Don't Listen to The Crowds

[Sue J Love]

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him. And two blind men sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” The crowd sternly told them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” And Jesus stopped and called them, and said, “What do you want Me to do for you?” They *said to Him, “Lord, we want our eyes to be opened.” Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him. (Matthew 20:29-34 NASB’95)

Whenever I read this passage of Scripture I am always moved by the persistence of these blind men and their refusal to be intimidated by the crowd who wanted to silence them. It brings me to tears, in fact. Why? My feelings of compassion for them, having been treated the same way many times in my life, people wanting to silence me because I am a woman, and because I speak the truth that many people do not want to hear. So I feel with them, I grieve with them, but I also rejoice with them in their victory.

And I am certainly not promoting rebellion nor disrespect nor riotous or irreverent behavior. But what I am promoting are the teachings of the Scriptures and the courage that they teach us to stand up for truth and for righteousness, and to not give in to the lies and to the pressures of society to conform to the ways of the world in diluting the gospel message to make it less offensive to the people of the world. “For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20). Amen!

And this isn’t just about sharing the message of the gospel, but this is about not listening to the naysayers who will try to convince you that you did not hear from God, and that God did not call you to a specific ministry, and that God cannot use you in a particular way, either because you are female, or because you are too young, or too old, or because you don’t have a college or a seminary degree, or because you are not an “official worker” of a particular church denomination, but you are just a follower of Jesus Christ.

Now I will add a word of caution here because there are many people claiming to have heard from God who are getting messages which are contrary to the divine character and will of God, and which are contrary to the doctrinal teachings of the Scriptures. So all must be tested against the Scriptures to make certain that what we think we are hearing is truly from God and not from other voices. But God does speak to us individually or else we would not know to what ministry he has called us, and what we’re to do.

I can tell you one thing for certain. If I had listened to the crowds, and if I had allowed myself to be intimidated by their attempts to silence my voice, I would never have stepped out in faith nearly 21 years ago and accepted God’s call on my life to write down what he is teaching me from his word each day and to post these writings on the internet so that a herald could “run with it.” But this is my body part within the universal body of Christ, and this is my assignment from God (see 1 Corinthians 12:1-31).

I didn’t let the naysayers discourage and dishearten me, but I persevered in following the leading of the Lord in my life. And where did it take me? It took me to the internet and to multiple internet sites where I have been sharing with the people of the world my daily times with the Lord in his word, either expressed in devotions, like this one, or in Christian memes (short devotions), or in songs, or in poems, or in testimonies, or in video talk devotions – however he leads me. And these go to people all over the world.

So, what is my point in sharing this with you? Don’t let the opinions of other humans determine your destiny or your walk of faith in the Lord Jesus. Be respectful, but don’t give in to intimidation intended to silence your voices. Make sure you are being led of the Lord, and that what you are sharing is biblical and/or that it is not anti-biblical, that it is of God, and that it will bring honor and glory to God, and that it will mean the salvation of human lives. But don’t back down and run away because of the naysayers.

If these men let themselves be intimidated by the crowd they probably would never have been healed of their blindness. And Jesus is calling each of us to specific areas of ministry which involve the healing of other people’s spiritual blindness, their salvation from slavery to sin, and the empowerment of God to now live holy and godly lives, to the glory and praise of God, resulting in eternal life with God. If we keep our voices silent, then how will they hear the truth of the gospel of our salvation, and so be saved?

So, don’t give in to peer pressure. Don’t listen to what the majority are saying, because the majority are those who are on that broad (wide) road to hell (destruction). It is that small minority who are walking the narrow way, and they are few in number, who we should be listening to. But even there we must test everything we hear from other people against the teachings of the Scriptures, taught IN CONTEXT, to make certain that what we are hearing, and repeating, is the truth of the Scriptures, and not the lies.

So, be bold! Be brave! Be submissive, but never to the point of denying Christ and his Word and his calling on your life, and never to the point of accepting the lies and repeating the lies because the lies are more acceptable and less offensive to the people of the world. Don’t let the crowds determine your destiny. Speak to Jesus! Call out to him! And let him work his work in your hearts and minds in making you the people of God that he wants you to be, to be used of him to minister his love to other people.

[Matt 5:13-16; Matt 28:18-20; Lu 6:27-28; Jn 4:31-38; Jn 13:13-17; Jn 14:12; Ac 1:8; Ac 2:14-18; Ac 26:18; Rom 10:14-15; Rom 12:1-8; Rom 15:14; 1 Co 12:1-31; 1 Co 14:1-5; Gal 6:1; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:1-16; Eph 5:11-27; Eph 6:10-20; Php 2:1-8; Col 1:9; Col 3:12-16; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:13; Heb 10:23-25; Jas 5:19-20; 1 Pet 2:9,21; 1 Jn 2:6; Jude 1:22-23]

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
When life’s toils are ended,
And parting days have come,
Sin no more shall tempt me,
Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,
If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
In life’s darkest hours, Father,
When life’s troubles come,
Keep my feet from wand’ring,
Lest from Thee I roam,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

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Don’t Listen to The Crowds
An Original Work / April 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

[Garee]

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him. And two blind men sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” The crowd sternly told them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” And Jesus stopped and called them, and said, “What do you want Me to do for you?” They *said to Him, “Lord, we want our eyes to be opened.” Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him. (Matthew 20:29-34 NASB’95)

Whenever I read this passage of Scripture I am always moved by the persistence of these blind men and their refusal to be intimidated by the crowd who wanted to silence them. It brings me to tears, in fact. Why? My feelings of compassion for them, having been treated the same way many times in my life, people wanting to silence me because I am a woman, and because I speak the truth that many people do not want to hear. So I feel with them, I grieve with them, but I also rejoice with them in their victory.

And I am certainly not promoting rebellion nor disrespect nor riotous or irreverent behavior. But what I am promoting are the teachings of the Scriptures and the courage that they teach us to stand up for truth and for righteousness, and to not give in to the lies and to the pressures of society to conform to the ways of the world in diluting the gospel message to make it less offensive to the people of the world. “For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20). Amen!

And this isn’t just about sharing the message of the gospel, but this is about not listening to the naysayers who will try to convince you that you did not hear from God, and that God did not call you to a specific ministry, and that God cannot use you in a particular way, either because you are female, or because you are too young, or too old, or because you don’t have a college or a seminary degree, or because you are not an “official worker” of a particular church denomination, but you are just a follower of Jesus Christ.

Now I will add a word of caution here because there are many people claiming to have heard from God who are getting messages which are contrary to the divine character and will of God, and which are contrary to the doctrinal teachings of the Scriptures. So all must be tested against the Scriptures to make certain that what we think we are hearing is truly from God and not from other voices. But God does speak to us individually or else we would not know to what ministry he has called us, and what we’re to do.

I can tell you one thing for certain. If I had listened to the crowds, and if I had allowed myself to be intimidated by their attempts to silence my voice, I would never have stepped out in faith nearly 21 years ago and accepted God’s call on my life to write down what he is teaching me from his word each day and to post these writings on the internet so that a herald could “run with it.” But this is my body part within the universal body of Christ, and this is my assignment from God (see 1 Corinthians 12:1-31).

I didn’t let the naysayers discourage and dishearten me, but I persevered in following the leading of the Lord in my life. And where did it take me? It took me to the internet and to multiple internet sites where I have been sharing with the people of the world my daily times with the Lord in his word, either expressed in devotions, like this one, or in Christian memes (short devotions), or in songs, or in poems, or in testimonies, or in video talk devotions – however he leads me. And these go to people all over the world.

So, what is my point in sharing this with you? Don’t let the opinions of other humans determine your destiny or your walk of faith in the Lord Jesus. Be respectful, but don’t give in to intimidation intended to silence your voices. Make sure you are being led of the Lord, and that what you are sharing is biblical and/or that it is not anti-biblical, that it is of God, and that it will bring honor and glory to God, and that it will mean the salvation of human lives. But don’t back down and run away because of the naysayers.

If these men let themselves be intimidated by the crowd they probably would never have been healed of their blindness. And Jesus is calling each of us to specific areas of ministry which involve the healing of other people’s spiritual blindness, their salvation from slavery to sin, and the empowerment of God to now live holy and godly lives, to the glory and praise of God, resulting in eternal life with God. If we keep our voices silent, then how will they hear the truth of the gospel of our salvation, and so be saved?

So, don’t give in to peer pressure. Don’t listen to what the majority are saying, because the majority are those who are on that broad (wide) road to hell (destruction). It is that small minority who are walking the narrow way, and they are few in number, who we should be listening to. But even there we must test everything we hear from other people against the teachings of the Scriptures, taught IN CONTEXT, to make certain that what we are hearing, and repeating, is the truth of the Scriptures, and not the lies.

So, be bold! Be brave! Be submissive, but never to the point of denying Christ and his Word and his calling on your life, and never to the point of accepting the lies and repeating the lies because the lies are more acceptable and less offensive to the people of the world. Don’t let the crowds determine your destiny. Speak to Jesus! Call out to him! And let him work his work in your hearts and minds in making you the people of God that he wants you to be, to be used of him to minister his love to other people.

[Matt 5:13-16; Matt 28:18-20; Lu 6:27-28; Jn 4:31-38; Jn 13:13-17; Jn 14:12; Ac 1:8; Ac 2:14-18; Ac 26:18; Rom 10:14-15; Rom 12:1-8; Rom 15:14; 1 Co 12:1-31; 1 Co 14:1-5; Gal 6:1; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:1-16; Eph 5:11-27; Eph 6:10-20; Php 2:1-8; Col 1:9; Col 3:12-16; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:13; Heb 10:23-25; Jas 5:19-20; 1 Pet 2:9,21; 1 Jn 2:6; Jude 1:22-23]

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
When life’s toils are ended,
And parting days have come,
Sin no more shall tempt me,
Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,
If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
In life’s darkest hours, Father,
When life’s troubles come,
Keep my feet from wand’ring,
Lest from Thee I roam,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

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Don’t Listen to The Crowds
An Original Work / April 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Thanks.

Interesting with the use of the two blind men. In that way two is used to represent the invisible Father and visible Son Jesus working as if one.

The law of Christ's faithful creation. (1)Let there be the Son of man, Jesus and (2) it was of our Father alone good. The us in Genesis 1:26. law and prophets. Moses and Elias

Sent out his apostles out two by two. Brings in the Ark two of each kind. Using two sides of coin. One seen the other hid. Two testaments. The two hewn stones written on both sides

Using the temporal historical thing seen to give us the unseen gospel understanding. We are given the prescription needed to rightly divide the parables that do compare the temporal historical to the eternal

2 Corinthians 4:18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal

Numbers 35:30Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

Deuteronomy 17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

In that way two is a company three or more a crowd. Three indicates the end of a matter

A good example in respect to the three days and night promised demonstration of the lamb slain from the foundation. The six days the Holy Father did work.

The Father bruising the heel of the Son of man, Jesus. Crushing the head of the serpent.

The dynamic dual Father and Son team. fulfilling two prophecies working as one. Genesis 3:15 and Isaiah 53

The promised demonstration began in the Garden of Gethsemane as a way back into the garden of Eden before the fall. There the Son of man Jesus being struck by the Father bruising his heel Jesus cried out for strength to bear the bruise suffering unto death he loos for strength from the other apostles three times. Three times the Father put to sleep the other apostles in order to fulfil the prophecy of two working as if one, the dynamic dual

Then they moved to the second of three-outward demonstrations of the Father. The hill of skull the bloody demonstration as a sign to wonder after to the unbelieving world giving the illusion it was the Satan inspired mob as the resurrection power.

It would seem the bloody demonstration as sign to the unbelieving world in a hope of drawing men to his living word (sola scriptura)

Then last of three the tomb the demonstration of faith (unseen) The Father removing the grave clothes and rolling back the Stone.

Unlike the four days the Father kept Lasarus from corrupting when the disciples are required to remove the grave clothes and roll back the stone

A picture of a new believer entering fellowship, believers get the stinky love is patent job .

 

[Johanabrahams]

The majority rule or the majority is right is a lie. Also those with degrees or those who are "old" is right is another lie.

Job 32:
5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I amyoung, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.*n5*n6
7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.
11 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.*n7*n8
12 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
14 Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.*n9
15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.*n10
16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more
17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.*n11*n12
19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.*n13
20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.*n14
21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

And you will notice that God immediately spoke after Elihu did to prove him as the one with the Truth. And when Job had to sacrifice for the wrong answers of his friends he was not included there.

Only God our Dad is Right. And only those Listening to Him will have the Truth and the Wisdom and the Power. And our Abba Father/Daddy, Jehovah, just enjoys our Love towards Him when our Obedience manifests in the presence of so much contradiction. And that is the Most Blessed Experience there is.

 

[bdavidc]

So, what is my point in sharing this with you? Don’t let the opinions of other humans determine your destiny or your walk of faith in the Lord Jesus. Be respectful, but don’t give in to intimidation intended to silence your voices. Make sure you are being led of the Lord, and that what you are sharing is biblical and/or that it is not anti-biblical, that it is of God, and that it will bring honor and glory to God, and that it will mean the salvation of human lives. But don’t back down and run away because of the naysayers.

If these men let themselves be intimidated by the crowd they probably would never have been healed of their blindness. And Jesus is calling each of us to specific areas of ministry which involve the healing of other people’s spiritual blindness, their salvation from slavery to sin, and the empowerment of God to now live holy and godly lives, to the glory and praise of God, resulting in eternal life with God. If we keep our voices silent, then how will they hear the truth of the gospel of our salvation, and so be saved?

So, don’t give in to peer pressure. Don’t listen to what the majority are saying, because the majority are those who are on that broad (wide) road to hell (destruction). It is that small minority who are walking the narrow way, and they are few in number, who we should be listening to. But even there we must test everything we hear from other people against the teachings of the Scriptures, taught IN CONTEXT, to make certain that what we are hearing, and repeating, is the truth of the Scriptures, and not the lies.

This is a powerful and much-needed exhortation, and I wholeheartedly agree with the truth and urgency expressed here. Scripture repeatedly calls us to stand firm in our faith, not swayed by the opinions or pressures of the world. Galatians 1:10 reminds us, “For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.” Our calling is not to be accepted by the crowd but to be faithful to the One who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).

Indeed, the message about Jesus healing the blind is not only about physical sight but a profound picture of spiritual restoration. Like those healed by Christ, we are called to proclaim the truth that opens the eyes of the spiritually blind. Romans 10:14 powerfully asks, “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?” Silence in the face of deception and sin is not love—it is disobedience to our commission.

Jesus Himself warned in Matthew 7:13-14 that the way to life is narrow and few find it, while the path to destruction is wide and many travel it. That truth underscores the importance of discerning teaching through the lens of Scripture rightly handled (2 Timothy 2:15). It is our responsibility not just to speak, but to speak truthfully, with boldness, grace, and unwavering commitment to God’s Word. May we never allow intimidation or the fear of man to silence the truth that leads to life.