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JESUS THE DISRUPTER
Given First Sunday after Christmas
DEC 26, 2021
Have you ever experienced having a loved one bring you gifts or goodies that remind you of the warmth of home?
* Comparably, the prophet Samuel was often visited by his loving mother, bringing him a new robe throughout the years while working in God's temple.
* Just like our loving moms, let us be reminded to take care of and love one another unconditionally that others may see the love of Christ through our actions.
Our sermon is from Luke 2 which tells us about our savior experiencing that most human of interludes: Being a teenager.
Let's look at our reading for today:
LK 2:41-52 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.
43 And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem.
His parents did not know it,
44 but supposing him to be in the group they went a day's journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances,
45 and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him.
46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
47 And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
48 And when his parents saw him, they were astonished.
And his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so?
Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress."
49 And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me?
Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"
50 And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them.
51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them.
And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
(ESV)
Disruptor is a fairly new term that has become part of daily use, especially in business.
* A disruptor is someone who brings an innovation that upsets a whole industry.
* This person invents something or tightens a process that means that the old system is broken for good.
* In developed nations, the farming industry was changed forever by the invention of the combine.
* The transportation industry was forever disrupted by a young American named Henry Ford.
* The retail industry was irreparably disrupted by Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com.
Disruption is everywhere in the internet age.
* There are times we wish we had more warning signs like this before disruption hit.
* Processes and technology go obsolete almost overnight.
* Young adults become billionaires in a matter of months while millions are lost in investments in products that suddenly go stale.
* These are volatile times.
* A person working in IT with TECHNOLOGY must continually retrain in order not to be OBSOLETE.
* Those in the working world today wish know this so well, failing to upgrade our skills soon makes us obsolete in the work world.
* Technology is disruptive, I have felt it and many of you have,
* Computers and phones Ipads are wonderful until they don't do what they are supposed to dol
* Video streaming has disrupted the TV industry
* Around 1450 AD the Gutenburg printing press disrupted the world
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* Online books & digital encyclopedias have now greatly disrupted the book and printing industry
* What was once the disrupter is now the disrupted.
* Personal computers have disrupted corporation structures, and especially after Covid-19 people want to work from home
* Covid-19 has shook the world.
For many their health has been shattered as well as their wealth.
* We have seen world economies affected by the past 2 years of Covid.
* Some of those economies will never recover.
* It seems the new normal are changing almost daily, to normal unheard of.
* We are beginning to see new normal in our weather patterns, head domes, atmospheric rivers, typhoons, hurricanes, tornados etc.
* Digital photography has disrupted the old camera and film industry.
* The automotive industry disrupted the world at the beginning of 20th century
* Electric cars are about to disrupt the automotive industry
* Smart phones have disrupted the communication industry, which boast instant communication, face time, texting around the world in seconds.
* Social media has taken the world by storm, Billions of people now communicate via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many others we have not heard of.
* Amazon has disrupted the retail world
* Netflix has disrupted the movie industry
* Spotify has disrupted the music world
* Uber has disrupted the taxi industry.
* For us a believers and followers of Christ we have seen our ability to assemble disrupted, we have seen Covid strain or spiritual families the church.
* About 4000 churches in North America have shut down this past year
Today I want to talk about how Jesus was the greatest disruptor.
* Every system and process that tries to completely encapsulate him falls apart.
* He broke the systems of religion that came before him.
* He broke the laws of physics and science as they were known or perceived.
* He walked through locked doors and walls and moved from visible to invisible.
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* He broke the ancient code of offense and revenge.
* His coming changed everything, and turned the world upside down
* His coming fulfilled ALL SCRIPTURE, and replaced the old covenant with the new covenant.
Today's story of Jesus in the temple is the first story of Jesus' disruption.
* His birth was disruptive, no doubt, but here he is doing that disruption himself as a young man making his own choices.
* He was 12 YEARS OLD when He confounded the teachers of the law in the temple.
Today I want to look at three ways Jesus disrupts, and what that means to us in our world todaty:
* 1. Jesus disrupts expectations
* 2. Jesus disrupts the universe
* 3. Jesus disrupts us
JESUS DISRUPTS EXPECTATIONS
The odd thing about the start of this disruptive scene is that the curtain opens on a routine:
LK 2:41-42 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.
(ESV)
* This is a usual thing for them, to travel to the feast as the law commanded.
* Some of Jesus' earthly memories were probably being jostled on the back of a donkey as they headed south to Jerusalem.
* One of the important details here is that Jesus' entire family went, and they went for the entire feast.
* The command specified that only men needed to go to the festivals, and there's indication that they only had to go for the first couple of days rather than the whole week.
* Jesus' whole family went for the whole time, indicating they were observant, faith-centered people.
* Coming to the temple would have been a thrilling moment for the young Jesus.
At the end of the feast, Jesus stayed behind when his family left.
* The situation was probably a caravan of some kind, perhaps with some of the kids walking in one large group and younger kids with their parents in the other group.
* Mary and Joseph could only surmise that Jesus was with other family members.
* Another plausible explanation is that men and women traveled in different groups.
Children traveled with their mothers until age 12, with their fathers after age 12.
* Since Jesus was in between, they each assumed he was with the other.
* There's no reason here to twist this story a bit and say that Jesus' parents were somehow ignorant or careless, or that Jesus needed to "teach" them something different, hapless as they were.
* They were very ordinary parents in that situation and time.
It's hard to know what was on Mary's mind.
* She knew Jesus' destiny was like no one else, but she had an unclear picture on what that would be.
* She did not have the New Testament to look up what would happen next-she was living the story.
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