This Is My Son; Listen To Him!

In our text this morning, we're going to be back. We're going to be in Luke chapter 9, carrying on with our study there. And we're going to be studying one of the most astounding things that happened while Jesus was on earth. And I've struggled all week to try to figure out how to explain it. We're going to be studying Jesus' transfiguration, where he's up on the mountain with a couple of his disciples, and he reveals himself in glory for a short time. And you add to that that Moses and Elijah were both there with him, and then God descended in a cloud and speaks to the disciples, and you have a very, an unprecedented event happening that's never happened before, it's never happened again. And one of the things, and so what's central to the transfiguration? Well, what's central to it is that Jesus is changed. Transfigured means he was reformed.

He was shown, he looked different than he had previously. And the difference was this. It was that he had glory. His glory was revealed. That's how he was changed. And we read in Philippians 2 that when he came to earth, he emptied himself. He took on the form of a bondservant, and he was made in the likeness of men. This means that for him to come to earth and to dwell among us, He had to lay aside his glory. Another place where we read about his glory, not in scripture, but in the Nicene Creed, is that when Jesus comes back for the second coming to judge the nations, it says that he's going to come with glory to judge the living and the dead. And so the thing that's so hard to describe in our text is the glory of God. Now, some of us might talk a lot about the glory of God.

And we want everything we do to be to the glory of God. And we want to see God glorified more and more and more. But there's something about the glory of God that's very humbling to us. That has to be very humbling to us. And it's this. We can't comprehend it the way we ought to. Or the way we will be able to. And that's what makes the transfiguration so other. Is that they see, Peter and James and John, they see something that... hardly anyone has seen. They see God in his glory. And even as they see Jesus Christ in his glory, they don't see him in his glory fully because they couldn't bear it if they did. You know, it's like, it'd be like taking a, you know, an F-150 and putting 50,000 pounds in the back of it. What would happen to the truck? If you're lucky, excuse me, Mike says the truck would squat. What else would happen to the truck?

What would happen to the tires, Luis? They'd explode, right? The whole truck would just crush under the weight. And when you took the weight off, the truck would be broken because it could not contain the weight. It could not bear it. And the same thing is true of the glory of God. We, in this world, we can't bear the weight, the immensity, the majesty of God's glory. We can't handle it. And because of this fact, because God's glory is beyond our comprehension, beyond our ability to see and hold on to and understand, it's as if it's lost all of its handles. We're trying to get a hold of something that slips and slides and moves and changes, and we can't capture it. And that makes it hard for us to get a hold of our text this morning, to understand.

what Jesus was teaching his disciples or what he's teaching us. I was asking Vanessa on the way here, I said, honey, what have you heard about the transfiguration? And she said, not a whole lot. She grew up in a Christian home and she went to a Christian college and she's been taught the scripture. And I said, have you heard anything profound about the transfiguration? And she said, not really. And so my goal this morning is, and for one, I assume that that's a more... a fairly normal experience. That's been my experience. That's her experience. It's not something that we know a whole lot about. And so my goal this morning is for us to learn why Jesus reveals himself like this and consequently how it should affect the way we live, how it should change the way we live. That's the goal this morning. Would you please stand for the reading of God's word from Luke chapter 9, verses 28 through 36. This is the word of the Lord and it is eternally true. Some eight days after these sayings,

He took along Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. And while he was praying, the appearance of his face became different, and his clothing became white and gleaming. And behold, two men were talking with him, and they were Moses and Elijah, who, appearing in glory, were speaking of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. Now Peter and his companions had been overcome with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory. And the two men standing with him. And as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three tabernacles, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah. Not realizing what he was saying. While he was saying this, a cloud formed and began to overshadow them. And they were afraid as they entered the cloud. Then a voice came out of the cloud saying, This is my son, my chosen one. Listen to him.

And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent, reporting to no one in those days any of the things which they had seen. This is the word of the Lord. You may be seated. So we've got to figure out, why did Jesus reveal himself? Why did he reveal his glory to the disciples? Before we get right to the answer of that question, Discipleship is like apprenticeship. It's progressive. And you need to understand that the disciples are being taken through their courses, taking through their training. They're not done yet, right? And so Jesus has previously, you know, it says at the beginning, some eight days after these sayings, well, what sayings are we talking about? Well, we're talking about when Jesus took the disciples away after he'd fed the 5,000.

And they retired and he took them away and he asked them, who do the people say that I am? And they say Elijah or Jeremiah, one of the prophets, or John the Baptist. We don't know. And he says, okay, well, who do you say that I am? And Peter says, you're the Christ of God. You're the son of the living God. Peter knows who Jesus is. And then Jesus builds on that and he says, the son of man, me, I have to suffer and I have to be handed over to the chief priests and the elders. to be put to death, and on the third day I'm going to be raised from the dead. And Peter says, no, I will never let that happen, and Jesus rebukes him. And then he goes on instructing them about his death, what it's going to be like, what it means for them, that they ought not to be ashamed of him or his words, that he's beginning to show them what is coming in front of him. This is what life's going to be for me.

where I'm headed, and this is my end. I'm going to die. And then I'm going to be raised. And we've studied the dissonance between Peter saying, you're the son of the living God, and then rebuking Jesus for saying he was going to die. And then Jesus turns around and rebukes Peter and says, get behind me, Satan. You set your mind on the interests of man, not God's. And so those are the sayings that this follows after. Jesus has, in those sayings, for the first time, told and taught his disciples that he's going to die. They didn't know that before. And they didn't have, it's easy to read our understanding of the gospel and the progression into what was going on. You guys have heard of Monday morning quarterbacking? Hindsight's 2020? That's our position with regard to this stuff. We are looking back with, full knowledge of how it goes step by step. And we're looking back and reading things in that they would not have understood at the time. You've had this happen in your life where you're in the midst of a trial and a struggle and you're working just to keep your head above water. And you don't know what's really, your perspective is very short. And then once you're out of it and you're able to look back,

You understand what you didn't understand before. You see what God was doing, but in the moment you didn't. And that's where the disciples are at. They don't understand double imputation and Jesus dying for our sins and all of these sorts of things. They don't have the understanding that we do. And that's not their fault. It hasn't been revealed to them yet. And so what we have is Jesus beginning to teach the people, his disciples really, I'm going to die. And we find that the disciples don't want him to die. Because who, you know, answer this question. If you were going to die, would you do it willingly? Or would someone have to kill you? Would you willingly give up your life? No, you wouldn't. In Romans, it says that for a good man, someone might consider dying. Maybe I would in this, if he was a really good person, I might consider dying for them. And so the disciples at this moment, their concept of death,

is that it's an enemy, it's a bad thing, it's to be avoided. And so the conflict that they feel is when Jesus says, I'm going to die, they say, someone's going to do something that you aren't able to prevent, something that you can't keep from happening. They see death as involuntary. It's something that happens to you. And so then we're left going, well, why does Jesus reveal his glory? And the first thing, the connection between their view of death and his glory is for him to say, I go to my death not because I cannot prevent it. You see my glory. And when Jesus takes them up on the mountain and he's praying and they're sleeping and they wake up and it's sort of like, rub your eyes, see what's going on. It was probably nighttime.

And there's Jesus glowing white. And there's Elijah and Moses. And they're rubbing their eyes going, is this, what is this? What is going on here? They see his glory. And not only do they just abstractly see his glory, what is Jesus talking to Moses and Elijah about while the disciples are observing these three men in their glory? They're talking about Jesus' departure. They're talking about his death. Elijah and Moses. came to you know jesus being made in our likeness and being weak like us and having temptations like we do i'm convinced that he was praying about it he was and and that god in his mercy sent them to shore him up to encourage him to strengthen him not because he was sinning he wasn't sinning but he was tempted to sin to be scared and he was sent friends helpers to encourage him to and to talk to him about his death in hebrews it talks about jesus enduring the cross. Why? Because of the joy that was set before him. Now, if he's like you and me, and Philippians tells us that he had to be made in our image and he had to be weak like us, do you need to be encouraged when you have difficult things coming? Yes, you do. Yes, you do. And here are Elijah and here are Moses girding up Jesus Christ in their glory. And Jesus has changed. He's in his glory.

Some of it. And the disciples wake up and here's what they see. When Jesus reveals himself in his glory, he's showing that he has authority over life and death. That his death was not to be something that he could not prevent. You remember when he's on the cross, what do they mock him and what do they say about him? He saved others, let him save himself. The prevailing thought at the time was he's just a man and he can't prevent this. But that's not true. In John chapter 10, verse 18, Jesus is speaking of his life and he says, no one has taken it away from me, but I lay it down on my own initiative. I have the authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from my father. Now we go, well, isn't that nice? And why were the disciples so short-sighted? And why didn't they understand who Jesus was? And I say,

If you understand everything perfectly, then I'll come sit down and you can come up here and you can explain all the mysteries of God. They're like us. They're things they didn't understand yet. And Jesus is showing them by the revealing of him in his glory that he has authority over life and death. That his death will not be because there was no other way. Or because there was nothing that could be done to prevent it. When Pilate's questioning Jesus and Jesus refused to answer him and he says to him, Don't you know that I have the authority to kill you or to release you? What does Jesus say to him? You wouldn't have any authority. You would have no authority to save life or to take it if it wasn't given to you from above. In Philippians 2 verse 8, it says that Jesus was found in appearance as a man, and he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. And the thing that we from our place see,

is that clearly Jesus chose to die. He wasn't forced to die. He wasn't under his father's thumb. It wasn't against his will to go to the cross. But the disciples didn't have that perspective that we do. And so they're given an instance to see Jesus in his glory. He meets with them in their, he meets their frame, the ways that they are able to understand. And they see and they go, oh. I mean, I can't even ask you, what would you do if you saw Jesus in his glory? You can't even get your brain to begin to consider that question. Because you've never seen Jesus in the flesh. You don't know what he looks like. And you wouldn't be able to even comprehend what a change in him would look like. It says that his face changed. It became bright. His clothes, his raiment were glowing white. And you might be able to put together these small, these things that scripture says about heaven. And you say,

In heaven, is there any sun? Why isn't there any sun in heaven? Why? Do you know Daniel? Do you know Isaac, Isaiah? That's right. That's right. Because when his glory is revealed in heaven, and it's not hidden, it shines brighter than the sun. And yet the disciples, they didn't know this stuff. And so Jesus reveals himself in his glory to show them that his death was a voluntary death. It wasn't involuntary. He also reveals himself in glory as seeds planted. Whenever you're learning something, first you get told, this is how it is. Do it like this. Now, whether that's at work or whether that's in school or whether that's in your home, wherever it is, the first thing that you tell someone is, this is how you do it.

Don't ever do it like this. You just say, this is how it must be done. And then what comes then? The question comes, why? Why do I have to do it that way? Why can't we do it like this? It seems like it'd be easier to do it like this. Wouldn't it be quicker if I did it like that? And all of those questions betray one thing, the ignorance of the pupil. Isn't that what you think, Dan, when you have employees who you say, this is how we do it, and they're like, well, why can't we do it like this? And you're like, clearly, you're only making my case stronger. Every question you ask only further solidifies that I know what I'm doing and you don't. The same is true of little children. You say, well, we're going to put the dishes like this over at the sink. We're not just, everyone's going to take their bowl and their plate and their silverware and their cup and everything and just kind of dump it all in the sink.

toward the sink. We're going to separate them and stack and all this kind of stuff. And kids, they don't understand why. Why do you have to do that sort of stuff? You have to do that sort of stuff so dishes don't get broken. You have to do that sort of stuff so dishes don't get dropped. How many times your kid's trying to be helpful, grab everything, they're running on over there and they drop it. And there goes the spaghetti sauce and the crumbs and the Kool-Aid. And it's like, well, thank you for your help. Didn't I tell you? One thing at a time. Get your hand on it. And you don't bother telling the three-year-old, well, you need to do it because of this and because of that and because of this and the other thing. You just say, you may take one thing at a time. Thank you. And then as they get older, you teach them. And we have the same thing going on here with Jesus revealing himself in glory. There are things happening here that we have derived the benefit of understanding.

from this happening. And the disciples understood later what they didn't understand then. And so we have to see that this is how God works with us. He tells us to do things by faith. He shows us things that we don't understand. That the psalmist in Psalm 139 says, they're too wonderful for me. Things that we can't comprehend. But when we perceive, when we grasp them by faith and we say, yes and amen. Here's what God said and here's what he did. In time, God gives us understanding. And that's what's going on here. Now, the disciples in this moment are absolutely frozen stiff, scared. And it doesn't come through so clearly in the Luke account. But if you were to go read the Mark and the, excuse me.

In the Matthew account, you would find that they are absolutely terrified. When they wake up and they realize what's going on, it's as if they're in the middle of a war zone. They just hit the ground. They're just down, and they're scared. And Peter's rambling off at the mouth. He sees them leaving, and he's like, oh, but it's good for you to be here. Why don't we build you tents? That's the craziest thing in the world to say. These men, every one of them, have come from heaven. They've lived in the presence of God where there's no more sin. Jesus, Elijah, and Moses. This is where they've come from. And Peter says, well, why don't you stay here with me? Wouldn't it make more sense to say what the thief on the cross said? Can I go with you? But Peter's so scared, he's saying stupid things, irrational things. And he's like, we're like him. You get scared, don't you say dumb things? Of course you do. Later on, Peter does understand, though.

In 2 Peter 1, he's writing, and he says, We did not follow cleverly defied tales when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. But we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. He said, We didn't lie to you about his power or his majesty. We saw it. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to him by the majestic glory, This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased. And we ourselves heard the utterance made from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain. Peter later understood. Here in 2 Peter, he's describing what's happening in our text. He's after it. And now he's looking back going, oh, now I see. Now Jesus has died. Now Jesus has been raised. Now Jesus has ascended back to his throne in heaven. And now Peter understands. Jesus has gone away. He's given his spirit to his people. Peter has grown.

His understanding that Jesus was the Christ of God, the Messiah, the Anointed One. He who was to come to save his people from their sins. Peter grows to understand that. The other thing that Peter saw, the other disciples, John and James saw, is they saw a glimpse of what it was to be in heaven. I tried to describe to Vanessa on the way here about the transfiguration. And it's unique in that it's... It's miraculous, but it's not like any other miracle. Because in a normal miracle, can I say a normal miracle? In a normal miracle, God exerts his power to change something in the physical earth. He heals people. He gives them sight. He raises them from the dead. He parts the waters. He's doing things. He's come, entered into our...

dwelling and is at work demonstrating his power here. But here in our text this morning, what's happened is Peter is brought to see heaven. He's brought to see what it's like there. This is why he says it's good for us to be here. He sees glory and he goes, this is a good thing. And what he sees through a veil and dimly is what eternity will be like. This is what he sees. And he wants to be a part of it. He wants to be there with Jesus, with Elijah, with Moses, with the Father. This is who he wants to be with. And as Peter's speaking, and there's this mix of wonder and awe and terror, a cloud forms and it descends on the mountain. Now, this is similar to when the Israelites came out of Egypt and they traveled through the wilderness and they come to the mount, to Mount Sinai.

to that holy mountain. And they're to meet with God there. And Moses goes up and speaks with God. And God says, if they'll be my people, if they'll do everything I say, then I'll make a covenant with them and they'll be my people. You go down and ask them if they're willing. And so he goes down and the people say, everything that the Lord says, we'll do. Moses comes back up, says, they say yes. And the Lord says, in three days, tell them to purify themselves. Tell them not to touch this mountain because it's holy. And in three days, I'll come back. And when he comes back, He descends in a cloud on the mountain with thunder and lightning and earthquakes and trumpets and all this stuff. And all the Israelites are terrified. And I was reading, the question that came into my mind was, was Moses scared? Because he's got to go walk up into this stuff. And there's no indication that Moses was scared. The people were scared, but Moses wasn't. He goes up and the Lord says, go back down and get Aaron and get a bunch of other guys and bring them partway up.

But Moses wasn't scared. And so these men, Peter, James, and John, they would have had that as their point of reference. This cloud is forming. God's here in his glory. If they could, and I don't know that they could, but if they could have thought clearly for a moment, they would have thought, God's coming to speak to us, which would have further compounded their fear. So the Father descends in the cloud, and he speaks. This is my son, my chosen one. Listen to him. And at this point, Peter and James and John are down on the ground, scared to death. And in Matthew, it says that Jesus, so when they go down, there's a cloud descending. Jesus, Elijah, and Moses are there in their glory, and they're just covering, trying to stay alive. And this cloud comes, and it speaks, and they don't respond. And then Jesus comes over to them.

and puts his hand on them and says, don't be afraid, get up. Arise and do not be afraid is what it says in Matthew. And when they look up, it's just Jesus there. Everything else has gone away. Moses is gone, Elijah is gone, the cloud is gone. And they're left, how do you even describe what they've just gone through? And then it says at the end, they kept silent and reported to no one in those days any of the things which they had seen. Now you realize that Jesus didn't tell them not to. Have you ever been so scared you don't even, just the thought of talking about it reminds you of how terrible it was? These men don't talk about it. What are they going to say about it? We were, okay, see if you can hear this. Now, they don't have all of scripture. They're in this time. They didn't speak to anyone in those days. We went up on the mountain with Jesus and we were sleeping and he was praying and we woke up and Moses and Elijah were there and they were all shining and full of glory.

And then God spoke to us. Would you buy it? I mean, would you be willing to say it? And what would people think? It's so far beyond what we can comprehend. And the reason is because God's glory was on display. People can't comprehend it. They can't understand it. At that time especially, but even now, we don't understand what was going on there. And yet when the Father speaks, this is my son, my chosen one, listen to him. This is his confirmation. of who Jesus was, and it strengthened the disciples. It was a seed planted to strengthen the disciples that later on, when they would face trials and difficulties and hardships, to remember who Jesus was. He is the Son of God, and they're to listen to him. Now, what does this matter to us? Why is this important to us? Two applications I want to make. One, the disciples respond, the way that the disciples respond to Jesus in his glory is a universal response.

There is not a man, woman, or child in this world who, if they see Jesus Christ in his glory, will not respond the way they did, in fear and trembling. Now, we live in a world where very few people respond to the Lord this way. They blaspheme. They take his name in vain. They speak ill of him. They live lives in open rebellion. And they know it. And they curse God as they do it. and justify their actions? And the premise that underlies all of their actions is, can God do anything about it? Will he do anything? Is there a God in the heavens who can interact with this? They put themselves on an equal plane with God. They think, you can't tell me what to do. And yet, all through Scripture, whenever people see God, or they see his glory, as dimly as they saw it, they're floored.

And we're told not just about this in the past, but when it comes in the future. In Revelation, when God comes and reveals himself with his glory and he comes in judgment, what will the heathen nations want? They'll cry out that the rocks and the hills would fall on them, that they would be buried under mountains to get away from the glory of the presence of the Lord. This is the universal response of creation when they see Jesus Christ in his glory. It's to fear him. Anyone who doesn't fear the Lord, who doesn't identify with these men in their terror, does not know God and hasn't seen him. Proverbs 1.7 says, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. God's people ought to fear him. They ought to fear him. And that doesn't make him not their father. A good father...

expects his children to fear him. Now, what do they fear? Do my children fear that I'm going to throw them away, cast them off, kill them, beat them? Is that what my children fear? No, that's not what my children fear. But ask them if they fear me, and they'll tell you yes. They'll tell you, we don't want to cross daddy. They'll also tell you that they know and they're sure that I love them, and that I have their best interests in mind when I tell them what they ought to do. And so you've got to get it clear in your mind, and it's a new thought in the society that we live in, that Christians ought to fear God. And that's not opposed to them being called his children and them calling him their father. The world would have you be ashamed of fearing God. They'd call you weak, foolish, simple-minded. But what does the world want? They want you to fear them instead.

And you cannot fear both. You cannot fear both God and man. You will fear one, and you'll despise the other. Luke 12, verses 4 and 5, Jesus says, I say to you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear. Fear the one who, after he is killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. And this is what we see with the disciples when they see Jesus Christ in a portion of his glory. they fall down and they're fearful. It's not a pleasant thing to be scared out of your wits. But one of the commentators on this passage says that as the clouds descending and the fear is heightening, we ought to trust Jesus that any cloud that he causes us to walk into, any trouble that comes our way, we ought to trust him to bear us through it. And we ought not to give up our hope. The disciples' response to Jesus and his glory is a universal response.

All who see God in his glory will fear him. The question is whether you'll love him. The second application is this. Even then, the disciples, or now, us, 2,000 years downstream, we cannot see God in his glory. We don't see God in his glory. In 1 John 3, John, who's up on the mountain, he writes this, Beloved, now we are the children of God. And it has not yet appeared as yet what will be. We know that when he appears, we will be like him because we will see him just as he is. He says, there's a time coming when we will see him in all of his glory, where we will be changed so that we can comprehend his glory. Because as of yet right now, we're like the truck with the 50,000 pounds on it. We can't handle it, but we will be changed.

Sinner and saint will be changed to see God and to comprehend his glory. And until that day, we're not capable of seeing him as he is. Not entirely. This requires humility from us. Fear and humility go together. They're hand in glove. When you fear God, you'll be humble. When you don't fear God, you'll be proud. To live in the reality that we are finite, that we have bounds and limits to our capacity. And that because of that, we can't see God for who he is. To live in that truth and not despise it or not ignore it is to be humble before the Lord. So what did the disciples do after they saw a portion of his glory? Jesus comes to them and he touches them and he's tender with them and he says, arise and don't be afraid. Did they run? They just have been overwhelmed. You know, it was on tilt. They couldn't handle it.

And Jesus comes to them and he says, arise and do not be afraid. And they stuck with him. They stayed with him. Their faith was strengthened. They were humble. You have to realize that fear, even though you don't see God as he is, none of us do. Even though you don't see God as he is, it's possible for you to see enough of him to run. And that's not what the disciples do. They continue to seek him. They continue to follow him. They continue to learn from him. And we ought to do the same thing. When we see, you know, it's like when you go outside on a cloudy day, and it's been cloudy for a week, and you see the sun, you know, you can actually see the beams of light coming down. You guys see this? People take pictures of it, and we pay money to have them. You call them Jesus rays? We don't call them Jesus rays.

But there's some truth to it. You see, it's like you see the light. Now, are you seeing the light of the sun? Yes. Are you seeing the sun in all of its majesty? No, you're not. But you're amazed at the beauty of it, at the glory of it. And that's in the same way that a sun, you know, you see these beams of light come down through the clouds. And you can perceive that there's a sun up there that gives warmth. and light it strengthens you it helps you you you go i want the sun to come out more fully i want to see more of it the same ought to be true with with jesus christ we see as through a veil dimly now and yet it won't always be that way john says we will see him as he is and we ought to look forward to that day we ought to yearn for that day we ought to pine and prepare for that day you ought not to live as though

That reality doesn't exist. We ought to want to see Jesus Christ in his glory. It will be terrifying. And it will be wonderful. And everyone will see it. And your work is to love his appearing. To look forward to it. To not love this world and the things of this world. To not be comfortable here. But to have light breaking through the clouds. Like his transfiguration for these men. Showing them that there is more. and better things for you to live for and for you to die for. This is your calling. Whether you're a Christian or not, God made you. And it's incumbent on you to love God and to serve him. You will see his glory. Every one of us will at one point. And it's our privilege now to come to him by faith while we have time, while we have the chance to.

That's his kindness to us. That's him revealing himself to us. And we ought to take advantage of it. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for giving us your son, for sending him into this world. We thank you for this small glimpse of his glory. I pray that you would drive it down into our hearts, seeded well. I pray that you'd water it with... your Holy Spirit and cause it to grow and to bear fruit in our hearts and our minds and our lives. I pray, Father, that you would help each one of us to prepare to meet you, to long to see you in your glory, to long to be with you in heaven where there's no more sin, no more sickness, and no more death, no more pain and no more suffering, but eternal joy and rest. Father, we, by faith, look forward to that day and we pray, Father, that you would confirm each of us to the end.

And that you would save us out of your great kindness. And we pray, Father, that you would glorify yourself, not only in the day of judgment, but in our lives now. I pray that the things that we say and the things that we think and the things that we do would point to your glory and your salvation that you've bestowed on us through your Son, Jesus Christ. It's in his name that we pray. Amen.