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When the angels proclaimed the news that a savior had been born, that was not received as good news of great joy by everyone, and it still isn't today.

On Truth for Life, Alastair Begg explains what it takes for the Christmas story to become

truly significant in someone's life. We're continuing our study in Luke chapter 2.

Consider your calling, brethren, when you were called.

Not many of you were powerful.

Not many of you were from a noble background.

Not many of you were particularly brilliant.

The consonant is important.

The M is important.

He doesn't say not any.

He says not many. And that's true.

And part of the offense of the gospel is an offense that has silenced some of us because our

concern for the approbation of our peers, whether it is in the business or the scientific or the social community, is such that we do not want to be thought as those foolish people who actually believe that God was incarnate came down the birth canal of Mary in the time and in the place that the Bible says.

But he gave the news to the shepherds. They are unlikely recipients. Because in the Bethlehem

fields, those who were used to the arrival of the birth of lambs were now

going to go and gaze upon the Lamb of God. They were going to arrive at this manger scene and hear

the cooings of this little child, cooings that would eventually from the same lips produce the

statement, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

But we must move on from the unlikely recipients to the angelic appearance. Now, some people are

stumbled over angels. I am not stumbled over angels. And I don't think you should be too.

In fact, many of our skeptical friends who believe all

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