PPT-The Transfiguration: The Path to Glory

Lesson 48 Matthew 613713 Feeding 4000 and other miracles Matthew 6112 Warning about Pharisees Caesarea Philippi click Philippi for a 2 minute video Setting The Transfiguration of Jesus teaches us that the path to glory always leads through suffering. 4:18-5:9. A CD of this message will be available (free of charge) immediately following today's message. This message will be available via podcast later this week at calvaryokc.com. Galatians. 4:18-5:9. . Different artists show the same events in many ways. Firstly look at all the images. . Which picture do like best and why?. Read again the Gospel accounts of the Transfiguration (MT Ch. 17v1-8 and also LK Ch. 9 v28-36) Which picture do you think best describes the Transfiguration? Why?. Mark 9:2-10. . Mark 9:2-10. After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. . 3.  His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. . Psalm 24:7-10. Psalm 24. . Psa. 24:7 Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And . the King of glory . shall come in. . Psa. 24:8 Who is this . King of glory. ? The LORD strong and mighty, The LORD mighty in battle. . Year A. Exodus 24:12-18. Psalm 2 or Psalm 99 . 2 Peter 1:16-21. Matthew 17:1-9. . . Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire …. Jesus’ . Transfiguration . Matthew 16:13-16. When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” . They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” . NKJV. Direct my steps by Your word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me. Redeem me from the oppression of man, that I may keep Your precepts. Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes. Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because men do not keep Your law. . Matthew 17:1-9. Metamorphosis. Jesus’ metamorphoses. Word becoming flesh (John 1). “The Transfiguration” (Matthew 17, Mark 9, Luke 9). Jesus’ post-resurrection body (e.g. John 20). Transfiguration. Transfiguration of Jesus. . . . He was transfigured before them. metamorphoo. . “. to change into another form, to transfigure, transform” (Thayer’s Greek Lexicon). . From which we get the English word “metamorphosis.”. He was transfigured before them. Lesson . 4.8. Matthew 6:13-7:13. The Transfiguration of Jesus teaches us that the path to glory always leads through suffering.. This is not for Jesus only, but for every one of his disciples and followers.. St. Thomas Aquinas devotes an entire section in his . Summa . theologiae. to the Transfiguration. His treatment offers some answers.. Aquinas says that it was fitting that Christ be manifested in his glory because those who are walking an arduous path need a clear sense of the goal of their journey. The arduous path is this life, with all of its attendant sufferings, failures, setbacks, disappointments, and injustices. And its goal is heavenly glory, which is fullness of life with God, the transformation of our bodies.. worketh. for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Cor. 4:17, KJV).. A Sermon. St. Mary the Virgin. Lewis preached here twice. Sunday evening. Later published in . Theology. (November 1941). Matthew 17: 1 - 9 Why do we worship Jesus and not another , or for that matter, nothing at all? It’s a crucial question. If we have no answer to th at question then we have no reason to be C