Thank you. The Bible makes it clear that God's gift of salvation is offered to everyone, to all people.

So why doesn't everyone receive it?

We'll hear the answer today on Truth for Life as we consider Simeon's Song of Salvation.

Alistur Begg is teaching from Luke chapter 2, looking at verses 25 through 35.

Salvation is a picture word. It has wide application that expresses essentially the idea of rescue.

But salvation is used in a specific sense as we find it here in the Bible. And this is what it is referencing. It is an expression of the

good news of what God did for us in the incarnate Christ in order to save us from sin, the devil,

and death. And that is the significance of the amazing statement that we find being made by Simeon here

in Chapter 2 of Luke, and verse 30 in particular. He says, my eyes have seen your salvation.

What can he possibly mean by that? Of all the things that are said when you take a newborn baby

into your arms, And you will have

said all kinds of things, I'm sure, as I have done, often out of embarrassment, we don't know what to say,

and so we just say, my, he has his mother's nose, or can you believe how much dark here he has

or whatever else it is? But for Simeon, he had no doubt what he was going to say. Now, you need to

remind yourself of what we're told about Simeon in verse 25. He was a man. He lived in Jerusalem.

His name was Simeon. He was rouches, and he was devout. And he was actually waiting.

If people had said, what are you waiting for, Simeon? He would have said, I'm waiting for the consolation of Israel. What did he mean by that? I'm waiting for the promises that God has made to his people to be fulfilled. There is a king who is coming. There is a prophet who is coming. There is a priest who is coming. And somehow another, the kingship and the prophetic role and the role of priest is going to be amalgamated, is going to be unified in one person. And that's what I'm waiting for. If people have said, where do you get all that stuff from? He said, from reading my Bible. And it's all there. And that's why I'm here. I'm waiting. And furthermore,

the Holy Spirit has told me that I won't die until I see this promised salvation. This is a

promised salvation. It is a prepared salvation. And so when the father and mother come in,

and he takes the baby Jesus in his arms, he says,

My eyes have seen your salvation. And it is salvation, which is the theme of each of the songs

we've been considering. But actually, we can say better than that, because salvation is not

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