Christmas lesson 3~ Jesus is born and shepherds came to see God's perfect lamb

Luke 2:1-20

About the time that Jesus was to be born, Augustus Caesar sent out a law that said that everyone was to go to their home towns to registered so that all the people could be counted. So Joseph and Mary traveled to his home town of Bethlehem. When they got there, they found that there was so many people there that all the Inns had rented out all their rooms. While they were looking for a room to rent, Mary showed signs that she was going to have baby Jesus. They went to a barn where animals were being kept and Mary had Jesus there. She wrapped Jesus in cloths and laid him in a manger. A manger is a box that dried grass is place to feed the animals from, so he had a soft bed to lay on.

Later that night, after Jesus was born, God the Father was so proud of His son that he wanted to tell someone about him. So he had the angels go to the shepherds that cared for the lambs that would be sacrificed in the temple, and tell them.

When the angel came to the shepherd, he had a bright light around him. This really scared them. So the angel told them not to be afraid, because he had only come to tell them the good news that would make all the people of the world happy. Then the angel told them about the birth of God's son & how they could know that it was him.

Then a large group of angels joined the angel and they all praised God and said, "Give glory to God in heaven, and on earth let there be peace to the people who please him" (Luke 2:14). After the angels left them, the shepherds went  to Bethlehem and see God's son. When they had seen Jesus, on their way back to their flocks they told people that they had seen Jesus, God's little lamb. All who heard, wondered about what they were told.

But Mary just kept this secret in her heart.