Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston, West Virginia.

Will we pick it up in Luke chapter 5 verse 1.

But a couple of things before that.

The first thing I just wanted to address briefly,

because again I watch things on YouTube and history channel.

Going back to the end of Luke 2.

Yeah, the end of Luke 2.

There's that little note in verses 51 and 52.

I talked about 51 a little. I didn't talk a lot about 52.

But verse 2 is, and Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and men.

This has become, unfortunately, for certain people,

a verse that they take out of context and either try to use this to say, well, look, if Jesus increased in wisdom, that means he must not have had wisdom before.

Right? I mean, stature's pretty obvious. He got taller, you know, but I mean, that's a giving me.

Yeah, yeah. But those aren't as big of a problem. I don't think any of it's a problem,

but people don't jump on that as quickly as they jump on the wisdom part. And try to use this to argue that somehow Jesus was lacking in something and then grew into it and then use that as an

argument that he wasn't God. Yeah. Or alternatively, they'll use this to defend a kind of

incorrect Christology, where they'll use it to try to argue for the

idea that there's sort of this human being Jesus who's sort of separate from the second person

of the Trinity who's separate from the Son of God, like they're sort of connected to each other,

which historically was called Nestorianism, but sort of a version of that.

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