If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 17.  Today we come to a new section of chapter 17.  In the first thirteen verses we saw a description of the transfiguration of our Lord on the mountain and now, as the Lord Jesus and His three disciples make their way down from the summit, they come to a very, very different scene.  The gospel writers seem to stress the tremendous contrast between the glory above and the shame and the confusion beneath in this town.  And so, let's turn our attention to Matthew 17, beginning in verse 14 and see these events which followed the glorious revelation of Jesus Christ on the mountain.  Hear God's word:   Matthew 17:14-21  Our Lord and our God, we ask that by the Spirit You would open our eyes to behold…