WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:06.100 Grace mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus 2 00:00:06.100 --> 00:00:07.600 Christ. Amen.. 3 00:00:09.700 --> 00:00:16.800 What can intelligent God-fearing adults learn from a 12 year old? 4 00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:23.300 I suppose that depends on the relationship. Most parents rightly see 5 00:00:23.300 --> 00:00:28.000 their calling as teaching and nurturing their 12 year old. 6 00:00:28.900 --> 00:00:33.900 Not learning life deepest lessons from a precocious preteen. 7 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:39.300 Of course, they may need to ask their twelve-year-old how to operate 8 00:00:39.300 --> 00:00:41.600 the latest tech gadget, but that's a different matter. 9 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:50.000 What responsible Seminary Professor would invite a 12 year old to 10 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.300 teach the finer points of biblical Christology? 11 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:01.400 What self-respecting Seminary student would even sit at the feet of a 12 00:01:01.400 --> 00:01:06.400 twelve-year-old usually those 12 year olds are barely striving to 13 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:10.000 learn the catechism or at least should be. 14 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:18.500 But when that 12 year old is the Eternal Son of God who has taking on 15 00:01:18.500 --> 00:01:20.400 human flesh and bone. 16 00:01:22.100 --> 00:01:23.900 That changes everything. 17 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:28.100 Twice in 13 verses 18 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:34.000 we hear how young Jesus grew and advanced in wisdom. The first time our 19 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:39.200 Lord only 40 days old have been presented in the temple to fulfill 20 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:41.500 God's law. There 21 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:46.700 he was held by Simeon and praised by Anna and then mother Mary and 22 00:01:46.700 --> 00:01:52.000 guardian Joseph took him back to Galilee where he became strong filled 23 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.900 with wisdom and the favor of God was upon him. 24 00:01:56.500 --> 00:01:57.500 And the second time 25 00:01:58.600 --> 00:02:00.300 comes at the end of our text. 26 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:02.700 After 12 year-old 27 00:02:02.700 --> 00:02:09.699 Jesus has wowed the teachers and the temple crowd and yes his parents. 28 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:13.800 What can you learn 29 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:20.600 from this twelve-year-old God in flesh made manifest? 30 00:02:23.200 --> 00:02:28.400 Pious Joseph and Mary took their yearly journey to Jerusalem for the 31 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:34.400 Passover. For the great feast of God's Redemption for his Old Testament 32 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:34.700 people. 33 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:40.100 And after the feast they and their Caravan of companions began the 34 00:02:40.100 --> 00:02:42.200 journey back to Galilee and Nazareth. 35 00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:47.100 After the first day, they realized that yes, young 36 00:02:47.100 --> 00:02:49.300 Jesus was lost. 37 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:54.100 So back to Jerusalem they rushed to find him. 38 00:02:55.900 --> 00:03:02.700 In the frantic search led to shear astonishment. After 3 days 39 00:03:02.700 --> 00:03:04.600 they found him in the temple. 40 00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:06.900 There he was. 41 00:03:08.100 --> 00:03:14.700 12 year old Jesus listening to the Seminary professors and the church 42 00:03:14.700 --> 00:03:18.800 worker wannabes asking them questions listening to them. 43 00:03:20.100 --> 00:03:22.200 Everyone was amazed. 44 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:29.100 Perhaps he did know a little something about biblical Christology. 45 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:32.900 Then came Mother Mary's rebuke. 46 00:03:34.100 --> 00:03:38.900 Followed by Jesus honest and yes parent honoring answer. 47 00:03:38.900 --> 00:03:41.100 Why were you looking for me? 48 00:03:41.100 --> 00:03:45.500 Did you not know that I must be in my father's house. 49 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:52.500 These first recorded words of Our Lord, 50 00:03:53.300 --> 00:03:54.900 teach us a lot. 51 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:58.700 It's a one verse lesson 52 00:03:59.700 --> 00:04:01.500 in biblical Christology. 53 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:10.300 His person and his work. Who he is and what he came into the flesh to 54 00:04:10.300 --> 00:04:11.000 accomplish. 55 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:19.300 When he simply refers to his father God most high he also identifies 56 00:04:19.300 --> 00:04:25.100 himself as the very Son of God begotten of the father from eternity. It's 57 00:04:25.100 --> 00:04:29.200 what the angel told Mary just before he was conceived in her womb. 58 00:04:29.200 --> 00:04:34.900 He will be great and will be called the Son of the most high and the 59 00:04:34.900 --> 00:04:36.800 child to be born will be called 60 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.500 Holy the Son of God. 61 00:04:42.900 --> 00:04:46.900 HAnd then young Jesus also speaks of necessity. 62 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:55.000 His Divine necessity of being in Jerusalem remaining in his father's 63 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.400 house and being about his father's business. 64 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:01.700 This necessity 65 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:03.300 is key. 66 00:05:05.100 --> 00:05:09.800 Not only did he have to be in Jerusalem in his father's house and 67 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.200 about his father's business at 12 years old. 68 00:05:13.700 --> 00:05:17.700 He also had to be in Jerusalem later in life. 69 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:25.200 At about 33 years old to be delivered into the hands of sinful men and 70 00:05:25.200 --> 00:05:28.700 be crucified and on the third day rise. 71 00:05:30.400 --> 00:05:35.700 It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter 72 00:05:35.700 --> 00:05:37.700 into his glory for you, 73 00:05:38.700 --> 00:05:43.000 for me, for all centers around the globe. 74 00:05:46.700 --> 00:05:49.400 And there is an ongoing necessity. 75 00:05:50.900 --> 00:05:53.500 Your incarnate Lord and Savior 76 00:05:54.900 --> 00:05:58.700 is far beyond 12 years old and his flesh by now. 77 00:06:00.100 --> 00:06:02.000 But his necessity has not changed. 78 00:06:03.700 --> 00:06:07.100 He still must be in his father's house. 79 00:06:08.700 --> 00:06:11.800 He still must be in a place like this. 80 00:06:13.300 --> 00:06:19.100 Where his word is proclaimed and heard and sung. Where his very body and 81 00:06:19.100 --> 00:06:24.900 blood are present and given out for forgiveness and life and 82 00:06:24.900 --> 00:06:25.100 salvation. 83 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:32.600 Your lord Jesus continues to be in his father's house. 84 00:06:33.700 --> 00:06:38.900 And about his father's business of saving and forgiving you. 85 00:06:42.200 --> 00:06:49.600 So how necessary is it for you to be in your father's house and about 86 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:50.800 your father's business? 87 00:06:52.200 --> 00:06:54.200 Oh, it is most necessary. 88 00:06:56.200 --> 00:07:01.700 As necessary as breathing air, drinking water, 89 00:07:02.700 --> 00:07:05.500 eating food to survive. 90 00:07:07.300 --> 00:07:09.300 And what is the father's business? 91 00:07:10.700 --> 00:07:17.100 For you it is receiving what Jesus is busy giving to you forgiveness 92 00:07:17.100 --> 00:07:24.600 for all your sins. Life with God himself and rescue from everything 93 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.800 that separates you from him. 94 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:36.900 So our Lord's one verse lesson in who he is and what he came to do. 95 00:07:38.400 --> 00:07:40.400 Leads us to sing with the psalmist. 96 00:07:41.700 --> 00:07:45.900 One thing have I asked of the Lord that will I seek after. That 97 00:07:45.900 --> 00:07:51.500 I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to gaze 98 00:07:51.500 --> 00:07:55.400 upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his Temple. 99 00:07:57.200 --> 00:08:01.500 Amen. And the peace of God, which goes beyond all understanding will 100 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:04.000 guard your hearts and minds in Christ 101 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:05.000 Jesus our lord. 102 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.800 Amen. Please rise for the hymn.