How to build and fire up your faith in God

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babalobi

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[font="'Book Antiqua"]TEXT: LUKE 2: 25 – 38, ISAIAH 52:7 – 10



INTRODUCTION:

The book of Isaiah 52:7-10 talks about a hope for the future which Isaiah spoke about because he believer the word God gave him. It came to pass after many years. We also see in the book of Luke 2:25-38 the lives of devout believers who were waiting to see God’s salvation before their death. It came to pass by the Holy Spirit.




Faith and hope are two of the many virtues that characterised the lives of Simeon and Anna. They demonstrated faith by waiting so many years to see the promised Messiah. they manifested hope by remaining firm, confident and going to the temple daily that they would see their expectation come pass.

Our faith in Christ gives us a solid foundation and our hopes makes us became of reassurance for others to depend on Christ too.



QUESTIONS:-

1. Who are those that have beautiful feet and how? Isaiah 52:7

2. What is the effect on others? Isaiah 52:8-9

3. What virtues characterised Simeon’s life Luke 2:25-28,34

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St Columcille

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QUESTIONS:-

1. Who are those that have beautiful feet and how? Isaiah 52:7

2. What is the effect on others? Isaiah 52:8-9

3. What virtues characterised Simeon’s life Luke 2:25-28,34


1. Based on the commentaries below, as well as what I read from Augustine. It is firstly Christ, but it is Christ within us. This is more clearly revealed by the testimony of the Apostles who experienced Christ's resurrection, and each laying down their lives to bring us this news of redemption through Christ's sacrifice and the hope through His resurrection.

And again, when Paul says, “How beautiful are the feet of those bringing glad tidings of good things, and preaching the Gospel of peace,”221 he shows clearly that it was not merely one, but there were many who used to preach the truth. Against Heresies 3.13.1

Roberts, A., Donaldson, J., & Coxe, A. C. (1997). The Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol.I : Translations of the writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325 (436). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems.

Would you like to see the other parts also thereof from the head downwards? Or will ye that from below we carry our description upwards? Contemplate then a statue of gold or rather of something more costly than gold, and such as might stand in heaven; not fixed with lead nor placed in one spot, but hurrying from Jerusalem even unto Illyricum, (Romans chapter 15, verse 19) and setting forth into Spain, and borne as it were on wings over every part of the world. For what could be more “beautiful” than these “feet” which visited the whole earth under the sun? This same “beauty” the prophet also from of old proclaimeth, saying, (Isaiah chapter 52, verse 7) “How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace!” Hast thou seen how fair are the feet? Wilt thou see the bosom too? Come, let me shew thee this also, and thou shalt behold it far more splendid than these beautiful, yea even than the bosom itself of the ancient lawgiver. For Moses indeed carried tablets of stone: but this man within him had Christ Himself: it was the very image of the King which he bore. (St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on 1 Corinthians).


Schaff, P. (1997). The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Vol. XII (75). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems.

2. It affects the people of God.

For what is “to be reconciled” to Him but to have peace with Him? For the sake of which peace, moreover, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself said to His disciples, “Into whatsoever house ye enter first, say, Peace be to this house; and if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; but if not, it shall return to you again.”167 When they preach the gospel of this peace of whom it is predicted, “How beautiful are the feet of those that publish peace, that announce good things!”168 to us, indeed, every one then begins to be a son of peace who obeys and believes this gospel, and who, being justified by faith, has begun to have peace towards God; but, according to God’s predestination, he was already a son of peace. For it was not said, Upon whomsoever your peace shall rest, he shall become a son of peace; but Christ says, “If the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon that house.” Already, therefore, and before the announcement of that peace to him, the son of peace was there, as he had been known and foreknown, by—not the evangelist, but—God. For we need not fear lest we should lose it, if in our ignorance he to whom we preach is not a son of peace, for it will return to us again—that is, that preaching will profit us, and not him; but if the peace proclaimed shall rest upon him, it will profit both us and him. (Augustine--Treaties on Rebuke and Grace, chpt 46).

Schaff, P. (1997). The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Vol. V (490–491). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems.

3. He was exemplary and devout. He listened to the promptings of the Spirit.