"Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." ~ Matthew 11:11
In all of the human greatness of John, personal character, privileged calling, powerful culmination in human history, you take all of that human greatness and human status and historical value, all that he is born of women, all that he is in physical perception and he doesn't come up to the least person who is in God's spiritual Kingdom. Do you see? Great truth. You know what true greatness is? When all is said, true greatness isn't being like John the Baptist, that's beneath true greatness. That's earthly greatness. True greatness is being in God's Kingdom. That's true greatness.
Our Father, we hear the echo of the words of our Lord in Matthew 18, "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the Kingdom of heaven." Father, may we know that all of these marks of human greatness are fine, and may we know that they're especially wonderful when they are doubly endowed by the presence of the Holy Spirit as in the case of John. But that the greatest greatness is not which... that which is ours humanly, but that which is ours divinely as we become citizens of your eternal Kingdom. And may we know that to be a little child, to be the very least in Your Kingdom is to be the greatest. The John of Your Kingdom was greater than the John born of women, as great as he was. May we be those who are truly great because we know You. Amen. ~ John MacArthur
"Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me;" ~ Matthew 18:4-5
Our Father, we hear the echo of the words of our Lord in Matthew 18, "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the Kingdom of heaven." Father, may we know that all of these marks of human greatness are fine, and may we know that they're especially wonderful when they are doubly endowed by the presence of the Holy Spirit as in the case of John. But that the greatest greatness is not which... that which is ours humanly, but that which is ours divinely as we become citizens of your eternal Kingdom. And may we know that to be a little child, to be the very least in Your Kingdom is to be the greatest. The John of Your Kingdom was greater than the John born of women, as great as he was. May we be those who are truly great because we know You. Amen. ~ John MacArthur
"Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me;" ~ Matthew 18:4-5
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