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Well, hey, we're in the Gospel of Luke.

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We're going to look at verses 27 through 36.

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And the transfiguration, and I just have a few thoughts that I'll share with you,

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and then we can go on about our day, worshiping the Lord.

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But we left off last time in verse 27, where Jesus said,

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But I tell you, truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste death

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till they see the kingdom of God. Many believe that he is specifically talking about the Mount

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of Transfiguration that Peter, James, and John are going to be with him and that they won't taste

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death. They'll see actually the Lord glorified. Others argue that, you know, because of the language

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and stuff that it's suggesting something else, I'm not smart enough to know the difference. So

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some some weren't going to die before they saw the glory of the Lord. And then he starts off,

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right off the bat, in verse 28. And we'll read, we'll go ahead and just read these verses.

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Says, now it came to pass, verse 28, about eight days after these things that he took Peter,

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John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. And as he prayed, he, the appearance of his face was altered

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and his robe became white and glistening.

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And behold, two men talked with him who were Moses and Elijah,

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who appeared in glory and spoke of his decease, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

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But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep,

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and when they were fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.

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And then it happened as they were parting from him that Peter said to Jesus,

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master, it is good for us to be here. And let us make three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses,

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and one for Elijah, not knowing what he said. And while he was saying this, a cloud came and

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overshadowed them, and they were fearful as they entered the cloud. And a voice came out of the cloud

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saying, this is my beloved son. Hear him. And when the voice had ceased, Jesus was.

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found a loom, but they kept quiet and told no one in those days any of these things they had seen.

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Father, thank you for your word.

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Lord, I know that it's inspired by you, Lord, that it's infallible.

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And Lord, that this is a powerful passage speaking of your glory and allowing your disciples to see it.

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Lord, and we desire to see your glory, Lord, because we know that you don't share it with another,

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but you do share it with us, Lord, your people.

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And so, Lord, I just pray that you would be glorified as we look at your word today in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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So it starts off there where it says it came to pass about eight days after that he took his disciples,

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Peter, John, and James took him up to pray, that Jesus obviously continues to be

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this man of prayer, which should encourage us, obviously. I don't know if you have a prayer life. If you

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don't, you need to get one. And, you know, you can start simple and easy. It grows. Your prayer life

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grows as you condition yourself to pray, as you set aside a time to pray. It's really important.

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But sadly enough, a lot of people who even call themselves Christians, they don't pray much.

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and it reminds me of a poem i used to share quite often when when um justin and mindy and

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connie and i would go do the cowboy churches because it kind of fits and i actually got it from

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pastor gordon this this this this poem but it's about a guy that wasn't real privy on praying

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oh you know he probably prayed like we all do when he we when we get in a pickle

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you ever pray in you when you get in a pickle i remember praying in high school when i

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When I teaboned a girl I went to high school with and thought I killed her, I remember praying.

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But it was one of them desperation prayers.

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It wasn't because I had a habit of praying.

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But this poem is called Jake the Rancher.

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And it says, Jake the Rancher went one day to fix a distant fence.

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The wind was cold and gusty and the clouds rolled gray and dense.

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As he pounded the last nail in and gathered tools to go,

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the temperature had fallen and the snow began to blow.

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And then he finally reached his, when he finally reached his pickup,

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he felt a heavy heart from the sound of that ignition.

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He knew it would not start.

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So Jake did what most of us would do if we had been there.

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He humbly bowed his balding head and sent aloft a quick prayer.

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As he turned the key for the last time, he softly cursed his luck, and they found him there three days later, frozen stiff in that old truck.

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Now, Jake had been around in life and done his share of Roman, but when he arrived in heaven, he was shocked.

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It looked just like Wyoming.

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You guys been to Wyoming?

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Of all the saints in heaven, his favorite was St. Peter.

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Now, this line, it ain't needed, but it helps with rhyme and meter.

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So they sat and talked a minute or two, or maybe it was three.

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Nobody was keeping score, because in heaven, time is free.

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I've always heard Jake said to Pete that God will answer prayers.

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But the one time I asked for help, well, he just plain wasn't there.

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Does God answer prayers of some and ignore the prayers of others?

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That don't seem exactly square.

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I know all men are brothers.

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Or does he randomly reply without good rhyme or reason?

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Maybe it's the time of day or the weather of this season.

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Now, I ain't trying to act smart.

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It's just the way I feel.

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And I was wondering, could you tell me, what the heck is the deal?

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So Peter listened patiently.

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And when at last Jake was done, there were smiles of recognition,

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and he said, so you're the one.

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That day your truck, when it wouldn't start,

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and you sent your prayer a flying,

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you gave us all a real bad time with hundreds of us trying

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a thousand angels rust to check the status of your father.

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But you know, Jake, we hadn't heard from you in quite a long while.

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And though all prayers are answered and God ain't got no quota,

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he didn't recognize your voice, Jake, and he started a truck in North Dakota.

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Well, maybe some of you, right?

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Some of us ain't prayed for a while.

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I think it's really good.

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You know, this prayer thing, it really should start with Thanksgiving.

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When you wake up in the morning, you should thank the Lord.

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You got breath in your lungs.

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Amen? And so that thankful heart really is, provokes us to pray. And so the Lord took these guys and it says,

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and he took Peter, John, and James. It's usually Peter, James, and John, right? But Luke is a Gentile,

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so he may not get the birthright thing. I don't know. Because James was older and probably always named first.

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And these three were with Jesus on three events mainly, and that is the raising of Gaius's daughter,

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here at the Transfiguration, and then they were there in the garden with him.

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And you could maybe call, as David had his mighty men, you could have called these Jesus' three mighty men.

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though the the the james and john got called the sons of thunder and peter had foot hoof and mouth disease

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but when you pray things happen and so um things are really happening here uh says they went up into a

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high mountain and we don't know if this is tabor or herman tabor is only about 2,000 feet above sea level but

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Herman is like 9,200 feet. And both Mark and Matthew say that it was a high mountain, so it might

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have been. It might have been there at Mount Hermann. And they, so they had a 30-mile track to go.

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So they had a few days to visit and talk and pray and get ready for what they were about to see

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here at the Transfiguration. And so in verse 29, it says,

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says, and as he prayed, the appearance of his face was altered, and his robe became white

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and glistening. And behold, two men talked with him who were Moses and Elijah, who appeared in

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glory and spoke of his decease, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. So as he's praying,

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things happen when you pray. I just read through Daniel chapter nine when Daniel's there praying. And all of a sudden

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Gabriel shows up. And he says, Daniel, highly favored one, it can be translated, very much loved

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one from heaven. Wouldn't you like that to say, have an angel say that about you? This is that God

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loves you very much. Now, we know that God loves all of us, but when that, when that relationship is

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reciprocated between us and the Lord, there's a closeness there. And Daniel had that closeness. And I believe

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because he was in communication with the Lord, that's what brought the vision. That's how we know,

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right, about the Antichrist and the covenant that he's going to sign and the, you know,

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the specific day that Jesus was to go into Jerusalem and to die on a cross and the Messiah be cut off

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and all those things we get because this dude had a relationship with his God. And God spoke to him.

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And here, the Lord shows up in a big way in these guys' lives, these disciples, and they're watching,

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and all of a sudden the appearance change, altered.

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Some say that this could be called a metamorphosis.

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Right?

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A metamorphosis.

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That Jesus changed.

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Kind of like what, you know, 1st Corinthians 15 says about us.

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when the Lord comes and the Lord, right, with the shout of an archangel and we will be changed

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in a moment in the twinkling of an eye that we'll get to experience this thing as well.

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Are you ready?

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If you're not, get ready, right?

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Because there's a metamorphosis.

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Us worms are going to turn into butterflies.

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When the Lord comes and he takes his folks out of here.

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This was an important point in Jesus ministry because he had just told his disciples that he would go away to the cross.

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You remember that?

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Back in verse 22 when he told him, he says, listen, the son of man is going to be arrested, right?

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He's going to be killed and he's going to rise again the third day.

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They didn't hear that.

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You and I probably wouldn't hear that.

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Why?

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Because we wouldn't want to hear that.

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You don't want to hear that about somebody that you love.

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You're going to die.

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And then you're going to rise again.

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None of this is just making any sense.

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They were confused when he was telling them this.

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And so they were probably wondering, you know,

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what he was talking about.

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And yet here they have this fantastic experience

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as seeing him glorified.

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I think one of the gospel,

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says that he became his countenance became brighter than the sun.

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It would have been, after hearing what he said there in verse 22, it would have been easy

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for them to lose confidence in Jesus after such a seemingly defeatist statement about dying,

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yet in his transfigured radiance, Jesus showed his glory as king over all God's kingdom.

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We have a glorious king, folks.

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he's glorious and he's magnificent and all the time of his ministry except for here he's veiled

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that glory is veiled it's human flesh it covered his glory it didn't really show us who he really was

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until here these three and but also at the resurrection

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direction.

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If we would listen, if the disciples would listen, if they would listen, if they would

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listened to what he said, this would have given them great confidence.

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Because Jesus knows what he is doing.

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He promised that he would suffer and die and rise again, but he still

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the king of glory.

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And they didn't get that because we remember at the resurrection,

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or excuse me, at the crucifixion,

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when he was crucified,

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they scattered like a bunch of scared rats.

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Right?

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I'll strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.

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We read that in the book of Zechariah on Wednesday.

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wasn't hiding really anything from his disciples.

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And yet they didn't, they had limited understanding.

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Much like us, we have limited understanding.

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But I think we're seeing stuff from a hindsight that they didn't get to see.

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But in the end, it's not the cross that's our focus, but it's the glory.

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the glory of the Lord, right? So here he is. He's prayed. He's illuminated. And here he's talking to two

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dead guys. Well, not really. You guys remember, right? But they're identified as Moses and Elijah.

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Now, we don't have any official introductions here. So how did they know that it was Moses and Elijah?

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How did Luke know that it was Moses and Elijah?

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Obviously, he probably interviewed Peter, James, and John,

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and got the actual account of this.

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But, or is it just something that we're going to know when we see those who have gone before us?

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Right?

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Have you met people like that?

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Have you met people that are believers and you meet them?

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And within minutes, you just feel like, you're part of my family.

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That's the spirit of the Lord, right?

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Knitting our hearts together in him.

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And so here they're talking to these two, Moses and Elijah.

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Most believe that this is picturesque of Moses, a representation of the law,

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Elijah representation of the prophets, that Jesus was going to come and fulfill

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all the law and the prophets, everything that was written in the law and the prophets.

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And that's why it's Moses and Elijah.

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Now we don't know for sure.

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Moses means deliverer.

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And Elijah means, my God is Yahweh, or my God is my strength,

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that God by his strength has delivered Israel over and over and over again throughout the years.

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And that he's going to bring to fulfillment everything that was spoken about the Messiah who was coming.

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And here, Elijah and Moses are talking to the one that they were looking for.

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over to. In fact, here, all of them, Jesus, Moses, and Elijah, they're all in glory.

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When you think about glory, what does that do to you? Right? I think, oh, yes, my bone on bone

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right knee won't bother me anymore. Right? Or what about all this gray hair?

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right somebody's told me the other day you haven't changed a bit except for you're a little grayer

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all the all the dying stuff will be gone death will be gone in glory isn't that just a

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glorious thought no pun intended but uh but moses had already uh told the children of

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Israel, when that prophet or when the prophet that resembles me comes to you, you had better listen

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to him.

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Moses told the people, when that prophet, like unto me, God's going to send you a prophet like

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unto me.

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And when he comes, you better listen.

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Right?

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You better listen.

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In fact, it's found, the passage is found in Deuteronomy chapter 18 versus 15 through 19.

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Here's what it says.

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And the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your man.

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midst for your brethren, him you shall hear according to all you desired of the Lord your God

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and Horib in the day of the assembly saying, let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God,

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nor let me see his great fire any more lest I die. And the Lord said to me, what they have spoken

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is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren and will put my

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words in his mouth and he shall

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he shall speak to them all that I command him

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and it shall be that whoever will not hear my words

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which he speaks in my name I will require it of them

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and so Moses talked about Jesus

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way back yonder and

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and he wasn't he's nicer than what Peter was

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because Peter quoted what Moses

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said. And in Acts

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3.23, when the religious

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people came after Peter about

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healing the man at the gate

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beautiful, you guys remember that?

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him, he says, and it shall be

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that every soul who will not

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hear that prophet, that prophet,

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speaking of Jesus, shall be

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utterly destroyed from among the

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people.

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You better listen to him.

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You got

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any hope again? You got any hope

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getting out, the only hope you got to get a getting out of this world alive is Jesus.

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Right? Because then Peter indicted them for killing the prince of life. You've killed the

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prince of life. Which how do you do that? Only for a couple days, I guess.

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And, and so first you have Moses, then you have Elijah who displayed the power of God.

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Right? We just read it.

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and I can't remember if I told you guys about this,

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but it was when we had Wednesday night here a few weeks ago,

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and Pastor Steve was going through Zechariah,

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but he took us to First Kings

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and read through the Mount Carmel showdown, right?

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Between the prophets of bail and Elijah the prophet.

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And so as Steve was reading it, he read the whole thing.

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And about every couple minutes, there would be cheering over in the next room because they were having the mayor debate over there in the next room.

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And about every couple minutes, there's a big cheering going on.

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And then there's all kinds of cheering going on at Carmel, right?

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You know, they're hollering and cutting themselves and bleeding and Elijah's going, where's your God?

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Is he on vacation?

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Right?

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Is he on the toilet?

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Where is your God?

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And you know the story.

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And so we come to find out every time Jeff spoke, the people just was cheering and going crazy over there.

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It was pretty cool.

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And so they were having their own little showdown over there.

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But you remember what happens?

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He calls, he says, all right, get some water.

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Drench it.

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Drench the sacrifice, fill the trench.

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and three times they fill these huge containers of water and dump them on the sacrifice.

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And Elijah says, all right, if fire comes down from heaven and consumes this, that's God.

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And sure not, he lapped it all up.

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The wood, the sacrifice, the water, and Elijah called fire down from heaven.

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That wasn't the only time, right?

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Another place, he called fire down from heaven and killed some people.

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people because a king had sent some soldiers and he called fire and consumed them two different

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times. The third time the guy was smart and asked for mercy. He also prayed and made a drought

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and then he prayed again and it rained. This guy was pretty bodacious, this Elijah. And so

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here's these two guys having this conversation with Jesus and so and I said they they're both dead but we know

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Elijah didn't die if you know your Bible Elijah didn't die he went out like I'd like to go out

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in a blaze of glory right chariots of fire old Elijah went off to God

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a chariot ride to heaven. Now Moses died, but there's something interesting about Moses, right?

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He died, but then Jude, verse 9, tells us there was this dispute between Moses and Michael about the body of Moses.

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What did I say?

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It was Satan. Oh, sorry. It was Satan. It was Satan. And, it was Satan. It was Satan. And,

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And Michael, did I say Moses?

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It was Satan and Michael were having this dispute about Moses' body there in Jude 9.

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And Michael says, Lord rebuke you.

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But it's as though the Bible tells us that God hid Moses's body.

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Because some believe that he is going to appear again, Moses.

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and as well as Elijah.

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The Bible tells us before that great day of the Lord,

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it tells us there in Malachi that Elijah is going to come.

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So most believe that these two may be, may very well be the witnesses in Revelation chapter 11.

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And have a, take a three and a half year mission trip from heaven.

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back to earth.

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And they're going to be preaching.

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I didn't put it in my notes,

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but I want to turn there real quick.

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If you have a Bible, turn to Revelation

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and look at how bodacious

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these two are going to be.

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In Revelation 113,

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it says,

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and I will give power

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to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy 1,260 days, three and a half years, 42 months,

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clothed and sidecloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, spoken of there

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in Zechariah, standing before the God of all the earth. And if anyone wants to harm them,

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fire will proceed from their mouth and devour their enemies. Many believe that this is Elijah.

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Could you imagine? What was that? You said?

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and if anyone wants to harm them,

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he must be killed in the same manner.

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These have power to shut heaven so that no rain falls,

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that would also be Elijah,

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in the days of their prophecy,

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and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood.

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That would be Moses, right, during the plagues.

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And do strike the earth with all plagues as often as they desire.

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When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends,

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out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.

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And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called

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Sodom and Egypt, we know it is Jerusalem, where also our Lord was crucified.

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Then those from the people's, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies

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three and a half days and not allow their dead bodies to be put in graves.

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And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make Mary and,

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send gifts one to another because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

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Many believe that's going to be Moses and Elijah.

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And they're going to be bodacious and they're going to be indestructible.

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They're going to be, they won't be able to die until the end of the three and a half years.

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Then the Bible tells us they get killed.

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Their dead bodies lay in this street for three and a half days.

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But then they ascend for the whole world to see.

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Because at that time, you guys, on the earth,

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people ain't going to want to have nothing to do with Jesus.

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Nothing.

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Because for seven years, they're going to have a world that they desire a Christless world.

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And God will deal with his people, Israel, during that time.

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And so notice they're talking to Jesus, this Moses and Elijah.

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Notice what they are talking about, right?

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And they, who appeared in glory and spoke of his decease,

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which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

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I wonder what they were saying.

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I wonder if they were saying, hey, Jesus, are you scared?

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You're going to do this?

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You're really going to go through with this?

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And maybe they compared some of their struggles in life

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to what Jesus was about to do.

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I don't know.

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No doubt, Moses feared Pharaoh would take his life.

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Elijah ran from a girl.

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I think most of us would have run from Jezebel.

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But they're talking about his decease.

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And that can be translated,

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his exodus. He came, he lived, he accomplished God's will, and he ascended.

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And he accomplished a lot there on that cross and rising from the dead. That's why we're meeting

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here on this Sunday morning because of what Jesus accomplished for us. I'm going to back up to

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Moses and Elijah, one other thought that one commentator brought up was that Elijah represents

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those who are caught up to God. Elijah would be a representation of the rapture of the church.

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And Moses represents those who die and go to glory, both ending in glory. Amen? It's just that

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those people raptured, they get to escape death. So,

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what do you think the difference is?

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I don't know that there is one.

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From what I've seen and how I have seen people go out,

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I think that at that moment,

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they're going to be the same.

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Because what?

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We enter in from time

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and from this physical existence into eternity.

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Right?

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We enter into glory in the Lord.

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Now, if you're not a believer in Jesus, now when I say believer, I mean, you've put all your weight, right?

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You've put all your eggs in one basket when it comes to the Savior of your life.

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And that he's the God man, the go between, I just read it this morning, he's that mediator between God and man.

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Then you're going to enter into glory.

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And if not, you're going to wish you had.

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right you're going to wish you had

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so they talk of his decease and then

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the disciples

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they're seeing this but guess what they do

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they go to sleep right

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they go to sleep

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verse two but Peter and those with him

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were heavy with sleep and when they were fully awake

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they saw his glory and the two men who stood

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with them. Now, I'm not going to come down on these guys because I get a little sleepy myself sometimes,

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and it's, it is in those spiritual moments that I should be really alert and ride on, right?

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I fall asleep really easy when I'm reading my Bible and when me and my wife are praying.

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And she don't like that. I try to tell her, honey, it's just that you and the Lord's conversation,

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it's just so relaxing and I just go to sleep.

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That don't go over very good.

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Just saying, get up, stand on your feet.

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Talk to me.

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Or talk to the Lord.

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Quit snoring.

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So I can't be too hard on these guys, right?

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So by analogy, it is noteworthy that, that spirit.

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spiritual sleep keeps many from seeing or experience in the glory of God.

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But it does appear that these guys do wake up and they're fully awake to see the glory of Moses and Elijah standing there with the Lord.

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And so in verse 33, it goes on and it says,

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Then it happened as they were parting from him that Peter said to Jesus, master,

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it is good for us to be here and let us make three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses,

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and one for Elijah, not knowing what he said.

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Peters was one of those guys that he's just got to be talking.

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You've ever been around people like that?

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Just shut up.

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Please, silence is okay.

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Right?

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It's okay to be quiet.

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But some people know, and when they get nervous, it gets worse, right?

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they just go to jabbering.

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And he had no idea what he was saying.

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But, but, I mean, he's right.

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I mean, who doesn't want to stay on a mountaintop?

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I mean, mountaintops are awesome.

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I was just up on one here the other day.

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And it's glorious.

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The view and the, the peacefulness and the silence.

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It's just awesome.

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But like the old saying says,

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but all the fruit grows in the valley.

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Right?

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Right? Mountaintops are great, but all the fruit grows in the valley.

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And so, um, verse 34, while he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them.

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And they were fearful as they entered the cloud and a voice came out of the cloud saying,

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this is my beloved son. Hear him. And when the voice had ceased, Jesus was found alone,

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but they kept quiet and told no one these, in those days.

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any of these things they had seen.

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And so no doubt they're going through these gamut of emotions

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and they get excited, want to build tabernacles.

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And then all of a sudden this cloud comes and it says

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that they became fearful as they were going into the cloud.

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But then they hear the voice.

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This is my son.

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This is my beloved son.

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Hear him.

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Listen to him.

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This is a command from the God of heaven to us.

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Hear him.

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And do you know him?

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And praise God we have a Bible.

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You can know him.

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If you don't know God, it's your own fault.

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If you don't know what he's about.

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Because you can read all about him.

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And I realize the scripture is spiritually discerned.

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It tells us there in 1st Corinthians.

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Yes, it's spiritually discerned.

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It is.

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But you can know about God.

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You can know about God's plan.

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But then you have to come and be willing to accept it by faith and then walk in faith.

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Because without faith, it's impossible to please God.

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So everybody's going to be without excuse.

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The Bible tells us that just by going outside and looking about looking at things that are made.

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Everyone's going to be without excuse because it all speaks of who he is.

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In fact, I just heard Frank Turk had a kid on this young guy,

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but he's an archaeologist in Israel and the things they're finding,

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the things they found just in the last three or four years,

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the archaeological discoveries they found that confirms the Bible over and over and over and over again, right?

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The archaeologist Spade has never disproved the Bible,

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it only confirms it. And so there is no excuse. We should be listening to what our God is saying to us.

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And so Peter, he doesn't forget this, right? He remembers the power of this moment.

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And as we look at these three and the experiences that they had with the raising of the dead, right?

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and then Jesus' agony witnessing that in the garden.

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Do you remember times when the Lord was presence with you was pretty obvious?

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Do you ever draw on that for strength?

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As I look back, as I was driving here this morning,

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I was just thinking of some moments in my life, right,

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where you just look back and you go, oh, Lord, you were, you helped me there.

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Right? You helped me go deeper with you.

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realizing who really who you are in my life that you hold my breath in your hand that every

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beat of my heart is a is a gift from you i i i for some reason i forget that do you but to remember

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those moments when when god just shows up in your life and he confirms himself to you and peter so

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peter he's he's getting ready to die this is this is this is

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before his departure, before his exodus from this world.

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And in 2 Peter chapter 1, verses 16 through 21, it says,

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for we did not follow cunning, devised fables.

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This wasn't a fairy tale we were following.

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Some people think that that's what the gospel is all about.

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Oh, it's just a bunch of, it's just a bunch of fairy tales.

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No, it's not.

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It's a truth that you can

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you can hang eternity on this truth.

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We did not follow cunningly devised fables

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when we made known to you the power

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and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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but we were eyewitnesses of His Majesty.

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Probably speaking about the Transfiguration.

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For he received from God the Father,

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honor and glory, when such a voice came to him

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from the excellent glory.

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This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.

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And we heard, and excuse me, verse 19,

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so we have the prophetic word confirmed,

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which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place,

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until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,

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knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation.

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or for prophecy never came by the will of man,

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but holy men spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

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Peter here at the end of his life is drawing on that experience that he had with the Lord there on the mount.

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And thinking, I got nothing to lose.

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In fact, he died pretty bodaciously, right?

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Giving up his life on an upside-down cross.

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He gave the instruction how he should die.

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He had no fear of death.

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Jesus comes along and he takes that away.

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I'm just telling you.

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He takes it away.

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These disciples of his were not deceived at all, right?

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They could march on in confidence because of what they saw here at the Mount.

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Their faith was confirmed by these, all these things that they had

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experience with the Lord, they knew that their future was glorious. Do you? Is your future glorious?

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No, it's not to say it's not going to be painful. Good chance. It's going to be painful,

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but it's going to be gloriously painful, right? It hurts so good, knowing how it ends, amen?

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Because our lives as believers does not end in death, but it ends in glory.

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I'll close with this scripture 2. Corinthians 318.

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But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are being transformed in the same image from glory to glory just as by the spirit of the Lord.

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If we abide.

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Abide. Jesus said, abide in me. And let my words abide in you. And then he says, he will share his glory with us. In John

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17, verses 20 through 22, I won't go there, but we get to share in his glory because we've put our faith and trust in him.

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We have nothing to lose and everything to gain by walking with our Jesus. Now, we're all in process, right?

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this sanctification thing.

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We become, we should, if we're walking and we're anticipating experience in this glory,

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we become more and more like the Lord Jesus, which is the Father's goal for each one of us.

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And so wherever you're at today, press in, right?

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Hear God.

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Put yourself in those situations where he can speak to you because he will.

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but sometimes we just get going too fast.

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We don't stop and just be still.

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It's so important to just be still and be quiet.

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My wife and I were blessed with a couple days of no cell phone service.

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It was,

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Hallelujah.

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It was glorious.

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Like, I mean, you could just take a deep breath and you could breathe.

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And the heavens declare the glory.

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of God. And the firmament shows

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this handiwork.

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Caching, right?

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It just confirms.

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It just confirms

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that this is where we need

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to be. Let's pray, shall we?

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Shall we all stand? Father, thank you.

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For your love, your goodness,

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your mercy,

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your glory. Lord, you are

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a glorious God

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that has glory in store

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for everyone who would comb

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to you.

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Lord, we know that we don't have much to offer.

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But what we do have, we want to just surrender it to you

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and knowing that you take nothing and make something beautiful.

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So, Lord, we love you.

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We praise you.

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I pray that you would go with us this week.

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Lord, that in this change of season, Lord, that you would walk with us.

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Lord, that we would have an open ear to hear what you,

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would say to us, Lord, and then we would be willing to do what you tell us to do. And I know sometimes

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those things are so simple, Lord, but I just pray that you would give us the courage and the faith to do

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what you call us to do. Lord, even when it's uncomfortable knowing that your glory is that preeminent

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thing, and we look forward to it, and we look forward to being with you. So help us to finish this race

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well, Lord, not growing weary, not backing up, not throwing in the towel. Lord, we just

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we just want to be right in the vein of what you're doing in our lives and in our communities,

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Lord, we have so much stuff in front of us.

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Lord, just in this body in the next few weeks, Lord, I pray that you'd give us ears to hear

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what your spirit would say to us in Jesus' holy name.

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Amen, amen.

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Hey, if you need prayer, the prayer team will be down here.

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Come down and be prayed for.