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Matthew chapter 17. Let's get right into it.
Matthew 17. We're going to look at verse #1
through 8 this morning, one through 8.
And you know so verse #1 the Bible says, And after six days
Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth
them up into a high mountain apart, and was transfigured
before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his
raiment was white as the light. And and behold, there appeared
unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for
us to be here, if thou wilt. Let us make here 3 Tabernacles,
one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias, while he yet
spake. Behold a bright cloud
overshadowed them, and behold a voice out of the cloud which
said, This is my beloved son, and whom I am well pleased.
Hear ye him. And when his disciples heard it,
they fell on their face and were sore, frayed.
And Jesus came and touched them and said, arise, be not afraid.
And when they had lifted up their eyes and saw no man save
Jesus only. I want to preach on this title
this morning. How to recognize a good place.
How to recognize a good a good place.
Let's pray. Father in Heaven, Lord, we come
before you again, praising you and thanking you for all that
you've done. Thank you for this lighthouse
of, you know, Liberty Baptist Church in this dark area, you
know, you know, Easton, Mass, southern Massachusetts, people
need Jesus. And Lord, I just thank you for,
you know, for this church here and for Pastor Rivero for you
putting a burden upon his heart to start this church many years
ago to reach people with the gospel, and that this church is
still here and still thriving and still reaching people.
I just ask you that you bless this church.
But Lord, this morning I just ask you that you speak to us
through the preaching of your word.
Give me the words to say. Speak to our hearts.
Help us, Lord, to be changed. Help us to be challenged.
Help us to leave different than when we came in.
In your name we pray, Amen. And so how to recognize a good
place as a way of introduction. This is one of the most precious
passages in this in the Bible. Here the Lord Jesus gives his
disciples a snapshot of the coming Kingdom.
It is helpful to understand what is happening in these verses.
If we, you know, we don't have time this morning to do it.
But if you take the time and you look backwards into chapter 16,
when you read chapter 16, you know, before, you know, I don't
know, I mean some people read their their Bible
chronologically. But if you, you know, read it,
you know, you know, chapter, you know, chapter to chapter.
When you go back to chapter 16, there Jesus had just told his
men that He is on the way up to the cross to die for their sins.
He tells them that Matthew 1619. He is then rebuked by Peter, but
goes on to tell the disciples that not only will He die on the
cross, but He will return to earth and glory someday.
Then Jesus makes a very strange statement in Matthew 1628.
He tells the disciples that some of them will not die before they
see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom.
After six days, Jesus taketh takes Peter, James, and John to
a high mountain. Mark Chapter 9 talks about this
as well. There Jesus was transfigured as
we just read in Matthew 17. He was transfigured in their
presence. Those three men, you know,
Peter, James and John, those three men were allowed to
witness a little bit of what we will see a whole lot of in
heaven. They were allowed to witness it.
Someday we're going to see everything that you know, in
heaven. But you know, you know, Peter,
James and John, they got a little glimpse of it at this
time in Matthew 17. They were given an honor that
none that no, none of them had ever, you know, ever got to got
over as long as that they lived. We would notice that the very
first word in chapter 17 is the Word, and this ties the events
of chapter 17 back to what happened in chapter 16.
What started in chapter 16 and what we will see here is a small
picture of the glory Jesus you know will have when He comes in
power and reign over earth. By the way, I thank God today
that I know who Jesus is. I am glad that I do not have,
you know, any trouble believing in the virgin birth.
I'm glad I don't have any trouble and believing in his
vicarious death or his victorious resurrection.
I am glad that I've been given the faith this, you know, to
believe that his visible return in his visible return some
glorious day. But this morning I don't want to
preach on the prophetic aspect of this passage.
I want to draw our attention to what Peter said in verse #4 Look
back at verse #4 Then answered Peter and said unto Jesus, Lord,
this next phrase, it is good for us to be here.
When Peter saw all that was happening around him that day,
he didn't understand all that was happening, but he knew it
was enough for him to recognize that he was in a good place.
He was where exactly where God wanted him to be.
Here's exactly where Jesus wanted him to be.
As you and I travel through this life, we're going to find
ourselves in all different kinds of places.
Some are going to be OK places, some are not going to be OK
places. There's there's going to be
times of that when we're in the valley.
There's going to be times when we're on the mountaintop.
There's going to be times that fall everywhere in between those
two streams. But today I want to, I want to
try to help you and I, you know, help us out a little bit on our
journey through, you know, towards glory.
I want to help us to know of a good place in life when we see
it. And I believe you can be in a
good place and not even recognize it.
You might be in a valley this morning and not even recognize
it and not even recognize that that valley is a good place.
You might be in a time of physical pain or emotional
trouble this morning, or a financial turmoil or any other.
You know, thousands of things that are possible, things that
it could be, trials that we may have, and you might not even
recognize that it is a good place to be in.
I would like for us to examine this passage and how to
recognize that we're in a good place.
Look back at verse number one and two.
Yeah, first of all, that, you know, we could examine his
glory. And after six days, Jesus taketh
Peter and James, Peter, James and John his brother, and
bringeth them up into a high, high mountain apart and was
transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the
sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
And so here is a special people verse.
One tells us that Jesus only took three of his men with him.
Why 3? Have we ever wondered that?
Why was it? Why was it Peter, James and
John? Why not Bartholomew?
Why not you know? Why not Paul?
You know He takes these three. It would appear that these men
were the Lord's inner circle. In fact, this is not the only
time Jesus selected these men for a time of special ministry.
It was these three men that were with Jesus when He raised
Jarius's daughter from the dead in Mark chapter 5, verse 37.
So Jesus has selected these three men before.
You know, these three men were also with Jesus when He went a
little deeper into Gethsemane to pray in Mark 1433.
And so they were with Him. And you remember when He was in
Gethsemane, what are these three guys there?
They fell asleep, but they were with Him, you know.
And while it is true that God has no respective persons, as
Romans 2211 tells us, it is also true that some people are closer
to Him than others. Each and every one of us this
morning, we are at different parts in our relationship with
Christ. Some are, you know, you know, so
the Bible talks about some are as newborn babes, right?
You know, design A sincere milk, you know, a newborn babe in
Christ, you know, is not at the same place and no relationship
with Christ as somebody who has been saved for a long time and
has been studying and meditated in God's Word.
Everybody is at different areas in their walk with God.
Everyone's at different areas, you know, and so it, it does
not, you know, it does not mean that some people are more
responsive to his love. You know, it doesn't mean that
God loves some more than others. In reality, you and I are as
close to God as we want to be. We're close to God as we want to
be, you know, and you know, if we want to get closer, we can.
James chapter 4, verse 8. You know, I love this verse.
It starts off, you know, it starts, you know, saying draw an
eye unto God and he will draw an eye unto you.
So if you and I want to be close to God and our walk with Him and
our relationship with Him, you and I have to make the first
step. You and I have to decide to do
so. We need to draw a nigh to Him,
and when we do that, He will draw a nigh to us.
By the way, those who are open to all that God has for them are
more likely to see Him move in glory and power than those who
tend to stay further and further away from Him.
If you stay, if you're far, far away from God, if you don't care
about your relationship with God, you don't care about being
close to Him at all. And then you wonder, why am I
not seeing God answer prayer? Why am I not seeing His power?
Why am I not seeing His blessings?
You chose not to be near Him. You chose not to draw not nigh
to him. You chose not to be close to
him. I don't know about you this
morning, but I want to have a desire, always have a desire to
be close to him as John was at the Last Supper.
He was close enough to see Jesus lay his head over on his breast
and could no and could no doubt feel the breath of God on his
head. He was close enough to talk to
Jesus and close enough to hear Jesus speak to him.
And we find that in John chapter 13 verse 23 through 26.
John was able, was one of the one of the few that was able to
get, you know, few divine secrets because he made an
effort to get close to Jesus. How are we doing this morning
and getting, you know, and making efforts to get close to
him? Are we waiting on God to do some
miraculous thing to show us a miraculous sign, a miracle in
order for us to get close to him?
Or are we taking the first step? Are we drawing an eye to Him
every single day and getting close to Him every single day?
Why don't we stop hanging back and get close to Him today if we
will? We can examine His glory.
There's a special people, but it's also a special place.
We are told that these three men are on a mountaintop with Jesus.
They're on a mountaintop in verse #1 it's called a high
mountain. Later, when Peter wrote about
what he had seen that day, he referred to it as a holy
mountain. And so when we read Second
Peter, chapter one, verse 16 to 18, Peters talking about, you
know, the mountain of Transfiguration, and he calls it
a holy mount. And second Peter, for Peter,
that high place became a holy place.
Even John referred to this event in the later years in the book
of first John, when he wrote it, he referred to it, you know, as
a holy place. Peter wanted to settle down and
stay right there. Peter wanted to stay right in
verse #4 He says it's good for us to be here if thou wilt, let
us make here 3 tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses, and one
for Elias. After this event, these men came
down off that mountain with Jesus.
When they had arrived back down in the valley, they were hit
square in the face with the pressures and the burdens of
life. And when you read later on in
the chapter, you know, from verse 14 to 27, they come off
that mountain and these three men again, they were hit with
the pressures and the burdens of life.
They had to deal with the demonic spirit.
They had to deal with paying their taxes.
They had to deal with that everyday life.
They but they carry the events of what happened on their
mountain, on this high mountain. They carry these events in their
hearts. Mark tells about that in Mark
Chapter 9. Here's the point.
If you and I really know the Lord, there's going to be some
high mount, there's going to be some mountaintops in our life
with Him. We're going to be up on the
mountaintops. We're going to be experiencing,
you know, His blessings and you know, we're going to be as close
to Him. We're going to experience his
presence, but there's also going to be times when, you know, his
presence is going to be real, his glory.
We're going to be able to see it, you know, and when we're on
the, when we're in on the mountaintops, when we're in
those times, we need to enjoy it.
We need to enjoy for all that's worth, because someday we're
going to have to make that trek down off that mountain.
We're going to have to make that trek back down, and we're going
to be in the valley and in the experience of the mountaintop.
The experience of the mountaintop will sustain us
through many long, difficult valleys.
Because it's a special place. It's also a special presentation
verse #2 says, and was transfigured before them.
Transfigured. This word is translated from the
same word that gives us metamorphose.
Nearly anyone who has ever taken biology knows what metamorphose
is. Yeah, it's a compound word,
meta, which means to change. And, and this is hard for me
because I hate science. I hate, you know, I never liked
science. I know it's strange because God
made all things and we find science in the Bible, but I, I
just never could comprehend science.
I struggled with it in school and it's all the teachers fault.
It's not my fault, it's the teachers fault.
I'm kidding, you know. But you know, meta, you know,
you know, means you know, to change and morph, which means
form. So therefore metamorphosis is a
change of form or a change of appearance.
This term is used to refer to what happens, you know, to
transform a Caterpillar into a butterfly.
That ugly Caterpillar enclosed. It encloses itself with a cocoon
and goes through a metamorphose. It goes in a worm and comes out
a butterfly. It goes in having to crawl.
It comes out able to fly. It goes in a thing that is ugly
and despised, and it appears as a thing of a wonderful beauty
that this is what happens to the Lord Jesus on the mountaintop
that day. Up up until that moment, He had
appeared to them as just another Jew who did some pretty
remarkable things. But on that mountain, the glory
that was concealed inside His human body, a burst forth.
You see, this was not the first time Jesus had experienced
metamorphose. The first time was when he was,
you know, placed within the womb of a virgin named Mary and was
born into this world. And we know that Jesus existed
before Bethlehem. In fact, He's internal.
He has always been. And when He was born in
Bethlehem, He was merely concealed.
He concealed His heavenly frame within an earthly frame.
Philippians chapter 2 verse 5 through 8 talks about that, that
He became the likeness of man, you know, and he became, and so
on that mountain that day, Matthew chapter 17, the glory
that was on the inside was visible on the outside for
Peter, James and John to see. They witnessed that glory, you
know, and you know, they, they saw, you know, that glory that
was on the inside of Jesus. Every now and then, you and I,
we pass through, as we pass through this life, we have the
privilege to catch a glimpse of His glory.
I've never seen the back parts of our Lord, but Moses did in
Exodus chapter 33. I've never heard him speak
inaudible voice. Like Abraham, like Jacob, like
Moses, like Elijah and others did.
I've never have been within the veil of the holies of holies,
you know, and been enveloped in his glory cloud.
But I have seen a time or two when the heaven brushed up next
to the earth and things got a little foggy.
There have been times in life when He pulled back the veil and
let and He will let me catch a glimpse of Him and His glory.
And you can say the same thing. You've gone through times like
that and you've been able to see His glory.
And when that happens, it's a good place to be in.
It's a good place. You know you're in a good place
when you can examine His glory. I said #1 #2 You know that
you're in a good place when you can exalt his greatness.
Look back at verse #3 three to five.
And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking
with him. Then answered Peter, and said
unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here.
If thou wilt, let us make here 3 tabernacles, one for thee, and
one for Moses, and one for Elias.
And while he yet spake verse 5, behold, a bright cloud
overshadowed them, and behold a voice out of the cloud which
said, This is my beloved son, and whom I'm well pleased.
Hear ye him we have heavenly visitors.
We find in verse three you have some heavenly visitors.
We're told that when Jesus was transfigured, he was visited by
Moses and Elijah. He's called Elias in this
passage. You know, the appearance of
these two men is a, is a marvelous miracle which has many
lessons to teach you and I. For instance, Moses had been
dead for 15, about 1500 years at this point, you know, and you
know when this event took place. But here he is Peter, James and
John, you know, had witnessed and had saw, had seen with their
eyes Moses who died some 1500 years previously.
Now I know that would scare some of us, right?
All of a sudden, or you're up on the mountain or wherever you go,
you go visit a relative in the grave site and all of a sudden
they appeared right before you and start talking.
I don't know about you, but I would run.
I would run. We don't see Peter, James and
John running here. We don't see them running away
after after Moses and Elijah appeared.
He is moving. Moses is moving.
He's been dead for 1500 years or so.
He's moving. He's not just moving, he's
talking and he's recognizable. He is very much alive.
This is just serves to remind us that the redeemed who die do not
go into the grave to wait for a resurrection, but they pass on
to glory with the Lord as Second Corinthians 58 talks about in
Philippians 123. Another thought is this.
Moses died on a mountain in the embrace of God.
God conducted his funeral and carried his spirit home to
glory. Moses represents believers who
died in faith. Elijah, he didn't die at all,
yet he didn't die. He was taken up in the
whirlwind, carried into heaven, the Chariots of fire.
He represents Saints of God who one day will be gathered up in
the rapture and taken to glory. What these two what?
What were these two famous men doing when they met Jesus on the
mountain? Luke 931 tells us that they were
talking with Jesus about his decease.
They were discussing his upcoming death on the cross.
How would you like to have heard that conversation?
Moses and Elijah talking to Jesus about what's happening
next, about dying on the cross. You're Peter, James and John.
Moses has been dead for about 1500 years, but he's they can
see him, he's moving, he's talking.
Elijah, who never died, was carried up in the whirlwind.
And how could you imagine just being there and hearing that
conversation, what you might have heard if you were there
that day when you heard the word, the word deceased, He
means exodus. So these three men were talking
about the day when Jesus would make his exodus out of this
human life. You see, Moses represents
represented the law and Elijah represented the prophets, the
law and every sacrifice prescribed in it to this point
and in it appointed ahead to Jesus the perfect fulfilment of
the Law. The prophet spoke of the one who
was to come to perfect that sacrifice and be the Redeemer.
The bottom line here is this Moses and Elijah came to exalt
the greatness of our of Jesus and to reveal to disciples that
he is and who he is, who he claimed to be.
That's why they were there. Moses again, you know, with the
law, you know, you know, they, you know, you know, with the
sacrifice, they pointed a head to Jesus, you know, and you know
the prophets, you know, they, you know, they perfect, you
know, they, you know, they prophesied the sacrifice in the
of the Redeemer. And so they were there to tell
Peter, James and John, he's not an ordinary Jew.
He is who he claims to be, the Messiah, the Son of God.
He was the one that we were looking forward.
We were looking forward to the day that he came.
He's here and now he's about to go to the cross.
And that's why they came. That's why they were there on
that mountaintop that day. You know, they, you know, to let
Peter, James and John know that he is the Messiah.
Then we find in verse #5 we hear, you know, they, they heard
a heavenly voice when this happened.
Peter, James and John, they're they're actually asleep in Luke
92032 tells us, you know, gives us a little bit more into the
story and the events that happened.
I should say that they, that they fell asleep.
And when they woke up and they saw what was going on, Peter, as
usual, had to say something. Peter, yeah, he just going to
keep his mouth shut. He always had to say something.
And, you know, bless his heart, he had to say something.
And, you know, and so, you know, and yet many of us, you know, we
have that problem as well, just like Peter.
Every time Peter opened up his mouth, it was just to change.
It was just to change feet or change the subject.
He put his mouth in motion before his brain got into gear.
Just for the record, there's times when it is better to say
nothing than to say something. There are times just to talk for
the sake of talking. Could be dangerous, you know, at
best, especially when we start to, you know, especially when we
start to remember that we will give an account for everything
that we say as what the book of Matthew says, for every idle
word that we say. When Peter does speak, he wants
to build 3 tabernacles on that mountain.
He wanted to. He wants to build one for Jesus,
one for Moses, and 1:00 for Elijah.
On the surface it seems fine, but when Peter's statement is
examined, it is clear that he's placing Jesus on the same level
as Moses and Elijah, which Jesus is not on the same level as
them. When this happens, a 7th person,
7th, you know, person shows up on that mountain.
When God hears what that when God hears his Son being compared
to Moses and Elijah and the prophets, you know, when he
hears this, he's, he reminds everyone on the mountain that
Jesus is greater than them. He's greater, you know, it's far
greater than Moses. He's far greater than Elijah,
you know, He's far greater than the prophets, He says, and at
the end of verse #5 this is my beloved Son, and whom I am well
pleased. Hear ye Him in truth.
He's the fulfillment of both, and He alone is worthy of our
praise and to give glory and on worship too.
When Jesus came out of the private years at his baptism,
God heard. God was heard to express His
pleasure in Jesus back in Matthew 3.
Here, in the midst of a public ministry of Jesus, God again
declares His pleasure in His Son.
I wonder if there was a time in heaven when Jesus returned with
the blood of His cross as the perfect offering for sin, and
God said for a third time, this is my beloved Son and whom I'm
well pleased. Do you ever think of that?
We find it twice in Scripture that he says that.
But when he goes, when he, when he leaves and he goes to heaven,
I wonder what the reunion was like up in heaven.
God saying, I could just imagine, this is my beloved Son
in whom I'm well pleased. Could you imagine that with me
this morning? You are in a good location in
your life when you and I have arrived at a place where nothing
and no one but Jesus has our attention.
You are, I'll say that again. You are in a good place in life
when you have arrived, you know, arrived at a place in life when
nothing and no one but Jesus has your attention.
You see far too many people are worship, you know, you know
worship the church, they worship the traditions of the church.
They worship people, they worship, you know, their
religion, a man made religion. But what has our worship this
morning? Who or what are we exalting this
morning? We should only be exalting our
Savior, our God and worship in him and not any tradition of
mankind or tradition of religion or worship in man at all.
We should be worshipping our Savior.
If if it's anything but Jesus, then you have, then we need to
change some things in our life. However, when we come to the
place in life, when we find ourselves worshiping Jesus and
finding ways to glorify Him, we have arrived at a good place.
This thing is all about Christ. It's all about Him.
It's not about me. It's not about your pastor.
It's not about you. It's all about him.
Why do we do what we do? I hope we do what we do because
we love him and we worship him. And that should be our
motivation. That should be our motivation
for praise, you know, and, and it shouldn't be because, oh, if
I don't go to church today, Pastor Rivera is going to find
out and he's going to call me up and say, where are you?
There was a time in my life when that when that happened, I grew
up in church and, and I could name and I could sit down with
you for hours and I can list out names of people that I know who
have said to me they only go to church because they don't want
to get a phone call. Why?
Because that happened. I remember the first time as a
teenager missing church because I was sick.
God forbid you get sick. I didn't tell anyone that I was
sick because I was. I was sick.
I didn't pick up the phone or call anyone or text anyone.
I was sick. 1235, my cell phone goes off and it's the preacher.
Where were you today not even 5 minutes after church ended?
Where were you? I'm sorry, I was sick.
It happened over and over and over and over again and people
changed the reason why they went to church because they didn't
want to get a phone call from the preacher.
They didn't want to get a phone call.
They don't want to be accused of anything, so they're just going
to church through the motions. And I was there at one point in
my life for a long period of time.
I was there and I recognized it later on and, you know, in my
life. And I got that right.
And we should only go to church because we love the Lord and
we're worshiping him and we're praising him for all he for who
he is and what he has done for us.
And when we stay in that that mindset, we are in a good place.
But if you ever find yourself, you know, you know, not having
that mindset and, and just going through the motions and, and
just serving because, you know, because you were told to and you
and you don't want to upset the preacher, you don't want to
upset the preacher's wife or you don't want to upset your Sunday
school teacher, whoever. If you're just doing it because
of that, you're doing it for the wrong reason.
You're doing it for the wrong reason.
He is worthy of our praise. He is worthy, you know, for us
to serve Him and to worship Him. It's all about Him and not about
us. You know you're in a good place
when you examine, when you can examine His glory.
I said #1 #2 when you can, when you can exalt His greatness and
number three. And last, when you can
experience His grace, verse 6 through 8 says, and when the
disciples heard it, heard what? What God said at the end of
verse #5 This is my beloved Son, in whom I'm well pleased, hear
ye Him. And so verse 6 says, and tie in
verse 5 to verse 6. And when the disciples heard it,
they fell on their face, and they were sore afraid.
And Jesus came and touched them and said, arise and be not
afraid. And when they had lifted up
their eyes, they saw no man save Jesus, only the grace of his
peace. We see here that we can
experience His grace. When these men heard the voice
of God and and realized the scope of what was happening on
that mountaintop, they fell down in fear before the Lord Jesus
was, you know as was his custom, walked over to them, touched
them and spoke peace to them. Jesus didn't criticize them.
Jesus didn't get on them at all. You know Jesus, you know he says
arise and be not afraid. Friend, this morning you are in
a good place in life when you can feel the Master's touch,
when you can feel the Master coming over to you in your life
and saying arise. Be not afraid whether he touches
you through the peace in the heart or whether you can hear
that still small voice from time to time.
It is a great day when you are a partaker of the grace of God and
the peace of our Savior. Thank God for those times when
He touches. When His touch becomes real, it
can drive away the icy fingers of fear and replace them with
the warmth of His peace. His touch can sever the you
know. You know can sever the tendrils
of doubt then that wrapped themselves around the soul.
From time to time. His touch can unlock the bars of
worry and liberate your troubled soul.
Thank God for His grace. His grace is sufficient for
thee. His grace is sufficient for
every need in your life. And you are in a good place when
Jesus blesses you with His grace.
His grace is priceless. His grace is matchless.
His grace is also incomprehensible.
It's too glorious for words to put to describe into and to talk
about. But we're in a good place when
we can experience His grace. How about the grace of His
presence? When is the when the disciples
looked up and verse 8 it says, and when they had lifted up
their eyes, when they had looked up, everyone but Jesus was gone.
Moses wasn't there. Elijah wasn't there.
It was just Jesus. He was still there, just as when
just said he had he been there? He was there before all this
excitement started. He was still there, and for a
short time Jesus had become lost in their excitement.
Now He is the center of their attention once again.
They had, they had His presence and after the, and after all
they had seen, I am sure he, he was more precious to them than
ever before at that moment. Can you, Can you imagine the
time that they spent with Jesus every day in his earthly
ministry, all the miracles that they saw and then at this
moment? When God, when they heard the,
when they saw Moses, they saw Elijah, they were excited with
that. They heard the voice of God
saying, this is my beloved son and whom I'm well pleased.
They experienced the touch of Jesus saying arise, be not
afraid. And they looked up and he was
there. He was there.
Their relationship with Jesus changed at this point, they were
closer to him than they ever been before.
As we move through the valleys and over the mountains of life,
there is one constant that you and I can always count on, and
that's Jesus. There's one constant He's the
same yesterday, today, and forever.
You know, he's all he will never leave us nor forsake us.
As the Bible tells us, regardless of what changes in
your life, Jesus won't change. He's not going to leave you.
He's going to always be there. And, and thank God for the times
in life when Jesus has manifested his presence.
And your life and my life, thank God for that.
You know you're in a good place when Jesus comes by and lets you
experience the grace of his presence.
Since that is true, we must also be careful about getting caught
up and trying to keep the law. We must be careful about getting
lost in the future events of prophecy.
We need to be careful that Jesus doesn't become just another part
of our life. We need to be sure that we are
ever in a place where we can sense His presence and where He
is the centerpiece of our life. What has our attention today?
In conclusion, Peter missed a few things along the way, but he
got one thing right in verse 4 when he said, Lord, it is good
for us to be here. Are you in a good place this
morning? Here's how you can tell.
Are you in a place where you can examine His glory?
Are you in a place where you can exalt His greatness and are you
in a place where you can experience His grace?
If the answer to each of these questions is yes, then you are
in a good place in your life. But if you are missing out on
even one of the three things, one of these great blessings, I
challenge you to get yourself to Jesus today and get the help
that you need to get in a good place.
You might be lost this morning. You might not know.
None of this might make sense to you because you're not.
You're lost and you don't know Christ as your Savior.
You can be saved today. You can.
You need to recognize you're a Sinner and that your sin has a
penalty and you're on and because of your sin, you're on
your way to hell, just a penalty for sin.
But Christ loved you so much that right after, you know,
shortly after the mount of Transfiguration, he goes, Jesus
goes and he dies on the cross. He paid for all of all of
mankind's sins, our past sins, our present sins, and our future
sins He paid for. He was on that cross.
He was buried, and then three days later he rose again.
And if you put your faith and trust in Christ, He will save
you. He will, for whosoever shall
call upon the Lord shall be saved, not might be, not hopes
to be, but shall be saved. You can come to Him today and be
saved. If there are burdens in your
life, your burdens can be lifted.
If there are needs in your life, they can be met.
The solution to all of these issues in lie in life lies in
US. Get into Jesus, get into him,
draw an eye to Him, get close to him, bring it to him.
Be in a good place. Thank you for listening to the
sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church.
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May the Lord bless you as you grow in His Word.