13-01-2019 Luke 2:41-52 Ted Brennan

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Heavenly Father give us Faith to receive your word. Understanding to know what it means. And the will to put it into practice. through Christ download I mean

Imagine what life would be like if your religious duties involved walking to Toowoomba and back at least once a year? Or even more walking a bit further than to happen to a plant that with the end of the trip requiring a climb twice as hard as it to him by range. Ed walking on dirt path ways to get there with no ride right side to sell facilities for travelers. Entry Countryside will you might easily be wrong or attack? Then after several guys of camping at a very crowded religious festival and participating in activities. You would walk home to Brisbane a round-trip taking up to a photo.

That's the type of Journey Joseph and Mary completed when they took Jesus from Nazareth to Jerusalem for the Passover.

Did Ice passage from Luke Chapter 2 tells of Jesus trip to Jerusalem as a twelve-year-old it reveals and highlights Jesus growing understanding of a special relationship with God a relationship with the angel Gabriel prophesied about to marry saying he will be great and will be called the son of the most high and the Lord. God will give to him the train of his ancestor David. In today's episode. We start to see the Fulfillment of the promises made at the time of Jesus birth, the Messiah and Son of God prepares to begin the public Mission the God sent him to undertake.

There is a lot more to this story. Then a missing kid getting a distraught with his parents.

The Gospel of Luke repeatedly portrays Jesus as the savior of the world as we've seen in recent weeks looked quite merry sign my soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my savior.

Leupold cerakote the world nine words of an Angel to Shepherds for unto you is Born This Day in the city of David a savior. Who is Christ the lord? and mitosis that Simeon held the baby Jesus in his arms in the table and said monster now you are dismissing your servant in face. according to your word for my eyes have seen your salvation.

Today's passage about a family visit to Jerusalem begins to tell us more details about the savior. I guess we learn more about Jesus we must face up to his client to be who he said he was. We must face up to his claim for our Legions and we must consider the offer of Salvation that is only available to him.

Luke was a doctor who tells us that he wanted to write an orderly account of Jesus life and Ministry. Today's message is the last of the narratives with Luke record from the early life of Jesus. Your cannabis trip to Jerusalem is the only information we have about anything in the life of Jesus between when the wise men visited visited him as a toddler and when he was baptized in preparation for his public Ministry at about age 30.

People down the centuries of my will meaning guesses about the early life of Jesus. But I've often written stories which run contrary to everything else we know about him. So don't try that guy that died. So it's a books if we needed to know more about Jesus early life God the Holy Spirit would have inspired the gospel to record it. But he didn't. So we should not speak tonight. The events in spoken word recorded in today's passage. Luke Chapter 2 verses 41 252i what God wants us to know about from this. Of Jesus life. They are highly significant for helping us understand Jesus identity and his mission on Earth.

Jacksonville Mary visited Jerusalem as part of their duties as faithful as they went to celebrate the Passover at the annual commemoration of God's Deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt for 800 years earlier. I had an obligation to make the pilgrimage chapter 23 of the book of Exodus spells out this cutie. Passover or the Feast of unleavened bread with one of three occasions each year when Jewish men were required to appear before the Lord recorded by the table. Jesus women also attended the festivals. Joseph and Mary the journey would have a long and uncomfortable but a passage tells us that I didn't every year that we choose Jesus my will accompany them on previous occasions boys were up and packing to Jerusalem is preparation for being acknowledged as full members of a community.

Joseph and Mary Mae would have been a way that not everything that happened at the Jerusalem Temple was as God wanted it to be but if I knew about that they did not use this as an excuse to stay away. Sacrifices was still performed at the temple and Joseph and Mary might be required journey to participate. They probably traveling to Jerusalem on a longer route than the East Bank of the Jordan River. To avoid going through Samaria. A trip to the festival concluded with a climbing height of about a thousand from Jericho to Jerusalem. The road which Jesus would lie to uses the setting of the parable of the Good Samaritan. He look after a travel out. He'd been mugged and robbed.

It's estimated that at the time of Jesus up to a hundred thousand pilgrims would visit Jerusalem for the Passover Festival. The normal population of Jerusalem was about 25,000. So the city would have been overwhelmingly overcrowded a city planners today might say during the Passover Festival. It would have been infrastructure challenges in Jerusalem.

The Festival of Passover and unleavened bread together last of the week and devaki's were expected to attend for at least 2 days. Rituals were observed during the festival rituals and time on it the slaughter of sacrificial animals in the outer Court of the temple the Passover meal the singing of Psalms 113 to 118. Then the pilgrims would set out on the journey home.

Joseph and Mary were an admirable couple of Fife as clearly aligned with the purposes of God. They were a family who I buy a dancer guard Baron example to us. They surely qualify for membership of that great cloud of witnesses are people of faith in Old Testament times. The regular attendance at the Passover Festival. I have to remind us of the injunction in the letter to the Hebrews that Christians must not neglect meeting together, but to encourage one another regularly.

And like Joseph and Mary we have the privilege of bringing up children, then we need to do so in the discipline and instruction of the Lord as Polaroids the Aphasia to do. Maybe you have the privilege of raising children. And we know that tired of it looks or maybe you have opportunity to influence nephews nieces grandchildren.

If side then never underestimate how God might use you for their benefit. Through your example of faithful Christian Living regular attendance at church and diligent service to God through whatever opportunities he provides as well as timely words.

We don't know how Jesus came to be left behind in Jerusalem when his parents left for her. Perhaps I hadn't invented sign-in and sign-out sheets.

But Joseph and Mary travel for a die without realizing the Jesus was not in the traveling party. This is understandable as people often traveled in large groups besides tea and companionship. It would be easy to achieve the Jesus was with friends. Nothing is impossible a passage to suggest the Joseph and Mary when they glitch in parrots. Once they discovered that Jesus was missing. They spared no effort to find him. By the end of the first ride travel to get home and Mary would have been 30 or 40 kilometers from 20 25 miles and there was no other option but to spend the second I traveling back to Jerusalem looking for him. Then they needed to spend at least some of a third day searching the city. And what a turd up when I finally found him. Jesus was in the temple. How he defended for himself for 3 days is a mystery, but he had managed. Jesus was spending his time in the temple courts listening to teachers who had set up in the shade in Temple for the Cavs and he was asking questions and engaging with these teachers As Nice pipe about the Jewish law what it made for understanding God and how it applied to behaving correctly. This was the way that Jewish teachings often conducted in that area. And Luke tells us that both the teachers and the audience where am I that Jesus understanding and these answers? This boy of twelve was really interested in the teaching of the Old Testament and he talked about it in a way much more like what you expect might expect from someone much older. There's no indication that he was offering Supernatural knowledge. Like he would do 28 like that. It was simply trying to get a grip on the teaching of his Jewish faith.

Joseph and Mary where stomachs to find Jesus in the temple Mary explain child. Why have you treated us like this? Look your father and I have been searching for you in great anxiety.

Jesus Behavior sings tortoise and it contrasts with what we read live read this passage of Jesus as a dutiful and obedient, son. Jesus responded to Mary's question by indicating the tension he felt between rod for Judy to his family and commitment to serving God.

Jesus words in answer to his mother on this occasion at the first recorded words we have of Jesus. obviously he had said lots of other things in his life before then but these are the first ever written down and I have telling I summarize he's growing consciousness of why he was here on Earth and what he was here to do. Listen to what he said. Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my father's house?

It is very Jesus's sign where else would you expect me to buy? Why would you look anywhere else?

Jesus kills his Earthly parents said he's concerned must be in the things of my father or some of their English translations put it. He said he must be about my father's business. Jason's is clearly aware that he is not only the son of Mary and Joseph but he's outside the son of God. How do you spell God is his father in a more personal way than Jews usually did.

Wait to dye have duties duties. We must fulfill gladly and willingly for a family to a community into the state. But before we leave you these must not listen as service for God. That is something we must always bear in mind saving God. We9 may not be sure about having should working out in practice so we should pray for wisdom to know a deity. There's a simple prayer not angry comparable good models had a price for this and Fidelity 500 years angry and Christian to be using that prayer with this passage is ready in church. The prayer ask God to grant that we may perceive and know what things we ought to do. And don't say grant that we might have Grace and power to perform them Faithfully. That's how we go to Pride when we're not sure how to fulfill IGG but to God. enchiladas

Joseph and Mary could not understand the significance of Jesus are today being the temple. They couldn't get their heads around it. I possibly wanted what would Jesus do next? This might seem a bit surprising after everything Joseph and Mary had heard and then the bathroom Gabriel from the angels and from Simian. We know that Mary had treasure the word spec it about Jesus when he was born a thousand years earlier and she had pondered them in her heart. But I have said that guy didn't Board of normal family life had caused this information to drift from her conscious memory.

When Joseph and Mary and Jesus return to Nazareth life return to normal Jesus did not become a rebellious teenager. He would still have been conscious of his very special relationship with to God. He led a blameless life. Luke specifically recorded a passage to Jesus was obedient to his parents to marry his mother and their dresses Joseph is accepted legal father. They're not his biological father. And for the second time in his gospel Luke tells us that Mary record the events of this tree and that she did say she treasured these things in her heart.

We can sympathize with Mary as this human and divine drama and folded before her and she tried to make sense of it all. Perhaps she's an example to us have had to ponder over events and situations that we do not yet understand.

When Jesus the son of God came to Earth. He emptied himself and took on human form as Philippians chapter 2 verse 7 explains. Jesus became truly and completely human. I'm sorry as he grew up. He developed as a human being is that passage describes? Look instead of Jesus early life the child became strong filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was on him. Did Jesus remind fully God? Jesus is the man who was and is God.

Play tells us that back in Nazareth following the Jerusalem Temple events. Jesus increased in wisdom and the years and in Divine and human fiber. So Jesus and banks in his human attributes. Jesus was approved by God and he had a good reputation in its Village. But as we should say when we get to chapter 4 of Luke's gospel, Jesus good reputation in the village would eventually come to an end early. He needs public Ministry. This happened when he declared in the Nazareth synagogue that he was the Fulfillment about his eyes Prophet prophecy concerning the coming Messiah.

We needed that people drive them out of town and tried to murder him. His message would divide paper as it still does to die.

We need to continue reading for Luke's gospel to obtain a full picture about Jesus you might like to do that this week. Certainly. Can I encourage you to read the first half of Chapter 3 of Luke's gospel. That's the passage that Jeremy will preach about next Sunday. But we've seen in today's passage the twelve-year-old Jesus already knew God is his father. And his priorities with fish sleep to be concerned about the things of God and secondly can live a Godly obedient lie.

In the reminder of Luke's gospel. We will see how Jesus made it possible for us to know God is a father through faith in Christ effective sacrifice on the cross to bring us salvation. As Jesus life progressed he would carry out his public Ministry Die Rise a game return to his father. To save us from the consequences about scene. a rebellion against God

So what do you make of this charge Asus? And what do you make of the events that occurred in the Jerusalem Temple when Jesus was 12? Do you acknowledge that in these events? We see Jesus of Nazareth emoji. as the savior of the world

and now you trusting in Him alone. for your salvation

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Oh mighty God. You called Luke The Physician to be an evangelist and serve his riding to reveal Christ is a savior. By your spirit through these Rockets may we know the certainty of the things which belongs to your kingdom? So that we may repent and be forgiven. And live is your redeemed people. through Christ Our Lord, I mean