Elijah Has Come
from Discipleship on SermonAudio Hosted by Rod Amberson
Mark 9:9–13 teaches that Jesus' path to glory was an intentional, voluntary, and substitutionary path that necessarily required suffering and death before resurrection. By commanding the disciples to keep the Transfiguration secret until after He rose, Jesus establishes that His glory cannot be rightly understood or proclaimed apart from the cross. Furthermore, by explaining that Elijah has already come through the rejected and martyred ministry of John the Baptist, Jesus reveals that suffering is the scripturally appointed lot for both the forerunner and the Messiah. This passage emphasizes that Christ's suffering was not an accidental tragedy or a failure of God's plan, but the ordained means to bear the punishment for sinners, offering instruction that true discipleship and the path of faith involve following a crucified Savior whose victory is firmly declared in His resurrection.
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