Yesterday we spoke of Jesus in the temple as a youth during the Passover and I asked if there was anything else to be learned here. Let us look to that first line of scripture and see.

Luke 2:40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. 

Psalm 119:25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Jesus was not born with a dead spirit, His Father, being God the Father, begat a living spirit. We who were the begotten of Adam have inherited the dead and dusty spirit wherein Adam died spiritually in the garden. Not so with Jesus.

There was in Jesus the ability to be filled with wisdom and grace with the Father that was not available to us as dead spirits. His spirit did not need quickening, ours does. At the time of this telling Jesus might have turned 13, became a man after the flesh, Jewish tradition, and as such was willing to be a man and “go about my Father’s business.” He could have done so in the power of His on strengthen.

Where would that have left us?

Matthew 3:11 (John the Baptist) I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Matthew 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

While Jesus did not need His Spirit quickened, His baptism demonstrated to us how we can be quickened in the spirit. He did it for our sake, not His own. All the wisdom and grace that Jesus had since His birth, we can have after being born again. (John 3:3)