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Robert Jeffress - A True Mountaintop Experience (Part 1)

March 25, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - A True Mountaintop Experience (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - A True Mountaintop Experience (Part 1) | March 25, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • The apostles walked alongside jesus for 3 years, but even
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  • After all they'd seen and heard, they still had moments of doubt
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  • About who jesus really was.
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  • So one day jesus took three of his disciples up to
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  • A mountaintop where they saw jesus as they had never seen
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  • Him before.
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  • Today we're going to discover what happened on that mountain
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  • And what it means for you and me today.
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  • My message is titled, "a true mountaintop experience," on
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  • Today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: whether you know it or not, you're in a battle.
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  • Satan has a strategy to attack your faith, disrupt your family,
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  • And derail your future.
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  • But god has given you everything you need to fight back and win.
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  • In "the divine defense," dr. robert jeffress reveals
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  • Six practical strategies from ephesians chapter 6 to defeat
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  • Satan's destructive plan.
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  • When you put on the full armor of god, satan doesn't have
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  • A prayer.
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  • Request "the divine defense" when you give a generous
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  • Ministry gift to "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: how certain are you that god really exists?
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  • How can you be sure that the principles of christianity we
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  • Talk about every week here are nothing more than myths that
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  • Have been manufactured to give comfort to those of us in
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  • A random universe?
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  • Can you point to one or two events in your life that can
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  • Only be explained by the supernatural work of god?
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  • How certain are you that all of this stuff is real?
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  • You know, supernatural experiences by definition are
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  • Rare, but they are sometimes necessary to confirm our faith
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  • In an invisible and sometimes seemingly distant god.
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  • Today we're going to look at a supernatural experience that
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  • Three of the apostles had.
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  • In fact, it was the greatest supernatural experience they
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  • Would have outside of the resurrection of jesus himself.
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  • And as we look at this event, we're going to discover some
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  • Principles for our own lives as well.
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to luke chapter 9 as today we talk
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  • About "a true mountaintop experience."
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  • Luke chapter 9.
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  • Now i've heard many sermons like you have about
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  • The birth of jesus, about the death of jesus, about the
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  • Resurrection of jesus, but i don't recall ever hearing
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  • A sermon about the most supernatural event in jesus's
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  • Life outside of the resurrection.
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  • It's an event that's recorded in all three of the synoptic
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  • Gospels, matthew, mark, and luke.
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  • It is an event that we commonly refer to as the transfiguration
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  • Of jesus christ.
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  • And in the few moments we have this morning, we're going to do
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  • Four things.
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  • First of all, we're going to look at the timing of
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  • This event.
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  • That's crucial.
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  • Secondly, we're going to look at the details of the event.
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  • Third, we're gonna talk about the purposes of this event.
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  • And finally, we're going to glean some timeless truths from
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  • This event for us today.
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  • First of all, let's look at the timing of this event.
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  • It's found in verse 28 of luke chapter 9.
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  • Luke says, "and some eight days after these sayings."
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  • Now let's stop there for a moment.
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  • This event that we're looking at takes place 8 days after the
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  • Sayings we talked about last week in which peter said,
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  • "you are the christ, the son of the living god."
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  • Now, the reason i stopped here is to point out something i bet
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  • You've heard before.
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  • How many of you have heard before that there are all these
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  • Contradictions in the bible, especially in the gospels, and
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  • That's why you can't trust the bible?
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  • Some people point to this verse as one of those contradictions.
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  • They say, "now mark says it happened 6 days after these
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  • Sayings, and now luke says 8 days.
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  • How do you reconcile that?"
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  • Well, first of all, luke says, "some 8 days."
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  • That's like saying, "approximately 8 days."
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  • Mark says 6 days.
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  • Also, it depends on how you count time.
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  • I mean, if i were gonna talk about an event that was going to
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  • Happen next sunday, how many days is that away?
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  • Well, if you count every day, it's 8 days, next sunday from
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  • This sunday, two sundays, or if you wanna look at just the 6
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  • Days in between monday through saturday, that's 6 days.
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  • So don't get hung up on that.
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  • Luke has just given an approximation.
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  • He said, "approximately eight days after these sayings, it
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  • Came about that jesus took along peter, john, and james, and went
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  • Up to the mountain to pray."
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  • Now let's remember what had happened 8 days before
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  • This event.
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  • Jesus was having a q&a with his disciples, and remember he said,
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  • "who do the masses say that i am?"
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  • And they said, "well, there's a diversity of opinion out
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  • There, jesus.
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  • Some say you're john the baptist, risen from the dead.
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  • Others say you're elijah.
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  • Others say that you're one of the prophets."
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  • Jesus said, "but who do you say that i am?"
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  • And peter answered and he said, "you are the christos, the
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  • Christ, the messiah, the son of the living god."
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  • And jesus said, "bingo."
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  • Well, not exactly, but almost that.
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  • He said, "you've got it right.
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  • And upon this foundation, this proclamation, this confession,
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  • I am going to build my church."
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  • And then the bible says from that point on jesus began to
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  • Instruct his disciples how he must go to jerusalem, how he
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  • Must suffer at the hands of the chief priests and the elders,
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  • How he must be crucified and rise again on the third day.
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  • From that point on, jesus talked about his impending death, and
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  • Then jesus said something odd in verse 27.
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  • This is the hinge verse between that event and the event we're
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  • Gonna look at today.
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  • "but i say to you truthfully, there are some of those standing
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  • Here who shall not taste of death until they see the kingdom
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  • Of god."
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  • It's a strange statement.
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  • You know, most of us, we're gonna have to die until we see
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  • The kingdom of god.
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  • We can't see the kingdom of god until we die.
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  • Only then will we see christ in his glorified state.
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  • But jesus said, "some of you listening to me right now,
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  • You're not gonna experience death before you see the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • That is, you're gonna see me in all of my glory before you go
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  • Through the experience of death."
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  • And of course, he was pointing to this event we're going to
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  • Look at today.
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  • After jesus said those things, after that great declaration of
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  • Who he was, 8 days elapsed.
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  • And i imagine during those 8 days, the disciples started to
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  • Think to themselves, now wait a minute, if jesus is going to
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  • Suffer in jerusalem and we're following after jesus to
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  • Jerusalem, we're gonna be suffering as well.
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  • And we're not sure we're into that suffering stuff.
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  • And not only that, come to think of it, that doesn't fit
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  • Our theology.
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  • I mean, our theology is messiah is supposed to deliver us from
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  • The romans, not suffer at the hands of the romans.
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  • And so once again, these disciples begin to doubt who
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  • Jesus is, and so jesus is going to display to them once and for
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  • All his true identity.
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  • And so he takes the representative leaders of the 12
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  • Apostles--peter, james, and john--he takes them up to
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  • A mountaintop for an experience they will never forget.
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  • Now let's look at the details of this event.
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  • We looked at the timing of it.
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  • It was when the disciples were starting to doubt again who
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  • Jesus was.
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  • Let's look at the details of the event, verse 29: "and while
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  • Jesus was praying, the appearance of his face became
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  • Different, and his clothing became white and gleaming."
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  • Here it says he became different, but in all three
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  • Synoptics, it's the same word in greek.
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  • It's the word we get our word "metamorphosis."
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  • He changed.
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  • Now listen to this.
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  • He didn't change in essence.
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  • He didn't suddenly become the son of god while he was
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  • Praying there.
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  • It wasn't a change in essence, it was a change in
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  • His appearance.
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  • That's what changed.
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  • You see, jesus is god.
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  • And when jesus came to earth, philippians 2 said he did not
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  • Give up his attributes to come to earth.
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  • The bible says: "even though he existed in the form of god, he
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  • Did not regard his equality with god a thing to be grasped, held
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  • Onto, but he emptied himself and took the form of a bondservant."
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  • What did he empty himself of when he came to earth?
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  • He did not empty himself of his attributes.
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  • You can't give up your attributes.
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  • You know, i'm a caucasian male with brown eyes.
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  • Guess what?
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  • No matter how much i might want to, i can't give--and i don't
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  • Want to, but i can't give up any of those attributes, okay?
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  • That's who i am.
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  • Jesus was equal to god.
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  • He was omniscient.
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  • That is, he was all knowing.
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  • He was omnipotent, all powerful.
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  • He could be omnipresent, all present in all things.
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  • I mean, he was god, and so when he came to earth, he did not
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  • Give up being god.
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  • Now here's what he did do.
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  • He surrendered his rights as god.
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  • He surrendered his rights and he allowed his divine attributes
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  • Not to be diminished in any way but to be veiled.
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  • Let me explain it this way.
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  • Imagine a lamp that has a 100-watt bulb on it, puts out
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  • 100 watts.
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  • Now, what happens when you put a lamp shade on that lamp?
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  • Does it diminish the output of the lumens of that lamp?
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  • No, no.
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  • It veils the output of that lamp.
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  • That's what happens with a lamp shade.
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  • It veils.
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  • It doesn't diminish the light.
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  • And when god in the form of jesus christ came to earth in
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  • Human flesh, his fleshly body did not diminish his deity, it
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  • Simply veiled parts of his deity.
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  • Isn't that what we sing at the christmastime, "hark the herald
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  • Angels sing, veiled in flesh, the godhead see."
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  • When we look at the godhead, we see him veiled in flesh.
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  • Jesus didn't change when he came to earth.
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  • His light, his deity, wasn't diminished in any way, but it
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  • Was veiled, and what we have taking place at the
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  • Transfiguration is the taking off of the lampshade.
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  • Seeing jesus for who he really is.
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  • Matthew 17:2 gives us even further details about this
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  • Event: "and he was transfigured before them; and his face shone
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  • Like the sun, and his garments became white as lights."
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  • His face was so bright that they illuminated his clothes, and
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  • That's not all.
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  • Kent hughes writes that when his children were young and at home
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  • On the fourth of july, kent said his job as the dad was to light
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  • The fireworks, and he said there were two scenes he always
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  • Enjoyed watching.
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  • First of all, the fireworks themselves pouring forth from
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  • The fountain of sparks, but he said even more than that, he
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  • Enjoyed watching the faces, the expressions of his children,
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  • Expressions of wonderment, faces that were illuminated themselves
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  • By the changing colors of the fireworks.
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  • I think that's what you see happening here.
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  • Jesus's face was illuminated.
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  • It shone like the sun, and his face illuminated his own
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  • Clothes, but not only that, the light illuminated the face of
  • 00:12:30.940 --> 00:12:34.977
  • His disciples, and i imagine he enjoyed watching their
  • 00:12:34.977 --> 00:12:39.748
  • Wonderment, their awe at the sight of this dazzling display
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  • Of divine fireworks.
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  • That's what was going on here.
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  • Not only that, i think peter probably thought to himself as
  • 00:12:48.490 --> 00:12:52.294
  • He watched this miraculous display, he thought to himself,
  • 00:12:52.294 --> 00:12:55.764
  • "i never knew how right i was last week when i said, 'you are
  • 00:12:55.764 --> 00:12:59.635
  • The christ, the son of the living god.'"
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  • Now if that was not enough, notice what else happened in
  • 00:13:02.771 --> 00:13:05.574
  • Verse 30: "and behold, two men were talking with jesus, and
  • 00:13:05.574 --> 00:13:11.580
  • They were moses and elijah."
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  • From heaven came two divine visitors: moses and elijah.
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  • Why these two guys?
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  • We'll see in a moment.
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  • The most probable explanation is what they represented.
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  • Moses represented the law.
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  • Elijah represented the prophets.
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  • The law and the prophets were the two main divisions of the
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  • Old testament.
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  • And so moses and elijah came to visit with jesus on
  • 00:13:37.673 --> 00:13:41.243
  • The mountain.
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  • Now, i don't want to get sidetracked here, but there is
  • 00:13:42.578 --> 00:13:45.114
  • An important principle here that i think you'll find encouraging.
  • 00:13:45.114 --> 00:13:49.084
  • Moses and elijah had been dead for hundreds of years.
  • 00:13:49.084 --> 00:13:52.321
  • They were in heaven, but guess what?
  • 00:13:52.321 --> 00:13:55.090
  • When they came back, they were still moses and elijah.
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  • Their names remained the same.
  • 00:14:01.163 --> 00:14:04.533
  • You know, we saw this in our series on heaven.
  • 00:14:04.533 --> 00:14:06.802
  • People have a funny idea about heaven.
  • 00:14:06.802 --> 00:14:08.437
  • They think that when we die and go to heaven, we become
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  • Somebody else.
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  • No, we don't become somebody else.
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  • Who we are in heaven is who we were on earth.
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  • There is a continuum between this life and the next life.
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  • Hundreds of years later, moses and elijah were still moses
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  • And elijah.
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  • They were distinct.
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  • They were the unique people god created them to be.
  • 00:14:27.523 --> 00:14:30.225
  • And not only that, there was a continuum between this life on
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  • Earth and our life in heaven.
  • 00:14:34.863 --> 00:14:37.333
  • A lot of people have this idea that, well, once we go to
  • 00:14:37.333 --> 00:14:40.002
  • Heaven, everything we've ever done on earth is completely
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  • Erased and it is of no significance.
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  • Not at all.
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  • Let me show you what i mean by that.
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  • Why is it god sent these two back, moses and elijah?
  • 00:14:47.943 --> 00:14:53.415
  • Because what they had done on earth hundreds of years ago was
  • 00:14:53.415 --> 00:14:58.253
  • Still important today.
  • 00:14:58.253 --> 00:14:59.755
  • Look at verse 31: "who," talking about elijah and moses,
  • 00:14:59.755 --> 00:15:03.993
  • "appearing in glory, were speaking of his departure which
  • 00:15:03.993 --> 00:15:09.264
  • He was about to accomplish at jerusalem."
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  • They were talking to jesus about his departure.
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  • That is the greek word, "exodus."
  • 00:15:16.305 --> 00:15:19.608
  • Isn't that a great word to describe what happens when
  • 00:15:19.608 --> 00:15:22.244
  • We die?
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  • If you're a christian, when you die, you don't go off
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  • Into nothingness.
  • 00:15:25.581 --> 00:15:26.949
  • You don't go into darkness.
  • 00:15:26.949 --> 00:15:29.051
  • Your death is nothing more but your departure, your exodus from
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  • This world to a better world.
  • 00:15:33.422 --> 00:15:35.357
  • And the same is true of your loved ones who die.
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  • They haven't gone to something worse, they've gone to
  • 00:15:38.160 --> 00:15:40.496
  • Something better.
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  • They've experienced the exodus.
  • 00:15:41.830 --> 00:15:43.499
  • They were talking to jesus about his exodus, which he was about
  • 00:15:43.499 --> 00:15:47.302
  • To accomplish at jerusalem.
  • 00:15:47.302 --> 00:15:50.339
  • Now what do you think they were talking to jesus about?
  • 00:15:50.339 --> 00:15:52.608
  • What could they tell jesus that he didn't already know?
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  • I don't think they were giving jesus new information.
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  • They were there to encourage jesus.
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  • I'll say this again in a moment.
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  • Jesus was not looking forward to the experience of the cross, not
  • 00:16:08.424 --> 00:16:12.561
  • Only for the physical suffering, but because of the spiritual
  • 00:16:12.561 --> 00:16:15.397
  • Suffering he would go through.
  • 00:16:15.397 --> 00:16:16.765
  • And so god knew his son needed encouragement, and he sent
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  • Elijah and moses back.
  • 00:16:20.569 --> 00:16:22.704
  • I think matthew 5:17 gives us some insight into why, again, it
  • 00:16:22.704 --> 00:16:27.443
  • Was moses and elijah.
  • 00:16:27.443 --> 00:16:29.178
  • Remember what jesus said.
  • 00:16:29.178 --> 00:16:30.512
  • He said, "do not think that i came to abolish the law or
  • 00:16:30.512 --> 00:16:34.183
  • The prophets.
  • 00:16:34.183 --> 00:16:35.517
  • I did not come to abolish but to fulfill."
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  • Jesus said, "i came to fulfill everything that had been
  • 00:16:38.921 --> 00:16:42.758
  • Prophesied in the law and in the prophets," hundreds of
  • 00:16:42.758 --> 00:16:46.595
  • Years before.
  • 00:16:46.595 --> 00:16:47.963
  • Now get this, now here is jesus facing his death.
  • 00:16:47.963 --> 00:16:51.967
  • What did moses and elijah, who represented the law and the
  • 00:16:51.967 --> 00:16:55.104
  • Prophets, come to tell jesus?
  • 00:16:55.104 --> 00:16:57.239
  • They came to remind jesus that what he was about to experience
  • 00:16:57.239 --> 00:17:01.743
  • Was all part of god's plan.
  • 00:17:01.743 --> 00:17:04.480
  • All of this had been prophesied.
  • 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.915
  • Jesus, what you are doing is fulfilling the will of the
  • 00:17:06.915 --> 00:17:10.319
  • Father from before the foundation of the world.
  • 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:13.388
  • Jesus needed encouragement and god provided that encouragement
  • 00:17:13.388 --> 00:17:17.392
  • By moses and elijah.
  • 00:17:17.392 --> 00:17:20.195
  • Just think about what peter and james and john saw.
  • 00:17:20.195 --> 00:17:24.433
  • They saw this miraculous display of christ's divinity.
  • 00:17:24.433 --> 00:17:28.036
  • They see moses and elijah.
  • 00:17:28.036 --> 00:17:30.239
  • No wonder peter made the proposal he did in verses 32 and
  • 00:17:30.239 --> 00:17:33.308
  • 33: "now peter and his companions had become overcome
  • 00:17:33.308 --> 00:17:38.914
  • With sleep."
  • 00:17:38.914 --> 00:17:40.916
  • Their first response to a prayer meeting was always to sleep.
  • 00:17:40.916 --> 00:17:44.720
  • Anything over 5 minutes, [mimicking snoring]
  • 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.222
  • They're out, all right?
  • 00:17:47.222 --> 00:17:49.658
  • Some of you can relate to that, right?
  • 00:17:49.658 --> 00:17:51.994
  • Well, this was peter, james, and john.
  • 00:17:51.994 --> 00:17:54.096
  • I think that's hilarious.
  • 00:17:54.096 --> 00:17:55.497
  • "now peter and his companions had been overcome with sleep;
  • 00:17:55.497 --> 00:17:58.066
  • But when they were fully awake, they saw his glory and the two
  • 00:17:58.066 --> 00:18:02.738
  • Men standing with him.
  • 00:18:02.738 --> 00:18:04.506
  • And it came about as they were parting from him, peter said to
  • 00:18:04.506 --> 00:18:08.544
  • Jesus, 'master, it is good for us to be here, and let us make
  • 00:18:08.544 --> 00:18:14.483
  • Three tabernacles.'"
  • 00:18:14.483 --> 00:18:16.752
  • What does he mean three tabernacles?
  • 00:18:16.752 --> 00:18:18.287
  • He doesn't mean a big structure.
  • 00:18:18.287 --> 00:18:20.322
  • A tabernacle was just a little booth for one person.
  • 00:18:20.322 --> 00:18:23.192
  • It's what the jews built at the feast of tabernacles and lived
  • 00:18:23.192 --> 00:18:26.929
  • In to commemorate god's care for them in the wilderness.
  • 00:18:26.929 --> 00:18:30.132
  • He said, "let us make three little booths, three
  • 00:18:30.132 --> 00:18:33.135
  • Tabernacles: one for you, one for moses, and one for elijah."
  • 00:18:33.135 --> 00:18:39.441
  • He wasn't realizing what he was saying.
  • 00:18:39.441 --> 00:18:42.711
  • Now here's the usual application of this verse.
  • 00:18:42.711 --> 00:18:45.647
  • I bet you've heard it a dozen times before.
  • 00:18:45.647 --> 00:18:49.184
  • It's the last night of youth camp.
  • 00:18:49.184 --> 00:18:51.820
  • It's been a great week.
  • 00:18:51.820 --> 00:18:54.289
  • The kids are all standing around the bonfire on that last night,
  • 00:18:54.289 --> 00:18:58.994
  • And the youth minister says, "we've had such a great week
  • 00:18:58.994 --> 00:19:01.763
  • Here fellowshipping with god.
  • 00:19:01.763 --> 00:19:03.498
  • We've seen so many supernatural things take place.
  • 00:19:03.498 --> 00:19:07.402
  • Many of you have been saved.
  • 00:19:07.402 --> 00:19:08.937
  • Many have rededicated your life, and we would like to stay here
  • 00:19:08.937 --> 00:19:12.541
  • And have this mountaintop experience, but tomorrow we have
  • 00:19:12.541 --> 00:19:15.844
  • To go back into the valley of everyday life.
  • 00:19:15.844 --> 00:19:19.214
  • We can't stay on the mountaintop forever."
  • 00:19:19.214 --> 00:19:21.783
  • How many of you ever heard something like that before?
  • 00:19:21.783 --> 00:19:24.486
  • I've heard it. i've used it before.
  • 00:19:24.486 --> 00:19:27.389
  • And there's nothing wrong with that application.
  • 00:19:27.389 --> 00:19:29.558
  • There's a certain amount of truth to that, but that wasn't
  • 00:19:29.558 --> 00:19:33.161
  • Peter's major mistake here.
  • 00:19:33.161 --> 00:19:35.430
  • His mistake was not in wanting to prolong this experience.
  • 00:19:35.430 --> 00:19:39.401
  • You know what the mistake he made was?
  • 00:19:39.401 --> 00:19:41.436
  • It's found in his words when he said, "let's make three
  • 00:19:41.436 --> 00:19:44.740
  • Tabernacles: one for you, one for you, and one for you.
  • 00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:50.379
  • We're gonna make a tabernacle for you, moses, a lawgiver; for
  • 00:19:50.379 --> 00:19:55.617
  • You, elijah, a prophet; and for you, jesus, another prophet."
  • 00:19:55.617 --> 00:20:01.690
  • Peter still didn't get it.
  • 00:20:01.690 --> 00:20:04.760
  • Jesus was not just another lawgiver.
  • 00:20:04.760 --> 00:20:07.496
  • He was not just another prophet.
  • 00:20:07.496 --> 00:20:09.731
  • He was the unique son of god.
  • 00:20:09.731 --> 00:20:13.302
  • You say, "now, pastor, you're reading a lot into that.
  • 00:20:13.302 --> 00:20:16.071
  • How do you know that's the correct interpretation that was
  • 00:20:16.071 --> 00:20:19.041
  • The mistake peter made of equating him with moses
  • 00:20:19.041 --> 00:20:22.611
  • And elijah?"
  • 00:20:22.611 --> 00:20:23.945
  • I'll tell you how i know.
  • 00:20:23.945 --> 00:20:25.314
  • It's what happened in the next verse.
  • 00:20:25.314 --> 00:20:26.648
  • Look at verse 34: "and while peter was saying this," while he
  • 00:20:26.648 --> 00:20:31.186
  • Was saying, "let's build a booth for each of you," "a cloud
  • 00:20:31.186 --> 00:20:35.023
  • Formed and began to overshadow them; and they were afraid as
  • 00:20:35.023 --> 00:20:39.895
  • They entered the cloud."
  • 00:20:39.895 --> 00:20:42.531
  • What is this cloud that overcame them and made them frightened?
  • 00:20:42.531 --> 00:20:49.004
  • This cloud was the shekinah, the shekinah.
  • 00:20:49.004 --> 00:20:54.142
  • The word "shekinah" is a hebrew word that's not found anywhere
  • 00:20:54.142 --> 00:20:57.813
  • In the bible.
  • 00:20:57.813 --> 00:20:59.181
  • Did you know that?
  • 00:20:59.181 --> 00:21:00.515
  • There's no reference in the bible to the shekinah glory
  • 00:21:00.515 --> 00:21:02.951
  • Of god.
  • 00:21:02.951 --> 00:21:04.286
  • It's an extra biblical word used by jewish writers to describe
  • 00:21:04.286 --> 00:21:09.157
  • The presence of god, and the cloud throughout scripture was
  • 00:21:09.157 --> 00:21:14.830
  • A symbol of the presence of god.
  • 00:21:14.830 --> 00:21:18.700
  • As one writer says, this cloud, this cloud right here was the
  • 00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:24.139
  • Same cloud that led the israelites out of egypt.
  • 00:21:24.139 --> 00:21:27.776
  • It was the same cloud that led them miraculously through
  • 00:21:27.776 --> 00:21:31.580
  • The red sea.
  • 00:21:31.580 --> 00:21:32.914
  • This was the same cloud that surrounded mount sinai when god
  • 00:21:32.914 --> 00:21:36.418
  • Gave the law to moses.
  • 00:21:36.418 --> 00:21:38.387
  • This was the cloud at the front of the tent of the meeting when
  • 00:21:38.387 --> 00:21:41.623
  • Moses and god met together.
  • 00:21:41.623 --> 00:21:43.992
  • This was the cloud that filled the tabernacle and later the
  • 00:21:43.992 --> 00:21:47.429
  • Temple on dedication day.
  • 00:21:47.429 --> 00:21:49.798
  • This was the cloud that departed the temple 400 years later
  • 00:21:49.798 --> 00:21:53.368
  • Because of israel's apostasy.
  • 00:21:53.368 --> 00:21:55.704
  • This was the cloud that surrounded the shepherds on that
  • 00:21:55.704 --> 00:21:58.673
  • Hill in bethlehem when the angel announced that the messiah
  • 00:21:58.673 --> 00:22:01.943
  • Had come.
  • 00:22:01.943 --> 00:22:03.311
  • This was the cloud above the mount of olives into which jesus
  • 00:22:03.311 --> 00:22:08.483
  • Ascended when he said, "i'm coming back again."
  • 00:22:08.483 --> 00:22:11.686
  • And i believe that this cloud is the very same cloud that
  • 00:22:11.686 --> 00:22:17.159
  • A generation of christians, perhaps you and i, will ascend
  • 00:22:17.159 --> 00:22:20.762
  • Into one day when we shall be raptured to meet the lord
  • 00:22:20.762 --> 00:22:24.366
  • In the air.
  • 00:22:24.366 --> 00:22:25.700
  • This is the cloud, the presence of god.
  • 00:22:25.700 --> 00:22:30.472
  • Jeffress: what a powerful reminder that jesus is exactly
  • 00:22:34.643 --> 00:22:38.013
  • Who he claimed to be: the unique son of god.
  • 00:22:38.013 --> 00:22:41.450
  • And i hope today's message has strengthened your confidence in
  • 00:22:41.450 --> 00:22:44.686
  • The one who is the light of the world.
  • 00:22:44.686 --> 00:22:47.889
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  • Your generous ministry gift helps us broadcast biblical
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  • Truth on television, radio, and online, equipping believers like
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  • You to stand firm and live victoriously.
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  • Together we're piercing the darkness with the light of
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  • God's word.
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  • Jeffress: the disciples witnessed something truly
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  • Extraordinary on that mountain.
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  • They saw jesus revealed in his full glory, confirming once and
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  • For all that he is truly the son of god.
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  • Perhaps you're wondering if god still provides those kinds of
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  • Supernatural confirmations today.
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  • Well, next time we're going to discover three important
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  • Principles about milestone moments in our spiritual lives
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  • And why our faith must ultimately rest on something
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  • More than experience alone.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next on
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: ladies and gentlemen, when you come to that place in
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  • Your life, when you believe what jesus says, when you believe
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  • That he is the only light that can lead you out of the darkness
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  • Of this world and death into the presence of god, when you come
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  • To that realization, you have experienced a miracle just as
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  • Great as the apostles experienced at
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  • The transfiguration.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part 2 of the
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  • Message, "a true mountaintop experience," here on "pathway
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  • To victory."
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  • Announcer: join us on the "pathway to victory" cruise to
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  • Alaska, june 13 through 20, 2026.
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  • Jeffress: let me paint a picture for you.
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  • You're standing on the deck of a beautiful cruise ship, coffee in
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  • Hand, watching a glacier calve into the pristine waters, while
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  • Bald eagles circle overhead.
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  • That's going to be us this coming june.
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  • You've got to see alaska with your own eyes to believe it.
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  • Announcer: seven days of pure luxury where every meal is
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  • Prepared for you.
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  • The world-class service means you never have to think about
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  • The details.
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  • Instead, you can focus on casual conversations with like-minded
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  • Christians, laughing, telling stories, while surrounded by
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  • God's breathtaking creation.
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  • Jeffress: this is purposeful travel at its finest, refreshing
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  • Your soul in god's stunning cathedral of natural wonders.
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  • Announcer: call...
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  • Or visit ptv.org.
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