JESUS PRESENTED AT THE TEMPLE

Jesus Presented at the Temple
Stuart Briscoe
Luke 2:21-40

A pious young couple with a new baby meets two devout old people in the Temple. A chance meeting - or a divine appointment?

I. Parenting by the Book. vv. 21-24

A. The Book - the law of Moses, the law of the Lord.
1. God made a covenant with Abraham - a covenant of grace.

2. God gave the law to Moses - 430 years later. Galatians 3:17

B. The circumcision. v. 21
1. Spiritual significance as the sign and seal of the covenant. Genesis 17:1f

2. Child introduced to privileges and responsibilities of the covenant.

3. God's expected inward/outward circumcision. Romans 2:17f

C. The naming - according to the angel's instructions. Luke 1:31

D. The purification - see v. 22; Leviticus 12:2-8.
1. Enforced period of rest away from cultic (and sexual?) activity.

2. Purification - no moral taint of marital sex or of childbirth.

3. But recognition of human sinfulness in light of divine wonder of birth.

E. The presentation - see Exodus 13:2, 12.
1. Jeho ...

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