Part 25: “The Mountain of God and the Valley of Men”

1. Valley Living (Suffering) is a Reality

2. Christ takes us up on the Mountain

Mark 9:2-8“The Mountain of God”

Luke 22:61“The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter.”

“And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.”

Exodus 24:17

Mt. Hermon

“New” Mt. Sinai

Luke 9:31“They spoke about his departure,

which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem.”

5 Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here.” Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.”

John Bunyan“Christ in the flesh had his

country house in the valley of humiliation.”

Mark 9:9-13“The Valley of Men”

Mark 9:10They kept the matter to

themselves, discussing what “rising from the dead” meant.

Mark 9:11“Why do the teachers of

the law say that Elijah must come first?”

Malachi 3:1“See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty.

Mark 9:1212 Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?

“Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?”

13 But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him.”

- Mark 9:13

John the Baptist “will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous-to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

- Luke 1:17

Romans 8:17“Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”