Impressed By Jesus? - [Matthew 17:1-9]

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What impresses you? Does somebody somebody just say I love you.
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I got that oh That's so sweet, and I love you, too At least for now you do
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You know it's interesting. I sent an email out to the elders a few days ago. I said make sure You talk about Jesus.
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We want to proclaim him right him we proclaim Colossians chapter 1 We want to be like Paul to the
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Corinthians. He said I've determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ even him crucified We do that for lots of reasons.
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We're under to my to my divine mandate But also we aren't Jesus and we could never be
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Jesus and we have to remind our people constantly that we're not the
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Shepherds of the church we might be under shepherds, but Jesus is the one to look to and when we preach ourselves
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That would be horrific So let's talk about who Jesus is as John Hannah said to me this summer.
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God the Father is only impressed by Jesus Christ It's the only person that impresses him
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I've been studying Matthew all summer So please turn your Bibles to the book of Matthew, and I want you to be impressed with the king
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Jesus We'll probably take a few weeks for some cameos in the book of Matthew to see our
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Lord Jesus front and center as the king of all kings the Lord of all Lords and Then we'll get into the next book that we're going to get into in September But a few cameos verse by verse cameos in the book of Matthew, so you'll be impressed with Jesus the theme of Matthew is the king
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Jesus Christ the Messiah of Israel here we have
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Matthew he used to be a tax collector His name means the gift of the
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Lord he's an apostle and he's writing He's Jewish and the Jewishness as it were seeps into this book when customs
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Jewish customs are mentioned They're not explained because the readers are Jewish and they understand what's going on About 60 times the
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Old Testament is referred to or quoted more than any other gospel Jesus is called the
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Son of David everything about this shows you this King Jesus and I find it fascinating that even though sinfully back in the day of Israel They said we want a king like the other nations
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Sinfully they asked that and now they're going to get the king the real King Savior yes
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Redeemer. Yes friend. Yes lamb. Yes But King the
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King who will return one day on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory Matthew 24
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Why don't we open our Bibles to Matthew specifically chapter 17 the transfiguration?
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The transfiguration is gripping and it's not just what happens
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But why it happens the transfiguration of Jesus on the mountain
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Will impress you and with Spurgeon you will say at the end of the message not because of me but because of the text you will say with Spurgeon and we
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Proclaim an enthroned God and his right to do as he wills
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You're gonna see power and authority and the scope of Jesus and the authority of Jesus any kind of oligarchy or democracy our
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Republic our voting blocs our Bipartisanship any of this kind of stuff just gets tossed and trashed as you see
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Jesus the King Everywhere you look in Matthew It just shouts
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King the Sermon on the Mount the Manifesto of the King chapter 1 why all those names?
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It's the genealogy of the King and unlike another gospel writer going back to Adam Matthew goes back to Abraham because it's the
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Jewish King If I summarize the book of Matthew with one verse from Matthew would be
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Matthew 21 5 behold your King It's coming to you gentle and mounted on a donkey even on a coal the full of a beast of burden.
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Oh And didn't Israel need a king at this time the Roman occupation. They need to be delivered from such tyranny
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Oh to have a king. Oh to have a righteous king and for 28 chapters
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Matthew just shows Jesus is the King And so we come to chapter 17 there's all kinds of instruction by the
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King in chapters 16 through 20 and we parachute in now to Matthew chapter 17
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What's called the Transfiguration? How many Gospels are there in the
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Bible? For Matthew Mark Luke and John the first three are called what synoptic
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Gospels. They're similar They all three have this account of the Transfiguration John doesn't we don't know why
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John doesn't have it I mean he was there some say because John wants to show the glory of Jesus throughout all his chapters not just the
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Affulgent glory on the mountain and the way
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Matthew writes. It's in present tenses and it makes you think like you're there You get just get drawn into this narrative
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You feel like you're there you think you're there and Jesus is going to encourage the men and Jesus is going to be encouraged
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Matthew 17 1 be impressed after six days Jesus took with him
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Peter James John his brother and Led them
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Mark says took them Up a high mountain By themselves six days after the end of chapter 16
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Jesus takes the inner core Peter James and John up to a high mountain
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Now before we see the context because notice the first word in chapter 17 is and and and after before we see the context
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Let's just focus on verse 1 a little bit you go to a high mountain. Which mountain is this? Well, we're not told specifically you got basically three options
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Mount Tabor is one where Church history says that Jesus went to probably not a good choice because there was a
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Roman garrison on the top of this mountain in The days of Jesus, so it'd be hard to go there for the
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Transfiguration Second option is Mount Hermon 90 200 feet up.
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It's a striking mountain. It's a big mountain. It's what choose at times 4 Point 2 or something like that Is that true what you said?
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I heard is a technical game mountain because it has to be 2 ,000 feet or higher to be a mountain and watch use it used to be like 1996 so they added that rock in that tower or something else and then they made it 2004.
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Is that right Bob Robert? Okay Amen Problem with Mount Hermon being the mountain is
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Mark says after Jesus comes down from the mountain There's a bunch of teachers from the law of the law some scribes and it seems not very probable that they're going out of their
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Palestinian jurisdiction into the Gentile area. Maybe it was Mount Hermon. The other option is
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Mount Meron Miron, it's about a 4 ,000 foot mountain right in between Capernaum ancestry of Philippi.
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Here's the issue What the mountain was doesn't matter what took place on the mountain does right?
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If the exact locale mattered than one of the writers would say something but what happened on the mountain
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I have another question for you. What happens on mountains in the Bible? What often happens?
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Well, there are bushes that are on fire, but they're not on fire. They're not burned that happens on a mountain The Ten Commandments are delivered with lightning and thunder and Exodus 19 that happens
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You've got fire that comes down and eats up the sacrifice on Mount Horeb with Elijah that happens
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Satan takes Jesus to a high mountain to tempt him
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Mountaintop experiences, I guess Listen to what
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Luke says Some eight days later about eight days
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After these scenes it came about that he took along Peter James and John and went up to the mountain to pray
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So Jesus takes his inner circle. He goes to the mountain to pray Why would
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Jesus be praying well because Jesus prays without ceasing that might be an okay answer but the right answer is more specifically there's a context to this and the first word in your
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English text and hence We should go backwards go to verse 21 of the previous chapter
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Why is Jesus praying? He's praying in light of what he's talked about in the last chapter.
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That is his death his crucifixion He's going to be killed and he is fully God that is for certain
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But he's fully man as well and he needs to pray to the Father Fascinating that he never says to his disciples and all that I know in the
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Bible, please pray for me But he does go pray and now why does he pray verse 21 of chapter 16 from that time
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Jesus began to show his disciples He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things
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From the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed And on the third day be raised
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Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him saying far be it from you Lord. This shall never happen to you
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Turn to him and said to Peter get behind me Satan You are a hindrance to me for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man
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Peter was just like us. We want the crown. We want the glory and in God's economy
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It's always suffering and then glory It's the cross and then it's the what?
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Satan's way of thinking is Prosperity gospel Joe Osteen gospel name it and claim it gospel
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That's a satanic gospel and Jesus has to go pray
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He goes on in chapter 16 You're setting your mind on the things of God, but not on the thing not on the things of God But on the things of man verse 24
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It's not just Jesus that's going to need prayer Anyone would come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me
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For whoever save his life Will lose it Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it
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For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?
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The Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his father And then he will repay each person according to what he has done
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Truly I say to you You're gonna see the tie -in here. There are some standing here
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Peter James and John who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom and We're going to get a flash of that It's like when you see
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Lightning strike in the middle of the night and for a split second everything seems clear crystal clear
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You can see everything perfectly and then the lights go off Jesus is praying because he's on his way to Calvary and he has set his face towards the cross
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He knows the agony. He knows the suffering He knows what it's going to be like when the father
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Turns his back as it were and Jesus says my God my God Why have you forsaken me?
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And so they go to pray in view of the passion verse 2 of Matthew 17 and He Jesus Was transfigured
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Transformed we get the word metamorphosis Before them before their very eyes
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Changed and then there's two aspects of this his face shown like the
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Sun and his clothes became white as light The Good News Bible translates the metamorphosis as a change came over Jesus Change came over him doesn't do justice to it
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The eternal Son of God has been cloaked with humanity and forever will be cloaked in humanity and we're getting a little hint of the essence of God the
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Son and the Character of God the Son and the nature of God the Son as it were streaming out from him
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And there's a change and look at the checks his face shown like the Sun Luke says his face became other
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Matthew says it was shining. It was beaming his face shown like the
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Sun ever look at the Sun. I Mean I want to tell you after service go stare at the
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Sun for a while, but kids you may not But when you do stare at the Sun, it's bright.
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It's brighter than anything. We know it's interesting
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Something happened to his clothes, too This is so intense intense. This is so Radiant so glorious so dazzling So impressive
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His clothes become white as the light gleaming white clothes
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Mark 9 listen to this his garments became radiant and exceedingly white and then I like what
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Mark says as No laundry on earth can whiten them My favorite all -time dry cleaner since Santa Cruz, California, it's called vapor the
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AP Vapor just the name sounds cool. His garments are so radiant This is not some kind of you know, you've got some white garments and you've just got some special You know
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Palestinian tide or something. This is this is getting affected. It's bright when there's a nuclear bomb and things change colors
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His face is shining the garments are all white and Think about the mountain and think about this reflect this glory
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Moses true or false there was glory on Moses's face True but it was on his face and it was reflected glory and Now from the inside out we have the glory of the
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Eternal God coming out How do you know it's from the inside out?
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The other two times this word is used in the epistles It's talking about the transformation of the believers
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Likeness into Christ likeness. That is the word metamorphosis Do you recognize from these two verses?
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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed By the renewal of your mind
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Romans 12, do you recognize this one? talking about the inner transformation the inner
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Transfiguration. Yes, it happened on the outside but stemming from the inside and we all with unfailed vase
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Face rather, excuse me Beholding the glory of the Lord are being transformed transfigured
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Metamorphosized into the same image from the one degree of glory to another Moses is not the eternal
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Son of God He he absorbed some glory But then it fades away who
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Jesus is at essence level at nature level at character level is the eternal Son of God And the
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Shekinah glory is pouring out and when
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I read 1st John 1 5 now it is impressive God is light and There's no darkness at all.
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I wonder if people down below We're looking up there If it was
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Mount Hermon, there'd probably be snow at the top and the snow doesn't look so bright Laundered clothes don't look so bright in comparison with the
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Son of Man. Listen to Daniel 7 I kept looking until thrones were set up and the Ancient of Days took his seat
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His vesture was like white snow and the hair of his head like pure wool
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His throne was ablaze with flames. Its wheels were a burning fire
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The eternal Son of God That's why when I was in California and I get the knock knock knock and two people come to my door
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And I already know what's gonna happen. It's gonna be bad You're gonna come to my house and try to damn me and my children and say bad things about Jesus dishonorable things about Jesus things that only an
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Antichrist spirit would say 1st John chapter 4 and the two Mormons are like We're here to talk to you about Jesus and I'm thinking
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You're gonna defame Jesus and dishonor him Matthew takes 28 chapters to try to show you that he's the eternal
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Son of glory And now you're going to tell me he's a some created being how foolish remember 1 ,500 years earlier
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Exodus 33 Moses said I pray thee show me thy glory 1 ,500 years later
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Moses had to be tucked to the side God said I will make all of my goodness pass before you and will proclaim the name of the
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Lord before you I'll be gracious to whom I would be gracious and show compassion on whom I'll show compassion
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But you cannot see my face for no man can see me and live Behold there's a place by me.
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You shall stand there in the rock It will come about while my glory is passing by I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by Then I'll take my hand away and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen
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The glory of God the majesty of God the Old Testament idea of glory is heavy There's a lot of weight.
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It leaves an impression if you do stare at the Sun today for 20 seconds and then turn away and close your eyes.
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You'll still see the Sun because there's a lasting impression in your eye On some mountain we see a little hint of who
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Jesus is Perfectly timed. I'm on my way to the cross. And how does this encourage the disciples?
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We'll see Sinclair Ferguson said this
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His glory was seen His power and kingly majesty were momentarily visible
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Sinclair Ferguson It was a foretaste of that day when his kingdom would come with power in his resurrection
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It was a foretaste to of the day of his final glory Now, you know,
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I respect Sinclair Ferguson and what he said is true But he could have added as well.
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It was also more than just future -looking
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It was also what was Jesus like before his incarnation the pre incarnated incarnated
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Jesus It's now on display. I love John 17 and now father glorify me
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Jesus said in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed and now for a split second
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The word has become flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory I know
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John is talking about a different glory than this But all the same verse 3 what is going on here
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Mark says with very I mean Matthew says with very Matthew in language and behold look
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You got you've got to pay attention to this as I've said to you many times people read the Bible way too fast It's one of their problems problem.
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Not one is we don't read the Bible enough problem, too When we read it, we don't read with understanding too fast and behold
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There appeared to them Peter James and John Moses and Elijah talking with him now, wait a second
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How did they know it was Moses? How did they know it was Elijah? Say well, maybe
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Moses said mr. Elijah or Elijah the Prophet we don't know but they recognize him
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And I can't prove it but I I would say if you're worried that people in heaven won't recognize you and your
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Resurrected glorified body. I wouldn't worry about it. I think they'll recognize you vice versa
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Moses and Elijah Moses dies 1 ,400 years prior Elijah dies 900 years prior and now we have the man who?
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exemplifies and embodies the law and The man who exemplifies and embodies the prophets all of the
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Old Testament is bearing witness to this great Jesus the law and the prophets
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Moses sees the glory of God on Sinai Elijah sees the glory of God on Horeb and now the two main divisions of the
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Old Testament law and prophets Are being fulfilled in Jesus Christ Jesus had already said in Matthew 5 didn't he do not think that I have come to abolish the law our prophets
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I have not come to abolish them. But to what I Moses Representing the law give testimony to the fact that Jesus in the
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Old Testament It's gonna suffer and die and be raised The prophets give testimony
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I Elijah representing them when I look at the Old Testament prophets and I look at Isaiah I look at Psalm 22
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Jesus is going to suffer and then be raised. It's cross then crown. It's suffering then glory
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Witness number one witness number two all the Bible witness And what were they talking about?
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They were talking mark mark gives the the language that it went on for a long time they talked for a long time
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You know how I love S Lewis Johnson He said you think they ought to have spoken about how the
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Jericho Juleps and the Jerusalem Jimbo's were getting ready for spring training for baseball season
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Are they were thinking about how the bear Sheba bears and the Dan donkeys will do in the coming National Football League race this fall?
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Or maybe politics when pilot will when will he get the axe who shall succeed a Herod? What were they talking about?
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the Jesus seminar New perspectives on Paul some other weird kind of theological thing
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Turn to Luke chapter 9 were told exactly what they're talking about and it is the theme of heaven
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It is the centerpiece of the universe Moses and Elijah were talking with Jesus about his death about Calvary and As the angels ministered to Jesus when he was getting tempted now
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We have all of the law all of the prophets. We have Moses and Elijah coming alongside encouraging the
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God -man Luke chapter 9 verse 31. Don't you love it? Aren't you impressed?
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Who appeared in glory and spoke of his Departure Greek they spoke of his exodus
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They spoke about his exodus which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem They're talking to him about his impending death his exodus 2nd
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Peter chapter 1 talks about Peter's departure his death But when you think of exodus before you think of 2nd
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Peter 115, what do you think of? And now and forever when you think of the first exodus you must think of the last exodus as Great as the
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Passover was in Exodus 12 and 13 and then we have the exodus from Egypt in chapter 14 and following and the song in 15 as great as that was
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It was only from physical bondage, right? Exodus one is replaced with Exodus 2 and the flood that should go through the mind of anybody who is a
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Old Testament student they were talking about his death his departure his going away
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God conquered the enemies in the Old Testament to physically release them from bondage the
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Israelites And now Jesus is on his way to Calvary to ransom
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To give himself a ransom to redeem to buy out of sinful bondage his people the elect
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They were talking about the cross And they were talking about it for a long time
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Sin is so horrible. It's going to take the God -man to die on behalf of sinners
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To supply all God's holy demands in his law and yet show his kindness and his love and the first Exodus showed the power of God the wisdom of God the grace of God and the last exodus
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Shows it even more Jesus the God -man needs encouragement like any other man
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Of course, there's a big fight about the deity of Christ. He is God, but if you forget about the humanity of Christ You're also in peril
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He needs to be strengthened and encouraged on his way to Calvary and he goes to pray and God the
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Father Answers his prayer in many ways including giving him Moses and Elijah to come speak to him
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Preparing Jesus to bear the sins The Chosen Ones, by the way, what will you talk about in heaven for all eternity that exact subject worthy as the
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Lamb who was slain? You never get over it And can it be that I should gain an interest in the
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Savior's blood Christ our
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Passover has been sacrificed 1st Corinthians chapter 5 and he is going to his exodus
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Moses Elijah are bolstering Jesus fortifying
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Jesus encouraging Jesus Because we've just heard from Peter who did the exact opposite Jesus.
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No, no. No, you're not going to go to the cross You go to glory first. That's satanic. That's wrong thinking and now the father answers the prayer and here's
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Moses and Elijah It's always been this no wonder it's always been this because of course it's been this way rather because Peter says he's
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For ordained before the foundation of the world the Passover lamb It had to be verse 4
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Matthew 17 Peter's not asked a question
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But that doesn't stop Peter Jesus Peter said to Jesus Lord It's good that we're here
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If you wish I'll make three tents here one for you one for Moses one for Elijah Okay, now some commentators say
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Peter wasn't asked a question and he just run in his mouth sometimes
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Peter did do that But I think here there's a there's a spiritual paradigm, you know spiritual paradigms
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Don't you theology leads to methodology leads to doxology? That's a good spiritual paradigm
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Indicative and then imperative that's a spiritual paradigm that we have to see and here's one right here Revelation demands response when
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God shows himself you respond Generally as well. You look at Niagara Falls and you smell it you see it you taste it
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You're up at the precipice. You're as close as you can get without jumping over that bar and You're like this is impressive
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Revelation of God in creation demands a response. Thank you God contrary to Those in Romans 1 who don't thank him and Spiritually, it's the same thing when you realize what has been going on when you realize in your own life
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Our sin and then the atonement in light of our sin. We're thankful. There's something has to be said
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Why do we sing a hymn at the end of the sermon? Well because revelation demands a response
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Have to respond. I think that's what Peter's doing here We know he didn't really know what to say because Mark says he did not know what to answer for he they had become terrified
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He didn't really know what to say, but He's got something right here Let's do something for all three of you.
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That's the wrong part like they're all in the same level Jesus Moses and Elijah and even if it was like a little
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Olympic stand where the middle ones a little taller and the second place is a little shorter and third place is almost on the ground
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They're all kind of alike. No. No, he's got that part all wrong, but he does have something right
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When you have a literal king in a literal kingdom showing forth as a folds in glory What do you want to do you want to put a tabernacle up thy kingdom come?
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What are you doing the kingdom? Zechariah 14 16 says then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem Shall go up year after year to worship the king the
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Lord of hosts and to keep the feast of booths Kingdoms here put the booths up.
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We got a real king We got a real kingdom. We got real land. We got real booths get the booths up now while I might not be a dispensationalist
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I along with Peter and pre -millennial You like oh great
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Just so you don't think pre -millennial ism is Wicked I'll just stand with Spurgeon and sibs and James Boyce and now
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Peter He just got done talking about the kingdom in chapter 16 verse 28 The king is now shown of his glory and Peter It's not like when
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FF Bruce says that Peter was acting in a stupid fashion the whole scheme is a stupidity It's stupid to put
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Jesus Moses and Elijah on the same wavelength, but it's not stupid For him to say there's an inauguration coming right about now, but he's forgotten that it's cross before crown verse 5
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He was still speaking Peter's still speaking. Here's one of those
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Matthew and Matthew and things behold a bright cloud Overshadowed them
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Luke says it engulfs him and a voice from the clouds said this is my beloved son with whom I'm well
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Pleased listen to him Peter is first corrected by Jesus on the mountain now the father corrects
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Peter While he was still speaking so Peter's blabbing along.
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He's terrified. He doesn't know what to do He doesn't know what to say. He doesn't have the order right?
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He doesn't know what's going on. And now it's as if the father says that's enough Peter be quiet Or to quote the southern gentleman
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SOS Johnson shut up Peter I didn't say he did the same statement that the father says about the son endorsing his ministry
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The baptism this is my beloved son. This is my choice one. This is the one I love
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I'm well pleased in him. Listen to him Moses fades away Elijah fades the way there
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There's nothing wrong with Moses. There's nothing wrong with Elijah, but the fulfillment is Jesus. Listen to him the approval of the father
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Is on the son don't put Moses and Elijah as it were Peter Above Jesus listen to him hear him
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Hear ye him Moses wouldn't have disagreed
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Moses wrote in Deuteronomy 18 the Lord your God will raise up For you a prophet like me from among you from your countrymen you shall listen to him
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Listen to him. He's the one Moses would say that there's a better prophet coming along his name
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He didn't know was Jesus now. He knows his name Jesus. Listen to him Luke says that the cloud formed and began to overshadow them
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It's amazing Verse 6 what else is going on? When the disciples heard this when
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Peter James and John heard the father they heard it They fell on their faces and were terrified
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I Have two options They got down real low with reverence and honor and homage and honor and it's worship
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That's that kind of language, but we know it's not that based on what Jesus does in the next verse
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We know that it's terror. We know it's not reverence Oh, maybe it might be terror with a little bit of reverence
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But it's mainly a mainly mainly terror there already were afraid in the transfigure transfiguration now
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They're extra afraid and what does Jesus do don't miss this? I'm going to talk about the transcendence of God.
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You see it right on this mountain You want to talk about the eminence of God the nearness of God the compassion of God the humanity of Jesus Savior the
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Eternal Son And Jesus came Verse 7,
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I mean who's a God like this Muslims don't have a
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God like this Mormons don't have a God like this But the
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Eternal Son of God who's cloaked himself with humanity came and touched them Saying rise and have no fear.
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I don't know what they were doing, but I can imagine if the cloud is coming and I'm interrupted from saying some dumb things
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And I hear the voice Sometimes the voice of God people hear it's like thunder.
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It's loud all this happening. It's your kind of glory I might be cowering down The languages of they're down on their faces and they're afraid and then to have the
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Lord Jesus Christ To come over and touch them must have been very very
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I'm still with you I'm still here with you. I Still love you this episodes over This episode has encouraged me this episode has
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Fortified me and now we're back toward the cross the touch of Jesus Christ to touch the leper to touch
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Peter James and John he touched them. How many hands do you have before you have to touch each of them on the shoulder?
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He didn't bump into them on purpose he knew how to comfort them the Incarnate Eternal Son and when they lifted up their eyes verse 8
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They saw no one but Jesus only Jesus alone
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The final revelation of God that's Hebrews chapter 1 That's Hebrews chapter 3 listen for Jesus had been counted worthy of more glory than Moses By just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house for every house is built by someone
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But the builder of all things is God Now Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later
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But Christ was a faithful was faithful as son over his house whose house
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We are if we hold fast our confidence and boast of our hope firm until the end.
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He is the greater prophet Jesus authority superiority
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Focus Verse 9 we need to wrap things up and as they were coming down from the mountain
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Jesus commanded them tell no one the vision Until the
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Son of Man that's a favorite name of the Lord for himself is raised passively by the
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Father from the dead Don't tell anybody about what's going on Because they're not going to get the suffering and then glory they're not going to get the cross and then the crown don't tell anybody
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Actually in the Greek text, it's got an emphasis there Comes first in the clause don't tell anybody at all is the idea
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Cross then crown suffering then glory. So here's my question
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Are you impressed the transfiguration is this glimpse of the glory of God?
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It's a preview That's what it is. It's a preview. I always have to tell my kids
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We don't get cable TV because we're more godly than most of you out there But we can watch things on the internet
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And so they have commercials and they'll have a commercial of the new movie and you'll go I want to see that movie
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It just pulls you in because the preview takes all the best stuff and they craft it in such a way where you want to go
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To give them your 10 bucks They put all the best stuff in it's a preview.
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It's a little salt on your tongue. I got to go see this I can't hardly imagine
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That when Peter talks about we're partakers Christ Divine Majesty Can hardly believe that one day?
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We're going to be clothed with the honor of Christ's Maybe there's a better way to say it.
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I can't believe one day that Will stand there with him when you can't figure out what to say.
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You should just say the verse Here's the verse Colossians 3 when Christ who is our life is revealed
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Then you also will be revealed with him in glory Peter James and John you need to be encouraged
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Look who Jesus is and look what he's look at the preview Jesus is encouraged by the law and the prophets
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How much more encouraged can we be? Can we be encouraged? The answer is yes the transfiguration of Jesus Christ Let's pray father in heaven.
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I thank you for this word Matthew Mark Luke, I think of Peter even though he was going through hardship
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He was holding on that Jesus Christ was going to come back because Moses said it because the
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Prophets said it because he had seen Jesus transfigured and Yet we have something more sure than Peter had even by his own sight even by his own ears
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We have the Word of God made more sure. Thank you for that Father in light of trials and testings and temptations.
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Will you help us? not to follow any kind of Devised tales that seem clever, but help us to be reminded about the power and coming of the
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Lord Jesus Christ He will come back and he'll make all the wrongs, right? And we're thankful that the suffering has already happened for the
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Lord Jesus and he has received the great crown The cross and then the resurrection and we rest in him our great
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Lord our great King. I Pray for anyone here this morning. Who's not a
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Believer in the Lord Jesus Christ the King of Kings. I Pray that you'd grant them
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Repentance grant them faith that you would regenerate them so they could see the beauties of Jesus and be impressed by him
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To think that you're only impressed with Jesus We believe that But father we're thankful that as Paul says so often that you see us in him