For my eyes have seen Your salvation,for my eyes have seen your salvation,For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
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We meet two characters here at the end of the Christmas story. one man and one woman, Simeon and Anna. And they share a number of similarities. I wonder if you noticed. First, they're both in the temple. Simeon comes into the temple. Luke says Anna never left the temple, not that she literally lived at the temple, but she was there daily. It was only the priests who could go into the holy place, but there were temple courtyard, and that's what's meant here. There was a court for women and that's where Anna was day after day. So they're both in the temple. Second, they're both old. Simeon, we assume, is old because he's been waiting his whole life and the Lord told him, it was revealed to him, you would see the Lord's Christ. That word means Messiah, anointed one. You would see the Christ before you die. So he's likely old. Anna is 84. Sorry if you were hoping that 84 wouldn't count as old, but it just is what it is. …
… And we still sing that on Christmas Eve to this day. And then Luke chapter two, verses 29 through 32. Now this is an elderly man. This is after Jesus has been born and he's taken to the temple to, and a sacrifice made for him or on his behalf and on behalf of his parents. and then there's a man named Simeon, an elderly man and Simeon sees the Christ child and he's been waiting his whole life for the Messiah and so now he says, oh God, now you can take me. You can let me die. You can let me depart in peace and the Latin is nunc demitis. Demitis, it means let me depart in peace or let me depart and this is what he says. Now, master, let your servant go in peace according to your word because my eyes have seen your salvation. You prepared this salvation in the presence of all people. It is, and really this is Jesus, is a light for revelation to the Gentiles and a glory for your people, Israel. …
"My eyes have seen Your Salivation." Luke 2:30. [Other Sermons by Mr. Spurgeon upon the same text are #1417, Volume 24—"YOUR SALVATION" and #2293, Volume 39— SIMEON'S SWAN SONG] THOUSANDS of times that song of Simeon has been sung by careless, thoughtless persons, but surely it is one of those songs that ought never to come except from believing lips. To make it merely a part of a liturgy and for shamelessly living men to say, "My eyes have seen Your Salvation," must be an atrocious sin before God! Let all who have ventured to use such words as these without having thought of their meaning, confess their sin before God and ask that He would make those words to be true which have up to now been so frivolously uttered and that before they close their eyes in death, they maysee God's Salvation! I. I shall, first of all, TAKE THE TEXT AS IT DROPS FROM SIMEON'S LIPS and follow his leading. We will start with Simeon's main idea. He came into the Temple. He saw there a little Babe and he recognized, in that newly-born Child, Jesus the promised Savior! And as he took up that Savior into his arms, he said, "Mine eyes have seen"—what? "Your Salvation," God's Salvation—not only the Worker of the Salvation, but the Salvation itself! From which I gather that wherever we see Jesus, we see God's Salvation, Wherever our eyes spiritually light upon the Christ of God, there we see God's Salvation! Whether in Bethlehem's manger, or on Calvary's Cross, or on yonder Throne of Glory from which He shall judge the quick and the dead—wherever we see Him, we see the Salvation of God! …