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Steve Webb: Hi, this is day 12
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Hello, and welcome back to the
Lifespring Why Christmas show.

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It's Day 12. And I'm Steve Webb.
You've heard it said that God

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works in mysterious ways. Well,
here's a great example of that.

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If you had an announcement, a
huge announcement that would

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affect the lives of everyone you
know, to whom would you break

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the news? First? Would you tell
the guys that come to your home

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once a week to collect the
trash? Or would you seek out

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your most respected and well
known friends? Well, when the

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time came to announce the birth
of Jesus, the Messiah that had

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been anticipated for
generations, the one who would

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bring peace to all mankind, God
decided that he would send his

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messenger to some of the most
low profile socially

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unconnected, and even smelly
people of the time, shepherds.

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Now I don't know about you. But
I think this was God's way of

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saying that the Messiah was for
everyone, not just the important

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and well connected, not just for
the religious types. This Savior

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was God's gift to the world to
all mankind. So it's the middle

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of the night, the shepherds are
outside with their sheep like

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good shepherds are supposed to
be. There's no light, save for a

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small campfire, the stars in the
moon. And all of a sudden,

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they're surrounded in some sort
of bright heavenly light. And an

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angel appears before them.
Nothing like this has ever

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happened to them. They're
terrified. But the angel says no

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worries, I've got fantastic news
for everyone. Just a little

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while ago was Savior was born in
your kind of town, Bethlehem, go

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check it out for yourself. And
then to punctuate the

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announcement all of a sudden the
heavens open up in there are

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dozens, hundreds 1000s 1000s
upon 1000s of angels singing and

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shouting and praising God and
saying glory to God in the

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highest and on earth peace to
men on whom his favor rests. Can

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you put yourself in the
shepherds place? Can you imagine

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the scene and then they were
gone. So the shepherd said,

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Let's go see. And they went and
found the baby who was just as

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the angel had told him he would
be in some sort of stable,

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surrounded not by wealth and
power in fine linens. But by

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Mary, the humble teenage girl,
and Joseph, a working class guy

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and hay and the smell of farm
animals in the light of the few

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candles. Having chosen these
lowly shepherds to be the first

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to hear about the birth of the
Savior, why would anyone be

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surprised to learn that the
Messiah could be found here? See

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you tomorrow