Green Acres Baptist Church
August 16
John 19:6-16 CSB
1. To a mob, WRONG can seem RIGHT.
Sociologist Gustave Le Bon
“Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian. Whoever be the individuals that compose it, however like or unlike their character, or their intelligence, the fact that they have been transformed into a crowd puts them in possession of a sort of collective mind which makes them feel, think, and act in a manner quite different from that in which each individual of them would feel, think, and act were he in a state of isolation.” (The Crowd: A Study of Popular Mind)
2. God gives us the POWER to CHOOSE.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 CSB
3. When you RESIST the mob, you'll be ATTACKED.
2 Chronicles 20:15 CSB
4. Like Pilate, we must choose between JESUS or the MOB.
Matthew 27:24 CSB
THE APOSTLE'S CREED (4TH CENTURY)
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
TAKE-AWAY PRAYER
God, give me the COURAGE to stand and speak the TRUTH in love even when it isn’t POPULAR.
Ephesians 4:14-15 CSB