R.C. Sproul

birthday of the One who will save you.

This is the day your Savior is born.

And not only is He Savior, but He's Christ the Lord, and the shepherds understood the meaning of the word Christ was the New Testament translation of the Old Testament word for Messiah.

Today your Savior is born.

Today the Messiah is born.

Today your Lord is born in Bethlehem, and this will be the sign.

You must go and look.

See the sign because the sign is significant.

You're going to find a baby wrapped in cheap cloth.

No sooner had the angel said that than instantly there was beside this single messenger from heaven, this angel, perhaps even Gabriel again, he is surrounded by the entire heavenly host.

There was with the angel a multitude of that army of angels that inhabit heaven and surround the presence of our eternal God.

And now it's not

Zechariah is who's singing.

It's not Mary who's singing.

It's the angels who bring a chorus from heaven saying glory, doxa, glory, augustness to God in the highest.

and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.

This was the first singing of the Gloria in excelsis Deo.

So it was, Luke tells us, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds began to speak one another.

Did you see that?

Did you hear that?