…the more Jesus preached to the
same crowds again and again, the more His messages were filled with rebukes and
urgent pleas for their repentance. He
was not impressed with the size or enthusiasm of large crowds. He was not interested in accumulating the
kind of disciples whose main concern was for
what they might get out of the relationship. He never upholstered his message to make it
more cushy for popular opinion, and he never turned down the rhetorical heat in order to keep the
congregation as comfortable as possible.
If anything, His approach was the exact opposite. He seemed to do everything He could to
disquiet the merely curious who were unconverted. They absolutely loved it when He did
miracles. He rebuked them for that, and He made sure they
could not ignore his message."
- John Macarthur
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