Presented to the Lord
"The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple" by James Tissot Click here to listen to this sermon. “And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought [Jesus] up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord” (Luke 2:22). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! To better understand our text, we must first go back to the time shortly after the first Passover, about 1446 B.C. The Israelites had been in slavery in Egypt for 400 years. But God had not forgotten them. He sent Moses as His spokesman, warning Pharaoh again and again, “Let My people go.” Pharaoh stubbornly refused, so the Lord sent nine plagues to persuade him that rebellion against God is a very foolish thing. Finally, the Lord declared that He would come through the land and take the lives of all the firstborn males of Egypt, both man and beast. Every firstborn would die… unless. The Lord declared to His people that their firstborn sons could