Does "Mary Did You Know?" Glorify Mary?

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Mary, did you know that your baby boyWould one day walk on water?Mary, did you know that your baby boyWould save our sons and daughters?Did you know that your baby boyHas come to make you new?This child that you delivered, will soon deliver you Mary, did you know that your baby boyWill give sight to a blind man?Mary, did you know that your baby boyWill calm the storm with his hand?Did you know that your baby boyHas walked where angels trod?When you kiss your little babyYou kiss the face of God The blind will see, the deaf will hearThe dead will live againThe lame will leap, the dumb will speakThe praises of the Lamb Mary, did you know that your baby boyIs Lord of all creation?Mary, did you know that your baby boyWould one day rule the nations?Did you know that your baby boyIs heaven's perfect Lamb?That sleeping child you're holding is the great, I Am I make content to help people learn to think biblically about everything.My free website: https://BibleThinker.org This video and the others in this set of Christmas Song Explanations were recorded and uploaded as one single video a couple years back. I am just cutting them into individual videos now since it will make them much easier to find and use.

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0:00.0	When I first heard this song and I was younger I was very skeptical of this song. I thought it brought
0:04.8	glory to Mary. I was I was a teenager so you know whatever I thought all sorts of things when I was a teenager.
0:13.0	It actually, this song, Mary Did You Know,
0:16.0	it came on the scene in 1991.
0:19.0	And again, I was suspicious of it.
0:20.0	Personally, I just thought, like,
0:22.0	I don't know about that, dang, and they were seeing it in church.
0:25.0	I've never heard someone singing about Mary in church, and I was very kind of rigid in my own, what I thought was
0:30.9	okay and wasn't okay, and like that not like I've ever
0:33.9	been that way since then so the refrain of the song is this Mary did you
0:37.8	know that you see over and over again Mary did you know Mary did you know Mary did you
0:41.6	you know Mary did it's just over and over again in the song that's
0:44.0	the refrain but the subject really isn't Mary. The subject is Jesus and the
0:48.0	song is glorious. This is a fantastic song which I highly appreciate and I love listening to now because I actually decided to listen to it.
0:57.0	Basically the subject is Jesus and it's the full scope of who this baby is and a lot of Christmas to me a lot of the
1:04.6	ministry that happens in pulpit on Christmas is trying to get the people to
1:08.1	know who this baby is like who is this Jesus that we're celebrating on Christmas
1:12.1	though he's no longer a baby, but as we reflect
1:14.9	upon him and his birth.
1:18.0	So here's what I want to do.
1:19.8	I want to imagine yourselves there.
1:23.2	This is what the songwriter did when he wrote the song.
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