"Jesus Was and Wasn't an Ordinary Child" Luke 2:39-52
- Youth & Outreach Director, Hunter Newton, preached this message on February 25, 2024.
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Thank you, worship team, for the wonderful, beautiful, worshipful, singable lyrics. This morning, you start making your way in your Bibles to Luke, chapter two, verse 39 through 52. It’s on page 110 of the Pew Bibles. As you’re making your way, way there, just I want you to think, who remembers the first time they had to be corrected as a kid? Or maybe you’re thinking if you’re a parent, the first time you had to correct a kid.
I remember distinctly the first time that I got yelled at by mom and dad. I’m sure it happened other times, but I was 8 years old and my sister committed a capital offense towards me and she broke one of my Jurassic park velociraptors. And that was a big deal. And so I sat and I plodded and I tried to find a way to get even with her. And I had watched enough TV and movies by that point to know that sticking gum in a girl’s hair was one of the worst things you could do.
And so I said, this is a foolproof idea. So remember we were like in a Target parking lot and my Aunt Lori was in the pasture seat and I whipped it out and I stuck it right alongside her head. And that didn’t go well for me. That didn’t go well. What good was gonna be gained from that?
And I needed to be corrected. And her hair had to get. It got cut out of her hair. And I got yelled at so bad. And I had a little Nintendo Game Boy that got taken away for such a long time.
And I couldn’t play Pokemon. And that was like the death penalty to me. And it was really stupid. Jesus never had to get corrected. He never did anything wrong.
Don’t dumb or certainly not sinful. But in the text today, we’re going to see the first time it’s recorded that his earthly parents thought that they had to correct him. We’re going to see in the text this morning where they think that they needed to get him back in line. And it’s going to kind of help show our main point, that Jesus was, but also was not an ordinary child. He was and wasn’t.
And it’s this tension we’re going to wrestle through this morning. That’s our big idea that we’re looking at. Luke is trying to show Jesus nature, his humanity, but also his godness here, his deity. So our big idea is that Jesus was and wasn’t an ordinary child. A few sub points as we walk through the text this morning.
How we’re going to look at how Jesus grew up. We’re going to look at how we get or how to get Jesus wrong and how Jesus rights the wrongs. So like I said, we’re going to be Luke 2:39 through 52 as we continue our study through the book of Luke. It’s on page 910 of your Pew Bible. God’s word says this morning, when they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth.
The boy grew up and became strong, filled with wisdom. And God’s grace was on him. Every year his parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover festival. When he was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival. After those days were over, as they were returning the boy, Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.
Assuming he was in the traveling party, they went a day’s journey. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him. After three days, they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all those who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers.
When his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you. Why are you searching for me? He asked them.
Didn’t you know that it was necessary for me to be in my Father’s house? But they did not understand what he said to them. Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and and was when was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and with people.
So that’s the reading this morning. That’s where we’re camping out today. Our first point, how Jesus grew up looking at verses 39 through 47. Friends, all Christians around the world since all, all time, affirm the fact and the truth that Jesus was and is fully God and fully man. Jesus was both fully God and he was fully man.
That’s a non negotiable. To deny that is to cease to being a Christian. You maybe think that’s harsh. One, it’s not. But two, we have to worship the right God.
We have to get him right. We have to know who we’re praising. We have to know who we’re praying to. To deny Jesus full humanity and full deity is to be outside the bounds of Orthodox Christianity. And he’s always existed in the Godhead.
He’s always been the Son of God. He’s always been the second person of the Trinity. And even that is an important word sometimes. We in my licensing council, I had in my paper that with the EFCA that he was the second member and they said, no, don’t call him a member because then people think it’s like club, which is silly. But call him.
He’s the second person of the Trinity. He’s the second person of the Godhead. He’s always been that. Yet when Christmas happened, he gained a human nature. He did not give up his godness, he did not give up his deity, but he did voluntarily limit himself.
And that’s part of how he grew up, that’s part of how he developed. Anybody a little confused yet? It’s not super fun necessarily, or easy. It can be really fun. It can be a really beautiful thing.
And I promise that we’re not going to spend all day simply on the Trinity, but it’s really important that we get this stuff right. Maybe this analogy is helpful. You think of the world’s fastest sprinter when I was a kid, that was Usain Bolt and I think he still holds the world record for fastest 100 meter dash. It’s like 9.4 seconds or so, something like that. I can barely get off the couch in 9.4 seconds.
But he is super fast and I really appreciate just beauty in athletics and absolute skill. And if you think of him strapping himself to somebody in a three legged race, his abilities are still the same, but he’s not able to perform or take full advantage of those abilities. I think we probably can say Matt Brinick’s probably the most athletic guy in church, played college football. Even those two running together I think would hinder Usain Bolt even quite a bit. He’d probably slow him down.
And that’s kind of what’s going on here. When Jesus took on human flesh, he voluntarily said, I’m not going to take full advantage of all the abilities of all the gifts of everything that I can and do have. So he didn’t lose those things, but he voluntarily hindered himself. He voluntarily took on that flesh by restricting himself. Philippians 2 says that he didn’t consider equality or he didn’t consider being God was something to take advantage fully of.
And we see a number of things that show here his humanity in the text. He walked, he talked, he had to travel, he went to religious celebrations. Just think about that for a second. Like The God of the universe and human flesh went to a religious celebration to celebrate what he had done. He’s celebrating himself.
That’s just. That’s crazy. That’s. But that’s beautiful at the same time. And he grew up like any normal Hebrew boy at the time would have.
And by the time he reached age 12, he would have been considered on the cusp of adulthood. That’s kind of why they include in the text here. And these things that he’s doing are totally normal for a young Hebrew boy to be doing at the time. And so this sense he was so extraordinarily ordinary, that might be a. English teachers don’t think too much about that one. But.
But he was so wonderfully ordinary and so wonderfully human. Verse 40 says that he was filled with wisdom. He was seeking to grow in this God or sorry, seeking to grow in his humanity, seeking to be filled with wisdom. And this child was learning to grow in some senses too. He had.
We have to think about how his mind worked. Maybe some of us think, man, it would be nice to have the mind of a 40 year old or a 20 year old or a 36 year old or even a 60 year old. And we’re thinking those sorts of ways. And those minds can be great and beautiful and wonderful and so sharp. But think about how much sharper and more full of potential a sinless mind was and is.
He could go and do. And he grew in ways that you and I simply cannot. And so ways that, yes, he’s still very human. He grew up in this holy house too, that made much of Yahweh. And he learned those festivals in his humanity.
And so in this sense, he was very ordinary. He would have played a lot of the same games that other kids did. He would have eaten the same food, celebrated the same holidays, walked the same streets. Isaiah 53. 2 says he grew up before him talking about Jesus like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground.
He didn’t have an impressive form or majesty that we should look at him, no appearance that we should desire him. When he walked down the street or when somebody was passing by, they would have not noticed anything different physically about him. This is. It makes me kind of laugh when we think about some traditional paintings. Jesus, you got this white guy.
Jesus wasn’t white. That probably would have stood out in the Middle east in the year 0ad. Like, hey, it was not super easy to travel. Why is this random white guy in Israel? It doesn’t make any sense.
And so there’s Nothing physical about. Or maybe sometimes we see these pictures of him with a halo, and that’s trying to be reverent. But I think that would have stood out too. There was nothing physically just different about him. He looked, walked, and acted like everyone, of course, without sin.
And when any child learns to talk, walk, or read, it’s an incredible thing. And for most kids, it’s just a part of everyday life. But the parents in the room understand how beautiful that is. When your kid learns to walk, when your kid learns to read, when your kid learns to ride a bike. I don’t think Jesus did that, but he did a number of these same things.
And it’s important to know that. It might seem trivial, but friends, Hebrews 2:17, 18 puts it just beautifully. It says, therefore he had to be like his brothers and sisters in every way so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in matters pertaining to God to make atonement for the sins of the people. For since he himself has suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted. Friends, he had to be like us in order for his atoning death and his victorious resurrection to count for us because we needed a substitute.
2nd Corinthians 5:21 says, he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God. He had to be like us in order for salvation to happen. That’s a really practical thing. We need to know that, celebrate that, and enjoy that. We can be thankful that he grew up, because without it, there’s no salvation.
There’s a lot more we could get into on the weeds of his humanity. And it’s a really beautiful thing, a really beautiful truth, but we’ve just got to keep moving on. So that’s. That’s how he grew up. That’s how he developed.
And Luke’s clearly emphasizing that in the text here. But then let’s look next at how we get Jesus wrong. Let’s look at verse 48. It says, when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, son, why have you treated us like this?
Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you. I think that Joseph and Mary had the very best of intentions here. I think that’s true. I mean, what parent wouldn’t, frankly, search for their kid when they know their kid’s wrong? As we look at the text, it would have been normal to travel how they’re doing before you get onto them about leaving him behind.
It says they assumed he was with. And that was just a normal cultural thing. But I think most parents, if your kids lost in Target, you’re gonna go searching for them. And I’m guessing this strikes a chord for parents because the whole Home Alone movies made like $500 million in the box office. And they’re trying to find him, they’re trying to get back to him.
And they were doing what they thought was best for Jesus and probably what would have been best for any other kid ever. Yet Jesus was not only an ordinary child, he was the Son of God. He had earthly parents and a heavenly father, and they misplaced or at least misunderstood that identity. They got him wrong. They got him wrong.
And commentators are kind of split whether they were sinning when they did this or not. I’ll let you kind of decide on that. I can certainly see the case for both, but what is clear is that Mary and Joseph here needed to grow in their understanding. They needed to get Jesus right because they had the same prophecies. They had known the same things they would have had.
They got visions from angels about what he was going to do and who he was going to be. They knew who he was. Throughout church history, more than a few people have gotten Jesus wrong, too. It’s going to sound like I’m using an excuse to kind of share what I’ve been learning in seminary, which that’s partly true, but it’s only partly true because we need to. I’m convinced that we need to get Jesus right, because John 4.
24 says, God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth, we need to get Jesus right. So we’re going to look at, just briefly, five ways that Jesus has gotten wrong. Four of them are offenses or wrong teachings that will make you not a Christian. The last one is still pretty serious, but it’s not quite as serious. So the five are Arianism, modalism, partialism, adoptionism, and additions to biblical texts, and which they’ll be on the screen and your bulletin too.
But Arianism first is a false teaching that says that Jesus was created, that he was not always God, that God the Father made him. And maybe some of us are thinking, oh, that sounds right, yeah, yeah, that’s. No, because Jesus has always been God. He gained a humanity when he came to earth. Jesus has always been God.
He was not made. Colossians 1 says that not anything was made. Everything was made by him, for him and through Him. Not one thing was made apart from him. And John 1:1 talks similar to that as well, so that’s Arianism.
It assumes that Jesus was created. And Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses affirm this. And this is just part of the reason why they are not Christians. That sounds harsh, that sounds not fair. But Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses are not Christians for this reason, amongst others.
But if you get Jesus wrong, we are Christians. And if you get Jesus wrong, then you’re not worshiping the right God. So that’s Arianism. That says that Jesus was created. To say that he’s created is to make him not God at all.
Because if you create something, you naturally have dominion over it. So that’s Arianism. Let’s look at modalism. This heresy claims that Jesus is just one way that God presents himself sometimes, but that he’s not always Jesus. This is similar to maybe some, it’s not quite perfect, but maybe different sides of a cube or maybe somebody who struggles with multiple personality disorders.
This teaching says that Jesus is just one way that God presents himself. And that is not okay either because it’s denying his deity, because that’s saying that he’s not himself fully God. And if you’re confused, just bear with me, I promise. Because this denies that all three persons, the triune God, are always God. So it’s three persons, one God, all three persons are God.
And like we saw in the last point, to say that one of the persons of the Godhead of the Trinity is not always God, it’s to not, is to make him not God at all. And then let’s look at partialism. This belief states that Jesus is only one third of God and that he himself was not fully God. And this is wrong again because it’s not capturing his full divinity. All members of the Godhead, friends, are fully God, always at all times.
It’s one being, three persons. They all share the same essence. They are all fully God, all with their own personalities, all in the same Godhead, all in the Trinity at the same time. He is not like a three leaf clover. He is not like an egg.
He is not like water. In fact, it’s just a good idea to not use an analogy for the Trinity because it’s easy to accidentally spout off heresy because he is fully God along with God the Father and God the Spirit, all at the same time, all in one person. See, it’s. It’s easy to accidentally spout it off. I almost just did.
And adoptionism, this wrong view says that Jesus was just an ordinary guy and then he became God’s Son at his, at his baptism. And we can see why that one’s wrong too. It’s similar to Arianism and then five additions to biblical texts. These are not heresies. And to the same extent they’re still wrong, they’re still false, they’re not as serious, but we still shouldn’t make light with them.
Roman Catholic theology asserts that Jesus made clay birds come alive. And we just don’t see that in the text. And we see other examples, we see that in the Gospel of Thomas, but that’s not the canon, that’s not scripture. And so adding to the scripture is just a really dangerous thing because in John 2 we see Jesus first miracle is clearly shown. And so we don’t want to add to the text because we don’t want to make the Bible say something that doesn’t.
God’s word is sufficient, perfect and good as it is. And so maybe those are some like more theological ways, some maybe more practical ways we get them wrong is we’ve got the magic genie Jesus, this Jesus we pray. It’s like God, the Packers really could use a win. And maybe a lot of us are probably really praying because I don’t know how else you get three good quarterbacks in a row. But we are really praying.
It’s like, God, we need to win. We hate the Cowboys. God, we need this, we need that. I want to win the lottery. If only my finances can to get figured out.
If only my kid could do this. If only this would happen for me. Oh, Jesus, that would really. And we should pray. We probably shouldn’t say that we hate in our prayers, but we should pray to God and ask for these things because he wants to know them, he cares about hearing them.
But if we treat Jesus as just this magic genie on the shelf that we just say, hey, I only care about you when it’s time to have something be convenient for me. That’s not right. That’s not good. That’s. That’s not much of a relationship.
Or you think of the stone cold Jesus. Maybe some of us had a parent or two or have had authority figures in our life that you feel like you never could please them. And you always picture them with their arms crossed and a frown usually, but maybe an even keel one of these at best. And we think of Jesus as never really being pleased with us. And that’s not true either.
Romans 8:1 says, Therefore is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Jesus is not getting sick of us. His patience is not getting worn thin with us. He’s not almost end of our rope or almost end of his rope. He’s not sitting there and saying, I know I paid for your sin, but I don’t want to have to let you into heaven.
He’s not doing that. The no convictions Jesus, maybe we think of him sometimes as it’s just whatever, like grace, that’s pretty sweet. I paid for it. Do whatever you want, do these things, enjoy these things. I don’t care.
I don’t have standards. Maybe you think of him that way sometimes and that’s not true because we have a whole work of his works, a whole book of his word with his commands, things that he cares about. All these can shape or warp or twist who Jesus actually is. And having the wrong understanding of anyone is going to hurt your relationship with them. How much more so if that’s Jesus, if I think that my wife has no convictions or no standards, I’m going to be really upset and probably fly off the handle when she corrects me.
And a wrong view or a wrong understanding of Jesus, like what’s happening here in the text can have huge implications. And let’s see then how Jesus writes even this wrong. Verses 49 through 52. He kind of speaks into the situation. Mary says, we’re anxious, we’re freaked out, we don’t get it.
Don’t you know we’ve been looking for you? And like he always does, Jesus handles this exactly how he should. In this sense, he is extraordinary. He, like Unlike any other 12 year old I’m willing to bet, doesn’t get defensive, doesn’t get a little bit irritable, doesn’t even try to stick up for himself. He just says, this is who I am.
This is who I am. I am the Son of God, he’s saying, in no less words, He’s saying there’s no reason to be anxious.
And the tension that we see here in the text is because while he is still Mary and Joseph’s child, he is also the son of the Most High God. He’s their kid, but also their God. He points them to the truth of the situation. From there he went on to continue in his perfect obedience to his earthly parents. And that’s something we can see in and just a practical thing to point out here too.
He pointed them to the truth, but also he, he, he obeyed. Even when he was wronged, he obeyed. He, he lived out that commandment. Well, he did what he was supposed to do for his parents. No other child is fully God and fully human at the same time.
He did not just appear to be one or other. And in fact, whenever he did anything, he wasn’t doing just what he was supposed to, he was doing what was the most right in that situation. Every single time. He didn’t do just what is not sin, he did the most right thing in that scenario. And he’s never been out to do something from spite like he does here.
He’s always done what and how he’s supposed to. This works for his glory and for the good of us who love him. Romans 8:28 In Hebrews 5:2 we read, he is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray. Since he is also clothed with weakness in our friends, in our wrong beliefs, in our wrong approach to Him. He can and does deal gently with us as we repent and turn to Him.
He knows exactly the firmness, whether to hold super firm. And some of us know when we need a kick, when we’re going wayward. He knows how to handle that. But also he knows the gentleness that he needs to match us with and meet us with when we come to him repentance and say, I’ve messed up again. I’ve blown this again.
When we come with the absolute disaster of our life, he wants to right the wrongs. He wants to point us to what is true, what is most good. And that starts with right belief and understanding of Him. And so how does this affect us? What do we do?
Where are we going? Three practical implications I see here, and a lot of you are a lot smarter, so maybe you can see more than that. But three practical implications that I see clearly here from the text. And none of these are direct commands. It’s not saying these things explicitly, but we can kind of glean them.
1. It should inspire us to continue to seek greater understanding of our Lord. We should reflect on Christ’s immense love for us, and we should repent and believe the gospel. So the first one it should inspire us to continue to see greater understanding of our Lord. Studying theology, it’s not just for pastors or elders or seminary professors or people who volunteer on a Sunday morning or a Wednesday night.
It’s not just for the those people Friends, the God of the universe gave us a book. He gave this to us in a language we can understand. The Holy Right, all perfect. God spoke in a language that we can understand. Because he loves us, he cares for us, and he wants to know us personally.
That is what’s so much different about our God. Not only is he the only right God, but He’s different from the God of Islam because he in Islam it has to be Arabic. That’s pretty limiting to people who don’t have the time to learn Arabic. God not only gave us the Bible in the original languages, but he let it be translated to our language so we can know him and have relationship with Him. We can hear from him whenever we want.
And that’s a beautiful truth. We should enjoy that because when we open our Bibles, we get to encounter the God. God who has always been God who always will be. But we should also we’ve also live in a time where we are so blessed to have so much access to wonderful theological works that so many faithful scholars have been able to go before us and do that. They’ve taken the time and we are just.
It’s almost embarrassing thinking about how much, for example, access we have. I’ve listed a few recommendations in your bulletins. I’ll throw some on the screen here too. So Christian Beliefs by Wayne Greedom. Maybe you’ve heard of his popular book.
It’s called Systematic Theology. That’s a super. That’s a super good one. It’s also about like 1900 pages. So if you want to read a shorter book, Christian Beliefs by Wayne Grudem asked the 20 questions and it’s really good and it’s really wonderful and it’s really fun and easy to read.
I’d recommend that one. Evangelical Convictions by the EFCA National Office is basically just an exposition, basically a further explanation of our statement of faith in the efca. It’s wonderful and I appreciate the way it’s written. The Holiness of God by R.C. sproul shattered my world in college.
He takes time, throws 200 something pages to explain Isaiah 6 and other passages that just talk about how holy this God is, who he is, why we need to study him. What does that do for us? Knowing God by J.I. packer is exactly what it sounds like. It takes one element, theology proper, and we get to study who God is in that book.
The Gospel Coalition writes some wonderful blogs. If you’re wondering things about why is God like this or that, they take time and they’re pretty short and they’re about a five minute read usually. And the Knowing Faith podcast is put together by some wonderful theologians who take complex topics like the Trinity and they talk about it for 30 minutes to an hour in ways that we can understand. It’s really helpful. The AFCA Theology Podcast does the same sort of thing.
The Moody Handbook of Theology is also is a very thick book talking about that, and it’s been very helpful to me. But also I’ve handed to students and they said, this makes sense. It’s written in these complex sorts of ways that we can understand, that we can interact with and worship and praise our God in spirit and in truth. It’s a beautiful way that we should study God. So we should also reflect on Christ’s immense love for us.
Brothers and sisters, I think that we sometimes think about Christ’s love for us only at the cross, and we should think about his love for us at the cross. It’s a wonderful work. It’s the epicenter of human history. Without the cross, I have no reason to get out of bed. And we think about his cross and the Resurrection.
We should think about that and dwell on it and worship, worship our great King because of that. But we should not just limit it to that, because his love for us was always present. But also when he came to Earth, it was on full display in more ways than one. Think about this. The second person of the Trinity came and took on flesh.
He became human. He had his diaper changed. He had to learn to walk. He had to learn to drink. He had to learn to eat.
He had to. He had to do these things in his humanity. And that would have all been suffering compared to all that he had ever known before. And he would have had known cognitively, right in his omniscience what it’s like to be human. But he got to experience it in his humanity.
That’s love. That’s incredible. Love in his humanity he can relate to. But all this would have been for naught if he didn’t come and live like us. When we learn and think and reflect that all that somebody does, we should grow in affection for them or at the very least, understanding of them.
But that’s even more true with Jesus. We get to grow in our affections because we understand and we reflect and we grow, grow in love for Him. Last one. Where you should repent and believe the gospel. And maybe you’re thinking, okay, this one’s a little bit of a stretch.
It’s here, friends, trust me. Because he’s inviting them to believe the gospel. He’s inviting them to believe what’s true. And all that Jesus does and did is the gospel. And so when he says, hey, this is what’s true, this is what’s right, this is who I am, this is an invitation to get him right.
And I don’t know about you, friends, but so much of my struggle in the Christian Life is when I struggle to believe that God is who he says he is. When I’m anxious, when I doubt, when I struggle with fill in the blank. It’s a lot of times because I don’t believe functionally that God is who he says he is, because he doesn’t scold his earthly parents here, but he points them back to the truth. Mary and Joseph would. Would do right to humbly repent of what they did wrong and trust and turn and turn from that.
And it’s not just a turning from. It’s a turning to and saying, jesus, I believe and know this is true about you.
And I know a lot of us have really good theology, at least cognitively. We’re evangelicals. We should at least. We should know these things. Like, I don’t.
I know that God provides. I know that’s true. True. Yeah. But when we struggle, when we, when we turn to everyone else except for him before, before prayer, we.
This is, this connection is kind of not happened. When we functionally get him wrong, it leads us to sin. What or where have we gotten him wrong? How have our functionally false beliefs led us to sin? Another thing to think about.
Have we or you trusted in him ever? Have you ever made that personal decision? And let me just pause and say, if that’s you in the room, if you’ve never personally trusted him, there’s no reason to wait. I can’t think of one. I think of the regrets in my life, and my regret is I didn’t come to know Christ soon, sooner.
I wish I could have done that. Because you can find someone here with a name tag and we’d love to talk through that with you. And it’s okay to bring your questions, it’s okay to bring your doubts, it’s okay to bring whatever baggage you have. Like, this is a church full of messy people who are saved by grace. We want you to experience that, too.
But friends, if we do know Jesus, this is an invitation back to the center, back to getting him right back to knowing who he is, back to understanding the gospel. Let’s pray. God, we love you and we thank you. And it’s a joy to be loved by you and it’s a joy to know you. We thank you for hearts in this room that do know you and that love you and want to worship you and want to make much of your name.
We pray that you would call them to the good works that you’ve paid prepared for them ahead of time to do. God, we thank you for that. We thank you for what you’re doing here. We thank you for what you’re doing. But we pray that you convict where we need to be convicted and bring peace where we need to have peace.
That we would enjoy you and let you right the wrongs of our life that have either been done to us or that we’ve committed on our own. And I pray for the hearts in this room that don’t know you. That they. That they wouldn’t wait. That you’d call on them to yourself.
That you would help them be ready today. That you’d help them to be convicted of sin. But also that they would fall in love with you. A beautiful, wonderful, mighty savior. God, you are so beautiful.
And we thank you for these things. We pray that you’d move as you promised you will. It’s in the name of Jesus that we pray. Amen. Thank you, Hunter, for giving us more insight into Jesus.
Well, let me tell you about my Jesus. That’s the name of this song. Well, not completely. It’s my Jesus, but, you know, I just can’t help but think.