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. My favorite type of book to read is a biography.

I have hundreds of them.

I'm always in the middle of one of them, at least at a time.

And for many, many years, biographies have been one of the means that just

keeps my heart warm. I find instruction. I find inspiration in them. I would recommend that you read

a good biography. And that's perhaps a subject for another day. But I say all of that to tell you that

as we are studying the

life of John the Baptist, we're literally studying one of God's great biographies.

This is a story that the Holy Spirit has written for us, which means there's so much truth

to be learned from it.

Now, there are many things I want to point out to you about the life

of John the Baptist. This man that Jesus said was the greatest man born of woman. But I want to go to

the end of the story and then work our way back, if I may. In Matthew chapter number 11, we are coming

near the end of John the Baptist life. You know, death clarifies everything. And really the

way a man ends tells you so much about the way he lived. Someone once said that no man is prepared

to live until he's first prepared to die. It was Charles Spurgeon that said the way to make

the most of your life is to meditate on your death. Well, when you come to Matthew chapter 11, we are literally nearing the end of John the Baptist journey. We're coming

near the end of his life. He's about to stand before Almighty God. He's going to leave this world

and step into eternity. And as you get to this season of his life, there's a certain testimony that is given about him

that I think is most profound. It is the testimony of Jesus about John. Now let that sink in for

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