GOD’S WORD FOR  APRIL 13

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

GLORY IS COMING

Mark 9:8

“And suddenly looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only.”

D.L. MOODY

What a dark night it would have been if our Lor and Master had been caught up with Moses and Elijah, and no Christ had died for our sins.  Oh how Jesus Christ has lit up this world!   But suppose He had gone up to heaven on the other side of Calvary and had never finished His work.  Suppose that God, in His love for His Son, had said:  “I can’t let those men spit on you and hit you:  I will take you back home.”  What darkness would have settled down on this world!  But Moses disappeared, and Elijah disappeared, and Christ only was left, for Christ is all!  The law and the prophets were honored and fulfilled in Him.

ERWIN LUTZER

When Jesus left for Earth, He set His glory aside.  But at the Mount  of Transfiguration, His inner nature broke forth.    Jesus revealed to His followers a sliver of his radiant glory.  Jesus had already told His disciples He was going to die, but they vehemently protested.  Even at Moses’ and Elijah’s appearing, they began discussing Jesus’ “departure.” (Luke 9:30-36).

For Jesus, pleasing the Father with the redemption of sinners, was worth the “joy set before Him” (Hebrews 12:2).  First comes the cross, then comes the crown.  First comes agony then comes glory.  That’s why Jesus brought His disciples up the mountain – to encourage them to know that although He would die, they should remember the glory that awaits them.

In John 17:22, Jesus prayed to the Father for us that “the glory that You have given e I have given to them.”  The glory the disciples saw on the mountain, will someday be ours too!!!!

PRAYER

Father, thank You that every believer will enjoy and participate in the glory of Christ.  I look forward to the day when I will be like Him, when I shall see Him as He is.”

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1 John 3:2

 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

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Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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Hebrews 12:2

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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Philippians 2:8

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

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2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

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1 John 4:10

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

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Philippians 3:20

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

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