THE CROWD VS THE CALLED (12 OF 48)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: Mark 3:7-19
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The Crowd vs the Called (12 of 48)
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 3:7-19
Let's take our Bibles and turn to Mark chapter 3, Mark 3. Here in a moment, we're going to look at verses 7 through 19. I've got a couple of pictures here, a few pictures I want you to see, and se you look at these, I want you to think about how you feel. (Pictures of massive crowds)
How do these make you feel? Does your heart just explode and say, ''I want to be in that! I want to be in the middle of that!'' How many of you get nauseous and anxious thinking about being in the middle of the masses? Most people don't want to have anything to do with being in a crowd.
I was looking up a word in the dictionary and it was a ''crowd.'' Webster defines a crowd like this: ''a large number of people gathered together, typically in a disorganized or unruly way.'' Doesn't that look like those pictures? As a matter of fact, some synonyms along with the word crowd are the words ''throng,'' ''hoard,'' ''mass,'' ''pack,'' ''mob,'' and my favorite, ''rabble.''
When we read through the Gospels we see that Jesus was constantly gathering a crowd. There was always this crowd around Him. As a matter of fact, that's a theme through Mark. He uses this word ''crowd'' 34 times. ''Crowd,'' or ''multitude,'' same word - 34 times. Over and over and over, it's the crowd, it's the crowd. Now, when he does that, Mark does not depict the crowd in a complimentary way. It's not a positive thing. It's not a pleasurable things.
As a matter of fact, what he shows oftentimes is this: Jesus is healing and feeling and touching and feeding them food, and He's serving them and loving them, and He's encouraging them, and He's doing all these things for them, and then they are really rarely satisfied with Him. He's pouring out his life for them, and it's never enough. They always want, the crowd always wants a little bit more. And so he is contrasting, all through the book of Mark, the crowd and the ca ...
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 3:7-19
Let's take our Bibles and turn to Mark chapter 3, Mark 3. Here in a moment, we're going to look at verses 7 through 19. I've got a couple of pictures here, a few pictures I want you to see, and se you look at these, I want you to think about how you feel. (Pictures of massive crowds)
How do these make you feel? Does your heart just explode and say, ''I want to be in that! I want to be in the middle of that!'' How many of you get nauseous and anxious thinking about being in the middle of the masses? Most people don't want to have anything to do with being in a crowd.
I was looking up a word in the dictionary and it was a ''crowd.'' Webster defines a crowd like this: ''a large number of people gathered together, typically in a disorganized or unruly way.'' Doesn't that look like those pictures? As a matter of fact, some synonyms along with the word crowd are the words ''throng,'' ''hoard,'' ''mass,'' ''pack,'' ''mob,'' and my favorite, ''rabble.''
When we read through the Gospels we see that Jesus was constantly gathering a crowd. There was always this crowd around Him. As a matter of fact, that's a theme through Mark. He uses this word ''crowd'' 34 times. ''Crowd,'' or ''multitude,'' same word - 34 times. Over and over and over, it's the crowd, it's the crowd. Now, when he does that, Mark does not depict the crowd in a complimentary way. It's not a positive thing. It's not a pleasurable things.
As a matter of fact, what he shows oftentimes is this: Jesus is healing and feeling and touching and feeding them food, and He's serving them and loving them, and He's encouraging them, and He's doing all these things for them, and then they are really rarely satisfied with Him. He's pouring out his life for them, and it's never enough. They always want, the crowd always wants a little bit more. And so he is contrasting, all through the book of Mark, the crowd and the ca ...
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