Our natural tendency as human beings is to avoid difficulties and trials.

But Nancy DeMoss Walggemann says there's no crown without the cross.

There is no exaltation without humiliation. Suffering precedes glory.

As Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4, our sufferings are preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo. Author of Brokenness,

The Heart God Revives. For April 16th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Nancy has called the Transfiguration, the most significant event that took place between the birth of Jesus and his death and resurrection.

Christmas marks the birth of Christ, and then this weekend we're remembering Christ's death on Good Friday and rejoicing in his resurrection on Easter Sunday.

But the Transfiguration falls in between these events, and it's really significant as well.

Nancy's been exploring why, that is, over the last few days in a series called On Another Mountain.

Let's hear part three of that message.

We'll begin with a short review of where Nancy left off yesterday.

We read about the transformation of Jesus on the mountain in the past.

And then there's a present transformation that is taking place even now, as our souls are

gradually being transformed, and his new nature is being manifest increasingly in us.

We think of that as sanctification, transfigured, metamorphose to complete change of form and appearance, the implication of his transfigured, metamorphose, to complete change of form and appearance.

The implication of his transfiguration is that the glory of God in us totally changes us.

It makes us different.

It's a word, you know, that is used in only two other places in the New Testament, apart

from the Gospel accounts.

Romans chapter 12, don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed, transfigured, metamorphosed

by the renewal of your mind.

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