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Bro. Otis Fisher
In Luke 2 .41, we read the story of Jesus at the temple.
His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the Feast. When they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child
Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem, and Joseph and his mother knew it not.
But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey, and they sought him again among their kinsmen and acquaintances.
And when they found him not, they returned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
They had gone to look for him. Mary and Joseph were raising a normal, healthy child.
He did not run around wearing a halo. The artists of the Middle Ages had some strange conceptions about this, both as a child and as an adult.
I do not believe he looked any different than the rest of the children. He was just a normal boy.
Now, in those days, people traveled in companies. You did not dare start out someplace by yourself.
When the time came to leave Jerusalem, the folks going to Galilee gathered together at a little town right north of Jerusalem.
Everybody gathered there, and then they would leave as a group. That is where they missed him.
Joseph probably said, where is Jesus? Mary replied,
I thought he was with you. They looked for him among all of the people, everybody they knew, and when they discovered that he was missing, they returned to Jerusalem.
That was the last place they had seen him. They looked for Jesus for three days, and where do you suppose they found him?
In the temple. Now, they looked three days without looking in the temple, and it came to pass that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions.
All that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. When they saw him, they were amazed, and his mother said unto him,
Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?
Behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
He said unto them, How is it that you sought me? Wist you not that I must be about my father's business?
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. Now, when
Mary and Joseph finally found Jesus in the temple, he was standing in the midst of the learned doctors of that day, both hearing and asking questions of them.
I imagine they were totally confounded. Apparently, he was asking them questions they could not answer, and they were astonished at his answers.
Remember, he was only 12 years old. I think it was clear that Mary and Joseph were a little provoked.
The answer of Jesus revealed his surprise that they did not realize that he should be about his father's business.
Now, if Joseph was his father, he could have stepped up and said,
Well, what are you doing, trying to get a carpenter contract here with the
Jews? But he didn't do that.
His father was not Joseph. He was speaking of the business of his heavenly father at 12 years of age.
Mary, at this point, did not exactly appreciate who he was and what his work entailed, but she pondered these things in her heart.
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject unto them, but his mother kept all of these sayings in her heart.
And Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man.
In wisdom means mentally, he increased.
What was stature mean? What? Physically.
So it was normal. With God, spiritually.
With man, socially. So he was a well -rounded young man, but he was still obedient to his earthly parents.
This concludes what I have for today. Is there any questions?
Yes, and he didn't see to it that they knew. Yes, she did.
She had a... That's right. No one knew like Mary knew.
Yes. What do you want to say?
Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes.
Which shows that he did not exhibit any glory or anything unusual.
Yes. Well, children just didn't go to church by themselves.
That's right. That's right. All the houses that she was in, she had to spend a lot of time with a lot of people.
I think it was.
No. No. No, don't do that.
dismiss us please. Yes.