I'd like us just for a wee while to turn back to Luke 2 and we'll read again verses 27-32.
And Simeon came in the spirit into the temple and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him according to the custom of the law,
he took him up in his arms and blessed God saying, Lord, now you're letting your servant depart in peace according to your word.
For my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.
We're all very much looking forward to Christmas Day in just a few days time,
which is always a very exciting and happy time of year for us.
And it's a time when we think and remember Jesus' arrival.
This is the time of year when we go back to the Bible's record of the birth of Jesus.
And we remember all the amazing things that took place there.
And there's so much to rejoice in when we think of Jesus' arrival.
He's come to be the saviour of sinners.
He's come to fulfil all the promises of God's word.
And he's come to give hope to all who come to him in faith.
So there's so much that's wonderful about Jesus' arrival.
And at Christmas time, that's what we think about.
We spend a lot of time thinking about Jesus' arrival.
And that's great and wonderful.
But what I want us to recognise today is that at this time of year,
we're thinking about Jesus' arrival.
And that's good.
But all of the time, Jesus is thinking about your departure.
The whole gospel is focused and confronting us with the reality that our lives just now are short.
And they're all heading towards a departure.
And that departure is the thing that matters for all of us and especially for Jesus.
It's brilliant to think about his arrival.
And we're going to be looking at that today all the time.
He is thinking about your departure.
And that's brought before us very powerfully in the account that we read here about Simeon.
Because as we read these verses, we see Simeon rejoicing at the arrival of Jesus.
But all of that's tied to Simeon's departure.
As he says in verse 29,
Lord, now you're letting your servant depart in peace.
So today we're thinking about Jesus' arrival, Simeon's departure.
And all of that, I hope we'll see, is getting us to the heart of what the gospel is about.
And it's getting us to the heart of stuff that all of us need to think about.
We're going to look at it under two main headings.
We're going to look at what Simeon knew.
And we're going to look at what Simeon didn't know.
What Simeon knew and what Simeon didn't know.
So first of all, thinking about what Simeon knew.
And one of the fascinating things about Simeon, we don't know much about him.
But one thing that's clear is that he clearly knew more than the people who were around him.
When you go through the gospels, you see that again and again and again,
Jesus gets misunderstood by the people who are around him.
And there's even moments when Mary and Joseph don't quite understand what Jesus has come to do.
And we saw that as we read through to the end of the chapter when Jesus was 12 years old.
They didn't understand what Jesus was saying when he said,
Did you not know that I would be at my father's house?
Many people misunderstood Jesus back in the New Testament and still today.
But not Simeon.
And the words that he speaks in this section reveal to us that he knows more than most about who Jesus is.
And about why he's come.
And that shouldn't surprise us at all because verse 25 tells us that the Holy Spirit was upon him.
And one of the things that the Holy Spirit does when he comes upon us is he opens our eyes to see the truth
and helps us to understand more about what God wants us to know.
So Simeon knows more than the people who are around him.
What was it that he knew?
Well, I want to highlight five things that we see in these verses.
Number one, Simeon knew that Israel needed the Christ.
You see that in verse 26 that it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit
that he did not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Now when you hear that word Christ, you should be thinking of the word anointed.
That's what the word Christ means.
So you should be thinking the word anointed.
And when you hear the word anointed in the Bible, you should be thinking of three things.
You should be thinking of prophet, priest and king.
These were three key roles in the Old Testament.
And all of them involved being anointed to these offices.
So when you hear the word Christ, think anointed.
When you hear anointed, think prophet, priest and king.
And the Christ was the one promised in the Old Testament who would come and fulfill these roles.
And Israel desperately needed that.
Because they had lost the kingdom centuries earlier.
When you get towards the end of the Old Testament, that's the culmination of it.
The kingdom is lost as they're conquered by the Babylonians.
And now it's no longer the Babylonians who rule them.
It's the Romans.
But it's still foreigners.
Ever since the end of the Old Testament, they'd lost their independence.
The kingdom had been conquered.
The prophets had gone silent.
But Zechariah and Malachi 400 years ago were the final Old Testament prophets.
For 400 years, nothing.
Silence.
And the priesthood was a mess.
In that period, in between the Old Testament and the New Testament, we call it the intertestamental period,
there was a whole lot of corruption and chaos in relation to both how Israel's nation was being ruled,
lots of conflicts, lots of rival family groups.
And the priesthood had become a mess, full of corruption.
Different groups were vying for power.
So by the time Simeon is alive, the kingdom has been lost, the prophets are silent, the priesthood is a mess.
And Simeon knew that all of that desperately needed to change.
He knew that Israel desperately needed a prophet to give them God's truth.
They needed a priest to restore a right relationship with God.
And they needed a king to rule and defend them.
They desperately needed God's anointed saviour.
Simeon knew that they needed the Christ.
Second thing that Simeon knew was that the saviour was coming soon.
Simeon knew that the saviour was coming soon.
This had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit.
And Simeon joins Elizabeth and Zechariah and Mary and Joseph and a few others
to whom God speaks in order to announce that the saviour is coming.
So there are a few who know that Jesus is coming.
And Simeon is one of them.
And for Simeon, all of that's tied to his departure, as we've been seeing.
He's been given this promise that he will not see death until he sees the saviour.
And at long, long last, the moment has come.
Simeon meets the Christ that he has been waiting for.
And as his words declare, God has kept his word.
He's saying that now you're letting your servant depart in peace according to your word.
Simeon's eyes have seen the saviour.
Number three, Simeon knew that this Christ was not just for Israel.
And that's a crucial point to recognise.
Throughout the whole Old Testament, God's saving purposes have been global.
It's been for the whole world.
And the covenant established with Abraham way back in Genesis 12
came with the promise that through Abraham and through his descendants,
all the nations of the world are going to be blessed.
So although Israel is the chosen nation through which God's savings purposes
are going to be revealed in that Old Testament period,
it was never intended to be just for Israel.
It was always a plan of salvation for all people.
Simeon knew that, but most of the people around him didn't.
Most of the people around him saw themselves as the favoured nation.
And everybody else, everyone who was a foreigner, was an enemy.
Many around Simeon wanted the Christ to come
and they wanted the Christ to scatter the foreigners.
But what God actually wanted was for the Christ to gather them.
Simeon knew that.
His song speaks beautifully, his words speak beautifully,
in verse 32, about how this saviour is a light for revelation to the Gentiles.
And the truth is, that is everything that Israel was always meant to be.
Israel was always meant to be a light to the nations.
And this is part of the many ways in which the New Testament reveals
that Jesus is actually the one who fulfills everything
that Israel was meant to be in the Old Testament.
And this is explaining to us why Israel has that special function
and place in God's redemptive plan.
In the Old Testament, Israel is functioning as a shadow,
or as what we would call a type.
Something that's looking forward and pointing forward to the full reality.
So in the Old Testament, you have the family nation of Israel,
and that's functioning as a shadow of the true family of God,
the church of Jesus Christ.
Simeon is recognising this,
that the shadow in the Old Testament is being fulfilled in the New.
Now, a lot of people have different views on this,
but my own view and the main view among Reformed churches,
of which we are part of,
would say that this is why God's purposes are now not focused
on the political nation of Israel
in the same way that they were in the Old Testament.
And what happens in the Middle East
is not of prominent eschatological significance
in the way that some argue it would be,
because we're saying that the Old Testament, Israel,
is now fulfilled in the church,
because the promise was always for the nations.
God's purposes are now fulfilled through the church,
where Jew and Gentile are united together,
one body, one family, fellow citizens,
as saints and members of the household of God.
Simeon knew this.
He saw that the Christ was not just for Israel.
Number four,
Simeon knew that conflict lay ahead.
And you see that when he speaks about,
in verses 34 and 35,
he says,
this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel.
And this, again,
is a crucial insight that shows that Simeon knew and understood
more than the people around him,
because many people around Simeon expected the Christ
to cause the rise of Israel
and the fall of the Romans.
That was their big hope.
And so for the people at the time of Simeon,
that was the big problem.
The Israel, Jerusalem,
it's under Roman rule.
And so the big hope is that the Messiah,
the Christ is going to come,
and he's going to cause the nation of Israel to rise again,
and the Romans are going to fall.
And we will have our independent state once again.
But Simeon knew that that's not what's going to happen.
Simeon knows that the conflict and controversy
is going to come within the people of Israel.
It's the fall and rising of many in Israel.
And in particular,
conflict is going to come
among the religious leadership.
And that's exactly what you see in the Gospels.
Because it's the religious leaders in Israel,
they're the ones who resented Jesus.
They're the ones who opposed him.
And ultimately,
they're the ones who crucified him.
And at the same time,
they're also the ones that Jesus criticizes most sharply.
So if you look and you read on in the Gospels,
Jesus says hardly anything about the Romans.
And yet he's constantly calling out
the distorted and damaging mindset
of the religious leaders within Israel.
He exposed that hypocrisy.
And just as Simeon says,
although they had an outward appearance
of piety and superiority,
the true state of their hearts gets exposed.
You see at the end of 35,
that the thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.
Isn't that what Jesus did?
He went around and he saw the religious leaders
and they had all the outward appearance
of piety and superiority
and religious conformity.
Jesus saw straight through it all into their hearts.
And he exposed their hearts.
He exposed their hypocrisy.
And at the same time,
Jesus would reach to those
who are at the very bottom of society.
So he healed the sick.
He helped the poor.
He touched the leper.
He welcomed those who were rejected.
And he loved those who were despised.
And so in other words,
Jesus' ministry would frequently turn
all of the religious, social,
and cultural expectations of Israel upside down.
The rising and falling is not the rise of Israel
and the fall of the Romans.
The rising and falling is within Israel.
Jesus is turning everything upside down.
He was the friend of tax collectors and sinners.
He was the one who said that if you want to lead well,
you've actually got to be a servant.
You've actually got to be ready to wash one another's feet.
He says,
The last shall be first.
And the first shall be last.
The powerful who thought they were at the top,
they were the ones who were in for a fall.
And the poor and the broken
and those who'd made a total mess of their lives
at the bottom,
they were going to be lifted up.
So Simeon knew that Israel needed the Christ.
Simeon knew that the Savior was coming soon.
Simeon knew that this Christ is not just for Israel.
Simeon knew that conflict lay ahead.
And number five,
Simeon knew that suffering was on its way.
And that's revealed in what he says to Mary in verse 35.
A sword will pierce her soul as well.
And that's exactly what happened.
The Mary who carried her baby into the temple in chapter two
would go on to see wave after wave of controversy
and criticism of her son.
She'd experience confusion and tension herself
as she tried to figure out why he'd came
and what he was going to do.
And ultimately, she would stand in front of the cross
and watch him be crucified and die.
Simeon knew that the days ahead were not going to be easy.
If the Christ was going to complete his mission,
then it meant walking down a path
that inevitably leads to great suffering.
So, it's amazing what Simeon knew.
In just a few verses,
so much is revealed.
He has a level of understanding that stands out
from the people who are around him
and from the other people that you encounter
as you read through the gospel.
And what Simeon knew transformed his departure.
What Simeon knew transformed his departure.
In other words, he knew he was ready to die.
Now, now your servant can depart in peace.
And as we think about all of that,
it prompts a crucial question.
Do you know what Simeon knew?
Do you know what he knew?
Do you know that you need the Christ as well?
All of us do.
All of us need the Christ.
Actually, what's maybe more accurate to ask
is that do you know that you need
the right Christ in your life,
the true Christ in your life?
And the reason I ask that,
because as we were saying,
that word Christ points to the biblical offices
of prophet, priest, and king.
And when you hear phrases like prophet, priest, and king,
it can sound a wee bit like technical theological language,
and it can sound a million miles from your own life,
and it all can seem a wee bit abstract,
maybe even a bit irrelevant.
But the truth is, prophet, priest, and king,
these are describing the three biggest influences
in your life.
These are describing the three biggest influences
in your life, because everybody's got prophets.
Everyone's got priests.
Everyone's got a king.
Some people choose the prophetic voice
of social media,
and whatever is being said,
whatever is being said to you,
whatever you've been asked to do,
that's what you're going to do.
Sometimes it's the prophetic voice
of a secular ideology,
or political party,
or maybe the most powerful one of all
is simply what other people think.
That as you go through your life,
like what you wear,
what phone you have,
what you ask for for Christmas,
what you hope to achieve
in the next year of your life,
it all actually comes back
to a fear of what other people think.
If so, that's the prophet in your life.
It's telling you what you need to do.
And it can be such a powerful voice.
People also constantly choose priests,
but when we choose the wrong priest,
it just means that you've been asked
to sacrifice the wrong thing.
And so the priest of
get to the top of your career
is going to get you to sacrifice time
with your family,
because you just need to spend
a few more hours at work,
and just need to make sure
that you get this done,
and better days will be ahead.
Right now, there's no time
to spend with the kids.
The priest of pornography
is going to tell you
to sacrifice your personal purity.
Just have another look.
The priest of more money
is going to tell you
to sacrifice your contentment,
because no matter how much we get,
it's never enough.
We choose the wrong priests,
and it means we sacrifice
the wrong thing.
And people choose the wrong king,
because all of the time
we allow ourselves to be ruled
by money,
or by our possessions,
by our success,
by people's opinions,
or by anxieties.
And these kings will rule over you,
but they will never defend you.
Instead, they leave you exposed.
We desperately need
the real Christ.
We desperately need Jesus
as the prophet, priest, and king
in our lives.
Do you know that he's actually come?
Now maybe you say,
of course I do.
I know that he was born
2,000 years ago in Bethlehem.
I've known that my whole life.
It's not actually what I mean.
Do you know that he's actually
come here today to meet you?
Do you know that that's why
he's brought you here?
To meet with him.
To hear his voice.
Do you know, like Simeon knew,
that he is for everyone?
Now for Simeon,
the big division
was Jew and Gentile.
We don't struggle
with that same question
in the same way.
We struggle with
a different question.
We think,
yes, Jesus is for everyone,
except for those
who aren't really good enough.
Except for those
who've messed up too much,
made too many mistakes.
I don't know enough.
That I'm different
to everybody else.
but
you've got to know
that he's come for everyone.
That no one's excluded.
No matter what your story,
no matter what your circumstances are,
he has come for everyone.
He's come for you.
And do you know
that everyone
will either rise
or fall before him?
Everyone will either
rise or fall
before him.
That's ultimately
where history
is going to take us.
And either
we will
exalt ourselves
and reject him
and push Jesus away,
or we'll bow down
before him
and trust him.
If we do the first,
if we reject him,
we'll fall.
If we bow down
before him
and trust him,
we will rise.
If
we're trusting him,
then it's safe
to depart.
If we reject him,
then it's not.
And do you know
that the agony
of his death
is the key
to eternal life?
The sword
that pierced
Mary's soul
and the cross
that crushed
Jesus
in agony,
that cross
is actually
the key
to our salvation.
it's through
that cross
that we're saved.
And
this is,
again,
where we come back to,
this is what we
absolutely have to
think about so much,
because you might think,
yeah,
I know that.
But
the big,
big question
is,
do you know it
as in,
not just like,
I'm aware of it,
I'm aware that Jesus
died and rose again,
and I'm aware of it.
that's just to be aware
of it,
but to know it
is to know that
that was for me,
and it's my only hope.
And a lot of people,
you'll struggle with the question,
am I really a Christian?
Am I really a Christian?
And we apply all sorts
of criteria
to that question
where we think,
well,
I don't know enough,
I haven't changed enough,
I'm not in the same category
as other people.
All of that's the wrong question
to ask.
Are you a Christian?
How do you know the answer
to that question?
Well,
look at the cross
and tell me what you're seeing.
And if you're looking
at the cross
and you're thinking,
that is my only hope,
then
if you can say that
you're a Christian,
that's what it means
to trust in Jesus,
to say that cross
is my only hope.
There's loads I don't know,
there's loads I need to learn,
and there's loads
that I wish was different,
but I know
that I need Jesus
and he's my only hope.
that's what makes you
a Christian.
And that's what I want you
to ask yourself
and think about.
Do you know
what Simeon knew?
There's also, however,
stuff that Simeon didn't know,
and this will be very quick.
I just want to suggest
three things
that Simeon didn't know.
The first two,
I'm pretty sure
he didn't know them.
The third one,
he definitely didn't know.
Number one,
I don't think Simeon knew
just how bad
the suffering would be.
So he knew
that conflict lay ahead,
but
I don't think he knew
just how severe
that was going to be.
we know more than he did.
because we can read
of how Jesus
was betrayed
by one of those
who was closest to him.
We can read
of Jesus' sweat
falling to the ground
like drops of blood
as he prayed
in the Garden of Gethsemane.
We can read
of the crown of thorns
pressed into his head
and blood
ran down his feet.
We can read
of a whip
scourging his back.
We can read
of him being hit
and spat upon
and mocked.
We can read
of him
being nailed to a cross,
hung to die
as slowly
and as agonisingly
as possible.
We can read
of him crying out,
my God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?
We know way more
than Simeon knew.
But we don't know it all.
Because the cross
took Jesus
to the very depths
of physical pain
and spiritual agony.
On the cross
he took everything
that our sin deserves.
Every ounce
of God's righteous wrath,
his holy wrath,
poured out upon him.
All the agony
of an eternity
in hell
experienced by Christ
as he hung
in the darkness.
The agony,
the sorrow,
the emptiness,
the distress,
the darkness,
the horror.
We don't know
what that was like.
And it's beyond
what we can describe.
We don't know
what it was like.
We just know
who it was for.
It was for you.
Second thing
that Simeon didn't know
is that I don't think
he knew just how big
this baby was going to be.
Now I don't mean
in terms of weight.
I mean in terms
of importance.
So he knew
that this baby
was the one
that they'd been waiting for
and longing for
and praying for.
He knew it was the Christ
but I'm not sure
that he knew
that as he held this baby
he was holding God
the Son himself.
And I'm not sure
that he knew
that this baby
would grow
to be the image
of the invisible God
the radiance of his glory
the exact imprint
of his nature
and the one
through whom
all things were created
the one who upholds
the universe
by the word
of his power.
I'm not sure he knew
that this baby
would grow to be
the man who would come
and inaugurate
God's kingdom
who would build
the church of Jesus Christ
and that the lives
of millions
and millions
of people
would be utterly
transformed
by everything
that this child
would accomplish.
And I don't think
that Simeon knew
that 2,000 years
after Luke 2
3,700 miles away
there would be people
gathering in Stornoway
so that the first thing
that we do
as a new week begins
is to meet
in Jesus' name
and to worship him
and praise him
for everything
that he has done.
Simeon didn't know
all that.
We know more
than he did.
We can look
at the rest
of the New Testament.
We can look
at 2,000 years
of church history.
We can look
at the church
across the world
today
and we can look
at our lives
and say
Jesus has done
amazing,
amazing things.
We know way more
than Simeon knew
but we don't know
it all
because Jesus
is continuing
to do his mighty work
and we don't know
yet who's going
to be sitting
in these pews
in a year's time.
We don't know yet
who's going
to be brought
to faith
as the Holy Spirit
works in this town.
We don't know
how the church
is going to be built
in years to come
but Jesus
is going to do it.
He's going to
continue his work.
There's so much
more to come.
That's why
we should be
so excited
about all
that Jesus
is still doing
and that he will do.
So I don't think
that Simeon knew
how bad the suffering
would be
and I don't think
he knew how big
and significant
this child would be
but thirdly
when it comes
to Simeon's
departure
I am absolutely
certain
that Simeon
had no idea
just how amazing
it would be.
Simeon says
so beautifully
now I can depart
in peace.
He's ready to die.
He's ready for eternity.
He's ready to depart
but at that moment
as he speaks
those words
he has no idea
just how amazing
the destination
is going to be.
And that's maybe
something that we
just don't speak
about enough.
The fact that
the future promised
for the Lord's people
the new creation
the new heavens
and the new earth
is just amazing.
And we should think
and speak about it
more because
the Bible reveals
a lot to us
about it.
It speaks to us
of a place
of majestic glory.
Revelation 21
speaks of
the glory of the Lord
in the new Jerusalem
in the new creation.
It's radiance
like a most rare jewel
like jasper
clear as crystal.
You imagine
the most beautiful
stunning
glimmering sights
you've seen.
That's a picture
of the glory
awaiting us.
It's a place
of astounding beauty.
Revelation 21
again
the wall of the city
was built
a jasper
the city
was pure gold
like clear glass.
The fountains
of the walls
of the city
were adorned
with every kind
of jewel.
The first was jasper
second sapphire
third agate
fourth emerald
the fifth onyx
sixth carnelian
seventh chrysolite
eighth beryl
ninth topaz
tenth chrysoprace
eleventh jacinth
twelfth amethyst
amethyst
stunning
absolutely
stunning.
It's also a place
of magnificent
togetherness
that there
there is a
great multitude
that no one
could number
from every nation
all tribes
people
languages
standing before
the throne
together.
all the time
in our lives
just now
we experience
the agony
of separation
the promise
of our future
is a place
of unbreakable
togetherness
it's a place
of perfect healing
he'll wipe
away every tear
from your eyes
death shall be
no more
neither shall there
be mourning
nor crying
nor pain
anymore
it's a place
of unspoiled
holiness
a place of
thrilling worship
where the
volume
of praise
is going to be
incredible
as we lift
up our voices
to praise
Jesus
and it's
going to be
a place
of unending
love
that nothing
can separate
you from
Romans 8 38
neither life
nor death
nor angels
nor rulers
nor things
present
nor things
to come
nor powers
nor height
nor depth
nor anything
else
in all creation
will be able
to separate us
from the love
of God
in Christ
Jesus
our Lord
and everything
good and
precious and
wonderful
that we
experience in
this life
everything good
and precious
that you
experience this
week
this week
will be a
great week
for so many
of us
everything that's
good and
precious and
wonderful is
a glimpse
it's a glimpse
of what God
is preparing
for his people
Simeon was
about to depart
he did not
know just how
amazing the
destination was
going to be
he knows
now
he knows
now
and for us
we cannot
stretch our
minds far
enough
to imagine
the peace
and the joy
and the security
and the beauty
and wonder
of what God
has prepared
for those
who love him
we can't
stretch our
minds far
enough
to imagine
that
but if you're
trusting in
Jesus you're
going to
find out
you're going
to find
out
and as we
close
surely
that's the
departure
that everyone
here wants
to have
surely that's
the departure
that you want
that's the
departure that
Jesus came
to give
you
we're
thinking about
his arrival
he's thinking
about your
departure
and he's
holding out
the offer
to all of
us
that if we
trust in
him that
departure
will be
unspeakably
amazing
but all
of this
comes back
to what we
said to
the kids
there's
an
inescapable
connection
between
going
and
knowing
if that's
the departure
that we
want
if that's
the destination
where we
want to
go
Jesus is
the saviour
that all
of us
need to
know
I hope
that every
single person
in here
can take
Simeon's
words to
be their
own
that I
your servant
can depart
in peace
Amen
let's pray
Lord Jesus
we just
thank you
so so
much for
everything that
you've done
for us
we thank you
for your
arrival
for everything
that it
means
for everything
that it
accomplished
for everything
that you
have changed
for us
and we
thank you
that in
your
arrival
you were
thinking
about our
departure
we thank you
that you
have opened
up a way
for life
for all
who come
to you
and so
we pray
that every
single one
of us
would look
to you
trust in
you
and follow
you
help us
and guide
us
and thank
you for
everything
Amen
we're going
to close
singing from
Psalm 4
in the
Sing
Psalms
version
and that's
on page
4
and we'll
sing
verses 3
to 8
know that
the Lord
has set
apart
the godly
as his
own
the Lord
will hear
me when
I call
and my
request
make known
and down
to the
end
I will
lie down
and sleep
in peace
my heart
will rest
secure
for you
alone
oh gracious
Lord
will keep
me
safe
and sure
3 to 8
to God's
praise
know that
the Lord
has set
apart
the
godly
as
his
own
the
Lord
will
hear
me
when
I
hope
and
thy
request
may
know
in
anger
do not
pray
God's
law
consider
and be
still
is it
a
righteous
sacrifice
and
wait
upon
his
will
oh
who
can
show
!
any
earth
I
hear
so
many
say
O
Lord
shine
on
us
with
your
light
show
us
your
face
I
pray
you
filled
my
heart
with
greater
joy
than
others
may
have
found
as
they
rejoice
!
that
harvest
when
green
white
above
will
lie
and
sleep
in
peace
my
heart
will
in
peace
heart
will
lie
down
sleep
in
and
sleep
peace
my
heart
will
rest
secure
for
you
alone
O
Lord
will
keep me
safe
and
true
after the
benediction
the main
door
as you step
week may the
grace of our
Lord Jesus
Christ and the
love of God and
the fellowship of
the Holy Spirit be
with you all
Amen
up
!
up
!
up
!
up
!
up
!