Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your

morning drive. When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to

change. For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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And now let's dive in to today's devotional.

Welcome to the Daily Drive once again. My name is Pastor Joby Martin. I'm the pastor of the

church of 1122, and it is such an honor to be here with you again. I'd like to turn our attention

to Mark chapter 9. Because one of the things when

you talk about miracles, one of the questions that you have to ask is, well, what happens when I don't

believe as much as I think I ought to believe? And I think Mark chapter 9 answers this as much as any

passage that I know of in the

scripture. In fact, I think one of the most honest prayers in all the scriptures is found in

Mark chapter 9. The first part of Mark chapter 9 is this incredible event that's happening.

Jesus takes Peter, James and John, up on this mountain. We call it the

mountain of transfiguration. The Bible says that Jesus transfigures before these three disciples.

And I don't know exactly what that means, but it's a metaphysical reality. And I think what

happens here is the real miracle is that in this moment, Jesus peels back his humanity

and he sets forth his glory for these disciples to see. And then, even in that moment, the Bible says

that Moses and Elijah show up on the mountain of transfiguration, which is really the personification of what Paul is going to talk about in Romans 3, when he says that by works of the law, no one will be declared righteous in his own mind, but, or in himself, he says, but the law and the prophets bear witness to this alien righteousness that will come.

This is what's happening on the mountain of transfiguration.

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