Luke 2:46-47 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

Right after Jesus was declared a man by ritual in the Jewish tradition, He stayed back in Jerusalem and did not rejoin His family’s caravan.

Why didn’t Jesus stay there when compelled by His mother to come home? After all, He is a man now, able to decide for himself which course to take. It is obvious He could have found a place within the temple where He was accepted. Why not choose to “be about my Father’s business”?

Many years later He would decry their actions calling them vipers. He could hardly do that if He was one of them. More to the point was the timing. John the Baptist is the forerunner spirit, the one to make straight paths in the wildness. John’s ministry would signify the timing for the introduction of Jesus’ ministry.

Have you seen the forerunner spirit in your life? Has the Holy Spirit done its job performing the ministry of John the Baptist in your life? Has He called you to repentance?

I’ve been one of those that decades ago chose to follow Jesus without that forerunner experience. I suffered many years and caused much pain until I had that moment and then Jesus started His ministry in me.

Is your Jesus walk filled with less than supernatural movements of God in you? Could it be that you didn’t start your walk without first having your forerunner experience?

John 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

This is what happens without that moment.

Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

The law is powerless to do anything except to show man to be sinful.

A doctor of theology once told me that the law is a mirror. It can do nothing except show what you are.

Romans 7:7b I had not known sin, but by the law:

So all we have to do is change the law and sin will no longer exist.

Romans 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

So, it is true, that man can have law without God. Doesn’t that make man godless?

Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Yet death reigned over man even if he did not sin. You can change the law all you want and eliminate sin with your laws, but you still have to deal with death. Do you really want to deal with death without God?

Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

If this is true and you have said there is no God, then why do you fear the law? The law has no power.

1 Corinthians 15:55-57 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Do what you will, as for me I will not face sin nor death alone.