For He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to Him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased:
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… but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to him from the excellent glory. And what did it say? It said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain. You wanna underline that, on the holy mountain. And so we have, I love this, the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Now, every message in this series, if you've been paying attention, has come from the epistles of 1 or 2 Peter. And so we end here as Peter, looking back, is talking about one of certainly the highest moments of his entire life, when Jesus took him, as well as James and John, on top of a mountain. And there, you could say, showed his true colors, right? …
… contrived myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Instead, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received glory and honor from God the Father when the voice came to him from the majestic glory saying, this is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased. We ourselves heard this voice when it came from heaven while we were with him on the holy mountain. We need to be aware of this because we'll see this happen a lot, right? Some pastor, some speaker, some self-proclaimed apostle or prophet says, I have been to heaven and I want to tell you all the secrets about it, right? There's plenty of TV shows that broadcast these individuals. I'm trying to find a nice word. But the whole point is just like, I have been to heaven. Jesus took me to heaven. Angels took me to heaven. In fact, I go to heaven all the time. I want you to know about it. I want to share these secrets with you. …
… And then a voice came from heaven. You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Now, I want you just to notice how Mark writes this. He says, he saw the heavens parting. Now, the other gospel writers use different words. They just say the heavens were open. Mark says the heavens parted, and it's a very strong word. It literally means the heavens were torn apart, torn open, rent, like you take a garment and rip it. The heavens were torn open. Do you remember in the book of Isaiah, the prophet looks up to heaven and says, oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down. This is God answering Isaiah's prayer. The Son of God has come down. The heavens are torn open. And the Spirit comes down in a form of a dove while the Father says, you are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. This is the Father and the Son making a confirmation of Jesus Christ and his mission. …
… And now he describes what happened when Jesus went up on the mountain, took Peter, James, and John, and Elijah appeared, and Moses appeared, and the glory of God appeared on the mountain. He, Jesus, 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 we also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable and you will do well to pay attention to it as to a light shining in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts above all you must understand that no prophecy of scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. …
… but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty, these guys that saw this happen. He received honor and glory from God the Father. when the voice came to him from the majestic glory. Man, I'm telling you, we gotta get more of this in our lives, people. There's something called the majestic glory. There is the right hand of majesty in heaven. And when that voice speaks, it speaks in 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, honor and glory coming from the majestic glory the father the son the spirit transfigured on this mountain in full view of human beings and it's all glory mysterious amazing weight and worth and wonder in Christ Jesus died for God's glory man this is oh man I want to let this sink in for us today because, you know, we tend to drift towards this idea that all this is about us. …