A preacher never has to be anxious about results; that is God's concern. He has to be anxious about only three things: 1) the state of his own soul, 2) being in communion with the mind of God as to those to whom he is speaking, 3) fidelity in delivering the message.
The Man Christ Jesus
Notice the way in which the second chapter of Luke concludes.
You can see how that chapter gives us the early life of our Lord Jesus Christ. We read of His infancy and youth, some details of the circumstances connected with Him in that period, and end with the wonderful declaration, "Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.”
That is a very blessed reality for us to dwell upon, because it sets forth the Lord Jesus Christ as God's unique sheaf, so to speak, in His own intrinsic, untainted purity, under God's eye, as Man. This is the gospel that specially and peculiarly sets forth Christ as Man. Thus then the second chapter ends: "Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." There was no one like Him. He was alone in His perfection, growing up until the time of the exercise of His ministry, which was yet to come. In infancy, youth, and manhood we see Him in all that beautiful subjection to His parents which marked Him as the perfect man, having, at the same time, the fullest sense in His own person of who He was, as well as of His mission. "How is it," said He, "that ye sought Me? wist ye not that I must be about My Father's business?”
W. Turpin