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And so we have the good news today, the glad tidings, it's for everybody we need to preach the gospel to every creature and at this time of year this is a good time to give people the gospel because people are thinking about it and it's in people's minds even vaguely you know we went out soul winning this morning and it seemed like people were really friendly when we were out soul winning because they're they're in that mode where and I said to him I said so you know you're celebrating Christmas you know what are you celebrating what's it about why you know and and some people didn't know I said the birth of Christ oh yeah that's not yeah yeah now that you say that yeah you're right that it sorry I just wasn't thinking about that you know it's a lot of people you know they need to be reminded hey you know we're if we're gonna celebrate this holiday it should be about giving glory and honor to Jesus if anything and then it's funny I was given the gospel to this girl today and I asked her I said you know after Jesus died on the cross through what happened three days later 17 year old girl she had no idea what happened three days later not never heard that he rose again from the dead that he physically walked out of the grave you know and like I said our societies become de-christianized to where a lot of people don't hear the details of the gospel of Jesus Christ and we need to be like those shepherds and just get the message out yeah you say well we didn't see the the host and everything you know maybe we didn't see the bright sky and the host and the glory to God and peace on earth but you know what we have a more sure word of prophecy right here with the Word of God and we need to take the Word of God and we need to be like those shepherds and spread the message abroad today and spread it to all men and to get the word out I wonder if God would have chosen you if you would have been a shepherd living in Israel a couple thousand years ago in the province of Judea I wonder if he would have come to you or if he would have said oh yeah well I don't think he's gonna tell that many people think about that I don't think he's gonna tell that many people I'm gonna go over to the you know the where the faithful word shepherds are at you know they're gonna tell people you know hopefully that you know hopefully that would be said of our church then if he was you know coming to Phoenix and he was gonna tell somebody about a major event he'd say well I'll tell the people they're gonna get the word out the most you know so what kind of a what kind of a shepherd are you tonight are you one that would have spread it abroad we have the gospel we have a more sure word of prophecy we have the good news we have the truth are people gonna speak against it sure is everybody gonna accept it no are some people gonna get mad of course but we have the gospel of Jesus Christ and we need to get it out to as many people and this time of year is a good time to do it because people are thinking about these things right now and a lot of people are receptive to the gospel right now