Five Groups of People Jesus Met Daily #2

Continuing in our series of The Five Groups of People Jesus Met Daily, today, we look at some other groups.

The Bible speaks of several times where crowds followed Jesus.
Great multitudes followed Him—from Galilee and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan. (Matthew 4:25)

A huge crowd kept following Him wherever He went, because they saw his miraculous signs as he healed the sick. (John 6:2 NLT)

What typifies a crowd is the way their emotions can be swayed from the one extreme to the other. The one moment they love you, and the next moment they may hate you.

At one moment, they shout, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” but given the right incitement, they will cry out, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Crowd loyalties are very fickle in nature.

In studying the Gospels closely, one can see tremendous similarities between the multitudes following Jesus in His day and the multitudes following Jesus today.

The questions each one of us must ask ourselves are:
When I go to Church, am I part of the crowd or am I part of the house? The crowd often come to see what they can get, but not give themselves.

Am I part of the excitement, or will I still be there even when deep truths of the word are being taught? Jesus taught the multitudes with parables but expounded the deeper truths in private to His disciples (Matthew 10:13-17; Mark 4:2).

Is my serving dependant on the crowd feeling, or I am serving the Lord because the word tells me to?

Am I serving the Lord because there is a crowd, and will I still serve even if there is no crowd?

These are tough questions, but these will help you to set your motives right before the Lord from whom nothing is hidden. (Hebrews 4:13)