{"id":45810,"date":"2022-10-01T02:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/he-who-is-least-in-the-kingdom-of-heaven-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:02:31","slug":"he-who-is-least-in-the-kingdom-of-heaven-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/he-who-is-least-in-the-kingdom-of-heaven-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He Who Is Least In The Kingdom Of Heaven&#8221; &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John the Baptist was truly a great man in several ways: <strong>(1)<\/strong> He was a child of promise born to godly parents; <strong>(2)<\/strong> he prepared the way for the Lord and bore witness of Jesus as the Christ (Matthew 3:1-3; John 1:6-7); <strong>(3)<\/strong> his preaching was plain and powerful (Matthew 3:1-2; Mark 1:1-4; Luke 3:1-3); <strong>(4)<\/strong> as a result of his preaching, many people went out to be baptized by him (Matthew 3:5-6; Mark 1:1-5; John 3:23); <strong>(5)<\/strong> he died the death of a martyr (Matthew 14:1-12; cf. Mark 6:16-30).<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, as Jesus stated regarding John,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>He who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he<\/strong>&#8221; (Matthew 11:11).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This statement by Jesus indicates the greatness of the kingdom and the value of the blessings therein.<\/p>\n<p>Those who make up the kingdom have been redeemed by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:13-14).<\/p>\n<p>Dear reader, how about you? Have you been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom?<\/p>\n<p>If not, why not? Why not obey the gospel plan of salvation today? Become a Christian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John the Baptist was truly a great man in several ways: (1) He was a child of promise born to godly parents; (2) he prepared the way for the Lord and bore witness of Jesus as the Christ (Matthew 3:1-3; John 1:6-7); (3) his preaching was plain and powerful (Matthew 3:1-2; Mark 1:1-4; Luke 3:1-3); &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/he-who-is-least-in-the-kingdom-of-heaven-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;He Who Is Least In The Kingdom Of Heaven&#8221; &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}