Christmas Day 2019
Purchase, please. Listen to The Gospel of Luke and chapter 2 and already from US 20 to the account. We've already made reference to and speaking to the children Bluetooth of s22.
And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him out to Jerusalem to prevention to the Lord as it is written in the law of the Lord every mile the first opens the womb Shall be Called holy to the Lord. I know if I sacrifice according to what he said in the law of the Lord a pair of childhood jobs or two young PG. I was a man in Jerusalem the same as Simeon and this man was righteous and devout waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Spirit was upon him and I haven't revealed to him by the holy spirit will not see death before I had seen the Lord's crying in the chapel by the parents brought in the Child Jesus according to the custom of the Lord. He took him up in his arms and blessed God and said Lord now you all let you in your servant depart in peace. According to your word for my eyes are seeing your salvation the repair in the presence of old people Aloha for a relation to the Gentiles and glory to your People Israel. And his father and his mother and what was said about it. And see me and bless them and said to marry his mother the whole this child is appointed for the fool and rice and have many in is around and a sword will pierce through your own so many hot maybe review. I know the progress on up the daughter of finding out of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in he is having live for the husband 7 years from when she was a budgie, none of the Widow until she was 84. Children's your paw from the temple. Where should men with fasting and prayer night and die and come it off at that. Very hour to be gone to get signs to go out at the speed of him the old hello waiting for the Redemption of Jerusalem. I want to have a formed everything according to the Lord the Lord that Richard is a gallery to the town of Nazareth. Amanda the game we pray the Lord will bless this word to IHOP.
Are sprouts always a little difficult when we come to Christmas. We always make reference to the same portions of the scripture and we think perhaps that we know all there is to know and we don't really need to pay any attention to them. What are the circus is always the case for the word of God is the Living Word of God should all rights read those in great Wonder seeking to know what it is that God is saying to us because these accounts we have all the best of a coming into the world of our Lord Jesus Christ. So incredible summer beyond the imagination or thought of any man because I fulfill the Glorious purposes and plan of God for salvation of all his pee I'm sorry, I mean look at the vault in this particular event that is recorded for us here to die. It's not going to show him and she spoke it was 40 days after the birth of Jesus the Lord prescribed off 240 days purification to take place in Sanford high should be made but also particularly with the first born there was to be that sense of seeking Redemption and itself is quite incredible. Why is it cuz he was a lord of Old Glory does he wish they create he is the one who is giving us his law. Why is it that he should be made subject to that rule that who are not so then he would not have redeemed how many have her and insects inside at the very beginning and end of the line. About Lord on Earth as a warehouse in here come to do to seek that Redemption. They were there was no other way. There was any Elvis any human being could be reconciled to God and we all know that glorious promise just off to Adam and Eve. It's in the comments of the world that the seed of the woman would come but that was promised and we come now as we look at this to see how to hook up filament of an incredible thing an amazing thing that I Lord was taken to be presented in the Y that he was just a small sacrifices that all it said was to be the case and they went Mary and Joseph went quite happily they went because they knew you I have to apply in a little and they went and they saw to praise and honor God and doing all this he had command has a lesson to ask if they needed that and I Lord himself submitted himself to that. I'll to my Suite C always to apply on a that Lord to give to him that which is his and it shows the consecration of our Lourdes. We are saying to that what he had come to do and I continued throughout his ministry. He continued to him being out of that cross and continue with him rising from the dead and he continues to that time when it is sent by God allowing that he shall return and take all his all to be with him. I thought it's all tied up and what Mary and Joseph do and show that service the Lord in this incredible white, but we're involved in that event. The first one this man. We don't know if we got any given Perry VeggieTales the factory issues a man the walls in the shampoo, but there's this glorious description given of shame we re in if I was 25, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon and this man was righteous and devout waiting for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him. Hey what to do about night? He was a golf Lima. He was a man. Whose desire was to serve God. We don't know how old he was. We don't know what laws are you don't know his family none of those details and give it but the great teeth. How is given that he was truly honor it and serve in his Lord and a gun for a special sister that night shift. He was righteous because God and His Christ had made him righteous. How do you show that righteousness in his commitment to walk go out to promise? Nothing is impossible by Austin really a visit to really understand what these godly people Time of the birth of Christ understood about the promise to God that you believe it. I knew it and you look gorgeous said he was going to send that savior. He knew that you knew that I would, but I've been waiting so long as I got back out there. It'll be so long and seeing if I went with an elderly lady. I've been waiting all that life that he believed they are amongst those that the right to the Hebrew speaks of in Hebrews chapter 11 that great face and ask but no I haven't received the promise 11 to come but I was looking forward to that. Let me see this man. We don't know how old he was looking for. The constellation of is right. He was looking for the massage. He was looking for the Lord. Because God had made a very special promise to him and it mean to reveal about the Holy Spirit to him that he would not see that before. He had to see the Lord's Christ. He knew he would see the Messiah but he was not like so many today expected that promise to be filled instantaneously. He knew it was me fulfill, but he went daddy buddy Presley went constantly to the temple looking for that for filament and when Mary and Joseph came in where is the baby Jesus he knew the spirit revealed to him that this was the one that he was looking to a kind soap. Amazing. There is a 40 day old baby. We had a little baby boy in here on Sunday morning. Nope, not quite 40 days, but close to that. We would not so don't expect anything of great significance from him. It was lovely to see him and we were delighted with that but Simeon so beyond that baby cuz it happened to duck a nice saw the Lord Of Glory when I saw the promised Messiah it moved him and he gave some praise to God and he spread his belief and trust in the Lord. He says rs29 Lord your servant depart in peace. According to your word for my allies. I've seen your salvation. What a glorious day with wee wee one in that Temple. We haven't seen the physical baby Jesus. We will see what Jesus Christ is done. We have seen we seen much more into heat. That's Simeon and if we shouldn't save this song as we depart in peace is great comfort. We have the greatest show us we have that if we know Jesus Christ if we die, it's a glorious thing. It's a wondrous thing but we go to be with him in glory. There was nothing else that he really needed to know now will want to have things that I don't know what the situation with you. Merry Christmas present we have had online Christmas presents yet, but why shouldn't I just a patient?
Is absolutely nothing occurs in the light of what we see in Christ Jesus in a white matter one iota if we truly know hit but Simeon also was Grayson not confident on what God was doing cuz he was coming to fulfill his word. He says my eyes have seen your salvation Christ the penalty at this point but says shut up and was not so clear and so sure was that the shimmy and believed it and it date is over the Old Testament Saints believe it in the world that Jesus Christ was to do is we trust as we look back in that work that he has to which God himself. He says he has prepared. Did you know idea with Matt? This is the Glorious line of God from all eternity. And he said it is a light for Revelation to the Gentiles after the glory of to your people of Israel. That is all for all people all nation. And that's a big 3 season Glory from every tribe Every Nation every Kindred every group represented in that glorious house and having a simian sees with it. But he also see the effect that I've got a hive on Mary particularly and he speaks to her and he speaks of that problem that she's going to know she said behold this child. Is a point you for the fool and writing too many to his route and a sign that was opposed and how that will cause great pain to her Merry Christmas at the cross when Jesus died and she saw that guy she saw and she experienced the star of the grief that. In time, but she knew that was necessary. She knew that was right. She knew that I had to take place in order for the Salvation to be complete. So we see this wonders why you know the game amazing when you consider the wind with Timmy went to the temple just for that very moment and saw that God works leasing that to show us his glory.
It wasn't just see me in a coach that sold Anna this lady this lady that it is discussion debate over what I actually was whether she was a chief or was he being a widow for 84 years? I haven't been married haven't been with a husband for 7 years or something. I'll give you and your fact she could have been a hundred and five because it is possible that the Jewish girls were allowed to be married at fourteen if you up with that truth brings us through to a hundred but we don't know what we do know that she was coming into the temple to see the Fulfillment. We read she did not depart from the temple worshipping with fasting and prayer nights and die and coming in that very hour should be gone to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who will watch it for the Redemption of she a guy so the site and Simeon wasn't one of those it was not there was some special person just an ordinary woman and these are the ones from any Thai Chef is returning Sunday would despise but they were proclaiming that message and that's the message that we would like the way you might not God is kodak's to declare that goes ordinary men and women such as we are frail many women such as we are we
He's giving us that much glorious message of over but that is what we need to declare. This is the whole point. This is why we do celebrate what we do. Thank God because we can like this glorious message. Somebody we be like Mary and Joseph commission. So I buy in the Lord God do it only say might be like Simeon who is waiting for the consolation of Israel Vibration. And now I know God is working as indeed has where I'll be like, I wanna every day looking like for filming I declare it all that he has done. I might be Trudy today give thanks for that. Glorious fact that I Lord Jesus Christ submitted himself, totally The Lure of God even to death because that's the only way in which salvation could be secure. I'll be praying for a Christmas without the shows for the glory and The Wonder of argon.
We got to sing together now.