2. Matthew 27:22
22Pilate asked them,
"What should I do then with Jesus,
who is called Messiah?"
They all answered,
"Crucify Him!"

3. The Crowd or the Christ
Two Questions:
Will I believe Jesus?
Will I Obey Jesus?

4. The Crowd or the Christ
1) What the Crowd Declares to be OPTIONAL
Jesus Declares to be ESSENTIAL.
a) Saved

5. Leviticus 20:23
23You must not follow the
statutes of the nations I am
driving out before you, for
they did all these things, and I
abhorred them.

6. Psalms 5:4-6
4 For You are not a God who delights in
wickedness; evil cannot lodge with You.
5 The boastful cannot stand in Your presence;
You hate all evildoers.
6 You destroy those who tell lies;
the LORD abhors a man of bloodshed and
treachery.

7. Proverbs 6:16-19
16 Six things the LORD hates;
in fact, seven are detestable to Him:
17 arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that plots wicked schemes,
feet eager to run to evil,
19 a lying witness who gives false testimony,
and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

8. Hosea 9:15
15 All their evil appears at Gilgal,
for there I came to hate them.
I will drive them from My house
because of their evil, wicked actions.
I will no longer love them;
all their leaders are rebellious.

9. Matthew 7:23
23 Then I will announce to them, 'I
never knew you! Depart from Me,
you lawbreakers! '

10. Matthew 25:41
41 Then He will also say to those on the left,
'Depart from Me, you who are cursed,
into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil
and his angels!

11. The Crowd or the Christ
1) What the Crowd Declares to be OPTIONAL
Jesus Declares to be ESSENTIAL.
a) Saved
b) Sowing

12. Galatians 6:7-8
7 Don't be deceived: God is not mocked. For
whatever a man sows he will also reap,
8 because the one who sows to his flesh will
reap corruption from the flesh, but the
one who sows to the Spirit will reap
eternal life from the Spirit.

13. The Crowd or the Christ
1) What the Crowd Declares to be OPTIONAL
Jesus Declares to be ESSENTIAL.
a) Saved
b) Sowing
c) Service

14. Romans 1:9
9 For God, whom I serve with my spirit
in [telling] the good news about His
Son, is my witness that I constantly
mention you,

15. Colossians 3:24
24 knowing that you will receive the
reward of an inheritance from the
Lord—you serve the Lord Christ.

16. 1 Thessalonians 1:9
9 For they themselves report about us what
kind of reception we had from you: how
you turned to God from idols to serve the
living and true God,

17. The Crowd or the Christ
1) What the Crowd Declares to be OPTIONAL
Jesus Declares to be ESSENTIAL.
a) Saved
b) Sowing
c) Service

18. The Crowd or the Christ
1) What the Crowd Declares to be OPTIONAL
Jesus Declares to be ESSENTIAL.
2) What the Crowd Declares to be NORMAL
Jesus Declares to be UNACCEPTABLE.

19. Vance Havner
“The church is so subnormal that
if it ever got back to the New
Testament normal it would
seem to people to be
abnormal.”

20. The Crowd or the Christ
1) What the Crowd Declares to be OPTIONAL
Jesus Declares to be ESSENTIAL.
2) What the Crowd Declares to be NORMAL
Jesus Declares to be UNACCEPTABLE.
a) Compartmentalization
b) Complacency
c) Carnality

21. The Crowd or the Christ
1) What the Crowd Declares to be OPTIONAL
Jesus Declares to be ESSENTIAL.
2) What the Crowd Declares to be NORMAL
Jesus Declares to be UNACCEPTABLE.
3) What the Crowd Declares to be RADICAL
Jesus Declares to be NORMAL.

22. What the Crowd Declares to be RADICAL
Jesus Declares to be NORMAL.
a) Sold Out

23. 57 As they were traveling on the road
someone said to Him, "I will follow You
wherever You go!" 58 Jesus told him,
"Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have
nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay
His head."
59 Then He said to another, "Follow Me.“
"Lord," he said, "first let me go bury my
father." 60 But He told him, "Let the dead
bury their own dead, but you go and spread
the news of the kingdom of God."
61 Another also said, "I will follow You,

24. What the Crowd Declares to be RADICAL
Jesus Declares to be NORMAL.
a) Sold Out

25. What the Crowd Declares to be RADICAL
Jesus Declares to be NORMAL.
a) Sold Out
b) Reach Out

26. 1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vineyard
keeper.
2 Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit
He removes, and He prunes every branch that
produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.
5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. The one
who remains in Me and I in him produces much
fruit, because you can do nothing without Me

27. 8My Father is glorified by this: that you produce
much fruit and prove to be My disciples.
16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I
appointed you that you should go out and produce
fruit

28. What the Crowd Declares to be RADICAL
Jesus Declares to be NORMAL.
a) Sold Out
b) Reach Out

29. What the Crowd Declares to be RADICAL
Jesus Declares to be NORMAL.
a) Sold Out Go, therefore, and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in the
b) Reach Out name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching
c) Carry Out them to observe everything I have
commanded you.
you will be My witnesses in
Jerusalem, in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the ends of the
earth."