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1 Corinthians 2:16, “For who has known the mind of the Lord, that
he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.” Do you
see it? We have His Spirit, so we have His mind. This is God’s
provision and we’re calling it “revelation”. The Holy Spirit in our
hearts takes the written word and we behold the Living Word,
Christ, so that we might know God. The Word was God. He wants
us to know Him intimately. That was His provision.

With that as the background, I want to give you Peter’s testimony.
In his early life, as we read in the verse before in Matthew
16:16&17, “Flesh and blood didn’t reveal it. You got that from My
Father.” But you know Peter. He sometimes forgot what he learned.
Thirty years go by. The last book he ever wrote was 2 Peter, and
the last words he ever wrote were, “That you might grow in the
knowledge of Christ.” So, as he writes the last letter he ever wrote
just before he died, he said, “I want to show you how to see Jesus in
the Bible.”

If you were Peter and you looked back over your life, and you had
to choose only one event, what would you choose? Would you think
about when your brother introduced you to Jesus? Would you think
about the miracle of the coin lodged in the fish’s gill? Would you
think about Lazarus being raised from the dead? You are ready to
die. Would you tell them how you one time walked on water?
Would you tell them about Gethsemane and about your failure?
Would you tell them about the resurrection or about the ascension?
You were there when you saw Him rise. Would you tell them about
Pentecost when He came in the Person of the Holy Spirit? Would
you tell them how an angel set you free and you got out of prison?
There were so many events in Peter’s life and as he’s ready to die
he looks back and he says, “Of all of those events, there is one I want
you to know about.” He chose the transfiguration. To him that was
what the people needed to hear before he died.

I just want to review the facts about the transfiguration and then
we’ll look at the principle. This record is written in Matthew, Mark