MARK 9:2-8 (The Message) 2-4 Six days later, three of them did see it.

Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain. His appearance changed from the inside out, right before their eyes. His clothes shimmered, glistening white, whiter than any bleach could make them. Elijah, along with Moses, came into view, in deep conversation with Jesus. 5-6 Peter interrupted, Rabbi, this is a great moment! Lets build three memorialsone for you, one for Moses, one for Elijah.

He blurted this out without thinking, stunned as they all were by what they were seeing. 7 Just then a light-radiant cloud enveloped them, and from deep in the cloud, a voice: This is my Son, marked by my love. Listen to him. 8 The next minute the disciples were looking around, rubbing their eyes, seeing nothing but Jesus, only Jesus.

FROM GLORY TO MOVEMENT

Do You KNOW that the LORD JESUS DEMONSTRATED MANY MIRACLES, proving and pointing to His Divinity? Revealing to us that HE IS GOD? YET the most convincing of all is the TRANSFIGURATION!

Yes, Jesus is GOD!

[ The 2nd Person of the Trinity ]

TRANSFIGURED vs MASQUERADE in order to go straight along a path, one must have some knowledge of the end of the road (as an archer will not the arrow unless he first see the target) - borrowed.

Since Christ had encouraged his disciples to follow the path of his suffering, he then revealed to them the GLORY which would follow upon this suffering.

It takes faith to accept and practice this lesson on discipleship, so six days later, the Lord gave a dazzling proof that God indeed does transform suffering into glory.

Jesus revealed His glory. The message was clear: first the suffering, then the glory.
Moses represented the Law and Elijah the Prophets, both of which find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ (Luke 24:25-27; Hebrews 1:1-2).

Moses had died and his body was buried, but Elijah had been raptured to heaven (2 Kings 2:11).
When Jesus returns, He will raise the bodies of the saints who died and will rapture the living saints (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). Jesus will one day establish His glorious kingdom and fulfill the many promises made through the prophets.

Christs sufferings and death would not prevent God from establishing His kingdom; rather, by SOLVING the sin problem in Gods world, the cross would help to make the kingdom possible.

The word transfigured describes a change on the outside that comes from the inside. It is the opposite of masquerade, which is an outward change that does not come from within.
Jesus allowed His glory to radiate through His whole being, and the mountaintop became a holy of holies!

As you meditate on this event, keep in mind that He has shared this glory with us and promised us a glorious home forever (John 17:22-24). According to Romans 12:1-2 and 2 Corinthians 3:18, believers today can experience this same transfiguration glory.

"A man was asked by a pastor to come to church for 4 Sundays, He was a skeptic but the pastor thought if he, would come maybe he would be convinced to accept Christ. At the end of the fourth Sunday, the man approached the pastor and said, "I have given my life to Jesus Christ."

The pastor was pleased and said, "Tell me about it?" The man looked at the pastor and said, ""Well, Pastor it wasnt your preaching. The man paused for a moment. He went an, "On the third Sunday morning, I saw an elderly lady fall down on the icy roar. I stopped to help her and I saw the radiance on her face, even in the midst of such difficulty.

So I asked her what gave her life such a radiant glow and she said simply, If you knew my Lord Jesus Christ and felt his love in your life, you would have the same look of radiance on your face. "I became a Christian," the man said, "because of the glow on that womans face was like a light shining into the darkness of my soul."

How wonderful it is to stay on the mountain and bask in His glory! But discipleship means denying self, taking up a cross, and following Him; and you cannot do that and selfishly stay on the mount of glory.
There are needs to be met in the valley below.

The Father interrupted Peters speech and focused their attention, not on the vision, but on the God: Hear Him!

WORD of

The memory of visions will fade, but the unchanging Word abides forever. Peter hinted that we need to behold the 3. No! It should be Jesus onlyHis Word, His Will, His Kingdom, and His Glory.

This Vision the 3 had would make them say: HANG ON ALWAYS, for the BEST IS YET TO COME to the rest of the 9 who were not there, when suffering WOULD strike!

MAIN POINT: Seeing His GLORY leads us to being a MOVEMENT for HIM!
to the depth of our beholding [and listening to] of JESUS will be the breadth of our going for Him

DISCIPLES SECRET!