Weekly Pursuit – Week 4 of August
Verses:
Mark 9:2 “And after six days Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John, and brought them up alone into a high mountain privately. And He was transfigured before them.”
Excerpts:
In Mark 9:1, the Lord told His disciples that some standing there would not taste death until they saw the kingdom of God having come in power. Immediately after speaking this word concerning the kingdom, the Lord Jesus was transfigured on the mountaintop before Peter, James, and John. This is a strong indication that the kingdom of God is actually the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus.
We all can testify strongly that we have received the Lord and that He is in us. But has the Lord been transfigured in you? If the Lord who is in you has not yet been transfigured, others will not be able to see the kingdom of God in you. Since we have not yet experienced this kind of transfiguration, we need the Lord to grow in us until He blossoms. That blossoming will be the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus in us in a practical way. Such a transfiguration is the kingdom of God. When the Lord Jesus is transfigured in us in a practical way in our daily living, that transfiguration becomes the kingdom of God ruling everything in our life. This kingdom rules us and also gives us the full enjoyment of God.
On the day of the Lord’s transfiguration on the mountaintop, there was the coming, the appearing, of the kingdom. From this we see that in order to have the appearing of the kingdom from within us, we need to experience the Lord’s being transfigured within us. Today such a transfiguration produces the church life, which is the kingdom of God. (Life-study of Mark, ch. 66)
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