THE SELF-AWARENESS OF JESUS LUKE 2:39-52

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3 THE SELF-AWARENESS OF JESUS LUKE 2:39-52

4 THE BIG IDEA: Even as a child, Jesus understood His amazing identity and lived out of that reality.

5 OUR GOAL: We would learn to do the same.

6 1. THE SETTING 2. THE STORY 3. THE SELF-AWARENESS

7 LUKE 2:39-51 When they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The boy grew up and became strong, filled with wisdom, and God s grace was on Him.

8 LUKE 2:39-51 Every year His parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival. When He was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival. After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in

9 LUKE 2:39-51 Jerusalem, but His parents did not know it. Assuming He was in the traveling party, they went a day s journey. Then they began looking for Him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for Him.

10 LUKE 2:39-51 After three days, they found Him in the temple complex sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all those who heard Him were astounded at His understanding and His answers.

11 LUKE 2:39-51 When His parents saw Him, they were astonished, and His mother said to Him, Son, why have You treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.

12 LUKE 2:39-51 Why were you searching for Me? He asked them. Didn t you know that I had to be in My Father s house? But they did not understand what He said to them.

13 LUKE 2:39-51 Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.

14 1. THE SETTING

15 LUKE 2:39-40,52 When they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The boy grew up and became strong, filled with wisdom, and God s grace was on Him.

16 LUKE 2:39-40,52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.

17 1. THE SETTING a. This passage is the only direct glimpse we are given of Jesus childhood.

18 JESUS CHILDHOOD Verse 40 = Day years old 4,340 days

19 JESUS CHILDHOOD Verse 40 = Day years old 4,340 days Verse 52 = years ,570 days

20 JESUS CHILDHOOD Verse 40 = Day years old 4,340 days Verse 52 = years ,570 days Total 10,910 days of silence

21 JESUS CHILDHOOD Verse 40 = Day years old 4,340 days Verse 52 = years ,570 days Total 10,910 days of silence Verses days centered on one statement

22 1. THE SETTING a. This passage is the only direct glimpse we are given of Jesus childhood. b. Jesus went through the same childhood development that you did.

23 JESUS DEVELOPMENT Physically (Luke 2:40, 52) Wisdom Relationship with the Father Relationships with people

24 2. THE STORY

25 LUKE 2:41-48 Every year His parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival. When He was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival. After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in

26 LUKE 2:41-48 Jerusalem, but His parents did not know it. Assuming He was in the traveling party, they went a day s journey. Then they began looking for Him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to

27 LUKE 2:41-48 search for Him. After three days, they found Him in the temple complex sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all those who heard Him were astounded at His understanding and His answers.

28 LUKE 2:41-48 When His parents saw Him, they were astonished, and His mother said to Him, Son, why have You treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.

29 2. THE STORY a. The Passover

30 Luke 2:41 Every year His parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.

31 2. THE STORY a. The Passover b. The Significance of Jesus Being 12

32 Luke 2:41 Every year His parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.

33 2. THE STORY a. The Passover b. The Significance of Jesus Being 12 c. The Traveling Party

34 LUKE 2:44 Assuming He was in the traveling party, they went a day s journey. Then they began looking for Him among their relatives and friends.

35 2. THE STORY a. The Passover b. The Significance of Jesus Being 12 c. The Traveling Party d. The Astonishment

36 Luke 2:48 When His parents saw Him, they were astonished, and His mother said to Him, Son, why have You treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.

37 3. THE SELF-AWARENESS

38 Luke 2:49 Why were you searching for Me? He asked them. Didn t you know that I had to be in My Father s house?

39 3. THE SELF-AWARENESS a. Jesus already understood His amazing identity as God s true Son.

40 3. THE SELF-AWARENESS a. Jesus already understood His amazing identity as God s true Son. b. Jesus already understood His life had a purpose and mission.

41 That is why in Luke's gospel, as you read through Luke's gospel there's this divine necessity. As you go through and you watch Christ, there's this divine mandate. And it says in, for example, Luke 4:43 that Jesus must preach. In Luke 9:22, that He must suffer

42 In Luke 13:33, that He must go on His way. Or in Luke 19:5, that He must stay at the house of Zacchaeus. Or in Luke 24:7, He must be delivered up, crucified and rise again. Or in Luke 22:37, 24:26, he says, I must suffer these things and enter into glory.

43 And in Luke 24:44, He must fulfill all the Old Testament prophecies with reference to Himself. There's this divine must all the way through which is none other than the Father's will. John MacArthur

44 KEY THOUGHT: Jesus understood who He was and His identity drove His mission.

45 KEY QUESTION: Do you know who you are?

46 1 john 3:1-2 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

47 2 corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

48 EPHESIANS 4:20-24 But that is not the way you learned Christ! assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful

49 EPHESIANS 4:20-24 desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

50 APPLICATION 1. Embrace your true identity.

51 APPLICATION 2. Learn to listen and ask questions like Jesus.

52 APPLICATION 3. Teach and model to your kids the true source of authority.

53 APPLICATION 4. Treasure the difficult and confusing lessons along with the glorious ones.

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