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Simeon's song - Coggle Diagram
Simeon's song
Waiting hopefully
trusted that God’s word was sure and it would be fulfilled so he did not wait hopelessly, he waited hopefully. Two different things. Hopelessly. Hopefully.
If you refuse to accept what was taken away, and what changed, then you have lost your ability to expect what God is going to do next.
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You have been worried. That's alright. He is still with you. He is still for you. Not on the basis of circumstances, but on the basis of faith. He still is. Prince of peace.
accept uncertainty. control freak. acknowledge, I don't know what to do. I can’t fix this. I can't be honest that i don't have it together. doubt.
Unmet expectation is the starting point of realizing we need a saviour. The moment you accept that is the moment you understand why you need to see salvation like Simeon.
God I let go of the way I thought it should be. I let go of the calendar that I made. I let go the way I expected to be at this age or stage. I let go of the way that I thought you were.
He still forgives sin. He still saves. Simeon trusted that God’s word was sure and it would be fulfilled so he did not wait hopelessly. Rather he waited hopefully.
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God is praised for the fulfillment of his promise. God is sovereign and faithful to His promises. God is the Lord, Master over everything. He determines the beginning and the end. What he has ordained will occur. What he has spoken, will come to pass.
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Sin
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Hope declines. Cannot conceive. Bears Isaac eventually. God asks him to sacrifice this son, on whom all of his future hopes were placed.
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Law of Moses - it prescribed the conduct God required - bring them God's blessing - Could not live up to them. sacrificial system to deal temporarily with Israel's sins
Messianic hope run high in Abraham and people around: promise of Messiah as one of Abraham's offspring
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Deuteronomy 18:15, Moses was referred to as a prototype of Messiah. Then Psalms and Prophets, especially Isaiah continually speak about the messiah to come.
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Anticipation Messiah
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He was long a coming, with some degree of impatience waiting till it came.
Israel, that was now miserably harassed and oppressed
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we fail to appreciate what it must have been like to be an Israelite looking forward to the arrival of Messiah
every pregnant Israelite woman would wonder whether or not the child in her womb was a son, and if a son, if he might be the Messiah.
we cannot really fathom the depth of joy experienced by those godly few who had yearned for the Messiah's arrival.
Luke 2:27: Scene. babies cry. Lambs do whatever they do. Doves & pigeons from flying away. Simeon off to the side. Feels urge of HS something special. anticipation. M,J,J enter court
Luke 2:28 - Moms, guy grabs baby - security
implications: Simeon, be careful. ladder. street oxcart. Bagels choc sprinkles. Indestructable.
Simeon: His mind is racing with promise. His heart is about to burst with anticipation.
“Could this be the promise? Could this child be the one I have waited and longed for?”
Luke 2:26 "Look, you're not going to die until you have had the opportunity to see the Messiah."
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elation and excitement - his wait was now over, but more importantly God’s promise, which always comes true, had been fulfilled.
overcome with gratitude to the point of tears. tears streaming down his face, his knees growing weak, almost to the point of needing to sit down.
he did the only thing anyone can do when they meet Jesus and recognize that salvation has come – he began to PRAISE GOD.
Anticipation
Luke 2:29: waiting many years for this moment. I can go in peace knowing that you have made a way for Israel and the whole world to be redeemed!
Anticipation. Some of our anticipation was fulfilled. some of us got socks. Sometimes let down. we expected something and it was not there.
Presents. Sneek peak under the tree. Anticipation if the thing there was what you wanted it to be so badly. Shake. Chloë the whole morning; when opening presents?
Christmas Season let us not forget that Christmas is primarily about anticipation and fulfilled promise.
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Day after day, month after month and year after year he navigated the cycle of anticipation and disappointment.
Altar Call
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Judith, I don't know if i am ready to die. I don't know if my sins are forgiven. I don't know if I died right now that i would go to heaven.
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I want to give you an oppertunity in a moment, no one leave without opening their present of salvation.
I didnt know i had a present. Put it back, offer still stands.
I want your gift of salvation. I need you. Thank you for dying on the cross for me. Forgive me for my sins. Come into my life. Cleanse me. Fill me with your holy spirit. Help me follow you all the days of my life
Dissapointment
stuck in the past. About what God could have done. And I am there so many times. God if you could have just… Why?!
Disappointment can break or make us. Sometimes we get tired of longing for more. The pain of disappointment is so great that we think we can't take it anymore. It is easy to lose your way when you are disappointed.
people we love get sick and they don’t recover. not achieve everything we strive for. have to deal with and absorb pain that we ourselves have nothing to do with, or deserve. days of frustration and misery. It hurts.
Dad DIS. Divorce. Church. Health Manuela baby. Raphael. Narrative: I am not perfect, but I do everything I think you want me to do, I stand in faith and pray until I run out of words and yet this happens. I pray and ask you to intervene. But it seems like you don't want to do it.
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Intro
Today, by looking at Luke 2 and the story of Simeon, we will learn to understand God’s promises better.
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