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Introduction

I realized early on that it doesn’t take much to get older.

You can get caught up in the daily responsibilities to survive life and one day realize you’re not so young.

It doesn’t take much to get older.

You can get caught up in the daily responsibilities to survive life and one day realize you’re not so young.

I remember when it dawned on me that the outside world viewed me as an adult.

I was at the bank in my 20s, waiting in line to do what adults do at the bank when a boy, no older than 2 or 3 approached me and smiled.

I smiled and waved back and we kind of just looked at each other when the mother came and pulled the toddler back, saying “Stop bothering that man!”

I was like “Man?

What man?” “Oh that’s right, I am a man and have been for some time now.”

I realized that the world didn’t see me as a kid interacting with kids anymore, that I could now be considered a threat to children.

Getting older is inevitable.

The passage of time happens whether we're enjoying it or not.

5 seconds from now you will be older than you were at the beginning of this sentence.

Getting older is inevitable.

But while Getting older is inevitable; growing up is intentional.

Getting older is inevitable; growing up is intentional.

#TimetoGrowUp

It is a conscious, concerted effort to live life better than the day before.

I agree with Muhammad Ali that said that “a man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

If all I’m looking forward to as a 31 year old married man is living in a college dorm like I did in undergrad, then something has gone horribly wrong in the maturation process.

I should looking for a house.

I should have house expectations.

How many of you seen Birdbox?

There’s a scene where Sandra Bullock goes into the kitchen at night, and while the whole scene is supposed to be ominous and suspenseful, I’m thinking, “Man, that sure is a nice kitchen.”

I wouldn’t have been thinking about that at 21.

But now I’m in my 30s, those types of things are important to me.

As you go through life and gain a better understanding what it’s about, your expectations and desires ought to adjust to your understanding.

#TimetoGrowUp

The same as in our walk with God.

If all I can point to in terms of what God has achieved in my life is my conversion experience, then we have a lot more growing to do.

Because if I am keeping in step with God through the years, it is impossible to have as my only testimony that I’m glad I’m saved.

Yes, I’m glad I know Him and He knows and wants me, but in what other ways has He moved in my life?

In what ways has He used me to make people’s lives better?

In what ways do I understand and worship God now than when I did when I first believed?

Getting older is inevitable; time will pass and before you know it, you’ve been in church 20 years and are still nasty to people.

But growing up in your faith is an intentional process.

So what’s involved with Maturity?

What’s the ins and outs of growing up?

With this text that we just read, we see a 12 year old Jesus coming of age and beginning His journey.

We don’t know what happened to Him between 12 and 30 when He begins His ministry, but Luke assures us that “He grew in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man.”

And I believe in this story there are some elements, some building blocks that we can glean to be assured of Maturity in our own lives.

You mind if we examine?

I. Commitment in Maturity (vv.

41-42)

First, there must be commitment in Maturity.

Commit literally means, “put with”.

Suggesting to commit involves putting actions with your words.

Commitment is a commodity that all are willing to receive, but not all are willing to reciprocate.

We want people, institutions, organizations, and businesses, to be committed to us, but if we’re honest, we don’t always dish out commitment at the same level we expect it from others.

But here’s why we need to re-consider our commitment: Your commitment in your present process has the capacity to preserve your potential.

Your commitment in your present process has the capacity to preserve your potential.

#TimetoGrowUp

Your commitment to what and who are before you right now, is able to save you in the future.

Your commitment is a seed for a harvest of blessing and favor down the line.

Joseph and Mary committed as Luke 2:22-24 and Luke 2:41-42 says, to fulfilling all of the requirements of the Mosaic Law concerning their son Jesus and their own purification.

And their commitment to doing so ensured that the baby God entrusted to them would become the Messiah that would ultimately save them.

Your commitment in your present process has the capacity to preserve your potential.

It happened to me.

When my wife and I began talking, she told me of a moment in college years earlier where I walked across campus in the rain to bring her food because she was not able to move around after her knee surgery.

That act was nothing to me; I totally forgot about it.

But it was everything to her.

My commitment to be a friend without pretense in the past preserved for me a wife in the present.

So what’s involved in commitment?

What are the nuts and bolts?

It Involves Routine

Routine in the things of God establishes your reliability to God. #TimetoGrowUp

Joseph and Mary could not have been trusted with the awesome responsibility to parent the Son of God, Who was to be the fulfillment of the Law, if He did not see in them their own personal ability to keep the Law themselves.

Luke 2:41-42 says they went every year to the Passover festival.

Which means that Joseph didn’t start obeying the law all of a sudden when Jesus was born.

Matt 1:19 says Joseph was “faithful to the law”.

And such a man who is faithful to the law can be trusted to parent the One who is to fulfill the law.

You must be faithful in little to be trusted with much.

The question on the floor is, “Can God trust you?”

Instead of being in your feelings about what you wish God would give you, what are you doing with what He has already given you?

How are you currently building a trustworthy record with Him?

God will not trust you with that which you do not already possess.

#TimetoGrowUp

Before David was a king, he had a king’s spirit.

He was guarding sheep and killing bears and lions before he stepped into his kingship.

To be the CEO, you must be a CEO before you are the CEO.

You MUST have a CEO mindset and potential.

Before God called me to preach at 16, I was writing my own church speeches at 9 years old.

Routine in the things of God establishes your reliability to God.

It Involves Resolve

Your routine feeds your resolve.

Resolve is determination.

It is a firm decision to see a thing through to a desired outcome.

#TimetoGrowUp

Resolve is determination.

It is a firm decision to see a thing through to a desired outcome.

#TimetoGrowUp

Resolve is follow-through.

You can not hold back.

The journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem is 3 days by foot.

That takes resolve.

You have to say, “Come hell or high water, it’s happening.”

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