There was one man who Jesus himself said was the greatest man born of work.

As we study through the life of John the Baptist, we will discover why God used him in such a powerful way.

Join us now for today's study. There is a term that gets used frequently for certain prominent people that I think, frankly, gets misused, abused.

And it is this term. I hear people say, oh, he's a great man. That was a great man,

or she's a great woman. Well, the word great is a very, very relative term. In comparison to what?

Well, in comparison to other men, perhaps that's possible. But when you compare every man to a

great God, you come to the conclusion

that there's none great but God himself. May we say it this way, great men are people who are

consumed only with the greatness of God. The only great man is the God man, the Lord Jesus Christ,

and the only great thing in any of us is the Lord Jesus.

John the Baptist understood this principle.

Now, he stands on the opening pages of the New Testament.

He did not have nearly the opportunity and the understanding that we now have with the finished revelation of the New Testament scriptures.

He was looking ahead. We are looking back. We have more perfect understanding by the Holy Spirit.

That's why Jesus said in Matthew 11 that even the least in the kingdom of heaven would be greater

than John the Baptist,

who was the greatest ever born of woman. We talked about that in our last study.

I want to bring you now to one of the things that made John the Baptist such a man, a man that

God could use, a man overwhelmed and overtaken by God.

You find it in Mark chapter 1.

Oh, it's found in many of the gospel records that reference John the Baptist, but let me just read to you a little from John or from Mark chapter number one about John the Baptist.

The Bible says the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the son of God.

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