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There was a comment that was posted on one of my youtube videos a few days ago from a gentleman asking what I thought about Matthew 16:28. This is another verse that has caused a lot of controversies.
Critics claim that Jesus gave a false prophecy and many theologians have tried to interpret this verse to defend the claims of Christ. There are many views out there and I don’t claim to fully grasp what the Lord was communicating, but one thing I’m convinced of is that the bible is its own interpreter and defender. When I come across difficult passages like this, the best way to have clarity is to look at the passage within its context, understand what the author is emphasizing and hope that the Lord in His grace will grant us understanding to properly interpret the Scripture. So let’s try to see if we can come to some clarity this morning as it pertains to Matthew 16:28.
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hello good morning this is taiva types.com and today uh we are going to be looking at matthew 16 verse 28.
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now a couple of days ago i received a message from a nice gentleman who asked me um my thoughts on matthew
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16 28 this is a verse that has caused some controversies in the christian community and historians and
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theologians as well so i wanted to look at it so when you ask me the question about
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what i thought about it i said well the same way i think about every other scripture i think
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um the best way to interpret the scripture is to let the scripture interpret itself we don't try to ascribe the meaning to
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things by trying to fish out for information or extrapolate too much because that's dangerous
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so a lot of people um when you look at this verse especially critics they're trying to use
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this to basically condemn jesus and say that he he's giving out false prophecies we're
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going to get into it in a second but i just wanted to give you that background quick uh why am i doing this this morning
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is exactly because of it so i went and i looked at the scripture closely and i wanted to to give you my findings
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now before i start i just wanted to make something clear uh there are people on youtube that ask
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me questions and i say things and when i answer um some of them they're just trying to
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play games now i'm not talking about this guy that asked me about matthew 16 28 he wasn't he was genuine about his question and we
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exchanged we had a good exchange but that's another guy that was just being silly and i actually gave him my
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number i said hey if you want to talk give me a call and he doesn't call and all he asks
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he asked me like silly questions about the one who osiris is who created sin and stupidity you know
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i'm not gonna answer those things anymore because it's just a waste of my time and waste of your time so if anybody really wants to to to talk
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i'll give you my number it's 240-481-1672 i'd rather talk to you instead of just
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messages on on youtube it's not always accurate i just want to have a call and then we can talk and have a normal conversation so if you
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really have an inquiries then i would love to dive into those inquiries with you i don't
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claim to know like i'm not a no at all i just want to do this with you in the sense that if
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you have questions and you are you have doubt i'm just like you i also have my share of doubt but it's better to go at it
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together rather than just exchanging on youtube and being sarcastic that man was being sarcastic now i'm not talking about the guy that
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asked me about matthew 16 28 because he was nice so and he he came and he had a genuine uh
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question so let's get into the introduction i don't want to waste too much time talking so let's get into that so basically uh
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in my intro which i kind of mentioned i told you that there was a comment that was posted on one of my youtube videos a
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few days ago from a gentleman asking what i thought about matthew 16 28 and
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this is a verse that caused like i said a lot of controversies and critics claim that jesus gave a false on prophecy
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and many theologians have tried to interpret this verse to defend the claims of christ and there are many views out there and i
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don't claim to fully grasp what the lord was communicating but one thing i'm convinced of is that the bible is its own
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interpreter and defender so when i come across like difficult passages like this one and the best way to have clarity is to
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look at the passage within its context and then understand what the author is emphasizing and hope that the lord in
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his grace will grant us understanding to properly interpret on the scripture
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so we're going to try to do that this morning with matthew 16 28 but before we get into it we need to
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know a couple of things which is why add up to that statement and first of all let me show you what
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the statement is okay and then we are going to go into that so let's do that right now so jesus says
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in matthew 16 28 truly i tell you someone who are standing here
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will not taste death before they see the son of man coming in his kingdom now some people take this to mean when
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it comes the second time that some of the people that were listening to him would not taste death
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so this is why this has caused a lot of controversies so now we're going to go back to the presentation and trying to dissect uh this entire uh
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scripture so let's do that again the first thing that we need to know is what led up to that statement
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so we need to know the chain of event so we're gonna go to matthew 15 and verse 32 to 39 okay scripture says
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then jesus called his disciples to him and said i have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three
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days and have nothing to eat and i'm unwilling to send them away hungry less defend on the way and the disciples
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said to jesus where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so great the crowd
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and jesus said to them how many loaves do you have and they said seven and a few small fish and directing the
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crowd to sit down on the ground he took the seven loaves on the fish and having given thanks he
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broke them and gave them to the disciples and the disciples gave them to the crowds and they all
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ate and were satisfied and they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left over
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those who ate were four thousand men beside women and children and after sending them away the crowd
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he got into the boat and went to the region of macadam so basically the observation is this is
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the this is not the first time jesus was feeding a massive amount of people he did with five thousand so this is the
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second um time he does it so he performed a similar miracle in chapter six
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and yet the disciples still don't seem to like be phased by it okay he has never
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occurred in the world before that someone had fed five thousand and four thousand people from a handful of fish
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and bread but it seems as if the disciples were not amazed by this extra
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like ordinary event they didn't seem to be amazed they just made it seem like it was just a regular thing that happened
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so keep that in the back ahead so in matthew 16 verse 1 to 4
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and the pharisees and sadducees came and to test him i mean to test jesus they asked him to show them a sign from
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heaven he answered them when is evening you say it will be fair weather
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for the sky is red and in the morning it will be astonished it will be storming today for the sky
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is red and threatening you know how to interpret the appearance of the sky but you cannot interpret the signs of
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the times an evil and adulterous degeneration seeks for a sign but no sign will be given to it except
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the son of jonah so he left them and departed so basically the pharisees are asking jesus for a
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sign from heaven and they were well aware of all the signs he had performed even nicodemus in john
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3 recognized that jesus came from god and so we see how jesus was appalled by their
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request they had seen him performing a lot of miracles and even you could even say no one can do the signs that you do
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unless god is with him so nicodemus knew so the first is new they were just trying to be
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they were just jealous and they hated jesus and they were just trying to sabotage his life so basically he saw
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through their duplicity so let's keep going now in matthew 16
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5-12 so we read this when the disciples reached the other side they had forgotten to bring any
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bread and jesus said to them watch and beware of the leaven of the pharisees and the sadducees
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and they began discussing and they began discussing it among themselves saying we brought no bread but jesus our
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word he said oh you have little faith why are you discussing discussing among yourselves the fact
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that you have no bread do you not yet perceive do you not remember the five lows for the five
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thousand and how many baskets you gathered or the seven loaves for the four thousand and
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how many baskets you gathered how is it that you failed to understand that i did not speak about bread beware
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of the eleven of the pharisees and sadducees they understood that he did not tell them to be aware of the leaven of bread
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but of the teaching of the pharisees and sadducees so what
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we need to understand here you got to keep in the back of your head that the disciples are watching and experiencing everything that is taking
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place with the pharisees with the signs they are like the closest to this action so jesus is saying despite all
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the miracles and signs jesus has performed in their presence even the disciples seem to not know who
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he really is that they're not getting it just like a pharisees the signs do not seem to reveal or
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disclose the identity of jesus to the disciples because they're still like oh we have no
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bread and jesus is like are you dull minded don't you get it did you remember the five thousand that are fed and the four
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thousand right before your eyes what is wrong with you guys don't you know who i am
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so jesus sternly warns them about being dull-minded and unable to understand the signs of the time just like a
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pharisees and finally they seem to get it so i'm just again building up to that
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statement in verse 18. so let's look at mark 8 22-26 the same event is recorded and we're
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going to look at it and and let me show you that
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in a second listen to what happens is it's the same event well marty doesn't mention uh
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verse 22 to 26 but uh mark does so let's read this
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after that's when after just after jesus says to them do you still don't understand so he takes them and they go through bethesda
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and let's see what happened they came to bethsaida and some people brought a blind man and begged
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jesus to touch him he took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village when he had spit on the man's eyes and
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put his hands on him jesus asked do you see anything he looked up and said i see people they look like trees
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walking around once more jesus put his hand on a man's eyes then his eyes were opened
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his sight was restored and he saw everything clearly jesus sent him home saying don't even go
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into the village so we're going to tie this up to what happened earlier so basically
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the same event is recorded for us in mark 8 but there's an additional piece of data that i wanted to add and i just showed
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it to you okay matthew doesn't mention the healing of the blind man in with reds aida but mark does and i think it's very
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important that we mention it okay now remember i read you the scripture
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so um what it means we're gonna get the observation so we
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have to read this portion in light of the previous event jesus is trying to teach the disciples about his identity
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we see here that the blinds man healing took place in two stages okay and i strongly believe that when
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mark was writing about this event he was giving us a vivid picture of the disciples mindset at the time
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just like the blind man they couldn't see clearly and jesus was gradually opening their minds eye just like the
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blind man he took two stages first he said i see man like trees walking and then jesus says again and he saw it
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clearly so jesus was gradually opening their eyes so they could see who he really was because they still had
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like a cloud uh there was still a cloud of um no fog there's a foggy
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they didn't quite get it yet so he was showing them through that event because i don't think mark will record
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that for nothing he has a specific purpose and he ties it to the last uh statement that jesus made
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about do you still not understand okay now let's keep going now now we're going to go to mark back
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to to matthew 16 verse 13 and 17 and we're going to read about peter's confession
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now when jesus came into the district of caesarea philippi he asked his disciples who do people say
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that the son of man is and they said some say john the baptist address elijah
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and others jeremiah are one of the prophets and he said to them but who do you say that i am simon peter replied
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you are the christ the son of the living god and jesus answered him blessed are you
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simon barjona which is son of jonah for the flesh for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my father was
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in heaven again the lord wanted to know if they finally understood who he was and peter
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became the spokesperson you are the christ so i can guarantee you that jesus rejoiced when peter said
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made that statement and we can make that inference based on what we are told in verse 17 blessed are you
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simon for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but my father so jesus is probably
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rejoicing when he makes that statement about peter because he knows now he's getting it he's getting it and then we're going to
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go to the next thing now remember jesus um matthew uh peter just made like one of the
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biggest confession and we're gonna read what happens in verse 21 to 23.
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from that time jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders
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and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed and on the third day be raised and peter
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took him aside and began to rebuke him saying far be it from you lord this shall never
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happen to you but he turned and said to peter get behind me satan you are a hindrance to me for you
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are not setting your mind on the things of god one of the things of men now this is
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crazy peter gets rebuked sharply by jesus in front of the other disciples
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now this happened right after he had just made one of the greatest confessions ever so the disciples still can
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can see they can't see clearly understand like they don't quite see jesus's mission and are actually in danger of colluding
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with the enemy this is what jesus says be get behind me satan so remember the entire time jesus has been trying to
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reveal his identity to them and they still can quite grasp grasp the whole
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thing they still can't wrap their head around it so peter says no that shall never happen to you and he
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says get behind me satan so peter still don't know he still doesn't quite understand
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the prophecies of the old testament of the christ must suffer and die and be raised on the third day it wasn't quite
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clear they didn't get it so let's keep going now we are getting close to our verse
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now in chapter 16 verse 24 to 27 we it's recorded then jesus told his
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disciples if anyone would come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me
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for whoever will save his life will lose it but whoever loses his life for my sake we'll find it for what will have why
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will he profit a man if against the whole world and forfeits his soul what shall a man give in return for his
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soul for the son of man is going to come with his angels and the glory of his father and then he
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will repay each person according to what he has done okay
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so the disciples did not want the lord to go through his appointed suffering they did not want that
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so after rebuking peter he teaches them about the cost of discipleship the cost of following jesus he is preparing them
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for the suffering of the cross and he tells them about his second coming in which he will come
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in the glory of his father okay to reward each one so now we're going to go to verse 28
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which is the verse of our focus remember we are building up to this okay so jesus says here truly i say to
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you there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the son of man
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coming in his kingdom now first we need to understand what coming in his kingdom means
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if you don't understand that it's hard for us to interpret the scripture okay so that's what we need to do so to
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do that we're going to go to mark 9 verse 1 and the same event is recorded
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jesus said to them truly i tell you some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of god
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that the kingdom of god has come with power you see the translation here some will not taste
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death before they see that the kingdom of god has come with power and again he's only talking to his
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disciples at the moment so i don't know if he's only the 12 disciples or there's a lot more disciples around
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him maybe a lot more because he would probably the 12 were the ones that were close knit but i'm sure there were other people following him
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but scripture says that he told his disciples so he was just talking to those that were
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his disciples and he says that truly i tell you some who are standing here will not taste the death before they see
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that the kingdom of god has come with power now in matthew we read the kingdom of god uh the son of man
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coming in his kingdom okay so you can kind of see what's going on we need to understand what jesus was communicating
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the kingdom of god has come with power so mark 9 mark 9 says the kingdom of god
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has come with power so we need to know at the outset that jesus couldn't have been talking about
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his second coming because when the early church fathers those that received the epistles from the apostles like
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papias clement and polycarp and the others when they were deciding on what was considered the word of god or scripture
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all the eyewitnesses and disciples of jesus were probably already dead at the time okay and if these pillars of the church
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were vicious and fraudulent they would have gotten rid of any piece of information that would have suggested that jesus was a liar
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remember they allowed those scriptures to remain for a purpose so they kept the integrity of the
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scriptures because they believed the word of god but also understood what the inspired
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words meant so when pete when when mark recorded this when martial recorded this the the early
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church fathers they understood what they meant by that okay they kept the integrity of the
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scripture if these guys were fraudulent and referred like oh this is controversial let's take it out they would have done it but they didn't they
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kept it because they believed that this is the word of god and this is the truth because they understood what the author meant
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by those words and that's what we need to do as well so let's keep going so what could matthew and mark
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have been talking about that's what we need to understand here so now we need to know that this
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was an unforgettable revelation so we're going to look at the following chapters both mark and matthew begin
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with six days after that so we're going to look at that okay we're going to go to mark 9 verse 2 to 7 and we're also going to look at um
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matthew 17 verse 1 to 9. so this is important we need to tie this to the last sentence jesus i just made
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so let's go and do that right now so we're going to look at mark 9 verse 227 and matthew 17 verse 1 to 9.
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now let's read this after six days this is 17 verse 1 begins after matthew 16 28
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now remember something important when the writers of the gospel were writing they didn't subdivide this into
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like chapters they were just it was continuing it wasn't like okay i'm done with chapter 16 chapter 17 no matthew was just writing
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so these division was added later but when they were writing it wasn't
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like they broke it into like portions it was something that was continuing it was going on so there's a connection between
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chapter 16 and 17 in the same way there's a connection between 15 and 16. it's it's a connection it's connected
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so read this in that light now he's saying it after six days jesus took him took
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within peter james and john the brother of james and let them up on a high mountain by
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themselves there he was transfigured before them his face shone like the sun and his
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clothes became as white as the light just then there appeared before them moses and
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elijah talking with jesus and peter said to jesus lord it is good for us to be here if you
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wish i would put up three shelters one for you one for moses and one for elijah
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while he was still speaking a bright cloud covered them and a voice from the cloud said
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this is my son whom i love with him i'm well pleased listen to him when the disciples
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when the disciples heard this they fell face down to the ground terrified but jesus came and touched
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them get up he said don't be afraid when they looked up they saw no one except jesus
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as they were coming down from the mountain jesus instructed them don't tell anyone what you've seen until
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the son of man has been raised from the dead now we're going to go to mark 9
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and read that as well in the same uh this is the same event in mark 9 so let's do that now and he
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said to them truly i tell you some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of god has come with power
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after six days jesus took peter james and john with him and led him up on a high mountain where
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they were all alone there he was transfigured before them his clothes became dazzling white whiter than anyone in the
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world could bleach them and there appeared before them elijah and moses we were talking with jesus and
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peter said to jesus rabbi it is good for us to be here let us put three shelters
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one for you one for moses and one for elijah he did not know what to say they were so frightened then the cloud
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appeared and covered them and the voice came from the cloud this is my son whom i love listen to him
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okay and now let's go back to our presentation we're gonna understand what's going on here
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before we go to the presentation i also want to read this um passage and look now scripture says
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from verse 27 or luke like chapter nine truly i tell you someone standing here will not taste death before they see the
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kingdom of god now luke says the kingdom of god matthew says the kingdom of god the son
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of man coming in his kingdom and then mark says the kingdom of god comes with power luke says they see the kingdom of god
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okay so and then luke says here about eight days after jesus said this he took peter john and
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james with him and went up on the mount onto a mountain to pray as he was praying the appearance of his face
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changed and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning two men spoke two men moses and elijah
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appeared in glorious splendor talking with jesus they spoke about his departure which he was about to bring to
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fulfillment at jerusalem peter and his companion were very sleepy but when they became fully awake
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they saw his glory and the two men standing with him as the men were leaving jesus peter said to the master it is good for
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us to be here let us put up three shadows one for you one from moses and one for elijah he did not know what he was saying while
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he was speaking the cloud appeared and covered them and they were afraid as they entered the cloud a voice came from
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the cloud saying this is my son who have chosen listen to him when the voice had spoken they found
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that jesus was alone the disciple kept this to themselves and did not tell anyone at the time they had seen what
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they had seen okay so it's great to always have like
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multiple sources giving us their take on the event i love this now let's go back and i want
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to show you something here so now let's analyze this matthew says
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after six days jesus took within peter james and john right mark says after six days jesus took
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peter james and john with him and led him up on the high mountain and then luke says about eight days
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after jesus jesus had said this now some people look at this and be like
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oh oh problem matthew mark mentioned six days luke mentioned eight days what is going
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on we have a problem now you have to look at it again i told you i'm a mathematician so
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i'll i kind of love when this happened because i know god this is god's word and god can never be
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proved wrong because god is the author of the scripture now my um luke says about eight days
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after jesus said this said what eight days after he said truly i tell you someone who are
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standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of god so his
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look is coming from that day to when the transfiguration happens right
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matthew is counting six days after that day he said this so in between
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matthew and mark are kind of counting days that led up to that event after jesus said this six days took
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place and then on after that he takes him on the mountain so matthew and luke are counting the in
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between days while luke is counting from the day he made that statement this is incredible so there is no
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contradiction it's just incredible because god's word is incredible so now let's go back to
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our presentation and then we're gonna see what happens
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so we looked at matthew 17 verse 1 and 9 luke 9 verse 23 to 23-28
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so when you come across passages like this it's always good to see if there's anything remotely close to
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this in scripture and the best passages that i found that were that were kind of like similar to this uh
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glorious event that happened the transfiguration is uh isaiah 6 and revelation 1 13 to 16 they are
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pretty similar to what's taking place here so let's see there and then we're going to come back and make our our connection and
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conclusion so in revelation 1 verse 13 to 16 these
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these are the revelations of john he says and among the limestone was someone like a son of man
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dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest the hair on his
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head was white like wood as white as snow and his eyes were like blazing fire
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his feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters and he's in his right
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hand he held seven stars and coming out of his mouth was a sharp double edged sword his face was like the
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sun shining in all his brilliance and now let's go to isaiah 6. isaiah 6 in the year that king uzziah
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died i saw the lord high and exalted seated on the throne and the train of his robe filled the
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temple above him where the seraphim each had six wings with two wings they covered their faces
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with two they covered their feet and with two they were flying and they were calling to one another
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holy holy holy is the lord almighty the whole earth is full of his glory and
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the sound of their voices the door post and threshold shook and the temple was filled with smoke
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woe to me i cried i'm ruined from a man of unclean lips and i'll leave among your people off on
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clean lips and my eyes have seen the king the lord almighty now you can kind of see what's going on
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isaiah john matthew peter and james they all fell face
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down to the ground terrified because they saw the glory of christ they saw and they
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heard and it was a place of trembling and fear because there was a manifestation of the glory of
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god and they could not buried us because we are sinful people and we come in contact with the
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holy god and his power is manifested we get frightened
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you can see that now there's another key thing that we need to mention
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why would jesus tell the disciples not to say anything to anyone until until he's risen from
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the dead he told them don't mention this vision to anybody until i'm risen from the dead we
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need to understand why this is important because we need to know why what was so incredible about
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that experience okay he revealed his glory to james john and peter they had the most exalted
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terrestrial view of jesus and i i don't know where i could exhale that that's a stupid thing they had the most exalted view of jesus
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that any men could experience okay they had seen the glorious christ in his true glory he gave them a glimpse
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of his glory so we also have to remember that before this event he had rebuked peter
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after god the father revealed the true identity of christ peter because jesus himself said flesh and
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blood did not reveal that to you so we have to remember that but before that he rebuked peter
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now why am i saying all this the inner circle had seen that he was indeed the glorious son of god
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they heard the voice of god and trembled with fear so jesus didn't want them to stir up the others
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until he finished his mission go to the cross because they could have said he's really the son of god let's prevent
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him from going to the cross you know they could have stirred a crowd this is why jesus said to peter
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behind me get behind satan because he did not want them to stop his plan from unfolding he
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had to go to the cross so he didn't want them to become a stumbling block and if they mentioned that glorious
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vision that they saw the power of god they could have kind of stopped it from happening they could have started
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crying and said we saw it we saw his glory we saw everything he's the son of god do not let anything happen we're going
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to stand against the pharisees we are going to stand so jesus did not want any of it because they had seen the son
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of god come with his true power on that mountain we need to understand that this is
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important so what are my concluding thoughts the reason why both matthew and mark
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mentioned the six days is because six days after jesus made that statement about coming in his power he truly came in his power on the
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mountain of transfiguration and the disciples had to testify about the experience about what they
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experienced thus confirming the word of christ in matthew 16 28 basically the reason why they said six
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days after that jesus took them on the mountain they were connecting the two
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um they were making a connection between his statement in in matthew 16 verse 28
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and what happened on the mountain or they would have mentioned six days after matthew said and luke says
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about six days after he had said this something happened so luke is trying to
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connect the two uh event saying after after eight days after he said he made a
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statement about there are some here will not taste death until they see the son of god
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come in power he took him on the mountain so you see there's a connection between those two he took on the mountain to
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show them what to show them his glory to show them the powerful kingdom of god they had an
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experience of it you see that so you have to make the connection between
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the two event because the writers were doing it we can't try to ascribe meaning to a
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passage by fetching from sources or like i don't even know how people do that i'm saying
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this scripture is his own interpreter luke would have said about eight days after he made that statement
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he took him on the mountain yes because he's connecting making that statement to going on the
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mountain and jesus words came through they saw the glory of god
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on that mountain and they did not taste death they hadn't tasted death yet in the
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sense that they saw his true glory on the mountain because when jesus comes back a second time he's not going to be
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meek like he was the first time he's going to come in his glory and they had an experience they had
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an experience of that glory how he's going to come back in his true glory and power they will see that in
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the whole world we see when it comes with his glory and the disciples
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had an experience of that and i'm sure when they had it they just thought to themself we are
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here with the creator the son of god so why does he have to go to the cross
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and they didn't want this is why jesus told them don't say anything to anyone until i rise from the dead
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because he did not want them to become a stumbling block they had experienced his glory to the nth degree and that
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could have caused them to stir up the crowd and say no no we've seen something and you guys need to know so he said
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don't say a word until i rise from the dead because they saw him come with power
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that's the way i believe the scripture is going now some may disagree with me i don't claim
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that this is i i in again when it comes to scripture we are all standing on shaky ground
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because we can't try to manipulate the script i don't want to do that but i believe if you truly read the
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scripture in light of the past event you make the connection you can kind of see what's going on
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there because the word of god is accurate and there is meaning behind everything i don't think is by accident that
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matthew and mark both say six days after that day something happened because they were connecting
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jesus's words with what they experienced to show that this man is the truth he's the way the truth in
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the life and his word is true because he said something about his power and we saw it
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they were trying to show us because remember john 20 31 these are written so that you may believe that jesus is the son of god
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you see that and they were writing for that purpose to show us to show us that listen his words came true again on that
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mountain we saw him we saw his glory we saw his power
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so hopefully gentlemen that asked me the question hopefully this helps you i know it was a lot of going back and
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forth but i was trying to be as accurate as i can be it's not really easy okay
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have a wonderful day and i'll see you next time thank you