Redeemer's Refuge - Forty Days After Christmas

Forty Days after ChristmasRedeemer Lutheran Church - LCMSCharleston, WVFebruary 2, 2020 The Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Our Lord (YrA)Message presented by Rev. Frank C. RuffattoPsalm 841 Samuel 1:21-28Hebrews 2:14-18Luke 2:22-40Forty days after Christmas, everything changes when Jesus comes to the temple for us.It’s forty days after Christmas. In keeping with the Torah, Mary and Joseph have brought the forty-day-old Jesus to the temple to present Him to the Lord. Big things happen on this day — more than Ground Hog’s Day and more than Super Bowl Sunday. A man waits, even into old age, for a promise by the Holy Spirit to be fulfilled: Simeon — his life will be changed forever. And eighty-four-year-old widow who spent her life in the temple, “worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day (Luke 2:37): Anna — her life will be changed forever. And Mary and Joseph — their lives will surely be changed forever. So, for you and me, and for every Christian man, woman, and child, everything will change.