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“A Mountain-Top Experience”
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Do you remember the last time you experienced something so awesome, so amazing that you were stunted, thrilled, blown away?
You saw something, you met someone, you experienced something so great that you have never forgot about it.
· When the back doors of the church opened, and there stood Tess in her wedding dress!
· When I saw my babies born!
A Miracle!
· When my grandbabies were born!
· Spending some time with Adrian Rogers.
· Visiting the Roman Coliseum, and the catacombs.
Those are great experiences that God has given to me, and I am thankful for them.
But as great as those experiences are, there not the greatest experiences of my life.
The greatest experiences of my life have been the times when God moved in power, and make himself none to me through his word and by his Spirit; making Jesus real to my heart!
I call them mountain-top experiences!
A true Spiritual mountain-top experience always revolves around JESUS!
· When I met Jesus Christ and was saved!
· When God called me to preach!
· When I became pastor of this great Church.
The greatest things that have happened in my life have all been because of Jesus!
When you see Jesus for who he really is, in all of his love, grace and glory, it is a mountain-top experience!
Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up on a mountain; and they see His glory, they have a Mountain-Top Experience.
What is the purpose of a Mountain-top experience?
Why does God allow you to have a Mountain-top experience?
From this mountain-top experience, we learn the purpose of mountain-top experiences.
1st Purpose is for you to:
1. See His Glory and Worship Him!
V:28-29.
Of all the things the apostles witnessed, none was more spectacular and the vision of the glorified Christ on top on the Mount of Transfiguration.
They knew a lot about Jesus; but on that mountaintop they see him for who he really is.
Herod asked about Jesus, who is this I hear such things about?
Jesus asked his disciples, who do the people say I am? Jesus asked his disciples, who do you say that I am?
On this mountaintop; they’re going to see who Jesus is; they’re going to see the glory of the son of God; they’re going to hear the voice of God as he says this is my beloved son.
They would come down that mountain knowing without a shadow of a doubt who Jesus Christ was!
The disciples needed to know who Jesus was because in the days ahead they would be discouraged, disillusioned as they saw Jesus suffer and die on the cross.
Jesus deity and glory would be hid; but they knew underneath his humanity, was deity.
Jesus was God incognito, dressed in human flesh.
Jesus wants them to know that he is the King of glory, and one day he will wear the crown; but the cross would come before the crown.
These guys had seen Jesus on multiple occasions, do amazing things, but they had NEVER seen him like they are going to see him on that mountain.
Use your sanctified imagination and try to imagine what it was like went Jesus showed them His glory up on that mountain.
It was a Mountain top experience, as heaven came down on that mountain.
They saw things they had never seen before, they were aware of things they were never aware of before, they were in the presence of God!
It was a Mountain experience, because JESUS was there!
When is the last time you had a mountain-top experience?
A glorious, spiritual experience where you were alone with Jesus and your soul was lifted above this old world, and you got a taste of heaven.
A time when you just felt like God’s Spirit was all over you, and around you, and joy filled your heart, and you just felt like you were going to bust!
How do you respond?
You respond in Worship, praise, awe, thanksgiving, tears, and joy!!
And you walk away from that experience knowing more about Jesus, more prepared to live and die for him!
We all need spiritual refreshing from the presence of the Lord; we need encouragement that can come only from being in the presence of Jesus.
To get on higher ground, to climb above the mundane, and get in the place where the glory of God can touch our lives, and we can see JESUS as He is in glory and power, and hear God speak to our hearts.
That is what happens to Peter, James and John on that mountain.
They see His Glory and they worship Him!
These three disciples are none as the inner circle; Jesus let them in on things the other disciples didn’t get in on.
They were the Lord’s closes friends, they were with him when he raised Jarius daughter from the dead, and they would be with him in the garden of Gethsemane.
These men where dedicated and devoted to Jesus; these three men went on to be giants of faith in the early church.
· James- Became pastor of the church in Jerusalem, and was martyred for Preaching Jesus.
· Peter- the mighty apostle of Pentecost was a great leader in the early church, crucified upside down.
· John- the last of the apostles to die, he was exiled to the Isle of Patmos.
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Oh how they would need this glorious mountain top experience to encourage them and help them in the days ahead.
Their dedication and devotion to Jesus brought special blessings into their lives.
Dedication to the Lord still brings special blessings into our lives!
Many people want special blessings, and mountain top experiences but they do not want to be dedicated to Jesus.
But dedication to Jesus is the key to blessings.
Peter, James, and John climb up this high mountain with Jesus; probably Mount.
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V:28-29 “went up into a mountain to pray.
And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered and his raiment was white and glistering”.
Jesus was always getting away to pray and draw strength from His father.
He and his disciples went up this mountain to pray.
Every Christian needs a place to be alone and talk with the Lord.
Do you have a regular place to pray?
Later in Peter’s life in when he described this mountain top experience, he called this high mountain; “The Holy Mount”.
The High Mountain became the Holy Mountain because he saw the glory of Jesus there!
Good news- our place “apart in prayer” can become a Holy place when we meet with Jesus, and he reveals himself to us.
The place of prayer is the place of power and glory.
It is the most sacred spot on earth!
Those who separate themselves to pray are the ones who see the Glory of Jesus!
There closeness to Jesus is connected to Prayer!
The way to cultivate a close relationship with Jesus is to spend time with him in prayer.
-“And was transfigured before them……
The word “Transfigured” is where we get our word, Metamorphosis.
We learned this word in school, a caterpillar goes through metamorphosis, that caterpillar wraps a cocoon around itself and goes through the process of change.
After a certain amount of time the caterpillar comes out of the cocoon a butterfly.
Metamorphosis- An outward change that comes from the inside.
When the Bible says that Jesus was transfigured, it means that He became on the outside what He was on the inside.
When Jesus entered this world, he came as a man, he was born in a stable, wore peasant clothing, and worked as a carpenter in a small town.
When you looked at Jesus he was a common, ordinary Jew- YET Jesus Christ was much more than a common man when he walked on this earth.
He was the God-Man, Immanuel- God with us!
That night on the mount of Transfiguration, the glory of God that was within shined-forth through his humanity.
V:29-“the fashion of his countenance was altered…
-“His face did shine as the shine…
This was not a reflection of another light, but this was light, this glory was from within!
This was the glory of God that had been veiled by his human flesh shining through.
In , when Moses met with God on Mount Sinai he came down with the glory of God radiating off his face.
Moses was reflecting the glory of God because he had been in the presence of God; that is something we all should do!
But Jesus was not reflecting the glory of God; He was shining out the glory of God from within.
Jesus is the glory of God! Jesus is the light of the world, and when we get to heaven he will be the light.
-“The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamb is the light thereof”
V:29-“his arraignment was white and glistening”.
The other gospel writers say his raiment was white as snow, as no washer on earth could make them.
White in the Bible speaks of purity, absolute holiness.
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