Luke 9:28-36 – “Beholding the Glory of Christ”

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My sermon notes for Sunday morning, Sept 24th.  Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided as an outline each week for our Tabernacle Church family. The church provides a live stream of the service each Sunday at 10:30 on Facebook. We also provide the services through YouTube by Sunday afternoon.  You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

Luke 9:28–36

INTRO

  • They have confessed Jesus as Messiah
  • Jesus shares that He will be a suffering Messiah
  • He then paints a picture of their cross bearing (the discipleship life)
  • Here they will learn that suffering will be the prelude to Jesus’ ultimate glory.
  • It is Christ that fulfills all the promises of the coming King!

Jesus’ Illumination

Throughout Luke’s Gospel we see Jesus praying at crucial times in His ministry

  • In the presence of His Father

They had only seen Him in His ordinary humanity, but now they are seeing Him in divine splendor.

  • Illuminated.  Visible glory
    • His deity shining through His humanity

His past glory – John 17:1-5

His future glory– Life, Death, Resurrection

Moses and Elijah’s Conversation

Moses

  • The Exodus
  • From bondage and captivity to the Promised Land
  • The law giver


Elijah

  • The great prophet
  • Raised the dead
  • Fire rained down on sacrifice
  • Taken up in chariot

Two of the greatest men in the Old Testament.  They were sent by God to deliver and lead the people.

Spoke of His departure

  • Jerusalem. The Cross
  • When they departed Egypt it was the Passover Lamb that made it possible
  • Fire coming down from heave to accept the sacrifice from Elijah
  • I CAN ONLY IMAGING THEIR CONVERSATION

Jesus had come to fulfill the law and the prophets.  Here we see EVERYTHING coming together.

Peter’s Confusion

Let us make three tents

  • He wanted to remain in the presence of His glory
  • Seeking a mountain top experience
  • Yet, there is no glory without the cross
  • Plus, he would have only needed ONE tent… not three.

God’s Declaration

  • Cloud and the Tabernacle Exodus 40:34-35
  • Voice at the Baptism Luke 3:22

He is my Son, the Chosen One

  • The one and only
  • Reigning and ruling King
  • Isaiah 42:1
  • Isaiah 52:13-53:12

Listen to Him

  • Deuteronomy 18:18-19
  • We have it even better. 2 Peter 1:19-21
  • Listen to Jesus…listen to the WORD

The What Now:

We can behold His Glory today!

  • John 17: 20-26 – Glory given to believers through the Holy Spirit
  • John 1:14-18 – We have seen His glory
  • 1 Peter 4:12 – 13 – Christ suffered and at time we shall suffer. But we shall behold HIS glory.
  • 2 Peter 1:16-21 – Life is more than a mountain top experience. We behold We can experience the glory of Christ… we do not need to go up on the mountain.  We just need to go to the CROSS and listen to His WORD.

The Christian faith is about Christ; we could describe our lives as magnifying God in Christ by the power of the Spirit. What it means to be a Christian is to be Jesus-centered. All of God’s promises “find their Yes in him” (2 Cor. 1:20). “All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” are “hidden” in him (Col. 2:3). We are “filled in him” (Col. 2:10). Christ is our life (Col. 3:4), and “To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil. 1:21). The transfiguration communicates the same truth: the Law and the Prophets point to Christ. Jesus is the new and better Moses. He is the true Israel. He is the new and better David. He is God’s very own Son, the true revelation of God. We need, therefore, to listen to him, to meditate on him, to rejoice in him, and to love him.

Thomas R. Schreiner, “Luke,” in Matthew–Luke, ed. Iain M. Duguid, James M. Hamilton Jr., and Jay Sklar, vol. VIII, ESV Expository Commentary (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2021), 869.

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