Why Does God Make Us Wait? | Christmas | Luke 2:22-35
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🗓️ 13 December 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Keith Simon. I'm Tanya Wilmoth. And I'm Patrick Miller. We're in the middle of our Christmas |
| 0:15.4 | series right now. We're exploring the stories around Jesus's birth and the prophecies |
| 0:20.1 | pointing forward to it. How do you feel about waiting? |
| 0:24.0 | I bet you love it, don't you? |
| 0:26.0 | You enjoy a nice long wait. |
| 0:29.0 | Well, if you're like me, you don't. |
| 0:31.0 | I don't like to wait at all. |
| 0:32.0 | I don't like to wait in line at the |
| 0:34.2 | grocery store or wait on my luggage at the baggage claim. I don't like sitting at a |
| 0:38.6 | stoplight waiting for it to turn green. How good are you waiting? The Bible is full of people who waited. |
| 0:46.0 | Abraham waited 24 years between the time God promised him a child and Isaac was born. |
| 0:51.7 | Israel waited 400 years in slavery in Egypt, waiting on God to deliver |
| 0:57.0 | them. In Luke Chapter 2, we see a man named Simeon waiting for the Messiah. |
| 1:02.6 | Let me set the scene for you. |
| 1:04.6 | A week has passed since Mary gave birth, |
| 1:06.9 | and now Joseph, Mary, and Jesus are in Jerusalem. |
| 1:09.9 | They're going to the temple for Jesus' circumcision. |
| 1:13.4 | The circumcision was supposed to take place on the eighth day of life, and it was at the same time |
| 1:19.2 | that the baby was officially given a name. |
| 1:22.0 | So, Luke 221. |
| 1:24.0 | On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, |
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