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Don’t Miss It!
The road to Bethlehem began before creation.
Joy/anticipation just as humanity has been excitedly anticipating this moment, consider the great excitement and anticipation of God.
He was so stoked He couldn’t send just one angel, He sent a multitude.
Check it out guys I’m finally sending the Messiah, He’s coming!
This gift is for you, go see Him!!!!
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So insignificant they are left unnamed, yet so significant God personally chose them to receive the message from the angels and the blessing of being the first witnesses of the birth of the messiah.
Who celebrated and experienced the coming of the savior of the world?
Shepherds were on fringe of society but Gods peace drew them in to experience God then to share that peace.
Christmas United the most lofty in the universe angels with most humble shepherds
They were nobodies, we don’t even have their names!
But the beauty is even in their anonymity they were incredibly special and important.
The creator of the universe chose them to be the first recipients of the message of the messiahs arrival, and first spectators of His personal presence here on earth.
Gods love for shepherds:
Refers to himself as the shepherd-
I am the good shepherd
Biblical theology of shepherds
referred to by others as
word we translate Pastor in Greek was Shepherd
parable of Shepherd and lost sheep
Example from OT:
David’s anointing, Shepherd, youngest son, father doesn’t bring him when invited or name him when asked.
Heart of a shepherd -
Heart of a shepherd - 17:32-51
Heart of a shepherd - 17:32-51
The spirit filled shepherd defended Gods flock from the beast.
He didn’t have the appearance of a worldly hero, and didn’t fight like one.
His concern was for his master and his masters flock.
V10 this message was for all people but God chose to give it to the shepherds first and for them to share it.
Why?
Character: humble, responsible
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v15 they understood in their receiving of this amazing news they needed to respond in order to experience the full realization of this blessing.
It’s one thing to receive the message but then they needed to obey.
Experience and Obedience.
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v17, v20 their joy could only be complete when they shared that which they had heard and seen.
) they had to respond, make the move from being spectators to being the spectacle.
they had to respond, make the move from being spectators to being the spectacle.
God loved you so much He humbled himself to the point of becoming a baby, living as one of us among us in our mess and allowing his very creation to take His life in order to pay the debt for our mistakes.
The world isn’t messed up because God doesn’t exist or because He’s incompetent, or unloving, it’s messed up because we made rejected intimacy with our Father.
And yet He still pursued us, and values us as a treasure worth the immeasurable cost of His life in order to adopt us back into His family.
How do we build a rebellion from this?
What we have, who we are seems so insignificant, yet God often uses the seemingly insignificant.
He doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
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