Thou art, how great thou art,
when Christ shalt come. Wish out of acclamation and take
me home What joys shall fill my heart Then I shall bow in
humble adoration And there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art Then
sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee How great Thou art, how
great Thou art Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art. Okay, let's open our Bibles now
to the Gospel of Luke, chapter 9. Luke chapter 9. As I said, John 17 is not our
text this morning. After reading it, I almost wish
it were. But nevertheless, the same subject
is spoken of here in Luke chapter 9. Our Lord said there in His
prayer in John 17, verse 24, He prayed to the Father that
his disciples might behold his glory. Well, they did. They did, and so does everyone
whom God hath chosen to do so. Everyone whom God the Father
hath chosen, everyone redeemed by the Son, everyone regenerated
by the Holy Spirit will see his glory. is the story of three apostles,
three of the twelve, beholding Christ's glory. The story of
them seeing Christ's true person as he really revealed himself
to them. The story of them hearing of
Christ's accomplished redemption. And this is his glory. And this
is what all of God's people We'll see. Look at Luke chapter 9,
verse 28. It came to pass about eight days
after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James and
went up into a mountain to pray. In another place, our Lord said
this. He said, Many are called, but
few are chosen. The Lord chose these three disciples
to show them a special manifestation of himself, to reveal himself
to them. As he does all of his people,
he chooses his people to behold his true person and his glory,
even though many hear the word of God. And even though many
hear the gospel, at least they have these ears to hear it, yet
do not see the glory of Christ and his accomplished redemption. Only if he reveals that to us,
only if he chooses to reveal unto us his glory, will we see
him as he is. And this is salvation. Our Lord
said that in John 17, verse 3. He said, This is life eternal,
that they might know Thee, the only true God. Not another, not
one who is not God, but the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
God has sent. Well, these men were chosen by
our Lord to behold His glory. Verses 28 and 29. Verse 29, He
went up into the mountain to pray, and as He prayed, The fashion of his countenance
was altered, and his raiment, his clothing, was white and glistening. As he prayed, the fashion of
his countenance was altered. Now, our Lord was not changed
here, but he unveiled himself. That's what he did. God does
not change. He said that in Malachi 3, verse
6. I am the Lord. I change not. God is spirit. But this God who
is spirit became flesh, Scripture said. Was manifest in the flesh. Veiled, that is, he robed himself. Clothed himself in flesh and
blood in order for men flesh and blood, to see him, to hear
his voice. Our God, the scripture says,
is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12, 29. Scripture says in 1 Timothy 6,
16, that our God dwelleth in light which no man can approach
unto. God is absolutely holy. But God was manifest in the flesh. God became a man, as I said,
in order for man to hear from him, in order for man to see
him. Chiefly, though, God became a man. He became flesh in order
to die. In order to die. But though God,
and since God, veiled himself, in flesh, since God took upon
the likeness of sinful flesh. Man didn't believe he was God. And they said things like this,
is not this Joseph's son? In spite of all the miracles,
everything he did, they still said, well, this is Joseph's
son. This is a carpenter. They said
things like this, ìYouíre just a man, and you make yourself
to be God.î And they didnít believe them. Well, theyíre wrong in
that. Theyíre all wrong. They got it
backwards, didnít they? He was God, is God. But he was God, and he made himself
to be a man. He never ceased to be God, but
he veiled himself. He robed himself in humanity. But man, whose flesh and blood
cannot see beyond that. And he just saw, or man just
saw him as Jesus. As Jesus. That's why people today still
continually and only refer to him as Jesus. Jesus this and
Jesus that. The scripture says in Hebrews
2, in verse 9, he says, We see Jesus. We see a man. There was a man that walked this
planet named Jesus. We see him made a little lower
than the angels for the suffering of death. The
writer said we see him as a man made lower than even the angels.
Why? That he might suffer death. But
the writer went on to say in that verse, but now we see him
crowned with glory and honor. Salvation is for God Almighty
to reveal to a human being Christ as he is. His glory. Not just Jesus. Look across the
page here in Luke chapter 9. He asks the disciples, if you're
in your Bible, whoever made your Bible, if it's like mine, it's
just across the page. Verse 9, verse 18, he asked them,
saying, Whom say the people that I am? He knew what they were
saying, but he was testing them, wasn't he? They answered, said,
John the Baptist. Some say you're John the Baptist,
risen from the dead. John had been killed. Some say
Elijah. Others say one of the old prophets
is risen again. Now, people, if you would say
that about me, if someone would compare me to John the Baptist,
I'd say, my, my, what a compliment. Or Elijah, or one of the old
prophets, Samuel, or whoever. But this was no compliment to
our Lord. This is making him just to be a man and nothing
more. That's what they were saying about it. You'll hear people
today, Jesus the healer, the teacher, the friend, this and
that and the other manly, familiar terms and so forth. But he said, whom do you say
that I am? Verse 20. Whom do you say that I am? Peter. answering, said, The Christ of
God, the sent one of God, the one who was with the Father from
the beginning, who became flesh and dwelt among us, God manifest
in Emmanuel. That's who you are. God manifests
in the flesh. And it doesn't say it here, but
in the other Gospels it says, Blessed are you, Simon, flesh
and blood didn't reveal this to you. But my Father which is in heaven,
my Father revealed to you who I am." So he did not change. But it says his countenance was
altered. Go back to the text there in
verse 29. His fashion of his countenance
was altered, and his raiment was white and
glycerine. White and glycerine. His raiment. White. White there means that,
well, the Old Testament scripture says, as no fuller, well, Mark
says it, no fuller could white them. No cleaner could get them
this white. Absolutely, pristinely white. Whiter than snow on a bright,
sunny day. Glycerine. It says his raiment
was glycerine. And I looked up the word, it
means like lightning that flashes. So he was extraordinarily, brilliantly
bright. That's what Revelation 1, I said
the other day there's no description of Christ in the scriptures.
There's not, except Revelation 1. And it says, his countenance
is as the sun that shines in all its strength. His feet is
brass that burns in a furnace and so forth. Things that we
can't enter into. But he was absolutely, extraordinarily
white, brilliantly white, as bright as the sun. Now, Scripture
speaks so many times of robes and garments and raiment and
so forth, all through the Scripture. Robes and garments and raiment
are mentioned in Scripture. It begins, God gives express
orders in Exodus 28 concerning the robes or the garments of
the high priest. The robes or the garments of
the high priest, that Moses was to take Aaron, the high priest,
and they were to put upon him these garments and these garments,
every one of these garments. from a crown, or that is a mitre,
that he wore upon his head, his whole person, every bit of this
clothing, these garments, were made of gold, bright gold. And all of this is symbolic.
It always has been symbolic of the Lord Jesus Christ, his holy
character, his sinless purity, his righteousness. his perfect,
pristine righteousness as a robe or a garment that he alone wore.
That story of Joseph wearing that multicolored coat that his
father, who loved him best, gave Joseph to distinguish him from
all the rest of his brethren, that's a picture and a type of
the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. The multifaceted
character, beautiful character of the Lord Jesus Christ, which
none of his brethren wore. which the Father bestowed upon
Him to distinguish Him above all else. And that is the Lord
Jesus Christ. Holy, the Holy One of Israel.
The Righteous One of God. The Holy, spotless, undefiled
Son of the Most High God. There has never been one like
Him. Without sin. Perfectly. Pure. So this was a picture. And you
know that we must We will. All of God's people will wear
a robe. The Revelation speaks of it several
times, about the robed in garments of white. And it says that's
the righteousness of saints. This robe is how Christ himself
puts upon us prodigal sons, this garment, this holy garment. Our
Lord as a symbol, as a type. garment that he actually wore
while he was on this earth, that robe that he wore. You remember,
it did not have a seam. It was without seam. It was woven
completely from the neck to all through without seam, without
flaw. It had no beginning or end. And that's a picture, too, of
our Lord's perfect righteousness and holiness. And you notice
when our Lord was crucified, they did not rend that garment.
They did not. But they cast lots, and whoever
the lot fell upon, he got that garment. And so it is. Whoever the Lord imputes or charges
the righteousness of Christ to, he puts that garment upon his
people. It's called the wedding garment.
You remember the story? of how the Lord told of a man
that was found in the wedding without the wedding garment on?
He said, how did you get in here without a wedding garment? Bind
him out. Bind him and cast him out of here. You must be robed
in the wedding garment. Well, that garment is not something
we do. It's not a patched up fig leaf
apron that we do that God's pleased with. Not a life we live that
we've worked out ourselves. Oh, no, no. It's the righteousness
of Christ charged to put upon. Like that prodigal son. Remember
the prodigal son came back home when the father said, bring the
best robe and put it on him. He didn't ask him, would you
like to have this? The father said, put it on him. Robe him
with it. This is my son. Kill the fatted
calf, already prepared. Kill it for him. Put the ring
on his finger. Put the shoes on his feet. Put
it all on him. So it is. And I've got to go
on. But our Lord's raiment was a
picture of his perfect righteousness. Well, verse 30, it says, Behold,
there talked with him two men. Speaking with the Lord Jesus
Christ were two men. They were Moses and Elias. That is, Elijah. Two men. Now, Moses, as Most everyone
knows in it. Moses, God used Moses to write
the law, right? The first five books of Moses
they're called, the law, the Pentateuch, the law. Moses was
chosen by God to write the law. Well, here is Moses talking with
Christ. The only time he ever appeared
again was right here. talking with Christ. And then
there was Elijah. You know, Elijah was that great
prophet of God, perhaps arguably the greatest of all the prophets.
Our Lord mentions Elijah several times, does he not? Elijah, the
greatest of the prophets. Well, this is fitting that these
two men are speaking with the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ said
of Moses, concerning all that Moses wrote, the law. Christ
said, Moses wrote of me. He was talking to those Pharisees
who thought they were keeping the law. Our Lord said to the
Pharisees, Moses wrote of me. Everything Moses wrote was about
me, concerning me, has its fulfillment in me, was a type, a picture,
a symbol, a shadow concerning me. It's my shadow. Moses wrote
of me. The law speaks of me, Christ
said. represents the prophets. The
scripture says, to him, that is to Christ, give all the prophets
witness. That all the prophets, everything
that was written throughout the prophets, some way and somehow
culminate in, point to the Lord Jesus Christ himself, his person
and his work. This book is not a story of Jewish
history. No sir. This book is His story. That's what our Lord said to
those disciples walking on the road to Emmaus one day. Do you
remember in Luke chapter 24? Our Lord was walking along. They
did not know Him. That's fitting. You don't know
Him until the Lord reveals Himself to you. But they were walking
along talking about the Jewish state, how that they thought
it was going to be restored by Jesus, not having a clue of why
He came. And our Lord was walking along,
and before he revealed himself to them, he said, Why are you
sad? And they said, We thought he would have restored the kingdom
to Israel, and this and that and the other. And it says, Beginning
in the books of Moses, and in all the psalms and the prophets,
he expounded unto them the things concerning himself. That's the whole Old Testament,
people. the law, the prophets, and the
Psalms, and our Lord preached from Genesis all the way through
Malachi. That would take a long time,
wouldn't it? Oh, my. But our Lord preached
through those Old Testament types. We have children in here who
can tell you some of these things. We have children in here that
can tell you some of these types. Oh my, he's the woman's seed.
Christ the woman's seed. I'm sure the Lord started there.
That's where God started. Genesis 3.15, telling of the
woman's seed. In Exodus, the Passover lamb,
the smitten rock, the brazen serpent, and on and on. He went through the scripture.
Ruth, the kinsman redeemer, and on and on. Nehemiah, the restorer. Ezra, that great prophet, and
on and on he went. Things concerning himself, to
him give all the prophets witness. This Bible's not about the Jews,
it's about Jesus Christ, the King of the Jews. To him give all the prophets
witness, and Paul sums it up in Romans 3, verse 21. He sums it up by saying, the
righteousness of God is being witnessed by the law and the
prophets. Did you catch that? If you're
with me, here's Moses and Elijah talking with Christ, and Paul
summed it up by saying, the righteousness of God is witnessed by the law
and the prophets. That is the way we may be righteous. The righteousness provided by
God, Christ himself, is witnessed, is seen clearly by the law. But men and women don't see that
until Christ shows it. Well, look at verse, I love this,
look at verse 30 again. It says, they talked with him. Two men were talking with him,
Moses and Elijah. What were they talking about? What were they talking about?
Politics? Social issues of the day? What
were they talking about? They were talking about the subject
of subjects. They were talking about the subject,
that is, the sum and the substance of this whole book. The crux of this whole book.
They were talking about the subject of the saints in glory. Here
two saints came down from glory, and there's one thing they were
talking about. Peter said it in his epistle, he said, which
things the angels desire to look into. This is the subject the
angels are talking about. Angels who are conversant with
and familiar with astronomy. They saw the stars. Perhaps know
the names of them. Geology and so forth. When the
Lord, He said, these are the things which angels desire to
look into. They were talking about the subject
of subject. They were talking about the subject
of the saints in glory, and yes, the saints on earth now. This
is the subject which all of God's true people are absolutely enamored
with and taken up with. This is the subject of Christ's
glory. What is the subject? Look at
verse 31. I told myself I wasn't going
to holler this morning. Spurgeon said, He that tries
to be consistent with himself is consistent with a fool. Verse 31, it says, They appeared
in glory, and spake of, they were speaking of his decease,
which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. They were speaking
of his death, his decease, which he should accomplish. That is, they were speaking of
the finished, complete, effectual accomplishment of Christ crucified. That was their subject. This
is the subject of all subjects. It's the subject of this book. It's a strange statement, is
it not, to say that death is something that is accomplished? Since they spoke of his decease,
which he should accomplish. You don't say that about men
and women. Somebody dies, you don't say that. Well, he accomplished
death, do you? No, no, no. Death, on the contrary,
when someone dies, It seems to be the end of what they had hoped
to accomplish. We say things like that, that
a man was cut short. Well, he didn't get to live his
life out. Unfulfilled goals, and his works
were not finished, and so forth. We never say that, that someone
accomplished death. But here it says that Christ's
death was an accomplishment. Here it says that they spoke
of his death, which he should accomplish. Stay with me. You
want to see some glory? Stay with me, if the Lord will
show it to you. Death was an accomplishment by
Jesus Christ. Do you know that? It's something
he accomplished. It's not for us. Death is what
we are due. Death is our due. The Scripture
says the soul that sinneth must surely die. Death is what the
wages of sin is death. This is what we've earned. This
is what must happen to us. It's appointed unto man once
to die, every single human being. The soul that sinneth must surely
die, but Christ had no sin. In him was no sin. He's the sinless
man. Death has no claim over him. Death cannot apprehend him. Death is the judgment of God
upon sinners, but Christ had no sin, therefore he could not
die. Christ said that. He said, No
man taketh my life from me. No man. Disease won't do it.
Why do we die? Why does disease kill us? Because
of sin. Disease is a result of sin that
entered this world. All of these things. Death. Read
Romans 3 through 5 for yourself concerning death. Death passeth
upon all men, for all have sinned. But not Christ. Death had no rights to him. He
said, no man taketh my life from me. I lay it down. He said, the Father hath given
me this power. I have power to lay it down.
I have power to take it up. This power hath the Father given
me. And I love the story. And so
the Lord, His death itself was an accomplishment. For Him to die was something
He had to do. Accomplish. And when hanging
upon that cross, I love this story, this picture, where our
Lord was hanging on that cross. The nails didn't kill Him. The
spear didn't kill Him. Those things did not kill Him.
Nobody, He said, no man, His life wasn't dependent upon the
blood in His body. But while He was hanging on that
cross, And he cried with a loud voice three words which sum up
what he did. It is finished for all heaven
and earth to hear. It is finished. What? Whatever
he came to do was done. It's done. D-O-N-E. He said it is finished. We read there in John 17, the
Father gave me a work to do. I have done it. It is finished. And hanging there on that cross,
it says that he bowed his head. That his head didn't drop. It didn't just lull helplessly
since death overcame him. No, he bowed his head. I've got to holler this. He bowed
his head as one taking a curtain call. As one whose work he bowed his
head. Solemnly, sovereignly, in full
control of his soul, his faculties, his body, everything. This is
the Lord now, expiring willfully, willingly, sovereignly. And gave up the ghost, the Scripture
says. Left his body, walked out of
his body like we would step out of our automobiles. And then
three days later, he walked back into it and walked out of that
tomb. He said, see, I told you. Didn't I tell you? No man takes
my life. I lay it down. Death was an accomplishment. Death itself. But this is not
the real glory. Get up in the mountain, shout
it for all the world to hear. This is the glory of the Son
of God, what He accomplished. Moses and Elijah, this whole
book, talks about an accomplished salvation. This book knows nothing
of an attempt to save mankind. It says nothing about an attempt,
nothing about a down payment. It says nothing about something
that God has done, done all He can do. No, it's up to you. No,
this book talks about a finished, accomplished, successful salvation
accomplished by one person and one person alone. It says when
He had by Himself, I'm going to holler it, by Himself purged
our sins. He finished the transgression.
He obtained eternal redemption. He did it all. Salvation is of
the Lord, not a cooperative effort between God and man. Us believing,
us repenting, us bowing, us getting the glory is all the end of these
means. It's all a result of what Christ
did on Calvary. It's all because Christ said, This book knows nothing about
a plan of salvation. This book talks about a purpose
of salvation. This book says nothing about
your will. This book says His will, he worketh
all things up to the counsel of his own will, and none can
stay his hand or say unto him, you can't do that. What about
whosoever will? What about whosoever will? John
1, 10, verse 3, thy people shall be willing in the day of thy
power. Christ said, They will believe. I give unto them eternal life,
and they will believe. I insist upon it. I will ensure
that it happens. I will send my Holy Spirit to
every last one of my died for, and they will believe. And because
He gets the glory, I'm not going to share it with my two-bit decision
of dedicating and consecrating. No! They spoke of the death he should
accomplish. Now, these two-bit, pinhead preachers
today can talk all they want to about something he tried to
do, but I'm telling you, Moses and Elijah and every true preacher
sent by God talks about an accomplished redemption by the Lord Jesus
Christ. Or he's a false prophet. I don't care if his name is Billy
or who it is. If they talk about something
Christ has done, all He can do, and now the rest is left up to
you, He's a false prophet. You'll never hear Moses saying
that. Well, God's done all He can do, people, now except... I tell you, it'd be wrong of
me not to get excited about this. His death was a resounding success. If he didn't pay for the sins
of his people, if he didn't put them away, he didn't save anybody. The eternal salvation of God's
people was performed and accomplished by Jesus Christ on Calvary's
tree. And as I said, their repentance
and faith in all of that is a result of that His death was a resounding success,
an accomplishment. The death of death was when Christ
died. O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory? Christ put death to death. My people will never die. He
never said any one of his people died. He said, Glasgow was sleeping. His death, folks, I'm trying
to give Jesus Christ all the glory. And if anybody's really
interested in that, they'll see it. They'll see that. They'll
hear it. Anybody who's really interested
in God getting all the glory and Christ getting all the glory
and the veracity and the truth and the glory of God's Word will
clearly see and clearly hear when a man is trying to give
God all the glory. and not share it with human beings. Jesus Christ's death was a glorious
accomplishment. To say anything less than that
is blasphemy. Not one drop of his blood was
shed in vain. It was an absolute, eternal payment
for every sin of every one of God's people. We dare not trod underfoot the
blood of the Son of God or make it a common thing. This may be my last message.
I'm going to die giving him all the glory. All the glory. All
the glory. They spake of his death, which
he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Verse 32. And they that were with him were
heavy with sleep. But when they were awake, now
while this, when this first started happening, when the Lord first
began to His countenance, reveal His countenance, and Moses and
Elijah appear, it says Peter and John and James were sleeping.
That's, that's significant, isn't it? So were we. So do we until we're awakened. I sat through service after service
of men preaching far better than I have ever preached or ever
will preach. Service after service as a young
God-hating rebel, you know. Not hearing a thing, Stephen.
Not hearing a thing. Glorious messages by the Barnards
and the Griswolds and the Huxes and the Glorious message. This very message. Not hearing a thing. Not seeing
His glory. Seeing nothing in it. Not moved. Sleep! Well, I never did sleep. My dad would have beat the tar
out of me. Well, he wouldn't beat me. But
he would have been a real man. Wasn't permitted to sleep. But
I was asleep nonetheless. Just asleep. seeing no glory
at all. So is everyone until God Almighty
awakens them to see the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, to
behold His glory. Oh, it says, verse 32, when they
were awake, when they were awake, verse 32, when they were awake,
when they finally came awake, when they finally had eyes to
see, when they finally had ears to hear, when they finally had
a heart to believe, when they finally were awakened, What they
say? What they say? They saw His glory. This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee, the only true God. We're preaching a God who
is God, not who just wants to be. We're actually preaching
a God who reigns and rules among the armies of heaven and among
the inhabitants of earth, and none can stay His hand or stand
on Him. What do us that? Daniel 4.35. The God who reigns in the armies
of heaven, the God who giveth it to whomsoever He will. That's the God of the Bible.
When you're awakened, you see His glory. That's His glory.
His glory is His absolute sovereignty. His glory is His right. My man,
my man, that's man's glory. That's what people like to give
man, that glorious right. No, no, no, no, no. Man's under
condemnation. Man's under the sentence of death.
It's only by the mercy and grace of God that anybody's saved.
There's no right. No one deserves a right to be
saved. What we deserve is to be saved.
Salvation is by the mercy and the grace of God. It's not a
right. It's a privilege bestowed upon
many. The people is the numbers of
stars in the sky and sands of the sea. Who could argue with
that? But if God only chose to save one human being, it'd be
infinite mercy. It'd be that they didn't deserve
it. But who can argue with it? He saved a number which no man
can number. God has. God has a number, but
no man can. They saw his glory. That is his
glory. That is his glory. His glory
is who he is. His glory is his sovereign person. His glory is his accomplished
redemption. Christ's glory, Brother John,
is that when he came to earth to do a job, he got the job done.
It's no glory to anybody to do a job halfway and then leave
it undone. Is it? That's no glory. You wouldn't get any glory. There's
no unfinished paintings signed by anybody. Signs anything he doesn't finish.
When he finishes, the author and the finisher, he signs it.
This book signed, sealed, and delivered. Sealed. Scripture talks about that. Well,
but then they awoke. They saw his glory and two men
with him. I've got to quit. They saw his
glory and the two men that stood with him. Every word is significant. Two men that stood with him.
If you really see Christ's glory, it's what we're saying, if you
see Christ's glory, you'll see that all the law and the prophets,
they speak of Him. You'll start seeing, oh, will
you ever. You come back, Lord willing,
you come back Wednesday night, and if we get into the book of
Esther, you're going to see glory. You're going to see Christ's
glory. A woman represents Him. Everybody does in the Scripture.
It all speaks of Him. A woman named Esther, a young
Jewish maiden named Esther, who's prettier than anybody else, represents
the Lord Jesus Christ. But when you finally awaken to
see His glory, you'll see Him on every page of this book. Have
you ever seen those, I know you have, those whatever you call
them, where they have bunch of pictures on a poster or whatever,
and there's a picture within the picture. I told you about
the one at the dentist's office I go to. I'm not going to that
dentist anymore. That thing drives me crazy. I
sit in that chair, and there's dolphins all over this thing,
and I never have been able to see that. Never have. And it drives me crazy. But this book, there are many stories. It's
like a tapestry. Like a tapestry. If you look
at the back side of it, all you'll see is disjointed threads, things
that don't look like they have any connection whatsoever. But
boy, if you see it, turn it around, you'll see the whole picture.
It may seem like various stories about this man, this woman, this
thing, this event, this and that, and the other Jewish and so forth,
but no, no, no, no. You can't see the forest with
trees if that's what it is. You'll see the Lord Jesus Christ. If He awakens you to see His
glory, you'll see Him on every path. Now, I urge you to look
at the Scriptures like that. as you read the Scriptures to
show you Christ's glory. Well, they did. In verse 33 it
says, It came to pass as Moses and Elijah departed from Christ.
They left. Peter said, he was so excited,
Peter said unto Jesus, Master, oh, it's good, oh, it's good
to be here. I hope you're thinking the same
thing. Oh, I'm so glad I was here. Peter was just so thrilled, he
said, it's so good for us to be, let's make three tabernacles.
Let's make three buildings. Let's build three buildings.
One for you, one for Moses, one for Elijah. He didn't know what
he was saying. See, he still didn't know. The Lord, his countenance went
back to the man Jesus. Moses and Elijah left. The whole
vision left. Oh, Lord, Moses and Elijah, he
was all taken up with the vision. And he said, let's build three
buildings. One for you, one for Moses, and
one for Elijah. I don't know what he said. In
verse 34, while he was speaking, while he thus spake, there came
a cloud and overshadowed them. They were consumed in the cloud. Oh, what a picture this is of
that Shekinah glory of God, that cloud that covered the Holy of
Holies in the Old Testament. And they feared as they entered
into the cloud. And there came a voice out of
the cloud. There came a voice out of the
cloud saying, one time, This is my beloved son. Hear him. Old Peter had put Moses and Elijah
on a equal, on par with The Lord Himself. Oh no, no, no. Peter is one. You look to one who gets
all the glory. One. One alone. Everything redounds
to His glory. And people, any time we... And
God is not worshipped in buildings made with hands. That's not being
religious or spiritual. How big a building and all this
you can... This is just to keep rain off your head. This is not
the church. The church how? Well, it says
in verse 36, in the voice, when the voice was passed, Jesus was
found alone. Over in Mark and Matthew's account
of this, it says when they hit the dust, it says Peter and James
and John hit the dust when that voice spake. And then when the
voice was gone, the cloud lifted, they looked up, and it says they
saw no man but Jesus only. And that's the whole message
in itself. They saw no one. The glory of no man. They saw
no man. What they saw was his glory.
They saw the Lord Jesus Christ alone. This is salvation, people,
for God Almighty to show us that salvation is in Jesus Christ
alone. Me and Jesus. Alone. Him alone. And they kept it close. That
means they kept it secret. Oh, but they never forgot it.
They never forgot it. Peter said in his epistle, he
said, this is not a cunningly devised fable we made up. We
were eyewitnesses of his majesty when God bestowed upon him that
honor and most excellent honoring. He said we were there. He said, and you have a more
sure word of prophecy than a vision. You'll see his glory too, he
said, if God shows it to you. John said, We beheld his glory
as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. May the Lord show us Christ's
glory. 46 in the Green Hymnal. Hymn number
46, we'll sing 1st, 5th, and 6th verse, okay? Stand. 1st,
5th, and 6th verse, number 46. Oh, for a thousand tongues to
sing Thy great Redeemer's praise, The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of His praise. Hear Him, ye deaf kids, pray
ye dumb, your Lutheran tongues employ. Jesus, behold your Savior
come, and lead ye lame for joy. Glory to God in praise and love,
be ever, ever His. Find thanks below and slaves
above The church in earth and heaven Bye.