Jesus Only is the central theme, emphasizing that salvation and all spiritual needs are found exclusively in Christ, as depicted in the Transfiguration account. The sermon highlights how Moses and Elijah, representing the Law and the Prophets, ultimately point to Jesus, who alone is the focus of God's pleasure and the object of our faith. The core lesson is that while the Law and prophets serve to bring conviction, only Jesus can save, offering forgiveness and eternal life through his atoning sacrifice. The message concludes by urging listeners to trust in Jesus exclusively, not adding works or rituals, for complete salvation and to experience his transformative touch.
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in verse one. And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain, a park. And what transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias, talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. If thou wilt let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them.
Behold, a voice out of the cloud which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their feet and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them and said, arise and be not afraid. When they had lifted up their eyes they saw no man save Jesus only. I'd like to draw attention to those final two words, Jesus only. About three years ago we were going through the book of Luke chapter by chapter, almost verse by verse, and we took up Luke's view of the Mount of Transfiguration.
But in praying about the meeting this morning, seeing it's our anniversary, I thought of Matthew's presentation of this wonderful scene. And I thought, well, in the six years we've been here, we've sought to preach Jesus only. And as long, friend, as this church stands, I trust every man who occupied this pulpit, as far as I'm concerned, no one would be allowed to stand in it unless he did. Preach, no man save Jesus only. That's why this chapel was built, and that's why we conduct our meetings, that Jesus only might get all the glory, all the credit, and all the honor.
That poor lost souls may come to find Jesus only as a Savior. That God's people may come to find in Him everything they need from day to day, or you'll find the answer to every problem in Jesus' own life. Here you have a foregreen of future glory. There's a mountain here. This mountain is between Judea and Galilee. Judea is the Jewish state and Galilee, the Gentile state. And right on the boundary line, you have this mount of transfiguration. And on top of this mount, you have the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a foreglaim of that day when Christ shall reign over Jew and Gentile alike.
That's a wonderful day. It's spoken of in the word of God as the millennium, when Jesus Christ shall reign from sea to sea and pole to pole. And so he'll reign over the Jews and over the Gentiles alike. You know it says after six days, that's very significant. God's word is very wonderful. Six days. And Peter speaks of a thousand years being but a day in God's sight. Time, what is time to God? Eternity is frozen time to him. There is no past. There is no future with God.
He's everlasting. And the death of Christ, as far as God is concerned, happened but yesterday. It is where, as though God were seeing Christ upon that cross today, and yet he sees him now at his right hand. And God sees him in the future, reigning over the earth. And so you have six days, as I say, a thousand years has likened unto one day with God. Six thousand years. You know we're getting very close to the end of six thousand years. Six days. about four thousand years until Christ, nineteen hundred and sixty-two years since.
Could it be that that thousand years of wonderful rain that is coming when Jesus Christ will rain over the earth, after he has come and judged this earth as you have in the book of Revelation, he shall rain for a thousand years, showing, then, we are getting near the end of the six thousand year period. the end of the six days, then his millennial reign. After six days, we have this wonderful picture. For, if you will, after six thousand years, Christ is seen reigning overdue and Gentile alike. But you'll notice with him are two patriarchs, Moses and Elijah.
Moses will speak of those who have fallen asleep in Christ. And when Jesus comes, there will be raised from the dead. Elijah, who went to heaven without dying, speaks of those who will be alive when Christ returns, and they shall be changed. The dead are raised. The living changed into his likeness to meet him in the air. Now what is their state here? It says they were glorified with Christ, but they were right there in the enjoyment of all that glory. And I want to say this. This glory did not shine upon the Lord Jesus Christ. This glory shone from Jesus Christ.
It shone through him. For the glory of God is resident in Jesus Christ. And in the day to come, as we read in the revelation concerning the new Jerusalem, they have no need of the sun, the moon, and the stars. For the Lamb is the light thereof. And so here we find Christ there in all his resplendent glory, his face shining as the sun. It's not as though God put the spotlight on him. He is the spotlight. The glory is in him, and it radiates from him and through him. So their state is glorified. And what's the occupation of Moses and Elias? They're speaking, as Luke puts it, of his deceits, which he should accomplish at the losing.
Think of that. Moses and Elias are talking about the death of Christ. Is that not going to be our theme throughout eternity, those of us who are saved yet? when we are glorified and have our bodies like unto His glorious body. What will be our theme? The theme of our conversation. The theme of our song. The Bible tells us. Unto him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood. Redeeming love. That's it. We mentioned the other day on the TV. After C.H. Spurgeon had been asked to put his name in an autograph. After his signature. He wrote the verse for him, Ere since by faith I saw the streams, thy pool and saw the stream, thy flowing wounds supplied.
Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall thee fill I down. Redeeming love is not only our theme on earth, it will be our theme throughout the earth. And so their occupation. You notice the attendants of Jesus Christ here are not angels. He didn't appear on this mouth attended by angels. No, but men, two men, is not amazing. Here is a certain proof of the resurrection. Moses had been dead fifteen hundred years, and here he has seen on the mouth of Christ. What a rebuke to those who believe in soul sleep.
No friend, the soul does not sleep. The moment you die, if you're a Christian, you open your eyes in the presence of God. that you're not a Christian, you open up your eyes in hell, being informed according to Luke chapter eight. No such thing as souls did. Here is Moses having died fifteen hundred years before. Here he is with Jesus Christ upon this month. Moses suggesting death, Elijah suggesting the coming of the Lord because he was taken to heaven without dying. If you were to read that incident, It says they looked for him. They searched for him for three days, and they found them not. There's going to be a great search when Jesus comes.
Some young people are going to be searching for their mother. They'll find her not. Some are going to be searching for their father. They'll find them not. Wives will be searching for their husbands, and husbands will be searching for their wives. They'll not find them. Parents who will be searching for their little children will not thank them. Why? Because Jesus Christ has come and taken them to heaven. That's what your Bible teaches. And then we're advancing to that moment when that great event is going to happen. This world is in a fearful net. We know very little about the real state of this nation and the world.
I see nothing else but the coming of Christ. of the answer to the whole situation. And so there'll be a great separation when Jesus comes. There's recognition here. They saw boldness. They saw a life. They could pick them up. And they saw Jesus in the earth. Will we know one another in heaven? I believe we will. I'm convinced of that. There'll be recognition. We'll be able to tell who's who in heaven, for they knew which one was Moses. They knew which one was Elias on this occasion. But you'll notice poor Peter. Poor Peter's always impetuous. And as Peter's looking upon this wonderful sight, he says, Lord, it's good for us to be here.
Let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias. Oh, yes, it is good for us to be here. Peter would like to stay right there. He says, wonderful, be up here gazing upon the Lord. It's good to be here, free from all troubles, sneers, and trials. Very good to be here. Sometimes, you know, Christians are blessed in their heart. They listen to God's word and they seem to be taken to heaven in spirit. The Lord is so near. Why is it nice to be here? To enjoy the presence of the Lord, to enjoy a little bit more than it is to come. Then all of a sudden you're awakened up, when the final hymn's given out, you have to go out of this chapel and you go home to face a cold world, a cruel world for another week.
It's nice, isn't it, to be with Christians, to hear His word, to be in the Lord's peasant. That's how Peter says it. Oh, he says, it's wonderful to be here. Peter forgot three things, three very important things. He says, let's make three tavernacks. He wanted to perpetuate this condition, this happiness he was enjoying, but he forgot three things. The first one, he forgot his brethren, because only three of them are here. He forgot the rest of them. They were further down the mouth. Not only did he forget his brethren, he forgot the unsaved, but at the foot of this mouth, if you read the whole incident, there was a man possessed with a demon, and there's a great body due to unsaved people.
Peter forgot about the unsaved and the man possessed with a death. It's possible for Christians to be so occupied with their blessings, so taken up with what they have in Jesus Christ they forget these things. They forget other Christians who are hungry. They forget the loss who are perishing in their sins. So often Christians are just that stubborn. God would have you and me think of others. Last night I was at the night before, taking my walk down Slappy Drive, I was thinking of the coming of the Lord. I thought, wouldn't it be wonderful? I wish he'd come right now, and I caught myself.
I thought of my brother who's not a Christian. I want him to come, and yet I don't. For my own self, I do want the Lord to come. But for the sake of those who are not ready, I don't. The friend he's going to come. But let us not be so taken up with our own spiritual blessing and personal blessing as to forget the need of others. The third thing Peter forgot, the Lord Jesus hadn't yet died. When Peter, all that glory that you're looking at cannot be until Jesus died. That's only affordably a shadow of future glory. Christ must come down that mountain, and he must go up another mountain, and that's Mount Telluray.
And as Peter saw the Lord up in this mouth, there were no scars in his hands, no crown of thorns upon his head, no spear wound in his side. The Lord, you've got to come down. And he did. Jesus Christ came down from that mountain, climbed the Goliath's hill, and there he suffered and fled, and died for you and me. Peter forgot about that. But in his epistle he got it all straightened out for five times in his epistle. He referred to the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow. Oh, but he wanted the glory without the suffering. No, it can't be. If we suffer with him, we shall also bring with him, the Bible says.
Suffering now, glory, hereafter. And so while Peter was taken up with this wonderful sight, a voice was heard. This is my beloved son. whom I am well pleased, hear ye him, and they fell on their feet, whom are sorely. God speaks. Why did God speak? Moses and Elijah are there, and Peter puts them on the same platform, the same level, as the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, let's make three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses, one for Elijah. And the moment Peter tried to put someone else even though it be an illustrious character like Moses, and a mighty prophet like Elijah, the moment he put them on the same plane as Jesus Christ, God intervened, no, he said, that cannot be.
This is my beloved son, hear ye him. Then the cloud lifted, they saw no man, and said, Jesus alone. God took Jesus Christ, or took Moses away, and took Elijah away, and left Jesus Christ there alone. God says, now you hear him. Not Moses, not Elijah, you hear my son. He's the one I want you to hear. And so they saw no man save Jesus only. That's my picture. Within a sad picture, if it had seen Moses only, what does Moses stand for?
Moses stands for the law. you can't get to heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments. A lot are trying to get to heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments, but you can. Isn't it strange, with an open Bible, especially the New Testament, you'll find people still looking at Sinai and the storm that broke on it and that fiery mount when the Ten Commandments were given that if a beast touched the mount it was tossed through with a dart? That's God in justice. That's God in law. that as Hebrews tells us, we come on to another mountain. And this is Mount Golgotha. Mount Calvary is a different mountain.
No need to be afraid, Calvary. He says, fear not. Fear not. You might well fear if you've got to keep the Ten Commandments to get to heaven, for you never will. No man ever did keep them the way they should be kept, save Jesus Christ. He honored the law and his life. He bore its curse in his death. And so it wasn't Moses that they saw. Not Moses and Jesus either. It's not law and grace that saves you. Faith or no man save Jesus only. The law doesn't save you. And neither do the prophets.
Elijah was taken from the picture also. Moses speaks of the law. Elijah speaks of the prophets. But the prophets can't save us. The prophets couldn't die for us. He could not have been saved by the death of any prophet. The prophets left us out of the picture. Their prophecies were to Israel, not to the church. And so I'm very happy that they saw Jesus only. Moses and the prophets are removed from the sea. And Jesus Christ. pilled the mouth. He filled the picture.
He filled their vision. The Bible says the law and the prophets or Moses and the prophets were until John. And since then the kingdom of heaven has been preached unto you. John was the forerunner of the Lord Jesus. John was a preacher of repentance. Let me tell you that repentance is the forerunner of salvation in Jesus Christ. What will the law and the prophets do if they're properly handled? They'll bring a person under repentance. They'll bring a person under conviction of sin because the sinner will realize. I've broken the law, and he'll hear the thunder of the prophet.
The sorrow of that sinner that shall die when the sinner is convicted of his sin, his lost condition. He's repentant. And that's the forerunner of Jesus Christ. When you're repentant, Then salvation may be yours. In God's Son, they saw no man save Jesus from death. It reminds you of the night. You go some night and you see all the stars shining, various signs. It's a beautiful night. Toward morning the sun begins to arise. What happens when the sun arises? All the stars vanish from the sky.
They pay if they're still there in their place, where they're no longer seen because the brightness of the sun has caused them to fade to where you cannot see them. The Old Testament prophets were like those stars. They shone through the night of the law. Some were brighter than others. When Jesus Christ came, the sun arose and all the prophets vanished. God, as their message is concerned, their message cannot save us. Only in that it refers to Jesus Christ. And so now it's Jesus only. The Son filled the sheep. He alone then can save your soul and life.
I want you to know this three things. They saw his faith. They felt his touch. And they heard his voice. They saw his faith. wonderful the picture they saw. His face was seen on one other occasion set to go to Jerusalem. You remember, he made as though he would have gone into a city, but he turned aside and his face was set to go to Jerusalem. It is simply meaning this, the Son of God had one thing before him in this light.
That was counted. Even from a lad, we have to cross the book. The artist beautifully illustrated this one time. He painted the picture of a carpenter's shop. And the sun was shining in the window, the setting sun. It was going down. And as it shone through the window of the carpenter's shop, the Lord Jesus as a lad, only a boy. having worked all day in time, did this, as men often do, and the sun threw the shadow of a cross on the opposite wall. The artist should be teaching this.
The cross was before Jesus Christ, even more boy. He said, I'm ready to die for my youth life. And the boy said, Christian, I must be about my politics. And so the cross was ever before, and his faith was set. go to Jerusalem. But then his face is saddened on another occasion, and he saw the city of Jerusalem unwept over. His face depicted disappointment on another occasion when Peter denied it. He turned and he looked up at Peter. What an expression of disappointment. Let me tell you, Christians today can disappoint the heart of the Lord Jesus.
You deny him. You do things that are not pleasing in his face. What disappointment is he. But then he goes further. He says, shame uncovered my face. His face set. His face satin. His face disappointed. But he says, shame uncovered my face. When they spat in his face, they tore a hair from his cheek. His face was a picture of shame. But here. His face is a splendid look. They saw his face. Face they saw then is the face we're going to see in a coming day of the brightness of the sun.
They saw his face. They heard his voice. Be not afraid. You've heard his voice. In many ways, you've heard his voice through his word. That's how he speaks through this book. You've heard His voice through His works. The heavens declare His handiwork. God's voice is heard in creation. You've heard His voice in circumstance. Circumstances in your life may be sickness, the death of a loved one. He hears His voice. You have heard His voice. Maybe you've heard the voice of His blood, appealing to you, to trust it and wash your sins away.
You read about the voice of Abel's blood crying unto God from the ground. Abel's blood was crying to God for vengeance upon the one who shed it. You read about the blood of Christ that speaketh or cryeth or better things than that of Abel's blood. The blood of Christ was crying for your salvation. It was not at the voice of his blood. It was the voice of his spirit. all the Spirit for you. Is someone knocking at your heart, sir? Do you feel somehow as though God is drawing near to your heart? Your heart is thumping.
You say, I'd like to be saved. I'd like to know Jesus is coming and I'm not ready to die. As God's speaking to you, your hearing is what? The voice of the Spirit that calls, but not. And I trust you are here today. And so they heard his voice. God wants you to hear ye him. All those words. Hear ye him at all times. On all occasions. On all subjects. And with all your heart. Hear ye him. That's what God said. But they fell his touch. He reached over and he touched.
He says, here now, the Elohim, Jesus Christ, was there as they had known prior to this beautiful sight on this wonderful mountain. I, as friend, he will touch you this morning. His voice comes first, and then he's touched. It was the voice of God that put them on their faces on the ground. It's the voice of God that makes a man fall in his face before the Lord. For in other words, fumbles themselves before God. And then that sinner is repentant on his face before God as to his heart attitude. Then he arose something of a thought.
Jesus Christ touched you. He said, Be not afraid. Touch you with a touch of salvation. As he touched the tongue of one long ago and unleashed it, he touched the eyes of another and gave those eyes such. He unstuffed their ears. He touched the unclean and foul leper and made them clean. He actually touched the veer or the coffin of a young man and gave him life. Jesus Christ touched many in the days of his flesh. The friend he has touched many of hearts. Never, never can I forget when he touched my heart at the age of ninety, I felt his heart.
sitting in the kitchen of our home. Way up in Stratford, Ontario, my old father pointed me to Christ after coming home from the meeting. I felt his touch. A touch, friend, I've never forgotten. The impression has never left me. I felt his touch. Have you? Has he touched your heart? He wants to do it this morning with a touch of forgiveness, with a touch of pardon, with a touch of peace, touch of everlasting life. They saw his face. They heard his voice. They felt his touch. They saw no man.
Say Jesus. It was Jesus whom they saw. It was Jesus whom they heard. It was Jesus they felt. And he reached over and touched his face. You hear his voice first. Then you feel his touch. People are waiting for a feeling. Some of you would like to be saved this morning. You're sitting there just waiting for some kind of a feeling from over you like a blanket. Or an electric shock. No, that won't happen. Not until you trust them. If you trust them. Say, Lord Jesus, I will trust thee. Trust thee with my soul. I'm guilty, lost, and helpless. Thou canst me, people. You say that.
Hear this voice speaking unto you. Thy sins are forgiven me. Then you'll know the warmth of that assurance, that divine touch that your sins are all forgiven. When you trust them now, you'll feel the touch if you will. Jesus only. Remember the wisdom of the Greeks in John chapter twelve when they said, we would see Jesus. They heard others talk about him. Oh, they said, we would see Jesus. Maybe you're saying that this morning. I would see you. I want to see you. Would you like to see the Lord Jesus this morning?
You may. You have tried others. Why not try him? You have tried friends. You've tried pleasures. You've tried religion. You've tried lots of things. You're not satisfied. Why not try Jesus only? Not Jesus and works. It's not Jesus and doing the best you can. No. It's Jesus only. It's not Jesus and your prayers. It's not Jesus and your feeling. Not Jesus and your baptism. It's Jesus only the Bible. He alone will save you, friends. It's not Jesus and your faith. It's not Jesus and your money. It's not Jesus and your confirmation.
It's Jesus only. He alone will save you. It's not Jesus and church membership. A lot of people when you ask if they're saved, you join the church, a member of the church. And they put the two together as though they were one. And joining the church and becoming a Christian are not the same thing. There are millions of people who have joined the church and are members of the church today and they're not born again. You may have walked the aisle and given your hand to the preacher and decided to join the church and everybody voted you in. You felt good, didn't you? Because you thought you were doing right. But did you get saved?
Did the Lord touch you? Where are you born again? That's the question. The feeling you likely got was the feeling that, well, I'm doing the right thing. I'm doing the trick. I'm all I do. That's a different thing from receiving the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart and feeling his heart. They saw no man save Jesus from death. Jesus only, friends, is the one you need. He says, I am the way, the truth, and the light. He's the one you need. No one asks. Oh, that you would see Jesus on the cross suffering and bleeding and dying for you. Friend, let me say he did it alone.
That work was done by Jesus only. Jesus only. He needed no assistance then. He did the work himself. He said it is finished. He doesn't need your help in the plan of salvation. He did it all alone upon the cross. Jesus only today at God's right hand has a Savior. He's not a helper. He's not an example. He's not a pattern. He's a Savior. A hundred percent Savior. He's got to do it all. He doesn't need your assistance. All he wants is your consent, and he'll say.
Today, at God's right hand, he's an intercessor. He's a high priest. He's an advocate for his people. That's what he is not. He needs no help in that office. He functions himself. He doesn't need my assistance or yours. What about the future? Bible says in the future he's coming as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He'll execute judgment upon his foes and he'll tread the winepressure, the fierceness, of the wrath of Almighty God alone. Alone. Jesus alone. Jesus only.
In that coming day of death. Whether it's the past on the cross, it's Jesus alone. In splendid isolation as the King of Sorrows. the Emperor of those in the Prince of Cain, Jesus Christ alone, will save your soul. He didn't need your help when he died. He died alone. The work is his. He completed the job without anyone assisting. The days of God's right hand, the living man, Jesus only and Jesus alone will save you. No church can give a helping hand.
He needs no assistance. He'll do it alone. There's none of the name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. It's Jesus' own. You cannot add to this salvation because you cannot add to Jesus' track. Nor can you detract from it. It's all in him. And in the day to come... He'll do it alone. He'll meet those armies at the Armageddon and rides down the heavens on his white horse with a gesture dipped in blood. Although you have there represented all the world's might on military power gathered in that mighty veil of the dead, there's man's death, the cream of his strength.
There's all his genius that assembled hosts. of military might. Jesus Christ will face them alone. Single hand. He'll speak the word. The sword will go out of his mouth. The hailstones will fall and the dally will be full of blood. The horse strife. Jesus Christ will do it alone. He will tread the winepress of the fierceness of wrath of Almighty God alone. All Jesus over. Stepping the cross with single hands. The judgment in the future will be undertaken by him alone.
No one needs to help him. He's sufficient. And so it is today in your salvation. It's Jesus over. Jesus alone. Are you willing to trust him and him alone? It's so, friend. We'll save you. We'll save you right now. And so we present to you this morning. Jesus is all. That's been our theme for thirty-one years. It will be our theme to the end. That's the message of this book. Jesus is all.
We're not preaching any church or any ordinal. We're preaching Jesus all. for he will not share or give his glory with another. Christ receives all the credit. Christ receives all the glory for every soul that's saved. But it's unto him who loves us and washes us from our sins in his own blood. It's Jesus alone. Jesus alone. You want him? Don't add your prayers. Don't add your works. Jesus only. Take him as he is, a full Savior. We're all sufficient, why? Will you trust me?
Will you accept me? Say, yes. I'll accept Jesus only. Let's let him in. I'll open my heart. I'll let him in. Jesus. Jesus only. Shall we pray? Our Heavenly Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend the life of our Lord Jesus. We ask thy blessing upon thy birds, we do thank thee, for enabling us to exalt thy Son, and to present him in all his fullness and proficiency in the hearts of these people. O God, we do thank thee for him. We trust that someone this morning has yielded to him, turned over the reins of his or her heart to that blessed one, and will experience this morning the satisfaction to teach the joy that's found alone in Jesus only.
We ask that we thank you His name. Amen. Thank you. you know How's