#260 - Joby Martin // If Shepherds Made The Cut, So Do You

The Daily Blade: Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

Devotional, Christianity, Mens Devo, Daily Mens Devotional, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Devo, Joby Martin

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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We trace a clear line from Luke 2 to our lives: God chooses overlooked people for meaningful work. Shepherds, fishermen, and the condemned find hope, identity, and purpose in Jesus, not pedigree. • the Daily Blade mission to equip men for the fight • Luke 2 focus after Christmas and why Christmas changes everything • the true status of first‑century shepherds and why that matters • angels announcing to the overlooked, not the elite • Jesus choosing disciples who were not the best of the best...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.
0:20.3	All right, welcome back to day two of this post-Christmas pre-New
0:24.6	year Daily Blade. Again, we're looking at Luke 2 because Christmas isn't over. Christmas
0:30.2	changes everything. The second thing I want to look at is this, is that God is in the habit of
0:34.9	using nobody's for his kingdom.
0:42.3	Verse 8 of Luke 2 says this, and in the same region, there were shepherds out in the field,
0:46.9	keeping watch over their flock by night, and an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them. Now, here's the thing. Our Western, like, Christian bookstores,
0:53.9	Bible bookstores, and kind of very sub-mediocre Our Western, like, Christian bookstores, Bible bookstores and kind of very
0:55.9	sub-mediocre Christian art has painted a picture of what a shepherd is that is not very close to
1:01.7	reality. It was a humbling thing for God himself in Psalm 23 to say that he is our shepherd.
1:08.3	It's a humbling thing for Jesus to tell us in John
1:11.2	10 that he is the good shepherd because shepherds in the first century were not these wise
1:16.7	old men that we see depicted in a lot of art. No, no, no, most of the time they were very young guys.
1:21.7	They owned nothing. They were so despised locally that their testimony was not admissible in a court of law.
1:29.8	Sometimes people would be shepherds because they owed somebody money and they essentially were indentured servants to pay out that bill.
1:36.9	Shepherds were a nomadic group of people that they never hunkered down in one place.
1:41.4	They did not have a permanent residence or a permanent address.
1:44.7	And so they moved from place to place to place. And that system of living, just being around a bunch
1:51.9	of young guys day and night with little to no accountability in your life, often led
1:57.5	shepherds to be looked down upon. Here's what I want you to see here, that the angelic host
2:03.2	come to announce the birth of the king, and they did not announce it at the royal palace.
2:09.3	They did not announce it in the city of Jerusalem, but God finds these shepherds, these nobodies,
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