Jesus answered them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.” Matthew 13:11

Jesus said this to his disciples about crowds of people who were listening to him but were simply watching for a show of signs or miracles. He was explaining why he taught about his kingdom with parables.

There are mysteries about reality and life that are hidden from us that only intense seeking, following, surrender, and loyalty to Jesus Christ personally can uncover.

If we’re after a religious show, he knows it!

And he will keep us in the dark spiritually in response. We’ll be hearing teaching that will mean nothing to us, go right over our heads, it will be hours wasted and we’ll remember not a thing taught to us.

It is almost cruel to teach young Christian to go for the entertainment and religious shows. And to then learn how produce more shows for others, this is modern nonsense religion it’s a waste of good time and energy. There must be realness when dealing with God, not a performance attitude.

If done well, shows do sell and do draw crowds but Jesus (the one who is our Lord) was not and is not moved by the crowds and their cash. Show-seeking and show-performing is setting young Christians up for spiritual blindness.

Jesus often refused to perform signs and miracles on demand.

The casual crowd member who is after a show has a level of blindness. Leaders who set out to make money putting them on are intentionally kept blind as well. They may progress in crowd size and with finances but not in ways that matter at all to our Lord.