The Song Of Simeon Series

OPENING SLIDE

INTRODUCTION

• Imagine sitting in a doctor’s waiting room.

• You checked in 20 minutes ago.

• Then 40.

• Then an hour.

• Your name still hasn’t been called.

• You try to read the same paragraph in the magazine three times, but your mind keeps drifting to the clock on the wall.

• Every time the door opens, you look up, hoping it’s finally your turn—only to hear someone else’s name.

• Waiting rooms have a way of stretching minutes into miles, don’t they?

• Most people in that room aren’t doing anything “wrong”; they’re just…waiting.

• But inside, there’s a battle going on: “Did they forget me?

• Is anything happening back there?

• How much longer will this take?

• In Luke 2, Simeon is sitting in a very different kind of waiting room.

• He has spent not minutes or hours, but years holding onto a promise from God that he would see the Lord’s Christ before he died.

• And just when it might seem like heaven has gone quiet, the door, so to speak, finally opens—and they place the Child in his arms.

• Picture the scene: Mary and Joseph slip into the busy courts of the Jerusalem temple, carrying a poor couple’s offering of birds and a firstborn Son who looks like any other infant.

• No trumpets sound, no priests announce anything special, yet a devout, aging believer named Simeon moves toward them because the Spirit has whispered that this is the Child he has waited for.

• Simeon has lived between a promise and its fulfillment, holding onto God’s word that he would not see death until he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

• He has walked into the same temple every day, with the same aches in his body, but with a quiet confidence that God’s timing would be perfect.

• Luke 2 gives us one of the quietest songs in all of Scripture.

• No angels.

• No shepherds.

• No crowds.

• Simeon’s song rises out of the quiet of an ordinary day in the temple, but it sounds like the closing line of a lifelong prayer.

• An elderly man cradles a baby, and the promises of heaven suddenly seem within reach.

• In just a few verses, Luke shows a servant of God who is finally ready to die—not because life has grown bitter, but because his eyes have finally seen what his heart has longed for

• Simeon, an old man, stands in the temple, holding a baby, and whispering a song that has been forming in his heart for years.

• Imagine being Simeon, cradling the very child who brings peace, salvation, and hope to the world.

• In his song, we find not just a melody of gratitude but a powerful declaration for all of us today.

• Simeon had waited.

• Simeon had watched.

• And now, Simeon sings.

• Simeon’s song teaches us something powerful about what happens when a life truly encounters Jesus.

• Let’s turn to Luke 2, and we will begin with verse 29.

Luke 2:29 NET 2nd ed.

29 “Now, according to your word, Sovereign Lord, permit your servant to depart in peace.

MAIN POINT 1 SLIDE

SERMON

I. A Song of Peace

• I think we all seek peace; however, what kind of peace?

• Simeon’s song begins with peace, but not the kind we usually chase.

• When we hear the word "peace," we often think:

• No conflict

• No stress

• No uncertainty

• This isn’t peace because life is easy.

• This isn’t peace because everything worked out.

• But that’s not the peace Simeon is describing here.

• Simeon is an old man.

• His body is tired.

• His life is nearing its end.

• And yet, this is the moment he says, “Now… now I can rest.”

Not because life suddenly became easier—but because God kept His promise.

• To appreciate what Simeon was going through, let’s back up to verses 22-28

Luke 2:22–28 NET 2nd ed.

22 Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

23 (just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),

24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.

25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.