This is Part 24 of a year-long series on the Book of Mark. Today's teaching is by Dan Enarson, Teaching Team member at theHeart in Boone, NC.

 

Subtitle: Transfiguration

MARK 9:1-13

And he said to them, "Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power." 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. His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters - one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." (He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.) Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: "This is my Son, who I love. Listen to him!" Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus. As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They kept the matter to themselves, discussing what "rising from the dead" meant.

And they asked him. "Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah music come first?" Jesus replied, "To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected? But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him."

TRANSFIGURATION

 

2 PETER 1:16-18

For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain.

MIRROR/WINDOW

Reflect Back...

Moses on Sinai (Ex. 33)

Elijah on Sinai (1 Kings 19)

Temple Dedication (2 Chron. 7)

Gaze Forward...

"Son of Man" (Dan 7/Rev. 1)

"Day of the Lord" (Zech. 14)

KINGDOM (9:1)

Here Now

But Not Yet

So Keep This to Yourself for Now

CHANGE (9:2-3)

"And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit." 

2 Cor. 3:18

LISTEN (9:7)

Our Response is not to set up temporary structures

MOVE (9:9)

Our Response is not to sit/stay, but to follow

MOUNTAINTOPS (9:2)

They don't come to you;

They don't climb themselves;

You see an expanded horizon

KINGDOM

We don't BUILD the Kingdom; we ARE the Kingdom - the domain of Jesus' Rule on Earth

"When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through" ~Richard Rohr