Listen to Him: The Glory Above All.

Class Outline:

Sunday June 15, 2025

Intro: clouds - glory of God, the dwelling of God.

 

DEU 18:18-19

'I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 'It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.

 

Man does not trust God and so he fears. 

No one else besides Christ can remove fear - He alone has eternal life. 

 

MAT 17:1-8

 

The reason Jesus led Peter, James, and John up the mountain was so that they could see His transfiguration. 

 

The devil took Him up to a “high mountain” to show Him the kingdoms of the world (MAT 4:8). Jesus takes them up a high mountain to see His glory. 

 

Transfiguration: The glory of the Person of Christ. 

 

JOH 17:5. 

 

By seeing His glorified self they would be assured of His victory. Depiction of the second coming (LUK 21:27).

 

His face, His garment both based on light (shining as the sun, white as the light - deity shining in humanity), PSA 104:2. 

 

It is vital to know that victory is assured and that it will take the form of divine glory in body and in environment. 

 

We are not to wait: Let your light shine (same verb - MAT 5:15). 

 

His light has shone in our hearts (2CO 4:6).

 

Peter: “Is it good for us to be here?” 

 

What is his motivation? Fear (MAR 9:6).

 

Peter is putting all three on the same level. 

 

The leaders of the OT and the NT are on the mountain with Christ and the voice from heaven tells us all who is Lord and who we are to listen to. 

 

God’s response to Peter’s plan is to make a tent of cloud - His glory is His tent. 

 

Our home is with God, not made with human hands (HEB 9:11; 11:10; REV 21:3)

 

The voice of the Father from the cloud:

 

Presence of God in the wilderness (Shekinah; EXO 13:21-22) and in the Tabernacle / Temple EXO 33:9-10; 40:34-38 (the Book of Leviticus shows the way of entry); 1KI 8:10-11). 

 

Listen to Him: HEB 1:2 [HEB 3:1-6, Moses was a servant in the house, Jesus is a Son - listen to Him]. 

 

Why Moses and Elijah? Represent the Law and the prophets. MAT 5:17.   

 

The voice causes the disciples to become extremely afraid (MAT 14:27). 

 

MAT 17:7; Salvation: Jesus came to us, gripped up, set us on our feet, and told us that we no longer had to be afraid. 

 

This is not an afterthought but the gospel itself. 

 

Jesus touches them so that they will lose their fear (He does the same thing in REV 1:7). 

 

The presence of the love of the Lord is the cure to all fear (1JO 4:18). 

 

The vision ends and things return to Jesus alone - God clothed in the familiar is no longer frightening.

 

Application: The church should only revere Christ. 

 

More than any person, project, or program. 

 

Jesus supersedes all. OT Law and prophets are subordinate to Him; all church leadership is subordinate to Him. 

 

Every church is ordained to teach the Word of God with Christ at center. He is the main theme of all that is taught in the church.

 

The Lord Jesus is the teacher and we are His messengers. 

 

2CO 3:18

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

 

ROM 12:2

 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. 

 

Man cannot bring about the change by his own activity; it is affected by Christ and the Spirit within Christians.

 

How is that going to happen for you?  

 

PHI 3:20-21

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.