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Howdy. All right, so have you all heard this phrase?

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I'm giving her all she's got, Captain!

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All right, all right, maybe not, maybe instead it's

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I push it any harder, the whole thing will blow!

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I'm an engineer, not a miracle worker!

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And of course, I cannot change the laws of physics!

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This is the worst Scottish accent you've ever heard.

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That is okay, and I am okay with that.

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This was James Dewin, the Canadian actor who played the Scottish engineer

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on the original Star Trek series where space explorers would boldly go

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where no man has gone before.

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Now, that's right, we had a character named Montgomery Scott, nicknamed Scotty,

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with a Scottish accent who drank Scotch played by a Canadian.

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I don't know, this is the 60s, life was simpler back then.

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Can you believe they almost cut the character?

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You almost had Star Trek without Scotty, it was this close, this close.

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They barely made the right choice, but I always loved the character,

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and I remembered him specifically from those movies, all right?

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Especially the fourth one, you know, the one with the whales and everything,

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and I'm like, how in the world are whales saving the world?

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I'm still a little confused on that one.

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But with it is Scotty's over there, and it turns out that you always wonder

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what always happened to those characters.

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Well, it turned out that his last episode wasn't in the original Star Trek,

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and it wasn't in those movies.

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It was actually in the next generation, the next series.

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And it turned out in this episode called Relics,

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after he had been on 11 different Starships,

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serving for 52 years and retiring at the age of 72,

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which means he hopefully got Social Security,

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with the rank of Captain Scotty ended up getting stuck in a teleporter.

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You know, like that little, it used to be like glittery and everything else,

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you go from one place to another.

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It turned out his spaceship was almost going to be destroyed,

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but by putting himself into a teleporter, he could keep himself safe.

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But the problem was he was stuck there for 75 years.

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So the character comes out being discovered at the age of 147,

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and it turned out that not only had he been older before,

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but 75 years later, and of course, engineering had advanced without him.

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So there he was, feeling that he was out of date

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and not sure what place that he had here in the future that he couldn't get used to.

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But it turned out that from the past,

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his understanding of engineering principles and mechanics,

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and all these things that all the new kids took for granted

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and just let the computers do it all themselves,

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he was able to help them save the new Starship Enterprise

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when all the new guys couldn't do it.

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And so after proving that even being the old fella

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and not feeling like he was hip and with it,

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he was able to go off and explore space in his own little space shuttle.

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But you may be wondering, why was it such a big deal

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to take this character from the old series and put them into the new one?

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It's because we realize, is it oftentimes we need the past

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in order to point us into the future,

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which is what I tell myself whenever I hang out with the youth group.

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But in realizing this is that this helps us to also understand

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why it is so important to look at Moses and Elijah

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when they are with Jesus up on the mountain.

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See, what we end up seeing is that Moses and Elijah are there

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and they have somehow been brought into the future.

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There is no DeLorean in sight and nobody's saying great scots.

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But what we see is that while they are teleported into the future,

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it ends up showing us a bit more about the past.

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See, Moses was with the people of Israel and he was looking toward the promised land.

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He knew that God had promised them a future.

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But see, here's the difficulty.

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Moses was not allowed to go into that land.

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See, it turns out that Moses, when he was supposed to go up

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and proclaim God's word to a rock

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and all the water was supposed to come out,

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instead took a staff and just smacked it one in order to break it open.

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Because that's what he felt would make the most sense

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instead of following God by faith.

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So because of that and what that showed to the people,

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God was not allowed to let him go into the promised land.

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And so he ends up walking up this mountain and going to be with God.

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And people are saying, well, how did you know that when he went up there,

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he was buried by God?

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How do we know those things?

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And I just need you to pause and just ask yourself this question.

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If you see someone at 120 walking up a mountain by themselves

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and they never come back down again,

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what are we assuming is going to happen?

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I'm just kind of leaving that there.

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But that's the thing with this.

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That is his last appearance before we see him again up on the mountain with Jesus.

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But you see, it's not just Moses.

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See, Moses had trouble because that anger just came right back out again.

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But Elijah also was struggling too.

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You see, Elijah, we know, was in a chariot of fire, went up into heaven.

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All right.

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This was no temple.

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Right. This was no Tesla truck.

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Okay.

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This was something that was from God and be able to take him up to be in God's presence.

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But why?

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Why did Elijah need to leave at all?

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What we saw is that after he had confronted Ahab and Jezebel, what did he do?

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He ran.

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He was convinced there was nobody else there.

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There were 7000 people in Israel who would have supported him and had his back and he ran.

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There are times where he's running and God is saying, why are you here?

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Elijah, where are you going?

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Until finally after the trip and a nap and some food, because what makes things better in your life

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than a nap and some food is finally God says, I am going to have you anoint this king, this king,

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and Elisha, your successor, because Elijah was no longer going to be the right person

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to be a prophet to the people of God.

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See, he had spent so long trying to run into a void is that God then brought somebody in

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who was going to be able to do the work that was needed.

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You see, that's the thing about this is that we oftentimes end up seeing that a person truly

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loves and wants to follow God.

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But there are times when push comes to shove and we back down.

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We let go.

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We dropped the ball.

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That's the thing with this, though, is that God still redeems us.

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Even when he's redeeming the law, even when he's redeeming the prophets, God is still

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redeeming his people.

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You see, that's what Moses and Elijah end up showing here is that they are showing us

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the law and the prophets.

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See, whenever we see Moses, he is using the law and he is going to smack that rock and

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he's going to make sure everybody understand that they are supposed to listen and hear and fear.

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But you see, the problem was that that wasn't the way you're supposed to use the law.

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See, it's funny how oftentimes a person may want everybody else to hear the law of God.

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And then we discover when they themselves don't listen to it or follow it either.

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But the same thing true for Elijah, he was a prophet.

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A prophet is supposed to speak the truth of God, but what does he do?

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He doesn't want to hear it.

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He doesn't want to see it.

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He doesn't want to know it.

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He doesn't want to trust that there are people who will help him at his time of need.

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See, that's the thing with this is that how often is it that a person keeps saying,

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you need to hear and see the truth and then they don't actually believe in it themselves.

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The law and the prophets, they are so important, but we ourselves oftentimes are the ones to

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betray them both.

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But here's the thing about what we see is that neither of them were abandoned by God.

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We oftentimes betray what God wants or betray what God reveals, but God doesn't betray us.

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That's the thing about grace is that that's what we end up seeing when they finally come

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to see Jesus.

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See, here's the thing.

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Moses, when he goes up that mountain, who is going to be a successor?

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Joshua.

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What does the name Joshua mean?

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Joshua Yahweh is salvation.

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Yahweh saves when Elijah went up into the sky and he leaves it to Elisha.

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Elisha means God.

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El saves.

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See, Elijah wasn't even willing to stick around long enough to anoint the people he was supposed

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to do that for.

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And he left it in someone else's hands.

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But when they come back, who do they see?

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They see the one who's actually meant to bring salvation because Jesus, Jesus is the Greek

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term for Yeshua.

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That's the thing about this is that while they had stumbled in their walk, God brought

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them back to see that everything that they were intended to do had finally brought the

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true Messiah.

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That's the thing about this is that oftentimes we think that the disappointment in our life

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is the same thing as failure.

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We think that the way in which we have disappointed God or the way in which we've disappointed

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ourselves, we think that somehow now we have failed at whatever God is meant to do.

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Could you imagine what that is?

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Scotty, up in the teleporter, trying to save himself and another friend.

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He's the only one who survives, who comes out and feels that no one needs him.

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And yet what we discover is that there is still a purpose and a meaning for why he is

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there.

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His legacy was still relevant.

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It was still something needed.

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See, the thing is, is that our ability to live up to God's expectations, just because

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we are the ones who end up stumbling doesn't mean that God's ways are now destroyed.

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And it doesn't mean that God's plans have no future or hope.

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Sometimes we feel like we are stuck.

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That there may be something in which we feel that we're in a holding pattern.

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We can't seem to get to where we're supposed to be going.

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And we feel like we're just stuck in between.

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We may feel that way because we know that there was something where we feel that we dropped

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the ball and we wish we could have gone back and fixed it.

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There may be the times whenever we know someone was depending on us and we wished so much

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that we hadn't let them down.

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There are the times whenever we know that maybe one of our children saw us do the exact opposite

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of what we told them to do.

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Do what I say, not what I do.

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Or the times whenever we feel that we're supposed to be living out the gospel that we preach

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every week and then we see ourselves yelling at somebody because they are really getting

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on our nerves.

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Facebook is a terrible drug.

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But that's the thing about it is that the disappointment is not meaning that now there is no future.

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The thing with this is that oftentimes we've given up on what we think God was going to do.

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Do you remember what you thought God had placed on your heart as a child and you feel like your life derailed somehow?

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Or that somehow what you were expecting to live out or to do with your family, with your friends,

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wherever you may be and yet somehow something got off track and you're not sure where to go from here?

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Or even the ways in which maybe we feel that we've only disappointed our own expectations

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and we think that there's no place for the future that we felt God had in store for us.

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And that's the hard part with this is that faith is supposed to be bigger than our failing.

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See, God is bigger because of his grace.

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Grace is not something that only comes out because you've managed to do everything perfectly right the whole time.

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You've managed to put everything in place exactly the way it was supposed to be and now God's kingdom can come

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because you have managed to fix it all.

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Instead realizing that God knew from before the world began that you were going to snap at your loved one,

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that you were going to drop the ball for the one who needed you, that you were not going to live up to your own potential

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and still sent his son to that mountain to show us who he is and to tell us that we are still a part of his kingdom

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because don't forget Peter on that mountain would still go forth and deny him three times.

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That's what we end up seeing with the future is that the past does not end up preventing the future

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but God can still use that to point us to where we're meant to go.

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Is that to flawed, failed people became the law and the prophets to show us the Messiah.

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And that's the same piece for you to.

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Because grace is not just a moment in time.

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It's not just this one point that now you dwell on it and see I failed at this and now it's all over.

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Grace is from a God who sees all of it at every place and time.

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And so with this God, we are still the ones who have a future and still have a part to play.

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This is not a life that ends with death.

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We don't see the ending for Moses or the ending for Elijah because we're not supposed to.

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Just like none of us are meant to look at any point in our life and say this is the end.

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But rather is our life is into eternity and that every piece and every place and every point is still where God is meeting you.

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And saying my love and forgiveness is yours. It's time to keep going up that mountain.

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Wherever you may be at this moment and whatever you may have given up on.

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If you believe that is still where God has placed on your heart.

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My hope and prayer is that you remember he has not given up on you.

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You don't need to give up on the person that God gave his son for.

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Because you're still a part of a plan that not even you know the final destination.

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May the grace be to God.