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! Candlemass sermon.
Luke 2:22-40
\\ !! Introduction
What are you looking forward to most at the moment?
6 nations
Marathon
A break: Holiday – chance to get away from everything, relax
\\ But life-changing things?
Marriage – everything centred around it.
Preparation.
Everything changes.
Baby
Retirement
\\ Significance for wider group of people: family and friends
Family occasion
\\ *Candlemass**:* remembers such an occasion Mary and Joseph.
40 days.
Strange- not completely family occasion.
Simeon and Anna.
What were they doing there?
Me at funeral.
But Simeon and Anna are caught up in the story.
Speech.
And /*they*/ had been looking forward to it.
*v29*
Simeon takes baby in his arms – praises God.
And what’s more they see everyone as being caught up in this.
Simeon “a light for all nations” (*v32*)
/*What God was doing in Jesus was so amazing that it had radical consequences for everyone:*/ falling and standing (*v34*).
The way that people respond to J is the most important thing.
\\ [Luke: setting out in opening chapters his message.
This passage, everything focuses on Jesus- even though it’s really about Mary’s purification.
Child does nothing but all words and deeds focussed round him]
\\ *Message for outside**:*
Answer to hopelessness, unfairness, selfish, suffering.
But also a message we need to be reminded of- Mary and Joseph “surprised”* v33*
\\ !! Discerning God’s work and plan
I started by asking what we were looking forward to.
Simeon and Anna looking forward expectantly.
Pious people.
But Holy Spirit in their lives.
Looking ahead.
Last Sunday – moving on
What does God want this church to do?
Starts with what seems like a small thing.
What do I want for the future?
Walk more closely with God.
\\ !!! Conclusion
LOOKING BACK ~/ LOOKING FORWARD.
Communion
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