The world had waited a long time for this moment the hour has finally arrived! The first to know we´re humble shepherds.

We are going to look at three things in our text

We see in Luke 2:10 The End of Fear.
The angel says to the shepherds  Fear Not.
The shepherds were afraid but this fear runs deeper.

The first evidence we see of the fall of man to sin was fear

read Genesis 3: 8-10
And ever since that time with Adam and Eve, fear stalked men through the centuries.

The Fear of God Because of our Sin

Abraham lying about Sarah because of fear Genesis 12:11-13
Jacob afraid of Esau Genesis 32:6-8
Moses afraid of the Pharaoh Exodus 4:1
Israel afraid to enter the promised land Numbers 14

Every where Jesus went in His Ministry He dispelled fear.

The disciples and the storm
Blind Bartimaus feared he would never see.
The 10 lepers feared they would never see their families again.
Mary and Martha feared they would never see Lazarus again.

• We still live in fear (or sin)
• We fear for our health
• We fear for our families
• We fear for World Conditions
• We fear for the economy
• We fear for our life

Faith is the opposite of fear, we are saved by faith and we are kept by faith
The End of Fear!

The Next Thing We See is the Birth of Joy!

In verse 10 says Good tidings of great joy.
We sing Joy to the World
The songs of Christmas are all about joy!

Why all the Joy?

Because the Savior was born!
Because the scripture has been fulfilled!
Because Jesus is Lord!

So come to Him and have Joy!  Trust Him.
O Come All Ye Faithful  Joyful and Triumphant!

The Next Thing We see is
The Beginning of Evangelism

In verse 10 "Which shall be to all people."

We all need Jesus as our Savior

Romans 3:23 tells us we are all sinners
Romans 5:8 says that Christ dies for all sinners

He is available to all people

We are to do as the shepherds did   Go Share the Good news!

We are not supposed to sit and keep all we learned waiting to go to Heaven, We are to go out and tell others the Good news we have!

So What Have we Learned?

God meets us where we are   in the midst of our sins
Come to jesus with your sins and fears and be saved!
Tell the Good news to Everyone!
Read  Luke 2:15-17

Bible Studies Home

Luke 2:10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
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Genesis 3:8-10 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
⁹ And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
¹⁰ And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
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Genesis 12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon.
¹² Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
¹³ Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
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Genesis 32:6-8 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
⁷ Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands.
⁸ And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
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Exodus 4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
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Numbers 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
³ And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
⁴ And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
⁵ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
⁶ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
⁷ And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
⁸ If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
⁹ Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
¹⁰ But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
¹¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?
¹² I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
¹³ And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them.
¹⁴ And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
¹⁵ Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
¹⁶ Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
¹⁷ And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
¹⁸ The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹ Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
²⁰ And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
²¹ But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
²² Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
²³ Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
²⁴ But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land where into he went; and his seed shall possess it.
²⁵ (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
²⁶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
²⁷ How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
²⁸ Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
²⁹ Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
³⁰ Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
³¹ But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
³² But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.
³³ And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
³⁴ After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
³⁵ I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
³⁶ And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
³⁷ Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
³⁸ But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
³⁹ And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
⁴⁰ And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
⁴¹ And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
⁴² Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
⁴³ For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
⁴⁴ But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
⁴⁵ Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
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Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
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Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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Luke 2:15 And it came to pass, 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 hath made known unto us.
¹⁶ And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
¹⁷ And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
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Last updated on September 15, 2005