"Transfiguration and the Cross" - 02.15.26

Описание: Scripture: Matthew 16:24–17:13
Sermon Series: Discipleship—Living into the Story of Jesus
Sermon: "Transfiguration and the Cross" (Rev. Dr. Chris Ganski)
Worship Folder: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eqWs...

Reflections:
The promise of seeing God surpasses all beatitude . . . In Scripture, to see is to possess . . . Whoever sees God has obtained all the goods of which he can conceive.” --St. Gregory of Nyssa, De Beatitudinibus

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
~C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Beholding of the glory of Christ is one of the greatest privileges and advancements that believers are capable of in this world, or that which is to come.
~John Owen, The Glory of Christ

The human person is fully alive in the sight of God, knowing and being known in love, and is therefore able to rest in the fullness of God’s life such that he or she is able to embrace life itself. This life is known now through the cross, and does not merely look beyond it to glory (or, we might say, the form of glory is the cross). The light of the new creation is the light of the lamb, a lamb that never ceases to be the one who gave his life for many.
~Kyle Strobel, “A Spiritual Sight of Love”