Trinity Grace Church

The transfiguration is often an event that leaves us asking what is being communicated here about the Lord Jesus – His person and His ministry.  And that’s just it – it is communicating that Jesus is the Son of God, the One come in fulfillment of promise, the One to whom Moses and Elijah and the temple pointed.  He is the King; He is the Servant-King.

Jesus takes His disciples to school teaching them what it means that He is the Messiah, teaching them what it means to follow Him, and what it means to confess Him.

Mark, through Jesus’ miracle of healing the blind man, teaches us that our growth in grace doesn’t happen all at once; but in fact, often comes in fits and starts – but it does happen.  And even as Peter declares in his climactic statement, “Your are the Christ!”, we too, can see Jesus for who He is.

In this second miracle of a great feeding, Jesus disciples His disciples, teaching them and reminding them that He is altogether sufficient; He alone provides for our greatest need!  Don’t look anywhere else for salvation is found in no other name under heaven – in Christ alone!

Through the casting of a demon out of the daughter of a Gentile to the healing of a deaf and mute man, Jesus’ power, grace, mercy, meekness, and Messiahship are put on display!

Jesus confronts the Pharisees (and us) with our hypocrisy and our acting as if we are righteous by following the traditions of men while disobeying the law of God - but reminding us that it is Christ who cleanses us - and not just our hands, but our hearts.

Jesus is shown once again to be the Son of God; the one with authority over all creation - this time by a walk....on the water!  Jesus is proclaiming by His words and actions that He is the great "I AM."

In this wonderful passage of Scripture, Jesus is shown to be the Great Shepherd of the Sheep, feeding us and causing us to lie down in green pastures; the prophet to come after Moses to lead His people out of the wilderness.

Paul reaches all the way back to the beginning tracing the work of God in the midst of His people and brings us forward to the climax - to the person and work of Jesus Christ, particularly to the resurrection.