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,
