Easter Sermon Series, 3/8/26
JOURNEY TO THE CROSS: JESUS REALLY IS THE SON OF GOD!
Mark 9:2-10 (selected passages from Matthew and Luke)
We began last week to follow Jesus on His JOURNEY TO THE CROSS that awaits Him in Jerusalem. For the first time the apostles, with Peter as the spokesman, confessed that Jesus was “the Christ, the Son of the Living God” (Matthew 16:15).
For two-and-a-half years the apostles had been following Jesus hoping that He was indeed the Christ—the Anointed One. However, their understanding of why God sent the Christ was totally wrong. They saw Him as an earthly King who would defeat the Roman Empire and rule victoriously over the nation of Israel, but God sent Him to be the Savior of the World by sacrificing His life for the sins of mankind.
Jesus decides to take His three closest disciples and dear friends, Peter, James and John, to a mountain on the edge of Galilee to witness His transfiguration. What happens there will leave no doubt in the minds of these three disciples that JESUS REALLY IS THE SON OF GOD.
MARK 9:2-10
After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. 3 His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4 And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.
5 Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 6 (He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.)
7 Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!”
8 Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus.
9 As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. 10 They kept the matter to themselves, discussing what “rising from the dead” meant.
