Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. Right now we're

learning what it looks like to follow Jesus by working our way through the

Gospel of Luke. Someone once pointed out to me that the beginning of Luke is kind of like a musical.

The narrative of Jesus' conception is peppered with sudden musical interludes.

But the songs, they aren't just there for fun. They're programmatic.

They're telling us something critical about Jesus and the story that Luke is intending to tell.

Today we're going to hear one of my favorite songs out of this musical section of Luke.

And I don't know that it's a hit single, but it's a song that I'd like to put on repeat in my life.

Okay, so let's set up the music. In Luke 2, 21 to 40, we read the story of

Joseph and Mary taking Jesus after he's been born to be circumcised in the temple.

This is what it says. On the eighth day, when it was time to

circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was

conceived. When the time came for the purification rights required by the law of Moses,

Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem and presented him to the Lord. Now this might sound like a

throwaway setup statement, but it's not. Luke is making a point.

He's trying to double underline the fact that Mary and Joseph were good law-abiding Jews.

Now that word law, which is used in Luke and I just used it it refers to

the first five books of the Bible which were called the Torah and what most people

don't realize is that the Torah is not made up primarily of laws and regulations.

Those certainly end up making up a large portion of these five books.

But the majority of the Torah is actually narrative. In other words, being a good Torah

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