Wisdom and Grace for 2024

Scripture Texts:  Luke 2:21-40

Do you ever think about your soul?  Do you ever think about how different you are from all the rest of creation around you, that you are a living, eternal soul?

Have you considered how eternally valuable your soul really is?  There are two ways to know how valuable your soul is?  First, because Satan is relentlessly, tirelessly pursuing your soul to destroy it forever in hell.  And second, because the Son of God came down to earth to lay down His own life to save your soul for eternal life in heaven.

Think about the things you give the most attention to in your life, the things that consume most of our time and thoughts and interest.  Think about this in the light of a new year.  Think about it in light of our text this morning when heaven came down and invaded our history and engaged the enemy on enemy territory.  The battle is on.

This text stands on the very threshold of history, not just the changing of a year, but the changing of BC to AD, from old covenant to new covenant.  The salvation of God that is for all peoples, for every living soul, has come; the consolation of Israel, the redemption of Jerusalem, the Savior of our sins, has come.

Let’s look at the lives of the first people touched by this new reality.  First, Joseph and Mary and then Simeon and Anna.

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