If Ye Will Receive It?

Could any one receive better praise than that given unto John the Baptist than that given by Jesus when he said:

"Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist:" 

But the second part of that verse says: "yet he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he."(Matthew 11:11 ASV)

How can that be? How could the least of us believers be greater? 

"For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not." (Matthew 13:17 ASV)

"but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." 

(Galatians 4:4-5 ASV)

We have a revelation which John the Baptist and those under the Old Testament had not received. And we have the full revelation unto salvation. We have the blessings to be able to look into the mirror of the law of liberty and see what we need to become saved. 

"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing."(James 1:22-25 ASV)

We can become a hearer, and then a doer. People before John couldn't see what we see. We as human beings aren't physically, spiritually, or morally better than John. We at this point have a better hope.

Hallelujah! What a Savior!