Transfiguration: Embracing Our Victory in Christ

The Transfiguration, as recounted in the Gospel of Luke, serves as a powerful reminder of the divine glory of Jesus and the assurance of His promises. This event, where Jesus' appearance was transformed and He conversed with Moses and Elijah, underscores the continuity of God's plan from the Old Testament to the New Testament. It also highlights the importance of listening to Jesus, as affirmed by the voice from the cloud declaring Him as God's chosen one. [00:18:04]

I become more and more convinced that the signature win for all of us who don't have a spectacular Sports career for all of us who have found ourselves not at the top of the pyramid for all of us who found a little less than what we had hoped for there is a victory that those in Christ can claim and that's what Paul is talking about today in verse 57 of chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians Paul says thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ the ultimate signature win it's a victory over sin and death. [00:21:28]

As we have looked at 1 Corinthians chapter 15 we've been looking at Paul's revelation of the singular importance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead he starts with the gospel in in the early verses and he says this is the most important thing that I taught this is the most important thing that I've ever said he said that Christ died in accordance with the scriptures that he was buried and that he was raised again on the third day. [00:22:49]

The resurrection is the lynchpin of our faith it's what holds everything together and as you go through chapter 15 what you see is as Paul begins to defend the resurrection of the Dead there is this tension there is a a present benefit to what God has done in Jesus Christ and there is a future reality and that tension is what we feel in our lives but also In this passage today. [00:23:55]

The reality is that in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet he says the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable and notice the end of verse 52 we shall be changed this is the reality of our frail human flesh this is the reality of the hope of ultimate Victory in Jesus Christ he says the perishable body must put on the imperishable and the IM mortal body must put on the immortality. [00:24:48]

The promise is is in Jesus Christ this frail flesh is not all there is there is a resurrection body that will last to Eternity and it will be an incredible body you see the the perishable must put on the imperishable this is the reality of this ultimate Victory and what it reminds us of is that our ultimate hope is not in this Earthly Life. [00:26:00]

The sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law sin is what separates us from God and Paul says that power that's found in the law that's found in sin is going to be broken by the work of Jesus Christ on the cross he says thanks be to God who gives us the victory Jesus gives us that Victory by his death and resurrection and so when we read that verse we should hear a sense of excitement and enthusiasm. [00:27:47]

Therefore my beloved brothers and sisters be steadfast immovable meaning stand firm stand in the currents of this world and have a solid foundation be steadfast and movable in the resurrection of Jesus Christ in this ultimate Victory and he says always abounding in the work of the Lord meaning that your life can overflow because you know that you are standing on Solid Ground you know that Jesus Christ is raised from the dead. [00:29:26]

There is that tension the victory is not yet final and yet we know it's ours and so we get glimpses like yesterday at the day of Jubilee with over 500 people worshiping the Lord like this women's retreat we had this weekend learning about prayer with Reverend Sandy kerer there are all different glimpses and when he gives us a glimpse we know that we can continue in the battle because ultimately this is what TR is true. [00:32:39]

God gives us glimpses of his glory so that we can keep walking in the difficulty of this life there is that tension the victory is not yet final and yet we know it's ours and so we get glimpses like yesterday at the day of Jubilee with over 500 people worshiping the Lord like this women's retreat we had this weekend learning about prayer with Reverend Sandy kerer there are all different glimpses and when he gives us a glimpse we know that we can continue in the battle. [00:32:39]

The response to these truths the response to the ultimate victory of Christ is that we work at the things that God has called us to and so we are steadfast and immovable and here is a picture of our lives but there is this tension that remains do you sense it in this passage do you sense it in your own life that yes there is a victory but my friends still get sick yes there is incredible hope and this idea that we shall be changed. [00:30:58]

The response to these truths the response to the ultimate victory of Christ is that we work at the things that God has called us to and so we are steadfast and immovable and here is a picture of our lives but there is this tension that remains do you sense it in this passage do you sense it in your own life that yes there is a victory but my friends still get sick yes there is incredible hope and this idea that we shall be changed. [00:30:58]