We'll also pray for Sheila this morning. She's got a bad migraine this morning. Pray it'll get better and she'll be able to be at church tonight. And Miss Susie is in Piney Grove. Nursing home, I don't know if that's the exact title of it or not, but it's Piney Grove. In Connersville, she is under hospice care there. I wouldn't see her. The hospice nurse was actually there when I went to see her, and she said that Susie is in actively dying stage. The second time I went to see her, she tried to talk, couldn't understand her through the oxygen mask. First time she didn't, she never uttered a sound, talking with her. And it wouldn't seem like she was all that bad. But she doesn't move any part of her body. She doesn't turn her head, doesn't raise her hands, doesn't twist. You see her moving her eyes and her mouth, and that's all you see move. But that's what the nurse called it, was actively dying stage. I really don't know what all her conditions are that brought her to that, but that's where she's at right now. And you know, that could last a long time, could be a short time. Just pray for Susie, the Lord's will be done there. did talk to her about the Lord and as I assumed, but I wanted to know, she's ready to meet the Lord. So that's good and she'll be in a far better place when the Lord decides it's time for her to come home. So we are on lesson 6, number 1 and A was the conference. Anybody need an outline for number 6? 1, 2, 3, 4. Y'all have to give Eddie a minute, raise your hands back up. So, A, whoop, I done messed up now, I hit the wrong, I don't know how that happened. We are done, okay. I'll just have to tell you what it says. Are you still back there? Eddie's gonna set it back up, I didn't know he was still back there. I don't think that did it. I don't think that did it. OK. He's back. All right. A is the conference. Thank you, Carter. A is the conference. And then B, we're talking about the cross. Of course, now, the Lord's program is number one. Then A is the conference. And B is the cross. So we're finishing up what we had to say about the cross. And in Hebrews 10, 14, finish that section of scripture we started at the end of last week. It says, For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Of course, we also talked about all the offerings and sacrifices in the Old Testament and how that Jesus offered himself once and for all. on the cross and in Galatians 4, 4-7. Verse 4 says, But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. So that's when God became man when Jesus came to this earth. Now verse 5, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. So God became man to make us sons of God. And verse 6, And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. So because we are the sons of God, we also have received the Spirit of God. And verse 7 says, Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son. And if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. So we're the sons of God. We have the spirit of God and we are heirs with Christ. We can't elevate ourselves up. But through Christ, because of Christ, God elevates us up to these positions. And it's only through Christ can we get there. Then Matthew chapter 26 verse 39 and some other verses there. And he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed. Oh, my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." Of course, we're talking about in Gethsemane. And verse 42 says, he went away again the second time and prayed, saying, Oh, my father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thou will be done. And then later after Peter had cut off the soldier's ear, Jesus tells him, thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father and he will presently give me more than twelve legions of angels. But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled and thus it must be. So the cross was necessary. Jesus died on the cross being buried was necessary for him to rise again and that we may be able to rise one day. So it was not something that you will look back on and say good but it was good for us. Not good for Christ but he did go through that for us. So we're going to get to the next part. of the lesson. The disciples proposal and are actually meant to go back and I didn't. I'm going to go back and read it because some of you weren't here. I'm going to have to read it. Take me just a minute to get to it here. I'm going to read Luke 9, 28 through 36 this time. Well, where is it at? I didn't go back far enough. Yeah, Luke 9, 28 through 36. Of course, this is what the lesson is about, this part of the scripture. And it came to pass about an eight days after these things, he took Peter and John and James and went up to a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered and his raiment was white and glistering. And behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory and spake of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep, and when they were awake, they saw his glory. And the two men that stood with him. And it came to pass as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master it is good for us to be here and let us make three tabernacles, one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elias, not knowing what he said. While he thus spake, there came a cloud and overshadowed them, and they feared as they entered into the cloud. And there came a voice out of the cloud saying, This is my beloved son, hear him. And when the voice was passed, Jesus was found alone, and they kept it close and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen. So they didn't go back and tell the other disciples, Jesus told them not to tell anybody. They didn't go back and tell anybody about what happened until Jesus had gone back into heaven. But there where it says the cloud came down, if you remember in the Old Testament, when God spoke to the congregation, He spoke from the cloud. And this is the same thing here. He is speaking from the cloud. Now let me get back to where we need to be. the disciples' proposal. So we have this great event happening and Peter comes up with this great idea. When I say great, I mean big. Not necessarily that's good. Great's not always good. But in the verses we just read, only in Luke does it tell us that they were heavy with sleep. And so when they were there, when Moses and Elias was talking with Jesus, they woke up enough to see it. And of course then they were aroused, then they were wide awake. And as you can imagine, if you woke up and you saw Jesus and Moses and Elias talking together, you'd wake up pretty quick, I would imagine. And so I imagine they did too. Has anyone ever taken you somewhere and surprised you when you got there? That's what Jesus did with Peter, James, and John. They didn't know why he was going up there. They were going up to a mountain to pray or going up to be awake. It doesn't even tell us that they knew they were going to pray. He just said, y'all come on, and they followed him. Imagine how awestruck they were when they awakened out of their slumber and saw this. It was a magnificent thing. And so, in Matthew 17 and 2, it says, and was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And then Mark 9 says, And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow, as no fuller on earth can white them. Have you ever been out after a snow, and that snow is frozen hard on top, and it's clear skies, and the sun's shining, and you try to look across that snow, you might as well look straight up into the sun. You can't, you can't, you have to block your eyes. And that's what it's comparing to the shine, how Jesus was shining when they awoke, when they were awakened and saw him. You gotta, when you go outside like that, you just about gotta wear sunglasses to see where you're going. And so they were, of course it was pretty amazing when they were awakened. And Luke 9, 29 again says, as they pray, as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered. and his raiment was white and glistering. Now that word transfigured is the same word we get metamorphosis from. Of course, we know what that is when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, right? Everybody uses that word as far as an illustration. Well, what on that butterfly looks like a caterpillar? Almost nothing, right? It is a complete change. If you didn't know about metamorphosis and somebody told you that butterfly was a caterpillar so many days ago, you'd thought they were an idiot, right? So when they look upon Jesus, they know it's Jesus but he is completely different. They've never seen him in this way. There was a complete change. They've seen Jesus before as a normal man, but they've never seen him in his glory. And as much as their mortal eyes could behold, they saw him in his glory. The personal experience of the glory of God left a remarkable effect on Moses when Moses talked with God. Exodus 33, 17 through 23, and the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken, for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. And he said, Thou canst not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live. Now don't be mistaken in the fact that, okay, if you were to ever see God, he would kill you. That's not what that's saying. It's saying if you saw God, you couldn't take it, you would die. Your body, your brain, it just shut down. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock. And it shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put thee in a cliff to the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by. And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen. And in Exodus 34, 29 through 35, And it came to pass when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wished not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him. And Moses called unto them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him, and Moses talked with him. And afterward, all the children of Israel came nigh, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. And of course it goes on, the scriptures go on to say that Moses covered his face. So then A, number two, is the tribute. Now, when Peter first said something, the first thing he said was really a wonderful response to what he had saw. And it was completely accurate. All three gospel accounts quote Peter as saying, Master, it is good for us to be here. It's good to be in the presence of the Lord, isn't it? Now he was exactly right. It was good for them to be there. And you know, sometimes our problem is we are where the Lord is trying to work spiritually and we don't recognize it. We don't see what God wants us to see. We don't hear what God wants us to hear. It is a wise man who recognizes at the time when something special of a spiritual nature is going on. I know there's been times in my life when God would allow me to take part in something and later I realized how important it was. Or I realized what God was trying to get me to do and I didn't do it because I didn't catch it. I missed the opportunity. The Spirit of God may move in a church service, a camp service or a special meeting between two individuals even. Yet we're often unaware of what God is trying to do. One of God's greatest sorrows is that his own people take him for granted and we do that. We do take God for granted. We have opportunity to advance the cause of Christ and we don't take advantage of it. We let the things of this world interfere with our thoughts and what God wants us to do. And we're so heavy laden with our earthly burdens that we don't take on the spiritual burden as we should. In Malachi 1, 6 through 14, God chastises a priest for not giving proper honor to his house and his plan. And I'm just going to read parts of that scripture in verse 6. O priest that despise my name, and ye say wherein have we despised thy name? Verse 7, ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar. Verse 8, and ye offer the blind for sacrifice, and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? And then down verse 13, ye said also, behold, what a weariness it is, and ye have snuffed at it. And you brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick thus you brought an offering. You see. We want to give God what we want him to have. And we know what God wants us to give him. But we want to decide how much of that we want to let go of. Whether it's money, time, talent, whatever it is, I'll give him this much. And we try to set that basis instead of listening to the Lord. He will make known to us what he wants us to give him. So how do we recognize God working in our daily lives? By attributing daily blessings to him. Don't let a day go by and something good happen without saying the Lord is good. The Lord has allowed that to happen. When he helps you with something, recognize it as his help. I do this almost every time and I did it years ago. And I'll tell you the reason, I think the reason I started doing it, I used to work with another mechanic, and he was a great mechanic, but something physically with him, don't know whether it was something he was born with or something that he did in his past that caused him to do this, but he shook. And he dropped wrenches all the time. It wouldn't have been good for him to take the top of the engine off and work on top of the engine. He'd drop something in it. I mean, if he worked 30 minutes, he's gonna drop something. And I, you know, noticed he did. I never said anything to him about it. But I noticed later, after that, sometime after that, that, you know, every mechanic drops wrenches from time to time. And I would thank the Lord that I didn't do it like he did. You know, I wasn't that bad. So I thank the Lord And then I began to thank the Lord when I could find what I dropped. And I found out when I started thanking the Lord, when I found something, most of the time I found it. And I would thank Him. And the Lord gave me that sense of where something, I remember when I was growing up, dropped something, and Dad said, well find it. I couldn't find it. You dropped it, you ought to know where it's at. Now he didn't cut no punches. He didn't cut no punches. And I gained that ability and I think it was because I thanked the Lord for helping me find stuff. And as a mechanic, you need to know where stuff goes when you drop it. Because you're going to drop stuff. But we ought to thank God for things as they happen. We ought to thank God for being, even if He's not doing something specifically for us, we ought to thank God for just being where something, where God is moving. We ought to be thankful for it. We must walk in the Spirit and be sensitive to His leading and responsive to His guidance. So you have to give Him the thanks and then you have to Listen and be responsive once he has done something for you. Recognize that back to him. Don't just take it for granted. Don't just say, well, it just happened. No, it didn't just happen. As we draw closer to him and away from negative influences, that'll be easier for us to do. We learn to appreciate God's goodness. Alright, we talked about the tribute, what Peter said good. And now we'll talk about the tabernacles. Of course, his first statement was excellent, and then his second statement was just as bad as the first one was good. So, you know, and we know, we've already said enough to Peter, we already knew it before we started the study of Peter, that he's the one that speaks up, right? You ever had a group of friends, there's one friend in the group that always says, you know what I think? Before you get done telling what you're telling, you know what I think? They've got a comment on whatever you're talking about. Now, the other disciples might have thought, oh, Peter, just sit down. But you know what I think they thought? Let Peter ask. Let him get in trouble. If you search some of the things out that Peter did where Peter was outspoken for the wrong reason, if you read all the Gospels and compare the notes in those Gospels, you'll find out that the others were warned to know too. They didn't say, Peter, you go do it. But they sure was waiting on him and hoping he would. That's the same thing with doubting Thomas. It says that Thomas doubted. But if you read the Scriptures, the rest of them did too. But we blame it all on Thomas. Let Peter ask. Let him get in trouble. He impulsively proposed to put these tabernacles up. And pay attention to what was going on or what had already happened to Peter when he said this. Now, if one of us in here said, we ought to worship God and anything. We'd say, are you crazy? That wouldn't get by us, right? We would catch that. We know better. Well, Peter knew better too, but he was impulsive. And when this happened was six days after being rebuked by God the Son for his comments on the crucifixion. He is about to be rebuked by God the Father for his comments on the tabernacle. Peter learned the lesson but he forgot the lesson. Luke described Peter as not knowing what he said. Peter believed the occasion called for a religious ceremony of some kind. He said, this is great, we gotta commemorate it some way. And that's what he's thinking. He's not thinking bad, but he just spurts out something that really doesn't make sense, it's just really wrong. The way of illustration, a preacher was on board an airline, airplane, and it was going through just terrible turbulence, and everybody was getting worried And somebody looked over at him and he knew he was a preacher and he said, he said, quick, do something religious. So the preacher took up offering. That's religious, right? We sometimes substitute religious rituals for the privilege of a real relationship with the Lord. Well, I'm going to go through the steps, but I really ain't talking to God at all. I really don't know what God wants, but everybody else thinks I know what God wants. For example, we partake in communion, we're solemn, but are we in communion with God? We drink the juice, but are we being thankful for the blood? We eat the bread, but are we remembering his suffering? If you're just doing what's commanded, it's just something religious. If you're doing it for the right reasons, it's communion. The issue was Peter was actually placing Moses and Elijah on the same plane, on the same level as Jesus, thinking each deserved a tabernacle. He lost sight of who he earlier had acknowledged Jesus to be in Matthew 16, 16. And Simon Peter answered, said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Well, he knew that. How did he try to bring somebody else up to the equal level? He wasn't saying they were God, but he said they deserve the praise just as much as you do, but they don't. Nobody does. Peter 16, 22, Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord, this shall not be unto thee. So that, he said that, and then again six days later, Oh, Jesus, it's good for us to be here. Let's build a tabernacle for all y'all. No, that's the way we would have said it, right? We wouldn't went through all names, we just said all y'all. He tried to keep Christ from going to the cross and then he denied Christ his rightful place of worship. He was lacking in proper reverence for the Lord. As I said in the start of the lesson, We all need a lesson on reverence. We all need to revisit a refresher course on reverence for the Lord. Well, we'll pick up right there on number three next week. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for this opportunity you've given us to be here. Lord, we'll remember the prayer request, Lord, especially Miss Susie this morning, Lord, I pray. Lord that Lord your will would be done in her life. No, we're thankful Lord that she has a Testimony that she saves she knows you and she'll meet you Lord when you when you call her home And though we pray for service today pray for pastors. He preaches in Jesus name. We pray. Amen