Shawn Ryan

If you read the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes, his teachings of how to live are brilliant and wonderful.

We can't live up to that.

We can emulate as best we can.

We all fall short.

His mission was not to be born only and live.

It was to die, to pay the penalty that we deserve.

And that's what makes Christmas, you know, the best stories are the ones that turn out to be true.

And so because it's true, that gives it just an awe-inspiring nature.

Yeah.

How many...

Oh, that it would be the Messiah.

And, well, Elizabeth, the cousin, probably understood because she gave birth to John the Baptist.

And John knew from the outset that this was going to be who Jesus was.

When he heard the news about the coming Messiah, the pregnancy of Mary, he jumped in his mother's womb.

So that was the first person to recognize Jesus as being the Messiah was John, still in the womb of his mother.

Wait, what?

Yeah.

How do you—

Elizabeth finds out about the pregnancy of Mary, that she's carrying the Messiah, and she's carrying John the Baptist, and he leaps in her womb for joy at this news that the Messiah is coming.

So the first person ever to recognize Jesus being a Messiah was an unborn child.