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*Luke 9:28-36*
v *Opening Illustration*
Ø You can be a Christian and hold differing beliefs on a number of issues
§ Tongues
§ Healing
§ Baptism
§ The interpretation of Revelation
· Pre-Mil
· Post-Mil
· A-mil
v *But*…
Ø There is a core of beliefs or “Fundamentals” that you have to believe in to call yourself a Christian
§ Among these are:
· Bible as the word of God
· The Trinity
· The resurrection of Jesus
· The exclusivity of Christ
· The second coming of Christ
¨ And the most pivotal belief…
Ø Who Jesus is
§ The God-man
§ Human and divine (Must be divine!)
v And here, perhaps Jesus makes his strongest claim to divinity...pre-resurrection
Ø Here he reveals himself as God incarnate
§ As the Nicene Creed stated…
· */God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God/*
v In other words…
Ø Jesus is God
§ And he displayed this through what we call the “transfiguration”
*READ 9:28-31*
*The Shekinah Glory (v.
28-31)*
v Luke begins by telling us…
Ø “8 days after Jesus said this…”
§ Referring back to verse 27
v Many people have wondered what Jesus meant when he said…
Ø /I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”/
§ Here he is preparing his disciples for what some of them will witness 8 days later…
· A revelation of the Kingdom of God
¨ In other words…
Ø God returning to dwell with his people
And look at how that is described
v Jesus’ appearance changes and his clothes become like lightening
Ø Storm imagery
§ Called the Shekinah Glory
· That is how God always has revealed himself to man
Ø Jesus’ transfiguration appearance is like that of God throughout the Bible
§ As a bright storm cloud
· In Garden (Gen 3:8)
¨ “Cool of the day”
¨ “Wind of the storm”
· Pillar of light & fire in Exodus (Ex 13:21-22)
· Moses in cleft of Rock (Ex 33:12-23)
¨ “You will see my back”
Ø W.
Kaiser explained the Hebrew as
§ “The after burn after the shuttle launches”
· Tabernacle tent of meeting (Ex 40:34-35)
· Solomon’s temple (1 Kings 8:10-11)
· Ezekiel saw it depart (Ezek 10:18-19)
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*Think of how Christ will return for the 2nd time*
Ø *Rev 1:7*
§ /Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him.
So shall it be!
Amen./
Ø And now God’s presence is returning once again to dwell with his people in Jesus Christ
§ And we see that in his transfiguration
· Jesus is revealing himself to these three disciples as God through the Shekinah Glory
¨ Putting an exclamation point on Peter’s profession of Jesus as the Christ
Ø Jesus is God!
/ /
v And while he is in his glory, look at who he is talking to
Ø Moses & Elijah
Ø *Q: Why those two?*
§ Some speculate that they represent two different types of life endings
· Moses buried by God
· Elijah taken up into heaven
§ Some speculate that they represent the two great periods of Israel’s history
· The exodus and the end-times
§ Some even speculate that they are with him because they both spoke to God previously on mountaintops
· Interesting, but not helpful
§ Moses and Elijah represent the Law and the Prophets
· Represents the summary of the OT
¨ And remember what Christ said about the Law and Prophets…
Ø *Matthews 5:17*
§ /Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them/
§ *How was he going to fulfill them?*
· His “departure”
§ Interestingly, the GK word used there is “exodos”
· They were talking about his exodus
· The exodus of his death, burial and resurrection
· The great exodus that brings about true freedom from bondage
· Christ’s sacrificial atonement death on the cross
· The exodus that the previous one foreshadows!
¨ All of the OT points to this pivotal moment in the history of creation
Ø We celebrate it today in the Lord’s Supper and remember that which they were talking about
v And while all this is going on…
Ø Look at what the three disciples are doing!
*READ 9:32-33*
*The Groggy Disciples (v.
32-33)*
Ø In the middle of this glorious conversation…
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