Hello, my friends. Welcome to another Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith, and I'm here with the incredible John, by the way.

We like to cover on Follow Him Favorites, just a tiny portion of this week's lesson.

And we are in Matthew chapter 2 and Luke chapter 2 this week.

John, we cover quite a bit with our guest on Follow Him, our full podcast, Dr. Brad Wilcox.

But there's something we didn't cover that we wanted to hit in this little Follow Him Favorites.

And that is what do you learn from the shepherd's reaction to the angels?

So the angels come and tell the shepherds we bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

Then there's this multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and saying,

glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men.

What do you learn from what happens at that point?

Well, these two verses are so good, 16 and 17, and they came with haste.

And I've thought, Mary and Jesus weren't going anywhere.

But they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in the manger.

So everything like the angel said, and then look what they do in 17.

When they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.

So I think that there's a Christmas Carol sometimes here, go tell it on the mountain.

That's what they did.

They were, we got to tell everybody what the angel said and the angel was right.

We came, we saw the sign and now we got to tell you.

So Sister Bonnie Gordon and her first presidency Christmas devotional talked about the shepherds.

And not only did they receive the sign and the gift, but then they sent it out.

And they went to tell everybody they were like missionaries, these shepherds.

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