Shepherds Broadcasting This Child - Luke 2:17

Luke the physician wrote how an angel and a heavenly host appeared to shepherds to tell them of the Messiah's birth, and “as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord has made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger”, and in chapter two and verse seventeen of his book Luke shares how the shepherds, “made know abroad the saying which was told them” where we read:

And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying

which was told them concerning this child.

The verse reads, “And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying ...” Luke began with the words, “And when” or “and at the time and moment” “they had seen it” which means “the shepherds perceived, notice, discerned and discovered the baby who was the Savior”, “they made known abroad” or “the shepherds declared, heralded and published thoroughly” “the saying” which means “the speech, discourse and utterance”. Luke shared how the shepherds began to broadcast the news given to them by the angel after they found the “babe” in Bethlehem.

The verse goes on to say, “... which was told them concerning this child.” Luke added the words, “which was told them” which means “that was spoken, declared, uttered and proclaimed to the shepherds” “concerning this child” or “about the special baby who was the Savior, Christ the Lord”. Luke shared how the shepherds broadcast the “good news” they heard and saw concerning “baby” Jesus who was the “Christ” and “Messiah” of God.

When we consider Luke's words in this verse, we see how these “lowly shepherds” were employed by God to be the ones who heralded the coming of His Son Jesus to the earth. They saw for themselves what was promised by the angel, and they immediately began to tell others about Him. This encounter with Jesus affected and changed the lives of these shepherds, and all who come to Jesus in “faith and trust” in Him shall forever be changed. Afterward they become “witnesses” to what they have heard and seen as their lives now become a reflection of those who have encountered the “Savior God”.

Next time Luke shares how, “all they that heard it wondered at those things”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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