Back at Nazareth He was all the time doing His Father's business, just as truly as when sitting among the doctors in the Temple. The prudent will, indeed, be careful not to make that a burden which should be a pleasure; they will be content to unfold the gospel principles by degrees, as the youthful mind is able to receive them.2. And a human nature, which was originally sinless, may be made a more perfectly beautiful thing by being disciplined through grace, and through the experience of suffering, into the perfect likeness of God. Christ is truly born. That Christ was placed, like all other men, in a state of probation from His birth to His death.I now proceed to improve the subject.1. And in like manner a man may have a perfectly strong and good eyesight, but he need not use it farther than he pleases. He "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." This is at first a parental question, but subsequently it is one that affects every one capable of growth. Personal Growth - Luke 2:52. Here it may be observed,I. Emmons, D. D.That Jesus was really a man. In such backing lies the strength of all great workers. Can you, O parents, hear these awful truths, and not shudder at the idea of indulging the least vicious propensity in your children? Luke 2:52 - And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. "(Dean Goulburn. The kids were asleep in the back of the station wagon as we started to get under way. It was formed and fashioned in His mother's womb by the great Parent of all flesh. How the Infinite One could so bereave himself of his infinitude as to be able to increase in wisdom, we cannot understand. 2. A man might have the strength of a giant, who might choose to exert Himself very little, might never walk above a few yards, might not employ his hands in any harder work than turning over the leaves of a book or reeling off a skein of silk. Wait is a Four-Letter Word. The point Luke wants to make is that Jesus grew up and matured just like any other Jewish boy. The whole movement takes place secretly and silently, and the world comes up anew without the sound of trumpet or the message of herald: God builds His temples without the sound of hammer. He lived in a wicked world, where He saw many bad examples, but they did not lead Him to follow them. He became really and truly for our sakes an infant, a child, a youth, a man. The best of human friends cannot win for us God's favour.(H. The least indulgence of the bad inclinations of children, sometimes produces the most fatal effects in society. 9. You have seen a tender plant springing upon a fertile soil, what though tall and straight, and promising to become the pride of the forest, since one unlucky stroke may have crushed its aspiring head, and forced it from its natural direction, from that moment it bended and grew downwards to the earth, instead of towering to the skies. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. When nature is baptized in the fulness of spring forces, you hear not a rustle. It is, indeed, true that we may not give pleasure to men in proportion as we grow in moral and spiritual worth, for, as with our Master, our purity and devotion may be an offense unto them. It was formed and fashioned in His mother's womb by the great Parent of all flesh. Emmons, D. D.). For —1. It is in the right place to absorb out of earth and atmosphere the nutritive forces it needs, and it grows. He was placed under law, which implies that He was a human moral agent, and accountable to God like other men. Man takes advantage of the energies close to hand and multiplies his forces a million-fold. He stopped there; for He by whom and for whom are all things ought: not to fail; it was necessary that He should offer Himself a sacrifice in all the vigour of age and in all the fulness of life: it was not becoming that He should present to us the picture of decrepitude and old age. (5)Prayerful communion with His heavenly Father.4. )God's favour to be soughtH. He may shut his eyes altogether, in which case he will see nothing. So it was, says the inspired writer, that while His mother was at Bethlehem, "the days were accomplished that she should be delivered."II. The true scriptural doctrine of Christ's divinity is founded upon the true scriptural doctrine of Christ's having a human body and a human soul, which was personally united with the second person in the Godhead. Man takes advantage of the energies close to hand and multiplies his forces a million-fold. How liable is it to deviate from the straight line of rectitude and honour, by the fascination of example, and the influence of imitation; to folly, vice, and ruin. For God’s Little People Advent | Day 4. . (4)The annual journeys to Jerusalem. --This, it will be noted, is an addition to what had been stated in Luke 2:40, and gives the effect while that gave the cause. H. Grandpierre, D. D.)The humanity of ChristN. C. Trumbull.Jesus won the favour of man by seeking the favour of God. And while the body grew, His human mind grew also; His human intelligence unfolded itself gradually into full blossom, in the same manner as the mind and intelligence of other children, only, doubtless, in a much greater degree. Verse 40 and verse 52 act like bookends to this section of Scripture. Tyndall says" "All great things come slowly to birth. )The secret of the growth of JesusJ. It was formed and fashioned in His mother's womb by the great Parent of all flesh. A man might have the strength of a giant, who might choose to exert Himself very little, might never walk above a few yards, might not employ his hands in any harder work than turning over the leaves of a book or reeling off a skein of silk. The human mind cannot be too early impressed with religious principles. And in like manner a man may have a perfectly strong and good eyesight, but he need not use it farther than he pleases. mining power, or a power to act independently of the Divine influence and control.7. And you can quite understand how a sculptor, who is daily at work upon a statue, has an increasing satisfaction in it, as the work becomes more and more perfect, views it with greater pleasure and complacency to-day, when it has received so many flourishing touches, than he did some months ago, when it was a mere resemblance of the human form in outline. These will be your pride and glory in the day of your health and strength; but in the gloomy and melancholy season of sickness and old age, they will be the light of your eyes, and the cordial of your fainting spirits; and as once with tender care you watched their tender infancy, so shall they with pious duty support your failing strength, soften the pangs of a dying hour, close your eyes in peace, and eventually follow you to that world where love and bliss immortal reign.(B. If Christ was really man, then the Arian notion of His pre-existence before He came into the world is entirely unscriptural and absurd. mining power, or a power to act independently of the Divine influence and control.7. This may help you to understand how our Lord, while He had in ]dis Divine nature all power and all knowledge, yet, when He made His appearance among us as man, was ignorant of certain things, and unable to do certain things. Get a piston and place it where the steam is and it will go. Was He not God, you may say, even when He was quite a young child? They toil not neither do they spin; they have no visible machinery and yet they are all capturing sunbeams and converting them into fragrances, essences, flowers and fruits for the welfare of the world. Clifford, D. D. 2. And while the body grew, His human mind grew also; His human intelligence unfolded itself gradually into full blossom, in the same manner as the mind and intelligence of other children, only, doubtless, in a much greater degree. For —1. They are designed for you to think, meditate and pray in order to ask God to show you personal application for your life. C. Trumbull.Jesus won the favour of man by seeking the favour of God. If Christ was really man, then there is no reason to suppose that men possess a self-deter. He grows up, He developes Himself in His people. Murphy. It was formed and fashioned in His mother's womb by the great Parent of all flesh. To kindle the fire He gathers and brings the wood. To grow in wisdom must imply that the person who grows is, at a more advanced age, wiser than when He was younger; knows something, understands something, which he did not know, and understand before. It is a hinge verse, pointing back to a similar statement made about John in 1:80, and also pointing forward to a final summary statement in 2:52. These will be your pride and glory in the day of your health and strength; but in the gloomy and melancholy season of sickness and old age, they will be the light of your eyes, and the cordial of your fainting spirits; and as once with tender care you watched their tender infancy, so shall they with pious duty support your failing strength, soften the pangs of a dying hour, close your eyes in peace, and eventually follow you to that world where love and bliss immortal reign. I. John Piper Apr 8, 2013 31 Shares Article. He had a frail, mortal body, but it did not corrupt His heart. "(Dean Goulburn. It is only a trusting and obedient heart. The prejudices received in youth are sometimes so violent and inveterate, that even maturity of years, the admonition of friends, the principles of hope, fear, honour, and religion, are unable too often to restrain them. But how could this be in His ease? He was an infant, but He did not sin in infancy. Now it is true, doubtless — absolutely true — that our Lord, even while he was a child, was the everlasting God. Now in order that He might be really and truly a man, He consented, in His wonderful condescension, not to call into exercise those powers which He had as God. If Christ was really man, then God is able to keep men from sinning consistently with their moral agency.5. It has been found by observation and experience, that the denial of Christ's humanity directly leads to the denial of His divinity.2. But let me turn from those gloomy images, to hold up to your view the picture of a parent's care, rewarded in a wise and virtuous offspring. Go where God bids you go, abide where He would have you abide, and do each hour the work He appoints for that hour; do all in faith and love, and for His glory; for the rest you need have no fears. H. Grandpierre, D. D.God in Christ has appeared among men to raise up again fallen humanity. C. )God's favour to be soughtH. It opens its petals when the light dawns, and closes them at sunset. Rev Hans Overduin. Murphy.It is not, alas, according to this model, that the generality of Christians form their children. This may help you to understand how our Lord, while He had in ]dis Divine nature all power and all knowledge, yet, when He made His appearance among us as man, was ignorant of certain things, and unable to do certain things. mining power, or a power to act independently of the Divine influence and control.7. 7. III. We did not stoop to infancy; our course had then its commencement; and in the youngest child, with all its helplessness, but with all its latent capacities, there is a great gift from the hand of God. He became really and truly for our sakes an infant, a child, a youth, a man. When Perseus told Pallas Athene that he was ready to go forth, young as he was, against the fabled monster Medusa the Gorgon, the strange lady smiled and said, "Not yet; you are too young, and too unskilled: for this is Medusa the Gorgon, the mother of a monstrous brood. The best of human friends cannot win for us God's favour.(H. 60 Second Sermon. The human mind cannot be too early impressed with religious principles. C. They are equal to the places they attempt to fill. Was He not God, you may say, even when He was quite a young child? When nature is baptized in the fulness of spring forces, you hear not a rustle. (2)The natural beauties of the neighbourhood of Nazareth. If we are always asking how those about us will look at us; if we give large weight in our thoughts to the opinion of our fellows; if we endeavour to so shape our course as to win popular approval, we are by no means sure to have what we strive for; we may fall far short of the coveted favour of man; and, moreover, may utterly lack God's approval, whether man likes or dislikes us. So it was, says the inspired writer, that while His mother was at Bethlehem, "the days were accomplished that she should be delivered."II. If Christ was really man, then the Arian notion of His pre-existence before He came into the world is entirely unscriptural and absurd. Clifford, D. D.See the daisy. It is necessary, therefore, to believe the real humanity, in order to believe the real divinity of Christ. Here both His wisdom and piety are asserted; and we know that these are properties of the soul, and not of the body.III. time has been lost, and you must be disappointed, who wish to reap where you have not sown.4. The true scriptural doctrine of Christ's divinity is founded upon the true scriptural doctrine of Christ's having a human body and a human soul, which was personally united with the second person in the Godhead. At twelve years old, when taken to Jerusalem, His feet swiftly bare Aim to the Temple. (2) to make it possible that he should grow. )Christ's increase in the favour of GodDean Goulburn.We may compare our Lord's period of growth, during which He was prepared for His work, to the gradual execution of some great piece of sculpture, a bust or a statue. Almost all parents have done it at one time or another. (4)The annual journeys to Jerusalem. (1) Training of the body; its nurture and culture, so that it shall be continually advancing in strength and skill and symmetry. Flowers and children, rightly placed, grow. Put your water-wheel in the stream, and it turns. The least indulgence of the bad inclinations of children, sometimes produces the most fatal effects in society. It is hurry that enfeebles us.(J. But it is true also that He was "God manifest in the flesh," God sinking Himself down to the low level of human nature. Tyndall says" "All great things come slowly to birth. He may only half open them, in which ease he will see but dimly and confusedly; or he may go and live in a dungeon, where only a few straggling rays of light pierce the gloom; and then, however good his eyesight may be, he will for the first few seconds be able to see nothing; but when the eye has adjusted itself to the circumstances in which it is placed, he will begin to make out the forms of things around him, but will not see their colours, or have any power at all of examining them closely. We do not question the reality of his growth in body; why should we doubt, or receive with any reserve, the affirmation that he grew also in mind? If Christ be really a man, then they will be unspeakably happy, who shall be admitted into His visible presence, and dwell with Him for ever.(N. He was placed under law, which implies that He was a human moral agent, and accountable to God like other men. But if we are always asking how God will look at our course; if we give large weight in our thoughts to His opinion and His commandments; if we seek to shape our course to win His approval, we are sure to get what we most long for; and we are surer of having also the favour of man than we could be through any other course. You have seen a tender plant springing upon a fertile soil, what though tall and straight, and promising to become the pride of the forest, since one unlucky stroke may have crushed its aspiring head, and forced it from its natural direction, from that moment it bended and grew downwards to the earth, instead of towering to the skies. Jesus is noted to be 12 years old at the time of this particular journey. Now in order that He might be really and truly a man, He consented, in His wonderful condescension, not to call into exercise those powers which He had as God. He lived in a wicked world, where He saw many bad examples, but they did not lead Him to follow them. We are entering the end of the prologue in Luke’s gospel and we see an interesting change in this section. . It is easy to be appalled that Mary and Joseph lost track of Jesus. But let me turn from those gloomy images, to hold up to your view the picture of a parent's care, rewarded in a wise and virtuous offspring. 6. Observe, again, how God punished Eli, who neglected to correct duly the crimes of his children. The words of John (Matthew 3:14) show, on the contrary, what impression was made by His moral purity when thirty years of age, and the voice from heaven (Matthew 3:17) sets the seal of the Divine approval on the now completed development of the Son of Man, a seal which the Holy One of Israel would only have offered to absolute perfection. 5. It is thus that He became in turn an infant, youth, man; an infant, obedient and submissive; a young man without reproach and keeping Himself pure from all defilement of the flesh and of the world: a full-grown man showing us in His character and in His conduct the model of absolute perfection. It is nonsense to expect a harvest, where the seed. For it is absurd to suppose that Christ had both a human soul and a super-angelic soul, and that both these were personally united with the Second Person in the Trinity, and so constituted Him a Divine Person. He grows up, He developes Himself in His people. He lived in a wicked world, where He saw many bad examples, but they did not lead Him to follow them. It has been found by observation and experience, that the denial of Christ's humanity directly leads to the denial of His divinity.2. The whole movement takes place secretly and silently, and the world comes up anew without the sound of trumpet or the message of herald: God builds His temples without the sound of hammer. Sterling, Kentucky, there is a large festival known as “Court Days.” About 100,000 people cram into this small town to swap guns, to buy antiques, and to find that unique gift you just can’t find anywhere else. I don’t live in their home anymore, but I still … That Christ was properly a human person will appear, if we consider THE STATE AND CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH HE WAS PLACED WHILE HE LIVED IN THIS WORLD. He had a frail, mortal body, but it did not corrupt His heart. He became really and truly for our sakes an infant, a child, a youth, a man. So Jesus stayed in His place, did His carpentry, was obedient to His parents, accepted the restraints of His position, silently devoured the many chagrins of His lot, met His cares with a transcendent disdain, drank in the sunlight of His Father's face, and possessed His soul in perfect patience, though urged by deep sympathy and throbbing desire to save men. Clifford, D. D. When Perseus told Pallas Athene that he was ready to go forth, young as he was, against the fabled monster Medusa the Gorgon, the strange lady smiled and said, "Not yet; you are too young, and too unskilled: for this is Medusa the Gorgon, the mother of a monstrous brood. The celebration of Passover required a pilgrimage once a year to the Temple in Jerusalem to offer sacrifices. Clifford, D. D. So Jesus stayed in His place, did His carpentry, was obedient to His parents, accepted the restraints of His position, silently devoured the many chagrins of His lot, met His cares with a transcendent disdain, drank in the sunlight of His Father's face, and possessed His soul in perfect patience, though urged by deep sympathy and throbbing desire to save men. and though no audible voice responds to us, yet the silence, read in the light of the wonderful work accomplished in His brief ministry, is itself a sign of the depth, continuity, and fulness of the moral growth. Wesley's Luke 2:52 Bible Commentary 2:52 Jesus increased in wisdom - As to his human nature, and in favour with God - In proportion to that increase. His great moral structures go up from day to day without noise, His kingdoms come without observation, notwithstanding the moment of their arrival may be one of tempest and storm. He had a frail, mortal body, but it did not corrupt His heart. The true scriptural doctrine of Christ's divinity is founded upon the true scriptural doctrine of Christ's having a human body and a human soul, which was personally united with the second person in the Godhead. This was a 3 day journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem. It is the pleasing but important task of parents and guardians, to direct and defend this young and delicate production; leading it from lower degrees of perfection to higher, from the nursery to the field of action, till it is adorned with the fairest honours, enriched with the most precious fruit, and ripe for transplanting to the paradise of God, where it shall bloom afresh under the immediate sunshine of heaven, and flourish for ever in immortal beauty and perfection. 1. )Christ's increase in the favour of GodDean Goulburn.We may compare our Lord's period of growth, during which He was prepared for His work, to the gradual execution of some great piece of sculpture, a bust or a statue. C. But a white block of marble, though white when it is drawn from the quarry, can be made a more perfectly beautiful thing by being chiselled into an exquisite form. The work increases in favour with him daily; and when it is finished, he is then perfectly satisfied. It is hurry that enfeebles us.(J. Now in order that He might be really and truly a man, He consented, in His wonderful condescension, not to call into exercise those powers which He had as God. time has been lost, and you must be disappointed, who wish to reap where you have not sown.4. He was placed under law, which implies that He was a human moral agent, and accountable to God like other men. After Joseph's death, the care of His mother would devolve upon Him. It is the pleasing but important task of parents and guardians, to direct and defend this young and delicate production; leading it from lower degrees of perfection to higher, from the nursery to the field of action, till it is adorned with the fairest honours, enriched with the most precious fruit, and ripe for transplanting to the paradise of God, where it shall bloom afresh under the immediate sunshine of heaven, and flourish for ever in immortal beauty and perfection.3. (2) Discipline of the mind; its instruction and exercise, so that it will be ever increasing in knowledge and enlarging in faculty. You have seen a tender plant springing upon a fertile soil, what though tall and straight, and promising to become the pride of the forest, since one unlucky stroke may have crushed its aspiring head, and forced it from its natural direction, from that moment it bended and grew downwards to the earth, instead of towering to the skies. Real Hope: A Connected Christmas. He "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." If Christ was really man, then there is no reason to suppose that men possess a self-deter. Perhaps you cannot understand how this could be. (5)Prayerful communion with His heavenly Father.4. Van Oosterzee, D. D.)The growth of Jesus in wisdomDean Goulburn.Our Lord's body grew in stature, so that, when He reached manhood, He had attained fair and comely proportions. Trumbull. (2:52) Jesus is "filled with wisdom" (2:40), and yet he still grows in wisdom (2:52). To grow in wisdom must imply that the person who grows is, at a more advanced age, wiser than when He was younger; knows something, understands something, which he did not know, and understand before. He was really man BECAUSE HE HAD A HUMAN SOUL AS WELL AS A HUMAN BODY. (2)The natural beauties of the neighbourhood of Nazareth. Wesley's Notes for Luke 2:52. Christ took a nature which, till He took it, was not His own, and accommodated Himself to the feebleness and ignorance of that nature — limited Himself, if I may use the expression, to the walls of it. A Scripture Memory Pian using 12 foundational scriptures with the focus on being Rooted & Grounded & Growing in Christ. Luke said virtually the same thing of the boy Jesus, that he … “increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” (Luke 2:52) Growing up is essential to children, but where does it end? One at a Time: The Jesus Way to Change the World. Perhaps you cannot understand how this could be. He grew. The lectionary offers three options for the Second Sunday After Christmas. Trumbull. Here both His wisdom and piety are asserted; and we know that these are properties of the soul, and not of the body.III. All growth is silent. You can quite understand a person having strength, but not using it. Now in order that He might be really and truly a man, He consented, in His wonderful condescension, not to call into exercise those powers which He had as God. You must play the man in that before I can think you worthy to go in search of the Gorgon." You can quite understand a person having strength, but not using it. Here both His wisdom and piety are asserted; and we know that these are properties of the soul, and not of the body.III. The whole movement takes place secretly and silently, and the world comes up anew without the sound of trumpet or the message of herald: God builds His temples without the sound of hammer. You must play the man in that before I can think you worthy to go in search of the Gorgon." Does your boy trouble about growth as he eats and drinks and plays? 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