“The Servant’s Glory”
Mark 9:1-13
“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.” – Mark 9:2
“Now after six days Jesus took PThe word “transfigured” is one of the most interesting words to study in the Scriptures. It literally means a change from within. The original Greek word is metamorphoō, from which we get our English word metamorphosis. I love to use the metamorphosis illustration of the caterpillar that crawls into his cocoon and comes out a butterfly. There is a fundamental inside-out change. He goes in crawling and comes out flying. It is a change that we see on the outside; but that change began on the inside.eter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them.” – Mark 9:2
It is such with the one who calls upon the name of Jesus and is saved. He goes through a transfiguration [a metamorphosis]. It begins with an instantaneous change from within, i.e., that “born again” experience that initiates [and continues] change on the outside. Sometimes those outside changes are fast and sometimes slow. But let me be very clear; if a person is truly born again there will be visible changes on the outside because of the change on the inside.
It is the Holy Spirit taking residence in that person’s life.
In our passage this morning we will read of the Transfiguration of Jesus. This Transfiguration was a change in what Peter, James, and John saw [in Jesus]. They had been seeing Jesus on the outside; sinless, full of love, grace, and mercy. They witnessed on the outside the Servant-King as the Perfect Man. But here on the Mount of Transfiguration they saw what was on the inside. They saw the Servant’s Glory!
Oh, that we might see the Servant’s Glory! Because as we do it will change us from within.
For the unbeliever it will save him; but for the believer it will set him apart even more for the work of the Kingdom.
Seeing the Servant’s glory is one of the monumental keys to living this life of faith.
