Sermon Tone Analysis

Jab 1

100%/100% in marriage, in faith=Jesus 100% God and 100% man

Heb 5:

luke 2:41-

If Jesus didn’t have to learn, then why did Jesus have to wait until He was 30 to begin His ministry?

If Jesus didn’t have to learn, then how can He truly understand what it is like to be human?

john 5:19

john 12:49

Matthew 24:36

Heb 2:14-

(above maybe for next week…)

Eli asking me a great question (illustration for questions building relationship)

Jab 1

Terrific Traffic.

Slides to match

Gee the traffic is terrific…no it’s not.

Monica looks up definition of terrific.

adjective

1. of great size, amount, or intensity.

"there was a terrific bang"

"there was a terrific bang"

2. causing terror

I learned something new.

Jab 2

Great questions on bible reading

Ryan: Here’s a question, I thought Heaven was a real place, and eternal?

Great question!

Jab 3

Questions are one of the defining marks of humanity.

It’s not just how we learn, but also how we build relationships

Eli asking me if I’m a nerd.

Today this idea cuts 2 ways.

One, we are looking at one of the greatest questions, “What did it mean for Jesus to be human?

How was he both man and God?” Secondly, and as a result of the answers to the first, what does it mean that Jesus had to ask his own?

What does it mean that in Jesus, in the incarnation, God learned with us?

Pray

Jesus asked to know

I came across the following ideas while researching this message:

Jesus was God and so knew everything from birth.

He could speak every language, understood every concept, and could have built a circuit board should the need have arisen with his tiny baby hands.

Jesus wasn’t God until after his baptism, which is why he didn’t know all of that.

Both answers represent heresies which have been around as long as the church.

Either Jesus was God with a little man thrown in, or he was a man who became God.

The impossibility of one man being fully God is just too much to believe.

You’ve probably all heard how marriage isn’t 50/50.

It’s 100/100.

Both have to be all in for it to work.

Well, to have a proper understanding of Christ, we have to recognize the same thing.

As impossible as it is, Jesus was 100/100.

In some impossible way, God had condescended to us, in other words, he willingly lowered himself to us.

To be with us, he became us.

Yes, there is example after example of Jesus knowing things he could not know, but the inference is that this was because he was filled and being led by the Holy Spirit.

In other words, when Jesus knew the thoughts of a man, he knew them the same way the man who laid his hands upon my shoulders, having never met me before to call me to action on the very thing going through my mind at the time.

I felt called to ministry, but I also felt unsure and hesitant.

God, through the Holy Spirit, used that man to call me out in a way I could listen.

Jesus, apart from the Holy Spirit, needed to ask questions if he was going to learn, just like you.

If you need proof Jesus didn’t know everything take a look at

He had to learn how to be a carpenter.

He had to learn how to talk, walk, feed himself

He had to learn how to read, write, and do math

What an amazing thing.

Really consider this.

Even if I could shrink my body to my six year old self, I could pretend to not know things…but I still would.

I could probably fake not knowing high school algebra…but only because I’ve forgotten everything I learned already.

Jesus asked to know God

Wow…This one…wow...

Let’s go back to our story:

luke 2:46-

He had a high aptitude for getting to know God, but he still asked questions and listened to answers.

He would have studied and meditated upon the scripture.

He read, asked, learned...

john

Jesus never quit seeking a deeper relationship with his father.

We haven’t even touched the passages where Jesus steps away to pray and seek God the father, to know his will, his heart.

What is truly remarkable about this, is that we have the same access to God, the same opportunity to build relationship with him.

Through his word, through prayer, and through coming together to learn and grow, we can be like Jesus in our relationship with God.

Jesus asked to grow

Disclaimer: I am not about to make the statement that Jesus sinned.

But Jesus made mistakes.

And Jesus learned from them.

back to our story again:

luke 2:48-

For those teens at home: Is it ever ok to disappear from home for a few days without telling your mother where you have gone?

What if it’s to go to church camp?

What if it’s to read your bible for 72 hours straight with your cell phone off?

The answer is NO! Jesus was so comfortable in the temple (not a bad thing) that he wasn’t paying attention when his parent’s left.

If we still want to argue that he was right in this, look at verse 51 again:

Then he was submissive to them.

He recognized his behavior had caused his mother distressed, and it was unwarranted, so he didn’t do it again.

And then in verse 52 we get the definitive evidence: Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and favor.

Jesus grew as he learned.

Hebrews 5:

gives us another example:

Even up to the cross...

Jesus asked to know us

As mentioned, occasionally, the Holy Spirit would give Jesus direct information about a person, but even then, Jesus almost always asked questions and was even surprised by people.

John 5:

Matt 5:

John 6:66-

Mark 5:25-