Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

What was the historical and prophetic purpose of the transfiguration?

And does it hold any application for us today?

Today, we're going to continue through Paul's sermon series in the Gospel of Mark, and in this message, Paul explains

why Jesus was transfigured, and how the glory of Christ in that moment should shape the way

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Now here's Paul with this message from the Gospel of Mark.

There are scenes in life that words can adequately describe.

That you stretch the language as far as you can, and they still don't capture the moment.

People who know me well know that I'm a bit of a museum rat.

If I'm in a new city and I have free time, I look for an art museum. And I was in the Cleveland

Museum of Art, unprepared for what I was about to experience. I walked around a corner and

there in a gallery by itself was one of Monet's water lily paintings.

It was six and a half feet high, it was 13 feet long.

And the minute I saw it, I was transfixed.

It was like the colors were enveloping you.

Gorgeous brushstrokes. It wasn't, the water wasn't a color of blue. It was an array of shades of blue.

Now I've tried to describe this painting to you, but I an array of shades of blue.

Now, I've tried to describe this painting to you, but I can't do it.

I could, for the next 15 minutes, try to capture this for you.

I could never do it.

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