GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 24

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.

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HEADED FOR GLORY

And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. Mark 9:9

D.L. MOODY

It is a singular fact that John, the only Gospel writer who was with Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration, does not give an account of it. Perhaps the scene was so solemn, so impressive, and so holy that he could not bring himself to write of it. Peter, who was also present, barely mentioned it in his writings that have come down to us. His only reference to the scene is in his second letter, written many years afterward, when he was an old man: “We were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honor 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. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount” (2 Peter 1:16–18).

ERWIN LUTZER

What did Jesus’ transfiguration mean to Peter, James, and John? Well, they were discussing His exodus, that is, Jesus’ coming death in Jerusalem. And second, the transfiguration showed them the glory that would be waiting for them at death. James was the first disciple to be martyred, and I can imagine him thinking, “I have seen the glory waiting for me on the other side.” Tradition says Peter was crucified for his faith, and John lived with persecution and was eventually exiled on the island of Patmos.

The three of them would never view death the same again for they had “seen the glory.” For us, with the eye of faith, we see glory, and when we join Jesus in glory, “we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2).

If only we were to remember the glory that awaits us, we would face death without fear.

PRAYER

Father, may my coming glory motivate me to live on Earth for your glory alone.

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John 5:24

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears My word, and believes on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 6:47

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes on Me already has everlasting life.

I Peter 1:3-5

Blessed be the God and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

John 10:27-29

My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me:  And I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.  My father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

Romans 8:38, 39

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I Corinthians 15:54,55

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?

John 11:25,26

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die….?

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