None Greater

None Greater

Matt 11:11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women

there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist:

notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven

is greater than he.

Matt 14: 1-12 Mark 6: 14 -29

1 Notice the Courage he Employed Mark 6:17-19 Matt 14:4

SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS

Ps 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of

death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy

rod and thy staff they comfort me.

When Moses was 120 yrs old, He told Israel, Deut 31:8 And the

LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he will be with

thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not,

neither be dismayed.

After Moses’s death God told Joshua Josh 1:9 Have not I

commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not

afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God

[is] with thee whithersoever thou goest.

John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the

world, and men loved darkness rather than light,

because their deeds were evil.

2. Notice the Consequences he Endured Mark 6:19 & 25 Matt 14:3

doing the right thing is not a guarantee. Bad things can and will

arise in your life any time they want to.

Conquence= an act or instance of following something as

an effect, result, or outcome.

Matt 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake:

but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own:

but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen

you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the

world, and men loved darkness rather than light,

because their deeds were evil.

Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the

friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever

therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

3. Notice the Callousness she Exhibited Mark 6:24 Matt 14:8

She simply didn’t care, about anyone or anything but herself

Isa 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put

darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter

for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Eccl 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with

every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.

Rom 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up

unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation

of the righteous judgment of God;

Jer 16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye

walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that

they may not hearken unto me: 13 Therefore will I cast

you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither

ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day

and night; where I will not shew you favour.

Ps 51:17 The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a

contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

NET :17 ????The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit – ?????O God, a

humble and repentant heart you will not reject.

Ezek 11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within

them I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies and I

will give them tender hearts,