The Childhood of Jesus
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O: “Some people believe their children are perfect. But Mary and Joseph knew their child was perfect.”
Jesus Christ was God Incarnate
Jesus Christ was God Incarnate
Jesus Christ became man without ceasing to be God.
100% God and 100% Man (the God-man)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1:1
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
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Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
I and my Father are one.
The Child Jesus Grew
The Child Jesus Grew
Jesus grew up and went through all of the stages of life.
Jesus grew physically
Jesus grew mentally (wisdom - insight, knowledge, good judgment)
Jesus grew spiritually
Word Pictures in the New Testament Luke 2:40
“The intellectual, moral, and spiritual growth of the Child, like the physical, was real. His was a perfect humanity developing perfectly, unimpeded by hereditary or acquired defects. It was the first instance of such a growth in history. For the first time a human infant was realizing the ideal of humanity” (Plummer)
Jesus was at the perfect stage of physical growth, mental growth, and spiritual growth for His age.
Jesus did not grow in divinity, sinlessness, righteousness, or faith
The Child Jesus was Sinless
The Child Jesus was Sinless
Imagine a child who never once did wrong - ever.
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Never a sinful thought or attitude (laziness, greed, envy, sinful anger, bitterness, arrogance, sinful independence)
Never a sinful word (no rebellious words, no perverse language, no lies, no guile, no wounding words)
Never a sinful action (kept the full law)
The Child Jesus was Righteous
The Child Jesus was Righteous
Imagine a man who only did that which was right. Hard to imagine? Now consider a child who only did that which was right.
And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
Always right thoughts and attitudes
Always right words (edifying words, truthful words)
Always right actions (kindness, generosity, obedience,
How can I live this way?
You say, “I can’t live this way, and certainly my children can’t live this way.”
This perfectly developed, sinless, righteous life is available to us, because Christ lives in us.
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Once far from God and dead in sin,
This perfectly developed, sinless, righteous life is available to us, because Christ lives in us.
This perfectly developed, sinless, righteous life is available to us, because Christ lives in us.
No light my heart could see;
But in God’s Word the light I found,
C: “Whose life is “living out” in you? You have access to all the riches in Christ Jesus, but are you living out of those riches?”
Now Christ liveth in me.
Christ liveth in me,
Christ liveth in me;
Oh! what a salvation this,
That Christ liveth in me.
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As rays of light from yonder sun,
The flow’rs of earth set free,
So life and light and love come forth
From Christ living in me.
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As lives the flow’r within the seed,
As in the cone the tree,
So, praise the Christ of truth and grace,
His Spirit dwelleth in me.
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With longing all my heart is filled,
That like Him I may be,
As on the wondrous thought I dwell
That Christ liveth in me.