The Mystery of Jesus: Wisdom in His Humanity

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And the child grew and became strong in spirit filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover, and when he was 12 years old they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast. [00:26:48]

And he said to them, why did you seek me, did you not know that I must be about my father's business? But they did not understand the statement which he spoke to them. And then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and were subject to them, but his mother kept all these things in her heart. [01:33:28]

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and with men. This is a wonderful narrative that Luke provides for us, and I pray that the truth that is found in it will be meaningful to you as you contemplate it this day. Let us pray. [01:37:12]

Now we bump right up against one of the greatest mysteries and one of the most important doctrines of the Christian faith and that is the mystery of the incarnation of Christ, whom we confess to be the God man, whom we profess to say that he was in fact the very incarnation of God. [13:39:00]

The first heresy was called the monophysite heresy which had been advanced by a man by the name of Eutyches, and the monophysite heresy taught this, that if Jesus was one person, clearly he must have only had one nature, like every other person that we've ever met. [14:35:76]

And so if Jesus was a single individual, he must have had a single nature, mono which is the prefix of the word monophysite, mono means what I asked the choir today, how many rails on a monorail, one thank you very much how many wings on a monoplane, one thank you very much. [15:03:76]

And the root of this word fuses is the word from which we get the word physics the study of physics which is the study of substance the study of nature and so the monophysites like eutectics believed that Jesus only had one nature, well, if he only had one nature, was it divine or was it human? [15:32:24]

And if you would ask him an office site, was Jesus single nature divine or was it human he would answer, yes, that he would say that one nature was a blend a mixture between deity and humanity, now here's a 50 cent word for you they called it one theanthropic nature. [16:00:48]

The council of chelsea undead was first of all they made the positive affirmation they said in Jesus in the mystery of the incarnation, and get this, he is vera homo, verideos, truly man, and truly God, that we must affirm both the true and full humanity of Jesus in the incarnation and affirm his true and full deity. [18:08:88]

Jesus is truly human truly divine two natures perfectly united but without mixture or confusion, you hear that in monophysites, no mixture no confusion no blending without separation or division do you hear that you nestorians over there, the pox on both houses was pronounced at chelseadom. [19:40:32]

And so Jesus not only had to teach the teachers, he had to teach his parents about the truth of God, wouldn't you loved him in a fly on the wall with that exchange, well then he Luke tells us he left and he went with his mom and his dad went back to Nazareth and was subject to them that is to Mary and Joseph. [34:48:88]

Father help us to be amazed at what perfect humanity looks like, what sinlessness acts like, that we may not be surprised at the prodigious wisdom and knowledge that our lord displayed in his humanity at so young in age before we ask it in his name, amen. [36:02:48]

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