*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Thu/07th/July/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (122)*
_"Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than he"_ (Matthew 11:11).
"A prophet … and more than a prophet" is how Jesus described John the Baptist. He referred to Malachi's prophecy as a way of affirming John's status. That comment also serves as proof of Jesus' claim to being the _"One who is to come."_ Christ now adds that not only is John the greatest of the prophets, he is the greatest of every person ever born on earth, till his time. This statement, as with all Scripture should be considered carefully in context. John served as the one man chosen by God to prepare the way for the Messiah. There is no more privileged position on earth than to point others to Jesus as the Messiah, and God gave John that mission first and above all. Also, John had a better understanding of who the Messiah was than any of the prophets who came before.
Jesus is quick to add that, however, that even the least person in the Kingdom of heaven is "greater" than John the Baptist. Heaven's Kingdom will be filled with those declared righteous before God by His grace and because of their faith in Jesus. In Christ, their sins will be forgiven and God will give them credit for the righteous life that Jesus lived. Anyone forgiven for all sin and is declared righteous before God through faith in Christ will be better - "greater" - than John the Baptist standing only in his own righteousness. John was the last of the prophets to point forward to the Kingdom of heaven. This gave him greater status and knowledge than any who came before. Yet he is not greater in either status or knowledge, than those who stand in the Kingdom itself, even now.
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_There's nothing more intense than the humility it takes to become a real Christian. The Kingdom of God requires radical, intense, aggressive humility._
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