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Hello, and welcome back to the Lifespring Why Christmas show.
It's Day 12. And I'm Steve Webb. You've heard it said that God
works in mysterious ways. Well, here's a great example of that.
If you had an announcement, a huge announcement that would
affect the lives of everyone you know, to whom would you break
the news? First? Would you tell the guys that come to your home
once a week to collect the trash? Or would you seek out
your most respected and well known friends? Well, when the
time came to announce the birth of Jesus, the Messiah that had
been anticipated for generations, the one who would
bring peace to all mankind, God decided that he would send his
messenger to some of the most low profile socially
unconnected, and even smelly people of the time, shepherds.
Now I don't know about you. But I think this was God's way of
saying that the Messiah was for everyone, not just the important
and well connected, not just for the religious types. This Savior
was God's gift to the world to all mankind. So it's the middle
of the night, the shepherds are outside with their sheep like
good shepherds are supposed to be. There's no light, save for a
small campfire, the stars in the moon. And all of a sudden,
they're surrounded in some sort of bright heavenly light. And an
angel appears before them. Nothing like this has ever
happened to them. They're terrified. But the angel says no
worries, I've got fantastic news for everyone. Just a little
while ago was Savior was born in your kind of town, Bethlehem, go
check it out for yourself. And then to punctuate the
announcement all of a sudden the heavens open up in there are
dozens, hundreds 1000s 1000s upon 1000s of angels singing and
shouting and praising God and saying glory to God in the
highest and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests. Can
you put yourself in the shepherds place? Can you imagine
the scene and then they were gone. So the shepherd said,
Let's go see. And they went and found the baby who was just as
the angel had told him he would be in some sort of stable,
surrounded not by wealth and power in fine linens. But by
Mary, the humble teenage girl, and Joseph, a working class guy
and hay and the smell of farm animals in the light of the few
candles. Having chosen these lowly shepherds to be the first
to hear about the birth of the Savior, why would anyone be
surprised to learn that the Messiah could be found here? See
you tomorrow