Everyone must start somewhere in their faith in Christ. But one may enter into faith in Christ with wrong expectations. In this second installment of Christ of False Expectations, we consider “the many of the crowd” who believed in Jesus with the mere expectation that the Christ is the greatest performer of signs. But is this adequate for a genuine saving faith? We consider what the Scriptures have to say about faith that saves and faith that doesn’t.

John 7:25-31
”So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not the man whom they are seeking to kill? Look, He is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to Him. The rulers do not really know that this is the Christ, do they? However, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ may come, no one knows where He is from.” Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know. I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.” So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come. But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, “When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He?””