The people who were made in the image of God: Us. Who are the ones in whom God delights? Well, it goes back to Genesis 1. It is really more the word that has to do with delight. It is a word, actually – I wondered if it was the word for grace or something, but it really was not. I actually looked up - when we were getting ready for this show – I looked up the Greek there wondering – I could not remember what that word favor was.
If you think about it, that is an unusual way to put it for the birth of a baby.Īnd then, the second part also redounds to his glory is the fact that we get peace, we get shalom to those on whom his favor rests.
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What I really love – and maybe we can spend just a few minutes talking about this – before the full angel chorus sings what we said earlier, in the earlier segment, is the shortest of all the songs in Luke a very short song but before that, the first angel who appears – and by the way, just the appearance of one angel scared them silly, as angels tend to do – but the angel says to the shepherds, “There has been born this day to you, a savior,” and I have always been struck by that little phrase: to you. So, this is the familiar story of the night of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem, and the birth announcement – the announcement of the greatest birth of all time comes, as we said, to a very surprising group of people, shepherds – nobodies in their day – little people, invisible people, despised people – and they are the ones that the announcement comes to. I am Scott Hoezee, along with Dave Bast, and you are listening to Groundwork and today, Dave, we are in Luke Chapter 2, and we have already looked at it. Again, Luke is turning the world… I mean, I love the setup of Luke 2: All those names that kids in Sunday school pageants have a hard time pronouncing: Caesar Augustus and Quirinius and all these people, and Luke is listing them, but then through a little step of irony he makes them of no account we move away from those people, and now to the really important people: shepherds. So, no room at the inn and yet, through all of those movers and shakers, we end up here and then we end up with the shepherds. Ironically, Dave, you were mentioning about potentates – good word – and the big shots of the world the biggest big shot of them all at this time was Caesar Augustus, and he is the one whose tax decree brought us to Bethlehem, of all things so, the big shot is the one who brought us to these little guys outside of the little town of Bethlehem – not in Jerusalem even not in the big city – we are out in the countryside a little way, and we remember the story, the tax decree – the census was declared by Caesar Augustus, and so Joseph was from the Bethlehem area, so they had to go there, and that is where they found themselves when it came time for Mary to give birth, and they ended up lodging with the animals they could not find any room because a lot of people had traveled and made that same trip. Of course, David was a shepherd, so there was a time in Israel when shepherds were not looked down on but by Jesus’ day, by the First Century or so, that had changed.
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