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Ed Young - The Childhood of Jesus

July 17, 2025 | S25 E171 | 29:0

Ed Young - The Childhood of Jesus
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Childhood of Jesus | July 17, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: we're familiar with the 23rd psalm.
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  • Right at the end, it says, "surely goodness and mercy shall
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  • Follow me all the days of my life; and i will dwell in the
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  • House of the lord forever."
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  • I heard someone teach on this passage years ago.
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  • He said, "you know, i believe goodness and mercy were the name
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  • Of the shepherd's sheep dogs."
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  • And it really works, you know.
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  • Goodness and mercy would take the sheep and herd them up,
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  • And that's what goodness and mercy does with you and me.
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  • Goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life,
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  • And the result is you'll be at home in the house
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  • Of the lord forever.
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  • Goodness and mercy.
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  • And a lot of us could stand and give witness today and say,
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  • "in my life, goodness and mercy has followed me all the days,"
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  • All the days.
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  • What a tremendous blessing and privilege that is.
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  • But there's a whole lot of us, others of us, would stand
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  • And say, "i can't say that's true of me.
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  • Goodness and mercy has not followed me all the days
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  • Of my life."
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  • Because so many people, so many people tragically did not have
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  • A childhood for various reasons.
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  • And if you are one of those who did not have a childhood, that
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  • Is one of the most tragic things could happen to any individual.
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  • Childhood, a place where you can grow up in a family environment
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  • Where you're safe and secure and loved and encouraged.
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  • You have cheerleaders there.
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  • You have disciplinarians there as well, but to have a childhood
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  • That's full and complete and there's fun and joy, and there's
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  • A chance to grow up.
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  • We have a little bit about jesus's childhood.
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  • Luke chapter 2, verse 40 through 52, 12 verses
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  • About the child of jesus.
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  • And for a long time, i said, "you know, i wish we knew more
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  • About those hidden years."
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  • We know about his nativity, do we not?
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  • But we don't know a whole lot about his childhood,
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  • Just those little 12 verses.
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  • And i had the brilliant idea, being the wonderful theologian
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  • That i am, that i would go and find the great people
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  • Of the bible, abraham, jacob, moses, joseph,
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  • Oh, david, solomon.
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  • I would look and study their childhood, see, and see what was
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  • In their childhood that led them to greatness, to service.
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  • Ruth.
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  • Naomi.
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  • Man, all the personalities of the bible.
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  • I said, "you know, i'm gonna look, and i'm gonna put all
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  • The things about their childhood together and mesh it with this
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  • Little bit we know about jesus.
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  • And boy, we'll have a formula," would we not?
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  • For how--what childhood should be, how it should perform,
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  • What should be the ingredients there.
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  • And i looked and i looked and look--you know what i found out
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  • About the childhood of all the other biblical personalities
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  • Of prominence?
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  • They don't have a childhood.
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  • The bible has no record of a childhood of any
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  • Of these people.
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  • In fact, the only person in the bible of any promise we know
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  • Anything about their childhood is jesus and these 12 verses,
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  • And he's just about to be bar mitzvahed when he was 13.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • He's just about to become a son of the law, an official member
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  • Of the temple.
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  • Big moment in the life of any young jewish boy.
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  • Oh yeah.
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  • And now he's 12, and his family invites him to go with them
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  • To the passover festival in jerusalem.
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  • Today, in a secular sense, it'd be like telling a 12-year-old
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  • Boy, "guess what?
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  • We've got tickets to the super bowl."
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  • Or, "guess what?
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  • We're gonna spend a week in disney," big stuff.
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  • Big stuff.
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  • But here, 12-year-old jesus is taken with mary and joseph,
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  • And by now, other children, because we know that mary
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  • Had other children, and joseph had other children.
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  • And they're going to passover.
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  • And we read about this encounter very quickly in our scripture.
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  • Look at it here.
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  • Just a few verses.
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  • It says, "the child continued to grow and become strong,
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  • Increasing in wisdom and stature; in favor of god and
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  • Man," by the way, see verse 41.
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  • Look at verse 52, almost the same words: "and jesus kept
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  • Increasing wisdom and stature, in favor of god and man."
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  • We see these--this is, these are two parentheses.
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  • You see it?
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  • It's surround--it frames the story of jesus and this passover
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  • With this 12-year-old boy.
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  • It framed--in the bible, when you see two verses that
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  • Are almost alike, the hebrew scholars would look at
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  • Any difference in those verses because they know in that
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  • Parenthesis something important is being shared.
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  • And this is the story that i've been telling.
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  • And here they--luke tells in a remarkably short form.
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  • He says, "now the parents went to jerusalem every year at the
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  • Feast of the passover, and when he became twelve, and went up
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  • There according to the custom of the, according to the custom
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  • Of the feast; and as they were returning, after spending
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  • The full number of days, the boy jesus stayed behind
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  • In jerusalem.
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  • But the parents were unaware of it, but supposed him to be in
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  • The caravan, and went a day's journey; and they began looking
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  • For him among their relatives and acquaintances.
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  • When they did not find him, they returned to jerusalem
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  • Looking for him."
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  • You say, "well, what kind of parents were mary and joseph?"
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  • Listen!
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  • Listen to what happened. here they go.
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  • They pack everybody up, and they get there, and here,
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  • The women and the children are walking on ahead.
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  • Here, the men walking on behind. this is family.
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  • This is neighbors. this is friends.
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  • This is a large number of people going back 26 miles
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  • Back to nazareth.
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  • And i am sure mary there with the children must have thought,
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  • "isn't it terrific?
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  • Jesus is not yet officially an adult, but he's already back
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  • There with the men, you know, even though he's 12.
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  • That's great!
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  • He's getting ready."
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  • And then joseph, back there with the men, said,
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  • "well, isn't that something.
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  • Jesus is up there with the mother and the kids.
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  • He's still not back here with the guys."
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  • You know?
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  • Can't you see it?
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  • All of us have lost children.
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  • Don't be so biased.
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  • Ever been to costco on saturday?
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  • Where is he?
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  • I mean, my glory, he's around here somewhere, you know.
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  • You're looking at him!
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  • No, i had him.
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  • What's the matter?
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  • So, we know the fear that went in.
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  • This was mary and joseph, but they've gone a day's journey,
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  • 26 miles.
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  • They've walked a marathon, and now they realize he was not
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  • Anywhere in the company.
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  • They go back.
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  • They have a marathon walk the next day, a day's journey out,
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  • Roughly 26 miles, a day's journey back, and they get
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  • To jerusalem.
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  • They look for him a day, and hey, they can't find him,
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  • Until finally toward the end of the day.
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  • Jesus lost.
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  • Now jesus found.
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  • And this is the instructive part for us: "then after three days
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  • They found him," a day away, a day back, a day looking,
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  • Three days, "in the temple, sitting in the midst,"
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  • The middle, "of the teachers, both listening to them
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  • And asking them questions.
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  • And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding
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  • And his answers."
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  • Jesus, that'd be the outer core of the temple, would be in
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  • The middle of the scholars, the theologians, the renowned people
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  • Of israel, because they would all have been there.
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  • All would have been talking the go--talking the bible, talking
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  • The law, talking the messiah.
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  • And now jesus is right--12 years old, not even a part
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  • Of the temple.
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  • Yet, he would be sitting in the midst of it,
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  • And notice what he was doing.
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  • Very important!
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  • Listening, asking questions, answering the questions
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  • That were asked him by the renowned of that day.
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  • And it said, "jesus had understanding."
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  • And now, jesus lost.
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  • Now jesus is found by mary and joseph, and look what they did,
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  • Verse 48: "and when they," mary and joseph, "saw him, they were
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  • Astonished," i mean, here he is in the temple, sitting among
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  • All the erudite, all these philosophers, theologians,
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  • Schol--they were astonished at where he was,
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  • But here's the mother, "and his mother said to him,
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  • ‘son, why have you treated us this way?'"
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  • I've heard that a lot of times when i was growing up.
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  • Edwin, why have you treated us this way?
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  • How many have you ever heard your mom or dad say that to you?
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  • Lift your hand?
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  • Confession time.
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  • Yeah. sure, they did.
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  • Why have you treated us this way?
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  • And then she piles on.
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  • She said, "your father and i have been anxiously looking
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  • For you."
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  • You know, my mother would say and she'd started to talking
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  • And discipline me.
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  • She said, "you know, i think i'll tell your dad."
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  • I said, "whoa.
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  • Let's talk about that.
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  • I mean, i don't want you to tell my dad."
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  • And that's what mary did.
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  • Parents.
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  • Jesus lost.
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  • They found him.
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  • Jesus--they was found.
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  • But then we read this next verse.
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  • Jesus responds, and this is a staggering thing.
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  • Jesus said, "i was not lost."
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  • We just read about his lostness.
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  • We just read about they found him.
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  • But jesus said, "i wasn't lost." let's look how he answered.
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  • He said, verse 46: and he said to them, "why," by the way,
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  • The first recorded word of jesus in the bible is "why."
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  • He said, "why, why is it that you were looking for me?
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  • Did you not know that i had to be in my father's house?"
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  • You have to watch and listen closely to see
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  • What's going on here.
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  • From 12 to 13, a father had to spend unusual amount of quality
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  • Time with that 12-year-old boy, getting him as ready for bar
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  • Mitzvah, to get him ready for him to be adult, getting ready
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  • For him to be official member of the temple.
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  • He would train him in scripture and words and knowledge, and
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  • He would train him in the family vocation, which was carpentry.
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  • That would have been the calling of jesus.
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  • And so, joseph, the surrogate father, would have to spend
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  • An unusual amount of time and energy with 12-year-old jesus,
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  • Preparing him to be a carpenter, that would be the family
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  • Vocation, and preparing him to be ready to know all the verses
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  • That were necessary to go through the ritual of being
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  • Bar mitzvahed.
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  • In jerusalem, probably at the passover the next year, this was
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  • Requirement, spend time with the father, father spend time
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  • With the son.
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  • And jesus is saying, "why were you concerned about me?
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  • I'm right where i'm supposed to be.
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  • When something is where it's supposed to be it's not lost,
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  • Is it?"
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  • Jesus was saying, "dad, mom, you know that joseph, my stepfather
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  • Is not my father.
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  • My father is god, and i'm right where i'm supposed to be
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  • As a 12-year-old boy.
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  • I'm getting ready.
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  • I'm spending time with my father.
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  • I'm in my father's house.
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  • I'm doing my father's business.
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  • Literally in the greek, it says,
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  • "i'm doing the things of my father."
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  • Preparation for his calling, not to be a carpenter,
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  • But to be the messiah, as we see that coming on 18 years later.
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  • You got it?
  • 00:13:33.869 --> 00:13:35.271
  • That is so important that we understand.
  • 00:13:35.271 --> 00:13:37.673
  • And by the way, when he said, "my father," mind-boggling.
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  • Mind-boggling.
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  • Fourteen times in the old testament you see the word
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  • "father" mentioned, never in a personal way.
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  • It's the "father of the nation" or abraham's the father
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  • Of people.
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  • It's in that sense in the old testament.
  • 00:13:53.822 --> 00:13:55.357
  • But here, in the new testament, jesus right up front in luke
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  • Says, "my father," whoa, mind-boggling, unbelievable,
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  • Able to talk of god as abba, my father.
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  • We say the lord's prayer.
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  • We looked at "our father," and this is--father is mentioned as
  • 00:14:12.141 --> 00:14:16.912
  • Personal, a god as personal, over 60 times
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  • In the new testament.
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  • What a difference.
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  • What a privilege.
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  • My father, our father in heaven.
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  • I'm spending time with my father.
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  • This is where i'm supposed to be.
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  • This is the closest i can get to him with these people who know
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  • The scripture so thoroughly, and they're building this
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  • In my life.
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  • And i'm listening to them, and i'm answering their questions.
  • 00:14:40.269 --> 00:14:42.638
  • And i'm asking them questions.
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  • I'm growing up with my father.
  • 00:14:44.239 --> 00:14:46.675
  • I'm not lost, mom and dad.
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  • I'm right where i'm supposed to be, to grow up and achieve
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  • The purpose for which i was brought in this world.
  • 00:14:52.748 --> 00:14:58.020
  • Now, how does this relate to us?
  • 00:14:58.020 --> 00:15:04.693
  • How does this relate to us?
  • 00:15:04.693 --> 00:15:07.763
  • Look at verse 51.
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  • It says, "and he went down with them," jesus, "and came to
  • 00:15:11.367 --> 00:15:15.637
  • Nazareth, and he continued in," this is the word, "subjection,"
  • 00:15:15.637 --> 00:15:20.609
  • I've got it circled in my bible, "subjection to them," mary and
  • 00:15:20.609 --> 00:15:24.713
  • Joseph, "and his mother treasured all these things
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  • In her heart," here's that verse repeated again.
  • 00:15:28.517 --> 00:15:31.086
  • We looked at it as the first part of the parenthesis,
  • 00:15:31.086 --> 00:15:34.256
  • "and jesus kept increasing in wisdom and increasing
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  • In stature, and in favor with god and men."
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • Is anybody here that would not like to increase in wisdom?
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  • We all--oh, absolutely.
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  • Whatever your age, i want more wisdom.
  • 00:15:49.071 --> 00:15:51.640
  • What is wisdom?
  • 00:15:51.640 --> 00:15:53.175
  • It is facts, facts put into practice intelligently.
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  • It's common sense on steroids.
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  • Wisdom.
  • 00:16:02.217 --> 00:16:03.786
  • The word, "proverb."
  • 00:16:03.786 --> 00:16:05.454
  • Pro-verb.
  • 00:16:05.454 --> 00:16:06.789
  • It means here are principles in the book of proverbs.
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  • It is pro-verb.
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  • You put it into action.
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  • A verb is an action.
  • 00:16:12.961 --> 00:16:14.296
  • In other words, you take that which you know, and you properly
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  • Apply it in the decision-making, the choices, and the will,
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  • And the purpose for your life.
  • 00:16:21.336 --> 00:16:22.671
  • That's wisdom.
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  • Wouldn't we all like to have wisdom?
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  • Wisdom.
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  • Knowledge in action.
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  • And he grew in stature.
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  • Stature.
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  • Here we are.
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  • That--jesus was growing up, maturing, like this 12-year-old
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  • Young man will do, and many are of that age.
  • 00:16:37.686 --> 00:16:40.055
  • But for us who are adults, it means we--he grew in health.
  • 00:16:40.055 --> 00:16:43.826
  • God wants us to take care of the temple, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • It's where he dwells.
  • 00:16:47.062 --> 00:16:50.466
  • He has a purpose.
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  • It is--we grew in stature, and that--doesn't everybody like
  • 00:16:51.800 --> 00:16:55.404
  • To do that?
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  • That's what happened here.
  • 00:16:56.738 --> 00:16:58.240
  • And in favor with god.
  • 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:01.710
  • Favor.
  • 00:17:01.710 --> 00:17:03.045
  • I see these gooses on television talking about,
  • 00:17:03.045 --> 00:17:06.048
  • "i have god's favor."
  • 00:17:06.048 --> 00:17:07.916
  • It's like they've won the lottery, and god just--
  • 00:17:07.916 --> 00:17:10.319
  • "god's showing favor to me."
  • 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.588
  • No, no, no, no, no.
  • 00:17:12.588 --> 00:17:15.124
  • "favor" means "to lean toward."
  • 00:17:15.124 --> 00:17:18.560
  • God leans toward us when we have clean hands and a pure heart
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  • So we can worship.
  • 00:17:24.366 --> 00:17:25.701
  • Then he shows favor to us.
  • 00:17:25.701 --> 00:17:27.870
  • It's not just a: "zap!
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  • You've got favor.
  • 00:17:29.204 --> 00:17:30.539
  • Boom!
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  • You don't have favor."
  • 00:17:31.874 --> 00:17:33.208
  • No, no, no, no.
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  • Favor with god means he leans toward us, and then we're able
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  • To lean toward him.
  • 00:17:37.679 --> 00:17:39.014
  • And when he leans toward us, in order to lean toward him,
  • 00:17:39.014 --> 00:17:42.017
  • We have to have clean hands and a pure heart.
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  • And that's the miracle of healing
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  • And health and wholeness.
  • 00:17:45.721 --> 00:17:47.055
  • That's walking with christ.
  • 00:17:47.055 --> 00:17:48.657
  • That's who he shows favor to.
  • 00:17:48.657 --> 00:17:50.959
  • That's how we get god's favor.
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  • That's how he leans toward us.
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  • I lean toward jo beth.
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  • She leans toward me most of the time.
  • 00:17:56.031 --> 00:18:00.802
  • So we have favor with-- and favor with man.
  • 00:18:00.802 --> 00:18:03.772
  • That's relationships.
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  • Hey, you've got this going.
  • 00:18:05.807 --> 00:18:07.376
  • You're growing in wisdom.
  • 00:18:07.376 --> 00:18:08.710
  • Hey, that helps in relationship, doesn't it?
  • 00:18:08.710 --> 00:18:11.246
  • We don't say and do so many stupid things.
  • 00:18:11.246 --> 00:18:13.415
  • That helps.
  • 00:18:13.415 --> 00:18:14.750
  • And we grow: grow in knowledge, we grow in wisdom,
  • 00:18:14.750 --> 00:18:17.152
  • We grow in stature.
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  • You know, we're healthy inside and out.
  • 00:18:18.787 --> 00:18:20.689
  • We're whole.
  • 00:18:20.689 --> 00:18:22.024
  • If we missed our childhood, it's being filled in again.
  • 00:18:22.024 --> 00:18:24.226
  • Those gaps are being replaced.
  • 00:18:24.226 --> 00:18:26.061
  • And now, all of a sudden, man, we have favor with god.
  • 00:18:26.061 --> 00:18:31.433
  • And other people are drawn to us like we kn--we have favor
  • 00:18:31.433 --> 00:18:34.903
  • With other people.
  • 00:18:34.903 --> 00:18:36.438
  • Now, let's break this down another step, most important
  • 00:18:36.438 --> 00:18:41.043
  • Step, a practical step.
  • 00:18:41.043 --> 00:18:46.882
  • How would this operate in the life of a child?
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  • A child from, whatever, let's say, 7, 8, 9, 12, 18, maybe 25,
  • 00:18:51.687 --> 00:19:00.996
  • Maybe 30.
  • 00:19:00.996 --> 00:19:02.331
  • It's the same with jesus, because jesus went back home.
  • 00:19:02.331 --> 00:19:05.067
  • Did you see this?
  • 00:19:05.067 --> 00:19:06.668
  • Even after this experience, he went back home.
  • 00:19:06.668 --> 00:19:08.003
  • And look at that word.
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  • He subjected himself.
  • 00:19:09.338 --> 00:19:10.906
  • Did you see it?
  • 00:19:10.906 --> 00:19:12.307
  • For another 12 years to his folks!
  • 00:19:12.307 --> 00:19:15.844
  • He subjected himself.
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  • Children, teenagers, young adults, subject yourself
  • 00:19:19.348 --> 00:19:26.655
  • To your parents!
  • 00:19:26.655 --> 00:19:29.391
  • Surrender!
  • 00:19:29.391 --> 00:19:31.460
  • Well, how do i do that?
  • 00:19:31.460 --> 00:19:33.895
  • It's right there in the scripture.
  • 00:19:33.895 --> 00:19:36.298
  • Listen to them.
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  • Ask them questions you really want answers to, and answer
  • 00:19:40.469 --> 00:19:47.342
  • The questions they asked you with absolute truthfulness
  • 00:19:47.342 --> 00:19:51.546
  • And transparency.
  • 00:19:51.546 --> 00:19:53.949
  • Kids, you wanna grow in wisdom and stature and favor
  • 00:19:53.949 --> 00:19:57.552
  • With god and favor with man?
  • 00:19:57.552 --> 00:19:58.887
  • That's how you do it.
  • 00:19:58.887 --> 00:20:00.222
  • It'll work every time, foolproof.
  • 00:20:00.222 --> 00:20:02.624
  • Hundred percent accurate.
  • 00:20:02.624 --> 00:20:05.093
  • Listen.
  • 00:20:05.093 --> 00:20:07.462
  • Ask the right questions.
  • 00:20:07.462 --> 00:20:11.633
  • Ask the right questions, and answer the questions
  • 00:20:11.633 --> 00:20:14.403
  • You're asked.
  • 00:20:14.403 --> 00:20:16.071
  • Subject yourself.
  • 00:20:16.071 --> 00:20:17.873
  • Subject yourself to your home, your family, to adults.
  • 00:20:17.873 --> 00:20:22.477
  • Okay!
  • 00:20:22.477 --> 00:20:24.246
  • How do we operate as parents?
  • 00:20:24.246 --> 00:20:27.049
  • The word there is treasure.
  • 00:20:27.049 --> 00:20:29.384
  • It says mary treasured these things, this knowledge.
  • 00:20:29.384 --> 00:20:32.654
  • She was growing and understanding about this
  • 00:20:32.654 --> 00:20:36.224
  • Prodigious prodigal for god who was indeed the messiah.
  • 00:20:36.224 --> 00:20:39.828
  • He treasured these things.
  • 00:20:39.828 --> 00:20:41.830
  • And in her heart, parents, we treasure our children and
  • 00:20:41.830 --> 00:20:47.869
  • A byproduct of that, we grow and wisdom and knowledge in favor
  • 00:20:47.869 --> 00:20:53.875
  • With of god and favor--well, how do older adults, grandparents,
  • 00:20:53.875 --> 00:20:57.946
  • People married, people never-- how do we grow up?
  • 00:20:57.946 --> 00:21:00.782
  • The same way!
  • 00:21:00.782 --> 00:21:04.319
  • We listen to our kids.
  • 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:08.123
  • You need to listen 30 times before you say one word
  • 00:21:08.123 --> 00:21:11.760
  • To your boy or girl all the way through their life.
  • 00:21:11.760 --> 00:21:13.795
  • You do that, you're beginning to have a little common sense.
  • 00:21:13.795 --> 00:21:16.131
  • It's called wisdom.
  • 00:21:16.131 --> 00:21:17.866
  • Listen.
  • 00:21:17.866 --> 00:21:20.335
  • You ask questions of your kids, not question, "where did you go?
  • 00:21:20.335 --> 00:21:26.308
  • What did you do?
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  • I'll bet you did this. what about?"
  • 00:21:27.642 --> 00:21:30.178
  • No, no.
  • 00:21:30.178 --> 00:21:31.513
  • Not just those questions, but questions that support them.
  • 00:21:31.513 --> 00:21:32.848
  • Questions you think they may wanna answer.
  • 00:21:32.848 --> 00:21:34.983
  • You ask those questions along with the others, but you ask
  • 00:21:34.983 --> 00:21:38.153
  • Questions of your kids.
  • 00:21:38.153 --> 00:21:39.488
  • You listen and you ask questions.
  • 00:21:39.488 --> 00:21:40.856
  • And when they asked you a question, you answer
  • 00:21:40.856 --> 00:21:43.725
  • That question with respect and understanding,
  • 00:21:43.725 --> 00:21:46.261
  • Age appropriately.
  • 00:21:46.261 --> 00:21:48.864
  • That's how we grow in wisdom and stature and faith with god
  • 00:21:48.864 --> 00:21:51.967
  • And faith with man.
  • 00:21:51.967 --> 00:21:53.301
  • The same way.
  • 00:21:53.301 --> 00:21:54.636
  • We treasure, and if we treasure our kids, we listen.
  • 00:21:54.636 --> 00:21:58.340
  • We ask questions, and we answer the questions they ask.
  • 00:21:58.340 --> 00:22:01.243
  • If kids are to be submissive, they do the same thing.
  • 00:22:01.243 --> 00:22:04.346
  • The temple principle works for every one of us.
  • 00:22:04.346 --> 00:22:09.618
  • And look how life would be if this--these practical steps
  • 00:22:09.618 --> 00:22:13.955
  • Were employed by you and by me.
  • 00:22:13.955 --> 00:22:15.624
  • Can you picture it?
  • 00:22:15.624 --> 00:22:17.159
  • Can you pick your home, a family, a couple, an individual?
  • 00:22:17.159 --> 00:22:20.395
  • Man, growing in wisdom.
  • 00:22:20.395 --> 00:22:22.097
  • Man, i--growing in stature, health,
  • 00:22:22.097 --> 00:22:24.666
  • And in favor with god.
  • 00:22:24.666 --> 00:22:26.301
  • Oh, yes!
  • 00:22:26.301 --> 00:22:27.636
  • In favor with your peers and in relationships.
  • 00:22:27.636 --> 00:22:32.574
  • Does anybody want to debate with me this will not work?
  • 00:22:32.574 --> 00:22:34.943
  • No. you see that it worked.
  • 00:22:34.943 --> 00:22:37.546
  • It's practical. it's simple.
  • 00:22:37.546 --> 00:22:40.115
  • It is biblical truth.
  • 00:22:40.115 --> 00:22:41.450
  • Now, i wanna ask you a couple of questions.
  • 00:22:41.450 --> 00:22:49.057
  • Talking about lost and found.
  • 00:22:49.057 --> 00:22:52.894
  • Does anyone here want to find jesus?
  • 00:22:52.894 --> 00:22:58.934
  • Do you want to find jesus?
  • 00:22:58.934 --> 00:23:02.704
  • What'll i do?
  • 00:23:02.704 --> 00:23:06.274
  • Turn around.
  • 00:23:06.274 --> 00:23:08.310
  • Turn around.
  • 00:23:08.810 --> 00:23:10.846
  • If you wanna find jesus, all you have to do is turn around, and
  • 00:23:10.846 --> 00:23:19.387
  • I promise you, he wants to find you more than you want to find
  • 00:23:19.387 --> 00:23:22.023
  • Him, if the truth be known.
  • 00:23:22.023 --> 00:23:23.625
  • He'll be right there.
  • 00:23:23.625 --> 00:23:25.894
  • Number two: i've lost jesus.
  • 00:23:25.894 --> 00:23:30.131
  • Oh, i have lost jesus.
  • 00:23:30.131 --> 00:23:33.568
  • You know, i was in the church.
  • 00:23:33.568 --> 00:23:35.136
  • I was faithful.
  • 00:23:35.136 --> 00:23:36.471
  • I read my bible, and i had sort of this together.
  • 00:23:36.471 --> 00:23:38.440
  • And i thought i was pretty religious,
  • 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:40.008
  • And i think i'm a christian, but i've lost jesus.
  • 00:23:40.008 --> 00:23:44.546
  • Okay.
  • 00:23:44.546 --> 00:23:46.414
  • If you never found--if you never found jesus,
  • 00:23:46.414 --> 00:23:48.683
  • That's how you find him.
  • 00:23:48.683 --> 00:23:50.018
  • But now this is those who have known him or have a relationship
  • 00:23:50.018 --> 00:23:52.721
  • With him of some sort, of some kind.
  • 00:23:52.721 --> 00:23:55.857
  • And now you say, "i wanna find jesus."
  • 00:23:55.857 --> 00:23:58.426
  • What do you do?
  • 00:23:58.426 --> 00:24:00.161
  • You turn around, but he's not right there.
  • 00:24:00.161 --> 00:24:05.600
  • You may be a christian, but you turn around.
  • 00:24:05.600 --> 00:24:07.669
  • He's not right there.
  • 00:24:07.669 --> 00:24:10.438
  • Because you may have to take--walk a marathon,
  • 00:24:10.438 --> 00:24:14.142
  • As mary and joseph did to go back to find jesus,
  • 00:24:14.142 --> 00:24:17.546
  • Through all the trash.
  • 00:24:17.546 --> 00:24:19.481
  • You've got to go back, and there's some trash there
  • 00:24:19.481 --> 00:24:22.484
  • I haven't dealt with, lord.
  • 00:24:22.484 --> 00:24:24.019
  • There's some trash there.
  • 00:24:24.019 --> 00:24:25.787
  • There's trash there.
  • 00:24:25.787 --> 00:24:28.623
  • I don't know how far, how long, that i have to walk, but the
  • 00:24:27.289 --> 00:24:31.393
  • Holy spirit will take you back through that trash, and it will
  • 00:24:31.393 --> 00:24:35.063
  • Be burned.
  • 00:24:35.063 --> 00:24:36.398
  • It'll be forgiven.
  • 00:24:36.398 --> 00:24:37.732
  • As you confess it, it will be covered up by his blood,
  • 00:24:37.732 --> 00:24:40.535
  • And then, you're back in fellowship with jesus.
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  • And then he has been in your heart.
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  • And now you say, "jesus, i want you to once again make your home
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  • In my heart," my heart, christ's home.
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  • You got it?
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  • Boy, that's it.
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  • Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
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  • That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
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  • What we are facing right today.
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  • What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
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  • That's why now's the time to do all we can to share the proven
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  • Truth of scripture with as many people as possible.
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  • Today we go around the world potentially to 2 billion homes
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  • With "the winning walk."
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  • Ninety-eight percent of the homes in america can
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  • Watch "the winning walk."
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  • And so, with a gift today which will be worth double
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  • Thanks to a special matching grant, we can help millions
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  • Through the broadcast and resources of "the winning walk"
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  • And it's a winning walk, as you know, with jesus christ.
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  • Now's the time to press forward to reach as many as we can with
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  • The good news of what god has done for you, and for me,
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  • And for all the world through the gift of his son,
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • I'm excited about today, i'm excited about tomorrow,
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  • And thank you for your contribution, for your prayers.
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  • We scatter seeds of god's truth everywhere
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  • And lives are changed.
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  • I'll tell you a secret: only what you and i have done for
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  • The lord god almighty will last.
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  • We get to heaven, we bring our little biographical sketch, only
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  • What we've done to enable the lord jesus christ through his
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  • Holy spirit will bring people to faith in jesus christ,
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  • That will last.
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  • Everything else, wood, hay, and stone.
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  • Congratulations, thank you for being a part
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  • Of "the winning walk" family.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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