Luke chapter 9 Luke 9 28 It came to pass about an eight days
after these sayings He took Peter and John and James and went up
into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion
of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and
blistering. And behold, there talked with
him two men, which were Moses and Elias, that is, Elijah. who
appeared in glory and spake of his decease which he should accomplish
at Jerusalem. But Peter and they that were
with him were heavy with sleep and when they were awake they
saw his glory and the two men that stood with him. And it came
to pass as they departed from him Peter said unto Jesus, Master
it is good for us to be here and let us make three tabernacles,
one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elias, not knowing
what he said. While he thus spake, there came
a cloud and overshadowed them and they feared as they entered
into the cloud and there came a voice out of the cloud saying,
this is my beloved son, hear him. And when the voice was passed,
Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close and told
no man in those days any of those things which they had seen. Let's pray together. Lord, I pray, Lord, as our brother
just did, that you would meet with us this morning and bless
your word. to the hearts of your people.
Comfort your people, Lord. Encourage us in our Savior. And may we spend this day, Lord,
fellowshipping around Him, thinking of Him, speaking of Him, rejoicing
in Him. Ah, Lord, if we could just see
Him, it would change everything. If we could just get a glimpse
of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, It would comfort us, it would
give us the peace of God that passeth all understanding in
our hearts. And we learn this morning, Lord,
that all of the vanity that we too often count as important
is nothing. This world and all of its vanity
is nothing and quickly passes away. But may we do this morning, Lord,
what we shall do throughout all eternity, only better. Behold
His glory and worship Him in His precious name. Amen. Now
when our Lord walked this earth, men could not see Him for who
He was. He didn't walk around looking the way He appeared in
our text. He didn't walk around with a glowing aura around His
head like many have pictured Him. Those who are foolish enough
to try to draw a picture of the Son of God have failed miserably. In fact, we were told in the
scripture that he wasn't even a handsome man. He wasn't an
attractive man. It says in Isaiah 53, 2, he shall
grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a
dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness.
And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire
him. People are attracted by charismatic,
good-looking people. He wasn't one of those. But these three men, these favored men, there were
nine that weren't there. None of the apostles weren't
there. And we'll see what they were doing and what happened
and what the Lord was teaching them. Lord willing, in our next
lesson. But these three, and often these
three, got to witness something that nobody else has ever seen,
before or after, ever. And it changed them forever.
But I want us to notice what, how it affected them, how it
affected them. Were they impressed with the
spectacle of it? I'm sure they were. But listen to what they
said about it. John was there and he said this
in John 1 14. The Word. The Word of God was made flesh
and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory. The glory as of the only begotten
of the Father. not shiny and impressive and
handsome and charismatic and attractive, full of grace and
truth. Full of grace and truth. Simon Peter said this about the
experience and we'll see some more about it later, Lord willing.
Second Peter 117, for he, the Lord Jesus Christ, received from
God the Father honor and glory When there came such a voice
to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved son in whom
I am well pleased. And this voice which came from
heaven we heard when we were with him in the holy mount. What he remembered about it was
God speaking from heaven. That might stick in your mind
if you ever heard that happen. and saying this is my beloved
son who pleases me in every way. But our Lord didn't walk around
this earth the way that they saw him there on the mount and
the question arises why not? Why not? He's the son of God.
Shouldn't he look like the son of God? Men love a spectacle. Everybody
would have followed him if he had looked like that all the
time. Don't you imagine? Let's go see the one whose face is
shining like the sun and his clothes are white and glistering
But why would they have followed him? And is that the purpose
of God? It does say there in Isaiah 53
there was no beauty about him that we should desire him and
yet it says in Colossians 2 now in him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead in that body. What a contrary, I mean if all
the fullness of who God is dwelt in the body of the man Jesus
of Nazareth then why wasn't that evident? Why didn't he walk around
looking that way like the fullness of the Godhead? These ones here
got a glimpse of it It says in Matthew 17 too, he was transfigured
before them and his face did shine as the sun. You can't look at the sun now.
What if the sun was five feet from you? And his raiment was white as
the light. So why not show that? Why not
Always look that way. Well, I don't presume to know
the secret motives of our Lord But he has revealed some things
to us has he not in his word and I know this from the Word
of God sinners are not saved by a spectacle Sinners are not
saved by an experience of something You know magnificent something
impressive to the senses when God spoke from heaven here in
our in the in our verse and He did not say, this is my beloved
son, just look at him. Look at how bright his face is.
Look at how shiny his clothes are. He said, this is my son,
hear him. Shut up, Simon Peter, and listen
to him. And everybody else, hush, and
hear him, hear him. The disciples were given gifts
so that people would know that God spoke through them. And that was the Lord used that.
They were able to do some spectacular things, some miraculous things.
They cast out devils. They were able to take up serpents
and be bit by them and not harmed and people were amazed at that. They were able to heal. So why didn't the Lord do the
same thing? Why didn't he attract people?
You could just imagine, couldn't you though, that if his face
was shining like the sun all the time, and his raiment looked
like that, that could be a distraction from the message, don't you imagine?
They'd just be sitting there, wow, look at him, look at him,
and they wouldn't hear a word he said. Everything our Lord did, I'll
tell you this, everything he does is designed in his purpose
and providence to bring his people to a knowledge of him through
the preaching of the gospel, through the truth, through hearing
him, not beholding some amazing spectacle of some kind. Religion
is still wanting to put that on, you know, they fake that
because people are so impressed by that. Let's have a healing
service. Nah, that's phony and foolish. Never yet seen one of
them go down and clear out a hospital, have you? Or even make a dent
at a hospital. It's a phony, isn't it? But I'll say this, I hope the
Lord will heal somebody's soul this morning. I hope the Lord
can heal people. He can heal whoever He wants
to. And He heals body and soul. Our Lord said in John 6, 63,
it is the spirit that quickeneth. The flesh profiteth nothing. And that's all that is now is
flesh. If my flesh is impressed and amazed and all that, that's
not going to do anybody any good. The spirit gives life. And listen
to the rest of what he said. The words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit. Do you see a theme developing
here? Hear him. The words that I speak unto you,
They are life. They are spirit and they are
life. Hear Him. Faith cometh by hearing and no
sinner is ever saved apart from faith in Him. By grace are you
saved through faith. Even the very event of our Lord's
death, if you had been there and witnessed Him bleed and die
on the cross, what would that be to you if you did not know
the truth? What happened there the doctrine
the gospel now understand me? I'm not minimizing the importance
of his death without his precious blood. We have no redemption
no remission of sin But I'm saying this if everybody ever born could
have been there and witnessed his death. It wouldn't save anybody
without the gospel You're not gonna know what happened unless
the gospel is preached to you Many who were there no doubt
are in hell this very morning In the gospel, God reveals to
us who it is that died on Calvary and why he did and what he accomplished
there when he died. He wasn't dying there to be an
example to men or to stretch out his hands and say, I love
everybody this much. That's a bunch of foolish, sentimental
nonsense. And worse than that, it's it's
blasphemous lies. Our Lord went to Calvary to redeem
his people, and he did so. He accomplished the redemption
of everyone he went there and shed his precious blood for.
He bore their sins in his own body on the tree and was punished
in their place. Maybe some are thinking if God
would show me something, you know, like he showed Peter, James,
and John here, I would never doubt again. Boy, that would,
I never would have another doubt. That would strengthen my faith,
you know. That itself is unbelief to even say that. To even think
that. Think about what God has shown
you. You need something more? Turn to 2 Peter chapter 1. To
say that you need some kind of an experience in order to believe
God is unbelief. That's not a strengthening of
faith. That's a revelation that you don't have any faith in Him.
Faith cometh by hearing now, and hearing by the Word of God.
I hope that can sink in for us today. Faith comes by hearing,
not by seeing, not by experiencing, but by hearing the word of God. 2 Peter 1.16. Now listen, I told
you we'd see a little bit more about what they experienced.
2 Peter 1.16. I think I'm in the wrong, I'm
in 1st Peter, okay, I knew something wasn't right. 2nd Peter 1, 16. For we have
not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto
you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We made known
the power of the Son of God to you. but we didn't make any of
it up we were eyewitnesses of his majesty for he received from
God the Father honor and glory when there came such a voice
to him from the excellent glory there came a voice to him from
the excellent glory this is my beloved son in whom I am well
pleased and this voice which came from heaven we heard it
when we were with him in the holy mount now listen to this
we have also a more sure word of prophecy what's even better
than that what's even more dependable and reliable and important than that incredible
experience and it would i would love to have been there wouldn't
you I'm not saying that, I would love to have been there. We saw
his glory, Peter said. My goodness, that would make
an impression on you. But listen to this, we have a
more sure word. What's more certain than experience
is the word of prophecy, wherein to you do well that you take
heed. You weren't there on the Holy
Mount, but that's not going to be your problem. Your problem
is going to be if you don't hear what God said You would do well
to take heed to this word. It doesn't matter if you what
you've seen and what you've experienced You need to listen to what God
said As a as unto a light that shineth in a dark place this
world and all of its religion is darkness, but there's a light
that shines the true gospel of Jesus Christ the effectual victorious
redeemer of sinners is a light that shines in darkness and listen
he said you just keep heeding it until oh well i've heard that
on my life yeah you better keep hearing it until the day star
the day dawn oh the day dawn let's have a
sunrise service that's not the day dawn that he's talking about
i didn't watch the sun come up this morning did y'all i was
asleep You know why? Because I don't worship the sun.
But right now, I'm here. You know why? Because I worship
the sun. And I'm not trying to be cute.
I didn't plan to say that, that way. I'm not trying, I don't,
I hate cute religion, don't you? It makes me sick at my stomach.
But I'm here to worship the sun this morning. Until the day arrives,
until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts. Just keep, how's that gonna happen?
Take heed to the word of God. Knowing this first, that no prophecy
of the scriptures of any private interpretation, it doesn't mean
what you think it means. It doesn't mean what your mama
told you it means. It means what it says. I hope
your mama knew what it said and told you that. That's great.
That's wonderful. But it means what it says. You don't need
somebody to tell you what God meant by what he said. You just
need somebody that'll tell you what God said. It's not complicated. It is. There is one thing you
need, and it's Christ. Hear him. There's no other way
to be saved but to hear from God's son the truth concerning
him. And he speaks through his pastors.
Through his word, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God. For the prophecy came, not in
old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake. When
this word is presented by somebody that knows God, somebody that
he sent, he said if they speak not according to the word of
this prophecy, it's because there's no light in them. And the day,
the dawn ain't, that day ain't gonna dawn. There's no light
in them. But if somebody, if God sent somebody, it's God speaking. They spake as they were moved
by the Holy Ghost. And God still speaks through
men. But the way you're going to know it's God and not a man
is if it's this book right here, The More Sure Word of Prophecy,
the Word of God. He said heaven and earth going
to pass away, but my word is not going to pass away. Think about what happened in
that passage that we just read there in our text. What an experience that was.
And Simon was there when our Lord was transfigured and the
very glory of God shone from his face. Can you imagine the
experience of that? But when he recounts what happened
there, he uses that experience and the remembrance of that event
to emphasize the absolute necessity and the inestimable value of
the word of Christ. He heard God say, hear him. The written and spoken word of
God. That rich man in Luke 16, he
said, if you'll send somebody back from the dead to warn my
brothers, then they'll believe and they won't have to come to
this horrible place. And Moses, Abraham said to him, they have
the scriptures. They're not going to believe
if somebody, he said, if somebody come back from the dead, that'll
impress them. Boy, they'll be shocked and amazed, and they'll
believe. Faith don't come that way. They have Moses and the
prophets. And if they believe not God's
Word, they will not believe, though one return from the dead. God has revealed His Son, His
work of salvation, His purpose of redeeming grace. His glorious
will unto us in saving a people from their sins by the precious
blood of His Son. And many are still looking for
a sign. They're still looking for a spectacle to excite their
flesh. The Lord Jesus already said,
I'm not gonna give it to you. You know what He said? He said,
I'm not gonna give you a sign, but you have the one sign that
you need. what our brother read a while
ago. The sign of Jonas the prophet. You know what that is? We could
read the whole book of Jonah, but you know, Jonah summed it
all up this way. Salvation is of the Lord. He hasn't done all he can do
and left it up to you. If he did, we'd all be goners.
He plumbed saved sinners from beginning to end. by his eternal
work of salvation on Calvary. You have the word of God. It
says in our text that the Lord Jesus spoke there on that mount
with Moses and Elijah. What were they talking about?
Well, we're told in verse 30, Behold, there talked with him
two men, which were Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory
and spake of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. We've talked about his person. They were talking about his work,
weren't they? What he should accomplish at Jerusalem, not
what he should make available or offer. Accomplish. The important thing is what they
talked about, but you can see here in what I just read that
Moses and Elijah appeared in glory. And that's why Peter,
you know, he got a little confused there to say it nicely. He wanted to build three tabernacles
there because no doubt Moses and Elijah, they didn't look
like they used to either, did they? They appeared in glory. They were transformed. They weren't
the same, were they? We're all going to be changed,
Paul said. We're not going to be in these vile bodies again. He's going to change these vile
bodies and make them likened to his glorious body. So they
were something to see too, sure enough. They had his glory shining
from their faces. And so he got a little confused
there. But this, but the glory, as I said, that what they, they
were impressive too, apparently because Peter wanted to build
them a couple of tabernacles too. But listen, in Ezekiel 16,
14, after the Lord said to that little baby in the field that
was cast off and And just as good as dead, maybe already dead
from the language. It's hard to tell, but I'll tell
you this. By the time the Lord came along,
it was dead. You know why? I know that because
he said live. He said live. We don't know if
it was cast off because it was dead. You know what I'm saying?
But I know it was dead when the Lord said live. You don't say
live to something that's already alive. And that's us by nature.
He had to come and say live. He didn't come and say accept
me or you know, you've got your chance now. I hope you do the
right thing. Live. Salvation's of the Lord. And he said thy renown. After
that, that little baby, it says that thy renown, it was laying
in its blood and nobody had Had done anything about it, it was
just cast off. But then he described that baby
this way. Thy renown went forth among the
heathen for thy beauty. For it was perfect through my
comeliness. I imagine Elijah and Moses had some of his comeliness
on them. Don't you reckon they appeared
in glory? They had been with him, sure
enough. which I had put upon me." How
do we get his covenants? He put it on us. Of God are you
in Christ Jesus who has made unto us everything we need and
everything we are. John said in 1 John 3, 2, Beloved,
now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we
shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be
like him, for we shall see him as he is. You reckon that Simon
saw some of that in their faces? John knew what he was talking
about when he wrote that. I haven't seen it. He knew what
it was to be like him, didn't he? But he didn't say he's gonna
be like us. He said we're gonna be like him.
Him being like us, that was before. He became one of us. He was made
bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. He took upon him the
form of a servant. He became like me. But now, what
we're looking forward to this morning is us becoming like him. So Simon said something stupid,
didn't he? Boy, imagine that. That shouldn't
surprise us. I say something stupid every
hour, just about every time I open my mouth. putting all three of
those that he saw there that day on the same level. And no
doubt, Moses and Elijah, they were glorified, but they weren't
him. And if you compare verse 33 to
verse 36, it says that Peter said, well, let's make three
tabernacles, one for Moses and Elijah and one for you. But then
in verse 36, it's hard to ignore the wording of it, isn't it? When the voice was passed, Jesus
was found alone. Jesus alone. I believe it's in
Matthew's account where it says, when they lift up their eyes,
they saw Jesus only. So Peter said what he did, and
then a cloud came over them. so that they couldn't see anything.
And God, the Father, spoke from heaven and said, this is my son.
Hear him. You think there might be a shut
up in there somewhere? Peter's talking about, let's
do that. Let's just build. Oh, wow. It's good to be here. Look,
this is my son. This is all that matters here.
Forget everything else. This is my son. Hear him. Hear
him. hear him. They feared as they
entered the cloud and there came a voice out of the cloud and
when the voice was passed all they saw was him. What they talked about there
was the deceased, the death that our Lord should accomplish. My
death will not be an accomplishment and yours won't either. It'll
be a victory if you know him. It'll be a victory. Because of what he accomplished
by his death Now these words in verse 30 with the deceased
that he should accomplish I don't want to take too long
this morning. Luke 24 13 through 27. He spoke to the disciples
there that that had They were walking along and they
were sad I guess we better read it let's look at Luke 24 13 Think
about what? Moses and Elijah were talking
about. And listen to this passage, Luke
24 verse 13. And behold, two of them went
that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem,
about three score furlongs. And they talked together of all
these things which had happened and it came to pass they were
talking about how the Lord was crucified and they had heard
you know rumors that he had risen and it came to pass that while
they communed together and reasoned Jesus himself drew near. I'm glad that when we are reasoning
among ourselves it's a good time for him to show up isn't it and
straighten all of that out. and went with them. But their
eyes were holding that they should not know him. And he said unto
them, What manner of communications are these which you have one
to another as you walk and are sad? And the one of them, whose
name was Cleophas, answering, said unto him, Art thou only
a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which
are come to pass there in these days? And he said unto them,
What things? And they said unto him concerning
Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and
word before God and all the people. And how the chief priests and
our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and have crucified
him. Can you imagine how confusing
that was to some people that the religious leaders of the
day, the ones that they look up to and followed, oh, let's
go hear the word of God. Let's go listen to the Pharisees.
But they were the ones that killed. The one that looked like to me
came from God. What's going on? We trusted,
verse 21, that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel.
And beside all this, today is the third day since those things
were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished
when they were early at the sepulchre, and when they found not his body,
they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels
which said he was alive. And certain of them which were
with us went to the sepulchre and found it even so as the women
had said, but him they saw not. Then he said unto them, O fools,
and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.
Why did he call them fools here? He's not, I don't believe this
is a strong and bitter rebuke. He's gently telling them, if
you believed what I said, then everything that you just recounted
to me would make perfect sense. Why would he still be in there?
He's God's son. He's been telling them for a
good while, the Son of Man must suffer many things and be betrayed
by the chief priests and the elders and be slain, be crucified. And He must rise again when?
He told them when, the third day. And now they're going, what
happened? What in the world happened? He's
not in there. What do you mean what happened? Exactly what He
said was going to happen, happened. It kind of works that way. When
he says something, it happens. So that's why he's calling them
fools, and he's calling us fools too. We get confused sometimes when
it ought to make perfect sense to us what's going on. We look
at this horrible world. He said things are going to wax
worse and worse, didn't he? Are you confused by what's going
on in the world? What about what he said? If it were possible,
you say, well, boy, there's just so many. There's so much error
out there. Why would God do? He said evil
men and seducers shall wax worse and worse in so much that if
it were possible, even the elect would be deceived. But that's
not possible. Because he keeps us. Moses and Elijah had written
this very truth. when they lived way back in the
Old Testament. He told them, he explained to
them from Moses and the prophets, including Elijah. Ought not Christ
to have suffered these things and enter into his glory and
beginning at Moses and all the prophets? He expounded unto them
in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. So if Moses
and Elijah, if that's what they wrote about, if that's what their
message was, then no wonder that's what they were talking about
when they came. You know, Moses would have had a lot to talk
about, I'm sure. He could have talked about, boy, the burning
bush, and when God spoke to him out of the burning bush, what
a day, what an experience that was. And how all that happened
in Egypt, that would make a lifelong impression on you, wouldn't it?
And standing there at the Red Sea, And by the grace of God
having the boldness to say you people stand still and see the
salvation of the Lord. And that sea parted and they
walked across on dry ground and all of the armies of Egypt came
in after them and God swallowed them up and they sat on the banks
on the other side and sang the glory of God. That delivered
them from bondage. But they didn't talk about that
on the Mount. You know why? Because that is
just a picture of what's really important. That concerned the
Lord Jesus Christ. It was by the blood of the Passover
lamb that they were delivered. But they talked about the death
that he should accomplish because that's what Moses was writing
about when all of that was written. The death that Christ should
accomplish. He is the Lord our Passover. And Elijah, boy, he
had some things he could have talked about, too. He saw some
miracles of God in his day. He could have talked about that
morning that his servant and he woke up and they were surrounded
by an army of the enemies of God. And that servant was was
scared out of his mind, he said to Elijah, what in the world?
Listen to second King 615, when the sermon of the man of God
was risen early and gone forth, behold, and host compassed the
city, both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him,
Alas, my master, how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not,
for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
Don't you imagine that servant was looking around, you know,
what are you talking about? And Elisha prayed and said, Lord,
I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see. And the Lord opened
the eyes of the young man and he saw and behold, the mountain
was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. When Moses and Elijah appeared
there with Christ, they didn't talk about that, although all
of the things that they experienced and wrote and prophesied concerned
him. But that's why they talked about
him now, because they were talking about him then, in picture and
in type, in prophecy. And after this experience, After
having spoken of the death that he should accomplish, the victory
that was wrought the day that he shed his precious blood for
his people. He said it is finished. The very
work that the father sent him to do was accomplished. The redemption
of his people. The victory that he won for us
on Calvary and how that all things work together for our good. Because
of what he did. All those who are loved by Him,
and predestinated, and called, and justified, and glorified
in Christ, they spoke of that which all of God's Word pictures,
and typifies, and reveals, and exalts. Christ crucified. That's what Paul said we preach.
We preach Christ crucified. That's what they talked about. And after this transfiguration
of him, his glory shining forth, and this voice from heaven, and
this conversation that they overheard, it says, they were afraid. And
our Lord came and comforted them, and touched them, and said, arise,
be not afraid. And when they lifted up their
eyes, they just saw him. Back in Luke 24, where we read
a while ago, where the Lord showed these disciples in the word of
God, what Moses and Elijah were talking about. He showed them
in the scripture what they had been talking about. It says later
in that chapter, in verse 44, he said unto them, these are
the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you.
This is nothing new. That all things must be fulfilled,
which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets
and in the Psalms concerning me. Then opened he their understanding
that they might understand the scriptures. And said unto them,
thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer
and to rise from the dead the third day. He revealed to them
there what Moses and Elijah and he had been talking about on
the mount. And what he said, I've told you while I was with
you, that was my message. and that repentance and remission
of sin should be preached in his name among all nations beginning
at Jerusalem and you are witnesses of these things now they are
they witnessed them and now they can tell because they know what
it they know what happened he explained it to him he opened
their understanding the disciples witnessed think about this the
disciples witnessed him die the apostles and many of his disciples
were there at the cross and they witnessed his death and they
knew about his resurrection. They had first-hand witnesses
come and tell them. And some of them saw him in his
very glory and heard the very voice of God testify of him.
This wasn't the only time God spoke from heaven, by the way. But it wasn't until, by God's
grace, the power of Christ was exerted in opening their understanding through the preaching of the
gospel he opened the word of God he said see this is what
I was telling you about this is what this is what I told you
before how that I must die and suffer you see that now in the
scriptures this is what what happened was what had to happen
what happened is all that matters they saw with their very eyes
And yet they didn't have any idea what they saw until God
revealed his gospel to them. Has he done that for us? I pray that he will, if he has
not. And if he has, Lord, show us
ever more clearly the truth of Christ and cause us to hear him.
As long as Simon saw the three men and the spectacle of how
they looked and everything and the experience of it, It overwhelmed
him and he didn't even know what he was saying. He just felt like
something needed to be said, you know, have you ever done
that? Just didn't have, you're talking but you don't know what
you're talking about. But when God spoke, he saw Christ
alone, he saw God's salvation and then he didn't say he said
anything after that. And always remember now that
Simon's account of this, that we read a while ago, he experienced
this and then he wrote about it later and described what he
saw. His account of that experience, though the experience was glorious
I'm sure, what he emphasized as he described that experience
was the sure and steadfast hope of sinners. that is the word
of prophecy which we have from him, the word of Christ. And
God said, hear him, this is my son, hear him. God was telling
us what's vital, the word of the Lord Jesus Christ, which
we now have recorded in this book and sitting in our laps
or beside us on the pew this morning. How do we hear him this
morning? How am I going to hear him? God
said hear him. How am I going to do that? This book right here. The Lord Jesus spoke that day
audibly concerning the death that he should accomplish. What's
this book about? Christ. The salvation that the
Lord Jesus Christ accomplished by giving himself a ransom for
many. May God give us ears to hear
him. Let's pray.