Luke 2:8-14 / Angelic Song
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The angel’s purpose is that of a messenger.
He is has a message..and shares it.
There are some important points about the message.
It was not for the purpose of popularity.
“In the Region”
Bethlehem was packed with people.
It was personal.
Doesn’t mean you cannot share the message to a crowd.
What was the message?
And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
“Good news of great joy.”
“It is for all the people.”
· “Born to us this day, in the city of David…”
· A Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Savior: Why is He a savior?
Paul explains it Roman 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Starting with the Shepherds, we are all given the role as messengers.
Luke 2:17 “…and when they saw it, they made known to them the saying that had been told to them concerning this child.”
After the angels delivered the message,
The shepherds immediately wanted to see Christ
They THEMSELVES became messengers.
Wouldn’t we like to have the same response when we share the message?
It takes more than words to be a messenger.
Have you ever heard someone talk correctly about the facts of the bible and sense their message is just dead?
I have spoken with bible “scholars” who can tell you all sorts of things about the bible but have precious little evidence of their own salvation.
“Let me tell you what I know” vs “Let me show you what I see.”
There is another part of the message that we see in Luke that is absolutely essential. The Glory of the Lord.
What is God’s glory?
Aspect of all the divine attributes of God.
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
It was a part of the original message.
And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.
It was proclaimed by the multitude of heavenly hosts
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
It was proclaimed by the shepherds.
And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
God’s glory is the reason we exist.
everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
Idolatry is attributing God’s glory to created things.
I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
What the world glorifies will not last.
But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
God’s glory is so important to the message of the Gospel that we see also toward the end of Jesus’ earthy ministry….in the High Priestly prayer.
I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
(Jesus Prays for US!!
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
We have been “given” this glory – we are reflectors of it.
The Glory of God gives us unity and our unity proclaims our message of Christ!