Alright brethren, let's turn in our Bibles to Luke chapter 1. I want to pick up here in verse 13. The angel said unto Zacharias, fear not. Zacharias, for thy prayer is heard, and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. The Greek lexicon says that the name John means Jehovah is a gracious giver. And it was grace for the Lord to give John the Baptist, and it's grace for the Lord to give His only begotten Son. Last week I touched on His name, and we'll do that more in the next chapter, but I want you to focus on verses 14 through 17. And right now I want you to look here at verses 14 and 15. The angel said, And thou shalt have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice at His birth. Here's why. Because he shall be great in the sight of the Lord. This is what would cause Zacharias and Elizabeth joy and gladness. This is what would make many rejoice at his birth because he shall be great in the sight of the Lord. Our subject is true greatness. True greatness. We're going to see in our text what it is to be great in the sight of the Lord. Great in the sight of the Lord. Now when the worldly man thinks of what it is to be great, he thinks of carnal things. Carnal things. Great possessions. a great estate with lots of land, lots of money and investments, honors from men. John the Baptist had none of those things. He had none of those things. He was despised of men. Herod cut his head off, but yet he was great in the sight of the Lord. When the unregenerate religious man thinks of being great, he thinks of being born to religious parents, having a great pedigree. He thinks of he's in the right denomination, and maybe he even has a position in that denomination. For men, he's blameless. He keeps the law. He tries to dot every i and cross every t outwardly before men. And he does so many wonderful works. He thinks of that as being great. Saul of Tarsus had every one of those things. But when the Lord called him, Paul said, I counted all dung that I might win Christ and be found in him. I'd have in mine own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the righteousness of God by faith. The Pharisees had all those things. And this is what the Lord said to them. If you had judged outwardly looking at the Pharisees, you'd have said, Oh, they're great, they're righteous, they're holy, they're great men. But the Lord judged righteous judgment. And this is what He said. The Lord said to them, you're they which justify yourselves before men. This is from Luke 16, 15. You're they which justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. Remember Isaiah 29.13, he said, This people, they draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips they do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me. And their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men. The angel said, John the Baptist shall be great in the sight of the Lord. This has something to do with the heart, doesn't it? It has something to do with the heart. And remember when the Lord sent Samuel to anoint David, the Lord said, look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature, Because I've refused Him. I've refused the One who has a good countenance and a great height in His stature. I've refused Him, the Lord said. For the Lord seeth not as man seeth. For man looks on the outer appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. He looks on the heart. The angel said, John the Baptist shall be great in the sight of the Lord. This has to do with the heart. That's the first thing we see here. To be great in the sight of the Lord is to be separated and consecrated to Christ in the new heart. Separated unto Christ. Consecrated unto Christ from a new holy heart. Look here in verse 15. Luke 1 15. He shall be great in the sight of the Lord. And here is why. He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost even from his mother's womb. Now what does this mean when it says he shall drink neither wine nor strong drink? Well, it refers to the law of the Nazarite. The law of the Nazarite. It means John the Baptist was set apart, he was sanctified and consecrated to the Lord. That's what it means. Number six is where you can find the law of the Nazarite. Let me just read this to you. The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speaking of the children of Israel, and say to them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves, to vow a vow of a Nazarite to separate themselves unto the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink." That word Nazarite is from a word netzer. and it means branch. Just what you read, Greg, the true Nazarite is Jesus Christ, the branch. He's the true, he was perfectly faithful to God the Father, perfectly consecrated to God the Father from a perfectly holy heart, all his days from the womb, all his days until the death of the cross. And he did it for his people. This is what is great in the sight of the Lord. John the Baptist was separated and consecrated unto the Lord. Now let me ask you this. Does it seem odd to you that the Lord says that first, and then He says He will be filled with the Holy Ghost even from His mother's womb? To us, from our perspective, it seems like He first needs to be filled with the Holy Spirit, born again, And then he'd be consecrated unto the Lord to be a Nazirite. But the Lord, the angel is giving this to us from God's point of view, from God's perspective. And he's declaring here that before the foundation of the world, before God made anything, God chose John the Baptist, and He sanctified John the Baptist, and He ordained that he would be consecrated to the Lord Jesus the whole of his life, before the world was made. That's what God did. It's like what He did with Jeremiah. He said, before I formed thee in the belly, before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee. Before thou camest forth out of thy womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. That's from old eternity, brethren. That's before God created anything. God knew all His elect from eternity. He chose us. He loved us. He chose us in Christ. In doing so, He sanctified us unto Himself. He sanctified us to Himself. He predestinated us to be adopted unto Himself by Jesus Christ. And that He ordained that we would be consecrated to the Lord and we would believe the Lord and serve the Lord after the Lord called us. Look over at Romans chapter 8 with me. He told Jeremiah, before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee. Look here at Romans 8.29. 8.29. For whom he did foreknow. It didn't say what he foreknew. It's not saying he looked down through time and saw what you would do. It says whom he foreknew. Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee. and I sanctify thee, and I ordain thee, that's what he's saying, for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Now brethren, This word that's true of John the Baptist is true of all God's elect. God separated us, sanctified us unto Himself by choosing us in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what God our Father did. And when God called you in time, His grace was new to you, but it wasn't new to God. It was new to you, but it wasn't new to God. God knew you from before the foundation of the world. To be great in the sight of the Lord, is to be separated by God in Christ from eternity. Great, because great is our Lord Jesus Christ. He's the greatness, our Lord Jesus. And He put us in Christ, chose us in Christ, and we were great in His sight before the foundation of the world. Holy and without blame, accepted in the beloved. And then we see here, to be great in the sight of the Lord is to be born again of the Holy Spirit, given a new heart and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 15 says, And he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost even from his mother's womb." Now John the Baptist, he fell in Adam just like all men did. He fell in Adam just like all the elect did. And John the Baptist was conceived in sin in his mother's womb just like every sinner in this world is, just like all God's elect are. But while John the Baptist was still in his mother's womb, he was filled with the Holy Ghost. He was given a new heart. by the Holy Ghost. Now preacher, you said to me that while he was in his mother's womb, he was born again of the Holy Ghost, and he was given a new heart by the Holy Ghost, and he was given faith to believe on Christ by the Holy Ghost. That's exactly what I'm saying. But more importantly, that's exactly what God's saying. That's what God's saying. Now listen, Romans 10, 17 says, faith cometh by hearing. and hearing by the word of God. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So you know what God did? God ordained that the very first bones that would be formed in a baby in the womb is those bones in your inner ear. That's the first bones to develop. And those bones at six months old in the womb, a baby can hear the voices of those speaking without. Now, when the angel came and told Mary that she would give birth to the Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit would come upon her. It was different than Elizabeth. John the Baptist was conceived in sin of Zacharias. But the Holy Ghost would come upon her and that holy thing formed in her womb would be the Son of God. Well, when the Lord told Mary that, Mary hot-footed it across the field and went over to tell Elizabeth this. Let's look at Luke 1.36. Luke 1.36. Here's what the Lord told her. He said, he told Mary, behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. For with God, nothing shall be impossible. At six months, a baby can hear. A baby can hear. Faith comes by hearing. Hearing by the Word of God. So Mary runs to tell Elizabeth this good news. And verse 41 says, And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, Mary declared that she was with child of the Holy Ghost, that she was having the Messiah. And we're going to see when we get to this what Mary believed and this is the things that she said to Elizabeth that day. And it says, when Mary said this, the babe leaped in her womb. John the Baptist leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. And look down at verse 44. Elizabeth said, Lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. For joy. Brethren, with God, nothing is impossible. Men that try to put God in a, fit Him in a little box, can't do it. With God, nothing is impossible. He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to His power that worketh in us. This ought to be the greatest comfort for any mother or father whose baby dies at birth or in the womb. This should be the greatest comfort. God's able to do things that are absolutely impossible with men. This ought to be the greatest comfort for a parent or whoever has a loved one, a child or a loved one that's way up in age and nearing death. You know, you think about this. Here's John the Baptist, filled with the Holy Ghost, born again of the Holy Spirit, given a new heart and faith in Christ in his mother's womb, in his mother's womb, and then you have the thief on the cross, just moments before he drew his last breath, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit and given faith in Christ. That ought to be comforting to us, brethren. Wherever God has made somebody to be alive the first time, God's able to make them be alive the second time. The new birth, He's able to perform the new birth, whether they're in their mother's womb or whether they're up in years. You know, the Lord said the kingdom, He set that little child in their midst, that was a baby. And He said, such is the kingdom of heaven. Such is the kingdom of heaven. But the point I'm showing you here is God looks on the heart that He has created. That's what's great in the sight of the Lord. A heart that has been born again of the Holy Spirit, created of the Holy Spirit. A heart that believes on the Lord Jesus Christ. A heart that gives Christ all the glory. That's what is great in the sight of the Lord. Listen to Psalm 147.10. It says, He delighteth not in the strength of the horse. He taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear Him and those that hope in His mercy. In other words, He's looking on the heart and He takes pleasure in them that believe on His Son. That is greatness in the sight of the Lord. To trust Christ. Is that too simple? For a carnal man, that's too simple. I've got to do something. You've got to believe on the Lord. And that's only by the Spirit of the Lord. Only by the Spirit of the Lord. That's what's great to the Lord. To give His Son all the glory by trusting Him. Believing on Him. Alright, there's a second thing here. And only two things I'm going to show you. Only two. One is to have a new heart, consecrated to the Lord, believing on the Lord, trusting the Lord to be your wisdom, your righteousness, your sanctification and your redemption. To be everything you need to come into God's presence. And secondly, to be great in the sight of the Lord is to bear witness of Christ. It's to bear witness of Christ. and to do so depending on the Lord Himself to make the word effectual. Look here in verse 16. He's showing us why John the Baptist will be great in the sight of the Lord. In verse 16, he said, In many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. In other words, John the Baptist was great in the Lord's sight because he preached Christ. He preached Christ. That's what he did. He preached the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 10.14 says, How shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And it says here, many of the children of Israel shall return to the Lord their God. They believe the Lord their God. So He preached Christ to them. How shall they hear Him whom they have not heard? He preached Christ to them. Look at chapter 1, look at verse 76. This is what Zacharias is going to say. He said, Thou child... I think this is Zacharias speaking. Anyway, He's going to say, Thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the highest. That's why He was great in the sight of the Lord. He was the witness of the highest, God Almighty, Christ Jesus our Lord. For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, to give knowledge of salvation unto His people by the remission of their sins. You see what John preached? the knowledge and salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins through the tender mercy of our God. That's what John preached. Whereby the day sprang from on high that is thus. That's Christ Jesus, the son of righteousness. To give light to them that sit in darkness. If you have light, he gave it. That's what John declared. and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet in the way of peace. He's the one who leads his people and who we follow by his grace. That's what John preached. John preached that men should repent of their sins, their immoral sins, their religious sins of trusting in themselves and their will and their works. Repent from everything about self. And he declared that they should believe on the Lord Jesus Christ by whose blood we have remission of sin. He preached to them salvation. He preached Christ who is our salvation. Abraham said, my son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. And John the Baptist preached to men and said, pointed at Christ and said, and there he is. There he is. He said, he saw Christ coming and he said, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. That was John's message. Oh, he said a lot more than that. He expounded upon that every time he would preach. But this was his one message he preached. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. That was his message. Christ is that Lamb of God. He is God providing Himself a lamb. And by His one offering on the cross, by Him going to that cross and laying down His life for His people, brethren, He took away the sin of His people. He remitted the sins of His people by His blood, by shedding His blood. Without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin. This is what John preached, John the Baptist. Hebrews 9.12 says, "...neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Once now, in the end of the world, hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." John said, the Apostle John in 1 John 3, 5, he said, you know that he was manifested to take away our sins, and in him is no sin. That's what Christ accomplished. You remember when they were in the Mount of Transfiguration? And they spoke about the decease that he should accomplish. The decease that he would accomplish. What death would he accomplish? The decease he would accomplish? Paul said in Romans 8, he said, he condemned sin in the flesh. He put to death, death! That's what he did. He condemned the sin. He made the sin and the death of his people to decease by laying down his life and shedding his blood and taking away all the sins of his people. That's what he accomplished. He didn't try to make it possible. He didn't do it for everybody if they'll just accept him and avail themselves of what he's done. No, he put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. He sanctified a particular people by his one offering. By His will, we're sanctified through the offering of the Lord Jesus Christ once for all time. That's what He accomplished before we ever even knew about it, He did that. That's who the Lord Jesus is. To be great in the sight of the Lord is to preach Christ and Him crucified. Now brethren, that doesn't only apply to His preacher. You that He's called, every one of us, every saint that He's called and revealed Christ in, you are a witness of the Lord. to speak of him to men and women, to assemble together as his witnesses. You know, by assembling here, you know what you're doing? You're bearing witness that Christ is salvation to this world. By leaving here and going to your jobs, and if men ask you, what's the hope you have? And you declare Christ to them. You preach the scriptures to them. Study this work so that if a man asks you that, you can tell him and show him in the scriptures. And if you don't feel comfortable speaking to him, be a witness this way. Say, come see. Come, hear the gospel. Come with me to hear the gospel. That's what it is to be great in the sight of the Lord, is to bear witness of his salvation, his son, his righteousness. To be great in the sight of the Lord is to depend upon the Lord to convert His people, as you bear witness. Look at verse 17. And he shall go before the Lord Jesus in the spirit and power of Elijah. Now men, I guarantee you this, you listen to preachers who give man glory, I guarantee you they would preach and they would exalt Elijah. about, oh, what a spirit and power Elijah had. The spirit and power Elijah had was the Lord Jesus Christ. And the spirit power John the Baptist had was the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is the power of God unto salvation. And it's by His Spirit that He gives a new spirit, and sustains that new spirit, and renews us in that new spirit, and keeps us preaching Him, and not fainting. Paul said, seeing as how we have received mercy, the same way we receive mercy is the way we don't faint. It's so of all God's preachers and all God's people, all His witnesses. It's by Christ's power, not our own. Look at Ephesians 3. Ephesians chapter 3. This is what Paul said. Listen to it now. Ephesians 3, 7. He said, And he's talking about the promise in Christ by the gospels. And he says, well, I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given it to me by the effectual working of His power. You see that? And to me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. Look over at Romans 15. Romans chapter 15. Elijah, John the Baptist, Paul, they gave Christ the glory. That's what all God's faithful preachers do. They give Him the glory. It's by the Spirit of the Lord, by His power, that He works this through the preaching of the gospel. Look at what Paul says in Romans 15 and verse 18. He says, I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed, through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about unto Lycraeum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. Do you see that? He said, I'm not going to speak of anything as though I did it. It's the power of the Lord that did it. This is greatness out of the Lord, not only to preach Christ and to bear witness of Christ, but to look to Christ and pray to Christ and wait on Christ to work effectually in power in his people. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3, 5, not that we're sufficient to think anything of ourselves. Our sufficiency is of God. He said in Colossians 1, 29, I also labor striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Christ told His apostles, when He sent His apostles out to preach, He said, It's not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. Christ said the words, I speak their spirit and their life. John the Baptist wasn't looking to himself. He wasn't saying, now y'all look at me, I'm great in the sight of the Lord. No, he was like Paul. He said, I'm less than the least of the saints. I'm the chief of sinners. He must increase, I must decrease. That's what he said. He preached Christ and him crucified, the salvation of God's people, and he did so trusting the Lord Jesus Christ to make it effectual. That's what it is to be great in the sight of God, is to depend entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ. His preacher depends upon Christ to give the message. His preacher depends upon Christ to give him the power to preach the message. His preacher depends upon Christ to make the Word go forth in power and work effectually in the heart of sinners. His preacher depends upon Christ, and so do you. All of you who are born of Him and bear witness for Him do so trusting Christ. Now look here, to be great in the sight of the Lord, back in Luke 1, to be great in the sight of the Lord is to preach that Christ fulfilled the law for all His elect and made us one. That's what he preached. Look here, Luke 1.17, John was sent to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children. You see that in verse 17? He was sent to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children. Now this is from Malachi. I'll just read it to you, Malachi 4, 5. He said, Behold, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. That's what God said. He's going to turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers. Now, how do you get from that that John the Baptist preached that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes? Well, the elect Jews called to faith before the elect Gentiles were the fathers. And the elect Gentiles called to faith in Christ to the gospel were the children. In other words, through the preaching of the gospel, by the Spirit of God blessing their hearts and giving them a new heart, he made his elect Jew and his elect Gentile one in Christ, and made them know they were one in Christ. They hated each other. So this is what John preached. John preached, John the Baptist preached, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes. I've heard men speak of John the Baptist as though he preached a different gospel than we preach, that he preached something different. No! There's only one message by which God saves His people. That's the full accomplishment of Christ's person and His work. Listen, Paul said, Christ is our peace who hath made both elect Jew and Gentile one. He's broken down the middle wall of partition, the middle wall that divided us, that was the enmity between Jew and Gentile. What was it? He said, he abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances. In other words, he fulfilled the law. He's in the law for righteousness to his people. And he made in himself of two, of the Jew and the Gentile, one new man. He made them one in Himself, so making peace between them. And He reconciled both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. That is, having fulfilled the law for His people. And He came and preached peace to you which were far off, you Gentiles, those Gentiles, and He preached peace to them that were near. That's what John the Baptist was sent to do. and He made us one. Through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Jew and Gentile have. We're in peace in Christ, reconciled to God in Christ, and we have peace with one another in Christ. You see that when John preached, he preached to, don't forget this now, he was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel just like Christ was. But same as with the Lord Jesus Christ, Through John's gospel, the Lord saved some Gentile publicans, and He saved some Gentile Roman soldiers, and He saved some elect Jews. That's what He did. And He made them one. He made them one. They stopped using the law. to say, we're better than you Gentile dogs. And they bowed to Christ and realized that in Christ there's neither Jew nor Gentile, bond nor free, male or female, rich or poor, barbarian, Scythian, none of that. We're one in Christ, made one in Christ. That's what he preached. That's what John preached. He turned the hearts of the elect Jews to the children, the elect Gentiles, and the hearts of the elect Gentiles to the elect Jews, their fathers. That's what he did. He says here, to be great in God's sights, to preach Christ as the wisdom of God who justified His people. Verse 17. He said, and the disobedient, he turned to the wisdom of the just to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. Who's the wisdom of the just? Christ is the wisdom of the just. Christ is the power of God and He's the wisdom of God. He turned the disobedient, that's you and me and everybody He saved. He turned the disobedient to the wisdom of the just. Christ is that wisdom. And Christ is the justifier of the just. That's who He is. That was John's message. That's my message to you. That's the message of all His witnesses. John preached the same gospel we preach, brethren. Years ago, in England, when the king was coming to a town, This was back in the days of horse and buggy. When the king was coming to a town, they would send a man before the king, and he would go through the town. He was called a crier. And he would go into the town crying, the king is coming, the king is coming. Get ready, the king is coming. And the people would be ready when the king came, and they would bow their knee to the king as he passed through the town. John the Baptist and all Christ's preachers, and you who are His witness, we're criers. We're crying, the King is coming, the King is coming. Every time we preach the gospel, we're crying, the King is coming, the King is coming. We preach what He's accomplished by laying down His life for His people, and when it pleases Him, He comes into the heart of His child and creates a new heart. and gives you faith to trust Him. He grants you repentance from all that you trusted in before, and all your dead works, and brings you to trust the Lord Jesus Christ. So, what we see here, brethren, to be great in the sight of the Lord involves these two things. To be separated unto Christ, and consecrate it to the Lord from a new holy heart." The Lord looks on the heart. That's what He looks on. And to be great in the sight of the Lord is to bear witness of the same One that God the Father bears witness of. Who did He bear witness of every time He spoke from heaven? This is my beloved Son. Hear Him. That's what it's great in the sight of the Lord, to declare the greatness of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. I want to tell you two things. Two things. Don't ever let anybody accuse you of being a hearer of the Word, not a doer. Because God's witnesses, His preachers, are doers. And it's a great work you're doing. It's a great work we're together doing in preaching the Gospel of Christ. It's great in the sight of the Lord. You remember when Nehemiah went back and the Lord had delivered him out of Babylon. and carried them back to Jerusalem, and Nehemiah was rebuilding Jerusalem, building up the walls. He was doing that. And that's a picture of this gospel age, once we've been redeemed by Christ and the gospel going forth and the Lord building up His holy temple, His people. His holy city, His people, that was what it pictured. And Sanbalat and Gershom, they heard about this. Gishom, they heard about this. And they sent a message to Nehemiah. They said, come, let us meet together. Let's compromise. Let's compromise. And let's meet together in one of the cities, the villages, in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. Nehemiah said. And if you read your bulletin, that proverb that's in there, you'll see to do mischief is to do evil. They said, come to oh no and let's compromise. And you know what Nehemiah told them? Oh no. No, look here, listen now, this is what he told them. I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down to you. If you compromise with this world religion, you're coming down. You're not elevating, you're going down away from the Lord. But he told them, I'm doing a great work, I cannot come down to you. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you? That work he's doing is a picture of what John the Baptist did preaching Christ to him crucified. And let me show you this in Matthew 11. I'm done now. Matthew 11. Verse 7. Jesus began to say unto the multitude concerning John, What wants you out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaking with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? The whole day they wear soft clothing or in king's houses. But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. For this is he of whom it's written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a greater. What's great in the sight of the Lord? He said there hasn't risen a greater than John the Baptist. Notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. True greatness in the sight of the Lord is to have a heart consecrated to Christ, trusting Him alone, and it's to be a witness of Christ to everybody you come in contact with. That's what God calls great. All right, brethren. Brother Adam.