posted Feb 8, 2016, 11:07 AM by Grant Garber
- Pay Attention to the Witness of the Transfiguration (vv. 16-18).
- We can trust Peter’s words because of his experience as an eyewitness of the Transfiguration.
- The Bible presents itself as a sober recognition of God’s space and time intervention into history.
- The Transfiguration represented a display of the Kingdom of God coming in power.
- Peter makes it very clear that this was all experienced because they were physically present.
- Pay Attention to the Witness of the Prophetic Word (vv. 20-21).
- Divine Origin vs. Human Origin
- Concursus refers to the coming together or the convergence of the human and the divine in Scripture.
- Opposition to Reading the Bible
- The World
- The Devil (and his servants)
- Look to and Live by the Light of the Word (v. 19).
- God commands us to pay attention to the Word as to a lamp shining in a dark place.
- We need the Word of God until the darkness is no more.
- So why the delay?
- The Lord measures time differently than we do.
- God is fundamentally and gloriously different than us.
- Not wanting any to perish, God is waiting for you to repent and be reconciled to Him.
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