The Mixed Multitude (Exodus 12:38) (Numbers 11:1-4)

The Mixed Multitude (Exodus 12:38) (Numbers 11:1-4)

There are different categories of Christians in the Church which include the following:

The Antioch Christian (Acts 11:26)

The Sermon-proof Christian (Matthew 13:15)

The Compromising Christian (Exodus 8:23, 25 & 10:7)

The Pharisee Christian (Matthew 5:20) (Matthew Ch.23)

The Carnal Christian (Romans Ch.8)

The Mixed Multitude Christian (Exodus 12:38) (Numbers 11:1-4)

The mixed multitudes in Scripture were the mingled people who followed the Jews (Israelites) out of Egypt during their exodus to Canaan. They were not originally Jews but the descendants of the servants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and a race known as the Kenites who also went with them (Exodus 12:37)

The mixed multitudes were not supposed to be in the company of the Jews because God forbade the Jews from associating with them based on the Laws of Separation (Deuteronomy 7:1-6) to avoid pollution with the people and ways of the world. The mixed multitudes were a snare to the Jews during their wilderness journey. Their lust for flesh to eat and their complaints constituted backsliding and sin (Numbers 11:1-35).

The Mixed Multitudes are in every church where Christians gather. They are killers of destiny who will pollute your relationship with Christ if you allow them. The mixed multitude is anyone within your life and ministry who acts to draw you backwards spiritually. They are the ones who tell you to take things easy when the Bible says in Matthew 11:12 that the Kingdom of God suffers violence and only the violent can take it by force.

The Mixed Multitude Christian cannot endure the ruggedness of the Narrow Way to heaven and cannot maintain the purity of heart (Matthew 5:8) that is required to reach heaven. Therefore, they are not ready for heaven and want to hinder others who are striving to go to heaven. 

They seek for ease and pleasure and cannot endure the sufferings, the persecutions, the trials and tribulations (Luke 6:22) that Christ promised His disciples would experience before wearing the Crown.

The mixed multitude Christians discourage you from the spiritual exercises that help build your relationship with Jesus Christ and your spiritual life. They carry bibles like everyone else but are never strict on the biblical standards of holiness that the Bible teaches. 

They are bread and butter Christians who seek to follow Christ without carrying a Cross contrary to Jesus’ command in Mark 8:34. They are murmur and grumble a lot and are fond of criticizing anything and everything and see no good in others and everything.

They seek for miracles and short cuts that do not involve paying a price. They move from church to church looking for comfortable churches and worldly pastors who can accommodate them and their water melon lifestyle. They come to church to seat on arranged chairs. They come late and are the first to leave. They find fault with holiness messages that exposes them. They are not interested in kingdom investment but want the benefits of the kingdom.

They are not ready to be available for work in the Vineyard. When the Antioch Christian says ‘Here I am, send me’, the Mixed Multitude Christian says ‘I am going home. When you need me, come for me.’ They are the gossips and backbiters who create divisions among the brethren.

Iron and clay do not mix (Daniel 2:41). Therefore, a disciple of Christ should not mix with a Mixed Multitude Christian, to maintain his focus on the Kingdom of God and eternity with Christ. The Bible warns that we dissociate from certain categories of brethren in the church who pollute the Body of Christ. Among them are the ones listed in 1 Corinthians 5:9-13.

Associate with those whose spiritual iron and axe will sharpen yours because iron sharpens iron (Proverbs 27:17). A heaven focused Christian must watch whom he associates with because evil communication corrupts good manners (John 15:33).

 

The mixed multitudes in the church are spiritual/ church prostitutes who run from church to church, who do not stay to build. They are prayer collectors who cannot pray but run after pastors and prophets to do their praying for them. They complain but do not complement.

They seek for title and leadership positions in church for the purpose of dominating and oppressing others. Jesus taught that a leader should submit to serve others first.

They are not interested in the original gospel of salvation that preaches salvation for deliverance from sin and conversion from sinning to righteousness. 

Rather, they are more interested in the gospel that teaches about earthly prosperity without the Christ and righteousness which false teachers are peddling.

They deviate from the original gospel of salvation to the easier, one-sided gospel that benefits the mortal perishable body of man but does not benefit the immortal soul of man that will face judgment and cannot die. Therefore, they are prime candidates of false teachers and their doctrines of demons (1 Timothy 4:1) (Galatians 1:8-9), who lead them to indulge in base passions contrary to Jesus teaching about self-denial in Mark 8:34.

The mixed multitude in the church will gladly follow any gospel that gives them limitless freedom to do as they like, that ministers unto their fleshly passions. They are reluctant to follow a gospel which restricts and limits them from indulgence in fleshly passions. 

The true Christian gospel places strict limits and restrictions on its members from indulging in base passions and teaches self-denial and consecration (Mark 8:34). 

God always sets boundaries!

Ayodele John Adegbulugbe

www.xtianrace.blogspot.com