My Eyes Have Seen Your Salvation
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· 167 viewsJesus' dedication at the temple gives a precurser to his life and provides examples for us in how to respond to Christ.
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The Significance of Jesus
The Significance of Jesus
His Dedication
His Dedication
Raised Under Devout Parents
Consecrated to the Lord (Dedicated)
For the Benefit of His People
14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
Jesus lived under the law to fulfill every obligation of it for his people.
His Designations
His Designations
Simeon testifies of who this Child is and what he would do.
The Consolation of Israel
The Consolation of Israel
The same word we have for comforter when referring to the Holy Spirit.
He brings comfort/ help.
1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
God’s Salvation
God’s Salvation
he who embodies this salvation, or through whom God is about to achieve it: of the Messiah
A light for the gentiles
A light for the gentiles
The light will dawn on the gentiles. They were a people who formerly did not have light. They walked in darkness and ignorance (like blind men). Israel had the light of the law but no the gentiles. Now with the rising of the Sun, all peoples will be reached by its rays.
With the coming of Jesus God is drawing away the veil of darkness that covered the gentiles.
7 And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
6 he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
10 The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
A Glory for Israel
A Glory for Israel
Glory because from them came the messiah.
Glory because to them he came first to minister to them.
The Course of His Ministry
The Course of His Ministry
Simeon instructs Mary about the future course of Christ’s life.
Appointed for Rise & Fall
Appointed for Rise & Fall
He will have a dividing effect on people. He will be a cause of stumbling for some, and a cause of benefit and blessing for others. He will be a signpost, a dividing line for men. Men will either stumble over him or be blessed by him. He will be a sign, a marker, a dividing line.
14 And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”
6 For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Others would be established by Jesus. The would be elevated and strengthened by him. They would rise!
This will be from the Lord as he is appointed for this purpose, and the difficulty and opposition he will face will serve the goal of revealing the hearts of men.
Application
Jesus will be a sign, prophetic sign through whom the message of God will be revealed to his people.
Christianity is intentionally divisive, not by men but God. This doesn’t mean we are to be rude, or arrogant, but not to be timid or ashamed or fearful of rejection. Jesus came to divide people. Instead of it being a reason for it not being true, God says that’s what I wanted.
Directed to Suffering
Directed to Suffering
Jesus’s life would be marked by intense anguish. Even Mary would feel his effects.
Simeon prophecies of his death.
Revealing of the Hearts
Revealing of the Hearts
What a person does with Jesus always tells where his heart is. Hearts are revealed when they come to Jesus. When a person hears the truth they will either show that they have an honest and good heart by turning to Christ, or they will demonstrate they do not have an honest and good heart by whatever excuse or rejection they make. There is no neutrality with Jesus.
The Satisfaction of a Faithful Servant
The Satisfaction of a Faithful Servant
Devout yet Grieving
Devout yet Grieving
Consolation implies grieving.
Yet he was devoted to the Lord. Filled with the Spirit.
Holding to His Promise
Holding to His Promise
Waited patiently for God to fulfill his world.
Surrendered to His Will
Surrendered to His Will
Lord- “despot” my absolute master
“You have dismissed”
He was surrendered to God’s direction of his life.
Seeing with the Eye of Faith
Seeing with the Eye of Faith
Simeon’s privilege was to see the desire of all God’s people. His eyes saw the salvation of men, the consolation of Israel.
Yet he saw without seeing. He was holding a strange baby born of poor un-important parents. He saw none of his miracles, hear none of his teachings, yet through the Spirit he was able to see and predict that this was the Savior.
10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.
1 Peter 1:
8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
We should have the same response!
8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.