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Sermon Christmas 2 Luke 2:40-52 “In My Father's House” Oh how precious little we know about our Lord Jesus Christ's early years.  We have a somewhat detailed story of his nativity.  We know about his early visitors, the Shepherds and Wise Men.  We know he met Simeon and Anna in the temple at 40 days old.  And we know he and his parents had to flee to Egypt to escape the cruelty of King Herod. But in the 30 or so years before he began his public ministry, the Gospels are rather silent.  They don't tell us much about what Jesus did, where he went, what he said.  We are simply left to assume that he lived a normal life, the dutiful son of Mary and Step-father Joseph.  We conclude that he would have normally learned his earthly father's vocation of carpenter.  That he took care of his mother when his father died.  That in all things, he was a dutiful and sin-free example of what a son should be. And this in itself can be instructive – th...