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We continue in Luke's Gospel, we're in Luke chapter 7, verses 28 through 35.

The second of a two-part series, looking at John the Baptist, and as we look at his life

and examine his life, it gives us an opportunity to not only learn vicariously from his life,

but to examine our own.

And what we find today is one of the most extraordinary lives that was ever lived in

relation to Jesus in the history of the world.

And by God's grace, we would aspire to the same thing, a life of greatness in relation

to Jesus.

And regarding John, here is in fact what his cousin Jesus had to say regarding him.

Luke 7.28, I tell you among those born of women, none is greater than John.

This is an extraordinary statement from Jesus.

You'll find a little later in Luke 7 that some of John's critics, in fact, said that he

was demon-possessed.

The opinions and estimations of John varied wildly.

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