0216 Thou Shall Not Follow A Crowd

Thou Shall Not Follow a Crowd

Exodus 23:2 “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil…”

Mark 1:17 “Follow Me…”

Christians need to replace word “are you saved?” to “who do you follow?”

Everyone follows someone; the question is not if but who do we follow

You can’t follow Christ and crowd at the same time

The difference between Christians and the world in following not belief

Crowd followers say everybody is doing it

Christ followers say what would Jesus do?

Don’t call yourself a Christian if you do what everybody is doing

Sheep are known for following Shepherd but goats for following goats (John 10:4)

Where is “I” reveals who you follow

“I” on the throne then you follow crowd

“I” on the cross then you follow Christ

The first requirement to follow Christ is to remove “I” (Matthew 16:24)

“I” is the root of miserable life while the removing of “I” is the root of abundant life

Christ says deny “I” while crowd says deny Christ

Dull Christian life is poor advertisement. The cure is removing of “I”

You will become whatever you follow

Crowd – you’ll loose your identity

Christ – you’ll gain your uniqueness

Israel’s tendency to always follow the crowd (1 Samuel 8:5, 20)

They wanted to be like the very nations God destroyed

They wanted to be like other nations means that God wasn’t good enough king (1 Samuel 8:7)

We were saved to change the world not to be changed by it

Those with Christ will never be able to fit into the crowd

Noah, Israel, Elijah, Daniel, Ester, Jesus, disciples, Martin Luther, Baptist, Pentecostal

The fact that you can’t swim against the flow is the proof that you are not alive

Crowd doesn’t mind you believing in Jesus as long as you don’t take Him seriously

Satanist and Muslims don’t care about what you think about them but you do

Quit putting Mercedes emblem on the Geo

Crowds don’t help but hinder people

Crowd blocked the way for the woman with issue of blood (Mark 5:21-34)

Crowd made it impossible for man’s healing but desperation has its own doors (Mark 2:1-12)

Crowd said nothing will happen out of her dead body but Jesus put that crowd behind (Mark 5:40)

Crowd warned him to be quiet but he didn’t (Luke 18:35-43)

The kingdom of God suffers violence but violent man take it by force (Matthew 11:12)