What Simeon Saw
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
After the birth of Jesus, when the days of Mary’s purification were ended, Joseph and Mary brought the Infant Jesus to Jerusalem when He was 40 days of age in order to make a sacrifice as required by the Law of Moses (Leviticus 12:1-8).
From Luke 2:22-24 we learn Joseph & Mary were poor because they did not have a lamb to offer but a pair of turtledoves or pigeons (Leviticus 12:8).
While in the Temple they meet an old man named Simeon.
God had promised Simeon, through the Holy Spirit, that his life would not end before he had seen God’s own Anointed King.
The Holy Spirit led him to the Temple where he meets Mary, Joseph, and Jesus.
Simeon takes this baby in his old withered arms and praises God in a beautiful hymn.
29 “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; 30 for my eyes have seen your salvation 31 that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, 32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”
This afternoon I would like to take a moment and examine “What Simon Saw” when he looked upon that baby in his mother’s arms.
Simeon Saw Salvation
Simeon Saw Salvation
For My Eyes Have Seen Your Salvation.
For My Eyes Have Seen Your Salvation.
Every faithful child of God from the days of Adam had longed to see what Simeon just witnessed.
30 for my eyes have seen your salvation
What he, his whole life no doubt, had longed to see with his own eyes.
This is exactly what the angel had told Joseph about that Jesus.
20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
Simeon not only saw salvation he saw it as it in a way most wouldn’t for 10 years after the church was established.
Luke 2:32 (ESV)
32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles…
Summary
Summary
The “best equivalent” I can come up with for today would be the awaited expectation of Christ coming back in the clouds.
The thousands of years Christians have longed and waited for such to happen but even then to see the Messiah being held in the arms of a woman as a babe is mind boggling.
What else did Simeon see?
Simeon Saw Glory For Israel
Simeon Saw Glory For Israel
The Glory To Your People Israel.
The Glory To Your People Israel.
Israel was doubly glorified in Jesus, in that God chose this people to receive the Divine Son.
Luke 2:32 (ESV)
32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.
Jesus, in his perfection under the Law of Moses, presented the world with a picture of righteousness from God’s chosen people.
Jesus in his divinity and his human nature glorified or honored Israel.
Luke 1:30–33 (ESV)
30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
Summary
Summary
For all their faults they were still God’s chosen people and the only group God chose to bring the Messiah through.
Because of this alone they are to be recognized and honored for such.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Before Simeon said a word, he took the Messiah into his arms.
What a privilege that was for him.
Brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen your privilege need not be inferior.
You too can see with your own eyes the Messiah one day 1 Thessalonians 4:13ff, if you choose this day to love and live for your God.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.