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3. Today's "Moment With Mark" (25) - The Fickle Crowd

• Today's "Moment With Mark" (25) - The Fickle Crowd

  7 December, 2012

  Several days later Jesus returned to Capernaum, and the news of his arrival spread quickly through the town. Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there wasn't room for one more person, not even outside the door. And he preached the word to them. (Mark 2/1,2)

  
  Most preachers I know get excited by big crowds and the bigger the crowd, the  greater the sense of excitement. While big crowds may be an indication of vitality and action, the same crowd may be nothing more than a group of people who are curious without the slightest intention of becoming committed.

  
  Jesus was never misled by the presence of crowds. In John's Gospel we read.

  
  "But Jesus didn't trust them, because he knew what people were really like.  No one needed to tell him about human nature"(John 2:24-25).

  
  Jesus taught us that where two or three gather, He is there in the midst. That's a quorum to which He responds; no more or no less than He does to a crowd of two or three thousand!! So, what are we to learn from this principle?