The Eternal, Unchanging, All-knowing God Grows Up
Click here to listen to this sermon. The text is Luke 2:52: “And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.” Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! The Incarnation of Christ was not to remain a secret, but would be revealed gradually, layer by layer; for the Good News of Christ’s coming to earth to be our Savior would be of no use to us if we never knew anything of it. And so the angels sang their Gloria in Excelsis to the shepherds in the fields near the city of David. The shepherds rushed to see this thing the Lord had told them, and they found the Baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger. The wise men followed His star from the east and worshiped the newborn King in Bethlehem. Warned in a dream, Joseph took the child and His mother, and fled to Egypt to escape Herod’s evil clutches. Simeon held his salvation in his arms at the temple in Jerusalem as He sang his Nunc Dimi...