The Transfiguration of Our Lord 2018

Twice in the Gospels God the Father speaks about Jesus.  Both times He says, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”  Each time He makes this decree, the salvation of mankind is firmly in view.  The first is at Jesus’ Baptism in the Jordan.  There Jesus set apart water to be a part of salvation, a lavish washing away of sin, shown as His righteousness flowed into the water and all the world’s sin flowed through that water and onto His innocent shoulders.  The second time the Father speaks is at the event we commemorate today, the Transfiguration, as Jesus’ true Nature is revealed and is no longer veiled behind the common frame.  There He speaks with Moses and Elijah concerning His impending crucifixion and resurrection.  It is then that the Father declares Jesus the one by whom He is well-pleased.  God the Father finds all His joy in the person and work of His Son who, out of love for His fallen creation, has taken on flesh and goes uncomplaining forth to His death, bearing the sin of the world, to shed His innocent Blood to pay the price the Law demands for sin.

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