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[music] The Lost Christ, a message by Dr. Bruce W. Thielman. [music] The scripture reading of the evening is from the Gospel according to Luke, chapter 2.

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It begins at the verse which is numbered 41. Luke 2, verse 41, following. "Now it was the practice of Jesus' parents to go to Jerusalem every year for the Passover festival, and when he was twelve they made the pilgrimage as usual.

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When the festive season was over and they started for home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know of this, but thinking that he was with the party they journeyed on for a whole day,

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and only then did they begin looking for him among their friends and relations. As they could not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him, and after three days they found him sitting in the temple, surrounded by the teachers, listening to them and putting questions.

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And all who heard him were amazed at his intelligence and the answers he gave. His parents were astonished to see him there, and his mother said to him, 'My son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been searching for you in great anxiety.'

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'What made you search?' he said. 'Did you not know that I was bound to be in my father's house?' But they did not understand what he meant. Then he went back with them to Nazareth and continued to be under their authority.

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His mother treasured up all these things in her heart. As Jesus grew up, he advanced in wisdom and in favor with God and with men. May the same Spirit that inspired these words incline our hearts to their understanding. Let us pray.

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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. The Scriptures open for us only one window upon the youth of Jesus, and it is through that window that I would like you to look with me tonight. Mary and Joseph and Jesus together have gone up to Jerusalem for a religious festival.

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The festival is over and they are returning to Nazareth. Now, as was the custom in that day, the women and the children would leave early in the morning. The men, able to walk at a more rapid pace, would leave later in the day. And then toward the end of the day, the men would catch up with the women and the children,

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and they would spend the night together. They started out in such a way from Jerusalem going to Nazareth. Mary was aware of the fact that Jesus was not with her, but Jesus was now 12 years old. The narrative specifically informs us of this.

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And in ancient Judaism, when you were 12 years old, you were counted to be a man. So Mary, noting Jesus' absence, assumes that he is traveling with the men, that is, that he is with his father and will be coming later. Joseph, on the other hand, notices that Jesus is not with him,

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but he assumes that because Jesus has just turned 12, because he is still quite young, he is probably with the women and with the other children. Mary assumes that Jesus is with Joseph. Joseph assumes that Jesus is with Mary.

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In fact, he is with neither of them. They have lost Christ. And I submit to you that if Mary and Joseph could lose Jesus, anyone can. My experience testifies to that.

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I remember in Central Africa, in Zaire, meeting with missionaries and learning of one man who had served on the mission field for over 20 years and then became a jewel thief and was arrested and properly convicted. Or I think of my first pastorate in a town outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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There was a minister who had served in a community for quite some time and had a distinguished ministry, and then suddenly everything went wrong inside of him. He went off and married someone else, entered into a bigamous relationship, tried to have two families simultaneously.

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It was a story of great tragedy and sadness. If I live to be a thousand, I shall always vividly recall the night I walked into the church that I served in Southern California, only to find one of the elders of the church there busily engaged in robbing the church.

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Anyone can lose Jesus. A missionary, a minister, an elder, a Sunday school teacher, the person who has received honors within the church school because of the things they have accomplished in the faith.

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Anyone can lose Jesus. No one loved Jesus any more than Mary did. She loved Him with all her heart. She rejoiced when she received word from the angel that she would be the one to be the mother of God.

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She bore Jesus. She laid Jesus in the manger. She treasured all the stories of His life in her heart. And at the end, she stood by the cross longer than any others.

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But Mary still lost Jesus. And if Mary could lose Him, so can we. Now, I think it's very important to notice the situation in which they lost Him. It was the custom to travel in groups with family and friends, and that's what we find here.

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The story specifically says that they came with their friends and their relatives. This is not just a small company. If there had been just Joseph and Mary, they would have known immediately that Jesus had not been there. But they were traveling with others, and these others were good people.

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They had joined with them in this act of religious observance. They had united in singing the songs of Zion. This was a blessed fellowship. It was a good time with good people.

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But it was in the midst of this good fellowship that they lost the best, Jesus. The good, you see, can often be the enemy of the best. I think of a woman who was described to me once as being like bottled lightning.

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She had tremendous energy, tremendous enthusiasm, tremendous drive, and she gave herself to a whole host of activities. She was considered to be one of the most valuable and generous people in the community. And in the midst of all of this involvement in affairs, her devotion died.

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It is possible, you see, to be caught up in the quackery of the flimsy, to live in the thick of very thin things, to be so involved in the events of life that one misses the greatest event, which is personal relationship with Christ.

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Beware the barrenness of busyness. Or I think of the individual who works very hard to accomplish a certain station in life. And then having accomplished that station, they become caught in the coils that surround that station,

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until caught in those coils, they become less than they ought to be. Here, for example, is the teenager who is filled with all the enthusiasm and joy of being a teenager, and then reads an article about how teenagers are bored with the church, and so he becomes immediately recognizing his station as a teenager bored with the church.

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Or here is the individual who comes to campus and wants very much to become a part of a fraternity, and labors to build the relationships which will take him into the fraternity, and then once he is in the fraternity, understands that really fraternity men aren't too much concerned about the things of faith, and so he separates himself from the things of faith and involves himself totally in fraternity.

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Or here's the businessman who gives himself arduously to the advance of his business, and he does well, he makes a significant success out of it. But somewhere along the line he's gotten the idea that businessmen just don't ever pray in public, and so you no longer see him praying in public, because that image of businessman is extremely important to him.

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Or here's the scientist who writes an article and gets it published in Scientific American, and now takes to himself all the trappings of the highest legions of science, and because he understands that the scientist does not believe in the miraculous, he rejects the miraculous, and gives himself totally to the image of being a contemporary apostle of science.

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Now you see, there's nothing wrong with being an enthusiastic teenager, and there's nothing wrong with being a fraternity man, and there's nothing wrong with being a success in business, and there's nothing wrong with advancing your career in science until these things, good as they are, crowd out the best, the excellence that is in Jesus.

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Or here's the person who plunges herself so much into the things of faith, involves herself so much in the ritual of religion, allows herself to be caught up in an orgy of spiritual activities, until she gets to the place where all of the excitement goes out of her faith.

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I stood beside a woman I did not know at Niagara Falls, and I heard her say to another woman, "They don't excite me anymore. I've seen them too many times." It is possible, you see, to become so casual, so easy about handling the holy, that all the thrill and the joy goes out of it.

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It is even possible to become so deeply involved in the consideration of the things of the faith. And those of you who are thinking about full-time church occupation hear this. It is possible to become so involved in the nuances of the faith, to become so deeply concerned with the great doctrines of the faith,

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to become so committed to understanding theology and philosophy, and those great and high disciplines of the faith, that one becomes so caught up in analysis, that one is also caught up in paralysis. And you have the saddest of all spectacles,

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a theologian who doesn't take time to say his prayers. See, it's alright to talk about God. Indeed, it's good to talk about God. But it's much better to talk to God.

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It is possible for us to become so involved in the pursuit of what is good, that we lose the excellent. We lose Christ. That's what happened to Joseph and Mary.

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And you know, I think it's fascinating to notice in this scripture story, that even though they lost Christ at first, they were altogether unaware of it. Verse 43 of the passage says, "The boy Jesus stayed behind, and his parents did not know it." I want to speak to you with a very great earnestness now.

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Because I have to talk to you about something of which you may be altogether unaware. I promise to you my tenderest sensitivity. But still, what I say may wound. Understand that I only wound to heal.

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And if you feel any pain, then know that I have felt it before you. Because there is no word I am about to say to you, that I have not first said to myself. Is it possible that you have lost Christ and are unaware of it?

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I suppose across my lifetime I've read many hundreds of books about faith, and many hundreds of definitions of faith. But the definition of faith which means the most to me is that of John Henry Newman. He wrestled with faith both as a young man and as an older man.

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He went through all the difficulties and the temptations of belief. And finally one day he sat down to try to capture in a single sentence what faith is. And he did it, I think. And in the compass of a very few words, he said, "Faith is the habit of the soul."

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Faith is that deep personal commitment of the soul which is so constant and so consistent that one's entire life is lived in continual reference to Jesus. Faith is not the acceptance of certain propositions without proof. Faith is vital, personal, closeness to Christ

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that becomes so basic to the life that it is nothing less than the habit of your soul. Is faith the habit of your soul? Let me put that in more practical terms. In those moments when you don't have anything that you have to think about,

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what thought is it that most regularly comes into your consciousness? I don't know if they still make these or not, but they used to have a toy. It was a wooden paddle a little bit larger than your extended hand. And there was a rubber string fastened to the middle of it.

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And at the other end of the rubber string there was a rubber ball. And you took the paddle and you hit the ball. Well, the most important thing or thought in our life is like that rubber ball. At the beginning of the day when we have all of our responsibilities before us at work

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or in the classroom or what they may be, we take that thing and we throw it away because we've got to give ourselves to these immediate concerns. But there come moments in the day when our mind is at rest. And in those moments, whatever is most important to us comes bouncing back

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into the center of our consciousness. And it happens again and again and again. I want to ask you, is the thought that comes most readily to your relaxed mind the thought of Jesus?

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Make no mistake about it. Whatever it is that you think about under those circumstances is the most important thought you have. That thing which comes into the center of your consciousness most often

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is what is most essential to you. It is that which gives you the greatest happiness. It is that which gives you the greatest security. I will confess to you that as I examine my own life,

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I find that the thing that intrudes into the center of my thoughts most readily is the thought of my job. I have never been happier doing anything that I am and what I'm doing on this campus.

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Never. I can't conceive of anything that would give me greater joy and greater sense of fulfillment than what I'm doing right now. And so I find myself thinking about my job.

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And I find myself thinking about how I can do it better. And I find myself concentrating on different ways in which I can establish this situation or manipulate this circumstance in order to do that job better.

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Now I try to convince myself that my job is dedicated to the glory of God so that when I think about my job, I'm thinking about God. But that isn't true.

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The reason I think about that job so readily is because it's that job that gives me the greatest happiness. And it's that job which gives me the greatest joy. And it's that job which gives me the greatest sense of fulfillment.

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And you see, when anything gives you greater happiness or joy or fulfillment than Jesus, you've established an idolatry, a false God. It's impossible to become so fascinated with the works of God

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that one forgets about God Himself. Perhaps for you it is personal relationship. Maybe what you think about most often is not a thing but a person. The guy you love.

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The girl you love. The children you love. The wife you love. The husband you love.

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And I hear you saying to me, "Are you trying to say, preacher, that my love for this one shouldn't be the most important thing in my life?" Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to say.

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You see, when you make another person the center of your life, when you love that other person more than you love Christ, then you put upon that person the burden, the responsibility of being your greatest source of happiness

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and your greatest source of joy and security and contentment. And that's a terrible burden to put on another person. There's not a week that goes by that some student on this campus doesn't come into my office

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and after a little while say to me through their tears that their parents have idolized them so much and have told them how their hopes are dependent upon them so much and how they love them so much

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that that kid comes here convinced that he has to do the very best he can to produce beyond the ability that he has to produce. But he has to do this because his parents have built everything on him. He is their security. He is their joy.

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He is their fulfillment. And because he can't accomplish it, he hates himself. You have no right to place upon any other person the burden of being your happiness

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and your security and your joy because there's only one who can carry the weight of all of that. And that one is Jesus. So I ask you,

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have you lost Jesus and been unaware of it? I encounter people so often who have a very low image of themselves,

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who have very low self-esteem. And you know what I've discovered? I've discovered that people who have very low self-esteem are almost invariably out of touch with the power of God.

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And they're out of touch with the power of God because they've lost Christ. And because their lives are weak and without strength, they despair for themselves.

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I saw a little sign the other day. I understand it's been seen lots of places. You probably will recognize it. It read, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

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The suggestion is, of course, that when hard times come along, do the best you can with them. And that's good advice. And there's some times when that's the very best that we can do.

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But the person who's living in the power of God, many times when lemons comes along, can cast those lemons aside and can go on to a higher and more powerful level of living.

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Are you able to do that? Are you trusting God to lift you to a higher level of faith than you've ever known before? Are you trusting God for that physical healing that you're seeking?

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Are you trusting God to bring a joy into your life that to this moment you don't know? Or to bring to you a dimension of peace that you've never experienced until now, but your heart is crying out for?

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Are you trusting God for the courage you're not able to manufacture within? Or, have you lost touch with God because you've lost Christ? I think one of the saddest stories to come out of the Second World War was the death of the noted French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

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Saint-Exupery wrote "The Little Prince" and "Wind, Sand, and Stars." He was a great writer and a great flyer. On July the 31st, 1944, he was flying a reconnaissance mission for the Free French, and he was shot down by a young German flyer.

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And in the crash, he lost his life. Some time later, it was discovered that the young German flyer who had shot down Saint-Exupery had been before the war working on his Ph.D. degree and was writing his Ph.D. on the life and work of Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

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And in the development of this Ph.D., he had become so caught up in the life of this great man that he came to admire him more than he admired any other man. And when this young German boy suddenly discovered that he had been the one who shot down to flaming death the one he most admired,

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he went insane. And when they took him into the psychiatric hospital, he just kept repeating to himself again and again, "I have killed my master. I have killed my master."

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Is faith the habit of your soul? Are you living your life in constant reference to Jesus? Have you allowed things to get between you and him? Have you allowed other people to get between you and him?

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Does your life lack power because you're out of touch with him? Are you whispering to yourself right now, "I've killed my master. I've killed my master." It's so easy, you see, to lose him and to be unaware.

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Please turn your cassette to the other side. The story, of course, has a happy conclusion. Because Mary and Joseph find Jesus, it takes them three days to find him. You see, it's always harder to find him after you've lost him

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than to stay close to him in the first place. And it's interesting to notice that when they find him, they find him in the temple. Strange, isn't it, how people who lose Christ so often don't come to the temple?

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One of the first things that happens in the life that is out of touch with God is that that life no longer finds it necessary to enter the place that's been hallowed with prayers and to have fellowship with others who believe and to sit at those who will teach them about faith.

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That's the reason faithfulness in worship and in the discipline of devotion is so important in the Christian life. Even Jesus himself found this to be important because you notice that when Mary and Joseph find Jesus in the temple,

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what does the scripture say he was doing? It says that he was sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening and asking questions. That's a traditional phrase in Judaism, "listening and asking questions."

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It describes the work of the serious student. Jesus, only 12 years of age, is so involved in the pursuit of the knowledge of God that he is listening and asking questions. And notice, please, the listening comes first.

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The one who is trying to find his way back to God is prone many times to talk and to barge into the middle of the experience of faith filled with a clutter of words. It ought not to be so.

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The first thing to do is to listen, to get down on your knees, to be quiet, to tune in to the infinite and those who are in touch with the infinite. When you pursue God, you begin by listening. Now understand, please, that when we look at this passage of scripture,

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we are, I believe, at one of its most priceless moments. We're looking tonight at the first active episode in the life of Christ of which we have any knowledge. And the words that Jesus speaks in this story are the first words of Jesus

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that the scriptures ever record. His parents say to him, "Why are you here?" And Jesus answers, "Did you not know that I must be about my Father's house?" My Father's house, 12 years old and caught up already, you see,

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in the truth that God is his Father. The more I study the life of Jesus, the more I am convinced that the one lesson that Jesus wanted to get across to us most, that lesson which was at the center of his living and his dying and his living again,

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is that God is our Father. You try to find the secret of the life of Jesus. Think of that life like a flower. Now if you try to find the secret of the life of a flower,

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you may think that that life is in the blossom. But you can take that blossom apart, petal for petal, and you will not have found the life in that plant. The plant will still live.

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You may decide that the life of the plant is to be found in its strong stem. But you can take that stem and you can cut it off, and the plant will still live. You've not yet found the secret of its life.

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You can tear up its roots and you can look at those roots and become amazed at their capacity to pass along those things which are necessary to the living of the plant. But you will not find in the roots themselves the secret of the life of the plant.

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You will not find the secret of the life of the plant until you go to the earth in which the plant is living. And it's out of that earth that life comes into that plant. Now look at the life of Jesus.

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We see him here with just the first bud of his life appearing. Is the secret of the life of Jesus to be found in that bud which will later become blood red with the color of the cross? Is that where the secret of the life of Jesus is?

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In the cross? No. The secret of Jesus' life was not in his agonized death. The thieves died agonized deaths, and they were without the secret to life that Jesus knew.

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Is the secret of the life of Christ then to be found in the events which lead up to the cross, in the unjust trial and the denial and the betrayal and the mockery that occurred? Is that where it is to be found? No.

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Because that kind of ugly blundering can be found in all different dimensions of life, and there is no secret of living itself to be found in that. Is the secret of the life of Christ to be found in some deep, compelling conviction that surged through the course of his days

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and that drove him to the kind of life that he lived? Is that where it is to be found? No. Because that's only obedience, and obedience itself can be not living but quite dead.

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No, no. The secret to the life of Christ was his deep and abiding confidence that God was his Father and that God loved him as his own Son. That's the reason the first word from Jesus that we hear is,

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"Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" And the last word that Jesus speaks in the incarnate life, before he has risen in glory, that last word is, "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit."

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It was the love of God the Father that filled the dry veins of obedience with power for Christ. It was the love of God the Father that put purpose into the stem of his days and made them pliable and beautiful to behold. It was the love of God his Father that gave the deepest color to the flower of his faith.

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The great secret of the life of Christ and the great secret that Christ wants us to know in our lives is this, that you and God belong together as Father and Child with all the love and the beauty and the tenderness that can be captured in those words. And he expressed that there in the temple that day.

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And when the teachers heard him, the scriptures say, "They were amazed." They were amazed, of course, because they did not know who he was. And I can understand that, because the fact of the matter is that I've been a preacher for 17 years and a teacher for two,

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and if there's one thing I've discovered, it's this, that the people to whom I speak I very rarely know. That girl sitting in the third pew or in the third row in class may not be Jesus, but she may be so close to him that if I knew it, it would take my breath away.

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But like those teachers in the temple, I don't usually know to whom I speak. I've known elders, or at least thought I'd known them, and then discovered later that they never had any personal relationship with Christ. I've known kids who I thought were so silly that they never put one serious thought after another,

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and then when I've come to really know them, I've discovered a faith in them that's so beautiful that I don't have the words to describe it. And I've known other young people who stay in straight and tall and in command of things, and when I've gotten to really know them, I've discovered that inside they're selfish and greedy,

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and that everything in their lives is directed only toward their own self-aggrandizement. And I've known parents who from the exterior radiated beauty and truth, and when I've come to know them, the inside of their lives were foul and rotten. And I've known other parents whose lives, when viewed from the perspective of little knowledge,

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seemed to be simple and humble and not at all complex, and when I've been privileged to walk into the center of their experience, I have found them to be building temples of faith which make my own seem like the most gross hovel. And I see some people smile and find out later that their hearts are breaking,

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and I see other people whose faces look like disasters, and I found out later that they've really had cause for great joy. The truth of the matter is that as I look at you tonight, there are very few of you, if any, that I really know.

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So I cannot step out of this pulpit till I say this last word, that all of life ends in weariness, that all of the human experience ends in tedium. Athena may reach out and clutch the golden curls of Achilles, and El Greco may paint his pictures of flaming Toledo on Spanish hillsides,

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and Debussy's Fawn may dance all of summer's afternoon away, but in the end, everything in life comes to death and darkness, unless there is shining across the fields of your experience a blade of light, a blade of light that started its journey in the world's first morning,

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when the stars themselves began to sing together, and brightness itself was born. That blade of light is Christ, and He, and He alone brings dignity and hope into life. He is the only one whom you can have walking at your side and know always, shining. He is in Himself the foretaste of heaven.

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He is the only one who is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Give Him first place in your life. Give Him your devotion. Give Him your strength.

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Give Him your love. Let us pray. O God, our Father, if we have lost Jesus, help us to find Him again, and in finding Him, find thee, and life eternal.

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Amen.