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The Scripture & The Sense Podcast #334: Hosea 11:10-11 by Daniel Whyte III

TEXT: Matthew 11:16-19

There was once a man who had just moved to a new city and was looking for a new church. He first went down to the First Baptist Church. The choir sang hymns from over a century ago. The pastor was an older gentleman dressed in a black suit with a narrow tie - very narrow. His sermon was largely focused around hellfire and brimstone and the coming judgment of the sinful, calling on people to repent. During the sermon, not a peep was heard out of the congregation, who were all dressed as conservatively as the pastor, other than a chorus murmured "Amens." When his wife asked him how he felt about the new church, he replied, "Too stuffy!"

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TEXT: Matthew 11:7-15

After praising John, Jesus says this: “notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” In other words, Jesus was saying that the least Christian was greater before John the Baptist. This is not because we are more holy than John, far from it. This is because John only preached of Christ’s coming. He did not live to see Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, and was still under the Old Testament dispensation. He did not experience the blessings of the new covenant. Those who have accepted Christ as Saviour under the New dispensation preach of a salvation already finished, rather than one yet to come. And by the way, if you are wondering how John the Baptist and the Old Testament believers were saved, they were saved the same way we are: through believing in Christ. The difference is that they had a hopeful faith in a Saviour that was still in the future, while we have a fulfilled faith in a Saviour whose blood has already been shed to cover our sins.

Proverbs 3:31-35

Fourth, “the wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.” Those who are truly wise will accept Christ as Saviour so they can inherit a place in Heaven as children of God. Even though their faith may be under reproach by the world, they will attain an eternal place of glory. Those who are foolish and disregard the words of God can only expect punishment as their promotion.