 We are, as I said a moment ago, looking at the transfiguration, beginning at verse 27, Jesus speaking, but I tell you truly there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God. And it came to pass about eight days after these saints that he took Peter, John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the appearance of his face was altered and his robe became white and glistening. Then behold, two men talked with him, who were Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of his decease which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep, and when they were fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. And it happened as they were parting from him that Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here. And let us make three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah, not knowing what he said. While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them and they were fearful as they entered the cloud. And then a voice came out of the cloud saying, This is my beloved son, hear him. And when the voice had ceased, Jesus was found alone. But they kept quiet and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen. Now notice verse 27. Notice how we're going to begin here. How Jesus has said, Some of you will not taste death until you see the kingdom of God. He obviously is speaking about an event that is about to take place. We see that event in verse 28. It's the event that is referred to as a transfiguration. Now, when he says some of them will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God, he'd have to be referring to this transfiguration because as we look at verse 28, it makes it very plain that that's what he's referring to. This transfiguration has been called a preview of Jesus' second coming. And you can get a better understanding of this event by simply cross-referencing it. There are different passages that speak about this, Matthew 17 and Mark chapter 9. Both speak concerning this, but I want to read verses 1 and 2 out of Mark chapter 9. So you might see what's taking place because it says in Mark chapter 9 verses 1 and 2 that he said to them, assuredly I say to you that there are some standing here who will not taste the death till they see the kingdom of God present with power. Now, after six days, Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves and he was transfigured before them. So Peter, James, and John are going to see the glory of Christ and this will fulfill his words that they will not taste death until they see that. And so this is what's taking place here. We're looking at an event called the transfiguration. Now, it says in verse 28, it came to pass about eight days after these saints that he took Peter, James, Peter, John, and James. Now, interestingly enough, and this is just a sidelight for those of you who take notes and all, Matthew and Mark had said after six days, but if you notice with me, Luke says eight days. Is that a contradiction in Scripture? You know, if you have two Gospel writers, Matthew and Mark, saying that after six days this event happens and yet Luke tells us it was after eight days, somebody who's looking for contradictions in Scripture might point to this and say, well, this looks to me like it's contradicting the witness of the other two Gospels. No, it's not that at all. What it is is Luke is including the day that Jesus made the prediction, the six days that intervened after he made it, and the day that the event occurred, so this is eight days, and that's simply what is taking place there. Now, Jesus has taken aside with him three men that he often does spend private time with. Notice it says that he took Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. These are three men that have been referred to as his inner circle. We see them various times with the Lord Jesus Christ where he gives to them information concerning something that will take place. We already saw it in Luke chapter 8 verse 51 how that Peter, James, and John went with him when he raised up Jairus' daughter from the dead. Mark tells us in chapter 13 verses 3 and 4 that Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, and Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, tell us when will these things happen and what will be the sign that they're about to be fulfilled. And so you see him speaking to them in a personal way. And then again in Mark 14 in verses 32 and 33 it says they went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples seated while I pray, he took Peter, James, and John along with him and began to be deeply distressed and troubled. And so why is it that he took these three men often? Why are they referred to as his inner circle? Is it because he just liked them more than the others? Well, I would think not. What you're looking at is that they're going to be his eyewitnesses. These are people that he was mentoring. These are people he spent time with. These are people who were very close to his heart. But these are also people who are going to be eyewitnesses of this particular event called the transfiguration. You see in Deuteronomy in chapter 19 verse 15 the Bible says a matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. And so they're going to be there as witnesses to this event called the transfiguration. This impacted them tremendously, by the way. Both the Apostle Peter as well as the Apostle John made reference to this event in their writings. Peter in 2 Peter chapter 1 verses 17 and 18 said, 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 that came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the holy mount. And so he makes reference to this. It's something that stayed with him that he didn't say anything about while Jesus is still with him. But he does mention later on in his writings. When John was writing his gospel in chapter 1 verse 14 he said, The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten Son of God full of grace and truth. So this is an event that remained firmly in the memory of the Apostles as Jesus Christ is about to reveal to them something that they really were not aware of to the degree that they're about to become. And that is that he is a glorious God who is shrouded in human flesh. And so it is taking place. Well it says in verse 29, As he prayed the appearance of his face was altered and his robe became white and glistening. So Jesus is on the mount. Where is this mountain he's speaking about? It's unnamed but we know that because he was in the north in Caesarea Philippi and he was at the base of Mount Hermon that he was more than likely on Mount Hermon. And so there he is somewhere up on that mountain that's about 9,000, 10,000 feet high and he's somewhere up in that area there and as he's there he's praying and as he's praying there he's undoubtedly praying for them that they might see him for who he is and understand what God would have them to know about him. See as I've shared with you before and as the Bible clearly teaches all revelation about God is divinely given. In order for me to have a relationship with God he needs to reveal himself to me because he's a God past finding out. His ways are not my ways, his thoughts are not my thoughts and unless he reveals himself to me unless he openly says here am I, worship me then I'm going to be groping in the dark seeking out trying to reach something that I can't identify. And so what the Lord does is the Lord reveals himself to us and he does so by his Holy Spirit he opens up our darkened eyes and allows us to see him and so that's what's about to take place here. They're going to see something about Jesus Christ that by nature through the natural senses would never be able to grasp. They're going to see something about him. They're going to see his divinity as it's revealed as it's shrouded in humanity. They're about to see a transfiguration. They're going to see his glory. Matthew 17 in verse 2 tells us that he was transfigured before them. The word transfigured is the Greek word that we get the word metamorphosis from and the word speaks of changing into another form or to be transfigured or transformed and what is taking place here as his glory begins to shine before them as it says in verse 29 the appearance of his face was altered his robe became white and glistening his divine majesty begins to shine through his human nature his clothing began to glisten with purity and as this is taking place they're seeing something about him that they had yet to really see. They're only now beginning to see Jesus Christ for who he is more than a rabbi, more than a prophet more than simply a good man they're only now beginning to have revelation to realize that this is Messiah just shortly before the Apostle Peter when they had been asked the question who do men say that I am? The Apostle Peter had just said you're the Christ the son of the living God and remember as we were looking at that how Jesus had said to him blessed are you Simon by Jonah for flesh and blood has not revealed this unto you but my father in heaven his father had revealed this and I was mentioning to you that Peter could not take the credit for recognizing him as being Messiah because it was God who revealed that fact to him that's why none of us can take the credit for our own salvation we can't run around saying well I found God even as I was sharing with you recently I found God because God wasn't lost he wasn't lost somewhere and I suddenly find him and so there you are God you know here I am to your rescue it wasn't that way at all I'm the one who's lost and he's the one seeking me out and unless he reveals himself to me then there's absolutely no way that I'm going to grow to know him and so Jesus has to reveal to us who he is essentially or we'll never grasp it and his disciples are just now beginning to grasp some things about him they're beginning to realize this is our Messiah and so as this is taking place and he's praying his appearance is altered in all notice verse 30 behold two men talked with him who are Moses and Elijah now how did they know that they have name tags there you know those hello I'm Moses you know I don't know little IDs you know Elijah it doesn't say it doesn't say it doesn't say how they know that this is Moses and Elijah it simply states that that's who it is now seeing that it is Moses and Elijah though we have to ask ourselves a question why is it significant that these two out of all the people God fears and had relationship with him why is it Moses and why is it Elijah it could have been anybody it could have been Moses and it could have been David it could have been Abraham and it could have been Gideon I mean it could have been just many other people in the Old Testament who had relationship with God why is it significant that we have to know that Jesus Christ is revealing his glory and that these two figures of the Bible Moses and Elijah are there why is that important well it's important because they visibly represent something they visibly represent the law and the prophets and Jesus Christ is the one that the law and the prophets point to Moses is known as the law giver and you see this throughout the Old Testament he's the one that God gave the commandments to and so everybody knows Moses as the greatest figure in Jewish history he's the law giver the deliverer and so when you see him you know that he's representing Old Testament law and then secondly Elijah was known as the defender of the law he was a great prophet a man of uncompromising godliness and is referred to as the premier prophet of the nation of Israel this is a man who performed many miracles and was revered by that nation so together Moses and Elijah visibly represent the law and the prophets and Jesus there together with Moses and Elijah sums up the law and the prophets and so they're basically there speaking concerning the death that he is going to have in Jerusalem because Jesus Christ sums up the prophecies that relate to that as well as fulfilling the demands of the law that are required for us to be able to even go to heaven the Bible tells us in Romans chapter 3 verses 21 and 22 the righteousness of God apart from the laws revealed being witnessed by the law and the prophets even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all who believe the law amongst many things is a school master intended by God to bring us to faith in Jesus Christ the law awakens me to my sinful condition for I would not know what it means to covet had not the law stated thou shalt not covet and then as Paul says and it awakened in me all manner of covetousness in other words my nature was revealed by the law because the law tells me what is right and what is wrong and then when I see the way that I live in juxtaposition to the law I see that the law reveals to me what is wrong with me and so I can say oh wretched man that I am who will deliver me from this body of death seeing that I am all together sold to sin and incapable of going one day without it without in some way sinning I can even sin in my dreams I know that you can't I can even sin in my dreams and all and it's just part of it's wrapped up in us and the law awakens us to that reality and so I say God I need you and that's what Paul to the Glacian said he said no you're not that the law is our school master intended to deliver us to Jesus Christ to faith in Christ and so the law awakens in me a need for a savior and then reveals that savior is the prophets obviously speak concerning who Jesus is throughout the Old Testament we see prophecy after prophecy after prophecy that relates to Messiah who is to come and so you have Elijah and you have Moses the law and the prophets summed up in the Lord Jesus Christ and they're ministering there and speaking to them and all and that's what's taking place notice verse 31 how it says they spoke of his disease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem what they're doing is actually speaking and confirming what Jesus had been saying to his disciples the things that the apostle Peter had basically opposed remember in verse 22 here in the same chapter how Jesus was speaking and he said there the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised at the third day you remember how when Jesus said that the apostle Peter was very upset over that upset that Jesus actually said that he was going to die and all and Matthew tells us in chapter 17 verse 22 of his gospel that Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him saying far be it from you Lord this shall not happen to you and this is very disturbing information that he's going to be betrayed that he's going to be killed and all of that and so Peter was so upset that Jesus said that he actually took him aside and to me that's an amazing thing I I don't know what the proper phrase would be I blow my mind I'm amazed at that that the apostle Peter would take God aside to give him advice we've never done that have we we've never said Lord if you did it this way it would work better have we Lord I want this person saved and this is how you can go about we've never said anything like that have we we don't ever advise the Lord see I watched the apostle Peter and I have to see myself in him you know he is an old saying about the apostle he opened his mouth only long enough to take one foot out and put the other one as that way about him and that's what makes him lovable but also that's what makes him difficult to me because in many ways you see him as a person who is constantly doing insane things that reveals he really just doesn't get it and the thought that he could be there and he had just had told the Lord recently had told him that these things let these things be far from you this is not what's going to take place we don't want this to take place at all it amazes me that he would take Jesus aside I mean it's like Jesus I want to have a conference with you I don't want these other guys to hear it because you know they're not as spiritually mature as I am you see I'm the one who receives spiritual revelation just a moment ago you were making it very clear that that flesh and blood hadn't revealed that to me but your father and also I just want you to know that you and I need to have a private consultation so I can let you know and Jesus in in Matthew and I'm reading this verse to you because I misquoted it was Matthew 16 22 and in Matthew 16 23 Jesus turned and said to Peter get behind me Satan you're in offense to me for you are not mindful of the things of God but the things of men I mean wait a minute a moment ago you were saying I received spiritual revelation in front of everybody you said that through my confession that the kingdom of God was going to march forward I mean Satan what's going on here well on the one hand there are times when we speak by the spirit's utterance and another time we can be influenced by the enemy and we sometimes don't even know the difference between the two it takes the Holy Spirit to really give us revelation and sometimes even though the apostle Peter wanted to do something right when he took him aside and rebuked him he was doing something wrong in his opposition he became Satan's mouthpiece and by saying to Jesus I need to die on the cross he in essence was echoing what Satan in the wilderness in Matthew chapter 4 and in Luke chapter 4 had already openly said to Jesus I'll give you these kingdoms and you don't have to die it's the same mentality and that's why Jesus would say to Peter get behind me Satan you are in offense to me because you desire the things of the flesh and not of God and here he is once again saying even as we're seeing in Luke chapter 9 that he is going to be rejected and die but the apostle Peter had refused to believe that and so what we have in this conversation is actually a confirmation of what Jesus had been teaching his disciples and so they again in verse 31 are speaking of his decease which he's about to accomplish at Jerusalem now in verse 32 it says but Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep and when they were fully awake they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him now when you begin to track their day they had a long day of ministry then they had received extensive teaching and in the later afternoon had actually begun climbing up this face of this mountain they're absolutely dead tired and as they're there naturally they're heavy with sleep and that's what it says in verse 32 they're just very tired but when this takes place notice how it says they woke up and when they wake up it's almost like a dream but they see his glory and they see these two men who are standing there with him and verse 33 it happened as they were parting from him Peter said to Jesus it's good for us to be here and let us make three tabernacles one for you one for Moses and one for Elijah not knowing what he said once again very typical apostle now Peter and the other men are sleepy but they are now in a state of awe at what they're seeing Mark tells us in chapter 9 verse 6 that Peter didn't know what to say because they were greatly afraid and so again as is common Peter felt comfortable filling the silence with his own voice there are people I know who are not comfortable with silence do you know what I'm trying to say let me see if I can this probably doesn't matter to you but it does to me something happens that the Lord is moving in a wonderful way the room gets quiet for a moment and they just don't like the silence so they start to talk and I've had that happen so many times there are many people who just aren't comfortable if the room gets quiet and so they're more comfortable when it's filled with the sound of their own voice and they will say things and sometimes inappropriate things I can tell you I've seen that happen many times and I've discovered that sometimes it is simply the wisest thing to do if you remain quiet don't say anything sometimes you just don't need to just let the Holy Spirit move and just enjoy the afterglow of God's presence and then later on you might want to speak to your friends and say did you sense how the Lord was moving but instead of that Peter you know we ought to build three houses I mean he just why are you doing that Pete shut up you know one of my favorite Proverbs is Proverbs 17 28 even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace when he shuts his lips he's considered perceptive you know even a fool who is quiet people think he's pensive because he's just sitting there listening I've got a puppy I mean they don't they don't know what he's thinking but they think he's deep you know so sometimes it's better just to be quiet I don't know let's build three shelters at least he didn't say let's build four one for me let's build three you can remain here is what he's saying you will not have to die sometimes we want to stay in that mountaintop experience we just want to live there but when he's saying that he's also saying to him if you remain here what you've been sharing with us that is so disturbing and even what Moses and Elijah have been speaking to you about in terms of your death well if we remain here you're not going to have to die and not only that but remember with me that just just before Jesus had been speaking to them about the cost of discipleship and remember in verse 23 following how Jesus had just said if anyone desires to come after me let him deny himself take up his cross daily and follow me for whoever desires to save his life will lose it whoever loses his life for my sake will save it what advantage is it to a man if he gains the whole world and is himself destroyed or lost whoever is ashamed of me and my words of him the son of man came to when he comes in his own glory and in his fathers and of the holy angels he had just been speaking about losing your life in the cost of discipleship and so Jesus if we build this these tabernacles these tents for you to remain you and Moses and Elijah then you won't have to die and not only that but we won't either we can remain with you and so in reality the bottom line is Moses and Elijah must leave so that Jesus remains preeminent now what do we learn from the Apostle Peter let me give you three things that you might want to pick up from this one do not camp out on spiritual experiences don't camp out on spiritual experiences if the only thing that you can talk about when testimony time comes is what God did in your life 12 years ago maybe he's not moving right now and maybe there's a reason for that maybe we ought to be seeking that the Lord might do something now because he's the God of now he's the I am God he's the God of this moment and I suspect that seeing that his mercies are renewed every morning for his compassion fails not I suspect that the Lord does a new thing in our lives quite often and I suspect that if I'm fresh with the Lord that I'm going to be moving from one experience in him to another one that's going to be deepening me but if the only things that I can come up with to share about or things that happen in my life years ago then maybe I need to update my relationship with the Lord maybe God wants to do something right now maybe God has something he wants to do in me at this moment that I'm quenching the spirit and I'm saying no I don't want you to do that or I'm afraid to allow you access to that and you know so one don't camp out on spiritual experiences because God's intention is to develop growth in us 2 Corinthians 3 18 we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the spirit of the Lord God wants to develop us secondly do God's will not your own do God's will not your own because Peter wanted to deflect Jesus from the cross and wanted him Jesus to do Peter's will rather than God's will but the Bible tells us this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us and so do God's will not your own seek his will and finally obviously think before you speak I have a scripture on my screen in my office that I wrote out and I read it quite often it's Psalm 141 verse 3 it says set a guard oh Lord over my mouth keep watch over the door of my lips David translation teach me to shut up Jesus teach me to shut up and teach me to say the right things not the wrong things Proverbs 21 23 says he who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity and so we need to think before we speak and sometimes we simply don't need to speak because we should be thinking now as all of this is taking place notice verse 34 while he was saying this a cloud came and overshadowed them and they were fearful as they entered the cloud now one this cloud represents what is called the shekinah glory of God the shekinah glory it's the glory that is in the temple of God in Exodus chapter 40 verses 34 and 35 speaking of the tabernacle it speaks of this cloud it says the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle Moses could not enter the tent of meeting and the cloud had settled upon it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle so this cloud represents the shekinah glory of God and so they become fearful now notice verse 34 they were fearful as they entered into the cloud the question has to be asked who is entering into the cloud I mean you might get the impression that it's all of them but in reality the ones who are entering into this cloud or the cloud is surrounding them in verse 35 tells us it says a voice came out of the cloud saying this is my beloved son hear him and so the voice coming out of the cloud has to speak to somebody who's not in the cloud and so he's speaking to the apostles who are there as Jesus and Moses and Elijah are being surrounded by this cloud and yet I want you to notice with this voice it's God who's speaking and notice what he's saying this is my beloved son hear him Matthew 16 verse 5 adds the words this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased hear him and so first God declares his approval of everything the son has done and has said because Jesus lived a life that was fully pleasing to his father he lived in perfect accord never sinned and had continuous fellowship with the Lord and thus his life obviously his God and his father he was very pleasing to him in John 8 29 he said Jesus said he who sent me with me the father has not left me alone for I always do those things that please him so he said in whom I am well pleased but notice he also says hear him now when he says hear him listen to him listen to what he has to say now this is an important point I hope I develop it right with you hear him when he says hear him that is a reference to Jesus as being Messiah when he says hear him that is actually an illusion to Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 15 because in the Old Testament in the book of Deuteronomy there is a prophecy related to the prophet who is like unto Moses and in that passage it says the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst from your brethren to hear and so the hear him is an illusion to Jesus as Messiah and so he is saying this is my beloved son the son of God he has pleased me and it is your responsibility to hear or to listen to what he has to say now to take it a step further and bring some application to that to hear him is not simply to allow your son to reverberate with the sounds that he is making there is a great difference and we know it between listening and simply hearing all of us know that every married couple in this room knows that there is a difference and our kids if you are a parent your lips may be moving and they are looking at you as your lips are moving do you ever said are you listening to me have you ever said that do you hear me and oh yeah I hear you you are not listening to me don't tell me you are listening to me I know you are not listening to me you are saying what did I just say you said a lot yeah I know but what exactly did I just say and you know it has been said to you my precious honey I don't know there are times she is here right now but she doesn't hear me I am going to get in trouble but there are times there are times daily that I will look at her and I will say honey you are not listening to me yes I am if Marie is folding close she is not listening to me I can tell you that if she is looking at the TV she doesn't watch very much TV but if she is watching the TV and I turn to her she will just she is not listening to me my wife is the one that sits there and her head starts to fall like that and I will look at her and I will say baby go to bed you got sleep in your eye what you mean you are not asleep I am watching this you know what God himself can speak to us and we say we are listening and we are not we are doing something else we are thinking something else we are caught up with something else and the Lord is speaking and it is through his word and the beans don't burn I mean where am I going to go after church I mean we we are that way I have hope I have to be honest with you I have so much hope because I know if the Lord can work with guys like the apostle Peter who don't seem to get it most of the time and yet God transforms him into an incredible man of God and you see this life after life in the Bible because as I am reading this God is making a statement to me and to us I think by application and he is saying look at this this is my beloved son I am well pleased with this he is the one that you are to hear because he is the Messiah he is the one that I spoke of in Deuteronomy 1815 when I said I would raise up a prophet like unto Moses and you are to hear what he has to say this is the one as they are having this exceptional mountain top experience and the Lord speaks and notice with me that God doesn't say a whole lot he doesn't say he doesn't have to this is my beloved son I am well pleased hear him that's all he doesn't give us a long long long he just says hear him having a desire to hear the Lord having an obedient ear to his teachings having a hunger to know him and having the respect to listen carefully to him reveals that we love him reveals that we know him it reveals that well that we belong to him that's what it reveals guys that's what it reveals that we belong to him in John chapter 10 verse 27 Jesus said it this way he said my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me remember chapter 6 in Luke let me turn you there for a moment I want to show you something verses 46 following I want to remind you of something remember how in Luke chapter 6 verse 46 Jesus asked this incredible question but why do you call me Lord Lord and do not do the things which I say whoever comes to me and hears my sayings and does them I'll show you whom he is like he's like a man building a house who dug deep laid the foundation on the rock and when the flood arose the stream beat vehemently against that house and could not shake it for it was founded on the rock but he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation against which the stream beat vehemently and immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great see the difference is the one who hears and does we can hear Bible study after Bible study and I don't know that God's word ever returns to him void but does accomplish the purpose that he sent it out to perform and yet I've also discovered that we can become callous and the same thing over and over again and never respond to it you hear it long enough and you say to yourself I've already heard that if I don't respond to it then I'm never going to learn about God in the depth that he wants me to Jesus said if I still obey him that he promised he said I will manifest myself to you through your obedience to me and so when we do those things that he says we actually have an opportunity to see him fulfill his promises and reveal himself to us and we have people say all the time I just want to know God well the way to know God is to obey him to hear him that's how you know him because he reveals himself to you when you begin to follow him in that way when you obey him Jesus in John 14 verse 15 said if you love me keep my commandments in John 14 verse 24 Jesus said he who does not love me does not keep my words which you hear is not mine but the fathers who sent me you see if you love me you keep my commandments if you don't love me you don't it's just that simple if you love me then what I say is something you want to do but if you don't love me it doesn't matter what I say you're going to find a reason not to do it so my sheep are the ones who hear my voice that's a good way for you by the way here tonight to test whether you whether you have a relationship with the Lord this is a good way for you if you want to do you care what he says do you care I mean if you care and say you know Lord speak for your servant here I do want to know you and I want to grow I want to know you if you care and so when you hear the word you say boy that's something I really want to know more of I want to know more through that Lord because you see it's been said the best way for you to ever come to know a passage is to just make up your mind to obey what it says and that's the best way to get to know a passage is when it speaks to your heart to say Lord I well that's what you're saying that's what I want I want to do that I want to hear you because Jesus said my sheep hear my voice and therefore Lord I want to hear and not only do I want to hear I want to do more than simply hear it in the sense of understanding certain things but I want to know that because in knowing your word I am getting to know you and you're going to manifest yourself to me my life is going to be transformed because of that and that's really what I want in life and so Lord I do want to hear you now verse 36 when the voice had ceased Jesus was found alone but they kept quiet and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen this is something that they kept to themselves because had they gone out and spoken concerning this in its detail the people might have wanted to come and take Jesus and make him king by force and they also had much that they still had to learn about Jesus and the things that he wanted to teach them they needed to learn and they needed to allow God's word to actually find a place in them we'll be looking at this next time we're together but notice in verse 44 of the same chapter how Jesus says let these words sink down into your ears there's this settling process that takes place that God will just settle his word in you and as you begin to mature you begin to see the grades of and the depth of truth that he wants you to to know by experience they had much to learn and so this is something that they kept to themselves but even as I mentioned earlier John did mention it in his gospel and Peter did mention it in one of his letters this is something that they never forgot when they saw the glory of Jesus Christ the glory of God shining through and we're so struck with awe and that's something that never left them they saw the glory of the Lord