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Waiting for Our Salvation
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*Title of Sermon*
Waiting for Our Salvation
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*Text to be preached*
Luke 2:21-35
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*Introduction *
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!!!! Hope is the Thing with Feathers \\  By: Emily Dickinson
"Hope" is the thing with feathers \\ That perches in the soul \\ And sings the tune without the words \\ And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard; \\ And sore must be the storm \\ That could abash the little bird \\ That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land \\ And on the strangest sea, \\ Yet never, in extremity, \\ It asked a crumb of me.
This poem, by Emily Dickenson, really expresses the best of what worldly hope can bring, a sweet sound for a short time, but sadly this worldly hope is unable to weather the storms of life!
For the one who has faith in Christ, our hope weathers such storms because it is not tied to circumstances or something fleeting but rooted and helped by Christ himself.
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The devotion tonight is “Waiting for Our Salvation” which is an important theme that runs from the beginning of Genesis all the way through Revelation.
I don’t know if you have ever pondered how even our salvation is inextricably tied to the idea of Hope.
Our hope is not in a thing, nor is it even primarily a place, but the Christian Hope, our hope, is solely in the person of Jesus Christ.
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Tonight, in our short time together, we will examine the glory of our hope from three perspectives so that we can express the gift of our salvation rightly before God, His church, and the lost amongst us!
 
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The three perspectives are as follows.
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’  *Overview your outline*
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o      First, Our Hope begins at our Justification
o      Second, Our Hope assists in our Sanctification
o      And Third, Our Hope is Realized at our Glorification
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“  *Transition to Outline*
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*Let’s look closely now at our first perspective*
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Œ*  Homiletical Point: *
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*Our Hope that begins at Our Justification*
 
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***Emotional Attention:*
 
Let me take you back in time, to the sixth Day when God evaluated His creation and pronounced it was very Good!
 
Oh, how unimaginable our world must have been, No sin, No death, no curse.
Man in perfect fellowship with His creator.
Man and wife in perfect fellowship with one another.
And then Satan enters the scene, Eve is deceived, Adam Sins, and God pronounces judgment upon all who sinned!
And now paradise is lost…imagine these words echoing in Adam’s mind, in your mind!
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*Ge 3:19 (ESV OT Rev. Int.) 19 *By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Adam is now faced with his complete personal failure, judgment and consequences that can not be undone or avoided, and the reality that death imminent.
All that made paradise truly paradise, has been lost, and is now unrecoverable.
Adam has failed to obey God!
 
Certainly each of us can relate through our own failures in some sense to Adam.
What a hopeless predicament!
It is important to note, we are unlike Adam who knew paradise, because this hopeless condition is what we are born in!
And yet, amazingly, in this valley of despair…Hope, for the first time is born and expressed on earth!
And it is here where hope can begin its work!
And from here hope will echo it’s call throughout the millenniums to come.
This hope of Adam and for each of us tonight is Jesus Christ who will forgive our sins!
We see this hope when the gospel is first preached in Genesis 3:15.
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*Ge 3:15** (ESV OT Rev. Int.) 15 *I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Part of the gospel is here in that Christ will come and crush Satan.
Then a few verses later, in Genesis 3:18 we see hope when the gospel is first pictured!
*Ge 3:21** (ESV OT Rev. Int.) 21 *And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
The rest of the Gospel is here in that Jesus will take our place of punishment for our sin and our sin will be forgiven by God, and we be restored in fellowship to God.
Death came, but it came to the substitute in order to provide the garments of skin.
And in Genesis 3:30 we see Adam understand this gospel and express this hope, by naming his wife Eve or life, as the mother of all the living.
Adam believed in the promises of God.
And This hope is no different than Abraham who in *Ge 15:6** (NASB95) *believed in the Lord; and God reckoned it to him as righteousness or as David who speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, And whose sins have been covered.
“Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.”
Their hope and our Hope are in Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the anointed one of God who will justify the ungodly.
As it says in Romans 4:5 (NASB95) 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,
 
 
.This is what we celebrate and remember at this time of the year.
The arrival of the Messiah!
The lamb of God, our substitutionary sacrifice.
And that brings us to the passage we will examine tonight.
Ž  *Exegetical Proof:* Show how the scriptures make the point
 
Turn with me to Luke, Chapter 2, verse 21 and read with me from verse 21 to 24:
 
*Obedience to the Law*
*Lk 2:21-38 (ESV NT Rev. Int.) 21 *And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “ Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”) and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”
We now fast forward in time, to the arrival of the Messiah!
We are still under the Law and we see Joseph and Mary obedient to the Law of Moses.
·       In verse 21 they complete the circumcision on the 8th day and the Baby boy is named Jesus
·       In verse 22 they arrive at the temple 40 days after the birth according to Leviticus 12 that states that a women can not enter the temple until 40 days after the birth of a male child.
·       In verse 23, we are reminded the firstborn male is special to the Lord which goes back to the days of the Exodus (Ex 13:2, 12; Num 3:13; 8:17)
·       And In verse 24, we see the sacrifice for their sin not for Jesus who knew no sin.
I don’t know if you knew this, but a lamb was required for this sacrifice, but if they are too poor to give a lamb, then “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”
Is an acceptable sacrifice - one bird is for the burnt offering and the other for the sin offering
 
 *Theological Summary~/Picture*
 
Clearly Joseph and Mary are showing their knowledge and obedience to the law.
They are a godly couple expressing their faith in God surrounded by symbols, pictures, and rituals all pointing to Jesus and His justifying work that He will soon personally accomplish!
 
‘ *Practical: *
Think back to the time before your salvation!
Did you view yourself as helpless spiritually?
Were you hopeless and bankrupt in your self-made righteousness before God? Do you remember longing to be set free from the guilt and burden of sin?  *Ephesians 2:12** (NASB95) clarifies our situation best when Paul asks us to *remember that you and I were at one time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Now in light of our past, contrast that when salvation arrived!
When that hope was first expressed in you!
Do you remember the longing when you first started loving God’s Word, Loving Christ, obeying and serving Him regardless of the cost to you personally and professionally!
Is the fire and passion of your first love expressing that Hope today!
Can others see now, the hope that came at your justification; when you were declared forgiven of the penalty of sin and given the righteousness of Christ?
Do you draw strength and encouragement from this act of God in your life?
 
’ *Transition to Next Point*
 
As you rejoice in the Hope that begins at our Justification, let us now consider our second perspective.
Œ               *Homiletical Point: *
Our Hope assists in our Sanctification
 
***Emotional Attention:*
Take a mental jog with me to this morning.
You awake and are confronted with getting out of bed and not hitting the snooze button.
You are certain gravity is stronger at this time of the day in your bed than any where else on the planet!
But try to remember what ran through your mind when the day just started…tasks, appointments, plans, responsibilities, and in the mix of things what were you Hoping?
Now ask your self if that hope was a worldly hope with you at the center or was it a godly hope with Christ at the center?
Was your mind solely set on the temporal, the temporary, the here and now?
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