Celebrities or royalty often have a

protective detail surrounding them, bodyguards, Jesus walked among ordinary

people. Why would the incarnate God immerse himself in a crowd of sinners?

We'll find out today on Truth for Life as Alistair Begg concludes our study

in the book of Luke, he's teaching from the closing verses of Luke chapter 2.

Now our concern this morning is with the fact of the humanity of Christ, namely

that he shared our flesh and blood, that he was like us in every way except that

he was without sin. Now in the pilgrimage to that point we have a real humanity,

we have a real psychology, we have a human mind and real emotions and he

engaged in real affection. He expresses in all of his earthly pilgrimage the

need for and the enjoyment of human relationships. Now again you see if we make

Christ less than human we've got the impression that somehow or another he

just wonders through his life just going places it doesn't matter if he knows

anyone or doesn't know anyone because after all he is in direct communion with

the other members of the Trinity and he somehow or another is on a totally

different plane and all of that kind of stuff is irrelevant to him. No you see

that this because we created a Jesus of our own imagination. Mark in the third

chapter about the 14th verse it says that when Jesus called the 12 and the

phrases always struck me it says and he chose 12 to be with him. Did you ever

notice that? Mark 314 why did he choose 12? He chose the 12th first of all to be

with him then to go for him but they didn't go for him until they'd been with

him and why did he want them to be with him because he wanted their company

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