the wisdom and the beauty of his voice in Mark Chapter 9,
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  verse one we read and he said to them, truly, I say to you, there
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  are some standing here who will not taste death.
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  Until they see the Kingdom of God after it has come with
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  power. And after six days Jesus took
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  with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high
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  mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before
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  them, and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no
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  one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them
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  Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.
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  And Peter said to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good that we are here, Let
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  us make 3/10 one for you and one for Moses, and 1:00 for Elijah.
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  For he did not know what to say. For they were terrified, and a
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  cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud.
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  This is my beloved son. Listen to him.
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  And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with
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  them but Jesus only, Jesus only. May we see Jesus only.
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  Today, the timing of this miracle, this chapter opens up
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  with an interesting promise that Jesus makes, one that I believe
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  has been misunderstood and misapplied even in some people's
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  eschatology. Jesus looks at his own after
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  telling them about his suffering, and they're suffering
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  for following them, for following him.
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  And he proclaims that among them standing there, they would not
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  taste death. There would be a select few who
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  would not taste death until something occurs, until they
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  witness a particular event, and that is the Kingdom of God,
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  coming with power, coming with power.
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  Now that has led some to wonder if Jesus says that some of his
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  own disciples would not die until the Kingdom would come
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  with power, then has the Kingdom of God come in that Messianic
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  glory already? Some would say yes, some would
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  say based on this, surely then very early on Jesus Kingdom has
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  been made fully manifest, because how could it be?
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  His disciples surely are dead. Are we actually still waiting
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  for the Kingdom to come with power?
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  And if we are, then Jesus broke his promise, they would claim.
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  And if not, if the Kingdom has not really come with power, then
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  what other options are you really left with then?
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  Are some of the disciples still alive in 2023?
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  Surely not. These attempts to try to make
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  sense of this is really something we don't have to
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  entertain. When we do one thing, just honor
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  the context. Look at the context.
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  Context is king. Context keeps you safe.
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  Context brings you to the true answer, at least the closest
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  answer to the truth. Let's look at Jesus saying this
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  here and compare it where else. He said he said it in two other
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  places. One place in Luke and one place
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  in Matthew. I told you in advance to have
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  those books ready so that we can have a more complete picture.
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  Let's turn quickly to Matthew 1628.
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  To the left of Mark, Matthew 1628.
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  Jesus says in Matthew 1628. Truly, I say to you, there are
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  some standing here who will not taste death until they see the
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  Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.
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  Now turn to the right to Luke in Chapter 9.
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  You look at Luke 9. Look with me quickly at verse 27
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  and what do we see here in this passage?
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  But I tell you, truly there are some standing here who will not
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  taste death until they see the Kingdom of God.
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  Now, if you have all those passages open, what do all of
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  these declarations in these respective accounts have in
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  common? All you have to do is look
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  immediately after Jesus makes that statement, and they all
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  have this one thing in common. Each time Jesus made this
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  promise, it was immediately preceded before him, taking up
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  some of his disciples up on the mouth of Transfiguration.
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  Right after Jesus said it in Mark, right after Jesus said it
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  in Luke, right after Jesus said it in Matthew, immediately after
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  we have the event of the transfiguration.
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  Meaning what? The Transfiguration is the very
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  fulfillment of this promise. The pledge that Jesus makes to
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  his own was realized on this mountain.
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  In what sense? Well, Christ here on this
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  mountain is going to unveil something of his glory.
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  And by doing so, He is giving the disciples A revelation, A
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  glimpse, a peak, a sample, if you will, of what form He will
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  take, of what demonstration He will have when He does come in
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  his Kingdom with power. In other words, what's happening
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  here on the Transfiguration was very much a manifestation of the
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  king and his glory, but it was a foreshadowing.
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  It was something that was real and true, but it was just a
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  glimpse, not the complete fulfillment of it.
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  And So what the disciples are actually experiencing here at
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  this time? Is in fact the appearance of
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  Christ in his glory a demonstration of his power, but
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  not the complete understanding and experience that awaits?
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  Why did Jesus choose to do this now?
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  Why at this point? And again, we have to look at
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  what he just finished saying. He told these disciples, who are
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  eagerly anticipating the Messiah to come in His splendor and
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  majesty, that he was going to suffer and die instead, and on
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  top of that. He looks at his closest
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  followers and he says you also must suffer.
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  You also each have a cross with your name on it.
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  Talk about blowing a bubble. Talk about being deflated.
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  Talk about being even tempted. To be discouraged.
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  You have this high anticipation, this high expectation that this
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  is the Messiah. We've seen his miracles, we've
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  seen his power. He's going to make his Kingdom
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  appear at any moment, and instead he hears, they hear,
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  namely, Peter as the leader as well.
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  I'm going to die, I'm going to suffer, I'm going to resurrect.
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  But you also, you're going to know some suffering for
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  following me. And then he makes this
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  statement. But some of you here, you're
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  going to see my Kingdom come with power.
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  I'm going to show you something. And the reason why he wants to
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  show them this, the reason why he's going to peel back the veil
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  and he's going to he's going to expose something of yet of yet
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  to come is because he wants to build them up.
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  He wants to encourage him. He wants to bring some level of
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  relief to them after hearing of the fate of the Messiah and
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  their fate as well. In other words, by Jesus now
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  coming and transfiguring before them, he's communicating
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  something in the immediate sense.
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  He wants the disciples to know. My death is not where it ends.
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  God's purpose and program does not end with death.
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  There is a glory to come. There is power to be realized.
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  There is a government that will indeed be introduced.
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  That will indeed be put into motion, and will never ever know
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  and end. And disciples, in order to build
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  your faith with that, in order for you to see the full and
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  complete picture of what this is all about, come with me.
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  Let me show you something of my glory.
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  Let me show you something of what is to come.
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  In other words, Jesus wants to come for them that their
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  expectation of this awesome Kingdom is not wrong.
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  It's just not yet. And so this is what the
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  disciples are going to realize. And they also would be
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  encouraged as they prepare to suffer themselves and understand
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  if we are to be martyred, if we are to be hated, if we are to be
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  persecuted. We are not giving our lives to
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  something that will not end up being glorious, that will not
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  end up being majestic and beautiful and dazzling.
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  We saw, we saw him on that mountain.
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  We saw what is to come, and they were able to be strengthened for
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  the suffering that is to come. May I remind you, in your
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  suffering, may I encourage you in your walk with Christ, with
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  whatever persecution you are enduring, whatever persecution
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  America will face in the coming years, that one way to
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  alleviate, one way to strengthen your soul is to contemplate much
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  on the glory of Jesus Christ. Keep your eyes on the last
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  chapter of the story. Remember what is to come.
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  Remember that this is not it. As much as we rejoice in the
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  finished work of Jesus Christ, his redemptive plan is not yet
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  finished. There is still something to
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  come. There's still fulfillment to be
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  realized. Focus on that.
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  Set your mind on things above and see what strength will come
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  to you. See what kind of what kind of
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  relief you will realize as the disciples were to realize and
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  this very moment. And that's why Peter says later
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  on in his One Epistle and First Peter one or Second Peter 116
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  rather. That we were eyewitnesses of His
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  What? Majesty.
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  We were eyewitnesses of His Majesty.
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  We saw His royalty. We.
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  Saw his authority, we saw. The magnificence of who he is.
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  We saw it, we beheld it, and he testifies it of it later to the
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  Christians, who also need to be encouraged by.
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  So how is the Lord going to now infuse this grace into them?
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  He takes his closest three Peter, James, John, and he goes
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  up to a high mountain until they are very isolated.
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  He stands before them, and we're told here in verse two that he
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  transfigured before them, transfigured before them.
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  The original word for transfer is where we get the word
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  metamorphosis. It's talking about a powerful,
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  all-encompassing kind of alteration, the same kind of
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  experience that a Caterpillar knows when it becomes a
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  butterfly. We're not talking here about
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  Jesus just slightly being enhanced.
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  We're talking about this complete sense of
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  transformation, physically speaking.
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  He transfigured before them, and every single gospel account
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  cannot help but comment on the whiteness of his clothes.
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  Mark says that no one on earth could bleach them.
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  You get the impression here that he's at loss of words, that when
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  Peter told him about what he saw, he's like, I can't, I can't
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  put language to just how pure and just how brilliant his
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  attire was, Matthew says. His face shone like the sun.
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  Luke says that his face was actually altered, so you almost
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  get the impression that this was a sight that left them somewhat
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  speechless. Clearly we saw the reaction.
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  They were terrified. There was this awe.
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  There was something so overwhelming about what they
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  perceived. Surely that's what's going to
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  happen when we see Him and His glory.
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  Surely we are going to be absolutely stunned.
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  I can't wait to see casual Christians see Jesus.
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  I can't wait to see what's going to be on their face when they
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  see Him come and all of his glory and might and strength and
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  2nd Thessalonians chapter one, verse 10.
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  We are told that when Jesus does come back for his Saints and
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  glory, you know what our response is going to be?
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  That he might be marveled. At just the sight of Christ is
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  going to cause us to stare at Him and wonder just who He is
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  and not not necessarily His words, just who He is with.
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  His presence will cause us to be an absolute awe.
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  And the Holy Spirit says in Second Thessalonians the Saints,
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  when he comes, will marvel at him, will marvel at him.
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  And there was a sense of that marveling here.
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  Here's Jesus now who just unleashes something and they are
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  now. In the light of this glory.
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  But Luke adds a detail that Mark doesn't mention that Matthew
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  doesn't mention. I don't want you to see it
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  because yes, the timing here. Is after he had taught about
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  suffering and the location here is on top of this mountain.
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  But Luke says Jesus was doing something right before he was
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  transfigured and I want to show it to you in Luke 9.
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  Look here with me in verse 29, Luke 929.
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  And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was
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  altered and his clothing became dazzling white.
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  You know what? Dazzling is?
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  Sparkling. There's a sparkle there.
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  But notice what Luke says as he was praying.
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  Luke loves to tell us about Jesus praying and his gospel
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  record. He tells us that Jesus was.
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  Praying at his baptism, he tells us that he is praying here.
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  And so what's now? We have again.
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  We have another piece to this. Yeah, the disciples were brought
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  up to the mountaintop. But Jesus, before them began to
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  pray, began to commune with the Father.
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  And the Holy Spirit wants to tell us that it was in the
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  praying that the transfiguration occurred.
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  Could Jesus have morphed without prayer?
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  Sure. Because this is not just an
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  observation, This is a detail for your instruction of mine.
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  There is a principle here, and I'm sure you're already aware of
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  it. Christ in his praying knew a
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  certain alteration. Is it any different for you and
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  I that there is a deeper conversion to be known?
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  There is a deeper transformation to experience?
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  There is a clear reflection to be known in the place of prayer,
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  in the place of being in the presence of God and seeking His
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  face. That's the instruction here.
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  That's the example that Christ provides as he was transfigured.
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  You also will know a change to a certain degree.
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  When you know how to sit before the Lord and allow the light of
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  His presence, allow the truth of His Word, allow your heart being
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  open before Him, for Him to speak into your life, and reveal
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  things to your conscience, and to make things known through His
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  Word to. You there is a special depth of
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  change that can be experienced in this place of prayer.
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  You will not know a deeper change unless you know how to
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  value genuine communion with God, and Jesus models that so
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  perfectly. There was a particular glory
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  that shined through him, and I see in the Bible that there is a
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  particular beauty that will be reflected on you and I.
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  When we choose to take our relationship with him seriously
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  in the place of prayer, there's something that he'll do in us
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  and through us that will shine brighter.
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  In the place of prayer, what are the psalmists say in Psalm 34?
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  He says something that I believe echoes the sentiment.
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  He says in verse four I sought the Lord and He answered me and
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  He delivered me from all my fears.
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  Those who look to him or what radiant and their faces will
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  never be ashamed. Those who look to Him are
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  radiant. The looking to him is not just a
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  sense of internal dependency. It's connected with verse 4.
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  There's a looking that is expressed in prayer.
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  I sought the Lord. I'm looking to the Lord.
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  And one of the rewards of that is that there is a radiance, A
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  radiance that comes with a confidence, a trust and
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  enjoyment in the person of Jesus Christ.
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  And and this kind of praying that Jesus prayed, I'm under the
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  impression that it wasn't like a microwave kind of prayer.
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  Can I show you how? You're still in Luke 9, right?
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  While Jesus was praying, what do you think the disciples were
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  doing? Any guess?
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  Look at verse 32. Now Peter and those who are with
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  him were heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake,
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  they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.
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  We seen them sleeping before in the garden, right?
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  And they were sleeping. According to the Gospels,
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  because of sorrow, their eyes were heavy with sorrow.
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  There's no indication here that they were sorrowful and that's
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  the reason why, though they could have been because they
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  were just told that the Messiah is going to suffer and they're
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  going to suffer. Maybe they were just emotionally
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  drained by that truth and they fell asleep.
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  Or could it be that Jesus was praying and taking his time that
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  they fell asleep Because of that, Jesus gave uninterrupted
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  patient fellowship with the Father and here he is in that
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  place with the Father. And the three disciples there
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  are sleeping, and it is in that moment, at one point where he is
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  transfigured. Can you imagine being asleep
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  while Jesus is being transfigured?
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  You know there are many Christians who can't see the
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  glory of Jesus Christ that they can't get excited about
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  something like Mark Chapter 9 because they're spiritually
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  asleep. They've been lulled to sleep by
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  the love of the things of this world.
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  They've been stimulated to the point where they are distracted
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  and they can't see what Christ wants them to see.
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  I hope you're not spiritually asleep today.
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  I hope you're not getting bored by the revelation of the
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  awesomeness of Christ. If any of us are.
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  May the Lord have mercy and wake us up so that we can see just
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  how amazing He is. And so we see here that there is
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  the timing of the miracle. It was after he taught about the
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  suffering of him himself and the suffering of the disciples.
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  It was while he was praying. But now we come to something
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  interesting, and it's the companions of the miracle.
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  Peter, James, and John were not the only ones in attendance.
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  They were not the only ones who were invited to this event,
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  verse four of Mark 9 tells us. And there appeared to them
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  Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.
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  That's. It's not every day Moses and
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  Elijah show up. Especially when they haven't
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  been on earth for thousands and hundreds of years.
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  Moses and Elijah appear on the scene.
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  And this is not by their own volition.
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  This is not by their own will. Clearly, God had ordained and
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  planned and scheduled their appearance here on this
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  mountain. This was planned.
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  This was staged, so to speak. It this was intentional?
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  And the question I'm sure that's running through your mind is
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  why? Why Maybe more than the how,
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  some would say, how did Moses and Elijah appear?
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  But I think the common question is why, out of the great roster
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  of all the Old Testament Saints, why is it that Moses and Elijah
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  were the ones who were summoned to stand with the transfigured
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  Christ and to talk with him? So they weren't standing there
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  stoic like statues. They appeared and there's a
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  conversation going on. And I believe there are a few
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  reasons why it was Moses and Elijah who appeared on the
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  scene. Consider this one, the further
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  confirmation of the identity of Christ.
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  A further confirmation of the identity of Christ.
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  What did Jesus ask the disciples?
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  Not too far back, he asked them. Who do people say that I am?
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  Look back here in Mark chapter eight.
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  Look at verse 27. Jesus went on to his disciples
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  in the villages of Sister Philippi, and on the way he
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  asked his disciples, who do people say that I am?
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  And they told them John the Baptist and others say Elijah
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  and others. One of the prophets, Peter
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  rightly confessed the identity of Jesus Christ and Jesus
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  praised Peter because of that There was number confusion among
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  him or the disciples concerning who he is as Messiah.
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  But if there was any confusion, if there was any confusion,
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  surely it's clarified now that you have Jesus standing there
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  and who's beside him? Elijah.
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  They ain't the same person and he's not one of the prophets.
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  He's not even one of the greatest of prophets, Elijah and
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  even Moses himself. Jesus is unique, and not only is
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  unique, He's greater than Moses. He's greater than Elijah.
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  He stands alone. He's in a category all by
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  himself. And so even through this
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  indirectly, there is somewhat of a further confirmation of the
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  identity of Jesus Christ. But there's another kind of
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  confirmation, not of the identity of Christ per se, but
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  of the testimony of Christ. The Pharisees love to come up
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  with excuses not to listen to Jesus, not to consider him as a
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  candidate for the Messiah that they supposedly were
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  anticipating, and one of their favorite deflections, one of the
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  favorite things that the the Pharisees want to do whenever
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  they were confronted with messianic evidence was appeal to
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  Moses. Say, what do I mean by that?
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  Let me show you in John Chapter 9.
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  In John Chapter 9, after the man born blind was healed, there's
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  this investigation that goes on because they want to know how
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  did this happen. And when it came to the
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  Pharisees who interviewed this man, they said something in John
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  928. There's a lot of Bible today, so
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  I'm encouraged to hear the flipping of those pages.
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  John 928 Look at what these men say.
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  And they reviled him, saying You are his disciple.
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  But we are who? The disciples of Moses.
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  Verse 29. We know that God has spoken to
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  Moses, but As for this man, we don't know where he comes from.
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  There's just like, scorning him. Who's this Jesus?
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  Where did he come from? What's his reputation?
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  What's his testimony? We're followers of Moses.
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  We pledge our allegiance to him. And so as a deflection, they
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  appeal to the authority of Moses.
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  They appeal to the Scriptures concerning Moses, the events
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  tied to Moses. And So what happens on the Mount
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  of Transfiguration? Elijah shows up.
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  And who else shows up? Moses.
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  And what does Moses do? By standing and talking with
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  him, We're going to find out what they talked about.
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  He is now witnessing to Christ. He is now affirming that this is
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  indeed the one that I have spoken of.
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  This is indeed the one that I pointed to.
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  I'm not in disagreement with this Jesus.
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  I pointed to this Jesus. There's no confliction here.
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  There's no two camps here. God spoke of a prophet to come.
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  God spoke of a prophet to come, and you shall listen to him, and
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  this is him. And so the appearance of Moses
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  is somewhat of a rebuke to the Jewish leaders and to all who
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  would try to hide and shield themselves behind him, and how
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  he was a mediator of their covenant.
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  Now Moses shows up. Says no, no, no.
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  It's about Christ. I bear witness that his
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  testimony is true, and so we have a confirmation in their
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  appearance of the testimony of Christ.
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  But that's not the only confirmation.
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  We also have the confirmation of the ability of Christ.
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  And so here's Jesus now, manifesting His glory and
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  allowing that manifestation to comfort the disciples.
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  That OK, he will die, He will suffer many things, but he will
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  come back again. And when he come back, when He
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  comes back, He will conquer and He will defeat all of our
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  enemies, and he will rule and reign forever and ever and ever.
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  But that's not the only message that Jesus sought to convey.
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  Because the appearance of Moses and Elijah was also a message in
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  itself. When they appeared, there was
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  also something that they could comfort themselves in concerning
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  their future glory. Not just the glory of the king,
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  but the glory of the Saints. Elijah and Moses are alive after
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  hundreds and hundreds of years. Elijah and Moses are alive and
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  they're communing with Christ. Elijah most alive.
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  And they they never cease to really live.
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  They're they're still here, existing and vibrant and lively.
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  So when Christ comes to give him a taste of the Kingdom of the
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  power to come, he's also giving them the encouragement that the
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  Saints will also rule and reign with him.
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  The Saints will also live with him, be with him, commune with
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  him. So they had a hope for their
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  tomorrow as well. How did Moses die?
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  He died. He died.
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  How did Elijah enter into the presence of God?
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  Did he die? There's something there as well.
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  Most had died a real death. Elijah entered into the presence
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  of God in a very unique way. How does the scripture portray
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  the Saints in their entrance of the glory?
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  Well, some of us will die. But what is first lesson only in
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  four say that some will be caught up in the air, some will
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  not die when he comes, and they will meet him in the air.
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  And so you even have that kind of a picture there going on with
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  Moses and Elijah. There are some Saints who will
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  die real death physically, but will be brought into his arms.
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  And there are some who will not die, and they will meet the Lord
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  in the air. And so there's resurrection hope
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  here. There's encouragement here.
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  Oh, there's so much more. I wish I can park here.
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  I wish I can just park here with Moses and Elijah.
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  Because there's so many other sub points.
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  Let me give you one to consider. What was Moses's burning desire
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  in the book of Exodus, Chapter 33, Chapter 34, After he was
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  assured that the presence of God would go with him in Israel into
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  the Promised Land, that was not enough for Moses.
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  Moses said, please what? Show me your glory.
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  There's more to you that I want to know.
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  There's more to you that I want to discover.
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  And God was willing to grant that request, but with caution.
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  You will see something of my glory, but you cannot.
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  What? You can't see my face.
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  So hide in the cleft of the rock and I will put my hand there to
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  cover you, and you will see my backside.
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  Moses is more than willing to take what he can get, but oh,
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  Jesus is so merciful and gracious.
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  Why? Because we're told here that
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  here's Jesus in his glory and his face is shining.
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  And who's in the presence of this glory?
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  Moses. Now he's standing in the glory
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  of God with an unveiled face. Jesus didn't hide his face from
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  Moses at this point. What was another desire of
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  Moses? Oh Lord, would you please allow
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  me go to the Promised Land? No.
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  Enough. Stop asking me about this.
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  OK? Where is Moses standing now?
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  He's in the Promised Land. Isn't God gracious?
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  Is any merciful? So we have the companions.
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  We have the companions of this miracle here, Moses and Elijah.
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  And finally, they confirm one last thing.
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  They not just confirm his identity.
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  They don't just confirm his testimony.
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  They don't just confirm his ability, they confirm the
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  centrality of Christ. There is a way of summarizing
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  the library of the Old Testament.
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  The Hebrew scriptures and Jesus tells us how the Jews understood
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  a summary of the description of the scriptures.
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  You know what he said when he talked about the first greatest
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  commandment and the second greatest commandment?
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  He says on these two. Commitments is what the Law and
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  the Prophets made-up. The Law and the Prophets.
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  If you want the reference to, that's in Matthew 22 and Matthew
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  22 verse 40. I believe on these two
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  commandments we have the law and the prophets.
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  Moses represents the law. Elijah represents the prophets.
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  Jesus now standing with them is proclaiming that he is a
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  fulfillment that all that the prophets pointed to, all that
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  the Law spoke of Christ is the substance.
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  All the promises, all the pictures, all the prophecies in
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  the entire library of the Word of God is now here in the flesh.
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  He's here the centrality of Jesus Christ.
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  This is what we've been waiting and longing for.
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  He is now here before you standing and we're told here
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  that they were talking. Moses, Elijah and Jesus.
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  What were they talking about? The disciples sleeping?
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  What were they discussing? What were they conversing?
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  The Bible tells us what they were talking about.
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  And Luke Chapter 9. If you want to know what they
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  were talking about, look at verse 30 and verse 31.
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  It says here in Luke 930 to 31 and behold, 2 men were talking
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  with him, Moses and Elijah. We cover that who appeared in
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  glory and spoke of his departure, spoke of his
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  departure, which was about to be accomplished at Jerusalem.
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  The Greek word for departure is Exodus.
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  So what was the main theme of their conversation?
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  Jesus's. Exit from this world through his
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  death and resurrection. That's what they were talking
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  about. But what were they talking
• 37:32
  about? I I just, I I had a joy just
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  kicking back and thinking about that Moses and Elijah talking
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  with Jesus about his plan of salvation.
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  Were they encouraging him? Were they praising and adoring
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  him? Was Jesus in return in the
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  conversation, illuminating more things to them?
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  Remember we we heard from brother Mark earlier that the
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  prophets wondered at what time at what point these things were
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  to occur. I wonder if Jesus here in this
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  moment is telling them the greater details of his exodus.
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  Moses led an exodus the people of Israel from Egypt slavery
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  under fair Jesus. Is Exodus going to conquer death
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  so that we can be delivered from Satan and?
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  They're talking about his Exodus.
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  How can you be asleep? Guys wake up.
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  Disciples are snoring. How can you be asleep?
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  But finally they did wake up. They woke up and Jesus standing
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  before them with these two Saints invokes and Peter a
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  response. Now we look at the response of
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  the miracle. Look at verse 5.
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  And Peter said to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good that we are here.
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  Let us make 3 tents, one for you and one for Moses, and 1:00 for
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  Elijah. Oh Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter.
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  Peter's clearly excited. Not only is he excited, but
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  we're told here that they spoke out of terror.
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  He didn't know what to say, so he just, in his fear gave some
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  kind of suggestion. It's a very.
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  Bad idea to make decisions when you're emotional.
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  Don't let your emotions rule you.
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  Don't let them determine your response and your reaction to
• 39:36
  things. May the Holy Spirit help us to
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  restrain ourselves and to be people who govern ourselves
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  according to His word and truth more than what we feel in a
• 39:45
  moment, no matter how overwhelming those feelings are.
• 39:48
  Peter's Peter's terrified. But he's not just saying
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  anything. He's not just saying anything.
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  And that's how some people interpret this, that Peter just
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  kind of randomly uttered something with no value or
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  significance. And to those who wouldn't say
• 40:04
  that, to say no, Peter is actually saying something, They
• 40:08
  would say that he's just attempting to be hospitable
• 40:10
  here, right? Here's Jesus Moslem, Elijah,
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  we'll make some tense if you guys want to stay, we'll make
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  this as much as as comfortable as possible for you.
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  Peter is not even trying to be hospitable here.
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  Peter knows his Bible. And though he misinterpreted
• 40:27
  many things, he was aware of some things.
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  And he was especially aware concerning the Messianic age
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  when Christ would rule and reign on the earth.
• 40:34
  He He loved those prophecies. And there is a prophecy in the
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  book of Zachariah that tells us what will happen when Jesus
• 40:44
  Christ comes in his Second Advent, What will occur on the
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  earth? What will be recognized?
• 40:50
  What will be celebrated? We get clues and indications of
• 40:54
  what life will be when Jesus rules and reigns on the earth.
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  And I want to show you one thing that Peter connected with when
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  he said this. Go to Zechariah 14 with me,
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  please. And in verse 16.
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  Now, mind you, this is speaking about when Jesus returns to the
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  earth in judgment, in vengeance and glory.
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  And what are we told in Zechariah 1416 then?
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  Everyone who survives of all the nations in light of His judgment
• 41:29
  on the earth that have come against Jerusalem.
• 41:32
  We'd read that in book of in the Book of Revelation, don't we?
• 41:34
  The nation's coming against Jerusalem shall go up year after
• 41:39
  year to worship the king, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the
• 41:42
  feast of booths. So some of the the vitical
• 41:50
  feasts will be recognized during the millennial reign, not all of
• 41:53
  them. Some of them.
• 41:53
  And one of them will be the feasts of booths.
• 41:55
  And during the feasts of booths, the Jews would actually create
• 41:58
  booths or tents as a way of rehearsing God's faithfulness
• 42:06
  and protection during the wilderness.
• 42:07
  But more than that, then being settled and God being in their
• 42:13
  midst. And so here's how Peter is
• 42:18
  interpreting what's happening. Jesus is making his glory known,
• 42:26
  and I can imagine what was in his heart.
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  Oh, this is it. Yes.
• 42:32
  He's not going to suffer. Here's the Here's what we've
• 42:35
  been waiting for. This is what we've been asking
• 42:38
  for. Hallelujah.
• 42:40
  Here's Jesus in his glory. Oh, we got some old Saints now
• 42:44
  that are here. This is the moment.
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  Let's get our tents ready, because in Zachary 1416, he says
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  that if we're going to worship the king when he comes, we're
• 42:53
  going to worship him with the feast of booth.
• 42:55
  So we'll get one for you, we'll get one for you, we'll get one
• 42:57
  for you. This is it.
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  And what's so funny actually, is that you can imagine Peter's
• 43:03
  angst, because in Luke's version, we're told here in Luke
• 43:07
  933 and Luke 933, we're told, And as the men were parting from
• 43:14
  him, who are the men? Moses and Elijah.
• 43:17
  As the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus,
• 43:20
  Master, it is good that we are here.
• 43:22
  So imagine this. Now you have the three, the, the
• 43:25
  crust coming out of their eyes. You have Jesus, Moses and
• 43:28
  Elijah. And at this point Moses and
• 43:30
  Elijah are walking away. And Peter registers this enough
• 43:35
  to realize, oh, this is this is Jesus coming with power.
• 43:38
  This is Jesus coming. Glory and Moses.
• 43:40
  No, no, no, no. It's good that we're here.
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  No, no, no. Come, come.
• 43:43
  I'll have a 10 for you all, but don't leave.
• 43:46
  Please don't leave. Peter still didn't get it.
• 43:56
  Peter still after the rebuke. Get behind me, Satan, after the
• 44:00
  clear teaching. He's still holding on to this
• 44:05
  idea that Christ is not going to suffer and die, and when Jesus
• 44:12
  gives them hope for tomorrow, some kind of revelation to
• 44:16
  prepare them for their own suffering and his suffering,
• 44:18
  Peters completely misinterprets it.
• 44:21
  And he thinks that Jesus is coming full-fledged now, yes.
• 44:24
  Here's some tense Let's do this. And this is not the only
• 44:29
  response to this miracle, because there is another
• 44:31
  response that comes now. There's another interjection.
• 44:33
  There's another intervention. Not by Moses, not by Elijah.
• 44:38
  Not even by the Lord Jesus himself.
• 44:40
  What are read of verse 7? And a cloud overshadowed them.
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  And a voice came out of the cloud.
• 44:51
  This is my beloved son. Listen to him.
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  Well, that makes sense in light of Peter's response, right?
• 45:00
  Let's build some tents. And who comes to correct Peter?
• 45:05
  God the Father overshadowing the scene.
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  You're not listening. This is my beloved son.
• 45:16
  Listen to him. Listen to him and one gospel
• 45:21
  account, it says. While Peter was speaking, the
• 45:23
  cloud came. So the Lord of glory, the Father
• 45:31
  intervenes with this cloud. And this is not some random
• 45:34
  mist. This is not some kind of curtain
• 45:37
  closing to this miracle. A cloud here is intentional.
• 45:42
  Has God appeared in a cloud before?
• 45:45
  Oh, if you know the Old Testament, yes.
• 45:46
  More than once. Many times has the Lord appeared
• 45:48
  in the cloud. And not only has He appeared in
• 45:50
  the cloud, there was some significant moments where He
• 45:53
  appeared in the cloud. And through that cloud of voice
• 45:55
  came and the most. I can't think of a more
• 46:01
  significant event than an Exodus 19 on Mount Sinai.
• 46:06
  When God called Moses to prepare the nation of Israel to appear
• 46:09
  before him, and God would manifest in his power and might,
• 46:13
  and one of the manifestations would indeed be a cloud, a thick
• 46:16
  cloud, we are told in Exodus 19. And when that cloud descended
• 46:21
  upon that mountain, a voice came through.
• 46:25
  And the reason for that display of glory was to affirm was to
• 46:30
  define, was to sign off on the law that would be given as a
• 46:36
  covenant was being established. In other words when God came
• 46:41
  with that cloud on Mount Sinai, he was demonstrating to the
• 46:45
  people of the authority of the law.
• 46:49
  This is coming from heaven. This is coming from me.
• 46:54
  This is not man made. I'm showing you that this law is
• 46:59
  authoritative, and I bear witness to this law in this
• 47:03
  covenant. And you'll be held accountable
• 47:05
  based on how you respond to it. Now what do we see?
• 47:13
  Years, hundreds of years go by. And here's Jesus now and Jesus
• 47:18
  Christ. He's on a mountain.
• 47:23
  And while he's on a mountain, a cloud comes and covers him, and
• 47:29
  a voice speaks through the Where do we see that?
• 47:32
  Exodus 19A. Cloud comes and a voice comes
• 47:35
  through the cloud. What do we see here?
• 47:36
  In Mark chapter 9A, cloud comes and a voice is spoken through.
• 47:41
  Why did God the Father choose to manifest himself in this way?
• 47:46
  For the same reason why He did back in Exodus 19, to show to
• 47:51
  the disciples. Then the same way I manifested
• 47:55
  to give authority and to sign off on the legitimacy of the
• 47:58
  law. I'm doing now the same for my
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  son. Listen to him.
• 48:05
  Listen to him. Listen to him.
• 48:09
  He has authority. I've set my seal upon him.
• 48:17
  And so now we see this Old Testament, imagery.
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  Mountain Cloud, Voice. Covenant, New Testament, Jesus,
• 48:25
  mountain, cloud. He's ready to give a new
• 48:28
  covenant. And a cloud overshadowed them
• 48:36
  And voice came out of the cloud. This is my beloved son.
• 48:40
  Listen to him. Here's where we're ending.
• 48:47
  What Matthew said concerning the father statement is a little bit
• 48:52
  expanded and compares it to Mark.
• 48:55
  I want you to see it in Matthew 17, verse five,
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  he was still speaking when behold, a bright cloud
• 49:16
  overshadowed them in a voice from the cloud said, This is my
• 49:20
  beloved son with whom I am well. Pleased listen to him, Matthew
• 49:29
  adds, with whom I am well, pleased.
• 49:36
  Now we look at this and we see that the Father bears witness of
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  the Son. We see that He expresses the
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  divine nature of the Son. This is my beloved Son.
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  Not just the divine nature of the Son, but the divine love
• 49:49
  that the Father shared with the Son.
• 49:53
  And this is him telling the disciples who would carry on the
• 49:56
  message of Christ. Listen to him, stop mishearing
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  what he's saying. Understand that.
• 50:04
  He is the one that you've been waiting for.
• 50:06
  He is the one that I put my seal on.
• 50:08
  He is the one that is going to bring in a new covenant.
• 50:10
  Look, you're on the mountain. Here's the cloud.
• 50:11
  Isn't this ring of Bell disciples?
• 50:16
  I was talking to my dad about this last night.
• 50:17
  He brought up something that I thought, wow, that's so
• 50:19
  significant. This statement in itself is is
• 50:24
  profound on its own, but there's much more to it if you really
• 50:30
  look at it. What the father says of the son
• 50:32
  is dripping. Absolutely dripping with Old
• 50:38
  Testament relevance, Old Testament truth, particularly
• 50:43
  concerning Jesus Christ. In other words, I argue before
• 50:49
  you today that when the Father says this is my beloved Son with
• 50:54
  whom I am well pleased, listen to him was a strategic statement
• 51:02
  that for the careful I would see that these are components within
• 51:07
  the Hebrew Bible that pointed to Jesus Christ.
• 51:12
  In other words, this is a profound statement that is in
• 51:15
  essence an echo in echo, something that you have read if
• 51:21
  you have covered the Old Testament.
• 51:22
  And when the father says this, there should be something in you
• 51:25
  that goes, I kind of heard something similar to this.
• 51:30
  I've kind of seen something close to this.
• 51:33
  If you do the work, you realize the father is saying something
• 51:37
  even deeper than just what he is offering on the surface.
• 51:43
  So let's take a breath, right. A lot of scripture, a lot of
• 51:46
  turning. This is my beloved Son with whom
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  I am well pleased. Listen to him.
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  You ready? Psalm Chapter 2, verse seven.
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  We're going to turn to three places, and I promise you we're
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  ending Psalm, Chapter 2, verse 7.
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  Psalm 27 I will tell of the decree the Lord said to me, You
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  are my son. Today I have begotten you who
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  fulfilled the Psalm Jesus fulfilled in more than one
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  place. Is this Psalm quoted and is
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  given to Christ. You are my son.
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  Hold on to that. You are my son.
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  Go to Isaiah 42. Isaiah 42 verse one you are my
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  son. Isaiah 42 verse one.
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  This is a messianic prophecy. This is pointing to Jesus
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  Christ. And notice what God says about
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  his servant, the person of Jesus Christ.
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  Isaiah 42 one. Behold, my servant whom I
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  uphold, my chosen in whom my soul delights, in whom my soul
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  delights. Here is the Father, expressing
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  his deep pleasure in the service and obedience that the Son would
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  walk in when he would enter into this world.
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  My soul delights in him. Psalm 27.
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  You are my son. Isaiah 42 One the servant of God
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  with whom my soul delights. Last place, Deuteronomy chapter
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  18, verse 15. Deuteronomy 1815.
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  This is a known prophecy concerning Christ.
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  The Lord your God will raise up for you A prophet like me.
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  Moses says from among you, from from your brothers.
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  It is to him you shall listen. What did the Father say when
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  that cloud overshadowed Christ? This is my beloved Son with whom
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  I am well pleased. Listen to him.
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  And here you have the statement of Jesus being the Son and
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  Psalm. 2 Here you have a statement of God expressing his
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  pleasure for the servant of God and Isaiah 42 One.
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  And here you have in Deuteronomy God telling Moses that there is
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  a prophet to come to him. You shall listen.
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  You know what's significant about the locations of each of
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  those components? Each of those expressions and
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  signs some. Isaiah the prophet Deuteronomy,
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  the law, Psalm prophet law, Psalm prophet law.
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  I don't know if it clicked if it didn't click.
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  When Jesus in the end of Luke 24 appears before his disciples in
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  his resurrected form, you don't have to turn there.
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  Let me read to you what Jesus said to his disciples, he said
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  in Luke 24 verse 44. This he said to him.
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  These are my words, that I spoke to you while I was still with
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  you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and
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  the prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.
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  Here's the Father. This is my beloved Son, with
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  whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.
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  This is the one that the Psalms spoke about.
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  This is the one that the Prophet spoke about.
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  This is the one that the law spoke about.
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  This is him. Now listen and suddenly verse
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  eight of Mark 9 looking around, they no longer saw anyone with
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  him but Jesus only. It's all about Jesus when you
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  read the prophets. It's about Jesus.
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  When you read the Psalms points to Jesus when you read the law.
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  Even in the law. Yeah, the law that we feel
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  nervous about. The law that we think is boring,
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  even in the law. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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  And here's the Father saying, this is him.
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  This is him. Is any worthy of worship, Is any
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  worthy of adoration. Is your heart not moved to see
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  that what you have in your hands, what you just heard in
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  the past hour and a few minutes is a supernatural reality.
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  Oh, I pray that God would receive glory and what we heard
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  today. That we would love him, obey
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  him, and listen. Listen to him.
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  Lord, would you help us this afternoon as we look to you in
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  your word, thanking you for the glories of the Transfiguration?
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  We pray oh now that you would help us worship you
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  appropriately based on the truth that we have heard.
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  Thank you. Thank you, Lord, that we are
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  people who can open your book without fear of persecution.
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  That you can speak in ways that we never thought.
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  We are amazed. We stand amazed.
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  Help us remember your glory, the glory to come, the glory that we
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  will know and share with you. When you do come, and you will
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  come. Our cry is Maranatha.
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  Come, Lord Jesus. Amen.