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2025 Candlelit Christmas - The Magnificat · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio.
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  Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, friends and faithful listeners. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for tuning in to the annual Candlelit Christmas Podcast episode.
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  Speaker 2: And I am extra excited about this year's episode because
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a topic that a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: are interested in. We're going to be talking about the
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  Speaker 2: Mother Mary tonight and why God chose her her humility.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about this prayer that she gives
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  Speaker 2: in Luke chapter one that actually is very very similar
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  Speaker 2: to another prayer that we've actually already read on the
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  Speaker 2: podcast before, way back in First Samuel chapter two. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and dive into the episode. Luke chapter one
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  Speaker 2: versus twenty six through fifty six is what I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be reading for you guys today, and then we'll
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  Speaker 2: be discussing this. This is talking about the Mother Mary
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  Speaker 2: learning that she is about to give birth to the
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  Speaker 2: Son of God. So I'll be reading this as I
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  Speaker 2: always do, from the web. But grab your favorite version
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  Speaker 2: of the Bible and also your cup of hot coco
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  Speaker 2: to share with me. Even though I am not recording
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  Speaker 2: this live. You know, I never record my episodes live.
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  Speaker 2: I do pre record them. I can I share you guys,
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  Speaker 2: I am tuning in with all of you and listening
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  Speaker 2: right alongside you. Guys. Yes, I am listening it to
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  Speaker 2: my own episode. And perhaps I also have a cup
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  Speaker 2: of hot coco with me as well, so I hope
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  Speaker 2: to share that with you guys. So let's dive into
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  Speaker 2: Luke one twenty six through fifty six on this lovely
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  Speaker 2: Christmas morning. Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel
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  Speaker 2: was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
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  Speaker 2: to a virgin pledged to be married to a man
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  Speaker 2: whose name was Joseph of David's House. The virgin's name Mary.
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  Speaker 2: Having come in, the Angel said to her, rejoice, you
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  Speaker 2: highly favored one. The Lord is with you. Blessed are
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  Speaker 2: you among women. But when she saw him, she was
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  Speaker 2: greatly troubled at the saying and considered what kind of
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  Speaker 2: salutation this might be. The Angel said to her, don't
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  Speaker 2: be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold,
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  Speaker 2: you will conceive in your womb and give birth to
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  Speaker 2: a son, and shall name him Jesus. He will be
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  Speaker 2: great and will be called the Son of the Most High.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord God will give him the throne of his
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  Speaker 2: father David, and he will reign over the house of
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  Speaker 2: Jacob forever. There will be no end to his kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: Mary said to the angel, how can this be, Seeing
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  Speaker 2: I am a virgin. The Angel said to her, the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of
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  Speaker 2: the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, also the Holy
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  Speaker 2: One who is born from you will be called the
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  Speaker 2: Son of God. Behold, Elizabeth, your relative also has conceived
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  Speaker 2: a son in her old age, and this is the
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  Speaker 2: sixth month with her who was called Baron. For nothing
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  Speaker 2: spoken by God is impossible. Mary said, behold, I am
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  Speaker 2: the servant of the Lord. Let it be done to
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  Speaker 2: me according to your word. Then the angel departed from her.
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  Speaker 2: Mary arose in those days and went into the hill
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  Speaker 2: country with haste into a city of Judah, and entered
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  Speaker 2: into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth
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  Speaker 2: heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and
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  Speaker 2: Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. She called out
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  Speaker 2: with a loud voice and said, blessed are you among women,
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  Speaker 2: and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Why am
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  Speaker 2: I so favored that the mother of my Lord should
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  Speaker 2: come to me. For behold, when the voice of your
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  Speaker 2: greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my
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  Speaker 2: womb for joy. Blessed is she who believed, for there
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  Speaker 2: will be a fulfillment of the things which have been
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  Speaker 2: spoken to her from the Lord. Mary said, my soul
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  Speaker 2: magnifies the Lord. My spirit has rejoiced in God, my savior,
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  Speaker 2: for he has looked at the humble state of his servant.
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  Speaker 2: For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blest,
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  Speaker 2: For he who is mighty has done great things for me.
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  Speaker 2: Holy is his name. His mercy is for generations and
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  Speaker 2: generations on those who fear him. He has shown strength
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  Speaker 2: with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the
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  Speaker 2: imagination of their hearts. He has put down princes from
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  Speaker 2: their thrones, and has exalted the lowly. He has filled
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  Speaker 2: the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich
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  Speaker 2: away empty. He has given help to Israel, his servant,
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  Speaker 2: that he might remember mercy as he spoke to our fathers,
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  Speaker 2: to Abraham and his offspring forever. Mary stayed with her
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  Speaker 2: for about three months and then returned to her house.
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  Speaker 2: The story of Mary is such a beautiful one I
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  Speaker 2: can see why people really exalt her around Christmas time,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because she was so humble, she was highly
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  Speaker 2: favored by God, is what it says. So let's get
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  Speaker 2: into the story. In verse twenty six, it says, in
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  Speaker 2: the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God
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  Speaker 2: to a city of Galilee named Nazareth. So what is
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  Speaker 2: this sixth month that we're talking about here, Well, this
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  Speaker 2: would have been the same month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, because
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  Speaker 2: right before this the whole story of Elizabeth was told.
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  Speaker 2: And so Elizabeth, this old woman and also Mary's cousin,
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  Speaker 2: was given this message that she would become pregnant in
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  Speaker 2: her old age, even though she had been barren her
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  Speaker 2: entire life, and so that ended up happening. And so
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  Speaker 2: in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, the angel Gabriel
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  Speaker 2: was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
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  Speaker 2: to a virgin pledged to be married to a man
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  Speaker 2: whose name was Joseph of David's house. The virgin's name
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  Speaker 2: was Mary. So now Gabriel is sent to Nazareth, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, I learned something really funny about the
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  Speaker 2: name Nazareth. If you translate Nazareth. Into English, it means Shootsville, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason that's funny is because in Isaiah eleven,
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  Speaker 2: verse one, it says a shoot will come up from
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  Speaker 2: the stump of Jesse. From his roots, a branch will
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  Speaker 2: bear fruit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So according to scripture, Jesus was a shoot. And after
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was born, Mary and Joseph did live in Nazareth
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  Speaker 2: once again. And so as Jesus was growing up, he
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  Speaker 2: was called Jesus of Nazareth. So he was literally Jesus
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  Speaker 2: the Shoot. Okay, that's what people called him. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah eleven, verse one says a shoots will come up
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  Speaker 2: from the stump of Jesse. So that's just an interesting
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  Speaker 2: little piece of prophecy for you right there. That Nazareth
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  Speaker 2: means Shootsville in English. And that is where this little
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  Speaker 2: shoot Jesus grew up. And so Mary, who was a virgin,
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  Speaker 2: lived in Nazareth. It said that she was a virgin
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  Speaker 2: pledged to be married to a man whose name was
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  Speaker 2: Joseph of David's house. So she was engaged to Joseph.
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  Speaker 2: And back in these days, there were three steps of engagement.
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  Speaker 2: The first was the promises between the two families. The
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  Speaker 2: second was the promises between the two individual people that
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  Speaker 2: were getting married, and then the third was the actual
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  Speaker 2: marriage itself, where the groom would come and get his
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  Speaker 2: wife after the house was built during a set period
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  Speaker 2: of time or whatever. So there are three steps to
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  Speaker 2: marriage back in these days, and Mary and Joseph were
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  Speaker 2: on the second stage. This means that they weren't technically
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  Speaker 2: married yet, they weren't able to do like any of
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  Speaker 2: the fun things in marriage, if you catch my drift,
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  Speaker 2: but they were pledged to each other, so they were
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  Speaker 2: technically considered married, which means that if any infidelity happened
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  Speaker 2: during this time, a divorce proceeding would actually have to
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  Speaker 2: take place. So Mary definitely understood the gravity of what
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  Speaker 2: this angel was about to tell her. It says, having
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  Speaker 2: come in, the Angel said to her, rejoice, you highly
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  Speaker 2: favored one.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord is with you.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed are you among women. So this says the angel
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  Speaker 2: just like walked in, probably to like Mary's room or
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  Speaker 2: house or something. Maybe she was the only person there,
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  Speaker 2: so the angel just like walks right in, and it
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  Speaker 2: says that when Mary saw him, she was greatly troubled
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  Speaker 2: at the saying and considered what kind of salutation this
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  Speaker 2: might be. So she was scared. I mean, by all means,
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  Speaker 2: she was definitely scared that an angel just like walked
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  Speaker 2: into her house and told her that she was highly
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  Speaker 2: favored before God and that the Lord is with her.
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  Speaker 2: You know, can you imagine just like an angel walking
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  Speaker 2: into your room, like when you're the only person there
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  Speaker 2: and telling you the Lord is with you. You'd be like,
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  Speaker 2: what does God want me to do? That he is
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  Speaker 2: with me? And I imagine Mary was also feeling that
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  Speaker 2: kind of fear. You know, it's not every single day
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  Speaker 2: you get visited by an angel and told something like that.
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  Speaker 2: So the angel calms her fears. He says, don't be afraid, Mary,
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  Speaker 2: for you have found favor with God, and then he
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  Speaker 2: gives her the message, behold, you will conceive in your
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  Speaker 2: womb and give birth to a son, and shall name
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  Speaker 2: him Jesus. He will be great and will be called
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  Speaker 2: the Son of the Most High the Lord God will
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  Speaker 2: give him the throne of his father David, and he
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  Speaker 2: will reign over the House of Jacob forever. There will
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  Speaker 2: be no end to his case. Now, later on in
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  Speaker 2: this episode, we're going to find out that Mary actually
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  Speaker 2: knew the scriptures very well, she would have known that
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  Speaker 2: he was talking about the Messiah, the Son of God.
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  Speaker 2: Now at this point in time, Israel was waiting desperately
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  Speaker 2: for their Messiah, and now Mary is told that she
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  Speaker 2: is going to be the mother of the Messiah. And
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  Speaker 2: that does not mean that she really knew what that meant, because,
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  Speaker 2: as we've discovered, going through the New Testament, people had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of misplaced ideas as to who the Messiah
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to be. So I'm sure Mary had some
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  Speaker 2: of those misplaced ideas as well. So she didn't quite understand,
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  Speaker 2: i imagine, who the Messiah was going to be. But
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  Speaker 2: she knew now that she was going to be the
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  Speaker 2: mother of the Messiah, and that she was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: call his name Jesus, which by the way, was a
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  Speaker 2: very common name. It's just the Greek form of the
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  Speaker 2: name Joshua, which means the Lord saves. So Jesus or
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  Speaker 2: Joshua was a very common name back in these days.
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  Speaker 2: As it is today, you know, Joshua still a very
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  Speaker 2: common name. So this baby is going to have a
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  Speaker 2: common name, but he is not going to be a
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  Speaker 2: common person. The angel says he is going to be
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  Speaker 2: called Great and son of the Most High. The Lord
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  Speaker 2: will give him the throne of his father David, and
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  Speaker 2: he will reign over the House of Jacob forever. There
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  Speaker 2: will be no end to his kingdom. And so Mary
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  Speaker 2: of course probably has like a trillion questions over like
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  Speaker 2: what is going to happen, what is this going to
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  Speaker 2: look like, and how so she narrows it down to
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  Speaker 2: just one question. She says to the Angel, how can
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  Speaker 2: this be seeing I am a virgin and I do
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  Speaker 2: wonder If she was wondering is this going to happen
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  Speaker 2: in the future like with Joseph or is this supposed
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  Speaker 2: to happen right now? And the Angel answers that question.
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  Speaker 2: He says to her, the Holy Spirit will come on you,
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  Speaker 2: and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: also the Holy One who is born from you will
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  Speaker 2: be called the Son of God. So, in other words,
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit was going to form this baby in
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  Speaker 2: Mary's womb. This was not going to be done through
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  Speaker 2: the normal man and woman relationship, but through the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit himself, and the Angel then gives Mary proof as
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  Speaker 2: to how this is going to happen. He helps her
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  Speaker 2: solidify her belief. He says, behold, Elizabeth, your relative has
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  Speaker 2: also conceived a son in her old age, and this
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  Speaker 2: is the sixth month with her who is called a
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  Speaker 2: baron for nothing spoken by God is impossible. And Mary,
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  Speaker 2: i'm sure, is processing that because she didn't know that
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  Speaker 2: Elizabeth was pregnant. She didn't know, because it actually says
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  Speaker 2: in Elizabeth's story that she hid herself away for like
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  Speaker 2: six months because I think she was probably shocked over
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  Speaker 2: the fact that she was old and pregnant and never
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  Speaker 2: was able to get pregnant before. So Elizabeth didn't actually
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  Speaker 2: tell anybody until much later that she was pregnant. So Mary,
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  Speaker 2: even if they were very close cousins, wouldn't have known
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  Speaker 2: that Elizabeth was pregnant. She is hearing this now from
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  Speaker 2: the Angel for the very first time, and she's probably like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, Elizabeth is pregnant. That's crazy. And so
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  Speaker 2: Mary answers the Angel, behold, the servant of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: let it be done to me according to your word.
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  Speaker 2: And once again she understands the weightiness of this situation
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  Speaker 2: that if she gets pregnant before Joseph takes her as
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  Speaker 2: his full wife, that is very, very bad.
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  Speaker 1: For her.
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  Speaker 2: It could possibly even mean death for her. She understands this,
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  Speaker 2: and yet she says to the angel, I am the
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  Speaker 2: servant of the Lord. Let it be done to me
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  Speaker 2: according to your word. So Mary has faith that God
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  Speaker 2: is going to take care of her and that the
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  Speaker 2: baby is going to be safe and taken care of
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  Speaker 2: as well. Even though this could mean that Joseph is
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  Speaker 2: going to completely divorce her and want nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with her, Mary says, I am the servant of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: And this is very different from a lot of other
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  Speaker 2: people who hear messages from angels. You know, I can
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  Speaker 2: imagine if me and Garrett were first getting married, I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have the same response Mary had when Garrett and
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  Speaker 2: I were engaged. You know, if I got pregnant during
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  Speaker 2: the time Garrett and I were engaged, I never would
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  Speaker 2: have gotten married to Garrett. He would have been like,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely not, He wouldn't have believed me. I would have
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  Speaker 2: had all those questions and concerns because I would have
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  Speaker 2: wanted to marry my husband. And yet Mary chose God
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  Speaker 2: over her relationship with her future husband. And that is,
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  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, like counter cultural to like what most
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  Speaker 2: girls do. You know, most girls, myself included, want that
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  Speaker 2: relationship so bad, want to feel loved so badly that
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  Speaker 2: that we're willing to do like anything for it. And
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  Speaker 2: yet Mary, you can see now why she was so
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  Speaker 2: highly favored with God. She was willing to put her
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  Speaker 2: faith and trust in God over her future relationship with
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  Speaker 2: her husband, which is absolutely amazing to me. So the
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  Speaker 2: angel departs from her, and Mary almost immediately arose in
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  Speaker 2: those days and went into the hill country with haste,
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  Speaker 2: into a city of Judah, and entered into the house
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  Speaker 2: of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. So I imagine that you know,
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  Speaker 2: Mary is practically running to get to Elizabeth's house, especially
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  Speaker 2: as she gets closer. She runs right in. She says, Elizabeth, Elizabeth,
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  Speaker 2: it's Mary, I'm here. And when Elizabeth hears Mary's greeting,
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  Speaker 2: the baby inside her leapt in her womb. And Elizabeth
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  Speaker 2: was filled with the Holy Spirit. She called with a
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  Speaker 2: loud voice, and she said, blessed are you among women,
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  Speaker 2: and blessed is the fruit of your womb. So how
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  Speaker 2: in the world would Elizabeth know about this? Because she
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  Speaker 2: was filled with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was
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  Speaker 2: prophesying through her, and Elizabeth got the special knowledge about Mary.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Elizabeth didn't know that Mary was pregnant with
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  Speaker 2: the Messiah, and yet she's prophesying to Mary. And I
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  Speaker 2: can imagine this is also solidifying Mary's faith, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if she was having any questions or doubts about this.
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  Speaker 2: Now Elizabeth, who didn't even know she was pregnant or
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  Speaker 2: that the Angel appeared to her, is saying, blessed are
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  Speaker 2: you among women? And blessed is the fruit of your womb,
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  Speaker 2: in other words, your baby inside you. Why am I
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  Speaker 2: so favored that the mother of my Lord should come
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  Speaker 2: to me? For behold, when the voice of your greeting
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  Speaker 2: came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb
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  Speaker 2: for joy. Blessed is she who believed, for there will
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  Speaker 2: be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken
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  Speaker 2: to her from the Lord. So Elizabeth is prophesying all
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  Speaker 2: these beautiful things to Mary, saying, Mary, you are blessed
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  Speaker 2: among women. You are the mother of my Lord. Who
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  Speaker 2: am I that I get to be visited by the
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  Speaker 2: mother of my Lord? You know, the baby inside me
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  Speaker 2: when he heard your greeting, he was leaping in my
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  Speaker 2: womb for joy. And I'm sure Mary is also so
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  Speaker 2: excited at this point, you know, truly trusting in God.
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  Speaker 2: And so she says in verse forty six, and this
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  Speaker 2: is the prayer that she gives. This is called the Magnificat.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The other day I called it the magnificit. My husband
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  Speaker 2: was calling it the magnific cat, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's right. It's the magnifica cot Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I looked it up. This is a beautiful song or
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  Speaker 2: prayer that Mary states right after Elizabeth gives her all
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  Speaker 2: of these words of prophecy. So Mary says in verse
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  Speaker 2: forty six, my soul magnifies the Lord. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: that's why it's called the magnificat, for the word magnifies,
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  Speaker 2: my soul magnifies the Lord. My spirit has rejoiced in God,
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  Speaker 2: my Savior. Now, the one interesting thing about this prayer
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  Speaker 2: that Mary gives, it's actually very similar to a prayer
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  Speaker 2: found in First Samuel, chapter two with this woman named Hannah.
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  Speaker 2: And I did talk about this on the podcast before.
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  Speaker 2: We've discussed hand Hannah and her son Samuel. But Hannah
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  Speaker 2: was a woman who was the second wife of this
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  Speaker 2: guy named Elcana. Okay, and she was unable to have
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  Speaker 2: children through no fault of her own. But the other
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  Speaker 2: wife of Elkana was able to have all of these children,
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  Speaker 2: and her name was Panina, and Panina was always making
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  Speaker 2: fun of Hannah and just like completely bullying her. Really
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  Speaker 2: really terrible situation that Hannah was stuck in. So Hannah
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  Speaker 2: goes to the temple of God and she's praying before
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  Speaker 2: God and she's praying so fervently that it looks like
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  Speaker 2: she's drunk. And so Eli, the High Priest, goes up
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  Speaker 2: to her and he's like, put away your wine. You
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be drinking in the Lord's temple. And Hannah's like, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not drinking. I'm praying fervently to God, like I
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  Speaker 2: am so distressed. So then Eli gives her a blessing
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  Speaker 2: and he's like, may God bless you with whatever you
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  Speaker 2: asked him to do for you, May he do it
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  Speaker 2: for you. So then Hannah has so much faith after
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  Speaker 2: that confrontation and blessing she had from Eli. She goes
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  Speaker 2: back home and her face is just completely lit up
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  Speaker 2: because she trusts that God is going to give her
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  Speaker 2: a child, and God actually does it for her. So
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  Speaker 2: when Hannah has this baby, right afterward, it says in
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  Speaker 2: First Samuel, chapter two, Hannah prayed this prayer to God,
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  Speaker 2: and it is very, very similar to the magnificat. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: it starts out by saying, in First Samuel two, verse one,
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  Speaker 2: my heart exalts in Yahweh. My horn is exalted in Yahweh.
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  Speaker 2: My mouth is enlarged over my enemies because I rejoice
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  Speaker 2: in your salvation. And let's see the similarities between that
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  Speaker 2: first verse and what Mary says. Mary says, my soul
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  Speaker 2: magnifies the Lord. My spirit has rejoiced in God, my savior,
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  Speaker 2: for he looked at the humble state of his servant.
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  Speaker 2: For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
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  Speaker 2: And this really shows that that Mary knew the scriptures.
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  Speaker 2: She was not somebody who didn't believe in Yahweh. She
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  Speaker 2: not only believed in Yahweh and had faith in Yahweh,
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  Speaker 2: but she knew the scriptures enough to use Hannah's prayer,
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  Speaker 2: which was a similar situation to her own in a
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  Speaker 2: way because it had to do with pregnancy and faith
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  Speaker 2: in God. And Mary made that prayer of Hannah's her own.
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  Speaker 2: But I do want to focus here on verse forty seven.
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  Speaker 2: For a second, Mary says, my spirit has rejoiced in God,
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  Speaker 2: my Savior. This verse means that Mary needed a savior,
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  Speaker 2: so she was not a sinless woman as some people
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  Speaker 2: like to claim. There's actually no biblical evidence for the
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  Speaker 2: Immaculate conception, but there is evidence that Mary herself knew
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  Speaker 2: she needed a savior, which is why she praised this prayer.
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  Speaker 2: My spirit has rejoiced in God, my Savior. And he
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  Speaker 2: might be like, well, maybe it's because Mary was overly
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  Speaker 2: humble that she believed she needed a savior, but she
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  Speaker 2: didn't actually need a savior. But again, there's no biblical
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  Speaker 2: evidence for the Immaculate conception, but there is biblical evidence
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  Speaker 2: right here for Mary needing a savior. Scripture says all
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  Speaker 2: have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
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  Speaker 2: And we know of three different times in scripture where
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  Speaker 2: Jesus actually did correct his mother Mary. The first time
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  Speaker 2: was when Jesus was twelve years old and Mary didn't
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  Speaker 2: understand why Jesus had stayed behind in the temple. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: corrected both Mary and Joseph at that time. Then at
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  Speaker 2: the wedding of Cana when Mary wanted Jesus to perform
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  Speaker 2: a miracle and Jesus was like, what does this have
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  Speaker 2: to do with me? That was the second time, and
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  Speaker 2: then the third time was when Mary was trying to
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  Speaker 2: get Jesus to stop talking about being the Messiah, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus gently corrected his mother then as well. So we
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  Speaker 2: know that Mary. You know, she was not sinless. She
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  Speaker 2: had her flaws, but that doesn't mean she wasn't highly
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  Speaker 2: favored by God or more faithful than like ninety percent
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  Speaker 2: of human beings out there, maybe even more than that.
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  Speaker 2: She was a faithful, godly, God honoring woman, and that
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  Speaker 2: is why God chose her out of all other women
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  Speaker 2: in Mary's time period. He chose her because she was
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  Speaker 2: up for the task, she had faith in God, and
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  Speaker 2: not only that, I highly recommend if you guys haven't yet,
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  Speaker 2: to read Person of Interest by Jay Warner Wallace. It
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  Speaker 2: was one of the best books I ever read about
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  Speaker 2: why Jesus had to come in the time period that
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  Speaker 2: he came in. And that's another reason why God chose
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  Speaker 2: Mary was because she was a young woman in the
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  Speaker 2: perfect time period when Jesus had to come. So my
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  Speaker 2: point is Mary needed a savior, and Mary herself knew
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  Speaker 2: she needed a savior. She says in verse forty eight,
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  Speaker 2: he has looked at the humble state of his servant.
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  Speaker 2: For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
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  Speaker 2: And that is absolutely true. Like Mary was looking to
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  Speaker 2: the future that every generation was going to call her
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  Speaker 2: a blessed woman. Obviously she is blessed. She was able
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  Speaker 2: to carry the Messiah in her own body, and she
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  Speaker 2: was called highly favored by God as well. For he
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  Speaker 2: who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy
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  Speaker 2: is his name, verse fifty. His mercy is for generations
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  Speaker 2: and generations on those who fear him. So once again,
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  Speaker 2: that is prophecy that Mary is speaking here, because God's
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  Speaker 2: mercy is for every single generation that has existed and
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  Speaker 2: will exist. You know, Jesus, when he was up on
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  Speaker 2: the cross, he said it is a finished That means
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  Speaker 2: He paid the price for every single person's sins through
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  Speaker 2: the birth of Jesus. Every generation experiences the mercy of
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  Speaker 2: God verse fifty one. He has shown strength with his arm.
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  Speaker 2: He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
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  Speaker 2: Now that part is also very similar to Hannah's prayer
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  Speaker 2: in verse Samuel two, which says in verse three, don't
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  Speaker 2: keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don't let arrogance come out
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  Speaker 2: of your mouth. For Yahweh is a god of knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: By him actions are weighed. So I like that both
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  Speaker 2: prayers from these women include prideful people. How God doesn't
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  Speaker 2: let the proud succeed, but shows grace to the humble.
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  Speaker 2: And then going back to Mary's prayer in verse fifty two,
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  Speaker 2: he has put down princes from their thrones and has
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  Speaker 2: exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things,
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  Speaker 2: and has sent the rich away empty. And again those
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  Speaker 2: things are very similar to Hannah's prayer in First Samuel
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  Speaker 2: two six through ten. Yahweh kills and makes alive. He
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  Speaker 2: brings down to shoal and brings up. Yahweh makes poor
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  Speaker 2: and makes rich. He brings low. He also lifts up.
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  Speaker 2: He raises the poor out of the dust. He lifts
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  Speaker 2: up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit
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  Speaker 2: with princes and inherit the throne of glory. All that
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  Speaker 2: is talking about humility. And again, Mary was a humble woman,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the reason she connected so much with
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  Speaker 2: Hannah's prayer and kind of made it her own was
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  Speaker 2: because she herself was a humble woman. She did not
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  Speaker 2: come from a rich family that we know of. Most
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  Speaker 2: likely she was very poor. She lived in a very
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  Speaker 2: poor city. By the way, Nazareth was not known for
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  Speaker 2: doing anything good. It only had one little well in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the city, and apparently that well didn't
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  Speaker 2: even produce all that much. So Nazareth was a poor
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  Speaker 2: city that Mary came from, and she was probably poor
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  Speaker 2: as well, living in a poor area. She was a
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  Speaker 2: humble woman. And yet now she, out of all the
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  Speaker 2: women in her time period, is experiencing the grace of God,
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  Speaker 2: all of these beautiful blessings that she gets to be
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  Speaker 2: the mother of the Messiah. She's glorifying God because of that,
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  Speaker 2: not fearful, but excited, not worried what Joseph or anybody
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  Speaker 2: else is going to think of her, but just glorifying
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  Speaker 2: in God. And so she concludes this prayer in verses
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  Speaker 2: fifty four and fifty five. He has given help to Israel,
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  Speaker 2: his servant, that he might remember mercy as he spoke
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  Speaker 2: to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever. So
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  Speaker 2: now Mary isn't just focusing on herself anymore like the
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  Speaker 2: good things that God did for her, even though that's
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  Speaker 2: a big part of it, a big part of the
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  Speaker 2: reason why she's glorifying God. But she also realizes and
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  Speaker 2: recognizes that the Messiah she's going to birth is for everybody,
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  Speaker 2: for every single person. God is fulfilling his promise to
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  Speaker 2: Israel that the prophet said a baby would be born
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  Speaker 2: and this baby would save everybody. Mary recognizes now that
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  Speaker 2: the prophecies are going to come true about her son,
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  Speaker 2: and her son isn't just for herself. He is for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: He is for you, he is for me, He's for
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  Speaker 2: the entire world, and that is why we celebrate his
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  Speaker 2: birth on Christmas Day. And now, fave listeners, I am
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  Speaker 2: going to sing you guys a song, and this one
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  Speaker 2: is one I wrote myself. By the way, I'm really
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  Speaker 2: excited about. It is literally called the Magnificat. I hope
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  Speaker 2: I can sing it for you guys. It is a
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  Speaker 2: little bit high for my voice, and also I'm just
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  Speaker 2: getting over a cold, so we'll see how this goes.
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  Speaker 2: Please forgive me if my voice isn't great. And this
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  Speaker 2: song is actually already up on YouTube on my husband's channel,
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  Speaker 2: which yes he does have a YouTube channel. He creates
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  Speaker 2: Christian AI music. He takes verses from scripture and turns
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  Speaker 2: them into music and he actually does a really really
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  Speaker 2: good job with it. So this song is also up
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  Speaker 2: on my husband's YouTube channel, which I will link in
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  Speaker 2: the description of this episode if you are curious to
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  Speaker 2: check out what my husband does over on the verse
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  Speaker 2: in the chorus the faithful listeners, I hope you have
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  Speaker 2: a very merry Christmas. I hope you all are blessed,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope you enjoy this song I wrote, called
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  Speaker 2: the Magnificat.
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  Speaker 3: Elizabeth heard her cousins greeting the baby inside her death meeting.
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  Speaker 3: Filled with the spirits she was receiving, she exclaimed with
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  Speaker 3: a joyful voice.
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  Speaker 4: Blessed are you among women and Mary, Blessed is the
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  Speaker 4: Lord in whom you rejoice.
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  Speaker 3: Blessed is the baby in your woman that you carry.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed is she who believed in the Lord. Well, his
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  Speaker 1: name is holy.
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  Speaker 5: He shows mercy to the LOI grament all.
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  Speaker 3: Generations, oh too, will worship him, Holy Baby, the Lord
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  Speaker 3: their foundation, and say only is say holy?
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  Speaker 1: His name is all.
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  Speaker 3: Marry saying my soul, Lord flies the Lord he saw
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  Speaker 3: his servant. I was not ignoble. My soulships him who
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  Speaker 3: saved me. He noticed me and my charity. My spirit
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  Speaker 3: rejoices in God, my save your role. People will call
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  Speaker 3: me blessed because he shower me with faver. He's done
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  Speaker 3: many grave things for me.
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  Speaker 2: His holy.
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  Speaker 5: Shows mister, the loliest graces.
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  Speaker 3: That all generations also fiver will worship him holy. They
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  Speaker 3: make the Lord their foundation and say all his name
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  Speaker 3: only hit them is holy. My soul, my solifies Lord,
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  Speaker 3: he has done many mighty bee. He won't let the
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  Speaker 3: crowd succeed boving kings and exulting the humble, protecting Judah.
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  Speaker 3: He won't let them stumble. The humbly person will be
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  Speaker 3: a given plenty, But the rich man he is sun
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  Speaker 3: away empty. His mercy to Abraham Seed is forever. His
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  Speaker 3: promise to Jacob, the devil will save.
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 1: His name is holy.
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  Speaker 3: He shows mercy to.
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  Speaker 4: The lowlyest gracesment for old generations. The also figure will
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  Speaker 4: worship him holy.
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  Speaker 3: His name is holy.
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  Speaker 5: He shows mercy to the lowliest grace stsment for all generations.
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  Speaker 3: The also will worship him holy. You need the Lord
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  Speaker 3: their Foundations say Holy is.
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  Speaker 1: Holy, is holy.
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  Speaker 3: Holy. His name is Ho