A FEW NOTES ON THE CROWD (PM Prayer Night)
SCRIPTURE: Mark 3:7-12
Being the first of the month, I want to take a little different approach to our Sunday evening service. Tonight, we’re going to pray together. I want us to take our needs before God together, praise Him together, seek Him together. So, we’re not going to have our typical Bible study. I just want to address one passage, and make a really brief observation, then we’ll dive in together.
The next passage we come to in our study of Mark is probably marked off in your Bibles as something about crowds. So far, we have seen Jesus constantly surrounded by mobs of people. Here, we’re reminded of this.
7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. 9 And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him, 10 for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him. 11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”12 And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
Here we have a lot of people doing a seemingly good thing. They are coming to Jesus. But why? Like we’ve seen before, they are more interested in what He is doing, than who He is. They see benefits for themselves, and so they come...and, in fact, nearly crush Him as they seek to be healed.
It is not enough to be interested in Jesus; we need to draw near to Him because we long to know Him and be changed by Him...because we need Him to meet more than our earthly needs. That’s the purpose of tonight’s prayer meeting. Let’s come together as His family, His body, seeking His face...not our agendas.
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