Welcome to Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly.

We believe the Bible is true and relevant to everyone, everywhere, every day.

This Christmas season, we're revisiting a series called Advent,

where Kurt leads us through the Christmas story in a deeper, more meaningful way.

We hope it encourages you to see that Christmas is all about Jesus.

Now, here's today's episode.

Let's go ahead and jump right in where we left off yesterday.

Mary had left Nazareth after having heard the message from Gabriel that she will now be pregnant

with the Christ Child, the son of the highest.

She enters the home of Elizabeth miles south, maybe 80 miles south, in the hill country of Judah.

And the Bible says that the baby in Elizabeth's womb leaps. So John the Baptist responds to in the womb, the Christ Jesus, who is in the womb of Mary.

What an amazing event that was.

And Elizabeth essentially validates to Mary all of what the angel had said,

that this indeed is the Christ child,

this is indeed a fulfillment of the Word of God,

and Mary is so encouraged by this,

that Mary herself offers an amazing,

an amazing poem of amazing poem of praise.

Really, that's a good way to say it.

We're gonna look at it.

Some people call this the Magnificate of Mary.

Magnificate is just the Latin word

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