First Sunday after Christmas

Sermon Text: Luke 2:28-32 St Simeon lets out a song upon holding the Christchild at the temple. He has waited a long time to witness God’s salvation for His people and now Simeon is holding this salvation in his arms. The words Simeon uses are commonly used in worship services and hymns. What he means by them is that he can now die in peace seeing salvation come in Christ and this great gift is meant for all peoples, to bring them out of their sins. We too have witnessed salvation come to us in Christ through the means of grace, although we are not witnessing the fullness of salvation now. Like Simeon held baby Jesus, we hold salvation with Christ’s body in the communion wafer, but we still wait for the evils of flesh, society, and nature to be completely done away with. Outside the Church, people might not understand what Christ saves us from, but this is why Christ comes. He is a light to show us the darkness of sin and death so that we might live in the light of life everlasting.