Shepherds

“guides you it's all about how God is with you Emmanuel God with us and so this is is one his existence but it's also his immediacy to be with us it doesn't say he was our shepherd it doesn't say he's going to be our shepherd. It says he is your shepherd and he's my shepherd. What that means is that means he's accessible in every moment of every day, in every life circumstance that we find ourselves in. We don't have to wait for this. It is now. It says the Lord is, number four, my shepherd.”

“no way respected, and yet God chose to make the birth announcement of the coming of Christ to the shepherds. And every one of us has to pause and say, God, why the shepherds? Why the shepherds? Now, obviously, the shepherd metaphor is used throughout the Bible. Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me to lay down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.”

“want to take you and I want to talk to you about, not only the shepherd who cares, the shepherd who comes, but I want to talk today about the shepherd who reigns. Because here's the truth of the Christmas season, is Jesus isn't just the baby in the manger, he's not just a shepherd who cares, he's a king who has sovereignty over all things at all times and all ways, and he reigns and he rules with conviction and righteousness, and that's going to give us hope, and that's going to tether”