God’s Omnipresence and Omniscience.

For the music director. A Psalm of David.

A Psalm of Praise.

Final Admonition

4 “^[a]For behold, the day is coming, ^(A)burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be ^(B)chaff; and the day that is coming will ^(C)set them ablaze,” says the Lord of armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branches. ² But for you who ^[b]fear My name, the ^(D)sun of righteousness will rise with ^(E)healing in its wings; and you will go forth and ^(F)frolic like calves from the stall. ³ And you will ^(G)crush the wicked underfoot, for they will be ^(H)ashes under the soles of your feet ^(I)on the day ^[c]that I am preparing,” says the Lord of armies.

⁴ “^(J)Remember the Law of Moses My servant, the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.

⁵ “Behold, I am going to send you ^(K)Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. ⁶ He will ^(L)turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and ^(M)strike the land with complete destruction.”

⁷ But if the ^(A)ministry of death, engraved ^(B)in letters on stones, came ^[a]with glory ^(C)so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, ⁸ how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? ⁹ For if ^(D)the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ^(E)ministry of righteousness excel in glory. ¹⁰ For indeed what had glory in this case has no glory, because of the glory that surpasses it. ¹¹ For if that which fades away was ^[b]with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

^12 (F)Therefore, having such a hope, ^(G)we use great boldness in our speech, ¹³ and we are not like Moses, ^(H)who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not stare at the end of what was fading away. ¹⁴ But their minds were ^(I)hardened; for until this very day at the ^(J)reading of ^(K)the old covenant the same veil ^[c]remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. ¹⁵ But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts; ^16 (L)but whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. ¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where ^(M)the Spirit of the Lord is, ^(N)there is freedom. ¹⁸ But we all, with unveiled faces, ^(O)looking as in a mirror at the ^(P)glory of the Lord, are being ^(Q)transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from ^(R)the Lord, the Spirit.

Peter Says Jesus is The Christ

^18 (A)And it happened that while He was ^(B)praying alone, the disciples were with Him, and He questioned them, saying, “Who do the ^[a]people say that I am?” ¹⁹ They answered and said, “John the Baptist, and others say Elijah; but others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.” ²⁰ And He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered and said, “^(C)The ^[b]Christ of God.” ²¹ But He ^[c](D)warned them and instructed them not to tell this to anyone, ^22 (E)saying, “^(F)The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised on the third day.”

²³ And He was saying to them all, “^(G)If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me. ²⁴ For ^(H)whoever wants to save his ^[d]life will lose it, but whoever loses his ^[e]life for My sake, this is the one who will save it. ²⁵ For what good does it do a person if he gains the whole world, but ^(I)loses or forfeits himself? ^26 (J)For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and the glory of the Father and the holy angels. ²⁷ But I say to you truthfully, ^(K)there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”