Who is Jesus?
The answer to this questions determines our destiny!
for my eyes have seen your salvation
that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
and for glory to your people Israel.” - Luke 2:30-32
Simeon was a man who was waiting for the consolation of Israel - God will reveal himself to those who wait on him - Isaiah 40:31 -
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint. - Isaiah 40:31
Simeon says - Jesus Christ
1. Prepared Salvation for all people
2.Light to Gentiles
3. Glory of his people Israel
1.Jesus is the Prepared Salvation....
It is the like the prepared Salvation we have to receive. We love if some body cooks food and gives it to us ready made, because it is ready made. Even when there is no time, people are used to Fast food, it is ready made, just grab and go.
Think if God would have told you to earn Salvation - That for each person if Salvation would have costed us a billion dollar, Just imagine. We would have worked all our lives just to make it to heaven, How much more you would have worked for your wife and children.
Yes, Salvation is so costly that no man can pay. - Psalm 49:7
Truly no man can ransom another,
or give to God the price of his life, for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice, that he should live on forever
and never see the pit - Psalm 49:7
Ransom for their life is costly. Salvation is costly, requires the payment of death of a perfect sinless being.
even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” - Matt 20:28
Jesus payed the ransom - his very life. A Perfect sinless life.
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time - 1 Tim 2:5
We have to just receive it freely, it is a gift.
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, - Romans 3:24
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast - Ephesians 2:8-9
He will save his people from their sins - Matt 1:21
God prepared for his people
1. Prepared Salvation - Luke 2:30
2.Prepared Place - John 14:1-3 - Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
We do not have work for the Salvation, Jesus worked, payed the price and gave it to us freely, we have to receive it.
Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift! - 2 Corinthians 9:15
2.Jesus is Light for revelation to Gentiles
Jesus is the light of revelation - Revelation to gentiles. People are have thirst for God, hunger for God, but do not know How to seek or search for God.
Lack of revelation is darkness... In darkness, you cannot work, you can walk, you can live, you cannot drive, that is why we have flash light to see in the dark places, head light for cars, lights at home and office to light the halls and rooms.
Only in the first creation there is darkness, Genesis 1:2 - Darkness was over the face of the deep. God said let their be light. New Creation will not have night,Revelation 22:5 - And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever
Man and creation cannot live in darkness. Darkness represents sin and death.
for my eyes have seen your salvation
that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
and for glory to your people Israel.” - Luke 2:30-32
Only we can revelation of who God is can be known through Jesus Christ.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. - 2 Corinthians 4:6
And Jesus clearly said -
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? - John 14:9
Jesus is the light of revelation to Gentiles
1.Jesus is the great light - Matthew 4:16 - the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”
2.Jesus is the light of life - John 1:4 - In him was life, and the life was the light of men
3.Jesus is the true light - John 1:9 - The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world
4.Jesus is the light of the World - John 8:12 - Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
To know God - Jesus is the light of revelation to all Gentiles. Do you have the light of Jesus in your life?
3.Jesus is the glory of his people Israel -
Glory of his people - Jesus is the promise of entire Old Testament. Entire OT promises messiah - Jesus is that promise.
Moses said - “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 16 just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ - Dueteronomy 18:15-16
Isaiah said - Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. - Isaiah 7:14
Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations - Isaiah 42:1
Micah said - But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days - Micah 5:2
So entire old testament talks about Jesus Christ
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey - Zechariah 9:9
Jesus is the hope of glory for all of us.
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory - Colossians 1:27
And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, 22 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by - Exodus 33:21-22
Do you have the hope of glory?
The answer to this questions determines our destiny!
for my eyes have seen your salvation
that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
and for glory to your people Israel.” - Luke 2:30-32
Simeon was a man who was waiting for the consolation of Israel - God will reveal himself to those who wait on him - Isaiah 40:31 -
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint. - Isaiah 40:31
Simeon says - Jesus Christ
1. Prepared Salvation for all people
2.Light to Gentiles
3. Glory of his people Israel
1.Jesus is the Prepared Salvation....
It is the like the prepared Salvation we have to receive. We love if some body cooks food and gives it to us ready made, because it is ready made. Even when there is no time, people are used to Fast food, it is ready made, just grab and go.
Think if God would have told you to earn Salvation - That for each person if Salvation would have costed us a billion dollar, Just imagine. We would have worked all our lives just to make it to heaven, How much more you would have worked for your wife and children.
Yes, Salvation is so costly that no man can pay. - Psalm 49:7
Truly no man can ransom another,
or give to God the price of his life, for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice, that he should live on forever
and never see the pit - Psalm 49:7
Ransom for their life is costly. Salvation is costly, requires the payment of death of a perfect sinless being.
even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” - Matt 20:28
Jesus payed the ransom - his very life. A Perfect sinless life.
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time - 1 Tim 2:5
We have to just receive it freely, it is a gift.
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, - Romans 3:24
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast - Ephesians 2:8-9
He will save his people from their sins - Matt 1:21
God prepared for his people
1. Prepared Salvation - Luke 2:30
2.Prepared Place - John 14:1-3 - Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
3.Prepared Kingdom - Matt 25:34 - Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world
We do not have work for the Salvation, Jesus worked, payed the price and gave it to us freely, we have to receive it.
Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift! - 2 Corinthians 9:15
2.Jesus is Light for revelation to Gentiles
Jesus is the light of revelation - Revelation to gentiles. People are have thirst for God, hunger for God, but do not know How to seek or search for God.
Lack of revelation is darkness... In darkness, you cannot work, you can walk, you can live, you cannot drive, that is why we have flash light to see in the dark places, head light for cars, lights at home and office to light the halls and rooms.
Only in the first creation there is darkness, Genesis 1:2 - Darkness was over the face of the deep. God said let their be light. New Creation will not have night,Revelation 22:5 - And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever
Man and creation cannot live in darkness. Darkness represents sin and death.
for my eyes have seen your salvation
that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
and for glory to your people Israel.” - Luke 2:30-32
Only we can revelation of who God is can be known through Jesus Christ.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. - 2 Corinthians 4:6
And Jesus clearly said -
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? - John 14:9
Jesus is the light of revelation to Gentiles
1.Jesus is the great light - Matthew 4:16 - the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”
2.Jesus is the light of life - John 1:4 - In him was life, and the life was the light of men
3.Jesus is the true light - John 1:9 - The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world
4.Jesus is the light of the World - John 8:12 - Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
To know God - Jesus is the light of revelation to all Gentiles. Do you have the light of Jesus in your life?
3.Jesus is the glory of his people Israel -
Glory of his people - Jesus is the promise of entire Old Testament. Entire OT promises messiah - Jesus is that promise.
Moses said - “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 16 just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ - Dueteronomy 18:15-16
Isaiah said - Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. - Isaiah 7:14
Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations - Isaiah 42:1
Micah said - But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days - Micah 5:2
So entire old testament talks about Jesus Christ
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey - Zechariah 9:9
Jesus is the hope of glory for all of us.
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory - Colossians 1:27
And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, 22 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by - Exodus 33:21-22
Do you have the hope of glory?
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